Damn, that’s some hot take on American Graffiti and the first Star Wars film.

At least the ad in the article doesn’t throw Comic Sans all over over hazy 80's VHS footage of girls walking through wheat like FarmersOnly’s old ones did. Those felt like a personal attack on the fibers of my existence.

Psst... Mike, the Three Kingdoms period of China was circa 200 AD, not BC. So it was roughly 5 centuries after the Warring States, not the next.

I’m not the biggest Chaplin fan either—and when he works, it’s usually in some sublime tragicomic moment like the Dance of the Dinner Rolls in The Gold Rush—but maybe try Easy Street or One A.M., two of his better shorts.

Better yet, fuck/marry/kill.

It’s not all bleak. Shortly before he died Keaton retrospectives started popping up to big acclaim and he was invited to Cannes or one of the European festivals, where he was warmly welcomed.

It’s not all bleak. Shortly before he died Keaton retrospectives started popping up to big acclaim and he was invited to Cannes or one of the European festivals, where he was warmly welcomed.

That might be my favorite joke in all of Arrested Development, which is saying something.

I’m a Sherlock Jr. man, but Seven Chances and Our Hospitality come right after. Though I’ve had mixed success showing Seven Chances to others, given that it’s probably Keaton’s most “problematic” film.

Summer of ‘08 I was stuck on a school bus that was playing country radio. All Summer Long won some call-in request contest, but before playing it, the DJ spent two full minutes (an eternity in radio time) explaining to older listeners why kids might like it and basically apologizing for what he was about to do.

Yeah, FilmStruck has a watch list that’s perfectly fine. The interface (on Roku at least) overall is pretty subpar. Scrolling through movies gets me several hiccups and occasionally the cursor gets confused and ends up off an entry or so. But the browser version isn’t too bad to find films in and navigate, so I fill…

Aren’t wings technically dark meat (though not as dark as legs/thighs), and thus should be higher quality than boneless wings made from chicken breasts (stupid white meat that dries out easily but everyone thinks is better cause it’s white)?

Also Charles Burnett’s To Sleep with Anger and Barbara Loden’s Wanda, which are both really great and easily fit into the relevant/political narrative.

In my experience, it’s mostly Asian tourists that are the worst straw to draw. Which is mainly because a) most Asian cultures are non-tipping, and b) a lot of Asian guidebooks still seem to suggest 15%.

Take away the visuals, and all movies become radio plays.

For late-period Dean Cain, appearing on Supergirl sadly constitutes a break from appearing in various faith-based/cute animal films and serving as a Conservative Celebrity when Scott Baio’s not available.

As we’re seeing with Roy Moore right now: no. Partisanship overrides all. Access Hollywood was a weird disheartening week: Trump’s polls dropped significantly, a lot of Republican officials unendorsed him, and his campaign looked dead. But then polls of the Republican base indicated that some 70% were still behind…

Gold-pressed latinum. The cryptocurrency even MRA trolls realize might be a little too on point.

The poster quotes the article thesis, which the author then explains and defends in several paragraphs (including caveats about issues the post later notes—there’s even an acknowledgment of the shadow of Abrams in the first paragraph), and then lays out a counter-opinion which engages with none of the points raised in…

...Zack’s written years worth of classic Trek views on the AVClub. They’re linked at the bottom of the article (and they’re pretty great if you need an excuse to revisit the series).