Maybe we just think Across the Spider-Verse was bloated, poorly structured, and inferior to its predecessor? It is possible, you know.

I miss soooo muuuch when I’d be able to come here and read a writer who’s relishing in reliving a cultural moment and the rest of the comment section are too. It used to be by far the highlight of my online life

I would sacrifice many things for long form critical series like History of Violence and Romance Met Comedy again

I like that the site is back to doing the occasional actual article/critical analysis of pop culture, but it seems like they’re all about 50% shorter than they should be. Better than a bunch of slideshows and articles built from out of context quotes from celebrity interviews, but still...

Oh great. Another movie that could have been about cool superheroes, but is all about stupid regular people and their stupid feelings instead.

RIP to one of my favourite actors of all time.

Is that normal Who-ing?

“Why couldn’t you be an addictive opioid like your brother Oxycontin?”

“...don’t care about who you are or what you’ve accomplished.”

Nah the lesson is to let the baby drown

I’ll be frank, friend. It’s easier to say that now, and it doesn’t really get to the larger point: that while the TERF stuff isn’t in the content of the book, the goblin/Jewish stuff is, and is frankly in a LOT of myth/fantasy/sci-fi stuff, and we ALL just take it for granted, and literally billions of people don’t…

I’m generally disinclined to get into it with people who talk about how critics need to be “objective” and refer to movies as “content,” but I do like talking about myself so I’m going to humor you, User Named Mark.

I’m a freelancer and have pretty minimal contact with any so-called corporate overlords, but this isn’t a decision unique to the AVC. For movie reviews to not drop whenever the studio lifts an embargo, it would either have to be a movie generating little publicity (and therefore unlikely to be read ASAP), or…

Skyfall had what I think is THE dumbest opening shot in all Bond flicks, if not all of cinema; what professional or any person in the pursuit of someone dangerous, presumably armed, would just jut out into an open hallway, full body exposed, to the sound of the most hilarious ‘tudum’? Honestly, for the first few…

Ingmar Bergman loves the MCU and is just waiting for the green light for his Invisible Woman standalone starring Liv Ullman.

Are you implying that that website’s reporting credentials are suspect? I don’t know the website — which means I have no particular reason to either champion or impugn its integrity.