These people responding to you, lol... Starbucks might be overpriced but their coffee is quality coffee and their machines are super clean. You can bitch about a lot of things about Starbucks but the quality of bean, roast or preparation is not any of them. “Bitter tree bark”... good grief. Go get your powdered coffee…

“When and if you do watch Hook again, you might rethink whether it’s less excessive or pandering”

I started coming here because it seemed to be a place where people liked movies, tv, music, etc.  Now it’s really just a place that writes about how it dislikes those things.  And writes it over.  And over.  And over.  What a shitty wet blanket.

but it feels like people *do* like it

This article is ridiculously mean-spirited. That’s not a pun. I can’t believe the way you latch on to something you hate, and then when people don’t hate it the same way the daughter of someone who made the movie is fair game to be told she’s “wrong” because she doesn’t have 100% the opinions of you.

I laughed a helluvah lot during the movie. I really enjoyed it. That’s all I wanted to happen when I went to see it. It’s a fun movie.

AV Club seems to be pushing the narrative that nobody liked Ghostbusters or Cowboy Bebop this weekend, but that just doesn’t line up with my own experience.

Shut up Sam.

There are at least 70 million Boomers who don't watch this show. As one of them may I suggest you stop with the ageist crap.  

Can you get these ads to stop dropping from the top of the screen every 60 seconds?

I’m with you on the Flavacol (although 2 tsp is a LOT of sodium and I prefer 1/4 of that, it is likely similar to what you get in a theater setting). But what you need, my friend, is a Whirley Pop.

“Gemma Chan’s Sersi is able to change inanimate objects into other inanimate objects, but God forbid she alter her facial expression.”

I don’t know if you work involves nicotine or you’re just an extreme Libertarian, but you’re clogging up this conversation with a lot of misinformation and disingenuous arguments.

Calling teens vaping an epidemic is alarmist and ridiculous 

I can’t even tell you how much I appreciate this post. The vaping hysteria is INSANE. Using the word “epidemic” because teenagers are vaping instead of smoking cigarettes is just bananas. Like, finally there’s a relatively healthy smoking alternative/successful cessation device and lots of people apparently hate it…

(I’ve included many links in this comment, but they’re not showing up and then the text gets mangled, so I’m taking them out. Happy to share with anyone curious.)

MENA? OK what new made up woke acronym do I have to learn this week? Shouldn’t this stuff come with hyperlink footnotes so we can keep up?

Every single word in this review is in English, but I still can’t take understand a darn thing except some creepy stuff happens in a non-haunted mansion. I didn’t even get a clue as to why the show is called “Chapelwaite” so I had to look it up on Wikipedia (turns out it’s the name of the evil house).

As for Léon, who has rightly been credited with sparking this very necessary conversation, in response to Manuel’s apology, she simply stated: “For centuries darker-skinned Afro-Latinx people have been erased from Latinidad, but we will be forgotten no more. We are tired of being maids and background dancers and will…