A fine line separates physical humor from wanton cruelty. The Stooges fall on the wrong side of that divide, while (working retro) Harold Lloyd holds enduring appeal. The difference seems to come down to aggression and relatability. To find the Stooges funny requires siding with the person administering pain and…

Will I have Total Recall of the experience?

@avclub-e5e75678d9346d88878b7c95b97eac68:disqus = Jamie Gumb

*John Woo angrily tweets the corporate address for Dove Bars*

Under the Squeezer to the Dome

LORD PALMERSTON!

… decided to burn a little girl alive

Laid low by oppressive economic and cultural forces? Yes, yes I did get laid that way.

When will Hollywood learn that female-led comedies and action movies just never make money?

"Death by Narrative Expediency" is the worst dessert ever.

*pictures Sepp Blatter standing on edge of box, covering crotch with hands*

If you check FIFA's charter, it guarantees members' rights to offer and accept bribes. What's the problem?

Twenty-six and in grad school. I expect to spend this week catching up on all the pop culture I missed while actually learning.

*dreads innumerable posts bragging "I was 3 years old then"*

The more obvious moral, as always, is "women be crazy." The lead character even wound up in an insane asylum.

Counterpoint: Emilio Estevez' The Way came out surprisingly thoughtful and emotionally affecting for all of it's "father's spiritual pilgrimage to reconcile son's death" trappings.

Labor law makes it pretty clear that no woman-only medical accommodations are ever necessary. This America, dammit.

This is also why studio contract players were surgically neutered back in the 1930s and 1940s.

When will Cop Rock get adopted for Broadway?

^^^ "overeager maniacs, including the entire staff of The A.V. Club, yell “Norm!” repeatedly"