Don’t forget about her dog adoption controversy.

Disappointing glimpse into the level of film knowledge we have at the AV Club now. How could you highlight Dune as an expensive foible and not, like, Fitzcarraldo? The Herzog blunder that took 5 years, involved building temporary communities and debatably led to actual preventable deaths?

You Cannot Be This American To Ride

Two things can be true: obese people should be treated with dignity, respect, love, and validation; and we need to confront the food problems that are causing unhealthy obesity and killing people. The former is a social issue; the latter needs to be led by the agencies who are supposedly built to help combat public…

Oof. Maybe we stop stanning a Queen who takes blood money

and $24 million proved to be too much for the singer to pass up—regardless of who it came from.

Run this with an article about why dialogue is mixed too quiet and all other things are mixed too loud and I’m set for the day.

There was literally no reason this 5-item listicle needed to be a slideshow.

James Austin Johnson is a talented mimic, but SNL has demonstrated repeatedly that accuracy isn’t automatically funny. (IMO Chloe Fineman also demonstrates this often.)

This reads like someone justifying getting a N’aavi tattoo to impress a girl.

Pop culture references aren’t the be-all end-all of a film’s quality, sure, but they’re a very good measure of what has staying power within the broader culture. When movies stick with audiences, they don’t just sell toys; they get quoted and referenced, and if they stick with mass audiences they do so in ways that…

“This whole article seems an overly desperate stretch over and around the weird hollowness of the first Avatar movie and its lack of resonance in pop culture despite its box office success.”

All I know is that when I saw it, the 3D was amazing, but the movie itself was just incredibly mediocre. It was fine, but nowhere near what a James Cameron film should be, you could tell he was more enamored by the technology than the story he was creating. I wouldn’t see the new one, even with the cool 3D, except…

This whole article seems an overly desperate stretch over and around the weird hollowness of the first Avatar movie and its lack of resonance in pop culture despite its box office success. Titanic gets referenced far more in pop culture than Avatar, and it came out 25 years ago. Toys and other Avatar merchandise…

Your argument barely supports your premise.  Nobody’s denying the technical impact it had on filmmaking or the number of 3d TVs that it sold, but it definitely didn’t have the same kind of pop culture impact as Cameron’s previous movies.  Nobody’s quoting any of the blue people a decade later while ‘Game over man!’,…

Really? Cuz I heard it blue. 

For that exact reason. Red State was not a Kevin Smith film in its pacing, cinematography, the complete absence of any pop-culture riffing, the acting, the writing, and the overall production. It was like when Clint Eastwood made Jersey Boys. It felt like a film that Kevin Smith may have been on the set for but didn’t…

Gen X is giving me Boomer vibes, dude.  Hope they don’t do a “Reality Bites” sequel set in a nursing home.

Kevin Smith knows a lot about movies, it’s too bad that doesn’t translate into his ability as a filmmaker. I really doubt that Kevin Smith would enjoy Kevin Smith movies. He’d probably shit all over them.

If the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien teach anything, it’s that the road goes ever on and on.