If I were Ms. Robinson, I’d be constantly looking over my shoulder for Joe Pesci. 

I miss Caroline Siede! She was the best

“I pay you 6 figures a year to scratch my back, and you sue me? You talkin’ to me?”

This weekend I watched the new Haunted Mansion movie with my son. He’d already seen it in the theater last summer, but he wanted to watch something scary before Halloween. Which invites that question of why they released a Haunted Mansion movie in the summer and then released (quickly counts) zero kid-friendly horror…

That’s the site in general - discount version of itself. Remember when writers had encyclopedic knowledge of movies and music and were passionate about the subjects?

I will say it until I die. Viahnevetsky has some of the best mean F/zero star reviews post Ebert. I would love to have him sign a print copy of his Contract to Kill review.

The ticket price is higher for the TS concert film. There might be a chance that the Scorcese film sold very similiar number of tickets. Maybe even more? 

Man, the A.V. Club used to have such a great roster of writers. The folks you mentioned, Donna Bowman, Katie Rife, Ignatiy “C+” Vishnevetsky, John Teti... these are just the first who come to mind. Generally I’m trying hard not to be a curmudgeon who calls everything new and modern shit. But the “new and modern” A.V.…

Barsanti is the Seltzer & Friedberg to Sean O'Neal's Zucker, Abrahams & Zucker.

This doesn’t mean much. Eras is a family-friendly concert film that parents are bringing their kids to and that fans are seeing multiple times. Killers of the Flower Moon is a 3.5 hour adults-only drama about disturbing (but important) historical events that many people are waiting to be released for streaming. 

Yeah. Dissing Marvel movies is kicking a hornet’s nest, but going after Swifties is just signing a death warrant.

You have to possess O’Neal’s seething contempt for all humankind to pull it off.

He would make far more enemies if he criticized Taylor Swift than he ever did with superhero movies.

Saw The Nightmare Before Christmas re-release one thin theater wall over from the Taylor Swift movie. Was hoping for some Wizard of Oz / Pink Floyd style sync up between the two but unfortunately didn’t happen.

I’m still having a hard time believing I was able to see a new Scorsese/De Niro movie this week.

He made several, so it’s not likely.

legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese—a man who will, unfortunately, soon be completely forgotten by history. (Apropos of nothing, there are no comic book movies in the top 10 this week.)

I think Barsanti’s big role model is Sean O’Neal. He tries to copy his snark without realizing what made it so potent and funny. O’Neal was cutting and precise. Barsanti is just flailing around aimlessly.

It would be hilarious if Scorsese started complaining about concert films as the new biggest ill for cinema.

Brave to make a Scorsese will be forgotten joke when I genuinely doubt anyone will remember Sam Barsanti, who is no Nathan Rabin or Emily VanDerWerff.