I believe it was "This Is A Call" that first introduced me to Foo Fighters and I remember thinking it was a pretty rocking good song. It didn't feel entirely substantial, though, and I didn't rush out and buy the record, but I never got tired of hearing it on the radio. "I'll Stick Around" was also pretty good. And my…

Nintendo-style games are good summer games, in general. So I'll throw Splatoon out, again. All the locations are pretty sunny, the music is upbeat and there's just a youthful, rough-and-tumble spirit to it all that really gels with summertime.

In fairness, if you have the chance to hire Mark Hamill and get more Joker out of him, it's gotta be pretty hard to say no.

It's pretty simple: Asylum is "Batman: Metroid" and City is "Batman: GTA". Both have their advantages, but in my book Metroid always outclasses GTA.

The other place I hang out is a Nintendo forum, which has its own podcast. They packed in community guest speakers for the E3 episode and every single one of us, individually, cited the puppets as the best part of the Direct. So… interpret that how you will.

I like this story. If I was a fancy producer, I would buy this story and turn it into a movie.

Splatatatatatatatatata-Splatoon.

Surely promotion is a commercial usage of the images, though. Otherwise, I could promote my business with Butthole Surfers songs all day without any worry of litigation.

I think they're a pretty super group.

My personal opinion: I don't believe for a second that this perspective on streaming services that started with her refusing to put her music on Spotify is some kind of Profile in Courage on the part of Taylor Swift. This order is coming from the top down. This is the dinosaur music industry using her unique position…

I'll take Steve Albini's position on the new digital future over Taylor Swift's, personally.

In this picture, we see what Stephen Fry will look like in 20 years.

Yeah, there are only so many times you can use words like montage and mise-en-scene to compliment a director's visual sensibility before you just sound like a pretentious asshole.

Agreed. I think it's super effective at making the point that Spielberg doesn't want the viewer to think he's ignoring the tragedies of the movie's background characters.

I'll second that. I always hear how Prisoner is the greatest Harry Potter movie but i just remember being confused by its climax when I watched it for the first time, having never read the books. Once I'd gone back and read them, I understood the beats in the movie, of course, but that's one instance where a little…

Life ain't easy for a boy named Annie.

I haven't seen the movie in several years, but wasn't he basically whacking off while she was asleep and accidentally woke her up? I hope we're not to the point where that sort of thing is being treated the same as whacking off in public or with a stranger or something. Borderline sexual assault seems too strong to…

I think we're supposed to see him as funny, but he's clearly trying to revert to his youth, which the movie presents as pathetic and, toward the end, fucking creepy. And Bening's character isn't entirely unsympathetic - the scenes where we see her trying to sell homes are sad and stressful.

We're not supposed to love him. He's an asshole until near the end of the movie when he has an epiphany, A Good Man Is Hard To Find style.

I must have seen a different movie than everyone at the AV Club. Either I misunderstood it or you guys did.