Saw this at an advance screening. I love Edgar Wright and wanted to love this, but didn't.

I had a friend who did his residency at a hospital in Portland, ME. They served a large homeless population and he confirmed that Boston does bus its homeless up to Maine.

But someone told me that someone told them that someone told them that they know for certain that this splinter of wood came from the cross he was crucified on!

At my old subway stop, there used to be an ad for a church with the CS Lewis quote "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." I'd stare at it every morning while waiting to go to work and feel my blood pressure slowly tick up.

It's true, ghosts were super bored prior to 1880. Blowing out candles in a drafty cottage just isn't the same.

I highly recommend the documentary My Amityville Horror, which follows one of the now-grown Amityville kids. He's 1000% committed to the idea that their house was haunted and the whole thing was completely, totally real. There's a scene where he goes to see Lorraine Warren and she pulls out what she claims is a…

I don't have a good recommendation for a book, but there's a good New Yorker piece that is free on their website. It's called "The Shining Tree of Life" by Adam Gopnik.

Late to the party, but I enjoyed Seductive Poison, by Deborah Layton. She was an insider in The People's Temple, and as @StressandStars:disqus said, Jonestown is fascinating due to the political action angle.

To respond to this in a boring, matter-of-fact way- The Witch was historically accurate, and to a 1630s Puritan, making a covenant with the devil to become a witch would have played out exactly as it did with Thomasin and Black Philip. The devil would come to you in the shape of an animal, and then you'd read his…

Oh man, tell me about it. I could be happy with that state of the world: trust-funded Rory deciding that what she really wants is to make the Gazette the best it can be. She gets to live in Stars Hollow, she gets to do what she loves, she doesn't really need the money anyway… But no.

Rory has no grit- maybe understandable having grown up in Stars Hollow where she couldn't walk down the street without the entire town genuflecting and begging her to be the Winter Carnival Queen. It's funny because Lorelai has nothing but grit.

Especially since it's been 10+ years- maybe Luke could actually just be a little bald at this point.

I always wondered if the Gilmore Girls was making some stealth point about how damaging it is to grow up as the darling of an entire town. It's the same thing that happened with Mitchum Huntsberger in the original series: Rory finally meets someone who doesn't instantly agree that she's The Best Ever! The Golden…

I had a high school experience very similar to Rory's (financial aid kid at elite New England boarding school, even graduating around the same time) and what it took to get into college was absolutely unavoidable knowledge. Like, discussed pretty much every day no matter what grade you were in . We even had a phrase…

One of my all time favorite AV Club threads is the one on My Amityville Horror, the documentary by one of the Lutz kids. The documentary wasn't half bad either- the part with Lorraine Warren should be required viewing for anyone who saw the Conjuring.

It's one of the most damning facts about him- that he was completely happy to deal with Hitler if it put him back on the throne, with Wallis. That's some ice-cold selfishness.

I also read it as a moment of smug triumph for him: he secured his allowance, and messed with his family a bit in the bargain. It's also a certain amount of performance. He's backed himself into a corner where he has to play the victim, cruelly abused by his family but triumphant in his escape back to his true love.…

I was surprised they didn't tie in the historical context behind the Windsor change to help flesh out the naming issue. During WWI, with monarchies toppling all over the world, the king was so terrified that he was next that they changed the name to Windsor to distance the family from their German ancestry. It makes…

Oh god, and the way that Rosemary is clearly deeply squicked out and then pushes it down to go make him breakfast! That scene is beautifully done.

He calls Rosemary's friends "a bunch of not-very-bright bitches". He makes Rosemary get up and make him breakfast the morning after the drugged Satan rape, and pushes her out of bed when she tells him to eat breakfast out because she's not feeling well. (The brass fucking balls of that!)