And we can dig it!

And “Uncle Shaft” makes a better band name.

I dunno. I don’t think there’s anything inherently “inauthentic” about being a death-obsessed nihilist and being independently wealthy. It’s not like these guys were singing about the plight of the working man.

The GEnie had some potential.

I’d sort of thought that’s what The Book of Henry might have been flirting with, but then it was released and nooo... [sigh]

I haven’t seen the film, but my (apparently correct, from your description) sense was that they went with artworks in a variety of media with a pretty wide range of styles. I can understand the narrative appeal of some variety to the scary artwork, but with too broad a stylistic range, it seems like the “tortured…

[reverendlovejoy]Aww... That’s super[/reverendlovejoy]

Yeah, I get that marketers need to use hip, trendy lingo to impress these damn kids today. I just have kind of a knee-jerk negative reaction when commenters and media play along with that — just like I resist using quotation marks for emphasis, misusing “literally”, and saying “irregardless” at all.

Confederate apologists would have woven a narrative of “nobility” out of whatever raw material they had. It’s not as though Lee engineered that charge as a cunning scheme to fuel 100 years of Jim Crow. Having reached the end of his resource rope, Lee “bet the plantation” on one last throw of the dice, and decisively…

Surely we need some sort of AV Club Hall of Fame -- Dick Miller could be our founding nominee!

Not really. He wasn’t really an active participant in the “Generals’ Plot”, he wasn’t approached until pretty late in the bomb plot, as the plotters sought prominent figures to lend legitimacy to a new government. He essentially told them “If you manage to kill him, I’ll support you”. That was enough of a connection…

So far as Confederate “heroes” are concerned, at least there’s a case to be made that Lee was ultimately instrumental in ending the war — encouraging the soldiers who still idolized him to lay down their arms in surrender, rather than continuing a guerilla war, as some encouraged at the time. Jackson, on the other…

When I leave an endowment for a Hall of Fame in my will, all the inductees will be represented by their own, custom made, Funko Pops.

If you can’t forget that connection, perhaps you can displace it by remembering him as “Kobras” in The Pumaman.

Such things were largely out-of-fashion in the US by the early-’60s, but drivers education movies kept up with the disturbing images and gore well into the ‘80s.

And apparently really threw himself into that role -- I think it was somewhere on the AV Club that the story emerged that he’d written a whole elaborate backstory for himself, explaining how an Englishman got elected President of the US.

I guess we can make that a sequel to this piece: Most re-watched film that you didn’t actually like.

Remembered in recurring nightmares, surely.

Probably just for variety. Or maybe Coburn wanted to do the accent.

Nah, Illya Kuryakin at the train station. The great scene where the cop/Gestapo guy yells at him to halt as he flees down the platform, and the whole crowd dives flat, ‘cause they live there, and know how this sort of thing goes down.