Man, she really doesn’t want her son to be king.

To get really pedantic, the Lenten rule is not that you can’t eat meat, it’s a prohibition on the meat of land animals. That means animals that live in the water are OK, whether it’s lobsters, fish or turtles. Where it gets tricky for some Catholics is whether that means something like a muskrat is a land animal or a…

Or Sho Kosugi

Maybe he just wore the mask to scare the other inmates. “French criminals are a cowardly, superstitious lot. So my disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts. I must be a creature of the night, black, terrible...a...fop in a velvet mask!” 

Been around the world and found that only German people are breeding / The cretins cloning and feeding / And I don’t even own a bidet

Yeah, that’s fair. I was being generous there.

Since the current Bond team decided to make Spectre into a dramatic retelling of the plot from Austin Powers III, I think I’ll be happier if we just forgot about Blofeld entirely.

...you keep your finger on fast-forward when you’re rewatching a Mission: Impossible movie.

That you call it Nolan's film instead of DC's should tell you something.

I prefer it to the first Avengers movie, which was pure popcorn fluff. AoU feels like it’s actually asking a question about whether the existence of these superheroes is a positive thing, something the following films build on. Ultron was the turning point for me when the MCU actually got interesting and moved away…

the overall air of “meh” on the part of all the scientists except the leaders

I would have to go back and rewatch the rest of Scott’s films and see if it was always there at some level, but there’s definitely a feeling in his 21st century films that actors and characters are mostly just chess pieces to be moved around through the plot and various visually interesting set pieces.

People in olden times were hella racist. Like 99% of them. Racism bad. Cosmic horror good. Peace!

If the AV Club didn’t try to work a racism angle into every article, its reviews would only be three sentences long.

Is this being sung by a child, at a very slow tempo, and in a minor key?

The movie rights for 5 Nights at Freddy’s were outside of SyFy’s price range.

just give it time

OMG HAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh good, we got our daily Ariana Grande mention. I’d hate to forget about her.

The shows will be written by the same program.