It’s articles like this that make me sad about the present AV Club (which I barely check once a week these days). Without Netflix’s DVDs would I have seen “Army of Shadows” (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969), both the original and the new 3:10 to Yuma, The Tunnel (2001, Germany), We Are the Best (2013, Sweden), and so much…

I’ve never watched The Orville. Would it be ok for a 12-year old who loves ST:TNG? A nine-year old? (Neither of whom should watch Family Guy, by the way.)

Voodoo donuts is great if you want to wait in a long line while listening to painfully loud death metal to buy an overpriced donut from a surly cashier.

A few people have written that this “doesn’t feel like Star Trek,” and others asked for elaboration on what that means, or why it matters. Here’s my two cents: The joy and excitement of Star Trek, for me, involve exploring “strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations,” something sorely lacking on…

Coincidentally, I just finished Stuart Gibbs’ “Big Game,” a funny and fast-moving kids’ book that deals with poaching, of rhinos especially. It also, briefly and gently, touches on topics of hunting, conservation, and the tensions between them. It’s pretty ambitious for an entertaining book aimed at 10 year olds, and…