Also, Richard Corliss.

Not to rain on Jacky Ely's parade (ohh no!), but didn't know where to ask this question. Did you guys do a Richard Corliss obit and I just missed it, or did you really not do one?

In the '90s I really hated Keanu Reeves, mainly because I thought he was a bad actor, one who also happened to be regularly, horribly miscast. But that my girlfriend at the time thought he was awesome (hot!) and watched him in movies that she knew were bad just to see him massively compounded my (mostly irrational)…

Locke's whole arc is one of the most daring things any TV series has every pulled off. To take a character of that magnitude, that beloved by the fans, and do that to him - especially in the way it subverts so much of what came before, and so much of what we'd thought about Locke - is just mindblowing in its audacity.

And isn't Jack playing his "theme" from the series?

Yes, yes it should.

Certainly not a great film, but really easy to watch. Like the article says, it's mostly about the performances, which make these cliches feel real and invest some humanity into a fairly silly film. It's a nice film to just sort of hang out with.

Damn, your measured response has disarmed me!

It's a good point, and I'm all for precise usage. I think the problem with "auteur," however, is that it didn't actually start as an academic term. The Cahiers writers were journalists who often didn't agree with each other about the term's meaning or application. Once academia got really involved, in the late 1960s…

Well, my point is that I wouldn't apply the auteur "theory" to any movie.

It is an excellent film, but also an odd one. Just saw it again very recently. McCrea is an odd duck in it - sometimes likeable, sometimes insufferable, and it tries to cram a bit too much in at the end. But the part that I'd forgotten about, that sort of blows me away considering the movie's time, is the black church…

Except that the definition of "auteur" has undergone numerous changes since the Cahiers writers first put forth their ideas. You're right that Garland's concept is a later one, but his concept of it is no less legitimate than yours. In fact, his is probably the more wide-spread understanding of the term. And this…

Producers make as many decisions as directors do, even when a so-called "auteur" is involved. Different kinds, but with just as much impact on the final product (as you probably know, the auteur concept arose to describe just that relationship - directors whose visions translated to the screen despite all the…

Just keep writing a book about every single episode, no stone unturned, and I'll be sure to stay away. Takes the joy right out of reading.

Seriously? McNutt's on this, too? C'mon AVClub, how fucking miserable are you trying to make me? Guess I'll have to stick with the newbie write-ups if I want any GoT talk this season. Damn.

And he's a bully, which is what I think really pisses Raylan off.

It is fun, but it seems like a bit of an empty shell to me. I've watched it a few times now to try and get what's so great about it. I get what's really good about, it looks super, it's got a deadpan cool I like, but I think the gimmick overtakes the soul of the story (unlike, not to compare too much, the comic,…

Wait . . . is Birdman not one of the top 100? Okay, I get it, lists are arbitrary. But that shit's fucked up.

Speaking of their fast one, did anybody else think that Fitz actually switched out the boxes?

"i don't think The World's End was great"