Yeah, as white as this film is, it’s a lot more diverse than the two Paddington movies, the producers of which, having made the films in the “era of woke,” must have been acutely aware they were choosing to ignore half of London. Their twee-ness seems to make them critic-proof.

Agreed - I’d also throw in her two-part appearance on Angel right after “This Year’s Girl” / “Who Are You?” (which is an often overlooked best of Buffy).

Bella?

Technically, I think it’s called a nubbin.

I know it’s been destroyed by “more cowbell,” and constant replays on classic rock radio, but “Don’t Fear the Reaper” is an incredibly haunting song. Give it a good listen, when the end lyrics finally come up, I get chills (even with the cowbell!):

Was coming here with “Splendid Isolation,” nice one. The opening is also killer, but damn, when he finally gets to “Don’t want nothing to do with you” . . . just damn.

No Hungarian films? Milyen hulyeség!

For the most part, Transylvania was part of Hungary for about 1000 years. If you look at a topographical map, you’ll see that the Carpathian basin extends across Hungary through Transylvania to the Carpathian mountains, on the other side of which is the region of Romania once known as Wallachia (which is where you’ll…

Diary of a Teenage Girl is a fantastic film. I’m looking forward to this, based on that alone. Plus, Holofcener!

That’s too bad . . . I’m a bit behind on my Arrow watching (about a season and a half), but it was the AVClub’s reviews of S01 that convinced me to watch this show that was WAY outside anything I thought I’d be into. And following along real-time with S02 was one of my favourite TVClub experiences here. I’m sure I’m…

I love that the Cardigans do a bunch of tripped-out Sabbath covers. Also, their story of recording “Burning down the House” with Tom Jones is pretty epic.

Aside from some great character stuff in Jessica Jones S01, it pretty much makes the entire MCU Netflix TVverse (or whatever it’s called) look even worse. That scene held so much promise and I just remember watching that episode and being so jacked for what was to come. I’ve enjoyed a fair few bits of it, but none of…

Death Proof is flippin fantastic!

I guess it depends on your definition of “good.” I like Bansky (I’m also post-millenial). Some of it’s silly and some of it’s sort of archly clever, which I usually find funky. But occasionally, time and place allows his work to rise towards something more sublime - I think a lot of his work in Palestine and Israel,…

My kid could paint that!

Litotes!

Exactly. In my experience, Buffy fans can actually be more critical of the original series than non-fans, and there’s been a lot written about how the show suffers from that ‘90s-era TV trend of casting very few people of color (see Friends). Whedon and other creatives on the show have also acknowledged that as one of…

One might not like MCU films - I get that - but I’m a big fan and I think they’ve captured lightning in a bottle (a few duds aside). I’ll happily take whatever they give me until the films start consistently sucking. As a long-time SW fan, yeah, I’m feeling the fatigue. I realised last spring that I was way more…

For the record (and not that it matters), I’m a feminist, I’m all for more women and POC in the Star Wars world, I’m totally down with Rey as the central protagonist, etc. But for reasons that I won’t go into (cuz it’s been so belaboured elsewhere), I didn’t like TLJ very much - tonally inconsistent, poor character…

In this short clip you get Poseidon and Friends’ awesome clothes/color design and the cunnilingus gag (wait for it!):