I never thought any show could make devil-worship as dull as this one does.

You left out the part where he was “romancing” his kids’ sister while he was still in a relationship with their mom, and while he was adopting 2 of them and swearing in courts (and having others swear in courts) about how he was a wonderful father, such a wonderful father that laws should be changed to allow him to…

At best, he chose to romance and marry his son’s sister; his son’s mother’s daughter. That is so comically selfish and lacking in any sense of boundaries or restraint, I’m not really interested in whatever silly excuses he has.

Huh, I thought Blue Jasmine was one of his rare late-period successes. Though it’s mostly on Cate Blanchett.

I know there was renewed interest in late ‘17, but Dylan and Ronan were pretty vocal and public in ‘14, and the Soon-Yi of it all has followed Allen since the 90s (unfortunately more as a punchline than anything).

The allegations against Allen are thirty years old; despite the kerfluffle at the time, he was never charged with anything (much less tried or convicted). The Internet wasn’t a thing at the time, so if the media didn’t bring it back up, it more or less vanished from public consciousness. Once Harvey Weinstein and…

A TV really isn’t big enough to appreciate the the climactic scene where Timothee Chalamet opens a series of portals and brings through dozens of characters from earlier Woody Allen movies to fight Liev Schreiber. 

Though they really should have.

Any review with a “D” or “F” is my favorite type of review article

I had some vague issues with them before, but after reading this I think they’re both complete assholes. Each of those stories about “pranks” they pulled ended with someone uncomfortably reassuring their interviewer that “it was funny” so that they wouldn’t come off as too critical of someone who holds more power in…

These douchebro showrunners. Pulling pranks on teenage castmembers and being so proud of it. Amazing how often bullies of every kind pull this shit and think the harm they’ve caused is erased by a cheery “Just kidding!” Fuck them.

“that is objectively very funny, but it still made them cry.”

Of late, AV Club had done the press junkets for some dire-looking crap. Some evangelical flick with Archie from Riverdale, that One Direction fanfiction movie, a tie-in movie for The Secret, and now this. Blame the herb.

Is...is this it? This is a new low even for slideshows (top tip - view on a phone or portrait oriented tablet, or make browser window narrow. This forces the slideshow to go into single page mode). “37 mostly context-free pictures hastily slapped together with barely any writing to explain why the author thought they…

Exactly.  It’s influence really was taking those magical girl tropes and mixing them with the sentai tropes--something which is standard now.  But, just as this article mentions Western animation drawing inspiration from Sailor Moon and adapting it--Sailor Moon did the exact same in Japan, it didn’t originate anything.

> The tropes established by Sailor Moon soon became common features of the magical girl genre: cute, talking guide animals, everyday objects that secretly double as magical transformation amulets, and a tight-knit group of friends represented by different colors and elements.

I mean it makes total sense.

It’s too bad he didn’t say something less high-minded and more click-baity like “Marvel movies aren’t cinema” - we could have wrung two weeks of content out of this!

Never thought I’d live to see the day where the new documentary that the AVClub was breathlessly (and uncritically!) covering would be about Paris Hilton.

Look at the shadow of the shops, it’s early morning!