I had no idea the Strokes still inspired such fanboy devotion..

Only if that's all he did. Adams is an artist who keeps growing and evolving as a songwriter. Except for a lot of hype and one album, Strokes are known to most music fans as trustfunded, skinny-jeaned, tousle-haired one-or-two-hit wonders.

Raisinettes are Mel Brooks's obsession.

Just watched The Graduate on the big screen as part of its 50th and was wanting to explore more Bancroft, so thanks for this review and recommendation because if she's as good in this as she is in The Graduate (and she is sublime), I'm all in. Here's to you, Mrs Bancroft.

The authors at A.V. Club are always so laced with snark that I can never tell the point of its 'commentary' -
The installation did what it set out to do in holding a mirror to Trump America, and I presume the artists will take it elsewhere. Yes, it provided the worst aspects of our society a forum, a stage, but at…

It's AV Club. It's snark ad infinitum…funny sometimes but often depressingly cynical.

I'm sure he was committed as he always is, but my point is that the movie may have been like an exorcism, with some of th themes and scenes too hitting close to home. Wasn't his real father a vet prone to violence? I'm just saying that Shia may not have been in the best emotional state while filming. A better director…

This one seems more like a cathartic return to movies with a friend he trusted, so he was probably pretty raw. It was his first role after the plagiarism, drunken fights, Cabaret, breakdown etc…this seemed like Montiel giving his friend a needed boost of confidence and support system more than anything else.
What he…

I think reviewers, critics like to be clever and overthink every thing.

Yes! No one else has mentioned this. She was really fighting her own conscience, and everytime she locked eyes with Naz, you could see that doubt and looked close to feeling real sympathy toward Naz. Another thing no one seems to remember, Helen saw a glimpse of doubt in Box from the start, 'You blinked Dennis' she…

It's like they're following some play book on what 'serious artists do' in the trajectory of a career. They started out with a gimmick, then seemed to sense it was played out, declared themselves misunderstood and disavowed their beginnings 'No, we really fu**** hated the banjo..' just like Mickey Dolenz claiming he…

I can hear thier agent/PR man….'Diversify lads!'
They keep popping up on these tribute things too: singing at a Bowie tribute concert because OF COURSE! ..singing Prince on Jools Holland, because obviously no one else in London who actually had ties to his music was available.. Now this.
They link themselves to better…

Ha! I get going in comment sections because I do get impatient and jaded from the constant snarky flipness of most posters online.. Its part of the internet culture, but it gets to the point where honest discussion is almost derided, and that is depressing. You actually had a thoughtful POV in the context of the…

Well, that's slightly less predictable than, 'Hi Shia'. Lol
Great nothing response.

Well, but Warhol was looking at celebrity as an observer, as a collective 'us'. With his fawning magazine, his highly stylized portraits, if anything, he further glamorized, fetishized celebrity culture, because in a way, he was as fascinated as we all are in the face of celebrity.(otherwise, we wouldn't be here)…

I think he's been more successful than Franco, who actually gets more shit for his forays into the art world. I think his whole thing is decidedly anti-intellectual, more emotional, more engaging. His last few projects were well received. However, the entertainment-fueled internet culture of jaded, snarking cynicism…

That's all you can do. Critics are grading on an academic scale: is it perfect? Of course not. I feel female artists are too often judged on a less forgiving scale, even from female critics. It's like they have to represent and speak for some all-encompassing female truth with thoughtful, esoteric poetry instead of…

Stretching about Joni Mitchell? I wasn't condeming her - because I took it for what it was: an artist going through a phase of influence.
Neither of us will win this argument. I think it's just such a narrow way to take in music. I'm probably much older than you are and just have say that you will miss a lot of really…

Again, have you seen Mick Jagger in the 70s? Maybe not 'blackface', although Stones guitarist Mick Taylor used to wear an afro on stage, Mick and other musicians from that era 'reappropriated' out thier asses. Remember when Joni Mitchell was in her jazz phase? I'm sure you don't. She was 'reappropriating' like crazy…

Yeah, true. I thought you were being snarky. She is an open book, but she's also self-aware and that's endearing to me.