Please click through and enjoy this video of Louis Armstrong singing Hello, Dolly from the titular musical. After he became famous for singing the song, he was included as a bellhop named Louis who sings a verse of the song … Continue reading The Night Thread Sings Hello, Dolly (7/31)
Before creating The Muppet Show, Jim Henson broke out on TV with six-second Wilkins Coffee commercials. Wilkins advertises Wilkins Coffee, Wontkins won’t drink Wilkins Coffee, and Wilkins kills or injures him as a result. Sometimes a cruel twist of fate … Continue reading The Day Thread Drinks Wilkins Coffee (6/4)
Welcome to Oscar Week! Fans of cinema are lining up to root for the year’s biggest hits, and the Avocado Oscar Pool is in full swing as always. As always, a number of great movies are mingling with some stinkers, … Continue reading The Avocado Predicts the 2023 Academy Awards
A new year, a new Oscars. With just under three weeks to go until Hollywood’s biggest night, many of you are looking forward to catching up with some of the year’s greatest films, and also a couple others. But where … Continue reading 2023 Academy Awards Viewing Guide
Land ho! The Metkayina are approaching! James Cameron’s first film in thirteen years, Avatar: The Way of Water, hit theaters this weekend with a hefty $134m. Reportedly the most expensive film ever made, the 192-minute 3D extravaganza made a whopping … Continue reading “Avatar: The Way of Water” Splashes Down with $134m in its First Weekend (Box Office 12/18)
Editor’s Note: Feel free to post as big or as small of a list as you would like below but please keep your lists contained to these posts and do not make your own post or fill up the OT … Continue reading The Pits: Best in TV 2022
Greetings, everyone. Not too much to report today, box office wise, as we have yet to breach the golden shores of Pandora. Tuktirey, Colonel Miles Quaritch, Mo’at, Parker Selfridge, all of our best friends will be there. But before we … Continue reading “Wakanda Forever” and “Violent Night” Stay on Top of the Pre-Avatar Box Office (12/11/22)
Hello everyone and Happy Giftmas! Hope you saw some good movies out there this week. The post-Thanksgiving week is typically slower at the box office, and this week is no exception, with the debut of only one new film at … Continue reading “Wakanda Forever” and “Violent Night” Top Box Office (12/4)
Hello everyone! I’m Owen, taking over the weekly box office column from Blue Adept. You may remember me from the time I wrote extensively about Gene Autry singing cowboy robot alien invasion serial The Phantom Empire for The Avocado, except … Continue reading “Wakanda Forever” Tops Box Office Amid Five New Releases (11/27/22)
Normal Gossip is the podcast that allows you to hear about the petty drama of others for free! Hosted by Kelsey McKinney of Defector, the podcast walks you through one gossip story per episode as Kelsey tells it to a … Continue reading The 8/15 Day Thread Shares Some Gossip
Spoil Sports for Jordan Peele’s third film, NOPE. Discuss away! Continue reading Spoil Sports: Nope
It’s Hollywood’s night to shine! After months of feverish campaigning, the Oscars are here, and it looks like it’s going to be stupider than ever this year. Although a number of truly great movies are nominated this year, the Oscars … Continue reading The Avocado Predicts the 2022 Academy Awards
The 2022 Oscar season is underway, and despite the Academy’s offensively stupid decision to present eight of the categories before the ceremony and then awkwardly edit them in later, there are still plenty of good films nominated. Great international films … Continue reading Review: 2022 Oscar-Nominated Short Films
Fifty years ago to this day, Peter Bogdanovich’s “What’s Up, Doc?” premiered in the United States. The movie serves as an homage to 1930s screwball comedies, and was a love letter to the genre from Bogdanovich, who previously was a … Continue reading The 3/10 Day Thread asks “What’s Up, Doc?”
Like many of us, I woke up early and remained in bed to view two celebrities bungle through pronouncing a bunch of names. There were some surprises, some snubs, and an all-around. If you’re following the race, you may know … Continue reading The 2022 Academy Awards Viewing Guide
Hello everyone! I have finished tallying your votes, and the top TV shows of 2021, according to The Avocado, have been crowned! Overall, 104 dramas and 75 comedies battled it out to reign supreme. Ties in points are broken by … Continue reading The Pits: 2021 TV Results!
Hello everyone! Owen here, substituting for SheleetaHam on this fine Matrix Eve. Current events are awful and terrible, so I’m going to use this time to talk about freedom! Not the Toby Keith/Lee Greenwood kind, but the Amartya Sen type. … Continue reading The Tuesday Politics Thread Talks About Freedom
Editor’s Note: Feel free to post as big or as small of a list as you would like below but please keep your lists contained to these posts and do not make your own post or fill up the OT … Continue reading The Pits: Best In TV 2021
I just remembered I had to do the day thread, so I’m going to briefly talk about Malignant, which is out this week and has already cemented its place as one of the best movies of the year. Malignant, directed … Continue reading The Malignant Day Thread
That’s right, I’m finally back! After having to write many pages several weeks for school, I am back on my bullshit covering the last three installments of The Phantom Empire. As an apology for my extreme lateness, part 11 will … Continue reading The Phantom Empire, Chapter 10: “The Rebellion”
That’s right, I am back on my Phantom Empire bullshit! After two weeks of Oscars posting from me, we return with The Phantom Empire, Part 9: “Prisoners of the Ray.” I genuinely don’t remember what happened last week, so we’ll … Continue reading The Phantom Empire, Part 9: “Prisoners of the Ray”
