Welcome to a special edition of the Creative Endeavors thread. Today, we’re going to dedicate this thread to those who have submitted links for personal sites to The Avocado. This will be a monthly feature. Now, while we’re starting this … Continue reading Creative Endeavors Contributor Showcase!
A Slow Opening Okami is a strange game. It was one of the final two games to be released by Clover, the celebrated Capcom studio behind classics like Viewtiful Joe and Godhand. Actually, those are all the games that Clover … Continue reading Okami Retrospective
2017…it’s finally over. It was, to put it lightly, kinda rough, politically. The American President has made his country an international laughingstock just by being himself. I don’t know how much more I even need to bring up — we … Continue reading Tuesday Politics Thread Is Looking Ahead
Do your thing you rowdy bunch you. But I’m keeping us on the Batman theme. Continue reading New Year, New Sex Thread or something
Jeopardy! recap for Mon., Jan. 1 – Nick led both opponents by more than $8,000 after round one, but didn’t make much further progress in DJ. Champ Henry had his rally stopped by missing DD2 and never got back into … Continue reading Jeopardy! recap for Mon., Jan. 1
When you’ve finished rubbing another man’s rhubarb, be sure to get to the church on time so you can enjoy a dance with the devil in the pale moonlight. And if anyone else calls you beast, I’ll rip their lungs … Continue reading Dance With The Devil Night Thread
The Gifted is back from a brief hiatus, and the final three episodes will air over the coming weeks. Looks like a war’s brewing between the Sentinel Services and the mutants, and I expect some more mutant casualties after all … Continue reading The Gifted: Season 1 Episode 11
The Carousel: Introduction, Season 1 Discussion and Poll Girls, fellas: welcome to The Carousel (Revisiting Mad Men)! This will be a celebration of Mad Men’s seven seasons during the seven months leading up to the ten-year anniversary of its premiere on July … Continue reading The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men (Season 1 Discussion / Poll)
Hey, I’m back! I took last week off for the holidays to catch up on some much-needed sleep. He Knows You’re Alone (1980) He Knows You’re Alone is probably best known for having a small, bit role by a then-unknown … Continue reading TCM Underground: He Knows You’re Alone (1980) and Don’t Open the Door! (1974)
Jumanji was not a movie that needed a sequel, and in a way it’s kind of fitting that it didn’t really get one. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is the sort of soft rework that more often occurs half a … Continue reading Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle has a blast not caring what you think
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) Star Wars: The Last Jedi Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Pitch Perfect 3 The Greatest Showman Ferdinand The top five held steady from last week, with three of the films making gains. … Continue reading Box Office: December 29 – 31, 2017
What games have you been playing and what do you think of them? Bonus topic: What 2017 game would you like to play but haven’t? Continue reading Weekly Games Thread is for new beginnings
Batman Forever has a remarkably layered and thematically rich story. I mean, the screenplay is pretty bad, but the story? What the movie is actually about? Easily the best of the Burton/Schumacher Batman series. Before you hit the Back button … Continue reading Before Capes Were Cool #5: Batman Forever (1995)
Visual representation of what 2018 is going to be like: (We’re the old dude.) Hope you all have fun posting here tonight and have a great day. Continue reading Scott OT #25: The Day Thread goes to Hell (1/1)
Post your Top 25 (or however many you feel like) songs that start with the letter J here. Ranked or unranked, it’s not important. Just go with what feels right to you. Personally, I limit my own list to … Continue reading Songs by the Letter: Your Top J Songs
2017 felt like it was about 10 years long, and 2018 may be no better. But the left built 8 years on being the party of hope and change and there’s still time to step up and live it. … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Welcomes a New Year
It’s awards season, and you know what that means: another opportunity to make pointless predictions for bragging rights! Before the White House inevitably attempts to boycott the Academy Awards because he doesn’t want to hear Jimmy Kimmel verbally kick the … Continue reading 90th Academy Awards Pool
In any other year, Darkest Hour would be just another stagey film destined to rack up award nominations and critical plaudits, but in 2017 something is a bit different. I won’t even say it has much to do with the … Continue reading Movie Reviews: Darkest Hour (2017)
It’s the end of the year, so here’s my list of the best (and worst) movies I watched this year. My favorite movies I watched for the first time this year: 10.) The Cloud-Capped Star directed by Ritwik Ghatak, 1960 … Continue reading Scott OT #24: The Last Night Thread of 2017 (12/31)
The show has had a minor theme of the demoralising effect of the education system almost since the very beginning, but this is the most sophisticated presentation of it yet, and it’s accomplished because it uses two characters we’ve come … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Three, Episode Eighteen, “Separate Vocations”
As we all collectively sigh with relief from having survived 2017 (well, except for maybe Taylor Swift), we who indulge in pop culture can look forward to that which comes with every new year: the promise of many, many new … Continue reading What Are Your Most Anticipated Movies of 2018?
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