A little over a month ago, on October 17th, an entire country stopped to remember a singer. His name was Gord Downie, he was the frontman of Canada’s The Tragically Hip, and he had passed away from terminal brain … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: The Tragically Hip
You are an executive at Warner Brothers and you have been tasked with re-working the highly valuable but troubled film division of DC Entertainment. Justice League is doing well, but under-performing, and you need to figure out what the way … Continue reading Rebooting the DC Cinematic Universe of Your Dreams
Urahara is a magical-girl anime series currently airing this season. It is bright and colourful. I have not yet watched it. In other news: Valkyria Chronicles 4 was announced and is set to come out next year for PS4, Xbone, … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (November 22nd, 2017)
Have at it, folks! Continue reading Tolerable Discussions 11.22.17
It’s the day before Thanksgiving (at least, here in the States). I know we’re all thankful for certain things—family, friends, good health, etc. And of course, everyone’s thankful that our weird little community seems to be thriving here at our … Continue reading What Pop Culture Are You Thankful For?
Here are your Snubby nominees for 1983! (We’re starting early this week because I’ll be traveling over the river and through the woods this evening) As always, upvote as many films and performances as you feel are deserving. The top … Continue reading 1983 Snubby Awards: The Voting
Back on the old site, I wrote a few articles following a rewatch of the Marvel Cinamatic Universe. Here are those articles again. Title: The Avengers (“Avengers Assemble” in the UK) Director: Joss Whedon Written by: Joss Whedon Characters created … Continue reading Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase One Rewatch: The Avengers
Every holiday has its particular sport – Christmas and MLK Day belong to the NBA, Boxing Day to the Premier League, the summer holidays to MLB, New Year’s Day to the NHL (okay, and to the college bowl games). But … Continue reading Sports Corner – Thanksgiving Week
The debut album by one-half of the Spacemen 3 songwriters (Jason Pierce, AKA J Spaceman), Lazer Guided Melodies continues and deepens his old band’s investigations into contemplative, despairing, or ecstatic states. As with their forbears in the Velvet Underground, those … Continue reading Album Spotlight: Spiritualized – Lazer Guided Melodies (1992 – 61 min.)
Welcome to the Book Nook! This is the weekly thread for Avocados to discuss books we’re currently reading, recommendations, genre, and serious literary criticism. This week’s recommended discussion: What are you thankful for? I’m grateful that you folks keep coming … Continue reading The Book Nook Weekly Discussion
Welcome to Both Sides Now, a (probably quite short) series in which the author discusses and reviews feature films he participated in the making of. Suburbicon Dir. George Clooney Premiered at Venice September 4, 2017 The trouble started when I … Continue reading Both Sides Now: Suburbicon (Part 2)
Yesterday, Trump decided to support Roy Moore over the several (then) underage women that Roy preyed upon…Trump cites Moore’s denial. Most of you will remember that Trump was in a similar situation himself. Several accusers, his solitary denial…as result many … Continue reading In this Wednesday political thread, birds of a feather flock together…
Dead Reckoning first and foremost is an empty shell of a film with a bare-bones plot designed to allow Humphrey Bogart as much dialogue, narration, and monologues as possible. There’s only room for a handful of characters in this old … Continue reading A Femme Fatale Loves Ramos Gin Fizzes in “Dead Reckoning”
As requested by CranberryLass, this is a quick write-up after seeing the Mean Girls musical preview in DC last night. Disclaimer: I’ve never reviewed theater before, I have not been to many live performances, and I’m a die-hard Fey/Richmond fan. … Continue reading Mean Girls The Musical – DC Preview Report
Jake and Amy attempt to get their parents to bond over Thanksgiving dinner; when Holt’s Thanksgiving pie is stolen from his office, he searches for the culprit. Here’s where you can discuss B99. Review hopefully coming tonight or early tomorrow! Continue reading Brooklyn Nine-Nine: S05E07 “Two Turkeys”
So, who are the Runaways? First, it was a short run comic series for Marvel, introducing a group of teenagers who were only friends because their parents were part of the PRIDE. The series gained enough attention to survive cancellation … Continue reading Spoil Sports: Hulu’s Runaways
The Others plotted secretly throughout the day and night. The four unknowns communicated using secret messages beneath the very noses of the oblivious passengers, who were busy digging their first grave for a fallen passenger. At night, as the passengers … Continue reading Werewolves XLVI: Live Together, Die Alone – Day 2
This week’s Savage Love column is here. Enjoy! Continue reading Savage Love
When Anastasia opened on this day twenty years ago, it made headlines for two reasons. The first–and perhaps more tired to read about at the time–was that it was taking a prominent figure from history and making her the subject of … Continue reading Non-Disney Animated Features Were Never the Same After Anastasia
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