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Posted: **Sat Feb 09, 2013 5:27 am**

Let's target an ugly fat short person, then there are three bad things and it is better. Oh, knives. You can be such a tremendous arse

Posted: **Sat Feb 09, 2013 5:45 am**

Matt wrote:Yes, that would be much better.

Yeah, that did not come out how I intended at all. I just meant she's a truly bizarre choice to be the example of a fat is gross argument.

Posted: **Sat Feb 09, 2013 9:07 am**

I'm confused -- this is the film criticism thread; why are we talking about Rex Reed?

Posted: **Sat Feb 09, 2013 9:22 pm**

The funny thing about that Marie Claire article is the writer starts by referencing her editor. What editor? Certainly that piece couldn't have made it by an actual professional editor, right?

Posted: **Sun Feb 10, 2013 9:37 pm**

dx23 wrote:Rex Reed hits a new low by calling Melissa McCarthy ‘tractor-sized’.

What's the problem? There are plenty of old Soviet socialist realist films with tractors as the romantic leads.

Posted: **Mon Feb 11, 2013 7:22 am**

So I google "the crushinator" because that's all I could think of when I read the tractor line from Reed, and I shit you not, this was on the first page of image results:

Posted: **Tue Mar 19, 2013 2:14 am**

Variety has wisely tapped Scott Foundas as their lead critic.

Posted: **Tue Mar 19, 2013 2:16 am**

I thought Variety was on shaky ground? Has its fortunes rebounded?

Posted: **Tue Apr 02, 2013 8:55 pm**

Anybody want to be the new Film Editor for the Onion A.V. Club? Scott Tobias has stepped down.

Posted: **Tue Apr 02, 2013 9:13 pm**

Scott Tobias is the best critic they have (had) over there, here's hoping he has a smooth landing elsewhere.

Posted: **Tue Apr 02, 2013 9:21 pm**

Geez, between him and Phipps, they're losing a lot of the old guard. Tobias followed my comments on their board, for reasons I never fully understood, so I like him for reasons over and above his generally excellent criticism.

Posted: **Wed Apr 03, 2013 7:29 pm**

Roger Ebert, sadly, has cancer again.

Posted: **Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:03 pm**

hearthesilence wrote:I thought Variety was on shaky ground? Has its fortunes rebounded?

It has a new publisher and a new business model (new website, no paywall, and no more Daily Variety). Time will tell.

Posted: **Fri Apr 26, 2013 2:06 pm**

Now Tasha Robinson is leaving the A.V. Club. Something is going on there. One departure is interesting, two could be a coincidence, but three in the last few months is a pattern. The film section over there is pretty much gutted right now. Only Nathan Rabin remains of the old guard.

Posted: **Fri Apr 26, 2013 3:49 pm**

essrog wrote:Now Tasha Robinson is leaving the A.V. Club. Something is going on there. One departure is interesting, two could be a coincidence, but three in the last few months is a pattern. The film section over there is pretty much gutted right now. Only Nathan Rabin remains of the old guard.

Afraid not, he's just tweeted:

Nathan Rabin's Twitter wrote:Hey everyone, after 16 years, I have decided to leave The A.V Club. Thanks for all the years of readership. I will miss you all tremendously

Posted: **Fri Apr 26, 2013 4:53 pm**

Jesus, is it a really bad sign for print criticism in general if the A.V. Club can't hold on to its critics? I don't think they were losing money the way other print publications were.

Posted: **Fri Apr 26, 2013 4:54 pm**

And Genevieve Koski-- something's def up

Posted: **Fri Apr 26, 2013 4:59 pm**

They’re joining former staffers Keith Phipps and Scott Tobias at another Chicago-based media company, for a film-specific project that will be announced soon.

Posted: **Fri Apr 26, 2013 5:34 pm**

The entire personality of that place is going to change. Rather, whatever personality they had. I was always disappointed that they went from having a solid podcast, to having no podcast, to having tiny bits of a podcast, to not having one at all again. They really missed the boat on that - because for better (Tobias) or worse (Robinson), their critics all had distinctive voices and brought a lot to a discussion format like that.

Posted: **Fri Apr 26, 2013 5:38 pm**

Robinson was one of their best even if I often disagreed with her. What makes her worse?

Posted: **Fri Apr 26, 2013 8:44 pm**

Now they need to take along Sean O'Neal so all of my favorites will be in one central location for me to enjoy them, while Todd VanDerWerff sits alone in the AV Club offices waiting for someone to ask for his opinions on Hemlock Grove.

Posted: **Fri Apr 26, 2013 9:14 pm**

The scuttlebutt in the comments section here is that film writers like Tobias were getting disenchanted with the site's increasing focus on TV, which makes sense because the TV Club has been getting bigger and bigger, and it wouldn't surprise me if it drove most of the traffic to the site. Tobias and friends might have felt like longer-form pieces related to film were not being given their due. As long as I'm engaging in wild speculation, I'm going to guess the "film-specific project" they're going to be working on has something to do with the Chicago Sun-Times and/or Rogerebert.com. I'll definitely follow them.

Posted: **Fri Apr 26, 2013 10:35 pm**

It also sounds like Noel Murray is out.

Posted: **Fri Apr 26, 2013 10:40 pm**

Cold Bishop wrote:It also sounds like Noel Murray is out.

Wonder if that means Donna Bowman will be following along as well.

Posted: **Fri Apr 26, 2013 10:42 pm**

Given that AVC is only a side job for her (I believe she primarily works as a teacher) it's probably a safe presumption.

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