Tasha Robinson's posts

For Americans with no Indian background, the name “Patel” may not mean much, except as part of an Al Pacino rant in G…

In documentary filmmaking, confrontation scenes are often the Holy Grail: It’s one thing to get talking heads calmly…

This week’s question comes from reader Phil Martin:

“Talk to people, it’s good for you!” Bill Bryson’s wife, Catherine, tells him early in A Walk In The Woods, as they…

This week’s question comes from reader Adam Schmitt:

It’s not super obvious that two songs from The Stone Roses’ classic 1989 self-titled debut, “Waterfall” and “Don’t…

This week’s question comes from reader David Kordahl:

There’s a long tradition of films treating scrappy and lively older characters as a punchline, as if it’s inherently…

Early in Isabel Coixet’s latest feature, Learning To Drive, an exchange between the protagonists pokes…

There are plenty of life lessons to be gleaned from film history, but please don’t take your mixology lessons from…

Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a…

This week’s question comes from reader Matthew Russell:

Summer camp: It’s not just a place where we go swimming, learn to tie knots, and try to talk other kids into sharing…

Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a…

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has always had a significant technobabble problem. And for the most part, it really…

This week’s question comes contributor Will Harris:

Today’s question was inspired by all of our Best Of 2015 so far pieces this week:

Stephen King has made a long career out of stories about authors and their problems—the common ones, like writer’s…

Two years ago, the A.V. Club offered a list of TV shows better than the movies that inspired them. In the time…

This week’s question comes from reader David Frantz: