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Not sure if it was on the third or the fourth heads-up try (and too lazy to check), but Deep Cover finally triumphed this week, taking 56% of the vote opposite fellow Criterion release The Cremator. I remember almost literally nothing from my sole viewing 30 years less three months ago (15 April 1992), which seems weird because how could the Fishburne-Goldblum combo not be pure gold? Anyway, eager for a belated second look. It’s streaming on HBO Max.

While I have you, let me again (for those who didn't see it on Twitter) express my disgust at the way that the A.V. Club is treating my editor there, Alex Dowd, and a bunch of the site's other longtime Chicago-based employees. It was bad enough that they were given an ultimatum: Either move to Los Angeles (while retaining the salary negotiated specifically for Chicago, a cheaper place to live) or lose your job. Might be necessary in some fields, absolutely isn't in the world of online publishing. Now, though, the assholes at G/O Media—a holding company created by the private equity firm that bought all the Gawker-owned properties—have actually posted want ads for several of those jobs, over a week prior to the deadline they set for staffers to make their decision. Just grotesquely disrespectful. Here's hoping this somehow works out for the best, but I suspect that my regular freelance work for the A.V. Club (which I've been doing almost weekly for the past 13 years) may be coming to an end.