Both halves were masterpieces.  It's his best film.

It sounds like that on paper, but it doesn't play that way at all, or at least not after the first 20 minutes or so.  It's a well-written and acted character.

Not entirely: "The Blizzard", in particular, is some of the best work of his career.

Opens next month, I think - there were limited screenings in a few cities already, which is why the review's up.  I saw it tonight, and aside from a few annoying plot contrivances, it's so well acted and so beautifully done that I won't hold that against it.  Tom Cullen in particular does a tremendous job.

No, I mean very specifically Uygur's inability to build a coherent and defensible argument.  I'm not disagreeing with some of his conclusions, where we have a lot of overlap, but in his lack of acumen in getting from A to B.  Like a lot of pundits he starts at the end and tries to justify himself, which means he's…

Unfortunately not.  Her segment ended for good last year.

Or what?  He's the worst kind of pundit: he makes up in volume what he lacks in critical aptitude.   He and Ed Schultz add nothing to the conversation but noise.

Much better.  It's not as tightly edited or constructed as Frontline, but there's something about its looseness that allows for a much more intimate relationship with its subjects.  I'd agree with Unreliable Narrator above that it's not quite gonzo, but I couldn't imagine Frontline having the kind of footage, and…

Still hadn't given King of Limbs a chance… Not a good sign that I like the unreleased song better than the few I've heard from the album itself?

Vanguard is the best investigative journalism show on television, full stop.  Especially the segments done by Mariana van Zeller (the extended, internet-only clips from her Uganda report are painful to watch… The woman's got backbone.)   It's too bad they no longer stream all their episodes on their site, because I'd…

Coraline's also the best argument for why most films shouldn't use 3D: they take a lot of careful planning.  I'm glad you mentioned depth of field, because the art design in Coraline is very, very detailed (Bordwell analyzed it on his site) and most 3D films don't do much beyond "This is close and that is far away."

I'll put in another vote for "kiss-off line".  Serling gets better at it as the series progresses, but for all his sentimentalism he had a knack for ice-cold humor at his characters' expense.

Constructive feedback: ignore comments like that.

I look forward to your corrected editions of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Boswell, Defoe, Sterne, Pope, Fielding, Dryden, Donne, Milton, etc.  They all use it frequently.

One thing:

This show never fails to confirm how little I understand about fashion.  They loved Bert's outfit.  They thought it made him look like a Viking rocker with personality.  I thought it made him look like a Viking woman with low self esteem.  What am I missing?

I thought he was channeling Ned Beatty in Network.  I was waiting for Goodman to say "You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale!"

Hey, Zack: any thoughts on this article that just went up on io9?  It's about episodes for the franchise that were written but not produced for one reason or another.

Ha!  With that comment, you take yourself out of serious discussion completely.   Cheers.

Depends on what you mean by 'andouille'.  If it's the Louisiana-style that more typical in the states, it's not tripe.  Traditional French-style often is.