That scene in Act of Killing. Thanking him for letting them go to heaven.

Bernie was wonderful, one of the best movies I saw in cinemas this year.

I'm not Jewish and A Serious Man is one of the Coen Bros' best films.

Danger 5 is simply one of the best TV shows I've seen all year. Even seeing the name makes me smile a bit.

It's interesting that though the Romulans in Trek V and VI appear after their reintroduction on in TNG's "The Neutral Zone", neither Romulan has the forehead bumps popular on that series.

Agreed entirely about Captain Phillips and A Hijacking. I feel the closest Phillips gets to being 'about something' are the conversations about whether or not kidnapping is the only viable line of work for poor coastal Somalis, but it's a bit on the nose and the movie is more interested in the mechanics of the…

TV:

To be fair, Stephen 'Stannis Baratheon' Dillane has a starring role on the British/French series The Tunnel, a remake of The Bridge… even if it isn't any good.

Well I do plan to watch Tennant's first two series, as I believe those are the ones covered by these reviews, so I guess you'll get my two cents on his performance in due time.

Though to be fair this is also a series which brushes off the Doctor's accent with "Lots of planets have a north!" and fights plastic with anti-plastic.

Totally. I guess at this point rationalizing spotty TV plotting is just second nature to me.

So far - not that my opinion amounts to much - I've really enjoyed Eccleston's run on the show. More than I thought I would, my own brief exposures to the series were from the Tennant era, and he seemed a bit poncey and twee (I'm sure this observation will have Doctor Who fans calling for my severed head now.)

Some newbie thoughts:

Simply from a time paradox perspective, as NuWho's first Time Paradox episode, a vague discussion of time paradoxes interrupted by 'BASICALLY THEN MONSTERS COME' was not the most encouraging part of the episode, no, but I've noticed Doctor Who boils down its problem every week to 'and then there is a monster', even to…

They do both look like modelling poses.

Yeah but dude… 80s Fringe intro.

I enjoyed the mythology episodes generally more for their suspense than their actual myth arc, let's put it that way. The Alien Bounty Hunter going all Terminator on Mulder was always good for a lark.

The perfect British English shouldn't be that surprising, remember those scenes where Nyborg speaks English?

Adam Price is Danish. And even if he was British, his involvement wouldn't make it a BBC co-production by virtue of his nationality.

Dune does feel like the kind of thing that should have had more Lawrence of Arabia alumni (O'Toole would be a good, let's say, Liet-Kynes) but I also remember someone alleging somewhere the book was strongly inspired by the movie (which wouldn't surprise me really.)