That's precisely why they should have received more attention, though. If you support this guy not being suspended after saying what he did about happy pre-Civil Rights blacks? Pretty racist.

I think this blog post covered this nicely, but from a different standpoint: Pointing out that for an audience which by definition is pretty okay with homophobia (i.e. the conservative white evangelicals who defended Robertson's 'free speech') have also, in choosing to defend him, backed racism; and they tend to like…

I've seen the remake, and while it's not bad, your assessment is correct. I think in particular the kind of angry humour Tastuya Nakadai brings to the lead role is what the remake misses, it's a pretty dour affair.

I dunno it's just whenever I see a 30 Rock conversation on the AV Club there's usually someone saying 'oh season four/five was horrible' or whatever.

To be fair, I think the two Darin Morgan episodes of Millennium are fantastic… but they also have so little to do with the show (the second one only has Lance Henriksen from the show's cast and he's barely in it.)

For Scooter Braun so loved the world, as to give his only begotten pop Idol: that whosoever beliebes in him may not perish, but may have life everlasting.

So it's not as good as the One Direction movie?

I love Dark City, but to anyone who says it's a better movie than the Big Lebowski:
That's just, like, your opinion, man.

The director hated the voice over and removed it for the director's cut.

Since Netflix is literally the only reason the Killing is getting a fourth season and that fourth season is also six episodes… something something?

They did, but I actually remember reading comments about how there were way less comments on the Nikita boards compared to something that was a mega-hit on the AV Club (the similarly spy themed Archer.)

Last I checked their copy was out of print, but that was like… 2005. Cheers for the hat tip though.

The first series of Bron/Broen is also available on Netflix UK. I was thinking of watching it there, maybe marathoning it just before the Jan 4. screening.

I'd say it is, even with the caveat that the broad strokes of the narrative are pretty much like the previous two seasons. I'd probably put the second series as my favourite, but the third has a really good ending for the entire series.

Exactly. I mean on the one hand it feels weird to say Forbrydelsen's weakest season was the one with Soren Malling and Lars Mikkelsen, but on the other hand come on.

Oh Bron/Broen has less red herrings? That is encouraging. One of the reasons I feel Forbrydelsen's first season is it's weakest is because it is the longest, so it has to rely the most heavily on MAYBE IT'S THIS GUY NO WAIT IT'S THE OTHER ONE… OR IS IT?

Chungking Express was one of those movies that once I'd first seen it (like… ten years ago or something at this point) nothing was quite the same and also I knew I had to see more Wong Kar-wai movies pronto.

I started with Slaughterhouse Five.

I saw the first season of Prisoners of War last year when Sky Arts aired it and it is indeed amazing.

If nothing else, I love CK2 simply for making the CK franchise so popular (though improving on the original is also good.) I can't stress how much the first game was a bit of a red-headed stepchild of the series - not quite the WW2 blockbuster of Hearts of Iron, and hardly the flagship title of Europa Universalis.