1. IDRIS



















2. Maybe Hamm? Honestly the drop-off between #1 and #2 is so significant that it almost doesn't matter.

I hope it's not the last. He's smoking fucking hot in Margin Call. He's wearing a shirt and tie the whole time, but the sleeves are rolled up and he's chewing on a pen for most of the movie. It's a very specific look he has in that movie, but it's classic. I had no idea I liked Quinto until I saw Margin Call and then…

Man, John Ennis has gone completely grey, huh? It's undeniably better than going bald — I can say that, I'm part of the bald community, it's our word — but I was surprised to see that wasn't a wig.

Spotted Dick sheets and pillow cases on the bed. Spotted Dick tee-shirts. For 24 hours a day she's got Spotted Dick albums on stereo, man.

They're about as good as Zachary Quinto's forearms in Margin Call, which was written/directed by the same guy.

Forest Whitaker's performance in the fifth season alone is worth $23. And also a whole lot more. Seriously, I've never, ever seen anyone elevate an entire series the way he does in that fifth season.

If we hold a competition, I want to be the Tom Haverford.

Jessica Chastain's outfits were by far my favorite part of A Most Violent Year because they were maybe the only thing about the film that felt like they had any life to them.

Edit: Oh, never mind. Obviously The Element Of Crime isn't going to warrant a response. My bad.

Even though it never aired during the winter, Mad Men is the ultimate winter show for me due to when I first watched it: the winter after its third season. I've been thinking about it a lot lately and wondering if I should dive in again and I probably will some night in December when I've had too much wine. That show…

The reveal of Mary Lynn Rajskub's character being deaf in the "Shark Kitchen" sketch of W/ Bob & David is the hardest I've laughed at anything all year.

This is probably the only way I'll actually get someone to respond to me, so here goes. My information is

Zopilote Machine is so fucking good, which is about the sum of my Mountain Goats knowledge because I was a hipster douche bag in high school and only ever got into that album. Still, I'll listen to it about once a year and be blown away by it.

Based on my very recently finished first-ever viewing of Saturday Night Fever, I would recommend the half of the film that's fun and full of dancing and great music and not the half that consists of racial slurs and misogyny and gang-rape in moving vehicles. Seriously, that movie went so dramatically from "best movie…

I keep wanting to buy The Lands Of Ice And Fire, which look gorgeous, but I fear I won't be able to frame them and then the maps will end up going to waste and that thought frightens me terribly.

So on December 8 I could potentially go to a screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which is one of my very favorite movies, but I've never seen it on the big screen. The maybe-problem is, it's a DCP digital print rather 70mm. My question is, does it matter? Is it worth attending the screening despite the digital print?…

Eric Wareheim is a really pleasant surprise. Maybe this will make me a pariah here, I don't know, but I hated Tim & Eric, although I did like The Comedy quite a bit. All that said, it was cool seeing his name as the director of a bunch of the episodes. Good eye, that guy. Reminds me of Bobcat Goldthwait, kind of,…

No. Stringer. Idris. Motherfucking Idris.

The Wire killed their best character and sexiest actor near the end of the third season.

It's tough to say. I mean, Spielberg gives us the moment of Haley Joel Osment reconnecting with his mother in a way that he never was able to when she was actually alive, and the only-one-day-alive thing feels like an emotional cheat, but it worked for me (and kind of fucking destroyed me, to be honest). HJO is so…