One of the greatest moments that never happened on The Shield: during the credit roll on the final episode (S7), a shot of Dutch entering a  room in his basement piled with dead bodies. I think Shawn Ryan said the writers actually threw this idea around for a short while but it obviously never made it to final cut.…

That fact didn't escape the writers either. Remember the episode (maybe S2) when Lem was protecting the sister of a gangbanger and he wanted her to do his hair?

When you say "dilettante"… I do not think it means what you think it means.

Season 4 was an extended season (16 eps), which I believe was due to some sort of scheduling thing with The Sopranos? Anyways, that may have had something to do with the pacing. I found that season dragged bit in the middle but S5 and S6 were fine by me.

Agreed. I still chuckle at the "Be brief/Be fucked" exchange. Al may get top billing for being a smart-ass comedian but Jewel was hilarious.

I'm in the same boat catching up with a bunch of TV shows. I recently watched The Shield over the course of about 2 months and I was just staggered by how good it was. The ending to Shane's story was absolutely devastating. Beyond the despair in most of the characters' lives, it was also quite a funny show, especially…

I guess it's easier to have an erection watching Naomi Watts masturbate compared to seeing Rossellini bruised, battered and emotionally damaged despite showing full-frontal. But Watts was actually dead or dying in the movie wasn't she? Maybe there's no difference after all.

Ebert did as well. I remember him praising both films. I was a young, impressionable 20-something at the time so I obviously watched the Babe movies because it was possibly "cool" and "arty". Point of the matter: they were actually pretty good.

Ebert's web guy, Jim Emerson, has written some interesting comments about Fight Club that made me reassess the better half of the film. Specifically, that it was (for him) an accurate portrayal of depression. Reading that made me revisit and watch the movie from a different perspective. I can see the gimmick as a…

I always thought Siskel was a bad-ass for putting Die Hard 2 on his Top 10 list for the year it came out.

I never understood Ebert's issue with the depiction of Rossellini. He didn't seem to distinguish the actor from the character. I can only assume that she made the film willingly and for money (or art, or something like that). Ebert's written review makes it seem like Lynch forced her to do the nasty scenes.

I agree, this criticism seems out of left field. The Uncharted games have always excelled in the gameplay department, especially where cover mechanics and gunplay are concerned. I've never had an issue with either and I would argue that Uncharted surpasses the Gears of War franchise in this regard - and GoW is touted…

"If you have to force yourself to play a game in a particular manner,,, it's probably not a very well-designed game"

I watched the episode a second time and it seemed more evident that we should assume Ted is dead. The Coppola's Oranges rule, which was pointed out by others here, was blatantly used as cinematic shorthand. Interesting, though, that Saul never confirmed Ted was dead - then again, many people thought Gale was still…

Yes, the show was on fire this week. Interesting observation: hardly any Walt to speak of (who has actually become somewhat obnoxious at this point in the show) and zero screen-time for Hank and Marie. I also liked the shot of Gus holding his glasses and then the camera pans over to Jesse's bruised knuckles, referring…