The tears of Coach Eric Taylor fall softly.

No impossible missions? How about kidnapping a super-elusive arms dealer in the Vatican with no-one knowing about it? How about surviving a flippin' bomb inside your brain? I think I prefer Ghost Protocol's huge scale set pieces, but MI3 is a very entertaining movie.

I'm with you on Worthington, but Tatum has real chops and charisma.

Wow, it would have been great if it was Sean Bean. But it was Dougray Scott (as character Sean Ambrose)…

Every time a list of spies real identities comes up in a film - like Skyfall - my girlfriend and I turn to each other and say, "oh, they mean the NOC list."

It's an astonishingly visceral bit of stunt and FX work, and it's very well deployed. Real movie magic.

One of my favourite things about this show so far is that it constantly depicts the captain's position as precarious. Obviously mutiny is a big pirate theme (certainly in Treasure Island), but the idea that every decision could be a captain's last is fascinating. Great performances, make up, costumes, sets… it's…

This is what I took from it as well. I think Raylan explained it to Art between the episodes, and Art's response was to think about it for a while, and then punch him out. He wouldn't have punched him if he was going to arrest or investigate further.

Mandinka was, and remains, the real deal. "I'm dancing the seven veils, want you to pick up my scarf. See how the black moon fades? Soon I can give you my heart! EEEEEEEEEEEEEE-OOOOOOH!"

Straight talk: this is a good, solid movie. Ryan is presented as someone way smarter than everyone else and deeply uncomfortable with the non-desk based things that he's forced to do. Of course he's good at killing people (this is Clancy's creation, who is good at everything he tries to do), but this certainly isn't a…

But Chris Hemsworth is Chris Pine's dad!

It feels as if the episode, and particularly Magnussen and his fate, have been received rather differently in the US than in the UK. I wonder if this is partly a cultural reaction, as this is ripped-from-the-headlines stuff in Britain.
There's been a long investigation into phone hacking by journalists working for…

Weirdly, that's almost true. Seinfeld was broadcast but done so irregularly, and buried late at night by the BBC, whereas Frasier was a long-standing 9 or 10pm Channel 4 tradition. Even when Seinfeld had prime-time slots for the last few seasons, it was on Sky One (satellite only channel) which had pretty low…

Not hyphenating Spider-Man is exactly the kind of sloppy but minor error that Lestrade would make. Good spot!

"Sharcano is more for the bookworms…"
Oh sure, it really sounds like the sort of thing that will appease those bookworm guys, what with their desire for essential human truths and an examination of interior life, this sharks made out of lava thing.

This, completely.

I'm imagining this is some hilarious reference that I've missed, because otherwise ugh.

Neither of those two things, I don't think. They don't want to end the world (they aren't thinking ahead), they just don't want to be homogenised to the point at which free will is compromised. That is the line that the big lamp is straddling.
And when the big lamp goes, it decides not to allow the technology to carry…

I hadn't heard of Armond White before this article (I'm in the UK, if that's any kind of excuse), but was intrigued enough to pop over to CityArts to read a couple of dozen of his reviews. And you know what? He might have terrible manners, but he's a BRILLIANT film critic.

*musical sting* Mr. A!