I know him pretty much exclusively from his work with Branagh (as I suspect is the case with many non-Brits), so it's been a bit weird to see all the obituaries that refer to him primarily for his sitcom work.

Tales from the easily-marketed-to:  I was ambivalent about whether I was going to get Argo this week, but as I was walking to the drugstore checkout with some unrelated purchases I saw they had a stand full of them right next to the counter, and grabbed one.  Damned convenience.

"Or something" was definitely my reaction.

Jessica Chastain shows up in an early episode of Veronica Mars, which I saw when I looked her up on the IMDb after she was in every movie in 2011.

It's looking like Ben really is going to beat Matt back to the Oscar podium, which I doubt anybody would have bet money on six years ago.

Ron Hynes' elegy for the troubled PEI folk singer-songwriter Gene MacLellan is what I always think of in cases like these:

This would be her third movie with Cooper, I believe (though not as a love interest, this time, presumably).

Though admittedly somewhat undercut by her doing it again immediately thereafter.

The Quinn/Santana scene was easily the hottest in the show's history.  And they somehow managed to get more casual interaction as a couple than Santana got with Brittany all last year.

They're about ten years too old to have been watching the 1992 X-Men cartoon as kids.

That's not really any different from the whole "pimps and hos"/gangsta stuff in rap.  I mean, by the time you've got Jimmy from Degrassi rapping about what a badass he is…

Counterpoint: I really liked it.

Slash/femslash, whatever.

I'm going to assume he ends up falling for Theron's character.

The greatest irony of this celebration of the spirit of Carl Barks' comics was that Carl Barks' comics heir/#1 fanboy, Don Rosa, vocally hated it.

Ah, The Mighty Ducks.  That was the rare animated show that just had a premise too weird for me to buy as a kid.

From the girl herself:

"Creepy obviously gay Scientologist" and "the women who pretend to love them".

Finn's Single White Female-ing of Will arrives at its logical endpoint, I see.

Perez and Rucka delivered stellar stuff, and Simone had a great take on the character even if she couldn't come up with good stories for her.