Iron Man has the most meaningful personal arc, but I thought the true arc of the movie was the whole damn group of misfits learning to work together. The final battle is awesome for the way it stitched together character interactions and power-specific butt-kicking (which is the most impressive part of the action, to…

TV is where it's at these days; the fact that people even sort of vaguely realize we are living in a golden age of television is telling.

The Good Wife is great. I rank it just above Justified and GoT and just below Breaking Bad of the dramas I'm currently watching.

Must agree with The Silent 1 — the last two seasons of BtVS were a chore to get through, with only a handful of standout episodes ("Once More with Feeling," "Selfless," "Conversations with Dead People") to lessen the slog, and I speak as someone who is a die-hard fan.

Hellboy > TDK but I don't know about Hellboy 2.

UH BREAKING BAD IS COMING BACK IN JULY HELLO

If you subtract Joseph Gordon-Levitt from 500 Days, it is indeed the fucking worst.

I agree with you, but I also think it's tempting to view his past successes through the lens of the crappy work he's doing now. Most artists suffer the loss of focus and clarity, and it's especially bad for film directors for some reason. Given enough time, the failures are lost and forgotten, leaving the gold to…

The problems of "Californian teenagers" are not universal but the problems of high school teacher/meth dealers or anxiety-ridden mob bosses in Jersey are somehow universal? It's not who the characters are but the essence of their struggles that make the themes universal.

I'll take that bet too.

Actually, Buffy is probably more well-known outside of North America. It was bigger cultural phenomenon in the UK, where it is mainstream popular and not just cultishly popular, as in the US. I've been in Rome and watched a dubbed episode on television (hypnotic, btw). And I'm pretty sure it's huge in Australia too —…

He's credited as the writer of the episode and it totally sounds like his voice. The poem is one of the best things ever on Roseanne.

Probably. I'm approaching it with extreme skepticism (Scott hasn't really excited me in years) but I'll still be there opening weekend, hoping it is awesome.

I'm 80% sure it's funnier than Casa De Mi Padre and I haven't even seen that movie, so…

The North American box office is up by 19% this year; THG is riding a wave that's cresting higher than previous years, is all.

Whedon said Marvel gave him the choice to shoot in 3D or post-convert. He shot the tag to Thor in 3D and it was such a hassle. The cinematographer, Seamus McGarvey, said:

The more I hear about Wastelanders, the more excited I get. It's Whedon + Warren Ellis, and it's going to be released online, so we don't have to worry about it finding distribution or any of that jazz. They'll just throw it up on the Internet after finishing it. Possibly, we will get to see it before Much Ado. It's…

Thursday midnight: Avengers!!!!! OK, I am an embarrassing Joss Whedon fangirl and I loved it, but I also recognize it's not the best of Joss. Like, my friend and I love Guillermo del Toro and we always make a distinction between the movies he makes for himself (Pan's Labyrinth, Devil's Backbone) and the stuff he does…

I secretly find Sullivan's Travels annoying; the last thing I want is a Preston Sturges movie that preaches to me. Yikes.

It's my favorite novel ever and I first picked it up at 13 too! HATED it with the fire of a thousand burning suns; I thought it was perverted and creepy, and it made me feel weird. Read it again at 17 and fell so deeply in love I still haven't recovered. Note how multi-layered the novel is. I see so clearly how…