He and Bob Gale wrote the screenplay for Trespass (no not THAT one), maybe Walter Hill's most underrated movie, so there is some talent there.  And I have some affection for Contact (which also had the benefit of bringing James Woods to Jodie Foster's AFI Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony), so there's that.

Wrigley is really the last good place to see baseball.  (Which is of course not the same thing as the last place to see good baseball.)

Too black-sounding for me.

All signs point to yes; "who would claim to be that, who was not, eh?" (David Mamet)

Vic's non-realization is even more powerful with his line "I'm surprised he didn't call a press conference in 'Mum'" since

Unfortunately, I don't remember where he said that or even if it was him.  It might have been in the TV Club announcement for the summer (I'll check—EDIT: nope EDIT of EDIT: yup, see next comment), it might have been in one of the Community comment threads (which means I have no idea how we could dig it out).

It was a deliberate decision by van der Werff; when you open the page for a TV show, the most recent shows (not the most recent reviews) come up.  So The Shield (Classic) was created to make it easier to access the new reviews.  Not an elegant solution, I'd say, but the best solution available.

I think they're planning a Wire recap next year or the year after.

It's ambition; the Money Train is still a huge open case and Aceveda is wondering if there's anything else there.  What's more important is his carelessness; he's leaving himself with no backup or even a partner.

Thanks!  And what I'll say now is that Forest Whitaker gives his best performance on The Shield, with The Last King of Scotland at #2.  And he could only give his best performances there; Idi Amin's palace and The Barn in season 5 are the only places crazy and intense enough to accommodate his beyond-over-the-top…

Damn, thank you for catching that.  I've resigned myself to there being at least one glaring factual error or totally unsubstantiated interpretation per week in the review.

IT’S. . . .SPOILERS!

“You ever suck a dick like a cell bitch?”

I'd vote Mission: Impossible 3 as the most underrated recent action movie.  It's exactly what you want a two-hour summer movie to be; precisely scaled, well acted and paced, and Philip Seymour Hoffman at maximum awesome.  I would also call Mamet's Spartan underrated, but it's really underseen.

Look at it this way:  if you lived your life in a way that pissed off WBC, you absolutely lived a good life.

The West Wing:  "Toby, nobody, and particularly not Hoynes, would be stupid enough to—what I'm saying is—" and "That's what he pays me to do."

Best. Screencap. Ever.

Pink Moon is fantastic.  Of course, when you're ready to break the vicious cycle, go here:  http://www.avclub.com/artic…

On season 3 of The Newsroom:  "7/11."  Jeff Daniels leads America through its voyage of coping as it watches Sharknado.

Yeah, that most definitely means she's not gonna see it.  (She has been banned from watching The Shield for similar reasons.)