NOAH. Easily the most audacious big-budget epic in a long time. It's a love-or-hate type movie, but the moments where it hits the mark are transcendent.

Transformers 4. UGH. 165 minutes of nothing. It might be the most boring movie in existence.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Franco

Her error is that it seems like she's trying to will Stannis into being Azor Ahai, even if it's not actually him.

It wouldn't be the first time they quickly brought back long-unseen characters. Alliser and Janos reappeared at the Wall after not being seen since season 2.

I read this in George Takei's voice.

I was thinking an ideal approach would've been to make it a two-parter. Cut the Craster's Keep storyline from earlier in the season and some of the other fluff, move the Mountain and the Viper up one week, and make the Castle Black battle an epic two-parter (essentially a movie), that begins where this episode did and…

This is sort of how I felt about it. Thought it was pretty good, but it wasn't a shock to the system in the way Blackwater was. From a technical standpoint though, yes, it was mighty impressive.

"Animals don't feel pain."

OK. "I'll find another" vs. "STUDENTS OUT OF BED!!! STUDENTS IN THE CORRIDORS!!!"

I love both of McDiarmid's performances. The "hidden villain" Palpatine was so subtle and alluring, and the Emperor is good old-fashioned fun B-movie ham.

I would argue the reverse. It gets let off the hook by some because expectations were so low. It's a crappy movie that was preceded by two terrible ones. Because Lucas actually had to tell a story this time (Vader's rise, the Empire, etc.) it left less room for mindless bullshit, so it's a bit tighter. But it still…

When people bring up his performance, I point to what the prequels did to Samuel L. Jackson. They robbed him of all his crazy energy and turned Jules Winnfield into an automaton.

Ewan McGregor was as good as he possibly could have been with the material. He really did feel like a young Alec Guinness.

The AV Club

I'm actually sort of impressed that no one's made a Manbearpig joke yet.

What got me was the image of him standing there staring at it, while saying "Sometimes I will just stand here and watch television for hours".

Season 7 is underrated. Until Michael left it was something of a return to form. I'll even defend bits and pieces of season 9, even if large chunks of it didn't work. The only two genuinely bad seasons in my opinion are 6 (minus "Niagara" and "Scott's Tots"), and 8, which is basically irredeemably awful.

If they have to reboot it (and believe me, they don't), he really is the best possible option.

I actually think I've talked about both by a fairly similar amount. I love the slow burn and quiet intensity of Drive, but I also love the wall-to-wall insanity of the action sequences in Fast 6.