Because it's mainstream, I guess?

Oh man, I'm not sure if doped out on cold medicine is the best or worst way to watch Miyazaki.

Oh right, "recent". Half Life 2 is… 10 years old? God damn.

I actually like Fall-Out Boy.

(ok I lied)

Breaking Bad is kinda like that, too. I don't think you'd call either a black comedy, but they both have their blackly comic aspects.

Just for that, I will explicitly not look there!

Half-Life 1 is a pretty excellent example of in-game immersion.

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Gesundheit.

I'd probably be more interested in this if it were any movie besides Star Wars, because the stuff that made the original trilogy great wasn't highly-choreographed fight scenes (see: Plinkett).

I still give the surprisingly-unattractive tip to Sean O'Neal's frequent picture of Michael Fassbender: http://www.avclub.com/artic…

I'm surprised it took this long for someone to point out that that graphic has little relation to the movie.

showing some real emotion after the unexpected death of a good friend

Sounds like that one-shot is gonna be non-canonical with this series. Which is a shame, cuz I would've loved to see Bradley Whitford and Neal McDonough thrown into this mix too.

Oh yeah, me too. Dang it.

Holy shit, Haley Atwell AND Lyndsy Fonseca in the same show?

The Grand Budapest Hotel - This was even better the second time. What seemed like a somewhat-cold farce before revealed more subtle layers of melancholy on rewatch.

Saw The Imitation Game, of which I 100% agree with the Dissolve review's final point: these actors and this material deserved a much better movie than they got. Cumberbatch and Knightley were excellent, and the movie was often very entertaining, but it was handled in such a ham-fisted, cheesy, melodramatic way that…

"Hey remember when in the one movie the guy shot/threw/punched a thing, and then in another movie another guy got shot at/thrown at/punched?"