In cases where a franchise started with practical effects then transitions to CGI, the problem with CGI is often that it gets rid of some of the strings that in hindsight actually contributed to making the movie scary. A good example of this is the Alien movies. When the xenomorphs were just puppets and guys in suits,…

It bugs me more in the scenes between Raylan and Dickie Bennett. As much as there is to love about the interplay between Timothy Olyphant and Jeremy Davies, I don't really think recent scenes between those two show enough of the seering undercurrent of hate that Raylan would have for the man who killed his surrogate…

The fact that Justified hasn't supplanted Eurotrip as Jacob Pitts' primary credit on IMDB is borderline criminal negligence.

He is Jonathan from Buffy and should never be referred to as any other role for as long as he shall live.

Yeah, Stevens seems like he would have a lot of fun with the Gaston role whereas Evans has always struck me as pretty humorless.

I wonder if Dan Stevens was told to keep himself deliberately doughy on Downton Abbey, for time period appropriateness or something. Outside of the show he usually looks like a pretty skinny dude, and The Guest showed he can basically look like a Renaissance marble sculpture if he wants to.

I always thought it was more of a Tracy Morgan thing.

So shooting EMTs crosses the line but murdering that schoolteacher and her husband while they slept was cool with you?

You know what, I've missed Winona a lot. The character gets a lot of flack, partially because doing stuff like stealing cash from an evidence locker is really stupid and partially because some people just reflexively hate any TV girlfriend or wife, but her presence really adds something to the show. I'm glad to have…

Come on, Winona was probably in her late teens when Clueless came out, she definitely knows who Wallace Shawn is.

Just went and watched it for the first time after reading this list. I've only seen a couple All in the Family episodes but goddammit when Archie gets to that "You had no right to do that to me" line it's just a killer.

That last "Mommy?" Buffy says leading into The Body might be the saddest line I've ever seen in a TV show. Or at least it's the one most guaranteed to make me cry.

Even worse for me is the moment in the next episode when Carver pays Randy one last visit, walks back to his car, and then you watch him scream in silence as he comes to grips with the fact that he did everything he possibly could to try and save the kid and it still wasn't enough.

Agreed. Seems to be a minority opinion but I felt this started off really awkwardly paced which threw the rhythm off. And yeah, I don't think we really needed a flash forward for Craig. Plus on top of that Donna's whole story just felt so uninspired. She deserved better.

Part of the reason he had to go after season 1 was because he and Harrison filled largely the same character niche on the show. Now that Harrison's gone, I could see an argument for him to come back, but then again Harrison was pretty damn annoying so yeah, let's let Henry Ian Cusick just do other things.

That's Viola Davis.

Yeah, Octavia Spencer has actually been doing fairly well career wise lately. She's had good supporting roles in Fruitvale Station, Smashed, Get On Up and Snowpiercer, lower quality (but still paycheck-producing) roles in Black or White and Percy Jackson, and she'll be in the new Divergent movie coming out this year.

It's not implausible. The largest voting bloc in the Academy is actors, people who would be more predisposed to empathize (or at least set aside) Mo'nique's comments about Oscar politics. But the producers more likely to be offended by her remarks are the ones who, for the most part, actually control whether she gets…

Eh, the year before they expanded the field the Best Picture nominees were Slumdog Millionare, Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk and The Reader. I'd rank that as a worse batch than almost all of the expanded years.

For reference:
2011 (The Artist, The Descendants, Hugo, The Tree of Life, Midnight in Paris, The Help, War Horse, Moneyball, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) vs. 2014 (Birdman, Boyhood, The Imitation Game, The Grand Budapest Hotel, American Sniper, Whiplash, Selma, The Theory of Everything)
Yeah, I'd say 2014 beats…