Iron Man Three was his final contracted film and he didn't renew it until after its release, so Downey Jr. was free to walk away at that point. I enjoyed Marvel's confidence in putting that caption there.

I watched that episode last week and Louis didn't 'directly' ask him about it - Savile brings up that he claims he dislikes kids because it's the easiest way to avoid any sort of scandal that the papers try and dig up from time to time. Theroux plays his usual baffled approach (that's not a knock, I love the results…

"Is that all you've got? A cheap trick and a cheesy one-liner?"
"Sweetheart, that could be the name of my autobiography."

The A.V. Club
I kind of wish I had friends

We here in the UK do seem to be going through a phase of digging up all of old TV shows and resurrecting them - and usually with Vernon Kay -so we're not entirely in the clear

I had the opposite reaction to most - I thought this story would have held up better as more of a 'straight' documentary and that the filmmaker's style suffocated it. The montaged shots of the family members each looking mournfully into the distance whilst sad music played felt so amateurish I could practically hear…

'hired to script a “revamp” (the “hip” and “contemporary” are implied)'

That's why I'm assuming that this comment is referring to the recut version of Season 4. Adding in extra narration and (presumably) shortening indvidual episode lengths to make it more like the old style would surely extend the episode count.

I don't know about that - if only because Fast Five came out before all of those. If it had been at the other end of the season then I could see the critics putting it on a pedestal due to the blockbuster drought.

To look at it another way - given the audience figures quoted in the story, 0.28% of Top Gear viewers signed a petition to keep him. That's not so damming!

I don't even think the "Dave is gay" twist made the bullying storyline interesting. The "homophobic character turns out to be a self-hating gay" twist had already become a dull cliche by that point.

What was the rest of his point? I'm intrigued - from the point of view of judging his idiocy rather than believing a cohesive point is about to follow that opening.

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what has Vince Gilligan ever done for us?

That was the most powerful part of series 1 for me. I can't remember the last time I was so angry at fictional characters.

Sadly he's likely to lose, meaning that the only thing Dick Poop will get out of the awards season is that he was a meme for a little while. Even then, with 7 syllables and a Z in it, there's a chance that the presenter will Travoltarise likely winner Emmanuel Lubezki's name and Dick Poop will be yesterday's…

I agree that it was a surprise - I assumed it would be a three-way Brit biopic BAFTA battle this year with that, Imitation and Theory.

Sure, but the Oscars are also unlikely to have Stephen Hawking present an award or have the host yell "It's Tom Fucking Cruise!" as an introduction, so a few more points to them…

Well, the reformed version also had "the one guy who sometimes does lead vocals, you know, the little one", so there's him too. And he sang Shine which is a great pop sing.

I didn't immediately get what had happened either. I live in the UK so it happened early-afternoon for us. I'd been working nights so woke up just after it happened. The radio alarm clock woke me up and told me that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center tower, to which I sleepily thought 'huh'. Then it…

Sorry, I couldn't finish reading your comment - I reached the M-word and just had to go and throw up. I mean, jeez…