This is the stupidest non story of the year. Jetlagged guy with a stutter acts like jetlagged guy with a stutter during a debate with a 34-count convicted felon serial sexual predator who has declared he intends to be a dictator and replace all remaining government officials with his hand-picked cronies, and this…

Say what you will about the prequels, but the fight choreography was fantastic. The worst sins of the JJA films was making me appreciate the prequels.

Yes, the movie sucks, but one of the single greatest movie going moments of my life was the midnight screening of Attack of the Clones.

Tarsem Singh! One of the my favourite - and sadly, underrated and underemployed - directors slash cinematographers.

Damn it, Shogun! You got me. Tears were welling up when Anjin stepped up to second Mariko. I was about to lose it but then she was spared. Then you bastards hit me with the gut punch right at the end of the episode. I’m still giving you an A grade, but just know I’m upset with you.

For whatever reason, it isn’t mandatory viewing by law. And they say we live in a democracy.

i am so glad that the a.v. club is actually back to doing regular coverage of offbeat stuff like this. dare we hope the Paste purchase will actually prove a good thing?

Holy shit was that Hiromatsu scene intense. This show just keeps reaching new levels of fantastic

This last season was so solid, it completely soared over my head that his legal trouble in the first episode would culminate with a do-over of the terrible Seinfeld finale. Even watching the episode, hearing him talk about how he’s never learned a lesson—it all seemed so on-brand for Larry, I missed the obvious setup.…

I like the Seinfeld finale. People seemed to totally forget it was a show about 4 awful, terrible people.

That was certainly a defiant finale! I’ve always loved the Seinfeld finale since it originally aired, and was confused by the backlash that started immediately afterwards and basically never went away. It’s not like there’s been some kind of “it was good, actually” reappraisal over the last 25+ years. But I’ll always…

You left out the best line:

Noticed on second watch: one of the protestors is carrying a sign that reads: “Yada Yada Yada.” Nice little Easter egg.

I don’t find it gratuitous, it’s actually rather refreshing to see a show not shy away from the combat of war at all. People did take heads from the corpses of their fallen enemies and cannon combat is not supposed to be pretty. The violence on the show is always done purposefully, not gleefully. This isn’t some anime…

not at all to be the resident Annoying Book Person, but all of this stuff is right there in the original text. for whatever limitations of POV Clavell may have had as a white Englishman of the mid-20th century, his work had an incredible level of compassion and empathy for the women in such a hierarchical,…

What a beautifully produced show with a compelling story.

This would be my choice too.

For me, the Great Unfilmable is Gene Wolfe’s body of work, particularly the Book of the New Sun novels. They’ve got plenty of action and translatable visual spectacle, but everything that makes them really special, from the unreliable narrators to the beauty of the language to the time-travel shenanigans, could not…

It’s grown on me over the years. I think a shifting of focus to Siona, Duncan, and the various plots against Leto by Ix and the Face Dancers could compensate for the soliloquizing by Leto.

I disagree, I think it’s an amazing book.  Chapterhouse, now that’s a messy novel.