If you're at least a student of acting, it's well worth watching for Emily Watson's performance alone.

Goodbye!

Listened to an interview with Newell the other day - and he said that Valve has been seriously looking into (and may possibly already have started writing) a feature, using their IP and animated in Director, the software they developed to make their TF2 shorts.  And Meet the Spy, Medic, Engineer,, and Pyro are nearly…

Plus, it would be impossible to see the movie over all the goddamn hats.

I've been of the opinion for a long time that, like you say, Valve has been waiting for whatever new tech will drive the next level of storytelling possibilities to open up for the moribund FPS genre - as storytelling innovation seems to have become Valve's primary interest when making games - but after seeing the…

This man is the only possible Gordon Freeman.
http://i.imgur.com/KOoTW.jpg

I've actually seen quite a lot of overlap between theater geeks and sci-fi/fantasy nerds - not only are there touchstone artifacts like "Once More With Feeling" and Dr. Horrible, LARPing, Nightmare Before Christmas, and filk, but in general there's a particular lack of irony and love of soap-operatics that seems to…

Honestly, this is how I'll be watching Smash this season:
1. Wait til Wednesday.
2. Watch any Megan Hilty performances on NBC.com.
3. Come here for the Garson Kanin snippets and the "Ivy Rules/Karen Sucks" threads.
4. Repeat x 13.

"And what do we say, dears, when the nice alcoholic finishes his pretty songs?"
"Fook Cromwell!"
"Very good, my dears.  Very good."

Wow, what a killer-sounding show!

@avclub-3da678392d5ac1ff456fe6e06354fdef:disqus Back when I used to work at a venue around the Quarter, you would not believe the number of band members of out-of-town acts (or sometimes, entire bands) that would just go missing and wouldn't show for hours, or even at all, and almost always fucked up when they did. …

One of my favorite lyrics ever.

Are you kidding?  Warburton was perfect for the role.

I love old baseball swing songs: Basie's Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball?, Joltin' Joe, Say Hey - even I Love Mickey is kinda fun.  So I hope it's some of those!

I can't deny that our shitty infrastructure (scrambling, oh-shit-company's-coming facelift or no) isn't probably to blame (my neighborhood blacks out in a stiff wind, and don't get me started on this summer's hurricane - Entergy can suck my dick), but I'll say this much: as someone who at least partially relies on the…

I suspect this was partially to assure the audience that yes, Miss Knowles is indeed actually singing.

It sounds like Collinsworth is getting bagged on by omission here, so I'll pipe up: I appreciate the guy as someone who seems to genuinely nerd out on tactical minutiae, explains key playmaking away from the ball , and as a commentator unafraid to call out players and coaches for stupidity.

Okay: Let's say the direct-market/LCSs die.  Where do comics go?  The answer is digital, and bookstores for trades and OGNs.  Who suffers most from this?  It's pretty definitely the Big Two, who depend most on the "300k" for sales revenue.  I feel pretty confident in saying that independents large and small, and (very…

…wow, okay, maybe there *is* a definitive recording.  Thanks a bunch, @avclub-13d7df3c17502af69aafccc758195f96:disqus !

Misty Knight/Steve Rogers = OTP