Sorry for the late reply - Skinwalkers was the first of three stories (Dark Winds was another) in the PBS Mystery adaptation with Studi and Beach.

Worth noting this is the 2nd TV adaptation of the Leaphorn/Chee stories - there was a 3 episode run on PBS Mystery almost 20 years ago starring legend Wes Studi as Leaphorn and Adam Beach as Chee. There's also a 30 year-old movie of Dark Winds with Fred Ward and Lou Diamond Phillips.

As an actor, you have to work with what you’ve got and, as the review states, his features tend to imply something unsettled and intense. Besides the creepy doctor on Torchwood, his biggest big-budget roles are

I don’t find the grade and the quote to be incongruous. A film can be (or become) a classic due to its rewatch-ability and (projected) cultural impact and yet be a good, not great, movie on its strictly cinematic merits: maybe the direction is unimaginative or a few performances mediocre. Plenty of ‘classics’ -…

It’s a great movie with an absolute charisma vacuum at its center in Garrett Hedlund. Make Olivia Wilde the headstrong heir and Hedlund the naive sentient program and it's perfect.

And the list only goes back 40 years, ignoring decades of film history. Unfortunately this is the standard ‘bare minimum’ level of research and content we’ve all come to expect from the AV Club recently.

Had to be done.

Shops AROUND Philly - there are a number of shops just across the Delaware River that are going to pick up business from the city.

Did the same - late Saturday morning small wedding with a bottomless mimosa brunch afterward and had donuts from a local donut shop instead of cake.

He was Seymour in a concert staging of 'Little Shop of Horrors' a few years ago against eternal Audrey Ellen Greene.

In terms of comic pairs with chemistry, we used to get at least one McKinnon/Bryant pairing every 3-4 week cycle: cat ladies, orchard ladies, classic movie parodies, Dyke & Fats, nerdy teens, etc.

Sounds like this movie should have been made in 2000 by Tony Scott starring Denzel, Gary Oldman and Salma Hayek.

It wasn’t BBC proper but a co-production between BBC America (which exists in a weird middle ground where they can license both BBC and some non-BBC UK TV shows internationally) and Space (Canadian sci-fi cable channel).

Ok? I didn’t mention Amber Stevens West either, so...?

So we’re pretending the Carmichael Show was good?

By the time the next Mission: Impossible comes out, Cruise will be older than Jon Voight was when Voight played grizzled mentor Jim Phelps in the first M:I movie.

Circle of Friends is a much better romantic light drama than Wild Mountain Thyme if that’s the mood you’re in.

Yeah, she went to high school a few years behind Emma Stone (and a few more behind Meghan McCain).

Clooney’s turning point is slightly earlier when he works with both Soderbergh (Out of Sight) and then Russell (Three Kings) before the Coens make O Brother, Where Art Thou.

This used to be a site where amongst the snark and the memes, there were writers who actually gave a damn about TV and film as art forms - their influence and their history.