Tom Cruise is phenomenal in Magnolia, one of the finest films you're liable to see.

He wasn't involved. Just watching.

It's just improv. They're riffing. Unfortunately, no scorpion with a donut head has ever existed outside of my darkest sexual fantasies.

I'm slowly playing through Dragon Age: Origins, in an attempt to finish it before Inquisition comes out. I know that it's only going to have the most tangential relationship to that game, but I just can't resist that Bioware carry-over.

Repilot: B

Whoops! Looks like I dropped the rest!

1. Hannibal
2. Masters of Sex
3. Breaking Bad
4. Orphan Black
5. Justified

There has been a lot of backlash against Shame since 12 Years a Slave came out, and I can't say that I entirely understand. Fassbender gives a really arresting performance, one that I feel is perfectly underlined by Queen's direction. The long takes let us really take in the quiet emotions of each scene. I never…

Really loved seeing The World's End pop up on this list. Incredibly funny, impeccably scripted, and absolutely heartbreaking, Edgar Wright's latest (and possibly his greatest) really was a special gem of a comedy.

I agree completely. It's so rare that a comedy is given a chance to really shine in these year-end lists. Edgar Wright's craft as a filmmaker is on par with many of the directors listed in the above article, yet is nowhere to be found. You simply can't ignore someone who is as good of a writer/director/dude as Edgar…

One of the best scenes of the year has to be from The World's End. The climactic showdown between (British spoilers) Gary King and Andy is one of the more heartbreaking things I've seen on the cinema screen and really was a wonderful end to a wonderful movie, regardless of what it meant as the final moment of an…