Nah, Hank's always been a shit. He was a racist blowhard, a bully copy who beat Jesse up so bad he was hospitalized, then a dude who verbally abused to his wife to the point where she had a mental breakdown, and now he's obsessed with taking down Walt not out of any sense of justice but out of a sense of betrayal. The…

Agreed. I thought the visual direction was solid, but the main character was so annoying and the romance so devoid of spark, chemistry, or interest, that it ended up just being clever, inspid crap, like a pile of crusted dog turds painted up like a bitchin' 80s van.

"his masterpiece, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World"
LOL

I think that monologue is better directed at Dan Harmon.

Oh god oh god oh god oh god, please please please please have him team up with Pierce's half-brother against the Study Group.

Scowly Cops in the Gloomy City is both (a) a better name for this show than "Low Winter Sun" (what?) and (b) a great name for a children's book series about corrupt police detectives.

Or the "bimbo accountant" act she pulls with the IRS?

Yeah, that gave me chills.

YES

From what I understand, "Poppy Hill" got generally positive reviews and made bank in Japan. I think it's generally seen as a win for Goro, and a comeback after how little loved "Earthsea" was. But I dunno.

Yeah, HOWL is weak sauce. You sort of feel like Miyazaki lost interest about half-way through.

Somewhere deep in the Wrangell-Elias mountain range in southern Alaska, there is a cabin named "Too Much Johnson." Seriously.

"there’s a piercing portrait of just how little support abused women in the ’70s received"
Or, y'know, in 2013.

God, I can't wait for BOATS, starring the voice of Carlos Mencia as a submarine who can't swim, in the year 2016.

This is excellent, so feel free to ignore this nit I'm about to pick, but doesn't Jesse currently think Brock just accidentally ate some Lily of the Valley berries?

Yeah, there was always something sort of horrifying about how readily we all wanted to go to Hogwarts despite the Wizarding World having legal slavery. Rowling could have done something interesting with that, but didn't in favor of a few scoldings here and there about how it's important to treat everyone nicely, even…

I watched a few episodes and this is exactly how I felt. The show itself is exploitative, but I found myself laughing *with* the family much more than I did *at* them. Obviously, it's hard to know what the reality of reality stars is, but at least from what we see on TV, they seem like fun, happy people. Good for them.

I still remember entire chunks of dialogue.

I will only see this if the character Pena's older brother is actually Luis Guzman. Not played by Luis Guzman, but just is the actor Luis Guzman. And he's live action in an animated world like Bob Hoskins in Toon Town. I am saying I would see that movie.

I totally agree about Children of Hurin. I thought it was very well done, overall, and did a good job evoking the strain of epic tragedy that runs through most of the Silmarillion stories, while also giving us a more "on the ground" feel for the realms of the First Age. And it has some really great moments, like…