The Year in Pop. Watch. The phrase guilty pleasure has long outlived its usefulness. If you really like a song or a movie or a TV show, no matter how cheesy the conventional wisdom says it is, you should feel free to say so without guilt, and to defend your appreciation vigorously. Thats one reason why I and, judging by the number of comments, you as well enjoy reading Mandi Bierlys Pop. Watch Confessional columns. They get at how important entertainment really is in our lives, and they open the emotional floodgates for readers by reminding you of things youd forgotten you loved. It was this sort of writing passionate discussion of things individual writers cared deeply about that marked the best of Pop. Watch for me in 2. Whether or not you shared Michael Slezaks enthusiasm for Fergie, or his appalled feelings over The Bachelor, you had to enjoy his writing about those subjects, maybe more than the subjects themselves. Same for Annie Barrett on The O. C. and reality TV, or Adam Vary on American Idol tapings and Transformers toys, or Simon Vozick Levinson on hip hop, or Chris Willman on country music and Bruce Springsteen, or Marc Bernardin on sci fi, or Whitney Pastorek on music festivals and indie film, or Ken Tucker on Friday Night Lights, and too many others to name. Looking back on my own writing this year, I found myself writing far too many obituaries we lost too many talented people in 2. I also found they led to some of my most passionate, and most warmly received items. Santa`S Apprentice Movie Dvd. Credit here properly belongs to those who inspired me. I also got worked up writing about such issues as free expression, the hijacking of pop culture for partisan political purposes, and the war on film critics, all of which are, of course, linked. That these continue to be issues of contention saddens me, and itspartly our fault as critics and journalists for not doing a better jobof explaining what the stakes are. Thats why I am so grateful to havebeen part of Pop. Watch in 2. 00. 7, to have a forum to raise such issues andstart a conversation. So while I want to thank all the writers,editors, photo mavens, tech wizards, interns, and celebrity guest bloggerswho helped put together Pop. Watch in 2. 00. 7, I especially want to thankyou, the readers, for your lively, intelligent, and civil commentary. We posted nearly 2,5. That kind of response is incrediblygratifying to us, whether or not you agreed with what we wrote, becausewe relish our ongoing conversation with you. Hope youll continue tocomment as fervently in 2. Look forward to hearing from you. Ragnarok As a Standalone Movie, Not a Sequel. At the recent San Diego Comic Con, we caught up with Taika Waititi, the dapper director of Thor Ragnarok, to ask him a few questions about the highly anticipated Marvel sequelthough he soon admitted that one of the first things he did was toss aside the idea that he was making a sequel at all. It makes sense, reallyRagnarok is the third movie in the Thor series, and were several more movies into the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a whole. Judging from its gleefully fun latest trailer, approaching Ragnarok as if it were a standalone or at least, as much as humanly possible, considering its many connections to other films looks like it was exactly the right decision. And yeah, we are totally jazzed for that Thor Hulk fight, and whatever Waititis got planned for the finale, too. Thor Ragnarok is out November 3. Futurama is an American animated science fiction comedy series created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series follows the adventures of a late. GameTrailers is your destination to see official trailers first. Powered by IGN, you can expect to see worldfirst exclusive gameplay and the hottest new tra. NASA astronaut and biochemist Peggy Whitson will return to Earth as the planets new record holder for longest time cumulatively spent on space by an American or a. Watch The Full "Futurama" A Clone Of My Own The Movie' title='Watch The Full "Futurama" A Clone Of My Own The Movie' />The phrase guilty pleasure has long outlived its usefulness. If you really like a song or a movie or a TV show, no matter how cheesy the conventional. Greetings, my Westerosi window envelopes As you can probably guess, last weeks episode of Game of Thronesand its increasing dominance over the pop culture. Watch Dogs 2 got its final patch today, which makes impossible to use mods while online if youre playing on PC. The games publisher, Ubisoft, says that this is.