Best Two-Fers
Kristin Scott Thomas (Tell No One, I’ve Loved You So Long)
Josh Brolin (Milk, W.)
James Franco (Milk, Pineapple Express)
Anne Hathaway (Get Smart, Rachel Getting Married)
Kate Winslet (The Reader, Revolutionary Road)
Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man, Tropic Thunder)

Best Comeback No One Saw Coming
Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)
Tom Cruise (Tropic Thunder)

Title That Sounds Most Like a Low Budget Erotic Thriller
Body of Lies

Strangest Common Movie Theme
Animated space films (Wall-E, Fly Me to the Moon, Space Chimps)

Busiest Revolving Door in a Series
Grey’s Anatomy

Best Showing of a SNL Alum
Tina Fey (30 Rock, Baby Mama, that Sarah Palin impersonation)

Worst Showing of an SNL Alum
Bill Murray (City of Ember)
Eddie Murphy (Meet Dave)
Mike Myers (The Love Guru)
Molly Shannon (Kath & Kim)

Show That’s Become Cool to Like
How I Met Your Mother

Worst Unceremonious Canceling
Pushing Daisies

Best Dysfunctional TV Couple to Root For
Chuck and Blair (Ed Westwick and Leighton Meester), Gossip Girl

Most Touching Post-Character-Departure Episode
“For Warrick,” CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Yes, It’s Still on TV
According to Jim
The Tyra Banks Show

Movie That Didn’t Suck As Much as You Thought it Would
Rambo
The Incredible Hulk
The House Bunny

Movies That Looked WAY Better in the Trailer
Jumper
Vantage Point
Hancock

Biggest Arguments for “The Book Was Better”
The Other Boleyn Girl
Twilight
The Ruins

Best Reason for Vin Diesel to do the fourth Fast & The Furious Movie
Babylon A.D.

Coolest Movie Title
Ping Pong Playa
Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Most Confounding Movie Title
Quantum of Solace
Bangkok Dangerous

Movie Titles You Can’t Pronounce
Synecdoche, New York
Cthulhu

Movie Title That Gives You Chills if You Know What It’s About
Teeth
The Midnight Meat Train

Biggest Reasons Not to Answer the Door/Phone
Funny Games
The Strangers
One Missed Call

Biggest Waste of a Long-Awaited Matchup
Righteous Kill (Al Pacino / Robert De Niro)
The Forbidden Kingdom (Jet Li / Jackie Chan)

Biggest Waste of a Cast
The Women

Wisest Film Choice for a TV Star
The gals of Sex & the City
Kristen Bell, Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Unwisest Film Choice for a TV Star
Eva Longoria, Over Her Dead Body
Matthew Fox, Speed Racer and Vantage Point
Brittany Snow, Prom Night

TV Show That Went Out With a Bang (Literally)
The Shield

TV Show That Went Out With a Hug (Literally)
Boston Legal

Wherever You Look, There’s Beverly Hills, 90210
Jennie Garth, Shannen Doherty, and Joe E. Tata, 90210
Brian Austin Green, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Lindsay Price and Vanessa Marcil, Lipstick Jungle
Luke Perry and James Eckhouse, Criminal Minds (guest star, sep. episodes)

Colin Farrell Worked in 2008 (Maybe You Missed ‘Em)
Pride and Glory, In Bruges, Cassandra’s Dream

So Did Rachel McAdams
The Lucky Ones, Married Life

Most Disappointing Follow-Up for an Acclaimed Director
George Clooney (Leatherheads)
Kimberly Peirce (Stop-Loss)

Samuel L. Jackson Award for Most Screen Credits in a Year
Samuel L. Jackson (Jumper, Lakeview Terrace, Soul Men, The Spirit, an appearance after Iron Man’s credits)
Jason Statham (In the Name of the King, Death Race, Transporter 3, The Bank Job)

What others would you add?

What it is:
The latest bro-mance from team Apatow (the guys who brought us Superbad, Knocked Up and The 40-Year-Old Virgin), Pineapple Express is the story of Dale Denton (Seth Rogan) and Saul Silver (James Franco), a pothead and his dealer who accidentally get caught up in a drug war between two gangs with some corrupt cops, high-school girls and small-time henchmen thrown in for good measure. At its core, Pineapple Express is a stoner comedy–a tale of two semi-slow giggling and loveable idiots in way over their heads–this formula has made for some entertaining comedy over the years, Cheech and Chong’s Up in Smoke and Dave Chappell’s Half Baked being two of the best examples. What sets Pineapple Express apart from these silly classics however, is the consistency of the humor, the perfect chemistry between Rogan and Franco and the giddily ridiculous action sequences (and the fact that even mild intoxication is not required to enjoy the humor). The movie retains the sweetness that is present in most of Apatow’s films, making the characters’ poor choices and ultra-violent actions somehow justifiable, or at least relatable. The site gags, pop-culture references and perfectly timed non-sequiturs only enhance the hilarity.

Why it’s Significant: Because it was time for a semi-grown up Superbad. Because James Franco is so good and perfect as this character that he’s been nominated for a Golden Globe. Because it’s nice to see David Gorden Green (phenomenally talented director of All the Real Girls, Snow Angels) make a movie that’s not totally depressing.  Because you don’t have to be a stoner to find this movie hilarious.

Time’s Top 10 Everything of 2008 includes some interesting choices on their movies and TV lists. The movies, picked by Richard Corliss:

1. Wall-E
2. Synedoche, New York
3. My Winnipeg
4. 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days
5. Milk
6. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
7. Slumdog Millionaire
8. Iron Man
9. Speed Racer (Speed Racer?)
10. Encounters at the End of the World

Note that among the summer blockbusters and year-end Oscar bait, Corliss does not include The Dark Knight, apparently lumping it among the action movies in his Iron Man slot–"In an excellent year for action films (Wanted, Hellboy II, The Dark Knight and, as you’ll soon see, Speed Racer), this was the coolest movie machine."  Then again maybe not, as he does give a separate slot to Speed Racer ("Operating a pitch of delirious precision, the movie is a rich,
cartoonish dream: non-stop Op art, and a triumph of virtual virtuosity."). He gave TDK a positive review, so either he likes to be different, or he just wanted the space for something more important (Speed Racer?).

Time’s top TV series, picked by James Poniewozik:

1. The Shield
2. Mad Men
3. The Presidential Election
4. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog
5. The Wire
6. Breaking Bad
7. Lost
8. Battlestar Galactica
9. Architecture School
10. Chuck

Note that Dr. Horrible was actually an online show.  Poniewozik explains: "But the best thing to come of [the writers' strike] was this eccentric, tragicomic
musical, which–like the strike itself–helped redefine what could be
called ‘TV.’"  I’m all for it; Dr. Horrible is one of the more entertaining things I’ve watched this year.  –David

From creepy killers who torture for fun, ironic sexual dysfunction ala Carrie, zombies galore, a singing and slaying Johnny Depp and the original slasher film in a brand-spankin new edition - 2008 has been a pretty good year for Horror fans.  Here are my top ten horror picks of the year.  –Kira

The Strangers

The Strangers feels like an old-school horror movie–dark, spooky, not too gory and ridiculously scary.  First-time writer/director Bryan Bertino impresses by forsaking the current passion for over-the-top violence (save for the finale) in favor of more traditional means of generating fear, and if his project borrows heavily from other films, most notably the French chiller Them (which shares its "inspired by a true story" origin) and Michael Haneke’s Funny Games, at least he’s taking from the best.

The Orphanage

Produced and presented by Guillermo Del Toro, The Orphanage is less fanciful than his works, though it does bear a vague resemblance to the ghostly Devil’s Backbone. There are a few gory make-up effects, but director Juan Antonio Bayona mostly preys on our fear of the unknown to craft a first-rate fright fest.

Teeth

A coming-of-age tale with a twist, Teeth takes a novel approach towards teen sexual angst.  There’s satiric humor, squirm-inducing gore, and a star-making turn from lead Jess Weixler, recipient of a special prize at Sundance for her "jaw-dropping performance." Teeth is neither anti-male nor anti-female–as some detractors have claimed–but it’s definitely not for the squeamish or irony-impaired.

Dance of the Dead

On the night of the prom, the dead rise to eat the living, and the only people who can stop them are the losers who couldn’t get dates to the dance.  Dance of the Dead manages to do what a few select films in the Horror-Comedy genre can - be both very scary and genuinely hilarious.  A fresh and funny take on the zombie movie.

George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead

George Romero has always come up with new ways of treating his zombies, and Diary of the Dead is no exception: Romero keeps his dead fresh, with an original approach to the undying subject.

Psycho

A classy new edition of the original slasher classic with a bunch of great special features.  For all the slasher pictures that have ripped off Psycho (and particularly its classic set piece, the "shower scene"), nothing has ever matched the impact of the real thing. More than just a first-rate shocker full of thrills and suspense, Psycho is also an engrossing character study in which director Alfred Hitchcock skillfully seduces you into identifying with the main characters–then pulls the rug (or the bathmat) out from under you.

Stuck

Stuck, a cunning and energetic thriller, takes its premise from the real-life incident of a woman who hit a homeless man, then drove home and parked the car in the garage–with the man wedged halfway through her windshield.  This movie was made on a modest budget but has more thrills, laughs, and genuine tingles up and down the spine than all the special effects money can buy. A gem of tight, effective filmmaking.

Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

For fans of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp who don’t think they like musicals, Sweeney Todd should be a revelation (though not for the squeamish, as the gore is intense and completely appropriate).  The show’s mix of gothic horror, Grand Guignol, very dark humor, and witty and beautiful music never was the stuff of traditional musical comedy, but it’s a powerful work, and perhaps the richest of the late 20th century.

Icons of Horror: Hammer Films (The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb / The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll / Scream of Fear / The Gorgon)

Though perhaps not as iconic as their Dracula and Frankenstein pictures, this quartet of fright flicks from England’s Hammer Films deliver enough Saturday afternoon creature feature thrills to please devotees of the legendary studio’s output and vintage horror fans alike.

Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer

A delirious performance by horror vet Robert (Nightmare on Elm Street) Englund and the filmmakers’ predilection for old-school monster suits over CGI help to make the Canadian indie horror-comedy Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer an enjoyable and entertaining alternative to the current rash of relentlessly grim fright fare.  Director Jon Knautz’s feature debut pays loving homage to all manner of boyish pop-culture touchstones, from Marvel Comics and Ray Harryhausen epics to the early works of fellow do-it-yourselfers like Sam Raimi.