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[Review] - The Newsroom, Season 2 Episode 1, "First Thing We Do, Let's Kill...
Courtesy of HBOLast year, Newsroom proved to be a controversial show. Not controversial in the usual ways: no members of the cast were arrested after a drunken binge, it didn't show graphic nudity or...
View ArticleEverything Is Better With Puppets
It just is. Now, I have low expectations for next week's Wolverine, mostly because every X-Men movie since X2 has been a crisp puddle of badger spit and I'm not getting my hopes up again. I refuse. The...
View ArticleSave The Date
September 24th, 8pm. ABC.That is the official premier of Marvel's first attempt to bring the Marvel Cinematic Universe to television, Joss Whedon's return to TV since the cancellation of Dollhouse in...
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[Review] - Luther, Series 3 Episode 3
Courtesy of the BBCRemember last week, when I said Luther doesn't get happy endings? I didn't feel that we needed such an expressive example of this principle so soon, and so... expressively. Episode 3...
View ArticleAll I Know Is That My Snowmen Never Looked That Good
Here is the first trailer for Joel Schroeder's Dear Mr. Watterson, a documentary that looks to essentially be about how much everyone loves Calvin and Hobbes. Which is true, but I don't know if that is...
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Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother To Visit The Seven Kingdoms
Courtesy of the BBCMark Gatiss is pretty much awesome. Former League of Gentleman actor, current co-writer/showrunner/recurring star on Sherlock, repetitive Doctor Who contributor, guest player in...
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[List] - The 6 Best "Cantina" Scenes
If no other scene in Star Wars encapsulates both the outpouring of imagination from the filmmaker, and the ability to capture it in the audience, it's the cantina scene. The apparently limitless...
View ArticleGods, We're Going To Have A Whole Year Of This Stuff, Aren't We?
My interest in Amazing Spider-man 2 could not be lower. The first film was everything that is wrong and pointless about endlessly rebooting franchises. What wasn't repetitive was underwritten, what...
View ArticleA Kiwi And Three Brits Sit Down For A Chat
As a cinephile, one of my favourite things is listening to filmmakers talk to other filmmakers. Especially if they work in different genres, if there are generational gaps, or if they work in different...
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[Review] - Much Ado About Nothing
Courtesy of Bellwether PicturesFinally.To my mind, the best adaptations of Shakespeare are those that interpret the text, and find new ways of presenting the story. After 400 years, you pretty much...
View ArticleThe Needs Of The Many Outweigh The Needs Of The Sploosh
With San Diego Comic-Con in full swing over the weekend, the sheer amount information that is tenuously relevant to the usual content of this site could stand to be staggering over the next couple...
View ArticleYeah, This Will Probably Be Awesome
Veronica Mars movie trailer?Veronica Mars movie trailer.Jamie Lee Curtis aside, is it weird that the character I was most excited about seeing in this trailer was Principal Clemmons?
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[Review] - Continuum, Season 2 Episode 11, "Second Guess"
Courtesy of Reunion PicturesFirst off, in this week's lone glimpse of the future, that was David Milchard playing the technician. Milchard is the "Adult Man" in the hilarious web series Conversations...
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Dennis Farina Has Died
Dennis Farina died Monday morning of a blood clot in his lung, at the age of 69. A 18 year veteran of the Chicago Police force, he became one of those actors who embodied the best of what it meant to...
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His Last Vow
Courtesy of the BBCThat's the third, and final episode title for Sherlock series 3. Which means, the partially finished and assumed to be airing in the early new year third year will look like this:The...
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[Review] - The Newsroom, Season 2 Episode 2, "The Genoa Tip"
Courtesy of HBOConsidering how little the Genoa storyline took up this episode, perhaps a better title would have been "How To Ruin Your Life." Of course, for these characters, that could be the name...
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Marvel Enters A New Age
Well, I don't know about you, but I wasn't expecting that.At San Diego over the weekend, Joss Whedon and Marvel announced the title of the Avengers sequel, and in the process, named the villain of the...
View ArticleFar From The World's Finest
I have had little faith in Warner Bros and DC to actually make films based on their characters. At least, the characters who don't dress up like a bat. Those that do get made tend to be terrible. And...
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[Review] - Luther, Series 3 Finale, Episode 4
Courtesy of the BBC"What is it about the people John Luther loves?"There has been no discussion, as far as I can tell, about a fourth series of Luther, in much the same way that there was no discussion...
View ArticleThanks To Ironman, Every Film Will Now Feature A HUD Sequence
Gravity might just be the year's best film. It's certianly is shaping up to be the most scientifically accurate film of the year, and in my mind those two concepts are as near as makes no difference....
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