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[Review] - Atlantis, Series 1 Episode 10, "The Price of Hope"

Courtesy of the BBCIn response to this week's episode, I ask Howard Overman and the producers of Atlantis a simple question: what the hell?Seriously, what the hell? How is it that you were convinced...

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This Post Contains Bad Words

I love a good insult. The trick to a good insult, and therefore a good laugh line, isn't about how crude it is, but about how clever it is. If it is a well constructed, beginning-middle-end sort of...

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Lord Of The Crumbs

In light of this recent Sesame Street segment, I will now take the position that Peter Jackson should have made the Lord of the Rings films entirely with puppets, Dark Crystal-style, instead of...

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He's Not The King Of Monsters, He's Their God

Despite the fact that I thought Pacific Rim was a load of hot garbage, I'm a big fan of monster movies, and you literally don't get any more monstrous than the original, proper Godzilla. And while I...

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A Movie, Where Stuff Happens In It, Will Be Released Soon

There isn't much to say about the trailer for former Smallville star Michael Rosenbaum's directorial debut Back In The Day, other than it looks like a standard issue, very by-the-books home town...

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Let's End The Day With Something Beautiful, Shall We?

On October 9th, the Juno spacecraft did a slingshot move past the Earth. Slingshooting spacecraft is a way to use the gravitational pull of the planets to increase the velocity of unpiloted spacecraft,...

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[Review] - Agents Of SHIELD, Season 1 Episode 10, "The Bridge"

Courtesy of Marvel Television Productions.As Agents of SHIELD says goodbye to 2013, it gave us many things. It brought together a lot of the plot threads introduced in those early, rougher episodes. It...

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It's Almost Time

The BBC has given us a longer, proper trailer for the Doctor Who Christmas special The Time of the Doctor, and to be honest it's not much of one. It's primary focus is entirely on the fact that, at...

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There's No Point In Killing A Bad Priest. But Killing A Good One...

Remember when John Cleese released Fierce Creatures, and said it was more an "equal than a sequel" to A Fish Called Wanda? All the same actors, but not related to the previous story at all? I suppose...

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[List] - Here Be Dragons

 "We took the approach that Smaug is a paranoid psychopath. He has a lust for gold, but it’s a lust that he can’t explain. He’s not like a normal person who wants wealth for all the trappings of fast...

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Simon Pegg Will Appear In Absolutely Anything

As I previously reported, along with the official reunion of Monty Python this coming summer, the old boys (minus Eric Idle) will also be reuniting for the film Absolutely Anything, to be directed by...

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Wholock

This five minute long minisode that sees Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock cross over with Matt Smith's Doctor Whois not real. Though, you might be forgiven for thinking it is. This isn't your run of the...

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[Review] - The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug

Courtesy of Warner Bros.I have long asserted that the Desolation of Smaug would be the best of the Hobbit films, and I feel vindicated (despite the final film being a year off) that I was right. If...

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Finish Your Thought

House of Cards was easily the best new show of last year, and while the passive aggressive comment in this trailer about it not actually being on TV seems like an odd thing to include in the official...

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We Are Still Pioneers

There was a fantastic theory a few years back that Christopher Nolan was filming two simultaneous trilogies, based on the three step magic trick established in The Prestige. The first trilogy was the...

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[Review] - Atlantis, Series 1 Episode 11, "Hunger Pangs"

Courtesy of the BBCUghh... lets just get on with it, shall we?Hit the jump for the review, which contains spoilers that So, yeah... Greek mythology has a werewolf story, one of the first. And rather...

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Simon Pegg Has A Fantastic Fear Of Everything

Just the other day, I was saying how Simon Pegg is a very busy man, and here comes a trailer for his next film, A Fantastic Fear Of Everything. The trailer looks... well, insane. Director Crisipian...

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt To Bring Us A Dream

There have been attempts to bring Neil Gaiman's opus Sandman to the screen - either big or small - for years. And thankfully, they've all failed. There has never been a time before now that the...

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ISIS Recruits Have The Strangest Questions

Seriously man, weapons training! Field operations! Insurance benefits! Not office supplies. Get your priorities in check.Via Uproxx.

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What Are The Hobbit Movies Missing? Random Pig Jokes

Actually, it occurs to me that both Journey and Smaug had at least one pig joke each...It's of interest to me that Lego Hobbit is being released this year, rather than waiting until There and Back...

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