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[Review] - Hannibal, Season 2 Episode 7, "Yakimono"
Courtesy of Sony Pictures TelevisionWhen discussing Justified, I noted that episode seven of a thirteen episode season is the fulcrum episode. It's the top of the hill. It's the vertex of the parabola....
View ArticleWhen You're Batman, Every Day Is A Strange Day
Beyond all attempts at argument, the best Batman is Bruce Timm's animated Batman. Better than any of the films, better than any video game, better than Adam West, Brave and The Bold, and even the...
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[Review] - Game Of Thrones, Season 4 Episode 2, "The Lion And The Rose"
Courtesy of HBOLast week, to kick off another year of Game of Thrones, I spent most of my reviewing moaning and whining, "ugh, my show's too consistently good. Oooh, it doesn't inspire me to critical...
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[Review] - Continuum, Season 3 Episode 5, "30 Minutes To Air"
Courtesy of Relativity MediaJust when you thought that the Freelancers explaining in pretty clear detail who and what they were wouldn't leave any mystery left in them, they go and show that they have...
View ArticleIt's A Bit More Than I Bargined For
I have said this before, and I will say this again many more times before I'm done: westerns are my favourite genre of film. Western films tend to be less successful becuase of the persepction that it...
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[Review] - Agents of SHIELD, Season 1 Episode 18, "Providence"
Courtesy of Marvel Television StudiosWell true believers, if you stuck with Agents of SHIELD this long, in hopes that you'd one day glimpse Coulson in a toque, your perseverance has paid off. 'Cause...
View ArticleOh, I Know This One! The One Armed Man Did It!
I'm a fan of David Fincher, though my personal taste tends to fall into an every-other pattern with him. Happily, his upcoming film falls on the crest of the pattern rather than the valley. That film...
View ArticleHello, Old Friend
It took three increasingly impressive trailers from X-Men: Days Of Future Past for them to just straight up sell the plot. Kind of seems like this should have been the first, or at the least, the...
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[Analysis] - Marvel, Phase 3, And The Known Unknowns
With the release of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Phase 2 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is nearer to its end than its origin. All that remains is the largely divorced Guardians of the Galaxy...
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[Review] - Fargo, Season 1 Episode 1, "The Crocodile's Dilemma"
Courtesy of MGM TelevisionThe new darling in the cable television family is the anthology series. It makes a certain kind of sense: cable networks, less beholden to advertisers and more willing to take...
View ArticleSatan, that Ol' Jokester
I've been loving the hell out of FOX's Cosmos series, but almost immediately there were calls of inequity from the more southern and god fearing of the American audience, who despite Cosmos being very...
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[Review] - Hannibal, Season 2 Episode 8, "Su-zakana"
Courtesy of Sony Pictures TelevisionAnnnd we're back. And back to square one in the brand new, softly rebooted Hannibal. With Will's new mission to play Hannibal as hard as Hannibal has played him, the...
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[Review] - Game Of Thrones, Season 4 Episode 3, "Breaker of Chains"
Courtesy of HBOLooking to deliver a eulogy/history lesson/birds-and-the-bees talk? Can't seem find an organic way to work all of those things into a single speech? Delivering said speech to an...
View ArticleThe Hero We Deserve And The One We Need
Last week, we saw Bruce Timm's return to the world of the Animated Batman, in honour of the character's 75th birthday. Today, we return (equelly unexpectedly) to the world of Batman Beyond, not from...
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[Review] - Agents of SHIELD, Season 1 Episode 19, "The Only Light in the...
Courtesy of Marvel Television StudiosAnd we're back to square one. What is it about this show that they can't seem to maintain any sort of positive inertia past two episode? This week, they took all...
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HBO Orders Some Lame Duck
HBO knows when they've got a good thing going, and HBO is in a position to keep such things going. As such, the cable network has ordered a fourth season of Armando Ianucci's brilliant Veep, starring...
View ArticleYou're Going To Die Burning, And I'm Going To Watch
Today might be Shakespeare's birthday. It's almost certainly the day he died. And I cannot think of a better way to celebrate his birth/death/invention of the word 'eye-ball' than this short film,...
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[Review] - Fargo, Season 1 Episode 2, "The Rooster Prince"
Courtesy of MGM TelevisionLast week, I was as impressed as I was confounded by Fargo. Impressed because of the way the series was able to take the Coen style and craft an excellent homage to the...
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Suddenly Thrown Back Into The Mix Together
Filming is underway in Hawaii on Jurassic World, the probably unnecessary sequel to my favourite film, which frustratingly gets more interesting the more director Colin Trevorrow talks about it. He's...
View ArticleClever Girl (This Quote Has Never Been More Appropriate)
Do you want a raptor of you very own? Well, too bad, the last Dromaeosauridae died out 66 million years ago. What you can have is a complex origami raptor created by Lisa Glover. She has a project on...
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