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[Review] - Penny Dreadful, Season 1 Episode 1, "Night Work"
Courtesy of Neal Street ProductionsOn paper, it would be very difficult for me not to enjoy Penny Dreadful. Combining my favourite historical period (the Victorian), my favourite literary period (see...
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[Review] - Fargo, Season 1 Episode 5, "The Six Ungraspables"
Courtesy of MGM TelevisionIn the press build up to Fargo's premiere, FX and writer Noah Hawley described it as a ten hour movie. If this series were a movie, it would be a boring one. Five hours in,...
View ArticleIt Only Glows For Those With A Soldier's Heart
Someone at the BBC decided the best way to advertise their tributes and coverage of WWI would be to make a sarcastic fake trailer based on war movie cliches. That person deserves a raise, a better...
View ArticleSo, You're Sure There's A God, Then
A new trailer for John Michael McDonagh’s new Irish drama, Calvary has been released, and it looks just as good now as it did the first time. The film stars Brendan Gleeson and a loaded cast of prime...
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[Opinion] - Where SHIELD Went Wrong
All pictures courtesy of Marvel Television StudiosAgents of SHIELD has finished it's first season, and against all the usual sense and logic displayed by networks, it has been picked up for a second by...
View ArticleNo Matter The Medium, He Remains The Night
In a week where we got our first look at what Ben Affleck's Batman will look like in Batman Vs. Superman: Double Double, Toil and Trouble, I think it's important to remember that there is only one true...
View ArticleNo Words... Should Have Sent A Cinematographer
Christopher Nolan's new film supposedly draws influence from the writings of Kip Thorne. As someone who spent a not small part of his adolescence reading the works of Kip Thorne, this had immediate...
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[Review] - Game Of Thrones, Season 4 Episode 7, "Mockingbird"
Courtesy of HBOMockingbird is my favourite kind of episode of Game of Thrones: the kind where everyone sits around and talks. Some people seem to be under the belief that the only way thing happen is...
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I'm Going To Go To The Place That's The Best
While the first trailer for James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy was all about introducing the characters and establishing the tone of the film, this second trailer (which Gunn mentioned he enjoyed...
View ArticleIt's Kevorkianesque
HBO has been surprisingly open with the content of John Oliver's Last Week Tonight, posting not whole episodes but complete segments on the show's YouTube page. And as I said after the first episode...
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[Review] - Penny Dreadful, Season 1 Episode 2, "Séance"
Courtesy of Neal Street ProductionsIt speaks to the quality of John Logan's Penny Dreadful that, two episodes in, the plot remains firmly on the perimeter. The focus is squarely on the characters, on...
View ArticleYou All Talk So Funny
So, Matthew Vaughn is back with another film based on a comic book (following X-Men First Class and Kick Ass). But really, aside from Layer Cake and maybe Stardust, I haven't been wowed by his films....
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That Is A Great Big Pile Of Bones
That's a scientist for you, always laying down on the job.For anyone interested in paleontology, one the more fascinating regions to study are the animals of Gondwana, now South America and Africa....
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[Review] - Fargo, Season 1 Episode 6, "Buridan's Ass"
Courtesy of MGMIf last week's episode felt like a season finale, as I thought certain parts of it did, than this episode absolutely felt finale-ish. Everything that the series has been working towards...
View ArticleA Machine That Generates Empathy
That old cliche, "standing on the shoulders of giants," is something that every single putz who considers himself a film critic on the internet needs to remind themselves of: we all stand on the...
View ArticleWhen You Have To Adapt Every Single Mother Reader In A Bibliography, Accept...
Until recently, Elmore Leonard was my favourite living author. His writing, or rather his approach to writing, as had more of an influence on my own than probably any other writer, living or dead. But...
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[Review] - X-Men: Days Of Future Past
Courtesy of 20th Century FOXTime travel is that nifty little narrative device that allows for the possibility that mistakes of the past might be changed into something better. And that is exactly how...
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[Review] - Hannibal Season 2 Finale, Episode 13, "Mizumono"
I feel, in the aftermath of all that, that is is important to remember two things: first, the old cliche, "the villain is the hero of his own story." The second is the name of this show: Hannibal. In...
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Marvel Had A Bad Weekend
Late Friday, Marvel made the surprise announcement that Edgar Wright was stepping down from the director's chair on Ant-man. This was, to say the least, surprising. Shocking even. The press release...
View ArticleHe's An All New Man
The BBC has confirmed that the new series of Doctor Who will return in August, with Peter Capaldi at the helm. They have done so in a frustratingly short and very blinky teaser trailer, as seen above....
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