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[Review] - Continuum, Season 3 Episode 9, "Minute Of Silence"
Courtesy of Reunion PicturesThis week, the most significant event in the history of the series occurred: Kiera procured the affections of a magnificently bearded stranger. Seriously, did you see that...
View ArticleHe's Batman: He Can Breathe In Space
LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham takes the entire Justice League into space. I don't understand why there has to be more text in this post beyond that initial sentence. I really don't understand how a LEGO...
View ArticleThe Federal Government's Visual Acuity Is Based On Movement
Fossil trafficking is a big problem in the world of paleontology. Every fossil discovered needs to be examined by experts, so it can be classified, and the fossil record can be verified by just that...
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[Review] - Penny Dreadful, Season 1 Episode 3, "Resurrection"
Courtesy of Neal Street ProductionsAfter two weeks of setting the stage, the game gets truly afoot this week. The characters are established, the motives generally understood. Now teeth can be properly...
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Marvel Has A Slightly Better Wednesday
After the events of the weekend, Marvel needed a win. If it hadn't been for the fact that it was released in front of X-Men: Days of Future Past, this would have been a excellent opportunity to release...
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[Review] - Fargo, Season 1 Episode 7, "Who Shaves the Barber?"
Courtesy of MGMAfter my review last week, I took a step back and looked at Fargo from a wider perspective. Because my review last week was not kind. Nor have been my reviews of this series since the...
View ArticleThey're All Dead
When I read the first of the Strain books, I couldn't put it down. I thought it was fantastic. The whole first third of the book, or however long it was, with the dead plane touching down, and the CDC...
View ArticleAndy Dufresne Didn't Live For Fun, So His Brain Got Smart But His Head Got Dumb
Have you ever asked yourself, "would that scene in Shawshank when Andy locks himself in the office and broadcasts classical music over the prison be better if the music was All Star by Smashmouth?" If...
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[Opinion] - The One Element An X-Men Movie Needs To Use, And Hasn't
This past weekend saw the release of X-Men: Days of Future Past, and as I mentioned in my review, along with the original cast and the clear vision of director Bryan Singer, a much needed element...
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It'll Take You 20 Some Odd Years From Home, But Will It Reboot You?
Courtesy of MGMIn an odd bit of news, Roland Emmerich, a man renounced for not making good films, has announced that he and Dean Devlin intend to reboot their own film, 1994's Stargate, with the...
View ArticleYou Wish You Had As Much Fun In Your Life As These Guys Do In Theirs
It's the end of the week, a slow news day, and I started off talking about X-Men, so I might as well finish up with it. Here is a video of James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender doing impressions of...
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[Review] - A Million Ways To Die In The West
Courtesy of Fuzzy Door ProductionsI had high hopes for Million Ways, Seth MacFarlane's directorial sophomore effort. The western has experienced a prolonged renaissance the last couple decades (in...
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Quel Dommage!
The Doctor Who 50th anniversary was a time of many surprises, but perhaps the most surprising was that the best of all the celebrations was Peter Davison's The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot. The comedic...
View ArticleCome On Kids, We're Going To Go Down To The Rancid Whale
You wouldn't expect it, but I have a bit of history covering beached whales on this site. Well, exploding whales, actually. Still, if it's as good a traditional as I've got, I might as well keep it...
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[Review] - Game Of Thrones, Season 4 Episode 8, "The Mountain and the Viper"
Courtesy of HBOIf this episode illustrates anything, it is that the producers need to either 1) adapt more of the songs that George R.R. Martin wrote in his books, or 2) stop drawing attention to the...
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[Review] - Penny Dreadful, Season 1 Episode 4, "Demimonde"
Courtesy of Neal Street ProductionsIf this show hadn't impressed me enough, they went and tipped the scales in their favour by hiring David Warner as (a properly elder) Van Helsing. He only appeared...
View ArticleMilk The Tragedy, All The Cool Kids Are Doing It
In my review of Gravity, I made the bold statement (OK, not that bold) that any science fiction movie made afterwards would live in its shadow, in much the same way that 2001 utterly transformed the...
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Life Finds A Way...
... to kick you in your ass sometimes, which is exactly what it did to me last week. Whatever I had ready to go late Sunday evening is what I was able to get up at some point last week. I honestly...
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[Review] - Chef
Courtesy of Aldamisa EntertainmentChef is a cruel sort of film. not in it's tone, or in it's execution. It's actually an entirely agreeable film; a very engaging film, filled with characters that you...
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[Review] - Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey
Courtesy of Cosmos StudiosThe original Cosmos: A Personal Voyage had a simultaneously simple and complex intent: educate the public on the immensity and complexity of the universe, and ignite a...
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