[Review] - Game Of Thrones, Season 4 Episode 9, "Watchers On the Wall"
Courtesy of HBOWatching this season's episode nine event brought my mind around to season two's Blackwater, an episode that is receiving a lot of comparisons with this. My mind turned to how ultimately...
View Article[Review] - Continuum, Season 3 Episodes 10 and 11, "Revolutions Per Minute"...
Courtesy of Reunion PicturesAs much as I would have loved to dissect each of these episodes individually (sorry again about that), there have been perhaps no two better episodes to review together....
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Lego has announced the winner of the Winter 2014 review, which takes the ideas from Lego Ideas with the most votes, and turns them into purchasable products. Previous winners include the Back to the...
View Article[Review] - Penny Dreadful, Season 1 Episode 5, "Closer Than Sisters"
Courtesy of Neal Street ProductionsBefore we start in on the past, let's look towards the future. Late last week, Showtime announced that Penny Dreadful has been picked up for a second season. A second...
View ArticleCroft Raids Again
In the wake of the critical success of the latest Tomb Raider reboot, it was a question of when rather than if a new game would appear. And with the introduction of the latest consoles, I expected it...
View ArticleIf You Don't Vote, You Can't Complain
I'm going to do something I never do on this site, and get political for just a moment. But only for those readers in Ontario. For the rest of you, here is a video of a teenager flipping out over...
View Article[Review] - Fargo, Season 1 Episodes 8 And 9, "The Heap" And "A Fox, A Rabbit,...
Courtesy of MGMWhen I'm ingesting a story, be a film, a series, a book or any form of narration, the technical part of my brain is constantly asking, "why did that happen?" Unless you are some avant...
View ArticleThere's Nothing That Can't Be Done Now
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has a new series of documentary shorts called Moments That Changed The Movies, which explore... well, exactly what it says on the tin. In this short,...
View ArticleThere Will Be Humans On This Dinosaur Tour
Universal has released the first official "still" images (meaning, not behind the scenes set pictures) from next year's Jurassic World. While they provide no further information about the film, or the...
View ArticleEverybody Shake Your Hands
After much anticipation, Laika and Focus Films have released the first plot trailer for their fall feature, The Boxtrolls. The previous trailers focused more on the technique by which the film was...
View ArticleI Haven't Seen Him In The Mornings
Paddington continues it's slow advertising campaign (they've got until Christmas after all). While the first trailer pulled pretty hard on my nostalgic heart strings, this trailer tries to establish a...
View ArticleWatch Out, Spain
I'm not the biggest fan of Washington Correspondents performances. The comedy rarely comes off well, because the room is one of the least receptive audiences to humour. And sometimes the comedy is...
View Article[Review] - How to Train Your Dragon 2
Courtesy of Dreamworks AnimationIt's been four years since How To Train Your Dragon impressed audiences beyond reason, and Dreamworks enough to invest in another potential franchise. However, it failed...
View Article[Review] - Game Of Thrones, Season 4 Finale, Episdoe 10 "The Children"
Courtesy of HBOAnother season has come and gone, and unlike in season's past, episode 10 was promised to be the emotional one. In the past, the big events of episode 9 have usually concluded the...
View Article[Review] - Continuum, Season 3 Episode 12, "The Dying Minutes"
Courtesy of Reunion PicturesWait. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait...All of that, and it's not the season finale? Anyone else feel like we might get curb stomped next week?Hit the jump for the...
View Article[Review] - Penny Dreadful, Season 1 Episode 6, "What Death Can Join Together"
Courtesy of Neal Street ProductionsAfter last week's sojourn to the past, this episode picks up the morning after the events of episode four. Despite a sighting of the elusive Master and some steep...
View Article[Review] - Fargo, Season 1 Finale, Episode 10 "Morton's Fork"
Courtesy of MGMThere is a moment in the finale of Fargo, where Molly is telling a parable, something like the thirtieth this series has told. She tells it, and Lester listens, and responds with a...
View Article[Review] - Orange Is The New Black, Season 2
Courtesy of Lionsgate TelevisionI binged True Detective in a day, House of Cards season 2 over a weekend, season one of Orphan Black over a couple evenings just before season two started. And season...
View Article[Review] - Continuum Season 3 Finale, Episode 13, "Last Minute"
Courtesy of Reunion PicturesAnd with that, another season is gone, and what a season. Taking full responsibility for two season's worth of mystery, intrigue and action, it managed to answer most of our...
View ArticleRipper Street To Feature A Fan Of Holmes
I think that it is safe to say that Ripper Street can be classed as "historical fiction," considering how much (and well) the writers incorporate real events into the fiction of H Division. For...
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