She'll Seem Wistful
With all the talk of American Gods maybe possibly finally finding a home on Starz, not enough attention is being paid to Neil Gaiman's other projects. He has a new book coming out this October, a...
View ArticleSorry About The German
Last November it was announced that the what remains of Monty Python would be reuniting for a one-off show (or rather, a series of one-off shows) at London's O2 arena for a live re-imagining of the...
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James Garner Has Died
I never enjoy starting mornings off this way. James Garner has died at the age of 86, of natural causes. He was discovered Saturday evening in his Los Angeles home. The actor's trademark was his...
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[Review] - Monty Python Live (Mostly): One Down, Five To Go
Beautiful plumage.The lasting influence of Monty Python's Flying Circus cannot be overstated. Therefore, I won't even try. But, since its original broadcast in 1969, those six highly educated gentlemen...
View ArticleBecause "Into Darkness" Worked So Well For That Other Sci-fi Franchise
Finally, a trailer for the approaching series of Doctor Who that is longer than sixteen seconds! That shows actually footage! That includes both dinosaurs and Madame Vastra! That includes... oh, bloody...
View ArticleWhat Did You Do During The War?
We now have a first trailer for The Imitation Game, the first film for a light year in Benedict Cumberbatch's career, as he only has three films set for release. In this one, he plays Alan Turing, the...
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Good News Everyone...
Futurama may be over, again, but that doesn't mean it's gone (it never seems to be). It continues to live on in the public imagination, like animator Alexy Zakharov, whose work can be seen above. He...
View ArticleIf You Can Move, Don't
The internet has fallen in love with super cuts, and I honestly can't blame them. Distilling the shared joyful substance of a running gag of recurring trope down into an easily binge-watched montage,...
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[Opinion] - How Not To Train Your Dog
Last week, I was on vacation. And despite my best efforts to spend my week of solitude in complete isolation, away from the constant distracting presence of the internet, in an attempt to both relax...
View ArticleShall We Take A Voyage Of Discovery Together?
As I was watching this trailer for Space Station 76, I was overtaken by a thought. This is a comedy, obviously, lampooning the sci-fi aesthetic of Space: 1999 and the original Battlestar Galactica. The...
View ArticleSo... J.K. Simmons Is Finally Going To Get That Oscar That He's Deserved...
The other day, I was watching the Coen Bros. version of The Ladykillers (shut up, it'd been a while and I had forgotten), and I kept getting distracted by an itchy question. Is there a character actor,...
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All The Marvel News
Assembly was requiredLast week was Marvel's big Comic-Con chance to release a slew of updates on their various projects, and they took advantage of the opportunity. Over the course of the entire week,...
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All The Game Of Thrones News
Having just finished off a solid, but divisive season (for book readers), Game of Thrones made their march to Comic-Con last week, and unlike Marvel, made some casting announcements that actually are...
View ArticleAll The Trailers (Well, A Few Anyway)
While some studios go to Comic-Con to build excitement over a single film, most of the studios go to tease their collective genre output for the coming year or more. So, it isn't unusual for there to...
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And The Rest... [Updated]
As with every year, Comic-Con produces a random assortment of news items that aren't really big news in and of themselves, but are worth mentioning. So, I've collected such items after the jump.But...
View Article[Review] - Mandatory Fun, By "Weird Al" Yankovic
After more than 30 years, Weird Al's continued and growing success cannot be contributed to the wave of eighties nostalgia that has a hipster-lead death grip on the modern cultural environment, for the...
View ArticleWhen The Inevitable Remake Comes Along, At Least We'll Know Who'll Get The Part
Kristen Bell better be careful, biting the hand that feeds her all that delicious Frozen money. Of course, she's so damned adorable, even as a soul-crushingly pessimistic Mary Poppins, that I'm sure...
View ArticleCan You Save 15% Or More On Birth Control By Switching To Space Geckos?
Have you been watching Last Week Tonight? You really should. It isn't, as some thought it might be, just a more cussy version of the Daily Show. It uses only the most basic of the Daily Show's style,...
View Article[Review] - Guardians Of The Galaxy
With Guardians of the Galaxy, I feel that Marvel finally has an answer to the increasing number of complaints concerning how bogged down the MCU movies are becoming in each other's business. A shared...
View ArticleIs This Real Or Are You Making A Film?
I've been hearing things about Birdman for a while now, but I hadn't really been paying attention until this full trailer appeared. Michael Keaton has been on a steady incline back into the public mind...
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