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BREAKING NEWS (From Yesterday): Marvel Will Introduce The Greatest Character...
Yuuuup...I really hate posting two things about Marvel on the same day, but I can't not mention this, when I've beensuch anactiveproponentof itin thepast. Marvel has trademarked "Squirrel Girl," for...
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[Analysis] - Guardians Of The Galaxy, With Spoilers
Courtesy of MarvelThis past weekend saw the release of Guardians of the Galaxy. I thought it was great, but was very careful in my review not to detail anything remotely spoilery or to get too geeky...
View ArticleIn This Hollywood Town, You Can't Trust Anybodies
Before the release of Muppets Most Wanted, I championed the return of a modern Muppet show, off the success of the celebrity infused marketing campaign. That seems not to have happened, though there is...
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Science Can Be Sexy
Instead of a culture obsessed with vapid, empty, peer-approval desperate, self-confidence hollowing schlock like pretty much every magazine at the market checkout and the E! channel, imagine if culture...
View ArticleHome Is Where You Don't Die Of Oxygen Deprivation
Evolution is fantastic at Research and Development. It's all it does, really Constantly testing little tweaks to an existing model, until it finds something that works super well in a very specific set...
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Another Long Dark Tea-time Of The Soul Approaches
With no trace of hyperbole, there is no single person who has had more of an impact on me, professionally, personally, and philosophically, than Douglas Adams. Without getting into any personal...
View ArticleI Ain't 'Fraid Of No Ghosts
Let's get this out of the way straight off: there are no such things as ghosts. Like fairies in the garden (it's squirrels and fireflies) and monsters in the closet (they're your pre-adolescent...
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[Analysis] - Marvel Phase 3 And Beyond, Part 2: Do We Really Know Anything?
Let's try this again, shall we?Following the release of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, I put together what at the time I believed was a reasonable analysis of the future slate of Marvel films....
View ArticleThe Internet Just Solved Bigfoot
Bigfoot bothers me. So does the skunk-ape, and the yeti, and other cryptids that that sort. Because, to be perfectly frank, if they were real, we probably should have discovered them by now. The Rocky...
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In Space, No One Can Hear the Gender Inequality
Lego has a problem, and that problem is a tiny, yellow, plastic Y chromosome. As I may have mentioned before, Lego has woefully under represented women in their sets, and have done so since the...
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I'm Taking A Long Weekend
True, last weekend was an actual long weekend (in Canada, at least), and true on that occasion I both managed to watch a live panda consume it's species into oblivion by munching on some nutrient-free...
View ArticleSomber Thoughts
Late Monday, the world learned that Robin Williams had died, and it was a coarse, stark reminder of what real grief feels like. Because after hearing the news, I refused to accept it. It didn't make...
View ArticleRedecoration
Amazing as it may seem, we're just over a week away from the 23rd of August premiere of series 8 of Doctor Who, featuring Peter Capaldi as the man himself. I've mentioned before, there seems to be much...
View ArticleA Terrible Offspring Of Our Pride Will Get What's Coming To It
As I mentioned last month, the RiffTrax kickstarter to unlock the 1998 Roland Emmerich travesty Godzilla for live riffing was a wild success, to the extent that it also covered them for Anaconda as...
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[List] - Marvel Roles Best Suited For Nathan Fillion
Ever since Joss Whedon was announced as director of Avengers, the internet has been clamoring for Nathan Fillion to be cast in a Marvel film. And it makes sense; Fillion and Marvel seem like natural...
View ArticleCharacter Actors Are People Too. Just, You Know, In Supporting Roles
It must speak to my own interests and attentions, that I recognized every person in this video. I've always been impressed more by character actors than by "stars." I'm drawn to the J.K. Simmons, the...
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"Grooting" Needs To Become A Thing
And for once, it probably won't be dirty. I'll put the business of the post after the jump, because it does spoiler one of the better jokes from the film, and there may well be a handful of folk out...
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The Slightly Earlier Show, With Craig Ferguson
Despite his claims to the contrary, since Craig Ferguson announced that he was leavingThe Late Late Show, I've had the feeling that it wasn't entirely his decision. I have no doubt that the reasons he...
View ArticleBrooklyn Nine-Nine Says What Regular Cop Shows Are Thinking
As much as the dip in quality that Parks and Rec took last season bothered me, it might have been understandable considering that the folks behind it were busy making Brooklyn Nine-Nine the best new...
View ArticleTime Grows Closer
We're a week away from the premiere of series 8 of Doctor Who, and the BBC have finally gotten around to releasing the episode titles for this year (included below). It includes seven scripts written...
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