Famous Nerds Talk Star Wars
Kevin Smith once explained his Devil' Advocacy for the Star Wars prequels as being the result of the original films being such a monumental influence over him, that he was incapable of expressing...
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Ray Harryhausen Has Died
I remember seeing 20 Million Miles to Earth for the first time. I was mesmerised. Rather blasphemously, I saw it before I saw King Kong for the first time, and thus the marauding Ymir was my first...
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[Review] - Continuum, Season 2 Episode 3, "Second Thoughts"
Courtesy of Reunion PicturesAdding on to last week's discussion of loyalty, this week Continuum continues the trend of not pulling it's philosophical punches, and tackles the concept of reality. What...
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There isn't a single thing about this Audi ad that isn't delightful. That it helps establish that current Spock Zachary Quinto has just as dry a sense of humour as former Spock Leonard Nimoy is good...
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[Review] - Warehouse 13, Season 4 Episode 12, "Parks and Rehabilitation"
Courtesy of Universal Cable ProductionsWhen Warehouse 13 first premiered four seasons ago, it was an odd duck. That was it's claim to fame. It was quirky and didn't take itself too seriously, but knew...
View ArticleOf The Two Films About Former Friends Reliving Their Youths Being Released...
Finally, the first trailer for Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's The World's End has arrived, ahead of it's release this fall. And not only does it look as funny and downright enjoyable as...
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You Never Had Control, That's The Illusion
Courtesy of Universal PicturesWe've had a lot of news about Jurassic Park 4 surface recently, including just this past week Trevorrow scouting locations in Hawaii. So the tweets (since deleted, but...
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[Analysis] - Star Trek: Countdown To Darkness, And What It Tells Us
Before the release of J.J. Abrams Star Trek reboot, IDW published a fantastic four part series comic called Star Trek Countdown, which was marketed as introducing the film's villain, Nero. It turned...
View ArticleHow Is It That No One Has Made A Movie Or Video Game About A Superpowered...
Admission time: I've never played any of the Saints Row games. Gaming isn't a constant attention grabber in my life, and I usually only do so when I'm already invested in the subject matter (Batman:...
View ArticleWhat In The Name Of Gods Is He Doing To Those Chairs?
Is there an explanation for this video of Commander Riker sitting other then Jonathan Frakes sits like a lunatic? It is that, in the future, chairs don't swivel? Or that there isn't enough time to...
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[Review] - Ottawa Comiccon 2013
All photos by the author...'s photographerThe second annual Ottawa Comicon has come and gone, and it's motto may well have been "learning from past mistakes, and making all new ones." Over all,...
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[Review] - Doctor Who, Series 7 Episode 13, "Nightmare In Silver"
Neil Gaiman certainly didn't do himself any favours with The Doctor's Wife. Any writer, coming to realise they've just written something that cannot be outdone, cannot be improved upon, cannot be...
View ArticleStephen King's Recent Turtle Killer Comes To TV
Turtle Killer: (related to a Door Stopper) a book of such immense size that, not only could it stop a door, but if dropped from an average height onto a healthy, shelled turtle, it would kill it.Under...
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[Review] - Continuum, Season 2 Episode 4, "Second Skin"
[Author's note: the Continuum and Game of Thrones reviews will be swapping publication days. Continuum reviews will appear on Tuesdays, and the Game of Thrones reviews will appear on Wednesday for the...
View ArticleSome Shows Are Returning Next Season. Some Aren't
The Upfronts were last week, and by the end of Friday, we, the viewing public, pretty much knew which shows were picked up, which shows weren't, which shows would be getting another season, and which...
View ArticleShe Said, He Said, I Say
Because this is the way things happen now, here is a prequel (it's not, it's an elaborate promo) for this coming weekend's Doctor Who series finale, called She Said, He Said. It's just Clara and the...
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[Review] - Game Of Thrones, Season 3 Episode 7, "The Bear and the Maiden Fair"
[Author's note: the Continuum and Game of Thrones reviews will be swapping release days. Continuum reviews will appear on Tuesdays, and the Game of Thrones reviews will appear on Wednesday for the...
View ArticleTV Trailers Show Us What Not To Watch Next Year
Like every new season of TV, there will be the shows that are good, there will be the shows that will surprise us, and there will be the shows that suck beyond reckoning. Now that the fall and winter...
View ArticleMovies Travel Through Space And Time
Late last week, we got our first look at Alfonso Cuarón's new sci-fi survival film, Gravity, starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. To say it looks amazing, based on this brief first look, is...
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Umm... nO.
Later tonight I'll be seeing Star Trek Into Darkness at one of those IMAX fan sneak peaks, and am really rather excited about that. The review will be up Friday morning, in a rare "it's almost like I'm...
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