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We Need A New Word To Describe The Discovery Of "New" Extinct Species
Whenever you deal with topics as complex as those that science encompasses, there is always going to be a division between what the trained experts know and what the public understands. In the case of...
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Marvel Acts Small, Casts Big
Ant-man officially entered production on Monday, and Marvel was quick to release an official image from the film, if only to prove that this is still a thing that is happening (I can only imagine that...
View ArticleThe Only Way I Can Solve A Rubik's Cube Is To Throw It Out The Window On The...
Back in 2011, Penn and Teller had a fantastic show on ITV called Fool Us, where magicians would perform in front of the skeptical duo, and if Penn and Teller couldn't explain how the trick was done,...
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[List] - 8 More Of The Best Logo Gags
From Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?A while back, I highlighted some of my favourite instances of directors having fun with the company logos that appeared before their films. A company logo is usually...
View ArticleSome Things Are Unforgivable
15 years ago, Kate Holmes was in Teaching Mrs. Tingle, where a bunch of students try to... kill a teacher, if I remember correctly. It's a been a while, because that movie was not good, as has become...
View ArticleRon Might Be In Something... I'm Not Entirely Sure
Every year, around this time, the world is treated to a brief moment of pure joy, as the Parks and Rec blooper reel is released in advance of the previous season's DVD. I think I'll miss these bloopers...
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Richard Attenborough Has Died
Richard Attenborough, Baron Attenborough of Richmond upon Thames, has died at the age of 90. Known as Dickie, Attenborough had a career which spanned six decades, stage and screen, in front of the...
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[Review] - Walking With Dinosauress: The Arena Spectacular
Walking with Dinosaurs was, probably, the most influential modern programme about dinosaurs outside of Jurassic Park. It helped that it was technically cutting edge, and found a way to balance the...
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[Review] - Doctor Who, Series 8 Episode 1, "Deep Breath"
Here we go again, as Madame Vastra so ably put it. A new series, a new title card, a slightly new TARDIS interior, an absolutely new Doctor exterior, and all the potential in space and time. Any new...
View ArticleLast Of The Difficult Pants
While reviewing season two, I think I made it clear that Aaron Sorkin's Newsroom made many improvements over the weaknesses of season one. And while doing so, somehow managed to make entirely new...
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Lake Bell Will Work With Children
Last year, Lake Bell's directorial debut, In A World... was released to much fan fair. I, for one, loved it. Bell clearly has a handle on putting a cast together that benefits the words on the page,...
View ArticleSpider-men
Back a few years ago, when Marc Webb was casting what would ultimately become his directionless and empty-shirtedAmazing Spider-man series, there was a web campaign to get Donald Glover, formerly of...
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[Review] - Life Itself
Courtesy of Kartemquin FilmsDocumentaries are hard things to review, for me at least. Unlike a traditional film, documentaries set out to tell a real story, and in the case of biographic documentaries,...
View ArticleLooks Like That Was A Summer Well Spent
The first trailer for Jon Stewart's Rosewater has arrived. Set for a November release, first it'll see a release at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival, so we won't have to wait long to...
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[Review] - Doctor Who, Series 8 Episode 2, "Into The Dalek"
Courtesy of the BBCSo, second episode into a new series, and we're over introductions now. Well, mostly. Point is, we can get beyond the "ooh ooh isn't it all new and wonderful" sort of stuff that...
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Amazon Looks To The Wild Blue Yonder
Occasionally, there are actors who fulfill roles to such perfection, that it is inconceivable that anyone else could possibly play the character. Patrick Warburton as the Tick was one such actor in one...
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How To Eventually Continue To Train Your Dragon
Success shouldn't be as subjective a word as it is. You murder an evil Nazi zombie space ape, you succeed. It consumes your flesh, forcing you to become part of it's undead extraterrestrial fascist...
View ArticleYou Can't Sit On Hair. That's Ridiculous
I'm trying to figure out if this Sesame Street segment, featuring John Oliver and Cookie Monsters as news reporters, and also featuring Al Rocker and Nick Offerman, while also referencing Patrick...
View ArticleNow I Miss Leslie Again
This is a promotional commercial for Wisconsin tourism. Starring Robert Hays and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. From Airplane! Riffing on Airplane! One of a series of such ads.Sometimes, the universe just hands...
View ArticleIf You Have A Name Like Dreadnought, You'd Better Live Up To It
Ready folks, because it's time to break out the superlatives. With a rush of adjectives such as "colossal", "supermassive" and "kind of big, I guess," researchers from Drexel University in...
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