Let's Get A Glue Stick And Lock This Down
The last trailer for Horrible Bosses 2 didn't inspire much confidence in me, that it wouldn't ultimately be just a retread of all the jokes that worked so well in the first one. This second trailer at...
View ArticleIs Violence Less Violent If It's Bloodless?
This weekend, as I saw Guardians of the Galaxy for the third time, I suddenly noticed how much cussing there is in it. During interviews before hand, many asked director James Gunn if working outside...
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Good Things To Come
Despite some very minor issues, one of the highlights of last year was the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. And it was a whopping success, setting a record for Radio 4's website and...
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[Review] - Doctor Who, Series 8 Episode 3, "Robots of Sherwood"
Courtesy of the BBCRobin Hood is always a risk, because it has been done well and it has been done poorly, and tends to lend itself towards extreme seriousness or extreme parody. Robots of Sherwood...
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Penny Dreadful To Get Even Pennier. Wait...
Despite not bringing in remarkable numbers across all eight of it's season one episodes, Penny Dreadful's critical reception was enough for Showtime to give it a go-ahead for a second series, which...
View ArticleThis Could Be The Continuation Of A Beautiful Friendship
After Veronica Mars went and made a big deal about Kickstarting, it was suggested that Ryan Hansen might be getting his own spinoff. That turned out to be entirely true, as evidence by this first...
View ArticleIf The Internet Doesn't Scar Memories Of Your Childhood At Least Once A Day,...
Some quick backstory: Disney bought the rights to Gary K. Wolf's Who Censored Roger Rabbit in the earlier 1980s, shortly after publication. They spent the next seven years developing the project until...
View ArticleA Tune 65 Million Years In the Humming
I'm sure there is a grad student out there somewhere with a thesis paper that explains why human beings are unable to hear a repeated tune without putting words to it. Like the Jabba the Hutt version...
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Dr. Lecter In Love
Last year, a potentially amazing storyline in Hannibal had to be cut short because Gillian Anderson was the lead in two entirely different series, filmed in two entirely different countries on two...
View ArticleJust Go With It
And now, Nick Offerman offers advice to college freshmen, regarding an issue of an intimate nature. Listen, just do what he says. Either it'll work in your favour, or it won't, and either way you're...
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[Review] - Lewis Black: The Rant Is Due
For a man who has structured his on-stage persona as being the last angry man, the modern world is a treasure trove of material for a comedian like Lewis Black. With the world falling apart, political...
View ArticleEverything IS Better With A Little Chumbawamba
This compilation of all the times Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) fell over on Buffy is both funny, and illustrative of a running gag on the show. A gag that seems to have originally been accidental, and...
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[Review] - Doctor Who, Series 8 Episode 4, "Listen"
Courtesy of the BBCWhen a show runs for as long as Doctor Who has, it runs the risk of occasionally producing an episode that reminds the audience of how rubbish other episodes have been in the past....
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One Last Kick At The Overly Long Can
I haven't been overwhelmed by the promotional work on the Hobbit movies. The trailers have been alright (the latest is pretty fantastic), but the print material have left much to be desired. An...
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Exit Off The I-495, Straight Onto Network TV
If you'd told me that there would be not one, but two Chevy Chase related stories this week, I'd have said you were either a crazy person, or Chevy Chase's agent, desperate that keeping the difficult...
View ArticleLooks Like They're Dragging This One Out
I like and have a lot of respect for Aaron Sorkin, but sometimes it's a lot harder to like him as an artist rather than just an admirer of his art. Like when, after all the complaints about the...
View ArticleUnited They Remain
Yesterday, in a vote of historic turnout, Scotland voted whether to remain a part of the United Kingdom, or to become a truly independent nation. The "No" vote has succeed, meaning that the United...
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Still No Smurf Cats, Thankfully
I'm not the biggest fan of James Cameron, but when art inspires science and science inspires art, I rarely have any complaints. In this instance, it's the former. Yesterday, Chinese paleontologists led...
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There Are Still Reasons To Look Forward To DC News
With all the malarkey inherent to DC Comics' cinematic efforts, I've long endorsed that they should focus their efforts on TV, where DC has always had considerably more success than Marvel. Considering...
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[Review] - The Trip To Italy
Courtesy of BBC FilmsI've done this one in the opposite order. Last time, when BBC unveiled The Trip, a unique series which followed Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as they journeyed through the Lakes...
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