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Justified Saved The Best Cowboy For Last
Justified is currently moving into production on it's sixth and final season, which is a decision I applauded. As much as I love the series, I which more creators would take the kind of ownership over...
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[Review] - Doctor Who, Series 8 Episode 5, "Time Heist"
Courtesy of the BBC.I feel so bad for Stephen Thompson. When anyone mentions Sherlock, they make mention of Moffat and Gatiss in the same breath, but rarely does Thompson get his due. This despite...
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[Review] - Agents Of SHIELD, Season 2 Episode 1, "Shadows"
Courtesy of Marvel Television ProductionsWhy yes, I am a glutton for punishment. Why do you ask?When coming off what could generously be called a "divisive" and realistically called a "flawed" first...
View ArticleThe One Where It's Been A Long Time
Friends turned twenty the other day (which, by the way, I feel old), and to signify that moment, Comedy Central UK has produced a pretty smooth and succinct summery of the series, giving one second for...
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Wishing Doesn''t Make It So
Image by Mathias Pedersen.Last week, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics held a debate on Pluto's dwarf planet designation, which is a bit like having a debate about climate change: it...
View ArticleThree Space Cowboys Walk Into A Bar
I said in my review of Guardians of the Galaxy that it had the potential to be for certain of the younger members of the audience what Star Wars was for folks back in '77. I also said that Guardians...
View ArticleIt's A Three Magic Shop Kind Of Town
In Colon, Michigan, an 80 year old annual gathering of magicians from around the world, called Abbott’s Magic Get Together, has given the town the right to call itself the "Magic Capital of the World."...
View ArticleIn Space, No One Can See You Fire Breaking Thrusters and Gradually Come To A...
Guardians of the Galaxy took a lot of completely fair influence from Star Wars, as has every science fiction movie, and most fantasy movies of the last forty years. the only time I felt that was a bad...
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[Review] - Calvary
Courtesy of Reprisal FilmsThe McDonagh household must be a font of ideas. Not just narratives, but of discussion. Between Martin (In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths) and John Michael (The Guard, Calvary),...
View ArticlePelvic Thrust For Science!
I know that liking Nikola Tesla has become one of those internet hipster things, but I genuinely appreciate the man as a scientist and tragic historical figure. The fact that the internet is giving him...
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[Review] - Doctor Who, Series 8 Episode 6, "The Caretaker"
Courtesy of the BBCI choose to view it as a positive that Steven Moffat is getting so many co-writing credits on episodes this season. I take that to mean that he has so many ideas, that the very idea...
View ArticleThat Helps Explain The Fin
I cannot claim that Jurassic Park 3 is my favourite of the JP films, and anyone who can probably isn't thinking straight. But I did applaud their choice in a new front line species for the franchise,...
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[Review] - Agents Of SHIELD, Season 2 Episode 2, "Heavy Is The Head"
Courtesy of MarvelWhile I am far from ready to call SHIELD a "good show," and find myself still having to frame my reactions to the series within it's own spectrum, this episode was a definite...
View ArticleThat's 90% Less Than Everyone Else!
I didn't see Lucy, and the reason can be traced directly to the first trailer I saw for the film, which proudly announced that humans only use 10% of their brain's capacity. This then went on to be the...
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[Review] - Stephen Fry Live! More Fool Me
I hadn't a clue what it was about when I bout the ticket. It didn't matter. I assumed that it would involve Stephen Fry talking, and perhaps Stephen Fry reading. For all that it matter, it could have...
View ArticlePixar Introduces Us To New Emotions
Remember when there was a rumour that Sony and Dreamworks were considering suing Pixar, because the idea that a company could have so many consecutive successes without some kind of shenanigans going...
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[Review] - Hector And The Pursuit Of Happiness
Courtesy of Egoli Tossell FilmsI'm not big on happiness. Not the emotion - everyone likes being happy, even Eeyore - but the philosophical concept of happiness. A boogeyman of spiritual enlightenment...
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[Review] - The Boxtrolls
Courtesy of LaikaAnimation used to be hard. Not that I'm saying that computer animation is by any stretch of the imagination easy, but it was an entirely different beast when every single frame of a...
View ArticleBean There...
You have to respect a creator such as Rowan Atkinson, who despite the worldwide success and popularity of Mr. Bean, has never considered running the character into the ground. Aside from the initial...
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[Review] - Doctor Who, Series 8 Episode 7, "Kill The Moon"
Courtesy of the BBCA question before I start, and this isn't so much a critique about this episode, but just in general: how hard is it to google how old the moon is? There, I just did it. Took about...
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