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Continuum Is Continu-Done
After months of waiting for official word, Showcase in Canada and Syfy in the US have announced that Continuum will return for a fourth season. That's the good news. The bad is that this will be the...
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[Review] - Constantine, Season 1 Episode 7, "Blessed Are the Damned"
Courtesy of Warner Bros TelevisionBefore we get into the particulars of this episode, I want to take a moment to give the appropriate kudos to the show for handling something very deftly and very...
View ArticleZemeckis Walks the Walk
I have a conflicting relationship with the career of Robert Zemeckis. Back to the Future and Roger Rabbit are both modern classics and among my highest ranked favourites. Death Becomes Her, Cast Away,...
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[Review] - The Librarians, Season 1 Episodes 1 And 2, "And The Crown Of King...
Courtesy of Electric EntertainmentThe Librarian films, on which this series is based, are not good films. They aren't particularly well written, the acting is variable, and the effects are atrocious....
View ArticleNext Summer, Pixar Puts The Foot Down
Disney has released a second teaser trailer for their next film, Inside Out, which explores the origins of human emotions inside the human mind, through the perspectives of an adolescent girl named...
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[Review] - Agents of SHIELD, Season 2 Episode 10, "What They Become"
Courtesy of Marvel Television StudiosWhen ABC gave SHIELD a second season, I was shocked. Frankly, I didn't think they deserved it based on the uneven and lackluster output of season one. When season...
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[Review] - The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies
Courtesy of New Line CinemaWhat a horrible way to leave Middle-Earth behind. Until now, I've held out a hope that, in ten years time, we might get a trilogy of Silmarillion films, to fill in more of...
View ArticleTis The Season That A Fat Man Watches You To See If You're Being Naughty
There is no end, every year, of updates and alterations to Twas The Night Before Christmas. But, like so many things in life, I think I like Nick Offerman's the most. Short, sweet, to the point, and...
View ArticleThis Is The Week That Was
I was unexpectedly gone last week, and I missed a few things that I wish I hadn't. Like being able to properly say goodbye to both The Colbert Report, and The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, the...
View ArticleAn Open Air Insane Asylum
Kill Me Three Times isn't a film that was on my radar until today. I'd seen the promotional image of Simon Pegg in mustache and slim black suit, but I hadn't bothered digging into what exactly this...
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Laika Has Us By The Strings
Laika is officially the new studio that can do no wrong. In my mind, they are the company making the most interesting and the most successful films right now. Not just animated films, but films....
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[Review] - The Librarians, Season 1 Episodes 3 And 4, "And The Horns Of A...
Courtesy of Electric EntertainmentThe Librarians precursor, Leverage, was not shy about casting geek icons for each week's marks. Librarians appears to be keeping up that tradition (and five seasons of...
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[Review] - The Newsroom, Season 3 Episode 5 And The Series Finale Episode 6,...
Courtesy of HBOLet's get this over with, shall we?Hit the jump for the review, which contains spoilers that were almost certainly killed by Sloan.I realized something while watching Oh Shenandoah, that...
View ArticlePuny Seasonal Mascot
Remember kids, when sitting on Santa's lap, always check to make certain that he's a kindly old elf and not a genocidal purple monster from beyond the moon's of Jupiter. You're more likely to get gifts...
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Good Tidings
Courtesy of the BBCFor those that might have forgotten, BBC Radio 4 is currently airing the Dirk Maggs adaptation of Good Omens, once a night, for the next week. The first three episodes are currently...
View Article[Video] - A Muppet Family Christmas
Christmas isn't my time of year. It's not meant for me. It's meant for people who like decorating their houses in annoying little lights and then taking them down again a week later, and standing in...
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[Review] - Doctor Who, 2014 Christmas Special, "Last Christmas"
Courtesy of the BBC.When Steven Moffat is being clever, he's really clever. For instance, many science fiction shows feel quite free to rip off popular films or other pieces of cultural establishment...
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Let's Try This Again, Shall We Lego?
From Lego Ideas, by AlatarielRemember a while back, when Lego Ideas approved Ellen Kooijman's fantastic Lady Science sets (she called them Female Minifigures, and Lego sold them under Research...
View ArticleWith Great Power Comes Great Terror
Penny Dreadful's sophomore season is still an indeterminate number of months away, but Showtime wants to keep reminding us of it's eventual arrival: I have no problem with this. Especially if it is in...
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[Review] - The Imitation Game
Courtesy of Black Bear PicturesThank gods for Hitler.Wait, wait, I didn't mean it that way. I meant, thank gods that we have so convenient a personification of evil as Hitler, that we have been able to...
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