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[Review] - Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Courtesy of Universal TelevisionI'm going to say something bold: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is a practically flawless series. Maybe that isn't that bold a statement. If you enjoyed 30 Rock, then Kimmy...
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Who Needs The Kwik-E-Mart? Legoooooo...
Lego has announced the next wave of Simpsons inspired Lego figures, and the next major Simpsons inspired set. And rather than expand the success of the previous wave into a full line of items, they are...
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[Review] - What We Do In The Shadows
Courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission This is the film that the vampire subgenre needed: a kick in the pants to an overly stylized, romanticized and degraded notions that are the tropes of the...
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[Review] - Better Call Saul, Season 1 Episode 7, "Bingo"
Courtesy of Sony Pictures TelevisionAfter last week's sojourn into Mike's past, this week returned to the continuing grief of Jimmy McGill. More than any episode this season, this episode held onto the...
View ArticleLego Gennaro Is Adorable
This first full length trailer for the Lego Jurassic World game has arrived, and it is everything you could hope for in a Lego-based, satirical adaption of a dinosaur-based franchise. The game, called...
View ArticleSomething Better Has Come Along
If you haven't read Brian Jay Jones'biography of Jim Henson, I highly recommend it. My favourite portion of the book is actually the prologue, which describes Jim filming a Kermit segment for Sesame...
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Dance Your Cares Away, A Fraggle Rock Movie Possible On Another Day
Courtesy of the Henson Company.The Fraggles are the only of the Jim Henson-created Muppets that the Henson Company still wholly owns. As such, there has been an interest in seeing the series...
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[Review] - Agents Of SHIELD, Season 2 Episode 13, "One of Us"
Courtesy of Marvel Television StudiosLast week, I was hard on Agents of SHIELD for being really not very good. I regret nothing. What this week reminds us is, it is a show with very good ideas. The...
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[Review] - Justified, Season 6 Episode 9, "Burned"
Courtesy of Sony Picture TelevisionThis was a peculiar episode. It was an episode without a beginning, picking up right where last week left off and accomplishing more before the credits had stopped...
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A Stark In The TARDIS
Production on the next (ninth) series of Doctor Who (which, incidentally, is celebrating the tenth anniversary of it's return to TV) is chugging along nicely, and so does the slow trickle of news...
View ArticleA Spectre Of The Past, A Sign Of Things To Come
The next Bond film, Spectre, has only been filming for a couple months or so, but that's enough time for the studio to put together a short teaser that, unlike other so called trailers that films have...
View ArticleI Will Watch This
Sir Patrick Stewart has cultivated a career of playing gravitas-enriched authority figures. Picard, Professor X, Claudius, hell even the bad guy in Conspiracy Theory (I know, right?) are the calm, even...
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April Fool's Day Sucks
I hate April Fool's Day. Always have. I hate practical jokes, I hate being intentionally mislead, and I hate that people get pissy at you when you get angry at them for their stupid pranks. I hate it...
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[Review] - Agents of SHIELD, Season 2 Episodes 14 And 15, "Love in the Time...
Courtesy of Marvel Television ProductionsOh, Agents of SHIELD. Oh my golly gee. I have to applaud the length you have seen fit to go, to reach new levels of terrible. Because that's what Love in the...
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[Review] - Justified, Season 6 Episodes 10 And 11, "Trust" And "Fugitive...
Courtesy of Sony Pictures TelevisionElmore Leonard had a lot of tricks up his sleeves when it came to making his books engaging. And one that he often used, though not in a showy, "hey look at me,...
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[Review] - Better Call Saul, Season 1 Episodes 8 And 9, "RICO" And "Pimento"
Courtesy of Sony Pictures TelevisionI've went back, because of Saul, and started rewatching Breaking Bad. I haven't watched the series all the way through since it aired, and wanted to refresh myself...
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The Muppets Again, Again
Late last week, the news broke that Big Bang Theory co-creator Bill Prady has been commissioned to write a new Muppets TV series for ABC. I greeted this news with hesitation. Not because of Prady's...
View ArticleLet's Drift
If you all know anything about me by now, it should be that I'm a wildly inconsistent hat aficionado who refuses to believe that actual people read this site, and that you're all degenerate vagrants of...
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How Dreadfully Wonderful
When I say "I like Clue," it edges a bit close to understatement. Much like "German got a bit up on itself" is a precariously underwhelming way to describe the first half of the twentieth century. So,...
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[Review] - Better Call Saul Season 1 Finale, Episode 10, "Marco"
Courtesy of Sony Pictures TelevisionThere is a dramatic device, known as anagnorisis, wherein a character undergoes a moment of discovery of clarity. If the season finale of Better Call Saul was...
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