One Of Their Apples Keeps Rolling Out Of The Bag
Last week, I mentioned that my interest in Star Wars is so low that, on December 18th I would be seeing the new Tina Fey/Amy Poehler film Sisters rather than anything a galaxy far far away. And am...
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[Review] - Ant-man
Courtesy of Marvel StudiosThe movie going public might be forgiven for forgetting that Ant-man was going to be a thing. Being released only two months after a behemoth like Age of Ultron certainly...
View ArticleOf Course You Know, This Means War
The first time I fell in love, it was with the Looney Tunes. That isn't hyperbole. The first time I know I felt genuine, true love for something other than myself, it was while I was absorbing Road...
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[Review] - "Weird Al" Yankovic: The Mandatory World Tour
Photo by the authorI always have a moment of panic before seeing an act live for the first time. I've been burned in the passed by subpar performances, and live is always a trickier thing than the...
View ArticleWelcome Back, Mr. Bond; We've Been Expecting You
The full trailer for the next 007 movie, Spectre, has dropped, and besides looking like fun on the bun, I stepped away from it with only a single impression: this looks like a far more conventional 007...
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[Review] - Hannibal, Season 3 Episode 7, "Digestivo"
Courtesy of Sony Pictures TelevisionWow.Just... wow.And that, friends, is how you do a series finale. With the consistent exception of Chiyoh, everything that has been at play both for three years and...
View ArticleAnimal Does Nudity, If Tasteful
When the Muppets appeared at comic-con, they brought with them a ten minute pitch reel that producer Bill Prady made to convince ABC that the Muppets can work and be relevant in prime time again. When...
View ArticleIt's Far Beyond The Stars, It's Near Beyond The Moon
Humans don't do well with scale. We can't process it. It's a fault really, our brains simply haven't evolved the capacity. We can comprehend about 500 people and about 100 square kilometers; outside of...
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[Review] - Hannibal, Season 3 Episode 8, "The Great Red Dragon"
Courtesy of Sony Pictures TelevisionRemember all that snotty, "I'm saying one thing, but really I know it's another" stuff I was saying last week about it being a series finale? And then I was all "but...
View ArticleOttawa: Technically Beautiful
Long time readers of the site might have been able to glean by now that I am Canadian. To anyone that this comes as a shock to, please take a minute, sit down, take some deep breaths, and know that I...
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What Is It With The Muppet Nudity Obsession?
It's not easy drinking green...We're a little less than two months away from the premiere of the muppets (Sept 22nd, for those not watching the clock), and ABC is starting the advertising campaign....
View ArticleIt Sure As Hell Ain't Mickey Mouse
This is the point where I tell you that I love the movie Tremors. The original one with Kevin Bacon, is without a trace of irony, one of my favourite films. It's a movie that can be used as proof that...
View ArticleWhose Idea Was It To Rob A Sex Shop?
This summer has been great for Judy Greer, appearing in both Jurassic World and Ant-man, and coming off the back of what was likely the best season of Archer and getting her FX sitcom, Married, picked...
View ArticleDoes CGI Make Movies Better?
I have a love/hate relationship with CGI. When done well, when done invisibly, it is a remarkable tool that allows filmmakers to better realize their vision for a film without scraping the edge of...
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[Review] - Hannibal, Season 3 Episodes 9 And 10, "And The Woman Clothed With...
Courtesy of Sony Pictures TelevisionFor the similarities in their titles, you could not get two more different, yet oddly similar, episodes of Hannibal back to back. The former was an investigative...
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[Review] - Lego: A Brickumentary
Courtest of RADiUS-TWCThe surge in popularity in Lego in the last couple years has been a boon to old fans like me. Of course, when I started collecting, it was all pirate ships and yellow blocks with...
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The Trenchcoat Brigade Rides Again
This past fall, NBC attempted to bring John Constantine - conman, magician, and thorn in the devil's side - to the small screen as part of the glut of DC properties that suddenly sprang to screen. It...
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[Review] - Dark Places
Courtesy of Mandalay PicturesA month or so ago, when I saw the trailer for Dark Places, I was confused. Considering all the gush and hoopla surrounding last year's Gone Girl, I would have assumed that...
View ArticleThe Humour Here Is Quite Direct
Oddly, considering that there isn't a major film festival or convention happening right now, that this week saw the release of many trailers for what stand to be some big film in the later half of this...
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[Review] - The Man From U.N.C.L.E
Courtesy of Warner Bros.The Man From U.N.C.L.E is a movie where a not-quite Superman and an almost Batman team up to play James Bond. Where Brits play Americans, Americans play Russians, Swedes play...
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