The Muppets Are Right At Home On ABC
When it was announced that the Muppets would be getting another TV show this fall on ABC, one of my many immediate thoughts was "this is going to work out so well." Because the staple, if the Muppets...
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[Review] - Hannibal, Season 3 Episode 11, "And The Beast From The Sea"
Courtesy of Sony Pictures Television.Here is all the proof you need that Bryan Fuller is the right man to have been helming Hannibal all this time: it took them 37 episodes to get Hannibal into the...
View ArticleCome To Mars, We'll Get Together, Have A Few Laughs...
We're a little more than a month away from the release of The Martian (less if you're going to TIFF, where it will have it's premiere), and the final trailer for the film has been released. As I...
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[Review] - Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Courtesy of Paramount Pictures.Confession time: with the exception of the first film, I hadn't seen any of the Mission: Impossible movies until a week ago. The only reason I'd seen the first one was...
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[Review] - Mr. Holmes
Courtesy of BBC FilmsI'm always happy to accept another interpretation of Sherlock Holmes into the already bursting satchel of his fictitious adventures. He is, and this is true, the most adapted...
View ArticleIt's Just A Great Dessert
There isn't a lot of new footage in this second trailer for Ash Vs. Evil Dead, but that doesn't matter, because any new footage leading up to the Halloween premiere is going to be groovy in my books....
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[Review] - Hannibal, Season 3 Episode 12, "The Number Of The Beast Is 666"
Courtesy of Sony Pictures TelevisionHere I was, thinking that there would not be lips and fire, and that the writers would have to find a way around that plot point from Red Dragon, since they had used...
View ArticleYou Know It's Weird When the Muppets Are The Sensibly Ones In The Room
ABC is inundating us with advertising for The Muppets, because you don't not use the Muppets at every opportunity when you have every opportunity to use the Muppets. Hell, I'm a prime example of that:...
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Marvel Invites The Lambs To Stop Screaming
Yesterday, things got a bit sidetracked. Due to a temporary existence failure of the internet, what was meant to be a full day of posts turned out to be a single post about the Muppets. I'm not...
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The British Library Is Old, And Has Old Things, And Wants Us to Have Them Too
I learned something yesterday, and I always love doing that. Makes me feel like a pitcher getting filled up. Except I can never be full, and the pitcher is essentially infinite, and so is the amount of...
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[Review] - Hannibal Series Finale, Season 3 Episode 13, "Wrath Of The Lamb"
Courtesy of Sony PicturesI've been trying, these last half dozen weeks or so, to find the reason Hannibal will live with me after it's gone. Why, as Hannibal requests, when my life becomes too...
View ArticleMakes You Believe We're Actually Going To Mars (We Aren't)
I liked me some Cosmos: A Space/Time Odyssey. And I'm looking forward to The Martian. And in a brilliant bit of sympathetic promotion, as part of the viral marketing campaign for the forthcoming Ridley...
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[Review] - What We Did On Our Holiday
Courtesy of BBC Films.Sometimes, you need a palette cleanser. Something that has no pretension, no grand motive, but only wants to be the best of it's singular intent. Sometimes, you needs to have a...
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[List] - Meals Uneaten: Hannibal's Lost Stories
Before we get to the meat of things, first I want to draw attention to this great mash-up put together by Matthew Morettini. What he's done is taken footage from the three adaptations of Red Dragon -...
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Merry Christmas, Prof. Song
Courtesy of the BBC.The ninth series of Doctor Who starts in a few weeks, seeing Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman returning for their second year together. Filming wise though, they've been through for...
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Dr. Jekyll, How Dreadfully Nice To Make Your Aquaintence
Courtesy of Neal Street ProductionsPenny Dreadful only just wrapped up it's second spectacular season, but production has already gotten underway on season three, with filming beginning in Ireland for...
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[Review] - AC/DC: Rock Or Bust Tour
Photo by the author.AC/DC is one of the definitive rock and roll bands. Not one of the most influential or progressive, or experimental. They occupy that niche of rock bands with ZZ Top, in that all...
View Article[Video] - Wire Cutters
I have an affinity for robots. In fact, keep a look out next week for a review what might be one of my favourite robots. And this short film, Wire Cutters, by Jack Anderson, got me right here. You...
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[Review] - Continuum, Season 4 Episode 1, "Lost Hours"
Courtesy of Reunion PicturesWatching serialized TV can be a punishment we pile on ourselves. Because for all the lofty artistic story telling principles we might revere, TV is still a business, and...
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[Opinion] - Should Nick Offerman Play Super Mario?
A couple weeks ago, I was enjoying my annual viewing of Super Mario Bros, starring Bob Hoskins. You really shouldn't watch that movie more than once a year, otherwise your brain might start leaking out...
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