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[Review] - The Muppets, Season 1 Episodes 5 And 6, "Walk the Swine" And "The...
Courtesy of ABC StudiosSo, we've arrived at the end of the six episode "trial period" in which a show can find itself, and fall into a standard grove in which to move forward, while casting off the...
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His Dark Materials To Brighten The BBC
Courtesy of New Line EntertainmentSince the success of Game of Thrones, every TV network with a couple of dollars to rub together has been looking for their own morally complex series to adapt. Starz...
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[Review] - Spectre
Courtesy of Eon ProductionsI have a theory. No, not a theory. A belief. I believe that, when it comes to franchises, the best thing that can be done is have severe creative turnover. Essentially, no...
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The Gun Will Return To The Dog, For One Night Only
Courtesy of the BBCI thought that Luther ended beautifully. Not perfectly, and not happily, as befits the character and the series as a whole. But beautifully. Word of a fourth series put me a bit on...
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[Review] - DCTV: Arrow And The Flash, Seasons 4 And 2, Episode 5, "Haunted"...
Courtesy of Warner Bros TelevisionIt is a little amazing how often these two shows sync up on a week to week basis. Often times, there is a larger theme that binds them together, even if that theme is...
View Article[Review] - Doctor Who, Series 9 Episodes 7 And 8, "The Zygon Invasion" And...
Before we dive into this two-parter, some news: Downtime is getting a DVD release! What is Downtime, you ask? Well, it is a film from 1996 that skirts the edge of what is legally acceptable in terms of...
View ArticleIt's Like A Picture In Your Head That You've Seen Before
Well that was fast. It seems like only yesterday that Finding Dory was announced, and now here we are with the first trailer for the film, opening next summer. That all seems like very quick...
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[Review] - Ash Vs. Evil Dead, Season 1 Episodes 1 And 2, "El Jefe" And "Bait"
Courtesy of Renaissance PicturesI think we need to coin a new term: franchise rot. We're in the middle of this epidemic of sequels and remakes and reboots of twenty year old material that clearly shows...
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[Review] - DCTV: Arrow Season 4 And The Flash Season 2 Episodes 6, "Lost...
Courtesy of Warner Pictures TelevisionI may have made this joke before, but with these three shows, a reasonable case could be made for renaming these reviews DCTV: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly....
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Who You Gonna Build?
Well, I hope my family, friends and assorted relations weren't hoping to get anything from me this Christmas, because I love me more than any of them, and I love me some Lego. And Lego, in their...
View ArticleHow To Go To Space: A Thing Explainer Thing Explained
What is a Thing Explainer, you may ask? It's the brain child, like so many ideas, of Randall Munroe, person who made xkcd. The simple idea is to explain very hard ideas using only the ten hundred most...
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Peggy Carter Will Return In... Not Much Time At All
Courtesy of Marvel Television StudiosI may have given up on Agents of SHIELD, but my faith in Marvel television remains alive due to the Netflix series (Jessica Jones releases this Friday!), and the...
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[Review] - The Peanuts Movie
Courtesy of 20th Century FoxI'll admit, I was worried. When the trailers for the Peanuts Movie first started to appear, they seemed filled with the same sort of extraneous and purposeless action that...
View ArticleIn 2016, Who You Gonna Call?
I'm going to say two things, that I believe are hard to dispute. first, I think that Better Call Saul might be the best spin-off, ever. And I think that it's first season might be one of the best first...
View ArticleIf You Can Poop On A Bird, That's Impressive
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert has been pretty damned impressive in it's first fifty episodes. It has become the daily appointment viewing that the Daily Show and the Colbert ReportĀ used to be....
View Article[Review] - The Muppets, Season 1 Episodes 7 And 8, "Pig's In A Blackout" And...
This is going to be a shorter than usual review, but one that deals with a major issue currently facing the Muppets. Trouble is afoot behind the scenes, you see. While it has taken the show a handful...
View ArticleOh My Gods
Hey everyone, want to see a train wreck? Well, you're going to have to wait until February, but lucky us, we get a quick look at it now. Gods of Egypt, from Alex Proyas, looks to be the very definition...
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[Review] - DCTV: Arrow Season 4 And The Flash Season 2 Episode 7,...
Courtesy of Warner Television ProductionsWhat are these shows about? Arrow and Flash have been on long enough that they've pretty much already cemented their identities, and Supergirl is new enough...
View ArticleWhy Can't We Be Friends, Why Can't We Be Friends...
Marvel, on the heels of the release of Jessica Jones (look for my review next week), has defied expectations somewhat, and released the first trailer for Captain America: Civil War, aka Avengers 2.5,...
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[Review] - Doctor Who, Series 9, Episodes 9 And 10, "Sleep No More" And "Face...
Courtesy of the BBCWell... those were some fairly polarizing episodes, weren't they? In this series' only pair of unconnected, stand alone episodes, your enjoyment of them likely entirely depended of...
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