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Daniel Alfredsson Has Left The Ottawa Senators
Human emotions aren't something I have a lot of luck with. Generally speaking, I tend towards the common denominators: I like something, I don't like something, or I'm ambivalent (with ambivalence...
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The Ranger Stood Alone
Courtesy of Disney"There's going to be an implosion where three or four or maybe even a half-dozen megabudget movies are going to go crashing into the ground, and that's going to change the paradigm."...
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[Review] - Continuum, Season 2 Episode 9, "Seconds"
Courtesy of Reunion PicturesAfter two weeks off (thanks a lot Canada Day Long Weekend and, umm... Week Before Canada Day Long Weekend), Continuum returns and so does Inspector Dillon. But the return is...
View ArticleWay To Be, Duck
I did warn you all that, because of the American Long Weekend, it might be a slow couple of days until the news machine got up and running again. Unlike the Canadian Long Weekend, which barely caused...
View ArticleI Want To Go To There
Saturn has always been my favourite planet, and really how could it not be? It is so very pretty. I remember when I was young, and I looked through a telescope and saw Saturn for the first time, at...
View Article[Review] - Rush
"We’ve got a gazillion songs so let’s get started."I'm impressed by technical achievement. People at the top of their game, working at the extremes of their abilities, and turning out amazing products...
View ArticleI Don't Give A Damn
Last year, in the wake of The Newsroom getting some pretty shaky reactions from the critics, Kevin Porter put together a clip montage of all the times from Sorkin's previous series (and a few of his...
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A Chair, A Chair, My Kingdom For A Chair
Yeah, that's me.One thing I've never been overly enthusiastic about in the series Game of Thrones was the Iron Throne itself. Don't get me wrong, it looks great, and has certainly made an impact on the...
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[Review] - Warehouse 13, Season 4 Finale Episode 20, "The Truth Hurts"
Courtesy of Universal Cable ProductionsUm...Last season, I was justifiably hard on Warehouse 13. This season (or half season, whichever), I went a little easier because there were episodes that...
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Unstoppable Force Meets Indestructible Object?
With the San Diego Comiccon right around the corner, and what I expect to me a myriad of announcements from Marvel concerning their upcoming features (expect a Captain America teaser, final cast...
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[Review] - Luther, Series 3, Episodes 1 and 2
Courtesy of the BBCJohn Luther isn't a bad guy. But he's his own worst enemy. And it is so very good to see him again.Also, if there is a story about the image above, we certainly didn't learn what it...
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[List] - 10 Casting Suggestions For American Gods
Right now, the focus in the geek world is on Doctor Who, and wondering with hyperactive futility who the Dozenth Doctor might be. Barely a month after Matt Smith announced he was stepping down from the...
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Hooray, Something For Alan Moore To Bitch About
Courtesy of DC ComicsFOX is adapting League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as a TV series.I'm going to pause to let that information sink in. League, a densely packed graphic novel love song to Victorian...
View ArticleWe've Got A Floater
Kristen Bell hasn't had the post Veronica Mars success everyone had thought she would have. Since her break out, she's never been out of work, but early momentum coming off the series and transitioning...
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[Review] - Pacific Rim
Courtesy of Legendary PicturesPacific Rim is an important film. It is one of very very few major studio films to be released between May and September that is not a sequel or a prequel, a reboot or a...
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The Original Mad Man With A Box
Replacing actors who have played the Doctor is not without precedent. By the time of the Five Doctors 20th anniversary special, First Doctor William Hartnell was dead (and considering Tom Baker's...
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Revenge Is A Comic Best Served Cold
I think I've realised the biggest issue with Star Trek Into Darkness, besides everything from the ground up: so much of what was done, and what is being done, is just repeating what was successful the...
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[Review] - Continuum, Season 2 Episode 10, "Second Wave"
Courtesy of Reunion PicturesContinuum is confident enough in itself and its viewers to introduce big ideas, and not feel like they have to resolve them within the forty minutes of the episode. It has...
View ArticleTrailer Tuesday: How To Train Your Dragon 2
It's been a while since I did a Trailer Tuesday, mostly because that's never been a thing I've done, but a couple decent trailers have appeared, and I'm a lazy, lazy man.First up, How To Train Your...
View ArticleTrailer Tuesday: Saving Mr. Banks
Next, and last, up in Trailer Tuesday (an event so rare the Mayans predicted it would never happen) is a film I've been looking forward to some a while. Saving Mr. Banks is the real story of the twenty...
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