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Doctor Who Continues After This (This Being Winter)

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It just occurred to me that Clara, or Oswin, or whatever her name is, had a presence in the past, present and future. And that'...

Charles Durning Has Died

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At the age of 89, on Christmas Eve, Charles Durning died. And because I took the whole week off last week from the internet, and news in g...

[Review] - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

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Courtesy of Warner Bros. After the Star Wars prequels were released, Kevin Smith was often asked his opinion of their quality, and wou...

[Review] Doctor Who Series 7 Christmas Special, "The Snowmen"

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Courtesy of the BBC Considering that Steven Moffat ripped off a line from Game of Thrones in this episode, I feel it only fair that I ...

Happy Whatever

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As for me, I intend to spend as much of my government-mandated time off during this period of festive et cetera in my place of worship, a ...

It's Predator, In A Storage Locker

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You can see the influences of Storage 24 in this (red band, for violence) trailer for the film, starring Doctor Who 's Noel Clarke, ...

A Little Bit Of Everything

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Before the western world retreats from the internet for a few days, to join together with/hide desperately from family, I thought I'd...

[List] 7 Differences Between The Lord Of the Rings Movies And Books That Made Them Good Films

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For those that hadn't realised before now, there is a difference between books and movies. I know, I was surprised too. But the fun...

"You Say That Like There's Never Been A French Whore In The White House."

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Someone mentioned to me the other day that they thought Anne Hathaway is the new Tom Hanks. Obviously, she lacks the trademark Hanks legs,...

The Hobbit Cast Know Their Dwarves

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One of the best ways you can discern The Hobbit was originally written as a children's story is the first chapter. More then any othe...

[Review] Primeval: New World, Season 1 Episode 8, "Truth"

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Courtesy of Impossible Pictures Back in episode one, I commented that the shoehorning of the "Cross' wife getting eaten by a ...

Two And A Half Minutes Of Archer

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With all the excitement about Justified coming back , and Game of Thrones starting again , I criminally failed to mention the return of...

Tim Burton Made This... Yeah

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Tim Burton directed this video for The Killers song Here With Me , and boy does it show. There are pin wheels and lots of black and white ...

Foreigners, Skin Conditions And Lizard People He's Alright With, But Lesbians Crosses The Line

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An unexpected treat, roughly one week away from Doctor Who: The Snowmen : yet another prequel short, focusing this time on Madame Vastra (...

TIFF To Celebrate Cronenberg

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Taken from thegate.ca I've expounded on the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto before. Home to the Toronto International Film Festival, ...

I'll Give "I Give It A Year" Another Chance, Apparently

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Here is the "international" trailer for Rose Byrne's forth coming comedy I Give It A Year , which is largely identical to th...

[Review] Dexter, Season 7

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Courtesy of Showtime The longer Dexter lasts the less love I feel for it in our love-hate relationship, and until last week I suspected...

More Trek, More Dark

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I have to say, I'm confused. As of late, "announcement trailers" are generally a couple seconds of footage culled from the a...

This Belongs In A Museum

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According to the school's Tumblr page , the University of Chicago received a mysterious package last week, seen above. As you can no...

[Review] - Mary And Max (2009)

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Courtesy of Icon Entertainment A few weeks ago, at the announcement that Television Ontario would be cancelling their long running Satur...

I'm Just Going To Phone This One In

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So I kind of bummed myself out, what with my rant against the internet earlier, and the knowledge that I'm not going to have a chance...

Dinosaurs Are Everybody's Business

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I don't understand people who have no interest in dinosaurs. I mean, I do, sort of. Everybody has stuff they don't care about (hel...

[Opinion] Clerks 3 Might Happen, Or How I Need To Learn To Stop Hating The Internet

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Courtesy of ViewAskew. I am a fan of Kevin Smith. Like any writer or director, some of his stuff is good, some of it isn't. And whet...

A Portal To Another World Indeed

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See, it's a funny headline because the trailer very clearly features GLaDOS as the on board computer system for the giants mechas, in ...

Who Are We Kidding, Showtime Is Shameless All Of The Time

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Why else would they have a new series called the Masters of Sex starring Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan, based on the real life mid-twent...

Showtime Is Shameless Sometimes

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Showtime's programming block is made up largely of shows that, to be perfectly honest, are grating. It's not to say they aren'...

Christmas Will Come At Exactly The Same Time It Always Does This Year

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The BBC has released a final trailer for the Doctor Who Christmas Special, complete with a single line of dialogue from recently announce...

Man Of Steel Trailer Does Nothing To Quell My Ills

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So here is the first trailer for Man of Steel , and I'm pretty much done. Maybe I'll keep posting stuff as it comes, maybe I won...

[Review] - Primeval: New World, Season 1 Episode 7, "Babes In The Woods"

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Courtesy of Impossible Pictures Success! After six weeks of harping on about this show's use of the word "dinosaur" to des...

Oh Yeah, There Are Two More Hobbit Films

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Did you all watch Stephen Colbert's Hobbit Week last week? No? What's wrong with you? Do you fear joy? Did someone once push yo...

Gandalf In Space

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This is just fab news. Ian McKellen, who it really shouldn't have to be said is a Shakespearean actor of high regard, best known to ...

Sir Patrick Moore Has Died

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Sir Patrick Moore, presenter of the BBC program The Sky At Night , has died at the age of 89. Being most well known for the documentar...

Muppet Update Makes Me Sad

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Dammit. See, this is why I don't look forward to things. Because when things go bad, I'm not disappointed. I'd rather be sur...

Damned Kids, With Their Videos Games, And Their Selfless Pursuit Of Justice

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I've often maintained that while DC is completely incapable of putting a live action film of quality together (that doesn't includ...

[Review] The Woman Who Died A Lot: A Thursday Next Novel, By Jasper Fforde

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Thursday Next is easily one of my favourite modern fictional characters, and her series holds a similar position in my esteem. I look fo...

Calvin And Hobbes Search Engine. That Is All

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It is here . Michael Yingling has accomplished the last great achievement of the internet. The rest of us can pack up and go home, no p...

The Puppet Is His Penis

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It must be nice to have famous friends. Or, friends at all. Or even just a lone bus rider willing to listen to a measured argument against...

[List] 9 People Who Should Have Cameos In The New Muppet Movie [Updated]

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With the announcement of Christoph Waltz Ty Burrell (ugh) being cast as an Interpol agent for the new Muppet movie, we can officially st...

Boldy Exploding Where No One Has Exploded Before

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Two things are abundantly clear from this first trailer (or, trailer announcement, but more on that in a bit) for Star Trek Into Darkness ...

"The Burnout Rate Is 100%" [Updated]

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[Update: the trailer, as had been linked above, didn't seem to want to work. As far as I can tell there was nothing wrong with the c...

Dan Harmon Talks About The Death Of TV

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Community creator Dan Harmon is like Kevin Smith, ten or twelve years ago. His work is polarising and subject to the extremities of perso...

... Until Winter Comes

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So, now it begins in earnest. The cavalcade of promos, clips and set pictures. The avalanche of tremor inducing teasers, designed to reign...

This Seems Like It Will Hold Me Over...

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I'd like to take a moment, in the shadow of this fourth season trailer for Justified , to talk about one aspect of the show I've a...

[Review] - Primeval: New World, Season 1 Episode 6, "Clean Up On Aisle Three"

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Courtesy of Impossible Pictures. Yes, that is Stargate 's Amanda Tapping, and no she didn't appear in this week's Primeval:...

Pixar Stuff

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Pixar has released two new teasers for Monsters University , the first of which (American) is here, the second (International) is after ...

Movies I'm Interested In Have Teaser Posters, Plus Man Of Steel

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The first bit of marketing for Star Trek Into Darkness , just ahead of the teaser trailer (or IMAX footage) before The Hobbit , has a...

CW Intends To Make Something Similar To, But Not Actually, Wonder Woman

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Back in September , it was revealed that the CW, former home of Smallville , and current home of Arrow , had bought a pitch from writ...

The BBC Seems Intent On Impressing Us With Quality Programming In The New Year

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Last week the BBC let the rest of us in on what exactly it is they'll be up to in the new year, and it is exciting. The sad news that...

Joss Whedon Returns This Summer

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There is another universe out there, where Sam Mendes or someone else took the helm on Avengers . Where maybe it wasn't as successfu...

[Review] Killing Them Softly

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Courtesy of the Weinstein Company Sometimes, I don't understand humans at all. For the past ten years or so, I've averaged abou...

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