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Reminder: Patrick Stewart Is Awesome

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Patrick Stewart tweeted this image earlier this week, and something about it confuses me. Not that a 72 year old man-of-the-world like P...

Nathan Fillion Is An Ass

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I would not have expected that the movie I'm most looking forward to this year would be a black and white, shoestring modernised ada...

[Review] - Now You See Me

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Courtesy of Summit Entertainment If there is one plot device that hooks me every time, it's time travel. If there is a second, it...

Guardians Of The Galaxy Is Getting Pretty Interesting

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I don't, as a habit, like reporting on casting news, because until the movie is actually being filmed (and occasionally not even the...

Pixar Prepares For The Future

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Disney and it's subsidiaries aren't ones for sitting on their laurels. LucasFilm, or whatever it'll be known as under the Di...

PBS Thinks You're Dumb, And They Are Probably Right

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Have I detailed my redefined terms for Reality television programs before? Probably, but I'll go over them again. I hate Reality T...

Joss Whedon's Message To The Future: "You're All Going To Die"

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Joss Whedon is a man of many hats . He directed the most successful film of last year , he actively routes for the zombie apocalypse , an...

Season 2 Of The Newsroom Promises Even More Sitting And Talking

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The second season of Aaron Sorkin's the Newsroom premiers on July 14th, and we still haven't gotten a good look at it. HBO has ...

Jon Stewart Adds A Cast To His Film

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From Iran Human Rights A couple months ago, it was announced that Jon Stewart would be taking a break form the Daily Show to direct a...

Well, That Explains Some Things

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Anyone who has seen Star Trek Into Darkness by now knows that about half way through there is a reveal, which I personally don't con...

No No No! I Refuse To Accept This Will Suck

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Walking With Dinosaurs: The Movie has the potential to be one of the better dinosaur movies ever made, by virtue of being a dinosaur mo...

[Review] - Continuum, Season 2 Episode 5, "Second Opinion"

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Courtesy of Reunion Pictures The last couple episodes have been building towards a confrontation. Not between Liber8 and the police, th...

Doctor Who Prequel Short Arrives A Week Late

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Shorts like this reassure me that Moffat hasn't lost it entirely as a writer. This prequel to The Name of the Doctor (really, isn...

I Did Not See This Coming

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If you had told me, at any point before just now really, that Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch would become a point of heated contention ...

Serenity May Be Pretty, But She'll Take For Damned Ever

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This is a static image. To play the game, head over to Slate . This might be the best thing I've seen all day. No, all week. Yeah,...

Do You Know Where Your Towel Is?

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Tomorrow is Towel Day , you frood. Why not spend the day reading a good book. Donate some money to a rhinoceros . Puzzle over the interc...

Masturbation, Swollen Testicles And Drinking Blood: Summer Movie Season 2013 Ladies And Gentlemen

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Finally, here is the trailer for Joseph-Gordon Levitt's directorial debut (he also wrote it) Don Jon , which everyone completely los...

[Opinion] - Where Star Trek Needs To Boldly Go From Here

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Courtesy of Paramount Studios Into Darkness made only as much as it's predecessor did four years ago over the weekend and was not t...

It's Not Hoth, But It's Close

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There are, presumably, two hard science fiction films coming out this year that are competing for my affections. One, Gravity , we've...

It No Longer Matters If He Lives Or Dies

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I've had a love-hate relationship with Dexter since about season 4 (note that only these first seasons are recapped in this traile...

[Review] - Warehouse 13, Season 4 Episode 14, "The Sky's The Limit"

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Courtesy of Universal Cable Productions. For those that hadn't heard already, Warehouse 13 has officially been cancelled by Syfy....

The Knight Is Young

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The news that the Batman: Arkham prequel, now known to be called Origins , would be appearing this year took many by surprise, as most ...

Well Played, Mr. Whedon. Well Played

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Via Nerdacy I have complex feelings about spoilers, but what is simple is that too much has been lumped under the heading of "spoi...

Two Doctors Walk Into A TARDIS...

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Still reeling from the series finale on Saturday? Well, allow me to point out how very far away November 23rd is by posting this video o...

ComicsAlliance Is Only Mostly Dead

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No additional information available. No hints. No nudges. No idea what this means, and when it will mean whatever it does. Just this, an...

"I Farted On You When You Put Banana Peppers In The Wheaties"

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I'm an established fan of these Bad Lip Reading videos, and this one lampooning the Walking Dead is no exception. Well, one excepti...

[Review] - Game Of Thrones, Season 3 Episode 8, "Second Sons"

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[ Author's Note: There is no episode of Continuum this week, and no epiosde of Game of Thrones next. So, the schedule is going to be s...

Pacific Rim May Contains Some Monsters, And A Couple Robots. That's Just A Guess

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I'll say it again: how are they aliens if they come from the bottom of the ocean? All that makes them is damp. So long as Pacific Rim...

[Review] - Doctor Who, Series 7 Finale Episode 14, "The Name of the Doctor"

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It's not usually a good sign when the finale of a show is accompanied by a sigh of relief. Ideally, the end of a series should cause ...

[Review] - Star Trek Into Darkness, In IMAX (Spoiler Filled)

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[ Author's Note: This is a companion to my review of Into Darkness , which can be found here . I suggest you read it to get my impressio...

The Only Thing Better Than Friends Is Killing The Guy Who Killed Your Friends

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I think this trailer for Axe Cop speaks for itself.

Dredd 2 Might Still Be Possible

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Courtesy of DNA Films I'm not one of these people who thinks every movie needs a sequel. Few movies should have sequels. And the la...

[Review] - Star Trek Into Darkness, In IMAX (Spoiler Free)

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[ Author's Note: This is the first part of my complete review of Into Darkness ; the concluding part can be found here , though you shou...

Movies Are Like Subway Lines, They're All Filled With Hobos... Wait

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Click to make substantially larger. David Honnorat over at Vodkaster has put together a clever image, the best movies of all time (som...

This Is Nothing New

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The first real trailer for Riddick , the third entry (fourth, if you count the superior video games, which you should) in the Chronicles ...

[Review] - Warehouse 13, Season 4 Episode 13, "The Big Snag"

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Courtesy of Universal Cable Productions A bit of house cleaning to begin: at the Ottawa Comiccon this past weekend, when questioned abou...

Umm... nO.

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Later tonight I'll be seeing Star Trek Into Darkness at one of those IMAX fan sneak peaks, and am really rather excited about that....

Movies Travel Through Space And Time

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Late last week, we got our first look at Alfonso Cuarón's new sci-fi survival film, Gravity , starring Sandra Bullock and George Clo...

TV Trailers Show Us What Not To Watch Next Year

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Like every new season of TV, there will be the shows that are good, there will be the shows that will surprise us, and there will be the...

[Review] - Game Of Thrones, Season 3 Episode 7, "The Bear and the Maiden Fair"

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[ Author's note: the Continuum and Game of Thrones reviews will be swapping release days. Continuum reviews will appear on Tuesdays, ...

She Said, He Said, I Say

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Because this is the way things happen now, here is a prequel (it's not, it's an elaborate promo) for this coming weekend's Do...

Some Shows Are Returning Next Season. Some Aren't

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The Upfronts were last week, and by the end of Friday, we, the viewing public, pretty much knew which shows were picked up, which shows ...

[Review] - Continuum, Season 2 Episode 4, "Second Skin"

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[ Author's note: the Continuum and Game of Thrones reviews will be swapping publication days. Continuum reviews will appear on Tuesda...

Stephen King's Recent Turtle Killer Comes To TV

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Turtle Killer: (related to a Door Stopper) a book of such immense size that, not only could it stop a door, but if dropped from an averag...

[Review] - Doctor Who, Series 7 Episode 13, "Nightmare In Silver"

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Neil Gaiman certainly didn't do himself any favours with The Doctor's Wife . Any writer, coming to realise they've just writt...

[Review] - Ottawa Comiccon 2013

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All photos by the author...'s photographer The second annual Ottawa Comicon has come and gone, and it's motto may well have ...

What In The Name Of Gods Is He Doing To Those Chairs?

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Is there an explanation for this video of Commander Riker sitting other then Jonathan Frakes sits like a lunatic? It is that, in the futu...

How Is It That No One Has Made A Movie Or Video Game About A Superpowered President Before Now?

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Admission time: I've never played any of the Saints Row games. Gaming isn't a constant attention grabber in my life, and I usua...

[Analysis] - Star Trek: Countdown To Darkness, And What It Tells Us

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Before the release of J.J. Abrams Star Trek reboot, IDW published a fantastic four part series comic called Star Trek Countdown , which...

You Never Had Control, That's The Illusion

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Courtesy of Universal Pictures We've had a lot of news about Jurassic Park 4 surface recently, including just this past week Trevo...

Of The Two Films About Former Friends Reliving Their Youths Being Released This Year, This One Will Be Good

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Finally, the first trailer for Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's The World's End has arrived, ahead of it's release ...

[Review] - Warehouse 13, Season 4 Episode 12, "Parks and Rehabilitation"

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Courtesy of Universal Cable Productions When Warehouse 13 first premiered four seasons ago, it was an odd duck. That was it's claim...

Fascinating

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There isn't a single thing about this Audi ad that isn't delightful. That it helps establish that current Spock Zachary Quinto ha...

[Review] - Continuum, Season 2 Episode 3, "Second Thoughts"

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Courtesy of Reunion Pictures Adding on to last week's discussion of loyalty, this week Continuum continues the trend of not pulling...

Ray Harryhausen Has Died

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I remember seeing 20 Million Miles to Earth for the first time. I was mesmerised. Rather blasphemously, I saw it before I saw King Kong ...

Famous Nerds Talk Star Wars

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Kevin Smith once explained his Devil' Advocacy for the Star Wars prequels as being the result of the original films being such a mon...

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