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He May Well Continue To Be The Law

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Petitions on the internet are a lot like pornography on the internet: there are far too many of them, most of which are physically imposs...

Suddenly "Star Trek 12: So Very Tired" Isn't So Much Funny As It Is Sad

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Do you have twenty minutes? Of course you do, what else are you doing? If you're on this site, you are either at work, and despera...

[Review] The Newsroom, Season 2 Episode 3, "Willie Pete"

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Courtesy of HBO Third episode of the season, a full third of the season gone, and for the second week in a row we didn't see a sign ...

Star Trek 13: The Chase For Chekov, Or Some Damned Thing

MR. Clark 30.7.13 1 Comment Edit

Look, even if you didn't mind the rampant plagiarism inherent in Star Trek Into Darkness , it still wasn't a well made film . Vis...

OK, Now's He's Just Showing Off

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I trust Neil Gaiman. He writes a book, chances are it'll be wonderful . He does TV, it'll probably be weird and fun . He writes a...

[Review] - Continuum, Season 2 Episode 12, "Second Last"

MR. Clark 30.7.13 6 Comments Edit

Courtesy of Reunion Pictures First off, a tip of the hat to which ever writer realised the opportunity for the episode title. The idiosy...

I Wonder If Bryan Cranston Cracks Good "In Soviet Russia" Jokes?

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Based on this first trailer, Cold Comes The Night , if I'm being honest, seems very much like a direct to video release. It's not...

Huh, The Internet Got One Right

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Courtesy of HBO If there is one thing the internet loves, it's pornography. If there is a second thing the internet loves, it is als...

[Review] - RED 2

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Courtesy of di Bonaventura Pictures It was quite some time after the release of RED before I sat down and watched it. I hadn't read...

The Lambs Don't Scream, But The Kids Crack Up

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I like gag reels, especially those from really dramatic movies and series, if only to show that the actors aren't taking the subject...

Let's Cut Him Loose

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Comic-con brought us a Red Band trailer for September's Riddick , which has proven that the amount of violence and cussing has incre...

[List] - What Happened To The Two Guys, A Girl And A Pizza Place Cast?

MR. Clark 26.7.13 7 Comments Edit

In which we look at the fallout of a show that never got a fair shake.

This Is The Adventure Of Life

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Carl Sagan was a great man, on that there is no debate. Perhaps the first person to really bring science into the public domain. In the w...

Thanks To Ironman, Every Film Will Now Feature A HUD Sequence

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Gravity might just be the year's best film. It's certianly is shaping up to be the most scientifically accurate film of the yea...

[Review] - Luther, Series 3 Finale, Episode 4

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Courtesy of the BBC "What is it about the people John Luther loves?" There has been no discussion, as far as I can tell, abo...

Far From The World's Finest

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I have had little faith in Warner Bros and DC to actually make films based on their characters. At least, the characters who don't d...

Marvel Enters A New Age

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Well, I don't know about you, but I wasn't expecting that. At San Diego over the weekend, Joss Whedon and Marvel announced the ...

[Review] - The Newsroom, Season 2 Episode 2, "The Genoa Tip"

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Courtesy of HBO Considering how little the Genoa storyline took up this episode, perhaps a better title would have been "How To Rui...

His Last Vow

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Courtesy of the BBC That's the third, and final episode title for Sherlock series 3. Which means, the partially finished and assumed...

Dennis Farina Has Died

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Dennis Farina died Monday morning of a blood clot in his lung, at the age of 69. A 18 year veteran of the Chicago Police force, he becam...

[Review] - Continuum, Season 2 Episode 11, "Second Guess"

MR. Clark 23.7.13 5 Comments Edit

Courtesy of Reunion Pictures First off, in this week's lone glimpse of the future, that was David Milchard playing the technician. M...

Yeah, This Will Probably Be Awesome

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Veronica Mars movie trailer? Veronica Mars movie trailer. Jamie Lee Curtis aside, is it weird that the character I was most excited...

The Needs Of The Many Outweigh The Needs Of The Sploosh

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With San Diego Comic-Con in full swing over the weekend, the sheer amount information that is tenuously relevant to the usual content of ...

[Review] - Much Ado About Nothing

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Courtesy of Bellwether Pictures Finally. To my mind, the best adaptations of Shakespeare are those that interpret the text, and find n...

A Kiwi And Three Brits Sit Down For A Chat

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As a cinephile, one of my favourite things is listening to filmmakers talk to other filmmakers. Especially if they work in different genr...

Gods, We're Going To Have A Whole Year Of This Stuff, Aren't We?

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My interest in Amazing Spider-man 2 could not be lower. The first film was everything that is wrong and pointless about endlessly reboo...

[List] - The 6 Best "Cantina" Scenes

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If no other scene in Star Wars encapsulates both the outpouring of imagination from the filmmaker, and the ability to capture it in the a...

Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother To Visit The Seven Kingdoms

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Courtesy of the BBC Mark Gatiss is pretty much awesome. Former League of Gentleman actor, current co-writer/showrunner/recurring star ...

All I Know Is That My Snowmen Never Looked That Good

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Here is the first trailer for Joel Schroeder's Dear Mr. Watterson , a documentary that looks to essentially be about how much everyo...

[Review] - Luther, Series 3 Episode 3

MR. Clark 18.7.13 1 Comment Edit

Courtesy of the BBC Remember last week, when I said Luther doesn't get happy endings? I didn't feel that we needed such an expre...

Save The Date

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September 24th, 8pm. ABC. That is the official premier of Marvel's first attempt to bring the Marvel Cinematic Universe to televi...

Everything Is Better With Puppets

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It just is. Now, I have low expectations for next week's Wolverine , mostly because every X-Men movie since X2 has been a crisp pud...

[Review] - The Newsroom, Season 2 Episode 1, "First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All the Lawyers"

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Courtesy of HBO Last year, Newsroom proved to be a controversial show. Not controversial in the usual ways: no members of the cast were...

Trailer Tuesday: Saving Mr. Banks

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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 forwa...

Trailer Tuesday: How To Train Your Dragon 2

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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 trai...

[Review] - Continuum, Season 2 Episode 10, "Second Wave"

MR. Clark 16.7.13 11 Comments Edit

Courtesy of Reunion Pictures Continuum is confident enough in itself and its viewers to introduce big ideas, and not feel like they hav...

Revenge Is A Comic Best Served Cold

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I think I've realised the biggest issue with Star Trek Into Darkness , besides everything from the ground up: so much of what was do...

The Original Mad Man With A Box

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Replacing actors who have played the Doctor is not without precedent. By the time of the Five Doctors 20th anniversary special, First Do...

[Review] - Pacific Rim

MR. Clark 15.7.13 1 Comment Edit

Courtesy of Legendary Pictures Pacific Rim is an important film. It is one of very very few major studio films to be released between M...

We've Got A Floater

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Kristen Bell hasn't had the post Veronica Mars success everyone had thought she would have. Since her break out, she's never bee...

Hooray, Something For Alan Moore To Bitch About

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Courtesy of DC Comics FOX is adapting League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as a TV series. I'm going to pause to let that informatio...

[List] - 10 Casting Suggestions For American Gods

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Right now, the focus in the geek world is on Doctor Who , and wondering with hyperactive futility who the Dozenth Doctor might be. Barely...

Unstoppable Force Meets Indestructible Object?

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With the San Diego Comiccon right around the corner, and what I expect to me a myriad of announcements from Marvel concerning their upco...

[Review] - Luther, Series 3, Episodes 1 and 2

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Courtesy of the BBC John Luther isn't a bad guy. But he's his own worst enemy. And it is so very good to see him again. Also, ...

[Review] - Warehouse 13, Season 4 Finale Episode 20, "The Truth Hurts"

MR. Clark 11.7.13 Add Comment Edit

Courtesy of Universal Cable Productions Um... Last season, I was justifiably hard on Warehouse 13 . This season (or half season, which...

A Chair, A Chair, My Kingdom For A Chair

MR. Clark 10.7.13 Add Comment Edit

Yeah, that's me. One thing I've never been overly enthusiastic about in the series Game of Thrones was the Iron Throne itself. ...

I Don't Give A Damn

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Last year, in the wake of The Newsroom getting some pretty shaky reactions from the critics, Kevin Porter put together a clip montage o...

[Review] - Rush

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"We’ve got a gazillion songs so let’s get started." I'm impressed by technical achievement. People at the top of their gam...

I Want To Go To There

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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 look...

Way To Be, Duck

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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 runnin...

[Review] - Continuum, Season 2 Episode 9, "Seconds"

MR. Clark 9.7.13 3 Comments Edit

Courtesy of Reunion Pictures After two weeks off (thanks a lot Canada Day Long Weekend and, umm... Week Before Canada Day Long Weekend)...

The Ranger Stood Alone

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Courtesy of Disney "There's going to be an implosion where three or four or maybe even a half-dozen megabudget movies are g...

Daniel Alfredsson Has Left The Ottawa Senators

MR. Clark 8.7.13 Add Comment Edit

Human emotions aren't something I have a lot of luck with. Generally speaking, I tend towards the common denominators: I like somethi...

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