Don't Call Him Teddy MR. Clark 31.10.13 Add Comment Edit Doris Kearns Goodwin is a presidential biographer of some repute, as well as running sexual innuendo joke on the Colbert Report . She ca... Read More
What Ever Happened To "Give Peace A Chance?" MR. Clark 31.10.13 Add Comment Edit For all the complaining I did when they removed Superman's underoos for Man of Steel , that was nothing compared to the fiasco that h... Read More
There's A Time Lord Coming MR. Clark 31.10.13 Add Comment Edit That is one of two (the other is after the jump) original posters released by the BBC to promote Mark Gatiss' docudrama An Adventure ... Read More
It's Been That Kind Of Day MR. Clark 30.10.13 Add Comment Edit The kind of day that needs to end with 30 seconds of Calvin and Hobbes dancing to jazz music. And thanks to Adam Brown, who is wise enoug... Read More
Dammit Veronica, Just Pick One Already MR. Clark 30.10.13 Add Comment Edit Full admission, I tended to side with the Veronica/Logan shippers back when Veronica Mars was originally on. Her only other options were... Read More
SHIELD Adds One To The Team MR. Clark 30.10.13 Add Comment Edit Since ABC decided not to play a new episode of SHIELD this week, we must do with the news that Saffron Burrows can reportedly been cast... Read More
A Different Path. A Darker Path MR. Clark 29.10.13 Add Comment Edit It has been a long time since I looked forward to an X-Men movie. And all credit to Bryan Singer, he's doing a very good job of get... Read More
Peabody Here, And This Is His Boy, Sherman MR. Clark 29.10.13 Add Comment Edit Back when Mr. Peabody and Sherman was first announced, Robert Downey Jr. was set to voice the time travelling dog. Other things got in ... Read More
[Review] - Atlantis, Series 1 Episode 5, "White Lies" MR. Clark 29.10.13 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of the BBC The big news this week in the world of Atlantis is the confirmation of a second series by the BBC. The decision w... Read More
Caution: Suspects May Be Weird MR. Clark 28.10.13 Add Comment Edit It is entirely a coincidence that the day I review the new biography of Jim Henson , Disney releases the new poster for Muppets Most Wan... Read More
Marcia Wallace Has Died MR. Clark 28.10.13 Add Comment Edit Marcia Wallace, known best to multiple generations as the voice of Edna Krabappel, has died at the age of 70 due to complications from b... Read More
[Review] - Jim Henson, By Brian Jay Jones MR. Clark 28.10.13 Add Comment Edit There are very few people in history that I would consider a personal hero, whose life and works are both an inspiration and directly inf... Read More
A Moustache Is A Power Weapon, Wield It Wisely MR. Clark 25.10.13 Add Comment Edit We began the week with Nick Offerman, so it is only fitting that we end the week with Nick Offerman. And as with last year, Offerman a... Read More
This Is So Toy MR. Clark 25.10.13 Add Comment Edit Have you read Fray ? You really should. Written during season six and seven of Buffy , it was Joss Whedon's first foyer into comics,... Read More
[Analysis] - Do Marvel And Robert Downey Jr. Need Each Other? MR. Clark 25.10.13 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Marvel After watching the first trailer for The Winter Soldier yesterday, it put a bug in my brain. Here is a movie being ... Read More
Winter Soldier Is The SHIELD Movie We Deserve MR. Clark 24.10.13 Add Comment Edit Marvel has settled into a perfect release schedule with their films, with a new one arriving every six months, and bringing with it a pre... Read More
Night Of The Riffing Dead MR. Clark 24.10.13 Add Comment Edit She should really just relax. I can say, without pause, that the most fun I've had in a long time was when I saw the RiffTrax Stars... Read More
[Review] - Agents Of SHIELD, Season 1 Epsiode 5, "Girl in the Flower Dress" MR. Clark 24.10.13 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Marvel Television Productions. Did SHIELD just introduce mutants to the MCU ? Scorch, a name held by multiple characters in... Read More
Sherlock Series 3 Broadcast Date Announced In The US. Bully For Them MR. Clark 23.10.13 Add Comment Edit The BBC has yet to announce an air date for the highly anticipated third series of Sherlock , but the Americans aren't just sitting ... Read More
WWII Will Take Longer To Finish MR. Clark 23.10.13 Add Comment Edit The Christmas movie season is always flush with film trying to win awards, making December one of the better months for cinephiles (whic... Read More
Allow The Great Communicator To Explain The Significance Of Our Insignificance MR. Clark 23.10.13 Add Comment Edit There are few better ways to start a day then with the dulcet tones of Carl Sagan. Reid Gower has put together a new edit of the famous ... Read More
I No Longer Like NBC MR. Clark 22.10.13 Add Comment Edit It helps that I wasn't particularly taken with them to begin with, but this really caps me in the slidesock. As everyone should be aw... Read More
In Soviet Russian, Meteors Come From Underground MR. Clark 22.10.13 Add Comment Edit I know, I'm sorry for the headline, but this is cool and I couldn't help myself. Russian divers have found the largest piece of t... Read More
[Review] - Atlantis, Series 1 Episode 4, "Twist of Fate" MR. Clark 22.10.13 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of the BBC Well, this was a bit of a dog. For the second week in a row, Atlantis skips the direct mythical adaptation, but the... Read More
The BBC Just Remembered Doctor Who Is Turning 50 MR. Clark 21.10.13 Add Comment Edit So, here we have what is being called the first trailer for The Day of the Doctor , the 50th anniversary special. It isn't. Don't... Read More
Ottawa Doubles Down On Geek Obession MR. Clark 21.10.13 Add Comment Edit From C Stuckless Can anyone, in the comments or somewhere, explain to me the difference between a "comic-con" and a "fan ... Read More
[Review] - Paddle Your Own Canoe, By Nick Offerman MR. Clark 21.10.13 Add Comment Edit As Uproxx recently reminded us all, Nick Offerman was not the only one to audition for the role of Ron Swanson. Mike O’Malley, Thomas Le... Read More
Batman Makes Some Soild Points About How A Superman Team Up Would Be Stupid MR. Clark 18.10.13 Add Comment Edit Is it weird that until now it hadn't occurred to me that the plot of Batman/Superman: Dead By Dawn would be the government sending S... Read More
These People Are Looking A Little Too Sexy For My Liking MR. Clark 18.10.13 Add Comment Edit It was July of last year that we were treated to an "instalment banner" like this for The Hobbit . This year we had to wait... Read More
[Opinion] - Welcome To The Future, It's Terrible MR. Clark 18.10.13 3 Comments Edit We have a problem: the future is going to suck. And I'm not talking about five hundred, two thousand or deep time and a half from no... Read More
It's A Bird! It's A Plane! It's A 75 Year Old Reference! MR. Clark 17.10.13 Add Comment Edit Bruce Timm has done more good will for DC Comics than any other single person over the last twenty years. Between creating the definitive... Read More
Here's Hoping This Will Be A Good Day MR. Clark 17.10.13 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of the BBC Despite a name , and a poster , and now some new promo images, the BBC has yet to release a trailer for The Day of ... Read More
[Review] - Agents Of SHIELD, Season 1 Episode 4, "Eye-Spy" MR. Clark 17.10.13 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Marvel Television Productions. I have nothing against Maurissa Tancharoen and Jed Whedon, but they have no experience as sho... Read More
At Medieval Land Fun-Time World, You Win Or You Get Half Off Your Next Admission MR. Clark 16.10.13 Add Comment Edit I've said it before and I'll say it again , the folks over at Bad Lip Reading are geniuses. And while I thought it would be impo... Read More
The BBC Gets Strange... And Norrell MR. Clark 16.10.13 Add Comment Edit This past March , when the BBC announced their summer line up, one item attracted a lot of attention in the right circles: an adaptation ... Read More
[Review] - Atlantis, Series 1 Episode 3, "A Boy Of No Consequence" MR. Clark 16.10.13 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of the BBC Third episode in, and the series takes a break from the myth plundering, for an episode more focused on characters a... Read More
My Favourite Batgirl Returns To DC Comics MR. Clark 15.10.13 1 Comment Edit Art by Dustin Nguyen Dustin Nguyen Dustin Nguyen I say that, but I've been burned before. After being unceremoniously wiped fr... Read More
Marvel Looks To Grow In The Future [Updated] MR. Clark 15.10.13 Add Comment Edit I don't usually like to report casting assumptions, because they more often than not turn out to be either 1) false or b) irrelevant... Read More
[Review] - In A World... MR. Clark 15.10.13 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Team G I suppose that it's both a symptom of the problems with the system, and a good sign of things to come, that the m... Read More
No Posts Today MR. Clark 14.10.13 Add Comment Edit To all Canadians, be you in Canada or in any other part of the world, as you sit down today to eat your turkey (or reasonable localised t... Read More
Fight Movie To Get A "Raze" Out Of You MR. Clark 10.10.13 Add Comment Edit Apparently this has been around for a while, but I'm only learning about it now. Raze is directed by Josh C. Waller, written by Robe... Read More
[Review] - Agents Of SHIELD, Season 1 Episode 3, "The Asset" MR. Clark 10.10.13 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Marvel Television Productions. May I remind people, before they get too jumpy about SHIELD not being the most amazing thing... Read More
Pixar Spinoff Cancelled MR. Clark 9.10.13 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Pixar A sensational headline, and I apologise for that. Three and a half years after opening, Pixar Canada has been shut by... Read More
Do Dogs Have Brains: An In-depth Examination MR. Clark 9.10.13 1 Comment Edit Occasionally, on the internet, someone will do or say something so monumentally stupid that everyone else affords themselves a couple min... Read More
[Review] - Don Jon MR. Clark 9.10.13 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of HitRecord Films Obviously, the hook here is porn. But, as Joseph Gordon-Levitt has made clear in interviews, his directorial... Read More
Crowd Funding Solves An Exotic Problem MR. Clark 8.10.13 Add Comment Edit The Middleman is one of those unique pieces of cultural analysis, wrapped in a cosy cotton layer of satire that is seemingly inevitably ... Read More
Under His Tutelage, You Too Can Grow From A Husband Into A Father, And From A Father Into A Swanson MR. Clark 8.10.13 Add Comment Edit How to properly parent *: Step 1: Sire progeny, preferably with the cooperation of your special lady friend. Step 2: Construct your i... Read More
[Review] - Atlantis, Series 1 Episode 2, "A Girl By Any Other Name" MR. Clark 8.10.13 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Urban Myth Films Second episode in, and the heroes of Atlantis have settled into a new role as heroes for hire. It also appe... Read More
I, Frankenstein Looks Like Something I, Can Miss MR. Clark 7.10.13 Add Comment Edit There is a scene in the second series of Episodes where the TV executive complains that his network doesn't have a "vampire sho... Read More
Poop Technologies Take A Bold Step Forward MR. Clark 7.10.13 Add Comment Edit Do you have a favourite medical procedure? Because I do. The technical name for the procedure is fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), ... Read More