Courtesy of the BBC Atlantis had a lot to over come in it's final two part story. Inconsistent tone, pacing, quality of writing, ac...
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America Checks The Time
BBC America has put out their trailer for the Doctor Who Christmas special, and it's better than the properly BBC version. That ver...
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Food Fight, Muppet Style
I'll be off all next week because I'll gladly take off as much time as people are willing to give me, to celebrate other people...
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How To Retrain Your Dragon
My only concern with How To Train Your Dragon 2 is that both Sony and Dreamworks tend to take whatever was original and clever and likab...
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Return Of The Rise Of The Dawn Of The World Of The Something Something
I have little to say about this first trailer for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes , because I still haven't seen Rise of the Planet of...
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Showtime Prepares To Be Dreadful
I'm quite looking forward to Penny Dreadful , the Victorian literature mashup series from John Logan and Sam Mendes. The spring prem...
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What Are The Hobbit Movies Missing? Random Pig Jokes
Actually, it occurs to me that both Journey and Smaug had at least one pig joke each... It's of interest to me that Lego Hobbit ...
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt To Bring Us A Dream
There have been attempts to bring Neil Gaiman's opus Sandman to the screen - either big or small - for years. And thankfully, they...
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Simon Pegg Has A Fantastic Fear Of Everything
Just the other day , I was saying how Simon Pegg is a very busy man, and here comes a trailer for his next film, A Fantastic Fear Of Eve...
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We Are Still Pioneers
There was a fantastic theory a few years back that Christopher Nolan was filming two simultaneous trilogies, based on the three step mag...
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Finish Your Thought
House of Cards was easily the best new show of last year, and while the passive aggressive comment in this trailer about it not actually...
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Wholock
This five minute long minisode that sees Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock cross over with Matt Smith's Doctor Who is not real. ...
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Simon Pegg Will Appear In Absolutely Anything
As I previously reported , along with the official reunion of Monty Python this coming summer, the old boys (minus Eric Idle) will also...
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There's No Point In Killing A Bad Priest. But Killing A Good One...
Remember when John Cleese released Fierce Creatures , and said it was more an "equal than a sequel" to A Fish Called Wanda ? A...
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It's Almost Time
The BBC has given us a longer, proper trailer for the Doctor Who Christmas special The Time of the Doctor , and to be honest it's no...
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Let's End The Day With Something Beautiful, Shall We?
On October 9th, the Juno spacecraft did a slingshot move past the Earth. Slingshooting spacecraft is a way to use the gravitational pull ...
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A Movie, Where Stuff Happens In It, Will Be Released Soon
There isn't much to say about the trailer for former Smallville star Michael Rosenbaum's directorial debut Back In The Day , othe...
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Lord Of The Crumbs
In light of this recent Sesame Street segment, I will now take the position that Peter Jackson should have made the Lord of the Rings f...
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This Post Contains Bad Words
I love a good insult. The trick to a good insult, and therefore a good laugh line, isn't about how crude it is, but about how clever ...
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A Group of Crowes Is Called A Murder
We're officially less than a month away from the premiere of Justified season 5, and FX has released a brief teaser to wet our appet...
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What Life? He's Been Away
Until now, the "trailers" we've gotten for the third series of Sherlock have been little more than teasers. Until now. Thi...
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Ottawa Pops This Weekend
It's been a weird week, and I'm tired, so I'll finish off today by reminding anyone who might be in the National Capital reg...
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Wait For Her
When I first heard about Her , the new project from Spike Jonze, I disregarded it. this was a mistake. Why I decided not to pay attention...
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The Amazish Spider-man
I haven't watched The Amazing Spider-man since it was in theatres last year. I haven't felt the need to. At the time, I thought...
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That Is One Angry Little Hobbit
Need a reason to buy the extended cut of the Hobbit , other than to own an even more bloated version of an already overinflated film? How...
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He Is Here
Guillermo del Toro's The Strain has taken the long path to this moment. Conceived as a TV series, it was roundly rejected by every n...
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This Is Why Hitler Didn't Bomb Paris
Hollywood is weird. Despite director George Clooney coming out and saying that his new film, The Monuments Men , wasn't meant to be ...
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I Was Having Problems, So Here's This
So, there was a power thing, and then some internet stuff, and long story short here is a trailer that I haven't watched, for a film ...
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How To Show Off Your Dragon
Despite the fact that Smaug should have been as front and centre in the Desolation of Smaug marketing campaign as Gollum was in the Unex...
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