[Review] - Atlantis Series 1 Finale, Episodes 12 and 13, "Touched by the Gods"

[Review] - Atlantis Series 1 Finale, Episodes 12 and 13, "Touched by the Gods"

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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[Review] - Time Of The Doctor

[Review] - Time Of The Doctor

Courtesy of the BBC Time of the Doctor has a lot going on behind it. It is the 800th episode of the series produced since 1963. It is t...
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America Checks The Time

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

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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[List] - Ranking The Regenerations Of Doctor Who

This Christmas, to close out the 50th anniversary year of Doctor Who , we're getting a regeneration. While it's always sad to se...
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How To Retrain Your Dragon

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

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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Stupid Cat

Stupid Cat

I mean really, you unevolved animal, can't you tell that the images aren't actually moving? That they are little more than broken...
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Showtime Prepares To Be Dreadful

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

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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ISIS Recruits Have The Strangest Questions

ISIS Recruits Have The Strangest Questions

Seriously man, weapons training! Field operations! Insurance benefits! Not office supplies. Get your priorities in check. Via Uproxx .
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt To Bring Us A Dream

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

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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[Review] - Atlantis, Series 1 Episode 11, "Hunger Pangs"

[Review] - Atlantis, Series 1 Episode 11, "Hunger Pangs"

Courtesy of the BBC Ughh... lets just get on with it, shall we? Hit the jump for the review, which contains spoilers that
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We Are Still Pioneers

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

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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[Review] - The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug

[Review] - The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug

Courtesy of Warner Bros. I have long asserted that the Desolation of Smaug would be the best of the Hobbit films, and I feel vindicat...
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Wholock

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

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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[List] - Here Be Dragons

[List] - Here Be Dragons

  "We took the approach that Smaug is a paranoid psychopath. He has a lust for gold, but it’s a lust that he can’t explain. He’s no...
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There's No Point In Killing A Bad Priest. But Killing A Good One...

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

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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[Review] - Agents Of SHIELD, Season 1 Episode 10, "The Bridge"

[Review] - Agents Of SHIELD, Season 1 Episode 10, "The Bridge"

Courtesy of Marvel Television Productions. As Agents of SHIELD says goodbye to 2013, it gave us many things. It brought together a lot ...
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Let's End The Day With Something Beautiful, Shall We?

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

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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He's Not The King Of Monsters, He's Their God

He's Not The King Of Monsters, He's Their God

Despite the fact that I thought Pacific Rim was a load of hot garbage , I'm a big fan of monster movies, and you literally don'...
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Lord Of The Crumbs

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

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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[Review] - Atlantis, Series 1 Episode 10, "The Price of Hope"

[Review] - Atlantis, Series 1 Episode 10, "The Price of Hope"

Courtesy of the BBC In response to this week's episode, I ask Howard Overman and the producers of Atlantis a simple question: what ...
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A Group of Crowes Is Called A Murder

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

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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[Review] - Ottawa Pop Expo, Winter 2013

Photo by the author I asked the question, what is the difference between a "comic-con" and a "fan/pop expo?" The dif...
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Ottawa Pops This Weekend

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

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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Exploding Whales: A Retrospective

Exploding Whales: A Retrospective

Dead things rot; this is the way of things. Be they walnuts, cartons of milk, or expired whales, eventually the build up of gases reache...
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The Amazish Spider-man

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

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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Suck It, Liberal Arts

From XKCD I don't usually pay attention to dictionary announcements this time of year. You know, when the publisher try to look hip ...
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He Is Here

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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Which One Is Tubbs?

Which One Is Tubbs?

The January 13th premiere of Archer is getting closer, and the marketing is beginning to ramp up (although, they started with the Top Gu...
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I Was Having Problems, So Here's This

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

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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[Review] - Atlantis, Series 1 Episode 9,

[Review] - Atlantis, Series 1 Episode 9, "Pandora's Box"

Courtesy of the BBC Atlantis returns after a week off, and unfortunately it didn't return on a particularly high note. This week...
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I'm taking a personal day. I'm allowed that from time to time. What do you people want from me ? Naw, it's alright. I'l...
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