Last Week Tonight, From Last Sunday, Today MR. Clark 30.4.14 Add Comment Edit Last Week Tonight, with John Oliver premiered Sunday evening on HBO, and the cable channel has kindly made the episode available in it... Read More
Bob Hoskins Has Died MR. Clark 30.4.14 Add Comment Edit Bob Hoskins, has died at 71, having been suffering from pneumonia. The actor had announced his retirement in 2012 after being diagnosed ... Read More
[Review] - Agents of SHIELD, Season 1 Episode 20, "Nothing Personal" MR. Clark 30.4.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Marvel Television Studios On a weekly basis, this show rarely does itself any favours. This week is no different, but for... Read More
Will They Take Secretariat Out Back And Shoot Him? MR. Clark 29.4.14 Add Comment Edit Last night, Craig Ferguson made the above announcement on his Late Late Show , of which he has been the host for ten years. After the sur... Read More
[Review] - Continuum, Season 3 Episode 6, "Wasted Minute" MR. Clark 29.4.14 3 Comments Edit Courtesy of Reunion Pictures Well... there goes a perfectly good theory . And to think I spent upwards of half an hour thinking about wh... Read More
[Review] - Game Of Thrones, Season 4 Episode 4, "Oathkeeper" MR. Clark 29.4.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of HBO I've long advocated for the television series Game of Thrones to differentiate itself from the novels on which it i... Read More
[Review] - Hannibal, Season 2 Episode 9, "Shiizakana" MR. Clark 28.4.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Sony Pictures Television All this season, I've wanted to make a point of how well the production team on Hannibal has m... Read More
Think Of All The Dove Poop In His Sleeves MR. Clark 28.4.14 Add Comment Edit I'm a big fan of illusionists and magicians. I love the fact that there is entire profession out there that has been using methodical... Read More
[Review] - Particle Fever MR. Clark 28.4.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Anthos Media It is possible to tell the story of the toaster without ever having to tell the story of bread. This is not tha... Read More
Trailers Used To Come At The End, So... Here Are Some Trailers MR. Clark 25.4.14 1 Comment Edit Listen, it's the end of a week, it was a short week and those always screw me up, I'm tired, and I've got a good weekend ahe... Read More
There's No Going Home Again MR. Clark 25.4.14 Add Comment Edit Last week, there was a brief tissy among Hobbit fans that the title of the forthcoming third film was going to be changed when Warner B... Read More
[Analysis] - Who Killed Kiera Cameron? MR. Clark 25.4.14 1 Comment Edit It's not really a spoiler to say that season three of Continuum kicked off by killing Kiera Cameron. I mean, it happened in the firs... Read More
Clever Girl (This Quote Has Never Been More Appropriate) MR. Clark 24.4.14 Add Comment Edit Do you want a raptor of you very own? Well, too bad, the last Dromaeosauridae died out 66 million years ago. What you can have is a compl... Read More
Suddenly Thrown Back Into The Mix Together MR. Clark 24.4.14 Add Comment Edit Filming is underway in Hawaii on Jurassic World , the probably unnecessary sequel to my favourite film, which frustratingly gets more in... Read More
[Review] - Fargo, Season 1 Episode 2, "The Rooster Prince" MR. Clark 24.4.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of MGM Television Last week, I was as impressed as I was confounded by Fargo . Impressed because of the way the series was abl... Read More
You're Going To Die Burning, And I'm Going To Watch MR. Clark 23.4.14 Add Comment Edit Today might be Shakespeare's birthday. It's almost certainly the day he died. And I cannot think of a better way to celebrate his... Read More
HBO Orders Some Lame Duck MR. Clark 23.4.14 Add Comment Edit HBO knows when they've got a good thing going, and HBO is in a position to keep such things going. As such, the cable network has ord... Read More
[Review] - Agents of SHIELD, Season 1 Episode 19, "The Only Light in the Darkness" MR. Clark 23.4.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Marvel Television Studios And we're back to square one. What is it about this show that they can't seem to maintain ... Read More
The Hero We Deserve And The One We Need MR. Clark 22.4.14 Add Comment Edit Last week, we saw Bruce Timm's return to the world of the Animated Batman, in honour of the character's 75th birthday. Today, w... Read More
[Review] - Game Of Thrones, Season 4 Episode 3, "Breaker of Chains" MR. Clark 22.4.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of HBO Looking to deliver a eulogy/history lesson/birds-and-the-bees talk? Can't seem find an organic way to work all of th... Read More
[Review] - Hannibal, Season 2 Episode 8, "Su-zakana" MR. Clark 22.4.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Sony Pictures Television Annnd we're back. And back to square one in the brand new, softly rebooted Hannibal . With Will... Read More
Satan, that Ol' Jokester MR. Clark 18.4.14 Add Comment Edit I've been loving the hell out of FOX's Cosmos series, but almost immediately there were calls of inequity from the more southern... Read More
[Review] - Fargo, Season 1 Episode 1, "The Crocodile's Dilemma" MR. Clark 18.4.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of MGM Television The new darling in the cable television family is the anthology series. It makes a certain kind of sense: ca... Read More
[Analysis] - Marvel, Phase 3, And The Known Unknowns MR. Clark 18.4.14 Add Comment Edit With the release of Captain America: The Winter Soldier , Phase 2 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is nearer to its end than its origin. ... Read More
Hello, Old Friend MR. Clark 16.4.14 Add Comment Edit It took three increasingly impressive trailers from X-Men: Days Of Future Past for them to just straight up sell the plot. Kind of seem... Read More
Oh, I Know This One! The One Armed Man Did It! MR. Clark 16.4.14 Add Comment Edit I'm a fan of David Fincher, though my personal taste tends to fall into an every-other pattern with him. Happily, his upcoming film f... Read More
[Review] - Agents of SHIELD, Season 1 Episode 18, "Providence" MR. Clark 16.4.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Marvel Television Studios Well true believers, if you stuck with Agents of SHIELD this long, in hopes that you'd one d... Read More
It's A Bit More Than I Bargined For MR. Clark 15.4.14 Add Comment Edit I have said this before, and I will say this again many more times before I'm done: westerns are my favourite genre of film. Western ... Read More
[Review] - Continuum, Season 3 Episode 5, "30 Minutes To Air" MR. Clark 15.4.14 12 Comments Edit Courtesy of Relativity Media Just when you thought that the Freelancers explaining in pretty clear detail who and what they were wouldn&... Read More
[Review] - Game Of Thrones, Season 4 Episode 2, "The Lion And The Rose" MR. Clark 15.4.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of HBO Last week, to kick off another year of Game of Thrones , I spent most of my reviewing moaning and whining, "ugh, my... Read More
When You're Batman, Every Day Is A Strange Day MR. Clark 14.4.14 Add Comment Edit Beyond all attempts at argument, the best Batman is Bruce Timm's animated Batman. Better than any of the films, better than any vid... Read More
[Review] - Hannibal, Season 2 Episode 7, "Yakimono" MR. Clark 14.4.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Sony Pictures Television When discussing Justified , I noted that episode seven of a thirteen episode season is the fulcrum ... Read More
[Review] - I Don't Know What You Know Me From: Confessions Of A Co-Star, By Judy Greer MR. Clark 14.4.14 Add Comment Edit If you've spent more than a little time on this site, you might have noticed I mention Judy Greer at a greater frequency than most ot... Read More
My Guest List Includes NOBODY MR. Clark 11.4.14 Add Comment Edit The Party might be a long commercial for Smirnoff, but that can be overlooked considering that it is a short film starring Adam Scott an... Read More
Itchy Armpit it Is MR. Clark 11.4.14 Add Comment Edit If you weren't excited about How to Train Your Dragon 2 , this trailer should convince you. If this trailer doesn't convince you... Read More
[Opinion] - Hannibal And Agents Of SHIELD: Compare And Contrast MR. Clark 11.4.14 1 Comment Edit On the surface, NBC's Hannibal and ABC's Agents of SHIELD are not similar series, and do not lone themselves to comparison. B... Read More
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert [Updated] MR. Clark 10.4.14 Add Comment Edit Is something happening behind the scenes at Comedy Network that we don't know about. Because, first John Oliver ditches the Daily ... Read More
Guardians Guard A Little More Of The Galaxy, Everything Remains Awesome MR. Clark 10.4.14 Add Comment Edit Get More: Movie Trailers , Celebrity News Now that The Winter Soldier has upended the MCU , we have to wait until next spring bef... Read More
[Review] - Justified Season 5 Finale, Episode 13, "Restitution" MR. Clark 10.4.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Sony Pictures Television There was a dichotomy at work in this final episode of Justified 's fifth season. In some res... Read More
At Disney World, The Pirates Of The Caribbean Don't Eat The Tourists MR. Clark 9.4.14 Add Comment Edit The internet is occationally, mostly a horrible place. Full of the disappointed, disillusioned, and just plain dickish. But I've alw... Read More
First By Sea, Then By Land MR. Clark 9.4.14 Add Comment Edit I really have nothing to add to this extended look at Godzilla , other than I'm very much looking forward to this film. It's just... Read More
[Review] - Agents of SHIELD, Season 1 Episode 17, "Turn, Turn, Turn" MR. Clark 9.4.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Marvel Television Studios So... Sitwell really wasn't the Clairvoyant. This week, SHIELD finally accomplished what w... Read More
Don't Thank Me Until You See It MR. Clark 8.4.14 Add Comment Edit There are other films coming out this year that I'm looking forward to seeing, but maybe none that I'm more interested in than C... Read More
[Review] - Continuum, Season 3 Episode 4, "Minute Changes" [Updated] MR. Clark 8.4.14 2 Comments Edit Courtesy of Relativity Media. [Update: there appears to be some disagreement as to the proper name of this episode. Showcase identifies ... Read More
[Review] - Game Of Thrones, Season 4 Episode 1, "Two Swords" MR. Clark 8.4.14 2 Comments Edit Previously on Game of Thrones ... And now, on Game of Thrones ... Read More
[Review] - Hannibal, Season 2 Episode 6, "Futamono" MR. Clark 7.4.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Sony Pictures Television I watched two films last Friday. One was Captain America: The Winter Soldier , the other was the ne... Read More
[Review] - Captain America: The Winter Soldier MR. Clark 7.4.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Marvel Studios Consider this the dissenting opinion: I didn't like The Winter Soldier . Or rather, more about it bothere... Read More
John Pinette Has Died MR. Clark 7.4.14 Add Comment Edit John Pinette has died at the age of 50, in Pittsburgh. Natural causes have been confirmed as the cause. Pinette was best known for his fr... Read More
Outlaw Dinosaur Country MR. Clark 4.4.14 Add Comment Edit Dammit, Jurassic World , stop becoming increasingly interesting! The Hollywood Reporter reports that Archer 's Judy Greer, and Mer... Read More
Angry Is As Angry Does MR. Clark 4.4.14 Add Comment Edit Robin Williams has a new movie coming out, and that's always a time to pause and wonder if it'll be good or if it really won'... Read More
Seven Minutes In Fargo MR. Clark 4.4.14 Add Comment Edit FX has released the first seven minutes of their new limited series, Fargo . Just enough to establish the tone, a couple of the character... Read More
Aardman Still Does It Better MR. Clark 3.4.14 Add Comment Edit Shaun the Sheep is tehnically a spinoff from the Wallace and Gromit short, A Close Shave . Like everything Aardman does, the series is... Read More
This Is Funko's Design MR. Clark 3.4.14 Add Comment Edit I've appreciated Funko's POP! Vinyl line of licensed characters from a distance. The sheer range of the collection is inspiring, ... Read More
[Review] - Justified, Season 5 Episode 12, "Starvation" MR. Clark 3.4.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Sony Picture Television The penultimate episodes of Justified tend to be doozies. Not that the finales don't pack punch... Read More
Something's Hickey MR. Clark 2.4.14 Add Comment Edit This isn't news, but this past weekend I was watching Airplane! (because you don't need an explanation for doing so), and was s... Read More
[Review] - Agents of SHIELD, Season 1 Episode 16, "End of the Beginning" MR. Clark 2.4.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Marvel Television Productions A new episode of SHIELD , you say? And a good one to boot? What trickery is this? Where is the... Read More
[Review] - Continuum, Season 3 Episode 3, "Minute To Win It" MR. Clark 2.4.14 5 Comments Edit Courtesy of Reunion Pictures One of the aspects of the series that impressed me early on was how it ignored the ease in which it could h... Read More