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Bob Hoskins Has Died
Bob Hoskins, has died at 71, having been suffering from pneumonia. The actor had announced his retirement in 2012 after being diagnosed ...
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Will They Take Secretariat Out Back And Shoot Him?
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...
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[Review] - Continuum, Season 3 Episode 6, "Wasted Minute"
Courtesy of Reunion Pictures Well... there goes a perfectly good theory . And to think I spent upwards of half an hour thinking about wh...
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[Review] - Hannibal, Season 2 Episode 9, "Shiizakana"
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...
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Think Of All The Dove Poop In His Sleeves
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...
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Trailers Used To Come At The End, So... Here Are Some Trailers
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...
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There's No Going Home Again
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...
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[Analysis] - Who Killed Kiera Cameron?
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...
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Clever Girl (This Quote Has Never Been More Appropriate)
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...
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Suddenly Thrown Back Into The Mix Together
Filming is underway in Hawaii on Jurassic World , the probably unnecessary sequel to my favourite film, which frustratingly gets more in...
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You're Going To Die Burning, And I'm Going To Watch
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...
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HBO Orders Some Lame Duck
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...
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The Hero We Deserve And The One We Need
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...
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[Review] - Game Of Thrones, Season 4 Episode 3, "Breaker of Chains"
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...
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Satan, that Ol' Jokester
I've been loving the hell out of FOX's Cosmos series, but almost immediately there were calls of inequity from the more southern...
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[Review] - Fargo, Season 1 Episode 1, "The Crocodile's Dilemma"
Courtesy of MGM Television The new darling in the cable television family is the anthology series. It makes a certain kind of sense: ca...
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Hello, Old Friend
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...
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Oh, I Know This One! The One Armed Man Did It!
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...
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It's A Bit More Than I Bargined For
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 ...
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[Review] - Continuum, Season 3 Episode 5, "30 Minutes To Air"
Courtesy of Relativity Media Just when you thought that the Freelancers explaining in pretty clear detail who and what they were wouldn&...
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When You're Batman, Every Day Is A Strange Day
Beyond all attempts at argument, the best Batman is Bruce Timm's animated Batman. Better than any of the films, better than any vid...
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[Review] - Hannibal, Season 2 Episode 7, "Yakimono"
Courtesy of Sony Pictures Television When discussing Justified , I noted that episode seven of a thirteen episode season is the fulcrum ...
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My Guest List Includes NOBODY
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...
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Itchy Armpit it Is
If you weren't excited about How to Train Your Dragon 2 , this trailer should convince you. If this trailer doesn't convince you...
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The Late Show With Stephen Colbert [Updated]
Is something happening behind the scenes at Comedy Network that we don't know about. Because, first John Oliver ditches the Daily ...
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Guardians Guard A Little More Of The Galaxy, Everything Remains Awesome
Get More: Movie Trailers , Celebrity News Now that The Winter Soldier has upended the MCU , we have to wait until next spring bef...
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At Disney World, The Pirates Of The Caribbean Don't Eat The Tourists
The internet is occationally, mostly a horrible place. Full of the disappointed, disillusioned, and just plain dickish. But I've alw...
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First By Sea, Then By Land
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...
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Don't Thank Me Until You See It
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...
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[Review] - Continuum, Season 3 Episode 4, "Minute Changes" [Updated]
Courtesy of Relativity Media. [Update: there appears to be some disagreement as to the proper name of this episode. Showcase identifies ...
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[Review] - Hannibal, Season 2 Episode 6, "Futamono"
Courtesy of Sony Pictures Television I watched two films last Friday. One was Captain America: The Winter Soldier , the other was the ne...
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[Review] - Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Courtesy of Marvel Studios Consider this the dissenting opinion: I didn't like The Winter Soldier . Or rather, more about it bothere...
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Outlaw Dinosaur Country
Dammit, Jurassic World , stop becoming increasingly interesting! The Hollywood Reporter reports that Archer 's Judy Greer, and Mer...
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Angry Is As Angry Does
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'...
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Aardman Still Does It Better
Shaun the Sheep is tehnically a spinoff from the Wallace and Gromit short, A Close Shave . Like everything Aardman does, the series is...
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This Is Funko's Design
I've appreciated Funko's POP! Vinyl line of licensed characters from a distance. The sheer range of the collection is inspiring, ...
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Something's Hickey
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...
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[Review] - Agents of SHIELD, Season 1 Episode 16, "End of the Beginning"
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...
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[Review] - Continuum, Season 3 Episode 3, "Minute To Win It"
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...
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