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You Wish You Had As Much Fun In Your Life As These Guys Do In Theirs

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It's the end of the week, a slow news day, and I started off talking about X-Men , so I might as well finish up with it. Here is a vi...

It'll Take You 20 Some Odd Years From Home, But Will It Reboot You?

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Courtesy of MGM In an odd bit of news, Roland Emmerich, a man renounced for not making good films, has announced that he and Dean Devli...

[Opinion] - The One Element An X-Men Movie Needs To Use, And Hasn't

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This past weekend saw the release of X-Men: Days of Future Past , and as I mentioned in my review , along with the original cast and the ...

Andy Dufresne Didn't Live For Fun, So His Brain Got Smart But His Head Got Dumb

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Have you ever asked yourself, "would that scene in Shawshank when Andy locks himself in the office and broadcasts classical music o...

They're All Dead

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When I read the first of the Strain books, I couldn't put it down. I thought it was fantastic. The whole first third of the book, or...

[Review] - Fargo, Season 1 Episode 7, "Who Shaves the Barber?"

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Courtesy of MGM After my review last week, I took a step back and looked at Fargo from a wider perspective. Because my review last week...

Marvel Has A Slightly Better Wednesday

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After the events of the weekend , Marvel needed a win. If it hadn't been for the fact that it was released in front of X-Men: Days o...

[Review] - Penny Dreadful, Season 1 Episode 3, "Resurrection"

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Courtesy of Neal Street Productions After two weeks of setting the stage, the game gets truly afoot this week. The characters are establ...

The Federal Government's Visual Acuity Is Based On Movement

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Fossil trafficking is a big problem in the world of paleontology. Every fossil discovered needs to be examined by experts, so it can be c...

He's Batman: He Can Breathe In Space

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LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham takes the entire Justice League into space. I don't understand why there has to be more text in this po...

[Review] - Continuum, Season 3 Episode 9, "Minute Of Silence"

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Courtesy of Reunion Pictures This week, the most significant event in the history of the series occurred: Kiera procured the affections ...

He's An All New Man

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The BBC has confirmed that the new series of Doctor Who will return in August, with Peter Capaldi at the helm. They have done so in a fr...

Marvel Had A Bad Weekend

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Late Friday, Marvel made the surprise announcement that Edgar Wright was stepping down from the director's chair on Ant-man . This wa...

[Review] - Hannibal Season 2 Finale, Episode 13, "Mizumono"

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I feel, in the aftermath of all that, that is is important to remember two things: first, the old cliche, "the villain is the hero o...

[Review] - X-Men: Days Of Future Past

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Courtesy of 20th Century FOX Time travel is that nifty little narrative device that allows for the possibility that mistakes of the pas...

When You Have To Adapt Every Single Mother Reader In A Bibliography, Accept No Substitutes

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Until recently , Elmore Leonard was my favourite living author. His writing, or rather his approach to writing, as had more of an influen...

A Machine That Generates Empathy

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That old cliche, "standing on the shoulders of giants," is something that every single putz who considers himself a film critic...

[Review] - Fargo, Season 1 Episode 6, "Buridan's Ass"

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Courtesy of MGM If last week's episode felt like a season finale, as I thought certain parts of it did, than this episode absolutel...

That Is A Great Big Pile Of Bones

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That's a scientist for you, always laying down on the job. For anyone interested in paleontology, one the more fascinating regions t...

You All Talk So Funny

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So, Matthew Vaughn is back with another film based on a comic book (following X-Men First Class and Kick Ass ). But really, aside from La...

[Review] - Penny Dreadful, Season 1 Episode 2, "Séance"

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Courtesy of Neal Street Productions It speaks to the quality of John Logan's Penny Dreadful that, two episodes in, the plot remains...

It's Kevorkianesque

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HBO has been surprisingly open with the content of John Oliver's Last Week Tonight , posting not whole episodes but complete segment...

I'm Going To Go To The Place That's The Best

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While the first trailer for James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy was all about introducing the characters and establishing the tone ...

[Review] - Game Of Thrones, Season 4 Episode 7, "Mockingbird"

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Courtesy of HBO Mockingbird is my favourite kind of episode of Game of Thrones : the kind where everyone sits around and talks. Some pe...

No Words... Should Have Sent A Cinematographer

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Christopher Nolan's new film supposedly draws influence from the writings of Kip Thorne. As someone who spent a not small part of hi...

[Review] - Hannibal, Season 2 Episode 12, "Tome-wan"

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Courtesy of Dino de Laurentiis Company And now the trap begins to close, the line grows taunt with investigation, and the game for Hann...

[Review] - Godzilla

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Courtesy of Legendary Pictures It has been 60 years since the original Gojira , 16 years since Roland Emmerich's disastrous film, an...

No Matter The Medium, He Remains The Night

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In a week where we got our first look at what Ben Affleck's Batman will look like in Batman Vs. Superman: Double Double, Toil and Tr...

[Opinion] - Where SHIELD Went Wrong

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All pictures courtesy of Marvel Television Studios Agents of SHIELD has finished it's first season, and against all the usual sens...

So, You're Sure There's A God, Then

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A new trailer for John Michael McDonagh’s new Irish drama, Calvary has been released, and it looks just as good now as it did the first ...

It Only Glows For Those With A Soldier's Heart

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Someone at the BBC decided the best way to advertise their tributes and coverage of WWI would be to make a sarcastic fake trailer based o...

[Review] - Fargo, Season 1 Episode 5, "The Six Ungraspables"

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Courtesy of MGM Television In the press build up to Fargo 's premiere, FX and writer Noah Hawley described it as a ten hour movie. ...

[Review] - Penny Dreadful, Season 1 Episode 1, "Night Work"

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Courtesy of Neal Street Productions On paper, it would be very difficult for me not to enjoy Penny Dreadful . Combining my favourite his...

That's A Lot Of Riffs

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Last summer's live Rifftrax of Starship Troopers was both one of the funniest riffs I've heard them do, but also one of the bes...

[Review] - Agents of SHIELD Season 1 Finale, Episode 22, "Beginning of the End"

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Courtesy of Marvel Television Studios It is only fitting for SHIELD to end it's first season with an offering that perfectly encap...

[Review] - Continuum, Season 3 Episode 8, "So Do Our Minutes Hasten"

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Courtesy of Reunion Pictures And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call a breaking point. Hit the jump for the review, which cont...

We Now Return To Regularly Scheduled Programming

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Daily readers (hello Kevin) might have noticed that yesterday's content stopped rather abruptly. This was due to a rather rude Techni...

[Review] - Game Of Thrones, Season 4 Episode 6, "The Laws of Gods and Men"

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Courtesy of HBO. So, apparently, the rule of law in Westeros is "guilty until proven so." There is no expectation of defense a...

It's "Tine" As In Fine, Not "Tine" As In Been

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Of the two DC related TV projects that will be coming to our screens next season, Constantine is the one I'm more looking forward t...

[Review] - Hannibal, Season 2 Episode 11, "Kō No Mono"

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Courtesy of the Dino de Laurentiis Company Well, let's get to the good news out of the way straight off: Hannibal has been picked up...

[Review] - Ottawa Comiccon, Summer 2014

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Via the Doctor Who Society of Canada , from the OCC Twitter . Because I couldn't be bothered The subtitle of Ottawa's an...

Brienne of Tarth Fighting Dinosaurs

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Some Fridays, I really put in an effort. Some Fridays, I'm so pumped for the weekend, all the creative juices get flowing in the rig...

Hail Hydra

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ABC has officially renewed Agents of SHIELD for a second season, as well as giving a series order to Agent Carter . Carter will be run ...

Pennies In The Bank

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This Sunday sees the premiere of John Logan and Sam Mendes' "psycho-sexual" Victorian thriller series, Penny Dreadful , a ...

Why the Long Face?

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That video is of a Walking With Dinosaurs Arena Spectacular dinosaur throwing out the first pitch at a San Diego Padres game, and it doe...

Wait For The Tap

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We're a couple weeks away form Seth McFarlane's A Million Ways To Die In The West , and they've released another red band tra...

[Review] - Fargo, Season 1 Episode 4, "Eating the Blame"

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Courtesy of MGM I continue to struggle with Fargo . It has moments of clear brilliance, but these are broken up between long periods of...

Someone On The POM Wonderful Legal Team Has A Sharp Sense Of Humour

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After last week's fantastic premiere of Last Week, Tonight , Jon Oliver has received his first bit of feedback in the form of an inc...

[Review] - Agents of SHIELD, Season 1 Episode 21, "Ragtag"

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Courtesy of Marvel Television Studios Let's all celebrate this episode for what it wasn't. It wasn't a redemption episode f...

Cause It Worked So Well With Smallville

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I've been saying for years that DC's properties would have a better chance on television than in films. That is, of course, depe...

Who Wants To See David Gregory Crying In the Corner All Night

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The White House Correspondents Dinner is, let's all just admit, weird. It's a night specifically set aside to prove that a bunch...

[Review] - Continuum, Season 3 Episode 7, "Waning Minutes"

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Courtesy of Reunion Pictures Kiera has had to make some difficult choices recently. And she's had some difficult choices made for h...

[Review] - Game Of Thrones, Season 4 Episode 5, "First of His Name"

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Courtesy of HBO Internet, you have only one task before you. If one has not been created by now, by end of business today I expect to se...

Eddie Izzard Interview On The Stream [Updated]

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The story thus far: last Thursday, I was invited to participate in an interview with comedian Eddie Izzard on the Al Jazeera English tal...

[Review] - Hannibal, Season 2 Episode 10, "Naka-Choko"

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Courtesy of Sony Pictures Television Well... even for Hannibal , that was weird. That was twisted and dark, and unexpected. And now we a...

[Review] - The Amazing Spider-man 2

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Courtesy of Sony Pictures One thing I won't do in this review is compare the film with the earlier Sam Raimi-directed films. When th...

First Of All, Don't Say Jelly. It's So Weird

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The folks over at How It Should Have Ended are always good for a laugh, pointing out the ridiculously obvious plot holes from popular fi...

Myself, I'm A "AMFOL"

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I haven't watched a new episode of the Simpsons since 2003, but I'll break that fast this Sunday when FOX will air the all Lego ...

[Review] - Fargo, Season 1 Episode 3, "A Muddy Road"

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Courtesy of MGM You ever know one of those guys, who only has one joke? And tells it over and over again. And it wasn't a particular...

Dangit, I Just Hit The Cat

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The Bad Lip Reading folks has struck again, going back to the well-that-keeps-on-giving that is the Twilight franchise, this time making...

Always Remember: Fear Nipples

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If you hadn't been able to put it together by now, Hannibal is probably my favourite show currently on TV. And two episodes ago , th...

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