Spider-men MR. Clark 27.8.14 Add Comment Edit Back a few years ago, when Marc Webb was casting what would ultimately become his directionless and empty-shirted Amazing Spider-man s... Read More
Lake Bell Will Work With Children MR. Clark 27.8.14 Add Comment Edit Last year, Lake Bell's directorial debut, In A World... was released to much fan fair. I, for one, loved it . Bell clearly has a ha... Read More
Last Of The Difficult Pants MR. Clark 27.8.14 Add Comment Edit While reviewing season two, I think I made it clear that Aaron Sorkin's Newsroom made many improvements over the weaknesses of seaso... Read More
[Review] - Doctor Who, Series 8 Episode 1, "Deep Breath" MR. Clark 25.8.14 Add Comment Edit Here we go again, as Madame Vastra so ably put it. A new series, a new title card, a slightly new TARDIS interior, an absolutely new Doc... Read More
[Review] - Walking With Dinosauress: The Arena Spectacular MR. Clark 25.8.14 Add Comment Edit Walking with Dinosaurs was, probably, the most influential modern programme about dinosaurs outside of Jurassic Park . It helped that it... Read More
Richard Attenborough Has Died MR. Clark 25.8.14 Add Comment Edit Richard Attenborough, Baron Attenborough of Richmond upon Thames, has died at the age of 90. Known as Dickie, Attenborough had a career w... Read More
Ron Might Be In Something... I'm Not Entirely Sure MR. Clark 22.8.14 Add Comment Edit Every year, around this time, the world is treated to a brief moment of pure joy, as the Parks and Rec blooper reel is released in advan... Read More
Some Things Are Unforgivable MR. Clark 22.8.14 Add Comment Edit 15 years ago, Kate Holmes was in Teaching Mrs. Tingle , where a bunch of students try to... kill a teacher, if I remember correctly. It&... Read More
[List] - 8 More Of The Best Logo Gags MR. Clark 22.8.14 Add Comment Edit From Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? A while back, I highlighted some of my favourite instances of directors having fun with the compa... Read More
The Only Way I Can Solve A Rubik's Cube Is To Throw It Out The Window On The Highway MR. Clark 20.8.14 Add Comment Edit Back in 2011, Penn and Teller had a fantastic show on ITV called Fool Us , where magicians would perform in front of the skeptical duo, a... Read More
Marvel Acts Small, Casts Big MR. Clark 20.8.14 Add Comment Edit Ant-man officially entered production on Monday, and Marvel was quick to release an official image from the film, if only to prove that... Read More
We Need A New Word To Describe The Discovery Of "New" Extinct Species MR. Clark 20.8.14 Add Comment Edit Whenever you deal with topics as complex as those that science encompasses, there is always going to be a division between what the train... Read More
Time Grows Closer MR. Clark 18.8.14 Add Comment Edit We're a week away from the premiere of series 8 of Doctor Who , and the BBC have finally gotten around to releasing the episode title... Read More
Brooklyn Nine-Nine Says What Regular Cop Shows Are Thinking MR. Clark 18.8.14 Add Comment Edit As much as the dip in quality that Parks and Rec took last season bothered me, it might have been understandable considering that the fo... Read More
The Slightly Earlier Show, With Craig Ferguson MR. Clark 18.8.14 Add Comment Edit Despite his claims to the contrary, since Craig Ferguson announced that he was leaving The Late Late Show , I've had the feeling tha... Read More
"Grooting" Needs To Become A Thing MR. Clark 15.8.14 Add Comment Edit And for once, it probably won't be dirty. I'll put the business of the post after the jump, because it does spoiler one of the be... Read More
Character Actors Are People Too. Just, You Know, In Supporting Roles MR. Clark 15.8.14 Add Comment Edit It must speak to my own interests and attentions, that I recognized every person in this video. I've always been impressed more by ch... Read More
[List] - Marvel Roles Best Suited For Nathan Fillion MR. Clark 15.8.14 Add Comment Edit Ever since Joss Whedon was announced as director of Avengers , the internet has been clamoring for Nathan Fillion to be cast in a Marvel ... Read More
A Terrible Offspring Of Our Pride Will Get What's Coming To It MR. Clark 13.8.14 Add Comment Edit As I mentioned last month , the RiffTrax kickstarter to unlock the 1998 Roland Emmerich travesty Godzilla for live riffing was a wild s... Read More
Redecoration MR. Clark 13.8.14 2 Comments Edit Amazing as it may seem, we're just over a week away from the 23rd of August premiere of series 8 of Doctor Who , featuring Peter Capal... Read More
Somber Thoughts MR. Clark 13.8.14 Add Comment Edit Late Monday, the world learned that Robin Williams had died, and it was a coarse, stark reminder of what real grief feels like. Because a... Read More
I'm Taking A Long Weekend MR. Clark 11.8.14 Add Comment Edit True, last weekend was an actual long weekend (in Canada, at least), and true on that occasion I both managed to watch a live panda consu... Read More
In Space, No One Can Hear the Gender Inequality MR. Clark 8.8.14 Add Comment Edit Lego has a problem, and that problem is a tiny, yellow, plastic Y chromosome. As I may have mentioned before, Lego has woefully under rep... Read More
The Internet Just Solved Bigfoot MR. Clark 8.8.14 3 Comments Edit Bigfoot bothers me. So does the skunk-ape, and the yeti, and other cryptids that that sort. Because, to be perfectly frank, if they were ... Read More
[Analysis] - Marvel Phase 3 And Beyond, Part 2: Do We Really Know Anything? MR. Clark 8.8.14 Add Comment Edit Let's try this again, shall we? Following the release of Captain America: The Winter Soldier , I put together what at the time I be... Read More
I Ain't 'Fraid Of No Ghosts MR. Clark 6.8.14 Add Comment Edit Let's get this out of the way straight off: there are no such things as ghosts. Like fairies in the garden (it's squirrels and fir... Read More
Another Long Dark Tea-time Of The Soul Approaches MR. Clark 6.8.14 Add Comment Edit With no trace of hyperbole, there is no single person who has had more of an impact on me, professionally, personally, and philosophicall... Read More
Home Is Where You Don't Die Of Oxygen Deprivation MR. Clark 6.8.14 Add Comment Edit Evolution is fantastic at Research and Development. It's all it does, really Constantly testing little tweaks to an existing model, u... Read More
Science Can Be Sexy MR. Clark 4.8.14 Add Comment Edit Instead of a culture obsessed with vapid, empty, peer-approval desperate, self-confidence hollowing schlock like pretty much every magazi... Read More
In This Hollywood Town, You Can't Trust Anybodies MR. Clark 4.8.14 Add Comment Edit Before the release of Muppets Most Wanted , I championed the return of a modern Muppet show, off the success of the celebrity infused ma... Read More
[Analysis] - Guardians Of The Galaxy, With Spoilers [Updated] MR. Clark 4.8.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Marvel This past weekend saw the release of Guardians of the Galaxy . I thought it was great , but was very careful in my re... Read More
BREAKING NEWS (From Yesterday): Marvel Will Introduce The Greatest Character In Its Catalogue MR. Clark 1.8.14 Add Comment Edit Yuuuup... I really hate posting two things about Marvel on the same day, but I can't not mention this, when I've been such an ... Read More
Is This Real Or Are You Making A Film? MR. Clark 1.8.14 Add Comment Edit I've been hearing things about Birdman for a while now, but I hadn't really been paying attention until this full trailer appeare... Read More
[Review] - Guardians Of The Galaxy MR. Clark 1.8.14 Add Comment Edit With Guardians of the Galaxy , I feel that Marvel finally has an answer to the increasing number of complaints concerning how bogged down... Read More