Spider-men

Spider-men

Back a few years ago, when Marc Webb was casting what would ultimately become his directionless and empty-shirted Amazing Spider-man s...
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Lake Bell Will Work With Children

Lake Bell Will Work With Children

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...
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Last Of The Difficult Pants

Last Of The Difficult Pants

While reviewing season two, I think I made it clear that Aaron Sorkin's Newsroom made many improvements over the weaknesses of seaso...
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[Review] - Doctor Who, Series 8 Episode 1, "Deep Breath"

[Review] - Doctor Who, Series 8 Episode 1, "Deep Breath"

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...
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[Review] - Walking With Dinosauress: The Arena Spectacular

[Review] - Walking With Dinosauress: The Arena Spectacular

Walking with Dinosaurs was, probably, the most influential modern programme about dinosaurs outside of Jurassic Park . It helped that it...
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Richard Attenborough Has Died

Richard Attenborough Has Died

Richard Attenborough, Baron Attenborough of Richmond upon Thames, has died at the age of 90. Known as Dickie, Attenborough had a career w...
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Ron Might Be In Something... I'm Not Entirely Sure

Ron Might Be In Something... I'm Not Entirely Sure

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...
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Some Things Are Unforgivable

Some Things Are Unforgivable

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&...
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[List] - 8 More Of The Best Logo Gags

[List] - 8 More Of The Best Logo Gags

From  Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? A while back, I highlighted some of my favourite instances of directors having fun with the compa...
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The Only Way I Can Solve A Rubik's Cube Is To Throw It Out The Window On The Highway

The Only Way I Can Solve A Rubik's Cube Is To Throw It Out The Window On The Highway

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...
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Marvel Acts Small, Casts Big

Marvel Acts Small, Casts Big

Ant-man officially entered production on Monday, and Marvel was quick to release an official image from the film, if only to prove that...
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We Need A New Word To Describe The Discovery Of "New" Extinct Species

We Need A New Word To Describe The Discovery Of "New" Extinct Species

Whenever you deal with topics as complex as those that science encompasses, there is always going to be a division between what the train...
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Time Grows Closer

Time Grows Closer

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...
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine Says What Regular Cop Shows Are Thinking

Brooklyn Nine-Nine Says What Regular Cop Shows Are Thinking

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...
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The Slightly Earlier Show, With Craig Ferguson

The Slightly Earlier Show, With Craig Ferguson

Despite his claims to the contrary, since Craig Ferguson announced that he was leaving The Late Late Show , I've had the feeling tha...
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"Grooting" Needs To Become A Thing

"Grooting" Needs To Become A Thing

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...
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Character Actors Are People Too. Just, You Know, In Supporting Roles

Character Actors Are People Too. Just, You Know, In Supporting Roles

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...
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A Terrible Offspring Of Our Pride Will Get What's Coming To It

A Terrible Offspring Of Our Pride Will Get What's Coming To It

As I mentioned last month , the RiffTrax kickstarter to unlock the 1998 Roland Emmerich travesty Godzilla  for live riffing was a wild s...
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Redecoration

Redecoration

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...
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Somber Thoughts

Somber Thoughts

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...
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I'm Taking A Long Weekend

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...
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In Space, No One Can Hear the Gender Inequality

In Space, No One Can Hear the Gender Inequality

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...
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The Internet Just Solved Bigfoot

The Internet Just Solved Bigfoot

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 ...
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[Analysis] - Marvel Phase 3 And Beyond, Part 2: Do We Really Know Anything?

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...
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I Ain't 'Fraid Of No Ghosts

I Ain't 'Fraid Of No Ghosts

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...
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Another Long Dark Tea-time Of The Soul Approaches

With no trace of hyperbole, there is no single person who has had more of an impact on me, professionally, personally, and philosophicall...
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Home Is Where You Don't Die Of Oxygen Deprivation

Home Is Where You Don't Die Of Oxygen Deprivation

Evolution is fantastic at Research and Development. It's all it does, really Constantly testing little tweaks to an existing model, u...
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Science Can Be Sexy

Science Can Be Sexy

Instead of a culture obsessed with vapid, empty, peer-approval desperate, self-confidence hollowing schlock like pretty much every magazi...
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In This Hollywood Town, You Can't Trust Anybodies

In This Hollywood Town, You Can't Trust Anybodies

Before the release of Muppets Most Wanted , I championed the return of a modern Muppet show, off the success of the celebrity infused ma...
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[Analysis] - Guardians Of The Galaxy, With Spoilers [Updated]

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...
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BREAKING NEWS (From Yesterday): Marvel Will Introduce The Greatest Character In Its Catalogue

BREAKING NEWS (From Yesterday): Marvel Will Introduce The Greatest Character In Its Catalogue

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 ...
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Is This Real Or Are You Making A Film?

Is This Real Or Are You Making A Film?

I've been hearing things about Birdman for a while now, but I hadn't really been paying attention until this full trailer appeare...
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[Review] - Guardians Of The Galaxy

[Review] - Guardians Of The Galaxy

With Guardians of the Galaxy , I feel that Marvel finally has an answer to the increasing number of complaints concerning how bogged down...
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