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[Review] - Doctor Who, Series 8 Episode 6, "The Caretaker"

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Courtesy of the BBC I choose to view it as a positive that Steven Moffat is getting so many co-writing credits on episodes this season. ...

Pelvic Thrust For Science!

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I know that liking Nikola Tesla has become one of those internet hipster things, but I genuinely appreciate the man as a scientist and t...

[Review] - Calvary

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Courtesy of Reprisal Films The McDonagh household must be a font of ideas. Not just narratives, but of discussion. Between Martin ( In B...

In Space, No One Can See You Fire Breaking Thrusters and Gradually Come To A Carefully Maneuvered Halt

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Guardians of the Galaxy took a lot of completely fair influence from Star Wars , as has every science fiction movie, and most fantasy mo...

It's A Three Magic Shop Kind Of Town

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In Colon, Michigan, an 80 year old annual gathering of magicians from around the world, called Abbott’s Magic Get Together, has given th...

Three Space Cowboys Walk Into A Bar

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I said in my review of Guardians of the Galaxy that it had the potential to be for certain of the younger members of the audience what ...

Wishing Doesn''t Make It So

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Image by Mathias Pedersen . Last week, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics held a debate on Pluto's dwarf planet designa...

The One Where It's Been A Long Time

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Friends turned twenty the other day (which, by the way, I feel old), and to signify that moment, Comedy Central UK has produced a pretty...

[Review] - Agents Of SHIELD, Season 2 Episode 1, "Shadows"

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Courtesy of Marvel Television Productions Why yes, I am a glutton for punishment. Why do you ask? When coming off what could generousl...

[Review] - Doctor Who, Series 8 Episode 5, "Time Heist"

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Courtesy of the BBC. I feel so bad for Stephen Thompson. When anyone mentions Sherlock , they make mention of Moffat and Gatiss in the s...

Justified Saved The Best Cowboy For Last

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Justified is currently moving into production on it's sixth and final season, which is a decision I applauded. As much as I love the...

[Review] - The Trip To Italy

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Courtesy of BBC Films I've done this one in the opposite order. Last time, when BBC unveiled The Trip , a unique series which follo...

There Are Still Reasons To Look Forward To DC News

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With all the malarkey inherent to DC Comics' cinematic efforts, I've long endorsed that they should focus their efforts on TV, wh...

Still No Smurf Cats, Thankfully

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I'm not the biggest fan of James Cameron, but when art inspires science and science inspires art, I rarely have any complaints. In th...

United They Remain

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Yesterday, in a vote of historic turnout, Scotland voted whether to remain a part of the United Kingdom, or to become a truly independent ...

Looks Like They're Dragging This One Out

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I like and have a lot of respect for Aaron Sorkin, but sometimes it's a lot harder to like him as an artist rather than just an admir...

Exit Off The I-495, Straight Onto Network TV

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If you'd told me that there would be not one, but two Chevy Chase related stories this week, I'd have said you were either a craz...

One Last Kick At The Overly Long Can

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I haven't been overwhelmed by the promotional work on the Hobbit movies. The trailers have been alright (the latest is pretty fanta...

[Review] - Doctor Who, Series 8 Episode 4, "Listen"

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Courtesy of the BBC When a show runs for as long as Doctor Who has, it runs the risk of occasionally producing an episode that reminds ...

Everything IS Better With A Little Chumbawamba

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This compilation of all the times Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) fell over on Buffy is both funny, and illustrative of a running gag on the...

[Review] - Lewis Black: The Rant Is Due

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For a man who has structured his on-stage persona as being the last angry man, the modern world is a treasure trove of material for a co...

Just Go With It

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And now, Nick Offerman offers advice to college freshmen, regarding an issue of an intimate nature. Listen, just do what he says. Either i...

Dr. Lecter In Love

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Last year, a potentially amazing storyline in Hannibal had to be cut short because Gillian Anderson was the lead in two entirely differe...

A Tune 65 Million Years In the Humming

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I'm sure there is a grad student out there somewhere with a thesis paper that explains why human beings are unable to hear a repeate...

If The Internet Doesn't Scar Memories Of Your Childhood At Least Once A Day, It's Not Doing It's Job

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Some quick backstory: Disney bought the rights to Gary K. Wolf's Who Censored Roger Rabbit in the earlier 1980s, shortly after publi...

This Could Be The Continuation Of A Beautiful Friendship

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After Veronica Mars went and made a big deal about Kickstarting, it was suggested that Ryan Hansen might be getting his own spinoff . Th...

Penny Dreadful To Get Even Pennier. Wait...

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Despite not bringing in remarkable numbers across all eight of it's season one episodes, Penny Dreadful 's critical reception was...

[Review] - Doctor Who, Series 8 Episode 3, "Robots of Sherwood"

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Courtesy of the BBC Robin Hood is always a risk, because it has been done well and it has been done poorly, and tends to lend itself tow...

Good Things To Come

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Despite some very minor issues, one of the highlights of last year was the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere . An...

Is Violence Less Violent If It's Bloodless?

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This weekend, as I saw Guardians of the Galaxy for the third time, I suddenly noticed how much cussing there is in it. During interview...

Let's Get A Glue Stick And Lock This Down

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The last trailer for Horrible Bosses 2 didn't inspire much confidence in me, that it wouldn't ultimately be just a retread of al...

If You Have A Name Like Dreadnought, You'd Better Live Up To It

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Ready folks, because it's time to break out the superlatives. With a rush of adjectives such as "colossal", "supermass...

Now I Miss Leslie Again

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This is a promotional commercial for Wisconsin tourism. Starring Robert Hays and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. From Airplane! Riffing on Airplan...

You Can't Sit On Hair. That's Ridiculous

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I'm trying to figure out if this Sesame Street segment, featuring John Oliver and Cookie Monsters as news reporters, and also featu...

How To Eventually Continue To Train Your Dragon

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Success shouldn't be as subjective a word as it is. You murder an evil Nazi zombie space ape, you succeed. It consumes your flesh, fo...

Amazon Looks To The Wild Blue Yonder

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Occasionally, there are actors who fulfill roles to such perfection, that it is inconceivable that anyone else could possibly play the ch...

[Review] - Doctor Who, Series 8 Episode 2, "Into The Dalek"

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Courtesy of the BBC So, second episode into a new series, and we're over introductions now. Well, mostly. Point is, we can get beyon...

Looks Like That Was A Summer Well Spent

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The first trailer for Jon Stewart's Rosewater has arrived. Set for a November release, first it'll see a release at the upcoming...

[Review] - Life Itself

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Courtesy of Kartemquin Films Documentaries are hard things to review, for me at least. Unlike a traditional film, documentaries set out ...

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