[Review] - Doctor Who, Series 8 Episode 6, "The Caretaker" MR. Clark 30.9.14 Add Comment Edit 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. ... Read More
Pelvic Thrust For Science! MR. Clark 30.9.14 Add Comment Edit 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... Read More
[Review] - Calvary MR. Clark 30.9.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Reprisal Films The McDonagh household must be a font of ideas. Not just narratives, but of discussion. Between Martin ( In B... Read More
In Space, No One Can See You Fire Breaking Thrusters and Gradually Come To A Carefully Maneuvered Halt MR. Clark 26.9.14 Add Comment Edit Guardians of the Galaxy took a lot of completely fair influence from Star Wars , as has every science fiction movie, and most fantasy mo... Read More
It's A Three Magic Shop Kind Of Town MR. Clark 26.9.14 Add Comment Edit In Colon, Michigan, an 80 year old annual gathering of magicians from around the world, called Abbott’s Magic Get Together, has given th... Read More
Three Space Cowboys Walk Into A Bar MR. Clark 26.9.14 Add Comment Edit 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 ... Read More
Wishing Doesn''t Make It So MR. Clark 24.9.14 Add Comment Edit Image by Mathias Pedersen . Last week, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics held a debate on Pluto's dwarf planet designa... Read More
The One Where It's Been A Long Time MR. Clark 24.9.14 Add Comment Edit 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... Read More
[Review] - Agents Of SHIELD, Season 2 Episode 1, "Shadows" MR. Clark 24.9.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Marvel Television Productions Why yes, I am a glutton for punishment. Why do you ask? When coming off what could generousl... Read More
[Review] - Doctor Who, Series 8 Episode 5, "Time Heist" MR. Clark 22.9.14 Add Comment Edit 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... Read More
Justified Saved The Best Cowboy For Last MR. Clark 22.9.14 Add Comment Edit 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... Read More
[Review] - The Trip To Italy MR. Clark 22.9.14 Add Comment Edit 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... Read More
There Are Still Reasons To Look Forward To DC News MR. Clark 19.9.14 Add Comment Edit With all the malarkey inherent to DC Comics' cinematic efforts, I've long endorsed that they should focus their efforts on TV, wh... Read More
Still No Smurf Cats, Thankfully MR. Clark 19.9.14 Add Comment Edit 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... Read More
United They Remain MR. Clark 19.9.14 Add Comment Edit Yesterday, in a vote of historic turnout, Scotland voted whether to remain a part of the United Kingdom, or to become a truly independent ... Read More
Looks Like They're Dragging This One Out MR. Clark 17.9.14 Add Comment Edit 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... Read More
Exit Off The I-495, Straight Onto Network TV MR. Clark 17.9.14 Add Comment Edit 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... Read More
One Last Kick At The Overly Long Can MR. Clark 16.9.14 Add Comment Edit I haven't been overwhelmed by the promotional work on the Hobbit movies. The trailers have been alright (the latest is pretty fanta... Read More
[Review] - Doctor Who, Series 8 Episode 4, "Listen" MR. Clark 15.9.14 Add Comment Edit 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 ... Read More
Everything IS Better With A Little Chumbawamba MR. Clark 15.9.14 Add Comment Edit 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... Read More
[Review] - Lewis Black: The Rant Is Due MR. Clark 15.9.14 1 Comment Edit 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... Read More
Just Go With It MR. Clark 12.9.14 Add Comment Edit And now, Nick Offerman offers advice to college freshmen, regarding an issue of an intimate nature. Listen, just do what he says. Either i... Read More
Dr. Lecter In Love MR. Clark 12.9.14 Add Comment Edit Last year, a potentially amazing storyline in Hannibal had to be cut short because Gillian Anderson was the lead in two entirely differe... Read More
A Tune 65 Million Years In the Humming MR. Clark 12.9.14 Add Comment Edit 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... Read More
If The Internet Doesn't Scar Memories Of Your Childhood At Least Once A Day, It's Not Doing It's Job MR. Clark 10.9.14 Add Comment Edit Some quick backstory: Disney bought the rights to Gary K. Wolf's Who Censored Roger Rabbit in the earlier 1980s, shortly after publi... Read More
This Could Be The Continuation Of A Beautiful Friendship MR. Clark 10.9.14 Add Comment Edit After Veronica Mars went and made a big deal about Kickstarting, it was suggested that Ryan Hansen might be getting his own spinoff . Th... Read More
Penny Dreadful To Get Even Pennier. Wait... MR. Clark 10.9.14 Add Comment Edit Despite not bringing in remarkable numbers across all eight of it's season one episodes, Penny Dreadful 's critical reception was... Read More
[Review] - Doctor Who, Series 8 Episode 3, "Robots of Sherwood" MR. Clark 8.9.14 Add Comment Edit 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... Read More
Good Things To Come MR. Clark 8.9.14 Add Comment Edit Despite some very minor issues, one of the highlights of last year was the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere . An... Read More
Is Violence Less Violent If It's Bloodless? MR. Clark 8.9.14 Add Comment Edit 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... Read More
Let's Get A Glue Stick And Lock This Down MR. Clark 5.9.14 1 Comment Edit 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... Read More
If You Have A Name Like Dreadnought, You'd Better Live Up To It MR. Clark 5.9.14 Add Comment Edit Ready folks, because it's time to break out the superlatives. With a rush of adjectives such as "colossal", "supermass... Read More
Now I Miss Leslie Again MR. Clark 5.9.14 1 Comment Edit This is a promotional commercial for Wisconsin tourism. Starring Robert Hays and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. From Airplane! Riffing on Airplan... Read More
You Can't Sit On Hair. That's Ridiculous MR. Clark 3.9.14 Add Comment Edit I'm trying to figure out if this Sesame Street segment, featuring John Oliver and Cookie Monsters as news reporters, and also featu... Read More
How To Eventually Continue To Train Your Dragon MR. Clark 3.9.14 2 Comments Edit 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... Read More
Amazon Looks To The Wild Blue Yonder MR. Clark 3.9.14 Add Comment Edit Occasionally, there are actors who fulfill roles to such perfection, that it is inconceivable that anyone else could possibly play the ch... Read More
[Review] - Doctor Who, Series 8 Episode 2, "Into The Dalek" MR. Clark 1.9.14 Add Comment Edit 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... Read More
Looks Like That Was A Summer Well Spent MR. Clark 1.9.14 Add Comment Edit The first trailer for Jon Stewart's Rosewater has arrived. Set for a November release, first it'll see a release at the upcoming... Read More
[Review] - Life Itself MR. Clark 1.9.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Kartemquin Films Documentaries are hard things to review, for me at least. Unlike a traditional film, documentaries set out ... Read More