New Year's Eve Is The Worst Holiday. Except For All The Others MR. Clark 31.12.14 Add Comment Edit Last Week Tonight returns with a new season on February 8th, but John Oliver and HBO have been tiding us over with occasional clips on Yo... Read More
Things Aren't As Bad As They Seem MR. Clark 30.12.14 Add Comment Edit I think Neil deGrasse Tyson has been officially challenged as the great modern communicator for science, and the title of the the Face of ... Read More
Points Off For Groot Being Awesome MR. Clark 30.12.14 Add Comment Edit Cinema Sins is something I can usually get behind. When they pick up on those tired cliches that get worn out in film after film, that is ... Read More
[Review] - The Imitation Game MR. Clark 30.12.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Black Bear Pictures Thank gods for Hitler. Wait, wait, I didn't mean it that way. I meant, thank gods that we have so... Read More
With Great Power Comes Great Terror MR. Clark 29.12.14 Add Comment Edit Penny Dreadful 's sophomore season is still an indeterminate number of months away, but Showtime wants to keep reminding us of it'... Read More
Let's Try This Again, Shall We Lego? MR. Clark 29.12.14 Add Comment Edit From Lego Ideas, by Alatariel Remember a while back , when Lego Ideas approved Ellen Kooijman's fantastic Lady Science sets (she c... Read More
[Review] - Doctor Who, 2014 Christmas Special, "Last Christmas" MR. Clark 29.12.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of the BBC. When Steven Moffat is being clever, he's really clever. For instance, many science fiction shows feel quite fre... Read More
Good Tidings MR. Clark 24.12.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of the BBC For those that might have forgotten, BBC Radio 4 is currently airing the Dirk Maggs adaptation of Good Omens , once ... Read More
Puny Seasonal Mascot MR. Clark 24.12.14 Add Comment Edit Remember kids, when sitting on Santa's lap, always check to make certain that he's a kindly old elf and not a genocidal purple mon... Read More
[Review] - The Newsroom, Season 3 Episode 5 And The Series Finale Episode 6, "Oh Shenandoah" And "What Kind of Day Has It Been" MR. Clark 24.12.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of HBO Let's get this over with, shall we? Hit the jump for the review, which contains spoilers that were almost certainl... Read More
[Review] - The Librarians, Season 1 Episodes 3 And 4, "And The Horns Of A Dilemma/And Santa's Midnight Run" MR. Clark 23.12.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Electric Entertainment The Librarians precursor, Leverage , was not shy about casting geek icons for each week's marks.... Read More
Laika Has Us By The Strings MR. Clark 23.12.14 Add Comment Edit Laika is officially the new studio that can do no wrong. In my mind, they are the company making the most interesting and the most succe... Read More
An Open Air Insane Asylum MR. Clark 23.12.14 Add Comment Edit Kill Me Three Times isn't a film that was on my radar until today. I'd seen the promotional image of Simon Pegg in mustache and s... Read More
This Is The Week That Was MR. Clark 22.12.14 Add Comment Edit I was unexpectedly gone last week, and I missed a few things that I wish I hadn't. Like being able to properly say goodbye to both The... Read More
Tis The Season That A Fat Man Watches You To See If You're Being Naughty MR. Clark 22.12.14 Add Comment Edit There is no end, every year, of updates and alterations to Twas The Night Before Christmas . But, like so many things in life, I think I ... Read More
[Review] - The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies MR. Clark 22.12.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of New Line Cinema What a horrible way to leave Middle-Earth behind. Until now, I've held out a hope that, in ten years tim... Read More
[Review] - Agents of SHIELD, Season 2 Episode 10, "What They Become" MR. Clark 11.12.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Marvel Television Studios When ABC gave SHIELD a second season, I was shocked. Frankly, I didn't think they deserved it... Read More
Next Summer, Pixar Puts The Foot Down MR. Clark 11.12.14 Add Comment Edit Disney has released a second teaser trailer for their next film, Inside Out , which explores the origins of human emotions inside the huma... Read More
[Review] - The Librarians, Season 1 Episodes 1 And 2, "And The Crown Of King Arthur/And The Sword In The Stone" MR. Clark 11.12.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Electric Entertainment The Librarian films, on which this series is based, are not good films. They aren't particularly... Read More
Zemeckis Walks the Walk MR. Clark 9.12.14 Add Comment Edit I have a conflicting relationship with the career of Robert Zemeckis. Back to the Future and Roger Rabbit are both modern classics and a... Read More
[Review] - Constantine, Season 1 Episode 7, "Blessed Are the Damned" MR. Clark 9.12.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Warner Bros Television Before we get into the particulars of this episode, I want to take a moment to give the appropriate k... Read More
Continuum Is Continu-Done MR. Clark 9.12.14 Add Comment Edit After months of waiting for official word, Showcase in Canada and Syfy in the US have announced that Continuum will return for a fourth ... Read More
[Review] - Agents of SHIELD, Season 2 Episode 9, "...Ye Who Enter Here" MR. Clark 4.12.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Marvel Television Studios And the confirmation of information keeps on coming. After a couple weeks of mystery after mystery... Read More
James Bond Will Return In... MR. Clark 4.12.14 Add Comment Edit Earlier today at Pinewood Studios, which has been the home of 007 since Dr. No (and in fact has it's own named stage at the... Read More
[Analysis] - Jumping The Gun On Jurassic World: Part 2, The Lego Sets MR. Clark 4.12.14 2 Comments Edit As designed by senteosan The announcement a few weeks ago that Lego had achieved the license for Colin Trevorrow's Jurassic Worl... Read More
Holy Crap, The Internet Got One Right? MR. Clark 3.12.14 Add Comment Edit When I did my analysis of DC's slate of live action films, I considered Suicide Squad an outlier. In fact, I went so far as to gues... Read More
Mr. President... MR. Clark 3.12.14 Add Comment Edit Netflix has confirmed the release of the third season of House of Cards , which will premiere in its entirety on the 27th of February. I ... Read More
[Review] - The Newsroom, Season 3 Episode 4, "Contempt" MR. Clark 3.12.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of HBO I love this season of The Newsroom , I just don't like this episode. While it had a few choice and magical moments (... Read More
The Bricks Awaken MR. Clark 2.12.14 Add Comment Edit Last week saw the release of a trailer for a movie coming out next year that got my cockles in a tizzy. It called upon some very basic,... Read More
[Review] - Constantine, Season 1 Episode 6, "Rage of Caliban" MR. Clark 2.12.14 Add Comment Edit Courtesy of Warner Bros Television Constantine continued it's creative upswing with an episode that wasn't very good this week.... Read More
I Have Cried Twice In My Life: Once When I Was Seven And I Was Hit By A School Bus, And Then Again When I Heard That Parks And Rec Was Ending MR. Clark 2.12.14 Add Comment Edit After months of uncertainty (NBC: let's wing it!), an official airdate for Parks and Recreation 's final season has been announce... Read More