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September 20, 2016September 21, 2016

GOTHAM [Season 3, Episode 1 Review]: Better to Reign In Hell…

The house that Bat built is back for another batshit looney, batless season. Gotham picks up 6 months after last season's better-than-season-1 end. The crazies have been released from Indian Hill and all hell has broken lose. So, yeah, I (like I'm assuming much of the congregation) was totally against the idea of this show …

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August 2, 2016

SDCC 2016 [Panel Reviews]: The Last Man On Earth / The Exorcist.

THE LAST MAN ON EARTH (Saturday) - Sometimes you go to a panel, not for big plot revelations or to see some revealed guest stars for the next season, but just to laugh and enjoy yourself. The entire cast of FOX’s The Last Man on Earth were on hand to answer questions about the new …

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May 23, 2016May 23, 2016

X-MEN: APOCALYPSE [Review]: Once More, With Feeling!

So it goes again; with audiences treated to the third tent-pole comic-book franchise movie with heroes fighting other heroes in less than four months, and the second FOX X-Men movie this year, the internet and critics have been quick to denounce X-Men: Apocalypse as too dour and congested (in the mold of Batman V. Superman: …

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February 7, 2016February 7, 2016

DEADPOOL [Film Review]: …Makes Me Drool.

So, I’m just sitting here with my rubber diaper on (the elastic-laden waistband and leg holes fighting back against my blood-pulsing flesh, so as not to go slack like Wilson Fisk’s played-out, leaky pajama bottoms), trying like a mealy-mouthed mercman to capture some smelloquence; with this Douchepool review I’m hacking-and-slashing together right now. Too bad …

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September 23, 2015September 23, 2015

GOTHAM [Season 2 Premiere]: BLAM!ed if You Do…

The Gotham gang is back, and a lot has changed since we left everyone last spring. In case you forgot, when we last left the City of Villains, Maria Mercedes "Fish" Mooney (Jada Pinkett Smith) had taken a dive off a building with a little help from Oswald Cobblepot (Robin Lord Taylor); Bruce Wayne (David …

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August 23, 2015August 23, 2015

WHY SO SERIOUS? [Essay]: Grit, Grime, and The Importance of Tone

*This was originally an overview of the second season of True Detective, but wound up becoming much more than that, as you will see...* Tone. It is one of the most difficult aspects of a story to master, yet plays so heavily into the enjoyment for the audience. Two weeks ago saw the airing of …

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