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Now Streaming: The Boys Season 1

Josh Zyber — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:00:47 +0000

We may have already hit the saturation point for movies and TV shows about superheroes but, vague title aside, Amazon’s The Boys has a fun take on the genre. If super powers really did exist, isn’t it likely that most people who get them would be dicks about it? Of course, this series isn’t the...

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Weekend Roundtable: Cast the Next Batman

Josh Zyber — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 20:00:48 +0000

Even as his gargantuan ‘Justice League’ movie hits theaters, rumors abound that Ben Affleck wants out of his contract playing Batman in future DC Comics movies. If he leaves, what currently working actor should don the cape and cowl next? Shannon Nutt Before DC rebooted its superhero universe with our current cast of characters, there...

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‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Review: A Hilarious Hulking Blockbuster

Philip Brown — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 16:00:42 +0000

Of all the characters to clog up screens during Marvel Studios’ reign of box office dominance, Thor has always been the trickiest to get right. The last two ‘Thor’ movies were among Marvel’s worst, so it comes as a relief that ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ is possibly the studio’s funniest film. Oddball indie comedy specialist Taika Waititi...

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‘Pete’s Dragon’ (2016) Review: E.T. with Fire Breath (Finally!)

Philip Brown — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 12:00:13 +0000

‘Pete’s Dragon’ is a remake of a Disney movie that no one is particularly nostalgic about, filtered through a grit and naturalism no one could have expected. Unlike previous Disney remakes that merely put a CGI and movie star sheen over previous properties, ‘Pete’s Dragon’ actually takes the source material in wildly different directions. Even...

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‘Star Trek Beyond’ Review: Boldly Dumber than Before

Philip Brown — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 16:00:04 +0000

‘Star Trek Beyond’ is essentially an elaborate single episode of the original 1960s TV series, with the crew visiting a distant planet, getting in trouble, and eventually kicking some alien butt. There’s very little to it other than that. But with Simon Pegg on script duties, the quips run high. And with ‘Fast Five’ action...

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Captain’s Blog: Calgary Expo 2016 – The Search for Stan Lee

Tom Landy — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 20:00:21 +0000

Attention all nerds, geeks, cosplayers and true believers: In less than two months, the 2016 Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo (Western Canada’s largest pop culture convention) will kick off in Calgary, Alberta. As usual, many big names will be there, including the one man I’ve been trying to track down for years: the ever-elusive Stan...

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‘Almost Human’ 1.06 Recap: “I’m in Ride-along Hell”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:00:52 +0000

This is a relief. After a rather dim-witted episode last week, ‘Almost Human’ rebounded on Monday with a pretty solid new episode that’s more of what I expect the show to be. First things first, when will those baby hover-strollers glimpsed in an early scene be invented? I need one of those. In ‘Arrhythmia’, we...

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‘Almost Human’ 1.05 Recap: “On Good Days, I’m a Petit Psychic”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 17:00:25 +0000

You know, it’s a very good thing that the cast chemistry on ‘Almost Human’ works as well as it does, because the plotting in this week’s episode is totally hare-brained. On the plus side, the episode features full-frontal nudity! Sadly, it’s a robot that gets naked, and as detective Kennex notes, he has the anatomy...

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‘Almost Human’ 1.04 Recap: “I Could Order Ramen”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 20:00:32 +0000

What crazy futuristic details of life in the far-flung year of 2048 does this week’s episode of ‘Almost Human’ bring us? How about nifty hologram palm phones, screaming slug sushi and robo-roaches? The robo-roaches actually aren’t too far removed from technology being developed right now, but I can’t believe that anyone would ever willingly eat...

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‘Almost Human’ 1.03 Recap: “Your Head’s Full of Bubblegum”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 18:00:33 +0000

Just three episodes in, and Fox’s new sci-fi drama ‘Almost Human’ has already resorted to a full-on, shameless ‘Die Hard’ knockoff storyline. This seems awfully early to have run out of ideas. At the start of episode ‘Are You Receiving?’, we learn that detective John Kennex (Karl Urban) has to charge up his new bionic...

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‘Almost Human’ Pilot & 1.02 Recap: “The Synthethic with the Bleeding Heart”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 17:00:29 +0000

How many times has Fox greenlit a new sci-fi show only to cancel it within one season? Too many to count. Yet the network keeps trying to court that audience. One of the few to last a reasonable length of time was ‘Fringe’. With the demise of that series earlier this year, creator J.H. Wyman...

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Now Playing: ‘Riddick’-ulous

Luke Hickman — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 13:00:22 +0000

The way I see it, there are three types of people who will want to see ‘Riddick’ this weekend: 1) those who enjoy the established character and want to see more, 2) those who like Vin Diesel and his ‘Fast and Furious’ movies, and 3) the pervy ‘Battlestar Galactica’ geeks who want to see the...

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