A follow-up that fans of the first film probably could have done without, but which isn’t all bad By Carl Lawrence Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS Few sequels live up to, let alone surpass, the bar established by the original work they stem from, and sadly The Descent: Part [...]
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DVD Movie Review: The Descent: Part 2
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Catching Up on Comics: The Superman Family
By Sam Christopher These will be discussed in publishing/overall storyline order: James Robinson continues the run to the end of the New Krypton storyline with Superman #698. Here we see Brainiac and Lex Luthor as evil as ever and together again, with Superman their helpless captive. The “Terror Twins” have thought of everything this time: [...]
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Catching Up on Comics: Star Trek- Two Eras, No Waiting
By Sam Christopher First, we’ll begin with the earlier story which came out last in this set. Star Trek: Leonard McCoy: Frontier Doctor #1 is apparently John Byrne’s attempt to fill in some of the missing time between the end of the Original Series and the recall of Bones to Starfleet n The Motion-less Picture. [...]
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Television Review: Merlin Season 2
In its second season, BBC’s Merlin continues to give us a descent entry in the Sword and Sorcery genre and looks to usurp Legend of the Seeker as TV’s Number 1 Fantasy series. Syfy, Fridays, 10 PM EST By John J. Joex Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars (after 4 episodes) This BBC produced series [...]
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Catching up on Comics: (Not So) Sloppy Seconds from Zombie Books
By Sam Christopher Outside of DC’s Blackest Night event, a couple other books dealing with the walking dead have come and gone in the last few weeks. IDW’s We Will Bury You #2 continues the great story with Mirah and Fanya on the run through the streets of New York, running from the murder of [...]
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Catching Up on Comics: The End of Blackest Night – Live by Dawn?
By Sam Christopher The penultimate chapter of the huge DCU event Blackest Night is Green Lantern #52, in which Sinestro appears to become Libra (remember that story from the JLA 100 Page Giants?) At least this time we don’t have to sit through Black Canary revamping Amazo’s costume next ish. More, we also see the [...]
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Television Review: Riverworld
Syfy’s Riverworld gives us yet another ravaging of classic literature from schlock mini-series moguls Robert Halmi Sr. and Robert Halmi Jr. By John J. Joex Syfy 4 Hour Mini-Series Rating: 1 ½ out of 5 Stars WARNING!!! THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE MINI-SERIES AND BOOKS! Syfy’s Riverworld mini-series which aired this last weekend [...]
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Catching Up on Comics: Take a Break with the Bat-Family
By Sam Christopher First, we start off with Batman: The Streets of Gotham #10. Damian is tired of waiting for Dick to uncover the clues necessary to capture the killer of the children the two have been tracking for the last little while here, and we see another kid character, who reminds me of Blockbuster [...]
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Catching Up on Comics: Whedonverse
By Sam Christopher Been out of touch mostly for the last few weeks so I have some catching up to do. We’ll start with Angel and Buffy. John Byrne’s Angel Special: Lorne starts off with Illyria getting “mugged”—boy, do those guys get a surprise—and ends up with our heroes saving… you probably can figure it [...]
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Revisiting the Doctor: Looking Back at Doctor Who Season 2
The fifth season of Doctor Who debuts on BBC America Saturday April 17th (9PM EST) and introduces Matt Smith as the eleventh incarnation of the infamous time traveler. We figured that this would be a good opportunity to look back at the recent revival of the series and give our opinions on the two actors [...]
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