Movies and Television

there were no elves at Helm’s Deep: Hobbit Edition (h/t @Blastr)

January 6, 2012

Inferred from comments by Benedict Cumberbatch, Peter Jackson is tweaking the storyline again. Cumberbatch said (SPOILERS below the fold) …

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Cumberbatch is Smaug! (h/t @Sherlockology)

January 5, 2012

Buried at the end of this tidbit about Sherlock’s Benedict Cumberbatch being cast as principal villain in the next Star Trek movie, is this awesome news: Cumberbatch will be the voice, and the body (based on motion-capture) of the mighty Smaug in The Hobbit! Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch has been cast as the principal villain [...]

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My review of the #TerraNova finale

December 20, 2011

I’ve been getting my money’s worth on my Hulu Plus subscription by watching Terra Nova and Grimm – and I was surprised to see that the former is not getting any critics’ accolades the way the latter is. Let’s get this straight: TN is a high-cincept show, and as such has to walk a more [...]

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Sherlock returns Jan 1st 2012

December 8, 2011

The Grand Moffat just tweeted the news: Sherlock returns, Sunday,Jan 1st, 8.10pm, BBC1. First the woman, then the Hound and then, of course, the fall… The reference to “the woman” is the classic Holmes story involving Irene Adler, A Scandal in Belgravia. Sherlockology has a spoiler-free review of Scandal that will whet your appetite! The [...]

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The Doctor and the Ultimate Question

October 3, 2011

Q. Doctor Who? A. 42 And so Season 6 ended, not with a bang, but with a wedding…

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Sherlock soon

September 4, 2011

Man, I cannot wait for this to get started. I’ve also caught up on Torchwood: Miracle Day, and Doctor Who is rolling along as well, and Warehouse 13. This may well be the golden age. Also discovered the site Sherlockology which is definitely going to be handy

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WTF @Syfy? #Eureka canceled

August 9, 2011

Good grief. “After painstaking consideration, we have had to make the difficult business decision to not order a season six of Eureka. But Eureka is not over yet. There is a new holiday episode this December and 12 stellar episodes set to debut next year, marking its fifth season and six memorable years on Syfy. [...]

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Rory Williams, destroyer of worlds

July 14, 2011

This is hysterically funny. (assuming you’re a fan of the Matt Smith Dr Who era)

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Sherlock returns this winter

July 12, 2011

Excellent. Details just revealed by co-creator/writer, Mark Gatiss, has the three proposed episodes as A Scandal in Bohemia, Hound of the Baskervilles and The Final Problem. Gatiss went on to explain that he will adapt ‘Hound’ for television, while co-creator Steven Moffat will write the series premiere. “Steven wanted to do the twisted love story [...]

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