Category Archives: Film

THE MUPPETS: PONDERINGS OF A MUPPETS VIRGIN [REVIEW]

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Elizabeth Flux

I want to start by confessing that before this week, I had never seen a Muppets movie. This, at least in the YouTube community, can cause a person to be put in the ‘impure fan’ box and prompts the typical “GET … Continue reading →

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SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF CLUEDO [REVIEW]

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Adam vanLangenberg

I don’t mind Guy Ritchie’s take on the Holmes legend. He’s made him cooler, quirkier and fightier than before. He’s fun to watch. The scenes where Sherlock visualises the fight before it happens are fantastic and reminiscent of  Zhang Yimou’s 2002 … Continue reading →

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MELANCHOLIA: NOT WORTH A SLOW CLAP [REVIEW]

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Elizabeth Flux

Melancholia is an unusual film. Not just in content, but in pace and structure, and it is easy to see why it has prompted a division of opinion. In the session I went to most of the audience was unsettled … Continue reading →

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EVIL SPACE ALIEN SHERLOCK

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Adam vanLangenberg

Benedict Cumberbatch is fantastic as Sherlock Holmes in the BBC television series. He plays tthe role of the sociopathic consulting detective to perfection. It seems that J. J. Abrams agrees with me and has picked him to play the bad guy in … Continue reading →

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LETTING GOTHAM BURN: SUCH A BAD THING?

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Mike Stuchbery

As one of the founders of a new pop culture blog, I’ve been doing a lot of reading through comics to ensure that I can hold my own when confronted with the convention crowd. There’s no way I want to … Continue reading →

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