Mostly to prove that I am capable of blogging about something besides recent publications, let's chat about the first season of that gloriously, unrepentantly terrible show Reign, which I just finished watching ( Read more... )

Like its predecessor, Thor, Thor II: Into Your Wallet Again is a nice, fun, thoroughly cheesy popcorn flick that once again manages to criminally underuse both Anthony Hopkins and Idris Elba, though Hopkins at least seems to be thinking, eh, got my Oscars already, ha ha.

And, like its predecessor, it was in desperate need of snark:

( By the mighty power of Thor, there be snark ahead! )

Two separate things caught me about the film. One was how, in such contrast to the original series, it offers a very bleak vision of Starfleet Command - this is far more the Star Trek of Deep Space Nine, but even that had a more optimistic touch at times. And two, of course, was just how badly various elements needed to be snarked.

( I loved the film but fleets of Enterprises could have sailed through the plot holes with time to spare. )

I present you, oh readers, with choices: you can read my nice serious discussion of Oz the Great and Powerful over at Tor.com, or you can just head straight for the snark:

( Aggressively spoilery snark ahead! )

I finally got around to seeing Arrow, which a rather alarming number of you suggested I snark.

And...surprise: I kinda liked it. Oh, this is certainly not a great show, by any means, and some of the more feminist minded among you are not going to be thrilled by some of the plot lines, and
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Revolution

One sign that your new fall show just may be running into a few, say, credibility problems is when a number of people beg me by email, Twitter and text message to snark the show ( Read more... )

Without trying to, I happened to watch this in a theatre one quarter filled with a generally appreciative and polite audience of employees of Universal Studios and excited Twilight fans whose in and post film comments perhaps colored my snark here. (Spoiler: the Twilight fans all felt, without exception, that Twilight is a much, much better movie ( Read more... )

Shorter version: The best Hulk film, like, ever. Hulk Smash! And I don't even like the Hulk.

Longer version: Things go boom! Tony Stark quips! Thor makes sure we can all see how well cut he is! The one woman on the team isn't given any superpowers, but makes up for it by actually doing kick ass stuff. The film otherwise massively flops the ( Read more... )

Full disclosure: it's been years since I saw the first Clash of the Titans film, which I don't recall enjoying that much, and I missed the remake entirely, so I came in with pretty much no knowledge of what had happened before. Which turned out not to mean much, but I anticipate. Second, I must admit to a slight bias when it comes to the classical ( Read more... )

My initial reaction to this film, on Twitter, was that it was even worse than The Three Musketeers. After sleeping on this for a bit, I realized that I was wrong: The Three Musketeers is a much worse film on pretty much every level.

In Time is just more frustratingLargely because the concept is excellent, and here and there, the film allows us ( Read more... )