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Hot on the high-heels of Irene Adler’s incursion into Baker Street, PBS has aired the second episode of the second season of Sherlock. Like the previous episode, this too aims to be a straight-forward contemporary adaptation of a famous Arthur Conan ...

The world has been threatening a Good Omens adaptation for years now, for film and television both. (Neil Gaiman himself actually wrote a screenplay a long while back, which is fascinating if you ever come across it....) The rumor mill has started up a...

The event held on Wednesday by PBS in preparation for their airing the second series of BBC’s Sherlock was a bit of a mess. This wasn’t due to any negligence on the part of PBS or the event organizers. Simply, it looks as though they had just not c...

The Cabin in the Woods has everyone’s attention for the moment, but what the movie-going world is really waiting for is Marvel’s The Avengers. With a meticulously woven continuity that began with 2008’s Iron Man, the team up of four superfriends ...

So, the most recently released image of Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises kind of got me worked up. The moment I saw it I think I said something to the nature of, “If I have to see one more woman posed with her behind in my general direction, looking...

The IDW ongoing Star Trek comic series has started to boldly go where it hasn’t gone before: a totally original storyline. All the prior installments of this series have, up until this point, been retellings of classic 60s Trek stories, with both maj...

Mirror Mirror is undoubtedly the less-favored of the two Snow White tales hitting the box office this season. The camp apparent in its trailer was not well-received by many commentators, especially not alongside the grit and iron of Snow White and the ...

The eighth and final episode of the season. This is a very important year for Being Human. The departure of friends, new foes, and the most relevant question answered: can this show stay afloat in the wake of a year full of changes?Let’s just say... ...

There has been a substantial amount of commentary weighed over a comment made by the producer of The Hunger Games, claiming that while the film does not shy away from the violence of the source material, it does not commit “the sins of the Capitol”...

You know the time when you’re watching one of your favorite television shows and you’re aware that it’s gone off the rails? It’s a terrible feeling. More than anything, your struck by a deep wish that the creators had a magic Reset Button. Some...

We stand fixated on the man who directed Star Wars.Why? The reasons are beyond number and impossible to mention in geek company without causing a riot: the special editions, the prequels, the re-edits. The betrayal and heartache as thousands of fanboys...

This week’s episode begins when a young girl runs away from home. As starting points go for a journey, it’s certainly a familiar setup, and a typically rewarding one. You’re immediately saddled with a number of questions: Who is she? Why is she r...