The American Film Institute voted An Affair to Remember the most romantic film of all time. It is a seminal classic. But how many people know that it was a remake of a film made 18 years earlier – with ...
Read More »Felicia Day: A geek girl icon
I have been a long time Felicia Day fan. Since watching her in Buffy the Vampire Slayer as potential slayer, Vi, in season 7, I’ve followed her career eagerly. If you saw Day walking down the street, you would probably ...
Read More »Sleepy Hollow: What’s your name? Tall, dark and British?
The fall schedule was announced a while ago, and I have to admit that Sleepy Hollow barely peaked my interest. While I indulge in guilty pleasures like The Vampire Diaries (brought to us by Dawson’s Creek creator, Kevin Williamson), this ...
Read More »Your new favourite show might be online only
With the advent of new technology comes a myriad of opportunity. The Internet allowed for a great number of things such as social media, blogs, media streaming, and online shopping. Media, in all its guises, has been fundamentally altered by ...
Read More »Why you should be excited for the Veronica Mars movie
There are two factors that feed into possible excitement for the new Veronica Mars movie, slated to hit cinemas in 2014. The first is that Veronica Mars, the television series, was absolutely brilliant (and if you haven’t made the time ...
Read More »Too much pop culture! Pop culture references in TV
The other day I was browsing the Internet while stuffing my face full of salami sandwich. I came across an article on The Guardian discussing the overuse of pop culture reference in today’s entertainment mediums, more specifically, the use of ...
Read More »Much Ado About Nothing
Some people might think that a Shakespearean comedy is a strange choice for the director of The Avengers and creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to take on. Back when Joss Whedon was working on Buffy and Angel, he used ...
Read More »Why I love conventions: 5 reasons to go to comic con
This weekend I went to the MCM Comic Con in London. It was a poorly organized, over crowded affair with very little going for it. On the plus side, I got to attend a question and answer session with the ...
Read More »10 reasons why I’m excited about Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
The US fall television line-up is out. Out of the new shows, there are some we’re excited about, some we’re curious to see, and others we couldn’t care less about. Then there’s Joss Whedon’s return to television: Marvel’s Agents of ...
Read More »Guardians of the Galaxy: Why You Should Stop Worrying and Love the Raccoon
There’s something of a universal truth that the development of modern Internet culture has only reaffirmed: haters gon’ hate. For those who have made up their minds already, there won’t be much I can say to change that. But for ...
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