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Look, there are people who like “True Blood”. I don’t know who they are, or why exactly, but they MUST exist or this show wouldn’t STILL be on the air. THESE reviews are not for THOSE people. Some kind of schadenfreude compels me to continue watching and writing so…( Read more )

I’m just going to say it: BEST GOT EP OF THE SEASON. If you are super sad the Red Wedding went how it did, you might not want to keep reading.
The internet has been super-pissed about HBO’s Game of Thrones since Sunday. Most families put a lot of unnecessary stress into the whole…( Read more )

This week’s penultimate episode of Game of Thrones opens with the line of the season: “Are you sure about this?” Spoken by Lady Cat, to her son Robbo, who has followed the path of honor to the edge of a nasty cliff.
Robbo wants to set up a last-ditch lateral move, attacking…( Read more )

This week’s episode of Game of Thrones opens on a single awakening eye. It’s a cool and peaceful morning, and young Arya Stark has murder on her mind and a rock in her filthy hands. The Hound is off his bender, though, and isn’t to be snuck up on. Lesson learned: next time,…( Read more )

Errata: I largely dismissed a Gaiman-written ep last week without rousing any sort of complaint or protest. I started this season by wrongly identifying a voice actor and that was a crime. Don’t you people have any standards?
Our finale episode of Doctor Who opens with a reeling orgy of…( Read more )

We begin our episode of Game of Thrones a bit south of the wall, where we have some manner of jealous intrigue developing with Jon & Ginger and Orell. Orell’s true feelings for Ygritte must have awakened after he cut her lifeline last week. Either that or he’s sick of listening…( Read more )

This week’s episode of Doctor Who opens on the set where Stanley Kubrick faked the moon landing, which has been preserved at Pinewood studios under quarantine as part of an implacable, ossified turf war between a bunch of scary old spooks in MI5 and the NSA.
Kidding, it’s some sort…( Read more )

The new issue of Jennifer Link’s Auxiliary magazine is out now. Some of the makeup in this issue is really cool. The makeup by a Dannie Page in photographer Bailey Northcott’s Firestarter editorial looks really cool; it is over-the-top unusual and brightly colored and the photography…( Read more )

Quick note: The wife pointed out to me a thing I’d never noticed about the opening credits. All the cast members have appropriate sigils appended to their names. Family sigils for all the Lannisters and such, and more creative ones for the unaffiliated, like Conleth Hill (Varys). The…( Read more )

Troma kingpin Lloyd Kaufman has been a big influence on me. See his Toxic Avenger stuff in college probably quite literally changed my life. I am going to keep this brief, as I am totally running late right now to get to The Big Photo Show. Ironically, I got a late start today because I was…( Read more )

We made it to the last episode. We slogged through those last couple episodes, clinging to the hope that there is going to be a payoff with this finale. Or at least some more stabbings. Joe’s story is drawing to a close and it’s looking pretty grim for him. He’s already been…( Read more )

We begin our new episode of Game of Thrones in the BWB Batcave, where Thoros is leading evening prayers and Lord Beric is getting into character in preparation for Sandor Clegane’s trial by (wait for it) FIRE!
First off, if this is supposed to be a fair fight in the eyes of the Red God,…( Read more )

We open this week’s episode of Doctor Who on the Nostromo/Nebuchadnezzar, or rather, the dingy greenish interior of a spaceship with grouchy dudes arguing about salvage. One of them is an android, one’s sleeping. And I’m guessing two of them are the Van Baalen bros., so one…( Read more )

We open this week’s episode of Doctor Who on the Nostromo/Nebuchadnezzar, or rather, the dingy greenish interior of a spaceship with grouchy dudes arguing about salvage. One of them is an android, one’s sleeping. And I’m guessing two of them are the Van Baalen bros., so one…( Read more )

A while back, the fabulous Raygun Robyn covered the Wasteland Weekend for Blue Blood. Now, if you are like me, whenever your friends show you fun pictures of Mad Max style shenanigans in the desert, you think to yourself that you’d love to attend something that cool-looking. As soon as…( Read more )