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Welcome to Die Hard week!

Put on your white tank top and take off your shoes. It's time to celebrate.

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Star Wars needs to look forward, not backward

Yesterday, AICN published a scoop that, in addition to Star Wars Episodes VII through IX, Disney was also planning a spinoff film centering on the…

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Disney's Paperman soars to YouTube

I finally took my kids to see Disney's Wreck-It Ralph a few weeks back, and it was fantastic. Have no idea why I waited so…

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The network drama is officially dead … at my house, anyway

Talking to a friend the other day, I mentioned how I was going to pass on sampling any of the new TV dramas debuting this…

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Posted in Videogames

Going puzzling with The Room

Bob falls in love with an iOS game.

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The terrible hissing of Far Cry 3's Komodo dragons

Bob hates these nasty buggers but loves the game.

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Movie review: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Bob thinks the first Hobbit film is much better than its mixed reviews indicate.

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Trailer-rama! Breaking down the Superman, Star Trek and Lone Ranger sneak peaks

Trailers for three of next summer's biggest movies bombarded the Net this week, leaving nothing but continuous and sometimes contentious fanboy debate in their wake….

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Solving the Batman conundrum

The Internet fanboy echo chamber worked itself into a tizzy on Tuesday after Drew McWeeny of Hitflix reported that Joseph Gordon-Levitt will be playing Batman…

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Movie review: Skyfall

Which one of the double 0's stands for overrated?

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The Disney deal closes the book on George Lucas and Star Wars

Yesterday's news that George Lucas had sold his entire Star Wars empire to Disney basically short-circuited my brain for a few hours. I was a…

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Is The Wolverine the X-film we should be excited about?

The X-Men movie universe is currently in a bit of disarray, and not just because an already convoluted and contradictory continuity is about to get…

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First Iron Man 3 trailer is pretty boss

It looks like Shane Black is bringing the goods.

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Videogames shouldn't shy away from offering a good challenge

Don't go easy on us, developers. It actually hurts your game!

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Movie review: Seven Psychopaths

There's a sequence near the two-third mark of Seven Psychopaths that perfectly captures the kind of meta, bloody delirium I think writer/director Martin McDonagh was…

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The Lone Ranger trailer is kind of bizarre

The Tom Wilkinson voice-over is nice. But, then again, you could make a half-hour recording of Tom Wilkinson reading this week's obituaries and I'd probably…

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Movie review: The Master

Somewhere along the way — perhaps immediately after Boogie Nights — Paul Thomas Anderson became less interested in telling stories than he did in just…

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The end of an era at BioWare

The esteemed videogame company loses its founders.

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Go on an adventure with the new Hobbit trailer

The original plan was to chat some about The Hobbit in last week's Cult Spark podcast, but that got bumped in favor of Dark Tower…

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How best to adapt The Dark Tower

Bob breaks down the perfect plan for filming The Dark Tower.

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