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Dos Spocks: To Boldly Go Where The Most Interesting Man in the World Has Not Gone Before

by April 25th, 2012 - Culture »

Captain Jack is Company, Torchwood‘s a Crowd

by March 6th, 2011 - Culture » Film and TV »

In the 2005 Doctor Who episode “The Empty Child”, writer Steven Moffat created the character of Captain Jack Harkness. Played by the multi-talented John Barrowman, Harkness was a cocksure time-travelling omnisexual con-man whose sexuality was not trumpeted as some great progressive cause, but was instead just a free-wheeling reality of the character, a charismatic, impulsive […]

Back and Forth – TRON Legacy 3D IMAX

by January 11th, 2011 - Culture » Film and TV »

It is fair to say that my expectations for TRON: Legacy were not only high, but also highly…highly unrealistic. While visions of sugar plums dance in most people’s heads, the candied traffic in mine was mostly dominated by X-rated day-glo digital orgies where the beautiful screensaver innards of TRON hummed so forcefully with a fine […]

Caprica: Cylon Babies

by March 22nd, 2010 - Culture » Film and TV »

So far through its first season, Caprica, the prequel spin-off of Battlestar Galactica, has proven a very unique and satisfying series. Taking place on a relatively peaceful Caprica, around the same time as the invention of the Cylons, but well before their cataclysmic wars with humanity, the series is filled with so many of its […]

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