Tag: commentary
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Today’s a good day to Marvel: Peggy and Ultron and SHIELD, oh my!
If you haven’t seen it yet, Marvel released the third official trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron today and it’s a doozy. If you haven’t seen it yet, take a moment. See? A doozy. This is the villain trailer, starting right out of the gate with the foe for this installment, and the full…
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The Five Stages of Grief…for the 11th Doctor
Listen, here we are, four episodes into a new season of Doctor Who. Peter Capaldi is here to stay, and I have to say, I’m thrilled. Don’t get me wrong, I loved Matt Smith’s Doctor, but I like the grumpiness and the alien-like qualities of the Doctor, and how much it hearkens back to the…
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As Seen On… July and August 2014
Well here it is August and I’m not doing BEDA this year. There has been entirely too much happening in the last few weeks to manage that. I know, all the excuses, etc, but here’s what I was doing elsewhere just the same! On Geek Girl Pen Pals: Movie reviews, movie reviews, movie reviews! Dawn…
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Thoughts on The Desolation of Smaug… A small hobbity commentary
I saw The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug this weekend and here are some of my thoughts on it, slightly out of order and really just as they occur to me. My full review can be found here. 1) While I don’t generally mind changes in book-to-movie adaptations, I feel like this movie was strongest when…
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Movie Review: Disney’s Frozen
I’m going to say it up front: Disney’s Frozen is the best animation picture they have put out in years. The animation itself is lovely, the snowy scenes they created are epic in scale and gorgeous, the characters are interesting (and there’s a whole cast of them to boot!), and the story is surprising in…
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Clara Oswald: looking back at “The Bells of St John” and some Wild Speculation about The Time of the Doctor
Tonight I am revisiting the Clara Oswald episodes from this past season of Doctor Who. While watching “The Bells of St John,” I noticed something interesting, a very specific detail that got my mind rambling off (as it does) on all sorts of little theories. I’m going to ramble about them now and see if…
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Movie Commentary: Thoughts on Thor, the Dark World
Here there be Spoilers, Sweetie.
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Thoughts on the Twelfth Doctor
I kept the title basic enough, but you should know this post has SPOILERS, sweetie. So. Peter Capaldi is going to be the new Doctor. I think most of the world collectively said, “Who??” when they made the announcement, but he looked really familiar and it didn’t take me long to find out why. Peter Capaldi…
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Doctor Who Commentary: Thoughts on Hide
If you haven’t seen this episode yet, just STOP. There are SPOILERS, sweetie!
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Doctor Who Commentary: Thoughts on the Cold War
Now that I’ve seen the Doctor Who episode called “The Cold War,” I have some observations. They are below the cut because SPOILERS, sweetie.
Joanna Volavka 