TV RECAP: Agent Carter - Season 2: Episodes 1 & 2

With apologies for the week's delay - as you may have heard, I've picked up some work recently. Before anyone asks: Yes, I've also seen Episode 3 - it'll get it's writeup likely sometime later today.Anyway...The first season of AGENT CARTER was a revelation: The so called Marvel "assembly line" spinning-off the CAPTAIN AMERICA franchise with a female-fronted period action drama whose narrative functioned as a series-length metaphor for the forced-backslide of women's rights in the post-WWII U.S.? Even if you'd seen THE FIRST AVENGER and thus knew that Hayley Atwell's Peggy Carter could
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Big New Plans & What They Could Mean To YOU!

Well, hopefully that title was suitably attention getting.Anyway! Remember that time I wrote a book? Well, the experience actually worked out pretty good for me overall. I learned a lot about publishing, met a lot of interesting new people, and continue to be making a decent profit off of it. In fact, things went so well that I've been itching to publish a follow-up ever since. And since one of the lessons I've long resisted learning is to recognize my own limitations, I've decided that I don't want to follow-up Brick-By-Brick with just one book - I want to publish a whole bunch of books.Hit
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2015: The Year SOUTH PARK Finally Got Old

NOTE: The following piece is possible in part thanks to donations to The onlinemoviesmaniahd Patreon. If you'd like to see more like it, please consider becoming a Patron.Let me first stipulate the following to be true, as I see it:South Park is one of the funniest television shows ever created and arguably among the most culturally-significant.Trey Parker and Matt Stone are two of the most gifted comedy writers, in any medium, of their generation.Both the series and its creators would deservedly retain their pop-immortality even if neither entity were to produce a single work of further not
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What's Going On?

UPDATE: The first of the "new projects" listed below can now be revealed - I have officially become part of the ScreenRant News Team!You'll find my news items handily catalogued under my contributor tag, HERE. If you want to keep my content chugging, here's a brand new and simple way to do so: Share the HELL out of these posts to social-media, Twitter, Facebook and wherever else you may want to. Cheers!(original post appears below)Hello, friends!So. Some changes are afoot, and it's time for a quick update. This technically should have been up sooner, but I was working a convention all weeken
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REVIEW: 13 HOURS - THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI (2016)

The only thing anyone seems to want to know about 13 HOURS is whether or not it�s �political.� To me, that�s a stupid question � everything is political to one degree or another, and even if you try to not engage in such consciously people are going to read a political dimension into whatever they want to no matter what.Same goes for the actual events (the 2012 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya) being dramatized: There shouldn�t really bemuch of a political dimension to an attack on a diplomat beyond �that�s not how you express whatever grievance you happen to have,� bu
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2015 Oscars - Whatever

So we're doing this again? Okay.This is a frustrating year for the Oscars, which is to say more frustrating than previous years where you're at least garaunteed the spectacle of being annoyed that no one can seem to decide whether to name each year's show for the (current) year that the ceremony airs or the (previous) year that the nominated films are from, which only becomes more confusing as we proceed on into this continuing business of many of the nominees not coming out beyond NY or LA qualifying runs until February or later. Instead, this year's added frustration is about a lack of obv
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NEVER FORGET

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RIP David Bowie: 1947-2016

No words. This one hurts. This one really hurts.
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Much Needed

If you're like me, about 2 years ago you considered THE VENTURE BROS one of the Top 10 TV series ever to air. And if you're like me, you imagine you'd probably still feel that way when Season 6 (finally!) starts airing later this month... except it's been so long between seasons this time you've pretty-much forgotten where the narrative left off - which is kind of a big deal, since THE VENTURE BROS went from making fun of dense comic-book style mythology to actually having a super-dense mythology of its own (has there ever been an attempt to mock longform continuity where that didn't ha
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