by Erik Kain on February 27, 2012
Sex. Battle. Intrigue. Dragons. Yes, this latest trailer for HBO’s second season of Game of Thrones has it all. Thank goodness, too. I need to keep getting my fix until the April 1st air-date. By far the most revealing, intense trailer for the second season so far. We begin to see the sibling rivalry erupt. [...]
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Kevin Smith’s new reality TV show on AMC, Comic Book Men, is meeting mixed reviews. I haven’t seen it yet, and I’ll be honest out the gates: I probably won’t but I plan to… I just can’t make myself care about Smith’s work these days. Of his entire film repertoire, only Dogma stood out as anything [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 13, 2012
Alyssa Rosenberg has a smart response up to this piece by Anthony Paletta on the supposed distaste liberals have toward vigilante movies. Paletta argues that liberals essentially don’t like to see the use of force on criminals, especially by non-state actors. The principal objection, he argues, is “not aesthetic, but moral; the offense is to [...]
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Amazon and have reached a deal to add shows from the cable company’s various channels such as MTV, Comedy Central, and Nickelodeon, to Amazon’s Prime instant video service. “Prime Instant Video now offers thousands of TV episodes from MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, TV Land, Spike, VH1, BET, CMT and Logo-including past seasons of popular shows [...]
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HBO’s second season of Game of Thrones may be even better than the first, if this trailer is any indication. This makes me more impatient then ever for the second season of HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones.’ The first season was easily the best adaptation of a beloved fantasy novel that I’ve ever seen, adding new [...]
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I asked readers on various social networks whether they’d watched the Superbowl online Sunday. This year I caught the game the old fashioned way – on a big screen TV at a family Superbowl party – so I didn’t get the chance to check out the online version. Doesn’t sound like I missed much. The [...]
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As televisions get more and more high-tech, hyper-connected, and computer-ish, are television manufacturers forgetting what it is that makes people want to watch TV in the first place? “Maybe I’m old school but I think TV is all about relaxing after a busy day,” writes Gabe Gagliano of Tech of the Hub. “Somehow, TV companies [...]
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Taylor Marvin’s musings on the breakdown of social order and the loss of the state’s monopoly on violence in Gotham in ‘s The Dark Knight is well worth the read. I’m not entirely sure I agree, but it’s a smart post either way. Marvin argues that Batman’s vigilantism underscores the loss of the monopoly of violence [...]
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by Erik Kain on January 17, 2012
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, AMC’s Breaking Bad has the loveliest cinematography of any show on television. For that and for many other reasons, it’s probably the best thing you could spend your time watching – a show so well put together that I have yet to watch a single episode I didn’t [...]
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by Erik Kain on January 7, 2012
That’s according to Copyranter who writes, “It’s a little long, but I guess the agency figured :30 wasn’t long enough to set-up the joke, and so they needed to extend it to a minute for a possible broadcast buy. And thank you, agency and client, for not ruining the moment with a honking LG logo.” [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.
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