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Watch The New ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 2 Trailer: ‘Power And Grace’

February 27, 2012Erik Kain

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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What Happened To Kevin Smith?

February 20, 2012Erik Kain

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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Why Do Conservatives Love Vigilantes And Liberals Love Anti-Heroes?

February 13, 2012Erik Kain

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’s Viacom Deal Puts Pressure On Netflix

February 8, 2012Erik Kain

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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Watch The ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 2 ‘Shadow’ Trailer

February 8, 2012Erik Kain

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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Superbowl Online Streaming – Was It A Success?

February 6, 2012Erik Kain

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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Will Apple TV Shake Up The Television Market In 2012?

January 24, 2012Erik Kain

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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The Dark Knight and the Breakdown of Social Order

January 17, 2012Erik Kain

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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And Now For Something Completely Different: ‘Breaking Bad’ Mash-Up

January 17, 2012Erik Kain

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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LG’s Hilarious Flat-Screen Commercial Best Ad Of The Year – So Far

January 7, 2012Erik Kain

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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