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  • TV Episode Review: “Doctor Who” “Kill the Moon” (08.07, 2014)

    Written by Peter Harness Directed by Paul Wilmshurst The conceit of this episode is fairly simple: the moon is actually a giant egg that hatches some sort of giant space dragon that is forcing its way out in 2049. The Doctor arrives with Clara and Courtney Woods (the troublemaking student we met last episode) in…

  • TV Episode Review: “Doctor Who” “The Caretaker” (08.06, 2014

    Written by Gareth Roberts and Steven Moffat Directed by Paul Murphy Sometimes, Doctor Who just seems to be wasting time. This episode is a good example. Clara’s relationship with Pink is “getting serious” (I hate that nonsensical phrase. It suggests an incredible amount of disprespect in relationships to say that they “get serious.”), so now…

  • Movie Review: “The Drop” (Michaël R. Roskam, USA 2014)

    Dennis Lehane once wrote a good book that became a great movie in Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, USA 2010). Some authors have a tendency to translate well (James M. Cain) or poorly (John le Carré) to film because of particular qualities about how they write. Cain’s repetitious, circular plots and relatively simple characters did not…