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The Geek Week in TV – April 30, 2013

There’s plenty of heartbreak to go around this week—some in a Mexican restaurant, and plenty more in Jarl Borg’s mead hall. Who could’ve predicted that Community and Vikings could collide in the world of emotions? Well, it happened. This week’s ...

Blu-ray/DVD review: “Broken City” needs mending

Cashing in on the unstoppable trend of political and paranoia-fueled thrillers, yet failing to update its infrastructure to carry the weighted gaze of a now more savvy audience, “Broken City” is a collage of big names, big performances and ...

DVD review: Night of the Living Dead: Resurrection

Amateur stand-up comedians have an unspoken fear they carry with them until they “make it” in the industry, that fear being that no matter what, they never, ever want to follow a headliner. That fearful fact alone is the reason why warm-up acts ...

Book Review: The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman

When a man steals a car and drives to the end of a lane, where he commits suicide, it sets off an unfathomable horror on an English family. The premise of Neil Gaiman’s first novel in five years is the basis for a subtle, intense read that ...

Blu-ray review: Cheech & Chong’s Animated Movie

Before Harold and Kumar went to White Castle, before London, Posey, Affleck and McConaughey became ‘Dazed and Confused,’ even before fast times came to Ridgemont High, Cheech and Chong reigned supreme as chronic comedy Gods. And in their newest ...

Blu-ray/DVD review: “Pawn” is more valuable than namesake

With a jump-cut construction that feels like total Tarantino, and a cast that matches that big name draw, “Pawn” feeds everyone who enters its double-the-drama diner heaping portions of death and disorientation. And while the story-line’s ...

Book Review: London Falling, by Paul Cornell

After Rob Toshack, London crime boss, dies a horrific death while being interrogated, four members of the London Metropolitan Police Service encounter something in a crime scene that gives them the Sight. Transformed, they’re now able to ...