Kyle J. Steenblik

Upcoming Doctor Who DVD releases

Upcoming Doctor Who DVD releases

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who the BBC has some upcoming DVDs for our consumption, highlighting 6 of the 11 Doctors.

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Hammer of The Gods [Review]

Hammer of The Gods [Review]

Hammer of the Gods is surprisingly good, provided you are not looking for a cinematic masterpiece.  A remotely historically accurate look at Viking/Saxon warfare in 9th century Brittan, or a movie that is not unabashedly gratuitously violent and vulgar.

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Weta Workshop and The Hobbit at Salt Lake Comic Con

Weta Workshop and The Hobbit at Salt Lake Comic Con

My first encounters with Weta Workshop and The Hobbit at Salt Lake Comic Con.

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To the Wonder [Review]

To the Wonder [Review]

To the Wonder is an art film that is beautiful to behold but that is just about all.  The unexercised story was left atrophied and on life support where it was artificially kept alive until the plug was mercifully pulled after almost two hours.

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DVD and Blu-Ray Releases, September 17th

DVD and Blu-Ray Releases, September 17th

List of DVD and Blu-Ray Releases This Week

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Kyle speaks with Simon Fisher-Becker at Salt Lake Comic Con

Kyle speaks with Simon Fisher-Becker at Salt Lake Comic Con

Kyle speaks with Simon Fisher-Becker at Salt Lake Comic Con.  His more notable roles include The Fat Friar in the Harry Potter film Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, and Dorium Maldovar in series 5 and 6 of Doctor Who, where he asks the first and final question.

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Salt Lake Comic Con is here to stay

Salt Lake Comic Con is here to stay

Salt Lake Comic Con, the first comic con for this state, also turned into a monstrous success. The mistakes, misjudgments, and missteps that the founders made early on were [mostly] vindicated this last weekend. The result was spectacular.

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Salt Lake Comic Con – Day 2

I’m tired, it’s been a long day, and they say pictures speak a thousand words, so here are 25k words to read.

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Salt Lake Comic Con – Day 1

Salt Lake Comic Con – Day 1

Salt Lake City Comic con, day one, September 5th. On the opening of day one ticket sales had reached approximately 35,000 and rising, it is expected to break all first year comic convention attendance records in North America. I am in no way surprised, if you ask me, I did notice no one actually asked. My […]

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The World’s End [Review]

The World’s End [Review]

The World’s End, just five guys out on the town, drinking a pint, having fun.  Fun is exactly what Edgar Wright delivers on this crawl to annihilation.  This is easily my favorite of Edgar Wright’s films to date specifically the Wright, Pegg, Frost films.  Dispensing with the similarities in tone and style to Hot Fuzz […]

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Kick Ass 2 [Review]

Kick Ass 2 [Review]

Kick Ass 2 was no less violent and obscene than the first, but was actually more enjoyable.  

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AEREO expands into the Silicon Slopes

Aereo is coming to Utah.  This is very good news for broadcast television and those consumers that watch local broadcast channels. Aereo is a service that lets you watch live, and recorded broadcast television channels over your internet or wireless network connection.  Essentially, it is like having a television antenna in the cloud, not the […]

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Orange Is the New Black: Season 1 [Review]

Orange Is the New Black: Season 1 [Review]

Orange Is the New Black is the best Netflix original series yet.

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Elysium [Review]

Elysium [Review]

Elysium simply astounded me.

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Doctor? Doctor who?

Yes, we have a new Doctor, again.  What I have read from many new fans this is so horrible; the show itself may be in jeopardy of losing nearly half its audience.  That or they are just so new they forget that this has happened more than once, and it is good.