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Review'Once Upon A Time' - And Straight On Till Morning

The season ends with twists and the promise of a new adventure

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When last we left Storybrooke, the town was in imminent danger of being wiped off the face of the planet. And as Tamara and Greg enact their plan to use the magical trigger, it seems as if all is lost. Emma (Jennifer Morrison) and her parents break the bad news about Neal to Mr. Gold (Roberty Car ...

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Review'Once Upon A Time' - Second Star To The Right

Storybrooke isn't the first magical infiltration into our world

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We finally find out what happened to Bae after he was sucked into the Whirlpool of Death in the Enchanted Forest. He also continues to be in the running for the Crappiest Childhood Award. Having been thrown into a land without magic, young Bae (Dylan Schmid) finds himself in Victorian England. Th ...

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Review'Game Of Thrones' - The Climb

A better world can rise from the ashes?

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This review may contain spoilers. If Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish has his way, Westeros will be razed to the ground by the time the series concludes. Hoping to mold a new world from the ashes of collapsing kingdoms, Baelish (Aidan Gillen) is becoming far more than a simple Master of Coin and b ...

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Review'Doctor Who' - Hide

A science fictional ghost story

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This review may contain spoilers. Clara (Jenna-Louise Coleman) and the Doctor (Matt Smith) burst in on a ghost-hunting session at Caliburn House in 1974. Behaving in a brash but mysterious fashion allows them to insert themselves into this event and into the lives of a semi-retired war hero and ...

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Review'Doctor Who' - Cold War

The Ice Warriors of Mars get updated

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This review may contain spoilers. A Russian nuclear submarine returns from an expedition to the North Pole where they had been drilling for oil, but found what they thought was part of a mammoth encased in ice. Professor Grisenko's (David Warner) assistant, bored, defrosts their prize prematurely ...

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Review'Game Of Thrones' - Kissed By Fire

Acts of judgement can offer haunting ramifications

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This review may contain spoilers. “Game of Thrones” gives us another moving example of why it and the books it’s based on are so popular -- even a villain can be hero. Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), now in custody of Roose Bolton (Michael McElhatton) at Harrenhal, reveals to B ...

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Review'Once Upon A Time' - The Evil Queen

Regina has a bit of an identity crisis in the Enchanted Forest

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One of the last episodes of Season 2 takes a vaguely unnecessary trip down Regina and Snow’s memory lane. In the Enchanted Forest, Regina (Lana Parrilla) takes on a magical disguise in order to see how her people really feel about their Queen. But it turns out they pretty much hate her guts an ...

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Review'Once Upon A Time' - Lacey

Belle explores her wild side

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This review may contain spoilers. With a little nudging from Regina (Lana Parrilla), Belle (Emilie de Ravin) remembers her past this week. Unfortunately, it’s the wrong past. She fancies herself Lacey (her Curse’d personality) and is a sequin-wearing, hard-drinking floozy. Rumplestiltski ...

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Review'Game Of Thrones' - And Now His Watch Is Ended

Dany's heritage as a Targaryen is in full bloom

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This review may contain spoilers. It’s been a long journey for Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke). That meek, young girl from the Season 1 premiere is nowhere to be seen now. Repeatedly tested by tragedy and plagued by doubts about her readiness to take the Iron Throne, Dany emerges from this e ...

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Review'Oblivion'

Film shows very little heart or soul

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Epic, slick, but at times a little lost, "Oblivion" is a well-meaning sci-fi flick that takes too long and too many wrong turns to tell its tale. Part "Matrix," part "Total Recall," director Joseph Kosinski's film tells the tale of a future Earth destroyed by alien attack (aided in part by their ...

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Review'Game Of Thrones' - Walk Of Punishment

Moments of darkness, humor highlight another stirring episode

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This review may contain spoilers. Power and the length a person is willing to go to achieve it is a driving theme with “Game of Thrones,” just as the show’s title suggests. Everyone wants that damn Iron Throne, and some treat the struggle for it as a viciously twisted game. As a result, ...

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ReviewPreview: 'Defiance' Is Best New Series Of 2013 ... Period

New Syfy outing seeks return to 'Battlestar Galactica' glory days

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This preview contains minor spoilers for "Defiance." Science-fiction writers sure like to talk about alien invasions, from life before the invasion right up to the event itself. And of course, you have your very human heroes who step in to save the day just in time. But what about life after t ...

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Review'Doctor Who' - The Rings Of Akhaten

Smith, Coleman make a successful team

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This review may contain spoilers. As we settle in and get to know Clara (Jenna-Louise Coleman) at the same time that she gets to know the Doctor (Matt Smith), we get a less thrilling installment that ends kind of abruptly. Before going to pick up Clara (precisely on time, the next day at 7, as ...

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Review'Game Of Thrones' - Dark Wings, Dark Words

HBO series continues to craft an intriguing third season

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This review may contain spoilers. Fleeing north from the smoldering rubble of Winterfell, Osha (Natalia Tena) leads Bran Stark (Bran Isaac Hempstead Wright) and his brother Rickon (Art Parkinson) toward The Wall, hoping to find safety with the Night’s Watch. Unfortunately, the Starks are pl ...

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Review'The Host'

Latest adaptation of a Stephanie Meyer book faces a whole 'host' of problems

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When it comes to movies based on Stephanie Meyer's books, I'm not expecting realism; after all, this is a teen-romance market, and I don't expect sophistication of narrative to be the primary concern. Having said that, I do expect a modicum of logic to the storyline. Say what you will about the ...

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