After a failed attempt to stop an asteroid from hitting Earth, the planet’s inhabitants find out that they only have three weeks to live before total annihilation. For Dodge (Steve Carell), this horrific news results in his wife leaving him, which further separates him from a growingly chaotic world. As Dodge sits in a lonely shame spiral, he is suddenly interrupted by Penny (Keira Knightly), a youthful... 

With Comic-Con unfolding on the other side of the country and the trailer for The Dark Knight Rises already online, it was only a matter of time before we got the other big super-hero trailer: The Avengers. Oh, wait, we haven’t gotten that one yet (I expect we’ll see it soon too). Instead we’ve gotten the trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man, the reboot that brings the web-slinger back to the big... 

A teenage Peter Parker grapples with both high school and amazing super-human crises as his alter-ego Spider-Man. Has it really been long enough from the Sam Raimi / Toby Maguire Spidey movies to warrant a reboot? Sure, the third one was a bit of a dud, but the first two movies are among some of the best superhero movies we’ve seen on film, and now the studio is rebooting it with a new cast and... 

Wow, we’ve got one hell of a show this week. This episode is chock-full of movie goodness, from a discussion of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and how the Pirates franchise has evolved over time to a heated discussion of movies representing the Vietnam war era: Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, and Platoon. Add in a little bit about The Dark Knight Rises, Transformers: Dark of the... 

One of the things that continually drew me to Babylon 5 over the years it ran was its take on spiritual matters. I’m not a very religious person, but there was something about the way spirituality was touched upon by the various characters that struck a cord with me: Delenn’s idea that we are all star stuff, G’kar’s transcendence. The fact that the show communicated spirituality so well is... 

We may not have gotten to see this week’s releases in time for a show (see our Megamind review on the site and check back for our Due Date review later in the week), but we still have one heck of a show. Tim returns to talk about The Walking Dead, We kick off Margaret’s Artist of the Month pick Kevin Kline with a look at his accent in The Big Chill and I Love You To Death, and apparently...