‘How I Met Your Mother’ Season 8 DVD review

Eight years ago, Ted Mosby sat his telegenic children down and began to tell them one long story.

During that eight years, Facebook and Twitter came into being. As did the iPhone, Breaking Bad and the entire country of South Sudan. Yes, whole new cultures, communications, and nations have been forged in the time it’s taken Ted Mosby to narrate just one story: How I Met Your Mother.

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September 2013 horror movie DVD round-up

With the news of the worldwide release of Doctor Sleep, Stephen King’s belated sequel to his classic novel The Shining, comes the terrifying prospect of the author covering the same old ground yet again. Worthy follow-up or not, it’s pretty unlikely it’ll be quite as bad as his latest TV mini-series adaptation, Bag of Bones.

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‘Filth’ movie review

Sometimes an actor gives a performance so strong, it defines their career. Think Russell Crowe in Gladiator or Colin Firth in The King’s Speech. Filth will no doubt be a defining moment in James McAvoy’s career.

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Alan Moore: ‘Fashion Beast’ graphic novel review

These days, there’s a viscous reverence for everything that Alan Moore creates; an effusive prayer when the bearded Old God stirs to grant us mortals new words and/or hurl lightning bolts at DC’s affronts to the creator rights. In the eyes of many, Alan Moore can do no wrong.

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‘Atlantis’: ‘The Earth Bull’ review

The first beat of the tale was a surprising one with the introduction to Jason (Jack Donnelly) taking place in the present day. Establishing our hero as a rootless young man in search of his father, we soon descended in a mini-sub and found ourselves drawn in the world of Atlantis. And it is a world, rather than the past, we are led to believe.

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‘Orphan Black’: ‘Variation Under Nature’ review

The third episode of Orphan Black puts Sarah’s motivations under the spotlight while revealing some elements of the show’s larger mysteries. When the body of Katja that Sarah previously buried (rather shoddily, she soon learns) turns up and Sarah-as-Beth is put on the case, things begin to get much more complicated for her, especially as she’s just been told she’s a clone.

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