The Day of the Doctor

The 50th Anniversary Special of Doctor Who was an episode of two halves - one was a fairly standard romp with shape-shifting aliens invading from the Elizabethan-era...the other was a monumental tying up of loose ends and creating story hooks with one of the most popular Doctors of all time.

The Day of the Doctor focuses on three incarnations of the Doctor. Matt Smith, the current Doctor. David Tennant, the previous incarnation. And John Hurt, the "lost" in carnation - the War Doctor.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Get ready to bleak it up once again as some teenagers are forced to commit mass murder!

This time, however, the two surviving teenagers from the first movie have to mass murder a bunch of experienced mass murderers instead.

Isn't the "young adult" genre fun?

Catching Fire picks up almost immediately after the end of the first Hunger Games film and spends very little time rehashing or recapping - if you've forgotten something or are inexplicably starting the series at the second film, you're likely to be extremely lost extremely quickly.

The Broken Empire series by Mark Lawrence

The Broken Empire Trilogy by Mark Lawrence

I don't think I've come across a series that divided me this much for a long time. I couldn't even finish the first book the first time I picked the series up, but I'm glad I went back and finished the series.

The Broken Empire Trilogy is Prince of Thorns, King of Thorns and Emperor of Thorns and follows the story of ruthless aristocrat Jorg Ancrath and his quest to become emperor.

Winner of Worst Gallant Prince Award: Jorg Ancrath.
Art by Kim Kincaid at The Twirling Dragon blog.

The Butler

The cynic in me says the historical drama The Butler with a cast that must have cost a pretty penny (and several ugly ones) is pure, unadulterated Oscar Bait.

Starring Forest Whitaker, The Butler follows the life of Cecil Gaines, an African American doorman, barman and eventually butler to several Presidents of the United States of America.

Thor: The Dark World

Out of all the Avengers I think Thor probably has to be my favourite, which is why I was so excited to see the big beardy hammerman get a sequel.

Thor: The Dark World follows directly from The Avengers and beardface's first film, with Thor (Chris Hemsworth) crusading around outer space/the Nine Realms cleaning up after his brother Loki's (Tom Hiddleston) mess.

For those not in the know (which is weird. Who goes to see the sequel of two separate movie franchises without seeing both said movies?) Thor was forced to destroy the main mode of transportation around the Nine Realms at the end of the first Thor film.

Avatar: Legend of Korra. Book two: Spirits

I did a review the Nickelodeon's Avatar series a couple of months back saying I was quite excited for the second season of their "Legend of Korra" series.

So far there have been five episodes released, with the sixth "The Sting," to be released tomorrow.

While I have enjoyed it so far, this second season hasn't quite lived up to my hopes.

The main crux of this season is that while Korra, the 16-year-old reincarnation of the spirit of the earth, has mastered her ability to command classical elements (earth, fire, air, water GO PLANET!), she hasn't really got a hold on her role as the medium between the spirit world and the physical world.

Jenny Reads 50 Shades of Grey

Ugh

I think this might be getting a little bit meta. Jenny Trout is an American author who has a long-held frustration with the 50 Shades series by E.L James. So last year, Trout decided to read the first book and recap each chapter.

I'd never read the series myself, but was still curious due to my girlfriend having read all three books. It was about a month ago when I first heard about Trout's blog on Twitter and decided it might be a less painful experience than actually attempting to read 50 Shades of Grey for myself.

So, this is a review of the recap of a series. I guess. Like I said, it's a bit meta.