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REVIEW: Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 5 “Little Fear of Lightning”
“Little Fear of Lightning” suggests that Watchmen’s best episodes will be the ones that aren’t focused on Angela Abar. This week puts Looking Glass under the… let’s got with “microscope,” and manages to be a marked improvement over the previous installment, and even a little better t...
Read MoreREVIEW: Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 4 “If You Don’t Like My Story Write Your Own”
This week’s episode of Watchmen is called “If You Don’t Like My Story Write Your Own” because of course it is. It’s smug, condescending, obnoxious, self-aware to a fault, and both an acknowledgment and dismissal of the audience dissatisfaction Damon Lindelof knew was coming. In other words...
Read MoreREVIEW: Arrow – Season 8, Episode 4 “Present Tense”
With Future Team Arrow joining Oliver and Co. in the present, I couldn’t wait to see what the producers bought us in “Present Tense” as the farewell run of Arrow continued its trek toward the crossover and, subsequently, the series finale. *SPOILERS* “Present Tense” begins ...
Read MoreColin Farrell May Play the Penguin in The Batman
Matt Reeves may have finally found someone to wear Gotham’s most infamous monocle. Deadline reports that Colin Farrell is in negotiations with the Burbank-based studio to play Oswald Copplepot better known as the Penguin, in The Batman alongside Robert Pattinson as the titular character. Farrell j...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Flash – Season 6, Episode 5 “Kiss Kiss Breach Breach”
With the 22-episode season inevitably comes some chuffa here and there, and while “Kiss Kiss Breach Breach” isn’t exactly filler – it does tie into the overarching plot and even has a nice, mouth-watering tease courtesy of new Harrison Wells doppelganger Nash – it’s still The Flash spinn...
Read MoreREVIEW: Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 3 “She Was Killed by Space Junk”
Three episodes in, Watchmen still isn’t very good – and, in some places, astonishingly, how-the-hell-did-they-think-this-was-a-good-idea bad – but “She Was Killed by Space Junk” introduces a potential life raft in the form of a major character from the graphic novel. It’s littered with t...
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