Matt Rodgers reviews the third episode of Jessica Jones season 2… This third episode settles into the formula that season 2 has been quick to establish. Jessica partnering up with a persistent Trish, while the supporting cast plant the seeds of their own threads for the bigger picture. ‘AKA Sole Survivor’ starts with a lighthearted […]
Movie Review – The Outsider (2018)
The Outsider, 2018. Directed by Martin Zandvliet Starring Jared Leto, Tadanobu Asano, Shiori Kutsuna, Emile Hirsch and Rory Cochrane. SYNOPSIS: An epic set in post-WWII Japan and centered on an American former G.I. who joins the yakuza. Martin Zandvliet, director of Oscar-nominated war drama Land of Mine, makes an awkward, baffling leap to something resembling Hollywood with this turgid, shockingly […]
Gotham Season 4 Episode 13 Review – ‘A Beautiful Darkness’
Martin Carr reviews the thirteenth episode of Gotham season 4… Never has gardening and the tending of scrubs seemed so alluring now there is a new Poison Ivy in town. Hallucinogenic, hypnotic and deadly with a sapling she is intent on turning everyone into human grow bags. Genetic experimentation avenged in a grotesque chest bursting […]
Jessica Jones Season 2 Episode 2 Review – ‘AKA Freak Accident’
Matt Rodgers reviews the second episode of Jessica Jones season 2… It hasn’t taken long for Jessica Jones to press the reset button, for we find her propping up a bar, experiencing flashbacks of Dr. Kozlov’s lab, and having sex with a stranger in a toilet stall. It’s essentially Jessica Jones bingo. This allows the […]
Black Lightning Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘Equinox: The Book of Fate’
Red Stewart reviews the seventh episode of Black Lightning… This week’s episode of Black Lightning, if not being an entirely good entry, was at least proof that the writers are slowly correcting their past mistakes. I say slowly because the beginning, and to an extent the middle part as well, suffered from the past problems this […]
Riverdale Season 2 Episode 14 Review – ‘The Hills Have Eyes’
Liam Hoofe reviews the fourteenth episode of Riverdale season 2… Riverdale returned to our screens after a three-week hiatus this week with a sexually charged and tense episode, which reinforced old bonds and established several new ones. Continuing this season’s trend of homage, this week’s Riverdale took its main source of inspiration from the titular […]
Jessica Jones Season 2 Episode 1 Review – ‘AKA Start at the Beginning’
Matt Rodgers reviews the first episode of Jessica Jones season 2… Easily the most perfect marriage of character and actor in the Marvel Netflix Universe, Krysten Ritter’s Jessica Jones returns for a second run of solo episodes, having firmly established her as a self-aware fan favourite amongst her po-faced Hell’s Kitchen counterparts. The first season […]
The X-Files Season 11 Episode 8 Review – ‘Familiar’
Matt Rodgers reviews the eighth episode of The X-Files season 11… Opening with a sequence that draws inevitable comparisons with Stephen King’s IT, this installment of The X-Files sets out to scare the pressed suit pants off you with a monster-of-the-week prologue that’ll haunt your dreams. A young boy is playing on a roundabout, singing […]
Second Opinion – Mom and Dad (2017)
Mom and Dad, 2017. Directed by Brian Taylor. Starring Nicolas Cage, Selma Blair, Anne Winters, and Zackary Arthur. SYNOPSIS: When the adults in a small American town start turning against the children for no apparent reason, a teenage girl and her younger brother find they have to protect themselves from the last people they would have […]
First Impressions: Jessica Jones Season 2 is an Intriguing Slow Burn
Tai Freligh reviews the first five episodes of Jessica Jones Season 2… When Netflix offered up the first five episodes of Jessica Jones Season 2 for media review, I jumped on the chance. I’m a sucker for all the Marvel shows on Netflix and have watched every single one (and yes, that includes the much […]
