Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of Supergirl… Something fundamental happened between episodes three and five. In light of those Paris bombings we have jumped ahead one and stumbled on ‘Live Wire’. A cohesively structured, powerhouse of an instalment, which puts Supergirl back on the map. Concerning itself with less navel gazing and more substance. […]
Gotham Season 2 Episode 10 Review – ‘The Son of Gotham’
Martin Carr reviews the tenth episode of Gotham season 2… Smirking through security glass Galavan eyed Gordon with confidence. Outside Gotham had an overcast, rain slicked heavy duty feeling. All pouring rain, slate grey sky and overbearing crane shots of pallbearers with grim expressions. Stepping up to the plate comes McKenzie. All steely eyed determination, […]
Gotham Season 2 Episode 9 Review – ‘A Bitter Pill To Swallow’
Martin Carr reviews the ninth episode of Gotham season 2… Things kick off this week with Tabitha Galavan in a vendetta kind of mood after big brother gets locked away. To be honest it was good seeing her do more than just inflict pain and fulfil that dominatrix role she has been lumbered with. By […]
Supergirl Season 1 Episode 4 Review – ‘How Does She Do It?’
Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of Supergirl… Now we get that missing episode you start seeing how Supergirl has turned things round. There are motives aplenty, minimal saccharine soaked lovefests. While episode four does everything its bland predecessor fudged up in such fashion. Managing to give us intrigue, character beats and supply a long-term […]
The Apprentice Series 11 Episode 8 Review – ‘Party Planning’
Tom Beasley reviews the latest episode of The Apprentice, in which the teams were tasked with putting together children’s parties, complete with entertainment, catering and goodies. Who would send the clients home happy? Last week, The Apprentice ploughed a well-known and zeitgeisty area of business – the discount store. This week, it was something entirely […]
Interview: River star Stellan Skarsgård
Paul Risker chats with River star Stellan Skarsgård… River is a series that is difficult to boil down into a simple description, on one level it is a detective, crime and mystery story that looks to feed the audience’s enduring appetite for this variety of drama. And yet beneath its surface River will be seen […]
Rumour: Supergirl to cross over with The Flash, Constantine joining DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
If you’ve been itching to see Melissa Benoist’s Supergirl team up with Grant Gustin’s Flash, and / or you’re desperate to see more of Matt Ryan’s Constantine, then Bleeding Cool may have some good news for you. According to the site, if CBS commissions the “back nine” episodes of Supergirl’s first season, plans are afoot for […]
Marvel’s Jeph Loeb on the Iron Fist series, and whether we might see Ms. Marvel in live-action
Last week, Marvel chief creative officer Joe Quesada dismissed a rumour that Iron Fist could be pulled from their Netflix slate, and now Marvel’s Head of Television Jeph Loeb has followed suit in an interview with CBR. “There was a lot of speculation about what was going on with Iron Fist, because [fans] hadn’t heard anything about […]
Interview: River star Adeel Akhtar
Paul Risker chats with River star Adeel Akhtar… The creative process is often spoken of in the context of a never-ending voyage of discovery, alongside which filmmaking is contextualised as a vast collaboration. For Adeel Akhtar who plays John Rivers (Stellan Skarsgård’s) straight laced partner in the BBC One mini-series River, both the learning and […]
Natalia Cordova-Buckley to play Slingshot in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
According to Point of Geeks, Marvel is adding another member of the Secret Warriors to the cast of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., with the site reporting that Natalia Cordova-Buckley is set to play Yo-Yo Rodriguez, a.k.a. Slingshot. Slingshot made her first comic book appearance in Mighty Avengers #13 in 2008, and possesses superhuman speed, although she […]
