Star Wars Rebels Season 2 Episode 14 Finally, Hera’s backstory. Although other episodes have teased it, this episode does a pretty good job of answering the biggest questions about the extraordinary pilot – and it does it by letting the story run its course. It might be a stretch to say this episode is nuanced, but it’s certainly layered. Not every episode of Rebels ties characters’ personal motives into the main plot as well as “Homecoming....
Star Wars Rebels Season 3 Episode 11 Star Wars Rebels season 3 is broken up into roughly two main arcs, both defined by its villains. For the mid-season episodes, Grand Admiral Thrawn serves as the Imperial antagonist who keeps our Rebels from finding the supplies they need to build their army. Earlier in the season and now in the mid-season finale, Darth Maul provides a more personal story: Ezra, after all, still thinks of Maul as an ally, even when the former Sith is building alters to his fallen enemies....
Part three of the pilot gets us a real chance to see the Stargate in action. As the team take their first real step through the gate, in search of helpful items for the ship to survive, we see a few elements of the show that hadn’t been shown in the first two parts. It’s an intriguing plot device and one that will hopefully give a lot more depth to the forthcoming stories and getting news back and forth between the two places....
Supernatural Season 11 Episode 11 This week’s episode takes a crack at the banshee mythology, and somehow found a unique framework to do it. The Darkness story arc takes a back seat, but it’s a welcome break to get something a little different. The teaser was a look at thirty years ago, when a banshee took out a family in Ireland. It is here that we are introduced to the monster....
Supernatural Season 12 Episode 16 “Ladies Drink Free” begins in an almost stereotypical horror movie way: a brother and sister walk a lonely path through the woods and the sister comments on a strange noise in the woods. Snore. We know they’re going to get jumped by something, otherwise there wouldn’t be a reason for the Winchesters to investigate. There’s a nice little twist on it, as it turns out the girl was just trying to get rid of her brother to go back to a bar....
6.20 The Man Who Would Be King In Heaven, Castiel seeks guidance from God and reveals the events that led to the civil war with Raphael and to making a deal with Crowley. Still, I’m very much undecided about this episode. There are things I like, things I feel could be explained better and one thing that irks me, as it does every time it happens in Supernatural. I do appreciate the position Castiel is in and do recognize this isn’t the usual demon deal, as Castiel doesn’t have a soul, but I find it annoying that, after all the various deals and demons we’ve seen in Supernatural over the years, once again a character is trusting a demon and seemingly taking him at his word....
5.5. A Novel Approach This serves as both a thrilling beginning—watching Stiles fight for his life is always great—and a suspenseful follow-up—while Stiles waits for the police to arrive and investigate the body while having a really impressive mental breakdown. Of course, when Beacon Hills’ finest show up, there’s no body to be seen. In fact, the whole crime scene has been cleaned up and completely put back to normal, minus one tell-tale blob of blood left behind to let us know that it’s not a figment of Stiles’ imagination, but someone coming by to clean up the mess....
One thing that the Terminator TV series can’t be accused of is overly indulging in referential nods and winks, or even more direct references to the events of the movies. However with ‘The Good Wound’, the TSCC production team allowed themselves to indulge in connecting a few Terminator dots for those who love the Cameron-directed movies. The last story left almost everything and everyone in chaos. Sarah is mortally wounded by a bullet wound to the leg, and Riley decided to slash her own wrists rather than go one with the illusion that she and John are together by accident....
There’s a moment in this episode of Terror in Resonance where it’s remarked, “That’s the best joke I’ve heard all year,” and you’re violently reminded of how the murder and carnage of this series is predominantly witnessed as a game. There are winners and losers. Clear rules in place with consequences for not following them. And there’s a manic, child-like glee to these bombings that seems much more akin to a child on a scavenger hunt rather than an act of terrorism....
It’s the kind of feel-good, motivational poster message you’d expect to see from any number of warm and cosy romantic comedies from the last couple of decades, but while The Apartment most certainly has its warm and cozy parts, it’s much more complicated than that. A dark film about immorality and infidelity, it’s searingly angry, viciously satirical, and at times deeply melancholic. It’s also a perfect film for Christmas and New Year....
For the TV shows this takes the form of a new theme song while the movies inspire tunes that appear on their soundtracks. Interesting and often odd, these supposedly turtle-inspired songs have changed with the times through the decades, but not always for the better! “Turtle Jam” Psychedelic Dust featuring Loose Bruce Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III marked the end of the first live action TMNT movie franchise in the ‘90s....
7.15 The Locomotive Manipulation The Big Bang Theory is going on a short hiatus for a couple of weeks, so this year’s Valentine’s Day episode aired this week. While Leonard and Penny stay home dog-sitting for Raj (who is working), Amy has organised a trip for herself, Sheldon, Howard and Bernadette, staying at a bed and breakfast in the Napa valley overnight and having dinner on a vintage train. Unsurprisingly, this episode is all about romance....
I’ll say this for tonight’s episode of The Blacklist, it wasn’t boring. I’ve probably beaten this point to death in various Blacklist reviews, but, man, this show would be positively dynamite if it was limited to a 13 episode season. I can’t accuse “Mako Tanida” of being a filler episode, that’s for sure. Plenty happened. Characters developed (in good and bad ways), new plot points were revealed, old ones were wrapped up…this one never stood still....
If I had to make a guess or two, I’d say that Red’s known the truth about Tom from the very beginning. After all, isn’t that Red’s M.O.? He knows all, he is three steps ahead of the smartest person in the room, so while Lizzie is struggling to figure out if and how she’ll reveal her secret to Red, he’s already got an elegant monologue that he’s committed to memory to share with her at the ideal time....
The decision was therefore made to draft in another actor to take Damon’s place. But rather than introduce a new actor as Jason Bourne, as Who or Bond so frequently does, The Bourne Legacy introduces an entirely different protagonist – neck-snapping top-secret operative Aaron Cross, played by Jeremy Renner. In its favour, The Bourne Legacy finds clever ways of weaving the strands of this new film with the Matt Damon trilogy; its events take place almost concurrently with the third film in the series, Ultimatum (2007)....
A placid-seeming, ordinary family man who runs his own delicatessen in 80s Argentina, Arquimedes (Guillermo Francella) also has a far darker second job – that of a kidnapper who keeps wealthy victims in his basement and demands huge ransoms from their loved ones. More horrifying still, Arquimedes’ family – a wife, two daughters, three sons – are either passively aware of the kidnappings or actively involved in assisting them. In one startling early scene, we see how rugby-playing middle brother Alejandro (Peter Lanzani) calmly leads a new acquaintance into his father’s clutches; the victim’s hooded, stuffed into the boot of a car and whisked off to the Puccio family lair....
I went in just waiting for the movie to disappoint me. It couldn’t possibly live up to all the hype, could it? Well, I hate to say it, but not only does The Dark Knight live up to the lofty expectations I had for it, it exceeds my wildest dreams. In a year dominated by comic book films of all shapes and sizes, The Dark Knight has somehow managed to knock off Iron Man, Hellboy II, and everything else that’s come out this year....
Overall though, it’s still about Hardy as Bob Saginowski, a nice guy in a rough neighbourhood, who tends a friendly local bar owned by his elder cousin Marv (James Gandolfini). But after hours, Cousin Marv’s Bar is a drop bar, one of a number of Brooklyn bars that serves as a place of safekeeping for the Chechen mob’s ill-gotten funds. Around the same time, Bob finds the aforementioned puppy, battered and abandoned in a rubbish bin outside Nadia’s (Noomi Rapace) house....
Set in the near-future, The First stars Sean Penn in his first regular television role as Tom Hagerty, the veteran astronaut and former commander of the first mission to colonize Mars. Tom must watch at home while the mission readies for liftoff, as the head of the project, Laz Ingram, an Elon Musk-type played by Natascha McElhone, has pulled him from the mission due to his family issues at home....
The Flash Season 4 Episode 12 “Honey, I Shrunk Team Flash” didn’t have to be any good. I was a little worried when I saw the preview, and wondered how they were going to justify a “filler” episode right when the stakes need to start getting higher for the show as we pass the halfway point. So the fact that I wasn’t just wrong, but I was dead wrong was a thrill....
