Voltron Season 7 Episode 6 It was all building to this. Every moment of team building. Every argument. Every moment of Voltron up to now was leading to this. The moment the series takes a collective breath. A moment to pause. To reflect. To question. To consider. To ask… why? It’s easy to miss but it’s been pretty non-stop for the Voltron team up to this point. One intergalactic threat after another....
The plot centres on the relationship between Eva Khatchadourian (Tilda Swinton) and her son, Kevin (Ezra Miller), cutting back and forth in time between a post-traumatic present, where Eva lives alone, and the past, where Eva and her husband Franklin (John C. Reilly) settle down to raise a family. After Kevin is born, Eva’s previous life of freedom and adventure is slowly given up in favour of full-time motherhood; but parenting proves particularly unpleasant, as Kevin grows from toddler to teenager, and turns out to be a real terror of a son – culminating in a horrific episode which upsets not only the family’s life, but that of their local community, too....
With Infinity War solidly in the rear-view mirror, thoughts have naturally turned to next year’s follow-up Avengers 4 in which some or all of our favorite characters will live again, possibly for the last time. Avengers Forever Of all the potential options, this one seems the most likely. First off, it starts with a homophone for the number four, and this is, after all, the 4th movie. It also references the rallying cry “Wakanda Forever” which has proven hugely popular in Black Panther....
When the creator of the series, Craig Bartlett, designed Arnold with his shirttails out he didn’t realize how fashion-forward that was going to be. “I thought it was a very timeless look,” he told us. Bartlett is very happy for Arnold, calling him, “quite a trendsetter. Way more than I was. Somehow on Hey Arnold! all those characters are way cooler than we were. I’ll defer to Arnold. He’s the man....
Nevertheless, you can be as sure as Yoda’s Force ghost that Disney, Lucasfilm, and the entire fleet of Star Wars fandom will be taking stock in Solo’s financial failures while trying to figure out just what went wrong… and what lessons can be learned from the wreckage’s little black box. And we’re more than willing to take a crack at it too, because even though Solo is the second standalone “A Star Wars Story” to be produced by Lucasfilm in the post-George Lucas era, it in many ways was the first real gamble by Disney to expand the Star Wars universe into something less grandly cinematic and more financially lucrative and serialized—it was their first genuine attempt to copy the business strategy of Disney’s Marvel Studios....
1.6 Master Of Phantoms A TV show that can make its audience feel every shaking, terrible moment of a death so muffled by historical wadding that it’s now more playground rhyme than human drama is something to cherish. And something to miss like a brother now that it’s gone. Wolf Hall made Anne Boleyn’s beheading so rightly, wretchedly real that we could have been watching an online video of one of its horrendous modern day counterparts....
Wynonna Earp Season 2, Episode 9 There were so many revenant-related reveals in tonight’s Wynonna Earp. One of them — the twist that Waverly is half-revenant — you may have seen coming. The other — the reveal that Rosita herself is a revenant — caught me by surprise. Both, however, were part of another emotionally-driven, action-packed episode of a Wynonna Earp Season 2 that refuses to play it safe. It was sweet of Rosita to think of Waverly....
Star Trek: Discovery has been throwing game-changing twists at us ever since the midseason premiere, when we landed in the Mirror Universe. From the Voq reveal to the confirmation that Lorca is not from our universe, Season 1 has a fair amount to wrap up before the season comes to a close. Here are 12 questions we hope they get to… Where is the other Lorca? Is this a Mad-Eye Moody situation?...
Their avant garde style of humor has helped usher in the popular movement of alternative comedy, or “anti-humor.” They’ve also normalized dark, Lynchian undertones in their work. Tim and Eric have birthed many memorable characters like Casey Tatum and his brother, Spaghett, their bizarro versions Jim and Derrick, and unleashed unpolished supporting players like Davie Liebe Hart, Richard Dunn, and James Quall onto the world. With this week’s release of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!...
The sequences in this list all stand out because theme song, imagery and mood have all come together perfectly to introduce viewers to the theme and tone of the show, and because to that perfect combination is added an extra spark of unpredictable brilliance. 15. Les Revenants / The Returned Music: Original theme by Mogwai. Format: Montage of slow-motion images. Mood: Eerie. Les Revenants is one of those shows that is partly built on a sense of place....
After 9 years in hiding, Matt Damon’s assassin Jason Bourne steps out of the shadows in Paul Greengrass’ newly released blockbuster of the same name, and it promises to be a spectacular continuation of one of the greatest action trilogies of all time. Also along for the ride is British composer John Powell (this time teaming with David Buckley) whose relentlessly driving music is as important a presence in the original trilogy as Damon himself....
The basic premise is that David is marrying Mia, and pretty much everything goes wrong. Nothing fresh there. In this particular case, the chaos surrounds the bride’s father and his political ambitions for his daughter, a sheep, a collection of drugs, and the, er, ‘behaviour’ of the best men in question. Given that the romance at the heart of the film is a whirlwind one, the bride has never really met the best men before....
J.A. Bayona’s third feature is adapted from the acclaimed novel by Patrick Ness, Jim Kay and the late Siobhan Dowd, and tells the story of Conor O’Malley (Lewis MacDougall), a 12-year-old boy coming to terms with his mother’s long-term illness. Lizzie (Felicity Jones) has always understood him and been there for him, while his absent father (Toby Kebbell) and distant grandmother (Sigourney Weaver) have not. The prospect of life without her, in a miserable rural town where he is bullied mercilessly at school, is understandably upsetting....
Post-credits, the action moves forward to 1999, which director Scott Frank signifies time and time again with reference to the Y2K millennium bug. He notes it so many times you end up convinced it must be a brilliant plot device. It isn’t. It’s a bludgeoning reminder of the year the film is set in, that underpins the many other efforts made to set the mood and tone of the piece....
Aftermath’s loosely based on the true story of a real accident that happened 15 years ago in Germany, when a pair of passenger planes tragically collided in mid-air. Screenwriter Javier Gullon (who wrote Denis Villeneuve’s fabulously strange Enemy) moves the story to Ohio, where migrant construction worker Roman (Schwarzenegger) is waiting at the airport for his family arrives when an official pulls him aside to give him the bad news: their plane’s crashed with no survivors....
Starring Joel Kinnaman (The Killing) as Takeshi Kovacs, whose memory (or “cortical stack”) has been placed in a new body (or “sleeve”) after serving 250 years of an eternal prison sentence, Altered Carbon follows the investigation for which Kovacs has been revived (or “spun up”): to find the murderer of Laurens Bancroft, played by James Purefoy (Hap And Leonard). Since Bancroft died before a 48-hour backup could be made of his consciousness, his new sleeve has no memory of the event....
American Horror Story: Cult Episode 7 American Horror Story: Cult, season 7, episode 7 “Valerie Solanas Died for Your Sins: Scumbag,” brings fifteen minutes of fear to the political circus maximus. The pseudo assassination was a success. It left one man standing, and walking with a sympathy-getting limp. No the eyes of the nation are on Kai Anderson, the recent winner of a small town city council. He slayed the competition with a 20 point lead and a small coterie of clowns....
4.4 Edward Mordrake (Part 2) Fortunately, the show has an ace in the hole in the form of Mat Fraser, who plays Paul the Illustrated Seal. He’s a musician, has done his own one-man show, and is a pretty experienced actor, albeit it not so much in America. He’s gotten little scenes here and there, but never something as extended as his appearance in this week’s episode. He gets a really good scene with Wes Bentley, telling the story of his disability and how he struggled to survive it, baring his darkest secret, and generally doing a great job of selling his heartbreak at having a handsome face but a misshapen body....
Sure, there were still hits. 1998 saw The Waterboy, Doctor Doolittle and Patch Adams strike through, while there were genuine laugh-out-loud movies in the shape of The Wedding Singer and There’s Something About Mary. The year before? At least there was Austin Powers to dull the memory of the quite awful In & Out. Initially classed as a gross out comedy in the same vein as the preceding year’s There’s Something About Mary, what differentiated American Pie from most of its contemporaries was that there was a solid story that was treated properly....
For those unfamiliar with the novel and its on-screen adaptations, Anna Karenina tells the story of its titular protagonist, a beauty married to a staid older man, whose eye is turned by the handsome young Count Vronsky. Transgressing social order, the pair embarks on an indiscreet affair that unseats Anna’s position in society and ultimately, well… let’s just say it doesn’t end with dancing and rainbows. Wright’s vision foregrounds the contrivance and claustrophobia of urban 19th century aristocratic life using theatre as metaphor....
