Attack on Titan Season 3 Episode 6 “Did you remember? Your father’s sin?” “Sin” is an episode that crams in a lot and then watches in delight as characters struggle to process these revelations. There’s a lot to unpack in this installment, but the major bombshell that “Sin” oh so casually drops is that different sects of humanity have different supernatural powers. The Titan ability is merely one of these fantastical skills....
Avengers: Infinity War is over. Thanos won. Half the population of the universe has been eliminated. And we have to wait a year for Avengers 4? further reading – Avengers: Endgame Trailer Breakdown and Analysis The first thing to wrap our heads around is how there are two other Marvel Studios movies on the calendar before Avengers 4. It’s not like those are going to be side missions where we see heroes dealing with the aftermath of Thanos’ victory, so… Both of the title characters were notably absent from Avengers: Infinity War, which could be explained any number of ways....
This review contains spoilers. Last week’s episode of Awake pushed things forward at last, and I’m happy to say that That’s Not My Penguin keeps up the forward momentum. There are also actual penguins in the episode, which always makes for a good time. Last time we spent almost all of our time in the green world, and now Michael has a hostage situation in the red. We’re introduced to the antagonist of the hour, a schizophrenic, as a direct parallel to Britten, and the episode brings up as many new questions as it ponders....
4.2 The Burden Of Beauty Halfway through this week’s episode it occurred to me what I think Banshee is trying to do in its final season. Truth be told, season four has so far seemed a little more grounded and slow than what we’re used to from this show, but I think there’s a reason for that because, if I’m not much mistaken, this year is shaping up to be Banshee by way of True Detective....
1.4 Trust Me OK, so the Bates family aren’t ever going to be contenders for model family of the year, but it’s nice that at least some of their problems are shared with the rest of the world. As Norma’s ‘shacking-up of convenience’ continues, it’s beginning to spill over into the rest of their lives. Meanwhile, Dylan is making a better fist of things as Norman’s big brother. He’s doing better than anyone has any right to expect....
Bates Motel: Season 4 Episode 1. Let me just begin this by saying how satisfying it is to finally be at this point in the show. Seeing Norman in full-on crazy mode is why we all tuned into this series in the first place, and the work that Freddie Highmore is doing here with Norman Bates at this mental crossroads is an immensely delightful, batshit insane performance. This is our Anakin finally becoming Darth Vader moment in the series, and it’s totally worth putting up with two and a half years of questionable seasons in order to arrive at this point....
Look at the production output of Summit Entertainment, the house that Twilight built. They’ve recently distributed Warm Bodies, as a more snarky take on the sub-genre, and they have The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones coming up in the summer. It’s all uncomfortably reminiscent of the scramble that followed The Lord Of The Rings, which gave us fantasy franchise non-starters like Eragon and The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising. That girl might just be Lena Duchannes, (Alice Englert) who arrives in town when she moves in with her reclusive uncle, Macon (Jeremy Irons)....
Sex too for Mitchell in this episode, albeit of a far less humorous variety as young vampire Lauren wrestled with her newfound lust for fresh blood. Blood bags won’t work, we discovered, as the need for it to come fresh from a body was made clear. Good job really, as I’d been pondering that one since the first episode. Mitchell’s assertion from the series opener that Annie was here because of something being unresolved too clearly pointed to something darker than simply taking a tumble, so while the episode appeared to suggest this was a huge surprise, it really wasn’t....
Spoilers for Big Trouble In Little China lie ahead… But the good thing about heroes that come from the movies is that you never have to worry about that; meeting them is not going to happen, save some sort of Jumanji hijinks. As a result, Han Solo, say, is immortalized onscreen, and all you have to worry about is Harrison Ford coming across as prickly in interviews. So, what happens if your heroes don’t change…but you do?...
5.9 Blood Money By this point we’re so invested in the outcome for Walt, Jesse, Hank, Skyler, Saul et al, that the experience of watching each new episode feels curiously painful, like undergoing a really entertaining minor heart attack. But there’s another reason why this final batch of episodes have inspired bordeline scuba-levels of breath bating – it’s because Breaking Bad genuinely has a chance to become one of the best TV shows ever made....
This review contains spoilers. If the ITV website had a ‘choose your own ending’ option to save Mark Latimer, I’d click morning, noon and night between now and next Monday to get that poor man out of the water. Money, even. I’d give cold, hard cash to ensure that just out of shot in the final, terrible moment of this week’s emotional episode, is Ellie Miller standing Boudicca-like at the helm of a coastguard rescue boat, hair waving in the wind, ready with a foil blanket and a thermos of hot tea....
“I’ve never seen that! I’ve never seen (that) to win a game before!” But then, precisely because baseball is so mathematic, sometimes you get outliers. The world plays thousands and thousands of baseball games every year and every now and again in one of those games you are almost certain to see something you’ve never seen before. Still, is that all worth it? Is it worth watching this objectively slow-moving conventional game, seemingly from a bygone era, just in the vain hope that you’ll see something new?...
As Christina Fitzsimmons (Anna Friel) gets her kids ready for school in episode one of Broken, she talks her son through his maths homework by breaking a complex problem into individual sums. Christina’s whole life is sums – the oppressive mental arithmetic of not-enough. Not enough time (when we meet her she’s forty minutes late for work) and not enough money (she’s borrowed sixty pounds from the till and is sacked as a result)....
“Who makes comics?” is a simple enough question, but with many variable answers. In general, though, people will answer with the names of writers, and writers of Marvel or DC publications. They are better known among casual readers and fans alike. I can guarantee you the number of people who picked up Nemesis in the shops and declared, “Oh cool, it’s the guy who did the art in Civil War” is in single figures....
8.6 Cool Boys There’s a common assumption that critics examine artistic endeavours in isolation—as discrete objects in their own self-contained worlds. But that’s never true, if only because it cannot be. The essence of any review, for instance, is that it’s a subjective opinion. True, it’s supposed to be the opinion of someone who has dedicated a chunk of her/his life to self-education on a genre or topic (and hopefully some basic communications skills), but in the end, it really is just a person talking from her/his own perspective....
8.7 The Last Seduction I signed off last week’s review by pointing out that the absence of Kate in the episode had the unfortunate effect of making us realize that we didn’t really miss her all that much. So it was wise—and possibly the first truly smart thing done all season—to follow that up with The Last Seduction, an episode that reminds us precisely why we should miss our female lead....
Despite the success of his original stories, many of James’s most ardent admirers will have first become aware of his unique style through the BBC’s A Ghost Story For Christmas. 1968’s Whistle And I’ll Come to You (an adaptation of ‘Oh, Whistle And I’ll Come To You, My Lad’), directed by Jonathan Miller and featuring a memorable performance by Michael Hordern as the terrified Professor Parkin, is perhaps the first to spring to mind....
As each episode of Channel Zero airs, we’ll ask creator Nick Antosca the burning questions posed by the current installment and get a glimpse into the process used to create this wholly unique horror experience. Check back each week for further insights! Den of Geek: Anticipation is a big part of this episode. The identity of the spirit inhabiting Lilly, the illegal mission Mike and Jess went on, and the papier-mâché play all were hinted at long before they were revealed....
Chozen’s parole officer hooks him up with a job, but it turns out to be a scheme laid by Phantasm to humble our hero. Chozen, having none of that, walks out on Phantasm and starts dreaming up ways (including a Street Fighter II battle) to get one up on his nemesis. Jimmy, however, is the one who comes up with the much more realistic and effective plan of getting some incriminating photos of Phantasm macking on Bobbi, a smoking hot transwoman that Chozen met in an on-campus LGBT group which he had very little patience for....
