4.10 Monstrous But first, we have to get some violence out of the way. In the impressive cold opening, a couple of random kids are fleeing through the rain. Since they’re at school, they’re probably fleeing someone trying to kill them. It turns out they are; a team of crossbow-shooting folks are chasing them down, but they get a brief reprieve from being shot at by the intervention of master swordsman Kira....
4.6 Orphaned However, Teen Wolf has made it clear that Peter and Kate might be dangerous, but I don’t believe either of them are the mysterious Benefactor. After all, Peter’s broke and Kate’s Kate, and she doesn’t need to pay people to kill for her, not when she has her pals the berserkers at her disposal. So, the Benefactor is clearly neither of them (unless it’s all a Peter plot, which is feasible despite his name being on the Dead Pool)....
This is one of the creepiest episodes the series has done; it begins with a squirrel dislodging its jaw to reveal a tentacle-like tongue and forcefully climbing down a homeless man’s mouth. And then it gets gross. The squirrels multiply inside host bodies and are ejected through projectile vomiting (which is a brilliant way to do the chest burst without having to kill any characters). The turtles spend the episode trying to catch squirrels running loose in their lair and after they evolve in to Squirrelanoids, (named after Alienoids, the xenomoprh-like aliens in Michelangelo’s comic) they try to keep them from escaping to the surface....
Chloë Grace Moretz plays Ohio teenager Cassie Sullivan, a normal high school student whose life revolves around her loving parents Oliver and Lisa (Ron Livingston and Maggie Siff), her doted-on younger brother Sam (Zackary Arthur) and the monstrous crush-from-afar she has on good-looking football player Ben Parish (Jurassic World’s Nick Robinson). Relocating to a refugee camp with Oliver and Sam, Cassie gets a shock when the army, led by Colonel Vosch (Liev Schreiber), show up and announce that the aliens can take human form (thereby saving a fortune on digital effects, which is just as well as most of the budget obviously went on the digital destruction early on)....
The Amazing Spider-Man #698, written by Dan Slott and penciled by Richard Elson, starts out with Spider-Man taking on The Destructor, who is just a bluffer (new comic book term for someone that makes a costume at home and claims to be a super villain). Spider-Man takes him out with one punch to the jaw. I do have to say that The Destructor’s costume was very well done for being homemade (Richard Elson has wasted an awesomely creative villainous costume on a nobody…sighhh)....
Anyway, for reasons unexplained, he wasn’t there in person to introduce this week’s cast, and instead – for reasons badly explained – he dragged the team off to the cinema instead. There, a prerecorded clip of Sralan told the teams what they had to do, pausing only briefly for Nick and Margaret – as if they were in a bad musical – to chip in and tell the teams who they’d each be following....
The Assassination of Gianni Versace Episode 2 There’s a creeping sense of foreboding that is built effectively throughout this slower-paced episode, only to be deflated time and again. The effect builds stress for the viewer, and shows us that for Andrew Cunanan, violence was not indiscriminate but rather one of many ways to pass the time, like lying on the beach. In the premier, we were treated to an awful lot of Cunanan showing off his off-putting, yet somehow winning, chameleon-like qualities as he met people in different times, places, orientations, and socio-economic standings....
4.9 Plan Of Dissent Heck, on the big screen it would be sensational too. During the third half of Plan Of Dissent, a quite weighty tale with issues of trust and loyalty at its very core, we’re treated to some good old-fashioned spaceships-in-the-sky-fighting-with-loads-of-other-spaceships. Specifically, it’s not unlike that moment in Return Of The Jedi, where every part of the screen seemed alive with the movement of Tie Fighters, Star Destroyers, laser blasts, A, B, X and Y-Wings....
The latter is exactly what happened that May or June (I can’t remember exactly; cut me some slack, it was ten goddamn years ago). I was hanging out with a few pals one afternoon when the subject of Green Day came up. At the time, they were touring for Nimrod and would soon be coming to the nearby metropolis of Orlando, FL. Someone blurted out a rumor that our personal favorite New Hampshire bubble gum trash punks the Queers would also be on the bill....
There’s still the traditional sorting hat mechanic to get through, though, and before you can say ‘Divergent’, we learn that the surviving children of this plague each have special powers. Those powers are colour-coded, helpfully, and woe betide you if you come out of the test graded orange. A big flashing message will thus appear on a screen alerting that you must be killed forthwith. Reading those three paragraphs back, if I hadn’t seen the film, I’d be screaming spoilers....
Denzel Washington replaces Woodward as Robert McCall, a DIY store worker with a chequered past. Living alone in his modest Boston apartment, McCall barely sleeps and spends the greater proportion of his nights at a 24-hour diner, reading classic literature, arranging the condiments in neat rows and quietly brooding away the hours before dawn. Director Antoine Fuqua has brought us a varied collection of thrillers and action films throughout his career, ranging from the underrated Replacement Killers, to the superb Training Day (for which Washington deservedly won an Oscar) to last year’s absurdly violent Olympus Has Fallen....
The Expanse Season 1 Episode 8 The Earthbound plot, which usually suffers from too much distance from the main action, does finally reach into the lives of our protagonists as a gang of thugs hired by the Secretary tries to take out Holden and his team. The action scene at the end of the episode was made more realistic by the limited ammo and the necessity of Miller’s intervention. His rescue made him and Holden necessary allies for the time being, but it was nice to see the mistrust remaining, especially considering Miller’s negative opinion of Holden’s accidental celebrity with the Belters....
Ryan, Max, and Mike lie to FBI about how Lily died; Ryan tells Mike to go home, but Mike stands by his killing Lily. Ryan learns of Claire’s message recited on air by Carrie for Joe, and he becomes irate. In the last few episodes, Carrie has become even more unnecessary than when she was first included into the plot. Joe, Emma, Robert and company arrive at a safe house....
When Duncan Banks, Dr. Strauss’ Beacon, NY liaison, is being transported by local police, the vehicle’s electricity cuts out in a similar manner to how Theo handled video surveillance in last week’s “Reunion.” Soon enough, Duncan is free and Theo’s face is streaked with fresh blood…as if there could have been any other outcome. Theo is good—well, I guess Ealy plays a good bad guy. When Theo and Duncan talk about how exposed Theo feels in surfacing to make Strauss and Daisy’s passports, he realizes there are loose ends to tie up....
So then, The Hobbit will be a trilogy. That slim children’s book has grown from one film, into two, and now three. As Peter Jackson himself confirmed, “The richness of the story of The Hobbit, as well as some of the related material in the appendices of The Lord Of The Rings, allows us to tell the full story of the adventures of Bilbo Baggins and the part he played in the sometimes dangerous, but at all times exciting, history of Middle-earth....
For years I always hoped there would be a resurgence in zombie movies, which, in turn, would prove my theory that it would be a cheap and easy way to make British films, gaining our film industry the attention that it was so lacking since the collapse of Hammer horror. However, when I finally got my wish, everything went slightly wrong. Unfortunately, in the six years since Shaun, it seems that every low budget filmmaker across the world decided to jump on the bandwagon, regardless of their affinity for the undead....
Just three years earlier I had been a guest in one of Hitler’s notorious establishments in Poland. My mother and I had been separated from my father in 1943 and sent to different camps. Two years later, with the Red Army closing in, the Nazis had decided that they didn’t want to be caught in flagrante delicto. The guards rounded up the survivors and set out with the intention of taking us back to Germany....
Look to your elders, kids. We are experiencing a cultural moment where the age gap and social expectations are being blown apart by action movies. Realise the terrible truth: while we were too busy playing violent videogames and listening to that newfangled hip hop, the geriatrics snuck in and assumed control. Stereotypically, they should be semicomatose in a corner beneath a cosy blanket waiting for Antiques Roadshow to start. Instead, they are wild-eyed and showing their collective war face, grabbing the globe by the gonads, forcefully shoving it aside and then, with a spit and a snarl, assertively commanding, “Get off my lawn!...
The scene where the last remaining replica Smith slipped away unnoticed while everyone got on down to the big party in Zion got cut from the final movie, but escape he did. Fleeing to the furthest conceivable reaches, the single Smith decided to spend the rest of eternity growling in indignation while observing everything from the best view possible. Seeing and knowing everything, the exiled Agent Smith will be able to answer any question that you put to him should you survive the journey across space, outer space, deep space and all the advertising space in between....
