Nearly 30 years later, along comes Bright – an LA-set thriller that’s essentially Alien Nation all over again, except with the sci-fi replaced with a smattering of Tolkien-esque fantasy. Not that there’s anything wrong with borrowing old ideas, necessarily: Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 had the premise of shunned aliens living in ghettos among humans, yet it brought a texture and style all its own. It all sounds good on paper....
While Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 10 #1 was born to restart the series after a lengthy break, dousing the page with exposition and familiar notes before welcoming both a resurrected Giles and the latest breed of super-vampires to the world, the series’ second issue seemed more concerned with stirring up nostalgia dust by way of a few show-similar moments and advancing the ball a few yards. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad to have Giles back in the narrative fold and Gage will surely find a way to use the character as an asset in coming months, but there is a hope that his physical and intellectual maturity will be expedited because the boy-watcher thing feels a bit stunty....
Being the equal opportunity crime fighting show that it is, this episode’s caper comes courtesy of Fiona. Doing a little bounty hunting on the side, she takes pity on a schmuck who says he was framed for the theft of a $2 million brooch from a local hotel, and decides to help him prove his innocence. Being that Michael is more interested in his burn notice dossier than talking about their recent indiscretion, he’s more than happy to use the job, and the schmuck, as a way to keep Fiona busy....
6.5 Time Will Tell A woman is found murdered in a very gruesome fashion in her apartment. A parole officer, her gun is still in the nightstand, and despite the fact that her step-brother says she was being stalked, her parolees are non-violent offenders who seem unlikely to have gone to such lengths to do away with her. There goes Beckett’s first theory. Luckily, a witness encountered a bloody man leaving her apartment and gives the cops a sketch....
The film delves into the story of how Claremont broke into comics and got the task at Marvel of reviving a title, X-Men, that had been left nearly for dead and on the verge of cancellation. He not only resurrected the book but made comics history with it, writing it for 16 years (1975-1991) and penning such classic stories as “Days of Future Past” and “The Dark Phoenix Saga.” He also created or co-created many new mutants during his run, including strong female characters like Rogue, Kitty Pryde, Emma Frost, Mystique, and Jubilee, plus male personnel such as Gambit, Legion, Pyro, Sabretooth, and more....
This review contains spoilers. We open with another brief flashback of eleven-year-old Holly followed by a group of fellow kids. These are presumably the same kids who didn’t want to be friends with her after something she did. They walk to a cliff edge, but we don’t see what happens next. We then meet present-day Holly at the start of her first day at work as an intern, and everything seems normal....
3.13 Digital Exploration Of Interior Design While it’s not unheard of for sitcoms to tackle to the odd bit of politics, it isn’t always advisable. With the possible exception of 30 Rock – if all republicans were like Jack Donaghy, we’d all be driving hummers and paying for elections to be rigged. But, it is an election year, and the one steadfast rule for election year is that politicians will literally say anything to get your vote, which leads to the sort of policy proposals that would usually earn them an extended stint in the Stupid Corner....
1.1 A Very Trippy Horse Glossing over the fact that CBBC has been quietly airing a British Buffy since 2012 in the form of the terrific Wolfblood, on the surface, comparisons to the Joss Whedon series make sense. Class is set in a high school that’s a hub for all things alien and strange while Crazyhead is about a young woman who discovers she’s not a slayer but a “seer”, someone able to spot the demons living among us....
What a difference a week makes. If last week’s episode had left me amused yet frustrated, this one had all the elements that mark out Curb as the funniest programme on the box when it gets things right. Last week’s lack of a central plot left us with a bunch of very funny gags all crammed together in the one episode. This week benefited from having a clear main story surrounding the further dating exploits of Larry....
Damnation Episode 1 The series premiere of Damnation places us firmly in the world of John Steinbeck novels that were assigned in high school AP English class. I didn’t connect with the characters and storylines because they were far removed from my cultural perspective. I was born and raised in the fourth largest American city, and small towns have always felt quaint and tedious. Holden County, 1930s Iowa, I imagine a favorite pastime might’ve been watching the paint drying on a barn door....
Actually, the most enjoyable thread was completely separate from the supply heist, and that was the return of Datak to the family business. Despite the fact that he was released to protect Doc Yewll, a condition of his parole that seems to have been ignored, I thought I would be cheering him on because of the way Stahma manipulated Alak in weeks past. But I was elated to find my sympathies utterly flipped by Datak’s brutality and misogyny....
3.13 Upon The March We Fittest Die The title, Upon The March We Fittest Die, comes from American poet Walt Whitman’s poem Pioneers! O Pioneers! about the expansion West, and what a noble endeavour he saw in that. But before we can get to that somewhat tenuous linkage, we still have the Omec to deal with, and their seemingly indestructible leader, all-mother Kindzi. The action splices directly into the end of previous story where Kindzi is threatening to eat baby Luke, who, given the way she’s sniffing him, has had a recent change....
3.8 My Name Is Datak Tarr And I Have Come To Kill You The problem I have with the story, which is generally very good, is that it completes the VC arc rather abruptly, and in doing so made me wonder why they’d lavished so much time on Rahm given his somewhat predictable end. Let’s start with Stahma and her Omec ship visitation. It’s explained that she’s there to see the true intentions of T’evgin, so he’ll be forced to kill her....
Alex Scarrow – most famous for his TimeRiders series, but also a designer on Ultimate Soccer Manager (a brilliant game where you could take bungs and place bets on your own team) – seems an obvious choice as an author, but avoids covering similar ground to that range here. The depiction of an entire town being turned into viscous black soup as all organic matter is destroyed is gruesome and graphic....
What’s more, it took no time at all for him to get going. For remember when, at the end of series three of the revived Doctor Who, Russell T Davies pulled a twist that suddenly made an episode earlier in the series relevant (The Lazarus Experiment, in that case), in the kind of move that made you appreciate – whether you liked how he did it or not – that he’d be plotting everything all along?...
If you’ve not seen the show, then I’m going to reveal a huge plot twist below, so be warned not to continue if you don’t want it spoiled. This story starts well enough, linking directly to the events portrayed in The Attic. They want to put Caroline back in her body, where Echo has allocated some neurons for her to hang with all the other personalities she has. Except, when they go to do this, they find the imprint of her persona is missing from the data vault....
If you don’t know, in the early 1990s, legendary b-pic master Roger Corman produced a Fantastic Four movie with a budget of between $1-2 million. It was never released. Why? Well, aside from the fact that making a Fantastic Four movie for that kind of money seems ridiculous right out of the gate, there were shady Hollywood deals and conspiracies swirling, some of which indicated that maybe this movie wasn’t ever supposed to be released in the first place....
1.4 From Darkness To Light The first big distraction comes in the form of Lucy. Despite all her flirtatious ways with the men in her orbit, it’s been made clear in the last two weeks that her primary romantic interest is her friend Mina. A great deal is made out of the fact that, once Mina is married, a door will have been closed between her and her friend. Lucy is brought to tears (but not confession) by this supposed looming obstacle....
Dragon Ball Super Episode 4 “I have found all seven Dragon Balls!” Bulma’s rager of a birthday party began last episode and it’s still very much the focal point this time around. In fact, other than a few asides the bulk of the episode takes place on the Princess Bulma cruise ship. This birthday material is sweet and innocent, but I don’t think I’m wrong in saying that it’s not what people are tuning into this show for....
For months, Square Enix has been touting Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age as the series’ breakthrough game in North America. Since the MMO Dragon Quest X skipped North America, this is the first mainline title to hit U.S. home consoles in more than a decade (Dragon Quest IX was only on the DS). Thanks to its use of Unreal Engine 4, Dragon Quest looks better than ever in its latest outing....
