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REVIEW: Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 7 “An Almost Religious Awe”
If nothing else, “An Almost Religious Awe” assures us that Watchmen is completely off its rocker. This show is bugnuts crazy, and while I imagine Damon Lindelof and the rest of the people behind it think making everything about race is a shortcut to gravitas and intellectualism, the lunacy and s...
Read MoreREVIEW: Arrow – Season 8, Episode 6 “Reset”
We’re officially in the second half of Arrow’s final season. Overall, the season has been pretty good, so when I found out that David Ramsey, who portrays Diggle on the show, would directing “Reset” – which would see the return of Paul Blackthorne’s Quentin Lance – I was excite...
Read MoreJohn Turturro Cast as Carmine Falcone in The Batman
John Turturro is going from fighting robots to a billionaire in a bat suit. On Twitter, The Batman director Matt Reeves announced that the Transformers actor and frequent Adam Sandler collaborator has joined the cast of the highly anticipated Batman feature as Gotham City mob boss Carmine Falcone. T...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Flash – Season 6, Episode 7 “The Last Temptation of Barry Allen, Part 1”
The Flash jumped the gun with the Ramsey Rosso storyline over the past few episodes, but “The Last Temptation of Barry Allen, Part 1” performs some much-needed repairs on season 6’s main arc. It merges the themes of both Ramsey and the Crisis, and it makes Barry even more human in the face of ...
Read MoreREVIEW: Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 6 “This Extraordinary Being”
“This Extraordinary Being” is a tough nut to crack. It has what could have been a fascinating story if it existed in a vacuum. Unfortunately, it’s a Watchmen story, and it retcons parts of the Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons comic book that Damon Lindelof claims he so reveres to fit its narrative. Sti...
Read MoreREVIEW: Arrow – Season 8, Episode 5 “Prochnost”
Much like previous episodes of Arrow this season, “Prochnost” is an homage to season 5, specifically the flashback portion of that season. Over the course of the first few seasons of the show, this was a storyline for which Arrow fans had been clamoring, so I’m glad to see Oliver’s p...
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