Flagged Post (March 2018)
I've posted this many times now, and I'm going to keep doing it until something changes. Which will be never.DATELINE: Cleveland, Ohio–– In response to overwhelming consumer demand, this week the...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead Season 8, Episode 10: The Lost And The Plunderers
This week on The Walking Dead we got one of the weirder episodes of an already odd season.As usual, the storyline isn't a plain, linear narrative, laws no. That would be stupid! Instead it's divided...
View ArticleSpace Force! Would You Like To Know More?
Last week Donald Trump addressed soldiers at the Marine Corps Air Station in Miramar. In his rambling speech, he proposed creating a new extraterrestrial branch of the armed services, which he dubbed...
View ArticleLegends Of Tomorrow Season 3, Episode 14: Amazing Grace
This week on Legends Of Tomorrow, the gang travels to 1954 to meet Elvis and save rock & roll.Overall it's not a terrible episode, but it's not particularly good either. Making Elvis the legendary...
View ArticleThe Flash Season 4, Episode 16: Run, Iris, Run
This week on The Flash, Iris takes front and center as she becomes yet another in the show's long line of speedsters... for a little while.Run, Iris, Run had the potential to be one of the worst...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead Season 8, Episode 11: Dead Or Alive Or
This week on The Walking Dead, we finally, at long last, check in on the show's two most beloved and popular charact... I'm sorry. I thought I could keep a straight face while I typed that, but I can't...
View ArticleIt Came From The Cineplex: The Shape Of Water
I saw this film in the theater way back in January (!), and I'm ashamed and abashed that I'm just now getting around to reviewing it here in April. Sorry about that. I have no excuse other than I've...
View ArticleStay Classy, Universal!
Went to the movies last night and saw this poster in the lobby. It's for Universal Studios' new film Blockers, a comedy about a group of parents who try to stop their various daughters from losing...
View ArticleLegends Of Tomorrow Season 3, Episode 15: Necromancing The Stone
This week on a so-so Legends Of Tomorrow, we get the old "Hero Turns Evil And Their Crewmates Have To Fight 'Em" plot, as the series treads water while waiting for the season finale to arrive.In...
View ArticleSolo And Thanks For All The Fish (Hey, You Try Coming Up With Titles For...
This week Disney dropped another new trailer for their upcoming debacle, er, I mean movie Solo: A Star Wars Story.In it, there's a very brief shot of everybody's favorite co-pilot Chewbacca, as he...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead Season 8, Episode 12: The Key
This week on a fair to middling The Walking Dead, we get the long-awaited confrontation between Rick and Negan, we're introduced to yet another bizarre group of weirdos who aren't in the comic, and the...
View ArticleThe Flash Season 4, Episode 17: Null And Annoyed
This week on The Flash, the series begins placing all the pieces on the gameboard, as it sets up the rapidly approaching season finale.For at least the fifteenth time this season, the A-plot in this...
View ArticleImitation Is The Sincerest Form Of Something Something
Saw this article on Yahoo a couple days ago. Jeffrey Dean Morgan says his performance as Harvey Russell in the new Rampage movie might remind audiences of Negan.Might? MIGHT? There ain't no might about...
View ArticleSlab Bulkhead • Dirk Hardpec • Big McLargehuge • Therm Scissorpunch
Apparently in Disney's new Star Wars: Solo: A Star Wars Story movie, there's a new alien character named "Therm Scissorpunch."THERM SCISSORPUNCH.I'm pretty sure that's one of the "manly names" that...
View ArticleThe Flash Season 4, Episode 18: Lose Yourself
This week on The Flash, the series goes really dark, as The Thinker finally puts his master plan into motion, and the Gang loses one of their own.SPOILERS FROM HERE ON OUT! I have to say I wasn't...
View ArticleLegends Of Tomorrow Season 3, Episode 16: I, Ava
There's a lot going on in this week's jam-packed Legends Of Tomorrow, as the writers realize they've got six hours worth of story left, but only two episodes to go in the season.First up there's the...
View ArticleLast Day. Year Of The City: 2018
Michael Anderson, director of the 1976 scifi classic Logan's Run, died last week at age 98.I guess Anderson didn't get renewed in Carousel after all.What? Too soon?
View ArticleA Tale Of Two Movies
I hate to kick a studio when they're down, but take a look at this:In its first THREE DAYS of release, Marvel Studios'Avengers: Infinity War grossed almost as much as Warner Bros. Justice League movie...
View ArticleThe Flash Season 4, Episode 19: Fury Rogue
This week on The Flash we get a surprising subversion of expectations in Harry's storyline, the return of an old friend (sort of), a pointless new villain and one more reason for Marlize to betray her...
View ArticleHappy Tenth Anniversary To The Marvel Cinematic Universe!
Happy 10th Anniversary to the Marvel Cinematic Universe!It all started with Iron Man, which premiered exactly ten years ago today on May 2, 2008! Who'd have ever believed back then that we'd get a...
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