Daredevil SN1 EP1 – ‘Into the Ring’

They say you only get one chance at a first impression. So being the first episode of a new show means Daredevil needed to get off to a good start.

ABC’s ‘Agents of SHIELD’ To Get “Edgier” For Season 4

ABC’s fall line-up revealed that their seminal Marvel-show Agents of SHIELD, will move to a later time slot at in an effort to be in lieu with Netflix‘s darker comic-book offerings.

Speaking with the press, ABC President Channing Dungey explained the move in order “to go a little bit edgier, go a little darker and take some risks.“

Although Agents of SHIELD has found its audience. The show has never been the ratings success that ABC hoped for back in 2013. Debuting with an 8pm time slot, the show was soon moved to 9 before ultimately finding itself at 10pm for season 4, effectively losing the kids market.

The channel is in no doubt seeking a new audience in leaning towards the dark side. But a change in tone would put Agents of SHIELD in step with Netflix’s already mature superhero shows like Daredevil, Jessica Jones and their upcoming Luke Cage and Iron Fist ventures.

With regards to future of Marvel television on ABC, Dungey revealed that “We are in extensive conversations with Marvel. I had a really long talk with Dan Buckley from Marvel last week. We’re very excited about a few things we have in development. We think there’s a long future ahead and excited to explore it together.”

Specifics aren’t clear as to what exactly ABC have planned. But even with the throughly popular Agent Carter receiving its marching orders last week, it seems that the network are still committed to producing Marvel centric shows on their programming for the foreseeable future.

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‘Tetris’ A Surprise Of A Movie

Videogames always had epic storylines that Hollywood loves to adapt into movies. And more often than not, those movies are hated by the hard-core gamers. Cause let’s face it, how on earth do you expect to give an average 20+ hours of gameplay justice in a 2 hour movie.

However there are still some game movies that are building up quite a good rep (Warcraft comes to mind). Added to that, a somewhat recent announcement captured our interest.

Top Gun 30th Anniversary

So on May the 16th 2016 Top Gun the movie turned 30 this means I was only 2 years old when the movie was released which when I think about it is crazy but none the less it still stands on it’s own as a classic film.

For those of you who have not seen Top Gun let me give you a bit of background on the film itself it stars Tom Cruise as lose cannon fighter pilot Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell who has entered into flight school to try and be the best pilot there is. He brings with him some attitude that rubs the other pilots in the flight school the wrong way especially Val Kilmers character Tom ‘Iceman’ Kazanski who knows about Mavericks fathers past as a pilot and knows his error caused other pilots to lose there life.

The film also stars Mavericks wingman Nick ‘Goose’ Bradshaw played by Anthony Edwards and Mavericks love interest Charlie Blackwood played by Kelly McGillis who also turns out to be a flight instructor at the flight school. This film has it all in my book Action, Romance, Bromance, awesome quotes and to top it off an awesome soundtrack. Some of the great tunes you can find in this film include Kenny Loggins – Danger Zone, Berlin – Take my breath away and the Top Gun Anthem by Steve Stevens and Harold Faltermeyer you can give it a listen in full on Spotify.

As for the quotes in the film here are some of my favorites

1. Maverick:- “I feel the need…”

Goose:- “The need for speed!”

2. Stinger: “Maverick, you just did an incredibly brave thing. (Pause) What you should have done was land your plane! You don’t own that plane! The taxpayers do! Son, your ego is writing checks your body can’t cash!”

3. Carole: “Take me to bed or lose me forever.”

Goose: “Show me the way home, honey.”

4. Iceman: “You can be my wingman any time.”

Maverick: “Bullshit! You can be mine.”

5. Maverick, spotting Charlie for the first time:  “She’s lost that loving feeling.”

6. Goose: “No. No, Mav, this is not a good idea.”

Maverick: “Sorry, Goose, but it’s time to buzz the tower.”

7. Maverick, walking into a bar: “This is what I call a target-rich environment.”

8. Jester: “His fitness report says it all. Flies by the seat of his pants, totally unpredictable.”

Viper: “He got you, didn’t he?”

9. Charlie: “You’re not going to be happy unless you’re going Mach 2 with your hair on fire.”

10. Maverick: “You don’t have time to think up there. If you think, you’re dead.”

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Penny Dreadful SN 3 EP 3 – ‘Good And Evil Braided Be’

What an episode, Fellow Dreadfuls! From dark to darker! Didn’t think that was possible, but it is. Penny D has an 18A rating for good reason. There were some extremely intense scenes in this episode, as well as plenty of language of the times. There is no such thing as a political correctness filter at all. If you are faint of heart, or offended by historical language, this is definitely not the show for you. In Good and Evil Braided Be, there is a distinct separation of story lines. Ethan’s story is taking place in New Mexico, Vanessa is preparing to do battle with not only her inner demons, but with an external demon in the form of Dracula. And Victor is trying desperately to get Lily back with Henry Jekyll’s help.

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Let’s deal with Ethan first. Ethan has escaped from both Inspector Rusk and from the hired brigands who were bringing him back to his father in the Talbot Range. In this, he has been ably assisted by Hecate, who has made it quite clear that she is along for the ride, no matter Ethan’s feelings in the matter. “Has my utility not been amply demonstrated? Has my allegiance not been proved? I followed you across an ocean and a continent. I will follow you to Hell. I will lead the way, Wolf of God.” Ethan acknowledges Kaetenay’s teachings. “My father, my Apache father taught me to believe in things we don’t quite understand. And you are surely one of them”. He is still going to see his biological father, but on his own terms. In order to do that, they need transportation, which Hecate procures by killing a pair of homesteaders. The cold-bloodedness of the act sickens Ethan to his soul. Hecate’s motivations for helping him are quite simple, really. “I want to liberate your truest self. The beast that prowls around your heart. And when you are truly yourself and we are painted with blood, I want to rule the darkness at your side”. Ambitious Witch!
Ethan is being tracked by Inspector Rusk and Federal Marshall Ostow.

They have found the savaged remains in the Cascabel Saloon and Trading Post. Must have been pretty stinky in there, what with the scent of death and decomp being accelerated by the New Mexico heat. They are there long enough to realize that Ethan has help, as one body was killed in an entirely different manner from the rest. Ostow thinks that Rusk knows something about Ethan that he is not sharing. Rusk asks him if he believes in the occult, and advises him to start. They head out, and spot Ethan and Hecate just before the pair enter the desert. But they tip Ethan off when Ostow and his posse start shooting at them from a bluff some distance away. Ethan and Hecate ride off as if the Hounds of Hell were nipping at their heels.

We find Sir Malcolm and Kaetenay on a train – Kaetenay meditating, Sir Malcolm watching the world go by. Sir Malcolm wants to know why, when Kaetenay could have tracked Ethan on his own, did he follow him around the world to enlist his help. Kaetenay tells him that Ethan trusts Sir Malcolm with his life. Then changes the subject by describing a woman in her witch form. Sir Malcolm knows it is Hecate. Kaetenay tells him she is with Ethan. Kaetenay’s motivation for finding Ethan is also pretty simple. “If we cannot save our son, a terrible end awaits us, all of us. The Beast will feed, a darkness will overcome the earth, then all our days will come to an end. Only Ethan can save us.”. Sir Malcolm strikes a blow for race equality when they are approached by a man who insists that non-whites (in much less politically correct language) must ride with the livestock. Sir Malcolm speaks to this man. “Before you speak another word I ask you to consider this. How valuable is your life? Do you hold it dear? Does your wife value your company?” He stands and draws himself to his full height. “Do you favor growing old? To one day teach your ugly inbred children your grotesque manners? Lay hands on him and it will be your end”. Freakin’ awesome speech, coupled with a very nicely placed buuurn! Later on, having obtained horses, they track Ethan and Hecate to the homestead. Sir Malcolm knows Ethan did not murder the homesteaders, and wants to bury them. Kaetenay says “Let the coyotes eat. He is halfway damned already. We go into the desert and do not stop until we find him, and save him if we can. If we cannot, we kill the evil that he has become”.

In Bedlam, Victor converses with the inmate that was transformed by Henry Jekyll’s serum. The man only vaguely remembers his violent state while sane, or his sane state while violent. The serum wears off very suddenly, and the man is dragged away, screaming and thrashing. This is the crux of Henry’s problem. The serum lasts for mere hours at this point. The beast will out. Henry has a deep seated need to know which part is the true self, beast or angel. Victor thinks that both are the true self.  “Good and evil braided be”. Henry rejects that. “In the end we must be that thing the world demands of us. We must take the lust, the avarice and the ambition and bury them. All the ugly alien things, all the things we really are. The other one, the other man, we cannot allow him!”. Of course, as we know, Dr. Jekyll is speaking from personal experience. Victor thinks he can help to increase the length of the change, perhaps rendering it permanent, if they combine their two disciplines, biochemistry and electricity.

Lily and Justine, while having tea in town, notice a man leering at Justine. Lily tells Justine that men are utter slaves to their desires. Dorian being an exception. Justine wants to know if Lily has ever known any man who didn’t want to “f*** her or beat her”, and Lily tells her about Ethan. Justine asks what happened to him, and Lily says that it is more what happened to her. She muses that she has had an eventful life but is not ready to share all, even though Justine declares her allegiance to Lily. A group of suffragettes attract their attention, clamouring, waving placards, and being beaten by police. Justine thinks that they are the same as Lily, but Lily disagrees.

They have the same enemy, but the suffragettes want equality. She wants something else. “How do you accomplish anything in this life? By craft, by stealth, by poison, by the throat quietly slit in the dead of the night. By the careful and silent accumulation of power”. She tells Justine that when you have that power, you go to war. Back at home, Dorian tells Justine about rites of passage, while playing with a dagger, and Lily watches on. There is a naked man bound and gagged in a chair. Dorian asks Justine to share her relationship with this man. “He bought me when I was 12, and used me as his pet whore. He whored me out when I got older and he grew tired of me. He put me on a platform and let 10 men at a time f*** me. “. Dorian interrupts “and then he charged us £10 each to see you being tortured and killed” Lily, with tears in her eyes, tells Justine that is her worth. Dorian presents Justine with the knife and tells her that if she makes this pledge, there will be no drawing back. God will turn his back on her, mankind will shun her. Justine takes the knife and slashes the man’s throat, and then, in a fit of rage, stabs him over and over. She is covered in blood, and this turns them all on. The three indulge in a lurid and bloody 3-way to cement the pledge. When they are satiated, Lily and Dorian reveal their plans to build an army of the invisible women, the whores, the disgraced and powerless, all the shunned and hated. And then they will have power. Revolution. Freedom. “Liberty is a bitch that must be bedded on a mattress of corpses”.

And now to Vanessa, whom we find in Dr. Sewards’ office, in a state of agitation. Vanessa is convinced that Dr. Seward is judging her. She knows in her heart that Dr. Seward is the reincarnation of her mentor, the Cut-Wife Joan Clayton, and it enrages her that Seward doesn’t seem to believe her story. Dr. Sewards’ explanation is that Vanessa has been so traumatized by some unknown thing that her mind has invented the phantoms, demons and villains to put names to the pain. Vanessa asks her for a cigarette, and when Dr. Seward offers it, she grasps Seward’s arm and tells Seward that she was hurt by a man who would have killed her, had she not killed him first. When Seward is sufficiently shocked, Vanessa lets go and tells her that such things do have a name. “They are witches, vampires and Lucifer. They are all those things that walk in your nightmares. Shall we walk together?” Later, Vanessa and Dr. Sweet meet in Chinatown. Alexander tells Vanessa that he is recovering from the death of his wife about a year ago, and he is just now venturing into the world again. Vanessa says that she too, is healing, and is trying new things. Dracula’s lead familiar follows the two. In the spirit of trying new things, Vanessa and Alexander enter the House of Mirrors, where they get separated.

The lead familiar approaches Vanessa, and speaking in rhyme, tells her that she will meet the Master again soon. Vanessa is confused and somewhat frightened and asks him when she met the Master the first time. He clarifies that it was in a white room. No windows. No time. It was just her and the master, and “that other”. The familiar seems to hear something and bows out, crawling backwards on the floor. A visibly upset Vanessa and Alexander have tea, during which Alexander tries to find out what happened to her. She refuses to say, but tells him that she has enjoyed every minute of their time together. “But it is too dangerous. Take it as a sign of something like love. Goodbye”. As she rushes out of the tea room, Alexander takes his anger out on his teacup. On her next visit to Dr. Seward, she tells Dr. Seward of the encounter, and demands hypnosis. She needs to find out who the master is. She knows that the white room can only be at the Banning Clinic, where she was tortured and given brain surgery by Dr. Banning. Seward tries unsuccessfully to talk her out of it. Under hypnosis, she describes the room, and the door. She is alone, her only company the attendants who take her to her “treatments” and the orderly who brings her food. The door opens, and we discover that the orderly is none other than John Clare.

John Clare aka Caliban, has returned to London, having recovered some memory of his previous life. He is following the pull of those memories when he spies Vanessa across the street. His initial joy turns to wistfulness as he sees that she is meeting a man. As he looks around he sees his old apartment, and goes to examine it, in the hope that he can find his wife and son. This leads him to a factory, where it is quitting time. He is drawn to a nearby apartment block, where he sees a model of a ship in a 3rd floor window. He gets into the attic of the building and looks down into the apartment where he has seen the model, and discovers that it is the model that he and his son built together. As he watches, he realizes that his son is gravely ill, and that his wife needs financial help. He provides this help anonymously, by robbing an elderly gentleman of a gold pocket watch, and leaving the watch in the apartment for his wife to find in the morning.

Loose ends tidied up.

Renfield is becoming obsessive about finding things out about Vanessa for his master, to the point where if his ear stretched out anymore during her sessions with Dr. Seward, he’d look like Dumbo. And he is, disgustingly enough, eating any stray bug that happens to unluckily cross his path.

The lead familiar has messed up by approaching Vanessa, and not to put too fine a point on it, royally pissed Dracula off. “When the time is right, when she is abject, when she is helpless, when she begs for me, then we shall have her”. These are pretty strict instructions to the rest of the familiars, followed by some negative reinforcement. Dracula allows the rest of them to eat the lead familiar. Dire consequences indeed!
If you have made it this far, here is the trailer for next week. Enjoy!

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A New Trailer for ‘The BFG’ Has Been Released

A new trailer for The BFG has been released, and it’s glorious.

Based on the book by Roald Dahl, Steven Spielberg is currently in charge of adapting this beloved children’s story to big screen. The trailer shows a lot more of the world, including iconic moments such as the BFG chopping snozzcumbers, the BFG holding onto dreams, and the terrifying moment that one of the other giants storms into the BFG’s home after smelling a child.

The BFG will star Mark Rylance in the title role, and young rising star Ruby Barnhill will play opposite him as the orphan girl Sophie.

Overall, the trailer does look magical. It looks like it’s going to follow in the recent The Jungle Book adaptation released this year – it’s going to have enough of the original animated movie that most people know and love to touch peoples hearts, whilst also having it’s own direction. It was received very positively at Canne’s Film Festival the weekend just passed, so it’s looking to have a very bright future when it releases to the public.

The BFG will open in U.S. cinemas on July 1st, and then the UK on July 22nd.

Supernatural Mass Exodus

In the last few days, there has been several important members of the SPN Family that have left The Show to move on to other projects.

Most recently, Jenny Klein tweeted about leaving The Show to work as a writer for Jessica Jones.  Jenny worked on 105 episodes as an assistant, assistant to the writers, and story editor.  She was the story editor on some of my favorite episodes like Fan Fiction and About a Boy.

We’ve also lost Robbie Thompson.  This loss actually made me cry.  Robbie wore many hats in the SPN Family; he was not only a producer and co-executive producer, but also a writer.  In fact, Robbie was one of my favorite writers on The Show… of my Top Ten favorite shows, he wrote FOUR on the list.  FOUR.  That’s almost half of the list!  He was the genius behind Baby and Fan Fiction… and The Girl With the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo.  He was the one that introduced us to Charlie (Felicia Day)!  He will be sorely missed and he leaves very BIG shoes to fill.

Also leaving the show is show runner Jeremy Carver.  He joined the show back in Season 3 as a writer (he was the genius who wrote the classic Mystery Spot episode).  Chuck Shurley’s  (God, and the writer of the Supernatural books in the show… who represents The Show creator Eric Kripke) pen name was Carver Edlund.  Named after Jeremy and another writer on the show Ben Edlund.  Jeremy took over as Show Runner in Season 8.  He brought us out of Purgatory and helped us get over the loss of Bobby.  He gave us the Mark of Cain and Deanmon…. and The Darkness.  He will be moving on to head up his new project, a show called Frequency (a reboot of the movie starring Dennis Quaid) on The CW.

Stepping up to fill Carver’s shoes will be Robert Singer and Andrew Dabb.  Neither are new to The Show.  Singer has worked with The Show since Season 1 as a writer, director and producer.  The beloved character Bobby Singer was named after him.  Dabb joined the family in Season 4 as a writer and has moved up through the ranks to executive producer and now co-Show Runner.

I hate change, but I’m hoping for the best here.  I’m sure that Singer and Dabb will take us on new and just as exciting adventures with The Boys as Kripke, Gamble and Carver did before them.

A Rocky Remake (Pun Intended)

As someone who wasn’t even born when the original movie was released, I may not be the best authority to comment on the reboot film’s trailer. But as someone who found the film at a crucial time in his life, and learned to accept his weirdness (which is actually akin to awesomeness) no matter what, I think I do.

So fasten your seat belts and get ready for my reaction to the reboot trailer!!

‘Transformers 5’ Logo and Title Revealed

 

The official title and logo of Michael Bay’s final movie in his “Transformers” run has finally been revealed.

Transformers: The Last Knight was officially unveiled to the world yesterday by Paramount Pictures, alongside a fancy new Instagram with a call to action for all Autobots.

This installment of the franchise will see the return of Mark Wahlberg as Cade Yeager, and will star Isabela Moner as the film’s female lead, Izabella. Jerrod Carmichael is also set to play an unspecified leading role.

Combined, the Transformers movies have pulled in $3.7 Billion at the global box office, and the 2014 movie Age of Extinction was the second-highest grossing of the four.

Production is set to begin in June this year, and the current release date is June 23th 2017.

 

Bryan Singer Pitches Female Wolverine

So it appears that Bryan Singer is already preparing for life without Hugh Jackaman as Wolverine by pitching the idea of a female Wolverine to Fox. So as we know Jackman is hanging his claws after the third installment of the movie, Singer has revealed in an interview with fandango that he pitched a Fox studios with replacing Jackman with the new female Wolverine Laura Kinney previously X-23.

“I have discussed that with the studio” Singer advised fandango “I actually initially pitched the X-Force and the female”

I’m not 100% convinced that a female Wolverine would work I started reading the comics and did not really connect with the character so stopped after issue 4 as I thought I would give it more of a chance.

Singer also revealed that he has started work on the X-Force movie but it is still just at the ideas stage. He told fandango “Simon Kinberg is the earliest script stage, so that’s kind of where it stands and we’ll see how it evolves”

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