Because, lets be honest, the metaphysics can get kind of heavy! Are we to conclude that the virus did not originate with the corpse in the Night Room? Is this new direction with Operation Troy the actual beginning of the plague? Want more discussion of 12 Monkeys? Check out my podcast,12 Monkeys Uncaged, for show news, episode analysis, and fan interaction! Rating: 4 out of 5
Steve Brule and the Channel 5 team star in an original sitcom pilot with horrifying results. And what if that pilot finally surfaced and saw the light of day? So this isnt new ground for them. Ad content continues below Immediately, were bombarded with an upsetting, polarizing presentation style and motif. What are you, some kind of monkey? Actually, I am. At which point, text reveals that the customer is Mickey Dolenz of the Monkees....
Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper’s American Sniper is now in wide release. Here is our review for the war film. Who is Chris Kyle? But that scene which we return to later is pretty much all we get along those lines. And thats how it goes forAmerican Sniperfrom that point on. Its a repetitive structure and Eastwood appears to have no desire to shake it up. And then theres the baby....
Spoilers ahead for tonights episode of Banshee, You Cant Hide from the Dead. But no amount of careful planning can overcome Hoods constant visions of Siobhan. That he is haunted by her tragic loss is understandable, but their timing instantly makes Hood a liability. Job nearly pays the price, toosomething hes not soon to forget. The heist reaches peak intensity, however, when Stowe figures out their plan and comes gunning for them....
David Cronenberg’s The Dead Zone is one of those Stephen King films that remains a classic. Light relief? But if youre used toVideodrome,Dead Zoneis not. At that point I needed to do something based on somebody elses work, as a relief. Then again, the inch-thick snow and tangible breath-on-the-air coldness added to the movies oppressive atmosphere. Stephen Kings own script was terrible, Cronenberg later said. Jeffrey Boam concurred, later stating that King had Missed the point of his own book....
Archer and companys trip to Branson goes wrong when they drift into Nellis Air Force Base air space a.k.a. So aliens exist in theArcheruniverse. I guess lets just start with that. Archerhas never been a show particularly concerned with realism or believability. Its certainly a bold and welcome move for a show that thrives on absurdity as much asArcherdoes. But the final product is very short and surprisingly underwhelming. She has no memory of that, Pam says....
Backstroms white whale, an unsolved sexual predator case, comes back to haunt him! And there are vampires! Good is good but bad is better. In what was surely a clip that was passed around like crazy during the shows promotional blitz. And shes absolutely right. It even makes you feel bad for Gravely. You know shes going to get burned in the end though, and she shouldnt be. Amongst the casework, theres some puzzling stuff going on, like when the SCU visit the victims school....
With Boyhood up for multiple Oscars, our resident boys make their case for the film using its soundtrack. Welcome to Oscar season. The simple answer is: We were boys too once.Maybewe still are. Nothing was Yellow about being 16 and working your first shitty job pressing green and red buttons. Yellow kept me sane the first three or four spins. I chose to remember those times. If you worked in that place, you were delusional enough where eventually the tunes start talking to you....
Admittedly, this didnt happen in one fell swoop. For the first time in quite a while, the crime-of-the-week supported the underlying issues between the central protagonists. For a television purist like myself, this was something akin to being orgasmic. I blushed through basically the entire episode and maybe muttered oh my more than once. What do you want, Im of English descent, thats about as wild as I get! Watson and Holmes worked together to solve the case, as they so often do....
Empire continues its unprecedented hot streak. How high will the ratings go? Thats six weeks in a row. Last weeksEmpirewas sort of all over the place, focusing on new or background characters outside of Lyons family. The problem is Anika. She isnt bringing the same passion to the table. Ad content continues below The beef between Hakeem and Jamal isnt quite as explosive as it should be either. I cant even really remember why things are not copasetic between the two of them in the first place....
Nothing like an old friend to make a great episode even better. Here’s our review of last night’s, Scandal episode. Thank goodness Liv knew enough Farsi to speak it and then interpret it incorrectly to her captors. So it was back to the bidding war for Liv! Thats when he decided to sell her to the Russians. We miss you, Steven! Yes, Steven was heading the group of Russians, captured Livs captors and took Olivia into his protection....
Triumph returns home to Jack and June, in a surprisingly comfortable sitcom that puts this dog-out-of-water! Look, its a dog! The character is treated like a celebrity, and hes as famous as his co-star, Jack McBrayer. Yknow, becoming the Jack McBrayer that we all know today. There are already things likeBilly On the Streetnow pleasantly filling that niche. The gamble pays off. This is allverysitcom-y, but in the best possible way....
Here’s our review… ThisArrowreview contains spoilers. How many people can Oliver Queen lose before there is no more Oliver Queen? Not in terms of scope or scale, necessarily. But it did at least make a run at do some very different things than weve become used to. It didnt always work, but I have to give it credit. I guess Id better get right into this one. Ad content continues below...
