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Here’s what we think about this year’s Free Comic Book Day offerings! The all-new Batman is revealed! The all-new Avenger’s first mission! Thats a little over a week away! It all begins with the previews inDivergence#1. Theres a sky full of Batsignals and streets full of sad faces. Snyder pushes most of the quick exposition from panel to panel through newscasts, which I always love. Having embraced his brand of justice, an all-new city-sanctioned official GCPD Batsuit was put into development....

Ultron also grew a festering hate for his father. So what from this classic origin will appear in the film? The Vision plays a pivotal role in Ultrons origin, and we know he shows up, too. Never one to miss a literary softball, Marvel named the female robot Jocasta after Oedipus own wife/mother. Ultron isnt just Skynet from theTerminatorfilms. Skynet never plotted to duplicate its creators wife and make sweet, oily, robot love to her....

Lenny is the bang out of guy who never grew out of being a jerky little kid. Hes physically and verbally aggressive. Lenny has a history with Louies family and hes not a bad guy, so to speak. How long before Louies social obligation to Lenny is trumped by his obvious dislike of the guy? Ive known people a lot like Lenny, and they are difficult goddamn people to be around....

Arnold Schwarzenegger is forced to make a tough decision after his daughter is bitten by a zombie in Maggie. And it is in this context that Wade (Schwarzenegger) locates his missing, wayward daughter. Wait until the authorities come to take Maggie away, or put her out of her misery himself. From the start,Maggieseems to maraud around its premise as aimlessly as its context. However, it is unclear whether the world ever ended....

Elena wants to take the cure, that’s could be a relationship deal-breaker. Here is our review of The Vampire Diaries season 6 episode 19. Something about theVampire Diariesturns me into a supremely inarticulate thirteen year old girl. After laying the groundwork last week, tonights installment was all about emotional payoff. The show is brilliant that way. Now she just needs seven or eight years to cry about shit and move forward....

Age Of Ultron is about evil AI, and Ex Machinas about a sentient robot. Ryan explores the link between these and other modern SF films. So why have so many filmmakers and screenwriters got artificial intelligence on their minds? Alex Garland, who made his directorial debut withEx Machinathis year, might have the answer. This suggests its in the zeitgest. Its in the air a bit. Has there been any big breakthrough in AI?...

Arrow delivered one of the best episodes in its history with “The Fallen.” Here’s our spoiler-filled review… ThisArrowreview contains spoilers. Im glad it did, because holy moley this was a terrific episode. What a tremendous character Felicity has grown into. From virtually nobody to quirky fan-favorite to the undisputed soul of the show in three seasons. But you know what the highest is? Actually trying (and nearly succeeding) to deliver on that audacious promise....

Daredevil signs off its first season with a new suit and an emotionally satisfying finale. How long’s the wait until season 2, again? But that presents us with a problem. How do we approach reviews? Matt and Karen attend Urichs funeral, and both are annoyed at Foggy for not turning up. Well, that was about as big an ending as we couldve realistically hoped for. But it was emotionally satisfying, and that makes it good enough....

To be fair, Joss Whedon is geek royalty, and needs no introduction. So hopefully, he wont mind that we gave him such a lousy one. Was there any particular favourite scene you wish you could have saved? Well, there was more shirtless Thor. The DVD extras are going to be enormously popular. The flow of it, thats all. Ad content continues below We cut out an hour. And we cut 45 minutes on the first one, and I dont regret any of that....

There is metaphysical wonderment to the image of a figure traversing the desert. This pretext makes their need to clash all the more enjoyably absurd. After all, like the Bard, Jack loves motiveless malignity. But the caricatures of Hollywood are often drawn so broadly that these sequences approach more camp than insight. Its the battle of wills between two figures of immense bombast that steersMojavetoward a more palpable oasis. In these dueling roles, Hedlund is a wide-eyed, latter-day SoCal John Ford....

The Americans wraps up its third season with a jaunt to Western Germany and Ronald Reagans stern words… The mark of a good actor is being able to communicate without speaking. What Matthew Rhys andThe Americansare able to accomplish with nothing more than Philip Jennings pained face is phenomenal. That blank look is there during his final(?) meeting with Yousaf*. Its there at the est meeting where he listens to people talking about their orgasms....

We English speakers are a cosseted bunch. If we dont want to plod our way through subtitles, we rarely have to. It is, of course, a two-way street. Its not justGolden GirlsandEverybody Loves Raymond-style hit mainstream sitcoms getting the treatment either, but dramas and niche comedy. Needless to say, it didnt catch on. Hit or flop?Very much a flop. Thats getting on for a hit, we say. It won a Zapping award for Best Series in 2009....

This has certainly been a week to celebrate the future of Marvel television. There was so much going on this week inAgents of SHIELDthat it is difficult to choose where to begin. In truth, Calvin Johnson has become somewhat of a classic Marvel villain. His motivations were understandable even if his methods were highly questionable. He just wanted to be reunited with the family that he tragically lost. This week, we saw a few new sides to old Cal....