Jessica Jones Season 2 ends on a high note, which is good because the season up to now has been quite flat. If you’ve stuck with it so far you’re treated to a great conclusion to the Jessica / Alisa Jones story, and a pretty good end to Trish’s struggle as well (plus an episode full of Killgrave again! Who doesn’t want that?) So let’s take a look after the spoiler message so I can actually talk about things!
Live and Let Die sees Roger Moore debut as 007, and arrives right in the middle of the early 70s “blaxpoitation” era, as such it sees Bond deal with Harlem drug lords, voodoo cultists and a New Orleans funky brass band that kills people… Okay, maybe that last one wasn’t a common trope, but still! Harlem, Caribbean islands and New Orleans, that’s three stereotypical locations for the price of one! Let’s take a look and see if this actually works as a film or not in general, let alone in 2018…
The second season of Jessica Jones finally begins to show its teeth with this middle block of episodes. The big (and sadly predictable) reveal of the lead antagonist leads to flashbacks and some fun and dramatic scenes of conflicted emotion. Sadly while all of this is going on there is still an awful lot of uninteresting side-stories being told, so… Let’s take a look!
Jessica Jones’ first season was brilliant. My second overall favourite of the Netflix side of the MCU, it featured twists, turns and a really compelling villain… that was sadly (though made perfect sense for the story) killed off. That leaves Season 2 with a gaping hole that will be hard to fill, and judging by these first four episodes, that may well be the problem! “A slow start” doesn’t do it justice… Let’s take a look, anyway!
My review of the last two (of the original 13) Dragon Ball Z movies on blu-ray is now available at Anime UK News HERE. Good times, though maybe a few years down the line I’ll do a more in-depth look at each film on this blog…
After spending some time back with the Doctor Who Magazine comics, it’s time to rejoin the Titan line and take a look at the first two 12th Doctor collected graphic novels of the second “year”, starting with The School of Death. Technically a four-part story and a single part one, both of which are the last stories to feature Clara in the Titan line and both of which feature a returning enemy! So are they any good? Well…
After sadly missing it in the cinema, I finally got to sit down and watch Thor: Ragnarok this week. It’s an odd film, it seems to want to be Guardians of the Galaxy more than a Thor film, though given the high standard of the former and the low standard of latter, I can see why. It also wants to be a Planet Hulk film, and wants to up the laughs and pull back on the drama, so rolling all those things together makes this a bad adaptation of the Ragnarok storyline from the comics, but makes it one of the funniest and flat out most enjoyable films in the MCU… So, let’s take a closer look!
Altered Carbon is a great blend of many sci-fi tropes and ideas, beautifully brought to life with a high budget and a great cast. End of review… No, seriously, I loved it, and I knew nothing about it before it was suddenly advertised by Netflix. I mean, it was kind of funny that this month I’ve reviewed the two Blade Runner films and a bunch of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica, and this series has strong beats from both (although I will point out that the book “Altered Carbon” came out before the new BSG, so I’m not saying the similarities to resurrection technology was this show copying that!) So with that all said, let’s take a closer look!
If you’re interesting in mostly filler episodes of the long running series, then you’ll enjoy my review of the 31st “box set” of Naruto Shippuden, now up on Anime UK News HERE!
“The Plan” was a special TV movie released after the series ended, showing the first two seasons from the perspective of the Cylons, specifically the Number One models. Technically this should be listed on my page as during the latter half of Season 2, but given it reveals all the information about the “Final Five” Cylons that were key in the final season, it’s best to keep it at the end, for spoilers sake. So let’s take a final (unless I watch the prequels down the line) look at the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica world…
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