It’s amazing the difference a director can make in the world of television. While “Chapter Two” certainly wasn’t a poorly directed episode (on the contrary, Michael Uppendahl did a great job with the story he had), it lacked the spark that Noah Hawley (who also wrote “Chapter Two”) brought to “Chapter One” of Legion. Muddying the […]
It isn’t easy being Lena Luthor. Your parents are cold, stern and businesslike, while your brother is only the most notorious mad scientist on Earth. Throughout this sophomore season of Supergirl, the showrunners have teased viewers who wonder if Lena is destined to follow the family tradition or wants to join the side of the […]
It was five years ago when Nintendo stated if Fire Emblem Awakening didn’t sell well, it’d be the end of the franchise. Fast forward to today, and we recently had a Fire Emblem-themed Nintendo Direct talking about four upcoming Fire Emblem games. It’s so important to Nintendo now, they made a Fire Emblem mobile game […]
Before I dive into the fun, flashy insanity of Legion‘s pilot, “Chapter 1,” I want to start with a disclaimer. While the X-Men were my comic drug of choice growing up, I tended to stick to the more mainstream stories and characters, and I haven’t delved into the less-known stories, such as Legion. That being […]
To refer to the oft-cited Confucius quote, “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, first dig two graves.” Or, in the case of Velvet Crowe, protagonist and anti-hero of Tales of Berseria, dig a lot of graves. A quest for revenge is always laden with sorrow, and such is the case in the latest installment […]
T2 Trainspotting was a film that was over 20 years in the making, a sequel to one of the Great British films of the ’90s, reuniting its director, screenwriter and cast to loosely adapt the Irvine Welsh follow-up novel Porno. Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) had been living in Amsterdam after stealing £16,000 from his friends […]
This week Marvel Comics announced the main cast for Hulu’s upcoming Runaways show, based on Brian K. Vaughan’s critically acclaimed title released in 2003. Marvel.com was the first to break the news and here is what they had to say about the cast: Rhenzy Feliz – Alex Wilder “Alex Wilder is a loud-and-proud nerd. Admittedly a bit […]
Getting Resident Evil back on track for the second time seemed like an almost impossible task. Resident Evil 6 took things in such a drastic direction which I despised that I wasn’t even sure I wanted a Resident Evil 7. However everything pre release sounded like they were on the right track. The demo was […]
While flawed in many respects, Split marks a welcome return to form for writer and director M. Night Shyamalan. Three teenage girls are kidnapped by one of the 23 personalities inhabiting the body of Kevin (James McAvoy), a man with severe dissociative identity disorder, and are held captive in a cellar for some unknown, sinister […]
Superheroes are a cornerstone of the comics medium. To the mainstream, they may as well be the same thing. Over their 75 or so years of existence, the concept and execution of super people has changed a dozen times over. Today, while it’s fair to say that there’s an undeniable self-deprecating tone to the super-landscape, […]
