Once again, the big doorcrasher is a Disney product unavailable for Amazon preoder: Ant-Man and the Wasp drops on October 16. The other notable titles are library titles, including a number of Clint Eastwood films.
October 14, 2018
Hereditary (2018)
Our next entry in this year’s countdown of horrors old and new, famous and forgotten, is 2018’s most discussed tale of terror. Films like It and Halloween have something of the funhouse about them. We watch, in part, and often more than once, for the thrills. That may explain why, despite widespread critical acclaim and an eventual strong box office, Hereditary received an initially dismal response from audiences. Hereditary isn’t the funhouse kind of horror movie. Although it has frights, it’s more disturbing and distressing than scary. The opening doesn’t feel like a horror movie. The first act, in fact, subjects the audience to one of the most uncomfortable and traumatizing family dramas in years.
But, love it or hate it, Hereditary is difficult to forget.
October 13, 2018
Movie Discussion: Venom (2018)
Sony/Columbia have had a hit-and-miss record with superheroes, and they’re receiving both positive and negative responses to Venom, s movie based on the Spider-man comic, but minus the webslinger himself.
The man in the symbiote suit is the protagonist here.
Here’s the place to discuss the movie.
October 13, 2018
Greatest Science Fiction Hero Tournament: Week 31, Round 2
October 13, 2018
“Friday the 13th” (1980) – Make Me Watch It #22
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The latest subject of Make Me Watch It is Friday the 13th (1980), directed by Sean S. Cunningham. The updated and maintained list of options for “Make Me Watch It” can be found here. You can name up to ten movies you’d like me to cover here. The series can also be found on Stitcher, on iTunes, or in a direct RSS feed.
October 10, 2018
The Gifted – S02E03 – coMplications
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After boring us with a filler episode for the second episode of the season, The Gifted comes back strong with multiple plot points happening this week, including the introduction of The Morlocks to the XTVU.1
October 9, 2018
Comic Television Discussion – Week beginning 7th October 2018
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**blows Dust Cumulation off of discussion posts**
Woah, the new season is racing in, as The Flash, Black Lightning, and Riverdale join The Gifted as our weekly TV shows, and catching me off guard because I wasn’t paying attention. I am leaving out our animated shows, but let me know if anyone is watching any of them enough to include them. I don’t think we get any new Netflix shows until The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina joins us on the 26th.
[All synopses (and titles) from Trakt.tv below the cut. (If a show’s synopsis is a spoiler to you, do not click More…)]
October 9, 2018
“Milagro” (6×18): X-Files Retrospective Podcast #144
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The latest episode of the X-Files Retrospective podcast, covering Milagro (6×18), is now available here for your listening pleasure. Intro and outro music attribution is below. You can also follow the show from its own feed (RSS, iTunes, Stitcher) or through the Bureau 42 Master Audio Feed (RSS, iTunes, Stitcher).
October 7, 2018
Doctor Who: The Woman Who Fell To Earth
A new series, a new producer, new companions, a new composer and a new Doctor await us in one of the most talked-about premieres in the show’s history.
October 15, 2018
Comic Television Discussion – Week beginning 14th October 2018
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While I am still waiting for The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina joins us on the 26th, but there is a lot to watch in the build up, including the entire third season of Daredevil, and new show Titans that I missed letting you know about last week. Supergirl and Arrow return as well, as Kara takes her turn as a mild manner reporter, and Oliver is the new black as Arrow starts out in prison. The Flash spends some quality time with his adult daughter, and Jefferson leaves his principal job on Black Lightning. Titans adds two more “heroes” to the four they introduced in their pilot last week.
In other universes, The X-Millenials try to get some more allies as the aforementioned Devil of Hell’s Kitchen returns to after having gone missing. Riverdale begins setting up new storylines with their second episode instead of their first for this season.
[All synopses (and titles) from Trakt.tv below the cut. (If a show’s synopsis is a spoiler to you, do not click More…)]
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