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Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 is almost over, and “The Hateful Darkness” feels like it was made to allow viewers (however many of them are still hanging around) to check their watches as they wait for the end. This is another dull episode that accomplishes little to...
The story of Michael Jackson was never going to fit neatly into a two-and-a-half-hour runtime. That’s the challenge hanging over Michael from the moment it begins—and to the film’s credit, it doesn’t try to pretend otherwise. Directed by Antoine Fuqua, the biopic...
After the last couple of weeks, Daredevil: Born Again looked like it might finally be righting the ship for good, but “Requiem” has proven that this will never happen. There may be flashes of a better show here and there, but they’re nothing but empty promises that...
Capcom surprised everyone (or mostly everyone) with Pragmata – including me. If you had told me Pragmata was a AAA game that would knock it out of the park, I would have laughed. Lately, the history of AAA games has been disappointing. From the failures of games like...
Daredevil: Born Again was coming off an unusually good episode on “Gloves Off” this week, and “The Grand Design” mostly capitalizes on that momentum, not so much in extending the story but in examining and growing the characters – well, two of them, anyway. Half of...
Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 is surprising in ways that are alternately satisfying and frustrating, and “Gloves Off” perfectly embodies that. It’s by far the best episode of the season so far, with a few legitimately good scenes, including the raucously fun opener,...
The access media critics have lined up in almost every review to pan the The Super Mario Galaxy Movie because it's “simple,” “fast,” and “focused on spectacle.” And for once… they’re actually describing the movie correctly. They just don’t realize that’s exactly why...
So far, Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 is a downward spiral, and “The Scales & The Sword” is the point where it dawns on you that the show likely isn’t getting better. It’s full of more squandered opportunities to do something interesting with the concept of the...
Marvel’s Disney+ shows have a habit of showing some promise early on and then crashing down to whatever sub-basement they dwell in, and while Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 isn’t quite that bad yet, “Shoot the Moon” is a significant step down from the encouraging...
Daredevil: Born Again is back, but the biggest question going into Season 2 is whether or not that’s a good thing. The first season of Disney’s revival of the Netflix series was a disaster, full of awful new characters, inconsistent old characters, rushed plotlines,...
Wonder Man Season 1 follows the familiar pattern of Marvel’s Disney+ shows, presenting some interesting ideas with lots of potential and squandering them in an overlong, dull as dishwater mess that can’t pick a tone, can’t maintain a theme, and can’t decide what it...
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come is a slight improvement on the previous film in the series (however long that series may last), but it’s still a pretty lousy movie. It’s got the same pattern of unbelievable coincidences and turns the concept of plot armor into an art...
