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Monthly Movie: Whiplash (January 2015)

Whiplash was released in UK cinemas this January, and has become the most critically-acclaimed. Which is saying something, since it’s come-out in the infamous toilet bowl month.

February 1, 2015
Batman: Year One — review

Written by Tab Murphy. Batman: Year One is Warner Premiere’s one-hour animated adaptation of the 1980s modernised origin of Batman. I picked it up from my comic book store purely because it stars Bryan Cranston as James Gordon, a casting choice Warner Bros. should carry-over to mainstream cinema, and Ben McKenzie as Bruce Wayne, who now stars…

February 1, 2015
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Undercover — review

Screenplay by Luke Del Tredici (created by Doon Goor/Michael Schur) Brooklyn Nine-Nine‘s second season premiere just feels better than the first season. And the reason is because it’s the first season premiere to not be a series premiere. Ergo, this is the first episode following a season finale, and that means there are some things that need wrapping-up. For example,…

January 31, 2015
The Big Bang Theory: the Septum Deviation — review

Written by Eric Kaplan, Steve Holland, Tara Hernandez. (Created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady.) Given The Big Bang Theory is an example of the formula used by some sitcoms of comprising one episode of two half-lengths episode occurring simultaneously, the best half of The Septum Deviation is Rajesh Koothrappali’s subplot in-which it’s revealed his parents have divorced. The last…

January 30, 2015
Ultimate Spider-Man: Venom Bomb review

With Ultimate Spider-Man: Venom Bomb, I was able to go through the joy of discovering another great TV show. One of those moments where you know you’ll be watching the rest. The UK gets it on Disney XD HD, so I’m probably quite behind, and I’m not even starting at the beginning, but I don’t…

January 29, 2015
Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.: Planet Hulk (part 2) — review

The first episode of Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.’s new season, Planet Hulk (part 2), begins where season one ended, with the establishment of Planet Hulk in a battle against Galactus.

January 28, 2015
The Simpsons: the Devil Wears Nada — review

Screenplay by Tim Long (created by Matt Groening). The Devil Wears Nada is one of The Simpsons‘ episodes that draws from a previous work and satirises it. The show is considered the core of American popular culture, which processes how the world feels about a specific aspect of its entertainment and politics. It’s the end-point for anything…

January 25, 2015
Banana: Dean review

Screenplay by Russell T. Davies. Banana‘s the E4 sister show of Channel 4 show Cucumber, airing the same night. Cucumber finishes as Banana‘s starting, with a character from the Cucumber episode that night being given the spotlight in Banana. This week’s is Dean, resident of an unregistered property that becomes Cucumber protagonist Henry Best’s new hold-up at the end of Cucumber: Episode…

January 24, 2015
Cucumber: Episode 1 — review

Screenplay by Russell T. Davies. I’m such a whore. I’ll watch anything if Russell T. Davies has written it. But then, he is the person who inspired me to be a writer. And here it is! The new RTD drama about gay life in Manchester, and one of two interconnected shows existing together in the Doctor…

January 23, 2015
Alice in Wonderland — review

Adapted by Linda Woolverton, based on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll. Tim Burton infuriates me. In my review of Batman, I praised him for understanding the mythology’s characters more than anyone else. And in Batman Returns, I noted his artistic continuation of the themes often used in consideration for him being an auteur, while also…

January 22, 2015

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