Paradise is a Russian-German co-production about the Holocaust, which came into the Glasgow Film Festival winning the Silver Lion for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival; it was Russia’s nomination for the Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards. In 1942 Olga (Yuliya Vysotskaya) was a Russian-emigrant who fought for the French Resistance and was arrested by […]
“Fighting Fire with Fire” shows that Arrow has come a long way from the many missteps of the previous two seasons. This episode’s pacing, character development, story progression, and overall tone shows that the Arrow crew is absolutely capable of creating quality dramatic storytelling. We also got the season’s biggest reveal, so if it wasn’t […]
This week DC Comics teased that Jay Garrick will be making his first appearance in DC Rebirth in May’s Batman/Flash Watchmen crossover. DC Comics revealed the cover for The Flash #22 with Jay Garrick speeding onto the page. This will be the last issue of the four part crossover between Batman and The Flash called “The Button” beginning in […]
The CW has cast Cress Williams as the lead in its latest DC superhero pilot Black Lightning, according to Variety. Williams is no stranger to the small screen, having previously appeared on Code Black, Hart of Dixie, Friday Nights Lights, Grey’s Anatomy, and Veronica Mars. Now he will be playing Jefferson Pierce, a teacher who used to […]
Alex Meraz has been cast in the lead role of Tribal Police officer Dashiell “Dash” Bad Horse for Scalped, a television adaption of the Vertigo Comics series of the same name, according to published reports. Both The Tracking Board and Screen Rant have reported Meraz has been cast as the main character for the series, […]
This week’s episode of Arrow was one that wasn’t quite sure it knew what it wanted to be. “The Sin-Eater” had good character moments and interesting plot beats that were scattered about, but it felt like too much was crammed into a single episode to make for a cohesive story. It’s true, we did get […]
This week Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. delivered another twist, maybe the most impressive one yet this season. The episode started as a rescue mission, but ended in a trap. Let’s dive in and see what went down on this week’s episode, “The Man Behind the Shield.” This episode was woven together using the present mission […]
With the way in which The Walking Dead structures their season, I suppose I should have expected “Rock in the Road” to be heavily laden with exposition. And, normally, I’m someone who is asking for more dialogue and less over-the-top blood and gore. But man, was “Rock in the Road” a dull hour of television. […]
Thanks to the commercial and critical success of such series as Luke Cage and Supergirl, we’ll get to see more TV shows based on existing comic book properties in 2017 than ever before. With all the viewing options available, traditional TV networks seem to realize that simply putting superheroes on air isn’t enough to get […]
In the year-plus since Supergirl debuted, the show has slowly yet surely built a repertoire of costumed characters to support the star. In “We Can Be Heroes,” we see two of those supporting players come to the fore: Mon-El, the Daxamite bad boy with a heart of gold and the Guardian, otherwise known as Supergirl’s […]
