We Are Legi(x)n - Legion, Season 1
I'm now two whole episodes into Legion on FX and I'm sure I'm not the only person to come to something of a revelation: this may be the most X-Men thing to ever X-Men. Ever.
It's not a terribly big secret, but I guess it sort of is: I haven't noticed the word "mutant" being used (yet...it's due in the third episode if I'm to believe the trailer) but it's probably starting to become obvious that the series is thinly connected to the X-Men universe. At this moment in time, main character David Haller (played by Dan Stevens) is the only characters to have a direct relative in the world of comic-books, but it's a pretty explicit connection.
Up Up Down Down - As Above, So Below (2014)
In some alternate universe, I still write regular movie and video-game reviews, running my own entertainment website. In that same universe, I am now A FUCKING MEDIA MOGUL and next in line to be president of an undefined country.
In this universe, however, I'm a normal guy who's fallen out of the habit of being creative, shut down his old website and doesn't even have that many movies under the Reviews tab of this blog.
That One Kids TV Show You Barely Remember
Over the last few months, I've noticed little things coming back. Whether it's my brain firing synapses that haven't been touched in a very long time or if it's that things from the past are becoming cool once more, I'm not entirely sure.
RETRO IS IN, I declare to nobody in particular.
Civil War & Peace - Captain America: Civil War (2016)
It takes a special type of film to pit multiple superheroes against each other, to put good guys up against other good guys and see what happens.
Captain America: Civil War isn't even the only such film out this quarter. (Okay, so depending on where and when your quarter starts and finishes, maybe it's not the same quarter, but this film came out around six weeks after Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice.)
10 Things About Cancer Treatment Nobody Talks About
I'm a full year out of the madness, 366 days (it's a leap-year after all) on from treatment for a "grade two astrocytoma with grade three elements." It's a posh way of saying I had a brain tumour, and it was sort of cancerous. That's a full year on from feeling like shit every other day, wondering why your body has betrayed you and just how it's going to get worse.
I can now say, with a weird sense of guilt and a weirder sense of terror that "I've gotten better."
Kind of better. I don't want to jinx it.
From The Cave To The Heavens - Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice (2016)
Yeah, I saw Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice. At this stage, a lot of people have seen it.
And a lot of people didn't like it.
No, I'm holding my punches there: a lot of people hated it, and have been spewing such horrible, affected vitriol in the general directions of this film that its making me question their fucking sanity. Because it's a film about fictional characters, and if you care that much about these characters and how they have been 'ruined' by this movie, then you don't really understand much about fiction or these characters.
Blind To The Grind - Daredevil, Season 2
Oh, how I loved Daredevil season 2. Now flip it, reverse it, take out the formatting and we'll discuss my feeling for Daredevil.
Damn, Daredevil is a jerk, and this series of words is brought to you having watched thirteen episodes of him being a jerk.
Number Of The Beast - 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
Decadence On The 30th Floor - High Rise (2015)
Based on the book of the same name by JG Ballard, High-Rise is a project long in the making, finally brought to our screens by Ben Wheatley. This is easily the biggest project of Wheatley's career so far: the director behind Kill List, Sightseers and A Field In England, Wheatley has finally gotten his teeth into a much larger project (cast, budget, content, you name it.) He brought High-Rise to the ADIFF (Audi Dublin International Film Festival, for the uninitiated) and appeared for a Q&A after the screening.
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