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Steven Spielberg

  • Review: Gladiator 2

    Review: Gladiator 2

    I wanted to let this one ruminate for a couple of days. Gladiator is, after all, my favourite film, whether it be in this life or the next. I didn’t want to just jump into this review until I’d sat with the sequel in my head for a few days. I think I owed it…

  • Review: The Day of the Jackal – Episode 5

    I finished the previous review stating that I was still waiting for the series to hit its stride in the coming episodes. Well, say hello to the stride in episode 5. Everything about his episode is what drew me to this show in the first place. It focuses almost entirely on the main plot, with…

  • Review: The Day of the Jackal – Episode 4

    Episode four, while stronger than its predecessor, again spends an overdue amount of time focused on the personal lives of Bianca and the Jackal. Not only does it burden the episode with poorly executed drama subplots as we witness both leads tackle their rapidly disintegrating personal lives, it detracts from the actual interesting portions of…

  • Review: The Day of the Jackal – Episode 3

    After a promising start to the series with two strong episodes, the third stalls and almost goes into reverse. Much of the plot falls into predictable patterns but retains elements of interest due to the promise of the previous entries. The Jackal’s story continues to be engaging, at least as far as his assassin business…

  • Review: The Day of the Jackal – Episode 2

    The second episode of The Day of the Jackal begins with an examination of the fallout from the Munich assassination. The political landscape in Germany has been utterly devastated by the killing of Chancellor candidate Manfred Fest. The elections that were alluded to in the background of episode 1 are now up in the air,…

  • Trailer Reaction: The Thunderbolts*

    Trailer Reaction: The Thunderbolts*

    I’ve got to be honest; I truly did not expect much from this project when it was initially announced given how scattershot Marvel properties had become in terms of quality. I love the property itself, it’s a fantastic, fun comic book team to read. Then the first teaser dropped back during the summer I think…

  • Trailer Reaction: Marvel’s What If…? Season 3

    Trailer Reaction: Marvel’s What If…? Season 3

    I had completely forgotten there was a season three of this coming out. Absolutely loved season one, where we finally got to see a damn good, menacing and terrifyingly powerful version of Ultron become a godlike being and almost destroy the multiverse. This is the kind of treatment he should have received in live action.…

  • Trailer Reaction: Captain America – Brave New World

    Trailer Reaction: Captain America – Brave New World

    So, fans of the MCU have been eating well this weekend. Three trailers dropped, the first of which I’m going to cover is Captain America: Brave New World. I have to be honest, of the three trailers that we got, this was the one I was least excited for. I wasn’t especially impressed by most…

  • Review: Arcane – Season 2, Act 1

    Review: Arcane – Season 2, Act 1

    I was going to leave this until tomorrow, but after finishing Act 1 tonight I just couldn’t wait. And just let me say first and foremost, that the first season of Arcane is one of the finest pieces of media I have ever had the pleasure of consuming. An animation style reminiscent of a watercolour…

  • Review: The Day of the Jackal – Episode 1

    The Day of the Jackal is a seminal political thriller novel that made waves in the year 1971. Written by British author Frederick Forsyth, it followed the titular assassin, known only as “the Jackal”, as he took on an assignment by a terrorist group to assassinate Charles de Gaulle. While the plot was entirely fiction,…

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