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Charmed s01e02 'Let This Mother Out': Can The Vera Sisters Trust Harry Greenwood? (PREVIEW)
Vanessa Parise directed the episode written by Jessica O'Toole & Amy Rardin CW To get you caught up on the season, here's a look back at Bleeding Cool's review of the series premiere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q6C0VPJI9I&t=29sVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Charmed S01E01 Review: A Strong Start That Honors, Updates Original Series – Bleeding Cool (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q6C0VPJI9I&t=29s) https://youtu.be/VwETXfZ3A0Y "Stronger together." That's[...]
Halloween: A Rarity in Horror Films, a Sequel that Salvages a Franchise
The nine Halloween sequels which have since come along fall far further towards the latter end of that spectrum, until now. [rwp-review-recap id="0"] Written and directed by David Gordon Green and starring Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode, picks up as a direct sequel to the original, ignoring all of the later installments entirely[...]
The Walking Dead s09e02 'The Bridge' Builds Season 9 Tension Effectively (REVIEW)
AMC Welcome to Bleeding Cool's weekly review of AMC's The Walking Dead, as take a look at the second episode of the long-running horror-drama's ninth season, The Bridge.' Less than two years after Rick (Andrew Lincoln), Maggie (Lauren Cohan), Michonne (Danai Gurira), and the rest of the communities banded together to bring down Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan)[...]
First Man: The Naked Singularity Within A National Mythos [Review]
Now, don't panic when I say "national mythos" in the headline of this review I'm in no way suggesting the moon landing was a myth Apollo 11 and the wider Apollo project at large is a part of the American psyche and it's own historic construct – the individuals involved were all larger than life,[...]
The Walking Dead s09e01 Review: Angela Kang's 'A New Beginning' Resets, Refreshes
AMC Welcome to Bleeding Cool's weekly review of AMC's The Walking Dead, as the long-running horror-drama returns with the season 9 premiere, 'A New Beginning.' AMC With Angela Kang stepping up as new showrunner, the imminent departure of Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and "partial departure" of Maggie (Lauren Cohan) on the horizon, and the looming threat both the Whisperers[...]
The Gifted 2×02 Review: People Have Doubts in 'unMoored'
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] The Gifted continues its expedition into its second season by slowing down to set up the motivations and seed some doubt in our main players. Summary: Thunderbird contacts a mutant lawyer who recruited him to the Underground years ago, hoping she can help him find the Inner Circle Lauren and Andy have a shared dream,[...]
Venom Review: It's Not as Bad as You've Heard
The questions swam around, what would it be like? How could it hold up without being set in a Spider-Man framework? Well, it holds up alright. [rwp-review-recap id="0"] If that sounds like an entirely lackluster response, it's because the film itself begins to fade from memory almost as soon as the credits start to roll[...]