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Bisbee '17
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Bisbee '17 doesn't entirely work because of pacing issues, but watching a small town come to terms with its own dark past is fascinating. Director: Robert Greene Summary: It's 2017 in Bisbee, Arizona, an old copper-mining town just miles from the Mexican border The town's close-knit community prepares to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Bisbee's darkest[...]
American Animals
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] American Animals starts off like a fun heist movie — until reality comes crashing down in a tonal shift that has no right to work as well as it does. Director: Bart Layton Summary: Lexington, Kentucky, 2004: Spencer and Warren dream of remarkable lives beyond their middle-class suburban existence They head off to colleges in the same[...]
Jessie Buckley and Johnny Flynn appear in Beast by Michael Pearce
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Beast has an interesting concept and takes the story in intriguing directions, but only has enough material for a short rather than a feature. Director: Michael Pearce Summary: Moll is stuck She's isolated on Jersey, a tiny island in the English Channel She's also beset by her domineering mother and her history of mental fragility —[...]
Maze Runner: The Death Cure Review: Actually, It's Better Than the First Two
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] It was back in the first half of 2016 when word emerged that Maze Runner: The Death Cure had been indefinitely delayed after the serious injuries suffered by its star, Dylan O'Brien, while shooting a car action scene Originally slated for a February 2017 release, it took nearly a year's worth of time for[...]
Happy! Season 1, Episode 5 Recap: "Empty Boxes of Broken Toys"
Credit: Syfy Welcome back to Bleeding Cool's weekly recap of Syfy's Happy! and another round of our sparkly clean "reminder recaps," as we take a look back at last week's Episode 5, 'White Sauce? Hot Sauce?'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuDjdVQzqFwVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: HAPPY! | Season 1, Episode 5: Sound The Alarm | SYFY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuDjdVQzqFw) Happy! Episode 105 'White Sauce?[...]
Reading the Fates with the Vampirella Tarot Card Deck
I have reviewed many things since I've joined Bleeding Cool Comics, movies, music, books, television series, toys, board games and video games just to hit the highlights Today I was asked to review something different Dynamite's new Vampirella Tarot Card Deck that hits comic shops tomorrow This was initially offered as a kickstarter and my[...]
Happy Trails! Episode 105: Join Us for Bleeding Cool's Happy! Live-Blog!
Credit: Syfy Thanks for joining us after a two week break for our fifth edition of Happy Trails!, Bleeding Cool's live-blog of Syfy's Happy! and tonight's fifth episode, 'White Sauce? Hot Sauce?". Credit: Syfy Less of a "formal review" and more of a "revap"-type (review/recap) thing, we're covering the nitty and the gritty of the episode, along with some of my thoughts on what[...]
Pestilence
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Often a comic doesn't quite manage to catch your interest in issue #1 That was the problem I originally had with Pestilence Written by Frank Tieri, the premise is an interesting take on the zombie genre It poses the question: What if the Black Death was really just the world's first zombie infestation? Set in[...]
Happy! Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: "I Love a Story with a Happy Ending"
We're back once again for Bleeding Cool's weekly recap of Syfy's Happy! and another round of "reminder recap;" and even though we don't get a new episode this week, we've still got our sights set on waxing nostalgically about last week's Episode 4, 'Year of the Horse.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juJkp-S5jdAVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: HAPPY! | Season 1,[...]
Black Mirror Outdoes Both Star Trek and The Orville with USS Callister
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Over its prior three seasons, the British Channel 4 anthology series-turned-Netflix darling Black Mirror has had episodes ranging from ho-hum to outstanding As the fourth season approached, there was the typical pondering if the series still had fresh ideas to tackle or if it would be on the wane Now that it's arrived and the entire[...]
The Weekly Static s01e20.1 – 2017 Post-Mortem: Spike's The Mist
It was announced in late September that the series wouldn't be getting a second season renewal well before Spike's evolution into The Paramount Network this January, and anyone who read my "revaps" (review/recap) of the first five episodes would know that the news comes as absolutely no surprise to me. Not that the series didn't have[...]