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The Week in Spandex – Batman, Wonder Woman, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, The Fantastic Four, X-Men: Apocalypse, The Flash / Arrow, Constantine and more

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Our weekly round-up of the latest news and talking points from the world of screen superheroes, including Batman, Wonder Woman, Justice League Dark, The Flash, Arrow, Supergirl, Gotham, Constantine, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Agent Carter, Big Hero 6, The Fantastic Four, X-Men: Apocalypse and more…. It’s […]

Marvel’s Inhumans Season 1 Finale Review – ‘…And Finally: Black Bolt’

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Martin Carr reviews the season finale of Marvel’s Inhumans… From its inception through to initial release on IMAX screens Inhumans has felt shackled, cumbersome and hard work. Marred by simplistic structuring which won it no easy converts and soon lost anyone else, this expensive exercise in corporate storyboarding did Marvel no favours. Too many cooks […]

Inhumans Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘Havoc In The Hidden Land’

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Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of Marvel’s Inhumans… As expected things move at a glacial pace and nothing of substance really happens. There is teleportation, regal stand offs and cloak and dagger missions which serve to get us from point A to point B but feel shiny yet flat. Any sense of progression is […]

Marvel’s Inhumans Season 1 Episode 6 Review – ‘The Gentleman’s Name Is Gorgon’

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Martin Carr reviews the sixth episode of Marvel’s Inhumans… Whoever keeps coming up with these taglines needs reprimanding. Gorgon is not even the central focus of this episode and in fact gets less screen time than he deserves. That the writers have seen fit to bless him with a slightly expanded backstory does nothing to […]

Marvel’s Inhumans Season 1 Episode 5 Review – ‘Something Inhuman This Way Comes’

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Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of Marvel’s Inhumans… It has taken five weeks for Inhumans to amount to more than a fragmented mess of scenes, effects and paper-thin character arcs. Thankfully after trawling through the mire of irrelevance, wasted opportunity and needless segues we reach something positive worth mentioning. This episode has pace, broadens […]

Marvel’s Inhumans Season 1 Episode 4 Review – ‘Make Way For… Medusa’

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Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of Marvel’s Inhumans… There is a reason why Inhumans continues to nosedive in the ratings. It fails to engage, lacks logical narrative reasoning and on top of that is frustratingly fragmented. Our king and queen Medusa and Black Bolt are standoffish, stoic, bossy, slightly condescending and two-dimensional, while Maximus, Crystal, […]

Marvel’s Inhumans Season 1 Episode 3 Review – ‘Divide and Conquer’

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Martin Carr reviews the third episode of Marvel’s Inhumans… Having established the majestic setting and regal qualities of this royal family before undermining it with mutiny, Inhumans has put firm foundations. Episode three only carries on these themes as further plotting, social manipulation and infighting continues. What we have here then is a comic book tent […]

Daredevil Season 2 Episode 12 Review – ‘The Dark At The End of The Tunnel’

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Martin Carr reviews the twelfth episode of Daredevil season 2… If Fisk owned episode ten and eleven belonged to Castle then episode twelve, or ‘The Dark At The End This Tunnel’ feels strangely average. Now I know that Daredevil average is another programme’s barnstorming opener, so I will be cautious in my evaluation. It’s only […]

Daredevil Season 2 Episode 10 Review – ‘The Man In The Box’

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Martin Carr reviews the tenth episode of Daredevil season 2… If anything was going to stop Jon Bernthal stealing Daredevil, that was going to be the re-emergence of Wilson Fisk. An embodiment of such menace and calculated restraint, there would be few willing to spend time alone with Vincent D’Onofrio in a locked room. Between […]