Shaun Munro reviews the fifth episode of Iron Fist… An unexpected sojourn into New York’s grim heroin trade presents a disturbing, propulsive start for Iron Fist‘s fifth episode, bringing a welcome grit to the table that’s been largely missing from the series so far. Character development has been a real bugbear up to this point, but […]
Iron Fist Season 1 Episode 6 Review – ‘Immortal Emerges from Cave’
Shaun Munro reviews the sixth episode of Iron Fist… Iron Fist‘s sixth episode is directed by Wu-Tang Clan leader and martial arts aficionado RZA (who, in a probably-not-too-coincidental turn, directed 2012’s entertaining martial arts flick The Man with the Iron Fists), and what a difference it makes to have a clear fan of the genre putting his all […]
Iron Fist Season 1 Episode 3 Review – ‘Rolling Thunder Cannon Punch’
Shaun Munro reviews the third episode of Iron Fist… After a mediocre season premiere and flat-out bad second episode, Iron Fist hopes to change things up as it swaps out writer Scott Buck and director John Dahl for Quinton Peeples (Flashforward, 11.22.63) and Tom Shankland (House of Cards, Luke Cage) respectively. From the outset, things are definitely […]
Iron Fist Season 1 Episode 4 Review – ‘Eight Diagram Dragon Palm’
Shaun Munro reviews the fourth episode of Iron Fist… Surprise, surprise, Danny survives his climactic tumble out of a window in one of the more transparently tension-free cliffhangers in recent TV history. Though this episode in fact signifies a rather dull downturn for Danny, at least he has an interesting meet-up with Harold at the beginning, resulting […]
Deja Vu: The Dull Predictability of the Hollywood Tentpole Lineup
Tom Jolliffe on whether the yearly line ups of Blockbusters are becoming too predictable… So new year rolls around, as time inevitably guarantees. At the end of the year we invariably look back. Best of lists permeate film sites across the internet land. Then as soon as we kick into a new January, we start […]
Iron Fist Season 1 Episode 2 Review – ‘Shadow Hawk Takes Flight’
Shaun Munro reviews the second episode of Iron Fist… It’s certainly a bold strategy for a superhero TV show to confine its protagonist to a prison in its mere second episode, and in this case it’s a gamble that ultimately fails to pay off. At this point in Iron Fist, viewers probably want to see […]
Iron Fist Season 1 Episode 1 Review – ‘Snow Gives Way’
Shaun Munro reviews the first episode of Iron Fist… Iron Fist arrives on Netflix today amid the bad-PR double-whammy of whitewashing accusations and a fleet of negative early reviews, but for those prepared to keep an open-mind, can the streaming giant’s fourth Marvel show still deliver the goods? Well, it seems to get one thing right […]
Video Game Review – Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series – Episode 1 “Tangled Up in Blue”
Shaun Munro reviews Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series – Episode 1 “Tangled Up in Blue” Continuing to prove the prevailing inconsistency of Telltale Games’ episodic adventures to date, their stab at Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is a fairly pedestrian exercise in fan wish fulfillment that does just enough to make it worthwhile for the hardcore […]
Mark Bagley variant cover for Amazing Spider-Man #800 revealed
A couple of days ago we got a look at John Romita Sr. and Richard Isanove’s cover for The Amazing Spider-Man #800, and now we have a look at another variant for the landmark issue, this time courtesy of artist Mark Bagley. Take a look here… It’s all been building to this – the biggest […]
Jeremy Renner on the possibility of a Hawkeye solo movie, “those things are in the future”
Ever since Jeremy Renner first picked up the bow in his fleeting cameo in Thor, there has been speculation and rumour of Hawkeye getting his own solo movie. But along with Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow and Mark Ruffalo’s Incredible Hulk, are were no plans in place for any solo-outings in Phase Three – which means […]
