Tag: Jeremy Irons

REVIEW: Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 5 “Little Fear of Lightning”

“Little Fear of Lightning” suggests that Watchmen’s best episodes will be the ones that aren’t focused on Angela Abar. This week puts Looking Glass under the… let’s got with “microscope,” and manages to be a marked improvement over the previous installment, and even a little better t...

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REVIEW: Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 4 “If You Don’t Like My Story Write Your Own”

This week’s episode of Watchmen is called “If You Don’t Like My Story Write Your Own” because of course it is. It’s smug, condescending, obnoxious, self-aware to a fault, and both an acknowledgment and dismissal of the audience dissatisfaction Damon Lindelof knew was coming. In other words...

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REVIEW: Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 3 “She Was Killed by Space Junk”

Three episodes in, Watchmen still isn’t very good – and, in some places, astonishingly, how-the-hell-did-they-think-this-was-a-good-idea bad – but “She Was Killed by Space Junk” introduces a potential life raft in the form of a major character from the graphic novel. It’s littered with t...

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REVIEW: Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 2 “Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship”

In a strange way, I’ve been looking forward to the next episode of Watchmen all week. After last week’s debacle, I was morbidly curious to see if Damon Lindelof and co. made any course corrections between the pilot and episode 2, “Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship.” Perhaps it...

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REVIEW: Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 1 “It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice”

Watchmen is a TV show I’ve been following with great interest. I have a great affection for Zack Snyder’s 2009 adaptation, so I couldn’t wait to see what Watchmen superfan and Bad Robot acolyte Damon Lindelof would bring to the iconic 1980s masterpiece. The first episode, “It’s Sum...

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A Decade of Disney: The Lion King (1994)

Munir: Hello and welcome to another edition of A Decade Of, where we are currently reviewing the Disney Renaissance. Today, we are taking a look at what’s arguably the apex of this decade, The Lion King. Originally called King of the Jungle and conceived as “Bambi in Africa,” The Lion King was...

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