Month: January 2015
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Marvel’s A.K.A. Jessica Jones Set for Netflix
Marvel’s A.K.A. Jessica Jones is a comic book come to life featuring a female character. Marvel Television in association with ABC Studios for Netflix have stepped up to the heroine based story with this upcoming series.
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Watch This: Red Band Trailer for Spy
In Spy, Melissa McCarthy teams up again with writer and director Paul Feig in a comedy featuring McCarthy as a CIA Analyst. She works with agents played by Jude Law and Jason Statham.
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Netflix Doc: What Happened, Miss Simone?
Available later this year only on Netflix will be Liz Garbus’ documentary What Happened, Miss Simone? about the life of singer Nina Simone. Here’s the publicity blurb about the film. Classically trained pianist, black power icon and legendary recording artist, Nina Simone lived a life of brutal honesty, musical genius, and tortured melancholy. In the upcoming…
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Lost Girl: S5 E8 End of Faes
“End of Faes” is episode 8 of season 5, the mid-season finale for Lost Girl. We get some answers we’ve waited season after season for. The cast is dressed in formal wear throughout so everyone looks absolutely fabulous. Spoilers ahead. Tamsin (Rachel Skarsten) loads up a suitcase while Bo (Anna Silk) tries to convince her…
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The Fall S2 E6 What is in me Dark Illumine
The Fall ends season 2 with a 90 minute episode. Whether this is really the end is up for debate in the last few seconds of the episode. Until then we have a very satisfactory accumulation of evidence for putting Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan) in prison forever.
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The Fall, S2 E5: The Perilous Edge of Battle
The Fall episode 5 is called “The Perilous Edge of Battle.” Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan) has fallen. If the police can produce the evidence, he’ll be out of circulation forever. It’s one of the tensest and most nail-biting episodes in this suspense-filled series. Here are the basics of the episode. Spoilers everywhere. Paul goes through…
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The Fall S2 E4: The Mind is its Own Place
Episode 4 of The Fall begins with the forensics people digging through DS Stella Gibson’s (Gillian Anderson) hotel room. They take her computer and her dream diary to examine for clues. As this is happening, Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan) is reading her diary from the photographs he took. It isn’t even my diary and his…
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Another Dead Lesbian and the Question of Representation
Warning: Last Tango in Halifax spoilers. My mission on this blog is to mention, support, and promote things I like. I usually don’t mention things I don’t like. Today is an exception. I want to talk about something I don’t like: the kill-the-lesbian trope. This subject is fresh on my mind because Kate McKenzie was killed…
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The Fall, S2 E3: Beauty Hath Strange Power
Episode 3 of The Fall is patient waiting for the police to gather up enough evidence against Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan) to make an arrest. The police slowly put together clues as the episode plays out. There’s also stark terror at what Paul Spector may do next. For once, an episode isn’t all terrifying: there’s…
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Lost Girl: S5 E7 Here Comes the Night
This episode of Lost Girl takes place at night. A night when the electricity is off. It was shot with blue light and is very hard to see. I hope the screen grabs aren’t too dark. I did brighten them up quite a bit. Spoilers ahead. There’s a tornado. Dyson (Kris Holden-Ried), Bo (Anna Silk),…