Jessica Jones S1E9 AKA Sin Bin Review

This wasn't as good as last week's episode; which is surprising since it had all of the components needed to make a good episode. It had gore, manipulation and problems that are just messy and need to be sorted out.

The one thing that just still doesn't make sense is Jeri Hogarth's (Carrie-Anne Moss) part in all of this. The fact that her only point in this show is her divorce and how she calls on Jessica (Krysten Ritter) whenever she "needs" her to do something dirty. Of course, in this episode we see Hogarth tempted by Kilgrave's (David Tennent) power - she wants to use his mind control to sort her divorce out - but as she's so close to releasing Kilgrave, Jessica comes back and Hogarth has to act like nothing has happened. What is her point in all of this?

How much better would it have been though if this was a picture of Wendy - Hogarth's ex-wife?  They look similar and that would have made the Hogarth story line more interesting if Wendy was Kilgrave's Mom

Another scene that could have been better was the ending scene. Everything happened so fast. One moment Jones had found Kilgrave's parents (which seemed way too easy) and the next minute everything is going wrong and Kilgrave forces his Mom to stab herself, tries to get his Dad to cut out his own heart, tries to get Trish to shoot herself (luckily she had ran out of bullets from shooting the hermetically sealed tank that Kilgrave was in), Kilgrave makes Detective Clemons force himself out of the handcuffs and stop Jessica from catching him.

Now. That was hard to write. So can you imagine watching all of that happen in a matter of a minute?It was crazy.

One interesting thing that happened in this episode was seeing the character of Will Simpson (Wil Traval) transforming into his comic-book character: Nuke. The red, blue and white pills are introduced and in proper Nuke style, he loves the red pills (which increases his adrenaline). In the comics, Nuke has a second heart and takes the different coloured pills so that they can have different effects on his body. The blue pill brings him down from his adrenaline rush and the white one keeps his body balanced in between his missions, except Nuke doesn't like taking the blue or white pills. Is this storyline line going to carry on throughout the rest of the show? Hopefully.

Watching Jones trap Kilgrave in the hermetically sealed room, fill it with water that she could use to electrocute him if he stepped out of line was good because we finally saw the hero win at something. Of course that didn't last long.

What wasn't nice was the feeling of sympathy that we got for Kilgrave. Jessica had set up the videos of his parents experimenting on him in the back of his sealed room to torture him; you could see Kilgrave roll around on the floor covering his ears because it pained him to hear the videos and the voices of his parents. Whether this was supposed to make us feel sympathetic we don't know. But it worked really well. We got to see another side to Kilgrave and a slightly different side to Jessica. It was a nice change.

There was a lot that could have been better with this episode, it was too fast-paced and the Hogarth storyline is boring now but now that Kilgrave is free again and Jones realises that she cannot be controlled by his mind-control, everything is about to get a whole lot more interesting.

First Look At Wonder Woman Movie In This Featurette

It's about time that Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) was made into a film and from the look of this featurette, the film is going to be ass-kickingly good and from the looks of it, Batman/Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) will also be making an appearance.

Check out the featurette below:

Wonder Woman will be in cinemas 23rd June 2017

The First Full Trailer For Suicide Squad: And It's The Best Trailer Ever!

Think of when you're sat at the cinema and the trailers come on. You see an epic trailer and you turn to who ever you are with and say "we're going to see that!" It was a very rememberable trailer and then you tell your family and friends about this film that looks awesome - because the trailer was so good.

Well, forget about any of those trailers that you've seen and have said "that was the best trailer ever". Forget it. Because the Suicide Squad full trailer is going to be your new favourite.

The trailer shows all of the characters in action and gives you more of a peek at the Joker (Jared Leto) - since we haven't really seen much of him before this.

Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn

Will Smith as Deadshot

Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Killer Croc

Cara Delevigne as Enchantress

Karen Fukuhara as Katana

Jared Leto as the Joker

Jay Hernandez as El Diablo

Not only is it absolutely crazy but with 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen in the background, it proves to be mind-blowing. 

Check out the trailer here:

Suicide Squad will be in cinemas on 5th August 2016

Neil Patrick Harris To Star As Lemony Snicket's Count Olaf

Neil Patrick Harris announced on his Twitter account on 16th January that he would be portraying the role of Count Olaf in Netflix's rendition of the books.

These books were most people's - 18-25 age group mainly, considering the first book (A Bad Beginning) was released in 1999 - childhood and they were magnificent. Lemony Snicket (actual name, Daniel Handler) created a world that was frightening yet brilliant, it was magical.

The film 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' was released in 2004 and starred Jim Carrey and Emily Browning. It wasn't that good. They tried to fit three very detailed and very genius books into one film and it didn't work.

So far all we know is that Netflix have had this show under production since 2014, but has been slowed down due to the man that was supposed to be running the show - Mark Hudis - left, leaving no replacement. That was a pain. Barry Sonnefeld joined the show's crew last year as a producer and may even be a potential director. Daniel Handler has also come on board the show to be an executive producer.

Netflix has already ordered a first season for the much-anticipated TV show - but how many episodes there will be in the first season is unknown and the release date is also unknown.

Knowing how good Netflix have made Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Orange is the New Black and more original Netflix shows, hopefully they will delve into the darkness and the grittiness of the books instead of making it a PG family film. Only by making it dark will they truly show the horror of what this orphans went through.

The set of 13 books follows the journey of three orphans: Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire who are trying to escape the clutches of their evil relative, Count Olaf. He pretends to be all kinds of different people throughout the books to try and capture the children so he can have their fortune that their parents left them. 

Vin Diesel Releases First Information About Fast & Furious 8

Vin Diesel released the first piece of information about the upcoming Fast & Furious 8 movie - or just Fast 8 - carrying on from the perfect farewell to Paul Walker which was more commonly known as Furious 7.

As we can tell from the new poster and from what Diesel has said in the past about the newest film in the franchise, Fast 8 will be set in New York City and may also be set in Cuba.

Fast 8 will be directed by F. Gary Gray who has also directed Straight Outta Compton.

Fans of the films in the UK can expect to see it on May 17th 2017 and US fans can see it a whole month beforehand on 27th April 2017.

The Flash Season 2 Extended Trailer: The Team Heads for Earth 2

We all love The Flash. It's a brilliant show that engrosses the audience in every episode and with the look of the new extended trailer for the mid season premiere, it doesn't look like that's about to change any time soon.

Will it work though? Will the team going to Earth 2 and seeing villains that are dead in their world alive in this one and seeing friends, who are villains in the other Earth work? Or is it just a cop-out because the writers couldn't think of an actual gripping story? We will see. It all depends on how the story is told. If the storytelling is weak (which is very doubtful) then this idea will not work.

The Flash season 2 mid season premiere will start possibly end of February, beginning of March in the UK on Sky1

In the U.S, The Flash season 2 mid season premiere will air tonight - 19th January.

Old Enemies Are Introduced In New The X-Files Trailer

Mulder and Scully are back and with the X-Files being re-opened, it's time the old enemies came back and it looks bigger and better than ever.

The 6 episode event will premiere 24th January on Fox in the U.S and around February on Channel 5 in the UK.

If people in the UK need a refresher on the series before it airs, the show airs on Channel 5 and 5* and started airing the recap episodes on Monday 11th January 2016.

You can also watch the complete season of The X-Files (series 1-9) if you have Amazon Prime

 Buy the complete season on Amazon here

Jessica Jones S1E8 AKA WWJD? Review

This is the best episode of Jessica Jones so far. Nearly the whole of the seventh episode concentrates on Kilgrave (David Tennent) and Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) apart from showing a slice of Hogarth's (Carrie-Anne Moss) drama with her ex-wife and Trish Walker (Rachael Taylor) being the go-to-person whenever Jessica is in trouble. 

What stands out the most in this episode is the chemistry between Ritter and Tennent. They have amazing on screen chemistry and it's captivating. It doesn't matter if Jones hates Kilgrave and can't stand him being in the same house as her, but the back-and-forth dialogue between the characters is mesmerising. 

We also see Kilgrave (sort of) change his psychopathic ways for Jones when we finally get to see what was on that yellow memory stick Kilgrave had Jones dig up the night she murdered Reeva. It was a memory stick filled with videos of when Kilgrave was a child and his parents were doing scientific experiments on him - mainly neurological. Was that a glimmer of sympathy that we saw on Jessica's face?

It's also brilliant of Scott Reynolds - who wrote this episode - to let us as an audience start to explore Kilgrave's past and what made him who is today; it was a fantastic addition to the show and even though it was inevitable for writers to at least show glimpses of his past, to add it into this episode was perfect. 

We see the horror that Kilgrave had to face as a child

Even though we knew that Jessica's plan to hopefully balance out Kilgrave's killings in the past - with him helping people for a change - wouldn't work (he's too much of a psychopath to change), it was nice to see Jones have a tiny bit of control of him for once. She got him to save four people's lives.

What is unclear at the moment is what her intention was during the episode. She wanted to help him be good, but then she injects him with sufentanil whilst they're having dinner together. What does she have planned for him? 

It was a good plot twist to end the episode on and to mirror that action by Jones with Kilgrave pre-conceived plan to give Will Simpson (Wil Traval) his bomb back (which is a live bomb) and kill Jessica's neighbour, Elizabeth De Luca (Kathleen Doyl). The shot of her arm at the very end just lying on the pavement is what Netfflix teaming up with Marvel is all about. Adding gore and grittiness to the Marvel world like they did with Daredevil.  

This is was an excellent episode and hopefully, the next 5 episodes will be just as good.

What did you think of Jessica Jones? Anything that you would like to see? Anything that you want the writers to change? Leave a comment below.

Jessica Jones S1E7 AKA Top Shelf Perverts Review

Jessica Jones continues to impress with it's dark and gripping seventh episode.

In this episode, Kilgrave (David Tennent) makes his dramatic appearance and it feels right. This is what the previous 6 episodes have been building up to; us seeing Kilgrave in the background psychologically manipulating people, then slowly becoming a bigger role by buying Jones' (Krysten Ritter) childhood home, to having a full five minutes on screen with Jessica.

We see how evil Kilgrave can also be, as he manipulates poor but odd Reuben (Kieran Mulcare) to kill himself as Reuben is lying on Jessica's bed. All Reuben wanted was to being Jessica some food. As soon as Jones comes back to her apartment and sees Reuben dead, she knows that enough is enough. She tried to get herself locked in Supermax prison - "Supermax only houses the worst criminals: top-shelf perverts, cannibals, serial killers who make mosaics out of their victims fingernails...It's living hell", as Hogarth (Carrie-Anne Moss) describes.

Hogarth's presence in the show is still not fully understandable and her storyline with her divorce and Jones helping her finalise it makes another appearance in this episode. The writers surely must have a proper plan for Jeri Hogarth and her storyline and hopefully not just make her scenes filler episodes and a useless subplot.

Another part that is starting to lose it's effect is that of Trish Walker (Rachael Taylor). We get it, she's now having sex with Will Simpson (Will Traval), but that's all her scenes seem to be at the moment; that, and trying to convince Jessica not to do the wrong thing for a few minutes. Hopefully, she has a better character development further on into the show.

This episode is based around Jones finally realising what's making her crazy: when she murdered Luke Cage's (Mike Colter) ex-wife, Reeva under Kilgrave's mind-control. The grief is suffocating her and she realises that as long as she's around in the open air, she's also open to Kilgrave holding people that she loves against her to get what he wants. Getting told by Luke that she was a "piece of shit" at the end of the sixth episode has caused her so much emotional distress that she just wants to put things right: Jessica Jones style. 

It's when Jones goes to the police station with Reuben's severed head (yes, Jones actually pulled his head of his dead body) that she starts to put her plan into action - not knowing that it's going to fail. She proves to Detective Oscar Clemons (Clarke Peters) of her superhuman strength to try and get herself into Supermax because she's "dangerous" and that's when another officer walks in to tell her that she's free to go.

Turns out that Kilgrave knew that she was turning herself in and had mind-controlled everyone in the police precinct to hold a gun to their own head or a civilians - it's nice what a man will do for a girl's attention isn't it? No. It's scary. He's scary. It's here when he confesses his undying love for Jones, he's "yearning" for her and wants her to feel the same. 

So Jones does what she thinks she has to do. She surrenders to Kilgrave and meets him at her childhood home that he bought; hopefully she's going to develop a new plan to take him down whilst she's spending 'quality' time with him. 

We're also introduced to a new character. Trish's Mom and Jessica's foster Mom, Dorothy Walker (Rebecca De Mornay). We learn that she's the reason that Trish got addicted to drugs and that she's basically a terrible mother that only cares about herself and uses her daughter and took Jessica in to gain the media's attention. She's a nasty character, but it was interesting to see Jones go and see her. Why was she introduced now? Hopefully Dorothy will get some character development of her own throughout the series. 

This was a very good episode as it showed a new side to Jones that was essentially for the story to develop and have her continue on her path. It was fantastic for Tennent to finally showcase his talent as Kilgrave in an actual scene of conversation with Jones and for some reason, Malcom's (Eka Danville) character is becoming more and more loveable.

Bring on the eighth episode!

What do you think of Jessica Jones? Is there anything you wish you would've seen in this episode? Anything you think shouldn't have been in this episode? Leave a comment below.