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Four Comics for People Missing Marvel’s Netflix Shows

By Dave Richards

February 22, 2019

Dave Richards suggests comic books for fans of Marvel’s Netflix Shows, some of which are being pulled from Netflix or canceled. Marvel Comics prides itself as being “the world outside your window,” which means it’s a place where the grittiness of the real world collides with the fantastic elements, like superpowers. It’s especially interesting at…

Making Money: La Casa de Papel / Money Heist

By Lance Charnes

February 21, 2019

Willie Sutton famously said (or, perhaps, didn’t say) that he robbed banks because that’s where the money is. But that’s not the only place the money is. It’s in casinos too (thus, the Ocean’s [insert number] films). It’s sometimes in mobsters’ homes (the focus of Widows, for instance). But if you’re going to commit possibly…

Counterpart: The Best Show You’re Not Watching

By Abe Friedtanzer

February 16, 2019

If you haven’t heard of the TV series Counterpart, you’re not alone, but it’s time to get familiar with it. The news from earlier this week that the show has been cancelled by Starz just ahead of its second season finale is immensely disappointing, but each of the twenty episodes already produced is absolutely worth…

9 Books, Movies, and TV shows that Get Police Work Right

By Lissa Marie Redmond

February 12, 2019

Once upon a time, in a land frozen with snow and ice, I was a police officer. I was a cold case homicide and sex crimes detective, to be exact, and because of the long, dark winters, I spent many a night reading or watching TV, waiting to be plowed out. There are hundreds—if not…

Small City, Big Trouble: Bordertown

By Lance Charnes

February 1, 2019

It has to happen to every brilliant, troubled detective at some point in a career of hunting down fiendishly clever serial killers: one too many peeks into the abyss prompts him (sometimes her) to chuck the big crimes in the big city and move to a remote town where the crimes are small and life…

All-Too-Human Shield: Bodyguard (2018)

By Lance Charnes

January 7, 2019

At some point, a disturbing notion has to cross the mind of anyone who’s been assigned a bodyguard: who protects me from my protector? If that bodyguard decides he doesn’t like what he learns about his charge, it’s inevitable that he’ll ask himself, why should I protect this person? These questions and more underlie Bodyguard,…

Parlor Games: Agatha Christie’s Ordeal by Innocence

By Lance Charnes

January 4, 2019

A country house, a dead body, a pack of suspects—sounds like Agatha Christie, no? Of course, it does. It’s said that Dame Agatha named 1958’s Ordeal by Innocence as one of her two favorite novels (Crooked House being the other), though she was known to change her answer to that particular question, as would any…

TV Review: Blood (2018)

By Joe Bendel

December 17, 2018

Statistics say murder is most likely to be committed within families. Catherine (Cat) Hogan is convinced her provincial Irish family is a case in point. She suspects her father Jim was responsible for her mother’s supposedly accidental death, but nobody will believe her. For years, her father and siblings openly questioned her stability and undermined…

TV Review: The Little Drummer Girl (2018)

By Joe Bendel

November 19, 2018

Charmian “Charlie” Ross is an insecure, hard-partying actress, so there should be plenty of people in Hollywood who could handle the part. Yet, there are reasons why this John le Carré character has been such a tricky role to cast. The author himself has stated he based Ross on his half-sister, actress Charlotte Cornwell, whom…

Matt Murdock in Daredevil

Daredevil Season 3 is the Best Thing to Happen to Netflix’s Marvel Shows

By Dave Richards

November 5, 2018

When the first season of Netflix’s adaptation of Marvel’s Daredevil hit the streaming service, I blew through it. It featured some pretty fantastic characters and casting in the form of Boardwalk Empire‘s Charlie Cox as the title character and Vincent D’Onofrio as the chief antagonist, Wilson Fisk, AKA the Kingpin of Crime. That series was followed…

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