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  Nick Paramonte 11:42 pm on 04/20/2015 Permalink | Reply  

  Second Star Wars: Episode VII Preview 

  The mysterious masked person passing that lightsaber to Leia (Carrie Fisher) could be Korr Sella (Maisie Richardson-Sellers) retrieving it after Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) meets an Obi Wan fate by the new Sith, Kylo Ren. Rey (Daisy Ridley) could be her lost daughter to go along with Luke’s monolouge from Return of the Jedi. Finn (John Boyega), an Empire-cult defector realizes horrors-of-war joins Rey on his mission-of-redemptation afterwards.

  Apparently Oscar Issac’s Poe Dameron took over Anakin’s spot for Best-Pilot-in-the-Galaxy. Han Solo (Harrison Ford) in addition to Chewbacca take back The Millennium Falcon from said-villains maybe on same planet called Jakku which still similar to Tatooine.

   

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  Nick Paramonte 1:58 pm on 04/20/2015 Permalink | Reply  

  Batfleck Beats Superman Teaser 

  Last week was big for upcoming film trailers. Despite “sneak peek” with a reused shot from the second Man of Steel preview and being leaked (wasn’t waiting till Monday), here’s an official glimpse:

  Clark Kent (Henry Cavill) clearly doesn’t like this hero worshipping going on during his time in Mexico since he’s ultimate immigrant. Hopefully he picks one of those soldiers up to reiterate that he’s not above them despite what’s being shown. Not crazy about Snyder-and-company making Christ allagories again, however this shot reminded me of Tom Grummett (Robin) along-with Doug Hazzlewood’s cover art. Jeremy Irons (Die Hard 3) as Alfred Pennyworth more-then-likely means Bruce’s insanity rather then Kal-El’s dominance.

  Unfornately, rumor about this first look being Batman-centric turned out to be true. Pro-Man of Tomorrow’s only defense with “guy trying to do the right thing” which doesn’t add more fuel-to-the-fire for anti-crowd including a U.S. senator (made-up) played by Holly Hunter (The Incredibles) serving-as extra slander against Metropolis Marvel disappointing. Rehashing Nolan’s Declines spinning shot in-additon-to Affleck’s altered voice cause once he opens his mouth their illusion is gone instantly. Still not sold about Jesse Eisenberg (Zombieland) being Lex Luthor in-spite-of him channeling City of Tomorrow Mongul’s methodicalness.

  Second showing be optimistic hopefully. Final promo featuring Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman serving as middle-ground for forthcoming Trinity plus Jason Mamoa’s Aquaman debuting.

   
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  Nick Paramonte 4:49 pm on 04/12/2015 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Charlie Cox ( 10 )   

  Marvel’s Daredevil 

  

  I was really looking forward to The Guardian Devil’s resurgence since the rights were reverted along with others in Marvel Knights’ lineup like Punisher and Ghost Rider. Managed to binge nine episodes Friday before going to work then finished Saturday.

  Charlie Cox (Boardwalk Empire) as blind lawyer of Hell’s Kitchen, New York by-day in-addition to black-garbed vigilante-by-night absolutely nails this role. Sorry Affleck, just because you were a big fan of the character doesn’t mean you could inhabit that role. Nor at DC either.

  Elden Henson (Cast Away) really shows off his acting chops when Foggy finds out his best friend’s secret identity (episode ten, “Nelson v Murdock“) this early as opposed to way later when Murdock’s already established crime-fighting career. He brings up legimate contractions about Matt’s logic and-vice-versa due to Clinton’s corruption being escalated post-Avengers. Battlin’ Jack Murdock’s last fight being with Crusher Creel aka future-Absorbing Man, his last phone call to Maggie before she joined the convent, Foggy mentioning Elektra during their college year flashbacks before she became an assassin-for-hire occured catchable Easter Eggs.

  Vincent D’Onofrio (Full Metal Jacket) makes future-Kingpin his own last portrayed by late Michael Clarke Duncan. He delivers Wilson Fisk’s superiority, dominance, eccentricity, but also Fisk’s deeply utter disgust towards his nemesis’ domain which comes to the forefront when he brutally beats Hornhead with his traditional sticks during an intense climax in finale (episode thirteen, “Daredevil” appropriately). My only gripes about non-DD’s red suit are Batman-style brows plus black padding on the abdomen. D’Onofrio might get an Emmy nomination for this but unlikely win due to Hollywood’s bias towards the genre.

  Most gruesome moment happens after Anatoly Ranskahov (Gideon Emery) unwisely confronts Fisk amidst his dinner-date (episode four, “In The Blood“) with Vanessa. Ayelet Zurer (Man of Steel) turning into a versatile actress with her role that’s just-as-vindictive like her fictionial husband. Bob Gunton (Demolition Man) getting-the-shaft for Leland Owlsley’s involvement to keep Fisk in-line by poisoning Vanessa meets satisfying demise for his arrogance.

  Karen Page (Deborah Ann Hall) involved with an investigation including Ben Urich (Vondie Curtis-Hall) her previous job’s finances then just being secretary for Nelson & Murdock: Attorneys At Law (hint to her addiction) to-be pretty teriffic proactivity. Supsrised TPTB killed off Urich by Fisk strangling him (episode twelve, “Ones We Leave Behind“) since he’s long standing in mythology. Still, they’re are consquences for going up against King (as Wilson is called) by speaking to his thought-to-be-dead mother.

  Peter McRobbie’s Father Lantom delivers a very potient speech about Lucifer (“Speak of the Devil“). Matt Gerald (Avatar) gives most sympathic performance with Melvin Potter/future-Gladiator (episode eleven, “Path of the Righteous“) takes Murdock’s promise to protect Betsy Beatty (Melivn’s therapist) to heart. Scott Glen’s Stick did indoctrinated young Matt (Skylar Gaertner) into this war that-fact to his comic counterpart.

  Excellent fight scenes. The notable corridor done in one shot (episode two, “Cut Man“). Have to acknowledge instances where Murdock should’ve died unfornately. Hitting a scaffolding three floors down with no protection, Nobu (clear member of The Hand) dragging him by his gut with his Shoge Hook (episode nine, “Into the Ring“), or Russian mobster (disguised-as NYPD detective) hit by Matt dropping a fire extinguisher four-stories downward.

  Didn’t like Fisk’s introverted (looking downward) aspect due to an abusive upbringing despite D’Onofrio’s stellar acting. Antagonists are supposed to be complete oppossites not all are cut-from-the-same-cloth as protagonists.

  Overall, truly good start to Netflix’s upcoming shows. Antispating future-Heroes-For-Hire, Luke Cage and Iron Fist. AKA Jesscia Jones not so much. Season Two please.

  Rating: 8 1/2

   
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  Nick Paramonte 7:10 pm on 03/07/2015 Permalink | Reply  

  First Look at Supergirl 

  DC Entertainment relassed two stills of the lead actress in full costume:

  

  Definitely ninties-era uniform minus her crimson stockings and in-spite-of deem lighting on the blue and red like Henry Cavill’s outfit shown here. No yellow inside the S symbol borderlined obviously means Kara Zor-El in training since Kal-El is to appear aswell (Last Son non-existent). Also similar to how Grant Gustin’s Barry Allen isn’t in full Flash garb yet. My only gripe was Melissa’s hair not blonde enough after tweeted herself with previous Teen of Tommorrow, Helen Slater.

  Unfornately, I’m not crazy about supporting character descriptions TV Line reported such-as Ally McBeal/Calista Flockhart as Cat Grant, CEO of a media corperation instead of gossip columnist or Jimmy Olsen played by Melchad Brooks (Glory Road) portrayed an alpha male but I’ll give the pilot a chance despite that.

   
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  Nick Paramonte 6:18 pm on 02/25/2015 Permalink | Reply  

  Agent Carter 

  

  I thought this expansion of Marvel’s One-Shot wouldn’t do well as it didn’t fornately. Hayley Atwell’s reprisal as the title character shows once again how good an actress she is with Peggy’s character-arc to move on after Steve Rogers’ “demise” while being an independent woman throughout the late-1940’s.

  James D’ Arcy (Master and Commander) as the actual butler, Jarvis that Tony Stark’s A.I. (Paul Bettany) is based on was splendid. Him and Hayley share terrific on-screen comedic timing. Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper) while under Dr. Ivchenko’s influence feels tremedous guilt about not finding Rogers since he was the one good thing that came out of his weapons-manufacturing that Tony (Robert Downey Jr.) repeats but on a much larger scale. Atwell delivers one of the most heartfelt performances.

  Daniel Sousa (Enver Gjoka) might be her future husband she mentions during the 1953 newsreel. The pilot’s opening song, “That Man” by Caro Emerald is just one out of many excellent jazz music used in this show.

  Didn’t care much about Thompson (Chad Michael Murray) since he aswell as Chief Dooley (Shea Whigham) shared the borderline sexism of-the-times despite Chad in-addition-to Enver sharing a good moment in the finale (“Valediction”) when Ivchenko (Ralph Brown) tries but fails to hypnotize him due to Sousa wearing earplugs unbeknownst to Thompson. Meagen Fay/Miriam Fry the Landlady was gone at that point before becoming an annoyance, just obnoxious. After such poignant closure, this works as a mini-series that shouldn’t be drawn out for a second season.

   
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  Nick Paramonte 5:39 pm on 02/23/2015 Permalink | Reply  

  Martian Manhunter: Son of Mars 

  

  Writers, John Ostrander and John Arcudi (The Mask) twick Joseph Samachson’s original origin with Dr. Saul Erdel accidently transporting J’onn J’onzz from Mars (called Maleca’andra) to Earth (Per’landra) where he’s killed during an explosion instead of a heart attack at first contact with the Alien Atlas.

  The Green Martians known using their telepathy as one to basically mindrape J’onn’s evil twin brother, Ma’alefa’kk or Malefic ultimately responsible for Mars’ civilization downfall was really extreme. J’onzz having to cut himself mentally off from his people in order to survive including his wife, M’yri’ah going berserk reaching for her daughter, K’hym despite the fire called H’ronmeer’s Curse plagues their minds aswell-as bodies to be pretty affecting.

  Diana Prince unsure about J’onn’s mentality which escalates suddenly when Malefic manipulates J’onzz into attacking his allies. J’onzz blasting his arm off with his face in palm like Vampire Hunter D’s parasite very slowly regaining his memories to escape sudden death to be grisly but clever.

  Aquaman trully believes-in J’onn (one telepath to another) despite evidence stacked against his fellow comrade. Arthur Curry’s anger displayed here is warranted that a loose canon like Helena Bertinelli aka Huntress being on the team as Batman’s fill-in even though it’s Peter David’s verison.

  However, Martians being able to artifically create environments on other planets, genetic engineering (their enemy, White Martians), I wouldn’t be surprised David Goyer (Blade: Unholy Trinity) read this before showing his true colors. Orstander along-with Arcudi make too many Man of Steel similarities by means of J’onn having his own Fortress of Solitude in Antarctica plus a city/hovercraft called Z’onn Z’orr Malefic imprisioned in a Phantom Zone style trap.

  The framed-for-murder story I’m not fond of turns up sadly enough. Your obsessed character (Cameron Chase, agent for Department of Extranormal Operations) comes in hellbent to catch the wrongfully accused (J’onn) for when the real colbrit (Malefic) that it’s not even resolved after his alter-ego’s co-worker, Karen Smith found out his secret while threatening to expose him out-of-spite prior to her death. Lightning Man of Tomorrow appears at one point during a League meeting ill-advisedly. Ressurrections are brought up when J’onn “dies” afterwards which wouldn’t be the last. Helena, Big Barda, and Orion all wanting J’onzz’s head-on-a-plate after they discovered Malefic (as his sibling) horribly experimented on humans to bring his twisted side of the deceased Red Planet into fruition.

  Overall, there’s enough interesting lore to surtain reading about one of staple Justice League members.

   
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  Nick Paramonte 8:25 am on 02/21/2015 Permalink | Reply  

  First Look at Aquaman 

  Zack Snyder posted this on Twitter:

  

  Momoa is definitely channeling Greek god, Poseidon which Jim Calafiore’s rendition evidently based-off. Essential gold/green color scheme are there regardless-of saturation. Tattoo on his right shoulder reflect the rest of traditional tunic. Andrew Dyce from Screen Rant made a really great in-depth analysis.

  Hopefully his interactions with Superman (Henry Cavill) in the upcoming two-part team-up be that he listens-to-reason about declaring war despite Indian Ocean getting trashed which Kal-El took part or surface-dwellers’ pollution come to an understanding. Karl Urban (Star Trek) rumored to be up for Arthur Curry’s treacherous brother, Orm aka Ocean Master sounds good-in-my-book. Probably won’t lose his hand till spin-off which better be done in a dramatic way not illogically. 

  From the casting, it was he’d clearly be playing Peter David’s anti-hero that I’m not fond of. Orin was way too arrogant to even be flexible negotiating with world leaders in DCAU continuity that Atlanteans wanted nothing-to-do-with the surface world afterwards. “Unite the Seven” means the group including Eza Miller’s Flash. Cyborg will always be a Teen Titan.

   
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  Nick Paramonte 12:25 am on 02/19/2015 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Barry Allen ( 14 ), Grant Gustin ( 10 )   

  Flash “Fallout” Review 

  Episode twelve, “Crazy for You” was filler with Brtine Oldford (American Horror Story) guest starred as another Wally West adversary/ally (like Girder), Shawna Baez aka Peek-A-Boo (really Johns?) portrayed as Harley Quinn with Nightcrawler’s powers even though her comic counterpart’s teleportations are supposed to be destructive. Even writers, Aaron Helbing and Todd Helbing ripped-off “see where I’m going” line from X2.

  Post-Crisis Jason Rusch/Mick Wong during Infinite Crisis really got me into Firestorm having seen Ronald Raymond/Martin Stein’s appearence-on Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians (season six episode five, The Wild Cards) Cartoon Network reruns back-in-the-ninties.

  Victor Garber (Alias) acts over-essentric in-the-role-of Proffessor Stein especially in the scenes when sharing thoughts/feelings about pizza or explaining to Barry about time travel it’s enjoyable. Pretty gruesome for Ronald (Robbie Amell, Stephen’s cousin) cutting “Where” onto his arm with broken glass after feeling Stein being tortured by Clancy Brown’s General Wade Elling along-with Eobard’s contribution beforehand by-means-of a drugged icecube for Martin’s scotch. Not suspring considering his prior urge to just kill them both with his gun (episode thirteen, “The Nuclear Man'”) other-then Tom Cavanagh saying the show’s catchphrase here. Elling adds to short list of people that see through Eobard’s humanitarian facade (Joe West and Tina McGee).

  Martin not wanting his research to be weaponized blows my theory he went to Star Labs that night sabotage the Particle Accelerator (protesters included) with his F.I.R.E.S.T.O.R.M matrix which is still too long an acronym.

  However, biggest plothole to Nora Allen’s murder case is that CCPD would’ve found that spot-of-blood-on-the-wall had they focused police procedure on entire house rather then just their living room makes them incompetent. To have Joe (Jesse L. Martin) along-with Cisco finding this evidence fifteen years later to-be lazy. Elling tranquilzing/gassing everyone at CW’s stockplace (Jitters) to capture “The Burning Men” in public should’ve drawn unneeded attention to his operation that-one should’ve been a black-ops objective.

  While glad they have Candice Patton’s Iris working at Picture News like she should do but didn’t care about her snooping subplot. She or her colleague, Mason Bridge (Roger Howorth) might do something dumb to escalate current problems in Central City like freeing inmates at Star Labs’ Gulag. Especially don’t care for further love triangle moments using Wally’s girl (Linda Park) now there’s two versions around (like Cat Grant).

  Rating: 8

  “Wells” is a Reverse Flash as we all knew however another person is possible. Still don’t know what he gets from Grodd besides his trust for his “kindness” to him during his captivity days. No matter, his identity gets exposed a month from now:

  Cisco isn’t gonna walk out of Star Labs alive having figured it out since it hasn’t clicked in Barry’s head that his idol/”mentor” is obssessed with him in that sick-fixation kinda way.

   
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  Nick Paramonte 4:48 pm on 02/10/2015 Permalink | Reply  

  Spider-Man in MCU 

  

  After long rumors, Webhead will officially be included in their cinematic universe depsite Sony moving forward with another reboot with Sinister Six and Venom movies.

  Under the deal, the new Spider-Man will first appear in a Marvel film from Marvel’s Cinematic Universe (MCU). Sony Pictures will thereafter release the next installment of its $4 billion Spider-Man franchise, on July 28, 2017, in a film that will be co-produced by Kevin Feige and his expert team at Marvel and Amy Pascal, who oversaw the franchise launch for the studio 13 years ago. Together, they will collaborate on a new creative direction for the web slinger. Sony Pictures will continue to finance, distribute, own and have final creative control of the Spider-Man films.

  More on Marvel.com.

  It’s time for someone else to spin-webs rather then rehash the same character especially with Andrew Garfield’s departure. Miles Morales having an estranged uncle along with powers like Venom Sting is diiferent from Parker’s or maybe Miguel O’Hara of the year 2099 since Thanos (Josh Brolin) will more-then-likely use the Reality Gem (Yellow) to control time. Probably not Ben Reilly cause who needs to be reminded about one-of-the worst storylines in Spidey mythos besides One More Day.

  Still looking forward to Cap’s third film despite my skeptism. Just hope they don’t included that horrendous fascism (registration) over democracy ending. Wonder if they’ll keep key moments such-as unmasking (to show the new actor) while on Tony’s side or an inspiring scene when he switches sides.

   
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  Nick Paramonte 8:25 pm on 02/06/2015 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Charlie Cox ( 10 ), Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Foggy Nelson ( 3 ), Karen Page ( 3 ), Matt Murdock ( 10 ), Vincent D'Onofrio, Wilson Fisk ( 2 )   

  Daredevil Teaser 

  Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) going threw a crisis-of-faith like the Guardian Devil storyline for becoming a vigilante-by-night after being lawyer-by-day. Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll), who’s probably a drug addict already (as opposed to later-on) is framed-for-murder by Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) with Foggy Nelson (Elden Henson) taking her defense. Looks good accept for another dock scene similar to NBC’s lousy Cape show five years ago. Also Arrow constantly ripping off Nolan’s Guano Man.