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Preacher Series Finale Recap: “We’re Not Getting Away with It That Easily”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 12:00:55 +0000

Depending on your viewpoint, that a show as insane and blasphemous as Preacher could last four seasons on the air is either a miracle or a sacrilege. Fans who stuck with it to the end were treated to a wild finale that pulls no punches in its delightful commitment to offending anything a viewer might...

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Preacher 4.01 & 4.02 Recap: “Guess We All Gotta Die Sometime”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 12:00:06 +0000

A TV series as defiantly weird as AMC’s Preacher couldn’t possibly last forever. For many reasons, the fact that it survived more than a single year is pretty amazing. Back this week for its fourth and officially final season, the show seems determined to go out with a bang. Aside from periodic check-ins, I don’t...

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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Review: Wishing Every Show Was the Last Show

Jason Gorber — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 16:00:57 +0000

Let’s take it as fact that ABBA is one of the greatest, most infectious musical groups ever assembled, a brilliant ray of Scandinavian sunshine pop that thumps its disco beats into one’s heart. Let’s also admit that “jukebox musicals” take even more suspension of disbelief than straight-ahead musicals, slamming song after song from disparate contexts...

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‘Preacher’ 3.01 Recap: “The More It Hurts, the More It Helps”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 12:00:07 +0000

Typically one of the craziest and most gonzo surreal series on television, AMC’s ‘Preacher’ opens its third season in an uncharacteristically restrained manner. Season 2 ended on a cliffhanger with Tulip (Ruth Negga) gunned down and left for dead, and Jesse (Dominic Cooper) stopping Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) from saving her by turning her into a...

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‘Preacher’ 2.01 & 2.02 Recap: “Unlucky Start Is All”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 12:00:45 +0000

During its first season, AMC’s ‘Preacher’ was a go-for-broke crazy and sometimes hugely entertaining supernatural action comedy, but it was also wildly uneven, needlessly confusing, and often enormously frustrating. The second season brings a change of setting, a fresh start and, with luck, a new focus on buckling down to tell a somewhat coherent story...

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‘Preacher’ 1.10 Recap: “Show Us God”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 13:00:01 +0000

‘Preacher’ is a very weird show, and the first season ended with a very weird finale. It’s also a very uneven show that was never quite as clever or as satisfying as I may have wanted. I’ll give it one thing, though. It was never uninteresting. I gave up recapping the series early in the...

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‘Warcraft’ Review: World of Boredom

Philip Brown — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 12:00:41 +0000

One of the big challenges of adapting videogames into movies is the need to act quickly before popularity fades. While ‘World of Warcraft’ still has plenty of brand name recognition, it’s far from the pop culture behemoth it was when the movie adaptation project first entered development. It’s hard to say if audiences will flock...

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‘Preacher’ Pilot Recap: “God Doesn’t Hold Grudges”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 24 May 2016 16:00:23 +0000

The AMC network has hyped its new comic book adaptation ‘Preacher’ so aggressively over the past few months that I couldn’t help approaching it with skepticism. Something about the promos and commercials gave off an uncomfortable ‘Into the Badlands‘ vibe, but I was intrigued enough by the property’s origins to give it a shot. After...

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‘Agent Carter’ 1.04 Recap: “I Like Predictable”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 14:00:58 +0000

Five seconds. That’s about how much of last week’s episode of ‘Agent Carter’ was of even the slightest interest. This show started in a position of weakness and has rapidly slid downhill in every successive episode. Has there been some production turmoil behind-the-scenes at Marvel? Considering how much potential the premise and cast of this...

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‘Agent Carter’ Pilot & 1.02 Recaps: “Captain America, What Would I Do Without You?”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 20:00:55 +0000

Since ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ is on break until March, Marvel has decided to fill its time slot with the new (supposedly) limited-run spin-off/prequel series ‘Agent Carter’. With a period setting and an appealing heroine in the lead, ads for the show looked like a lot of fun. So why is the premiere so damned dull?...

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‘Dracula Untold’ Review: Dracula Defanged

Philip Brown — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 13:00:43 +0000

When you think of Dracula, you conjure up of one of the great personifications of evil in pop culture. Romantic? Sure. Tragic? I suppose. But still a villain and certainly a figure of evil. Yet Universal’s new Dracula reboot says patooey to popular myth and refashions Dracula as a misunderstood action hero with a pesky...

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‘Need for Speed’ Review: Needs a Rewrite

Philip Brown — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 19:00:51 +0000

There are few things more thrillingly cinematic than a car chase, which is why it’s odd that so many movies based around that twisted metal thrill tend to be so dull. ‘Need for Speed’ is a perfect example. Here’s a movie directed by a former stunt man (Scott Waugh) who is hell bent on reviving...

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