Operation: S.I.N. - Agent Carter
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Tying into the explosive events of ORIGINAL SIN , see an untold story from the origins of the Marvel...
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D
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Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg, reprising his role from "The Avengers" and "Iron Man" ) heads an elite...
Beautiful Animals
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'Let’s not mince words. This is a great book' Lionel Shriver 'An heir to Graham Greene' New...
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Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate
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Several years after the events of Warriors Orochi 2, the warriors of the Three Kingdoms era of China...
David McK (3425 KP) rated Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) in Movies
Mar 20, 2021
Originally intended to be the first post-snap TV series to be released (before Covid hit, and the release dates were reordered so that WandaVision came first), both series are set after the events of Avengers: Endgame, which - to date - is the last appearance of Chris Evans Steve Rogers aka Captain America.
This was his first (and the 5th released, albeit earliest set, MCU film)
Essentially a retro sci-fi origin story, this is largely set during World War 2 and sees Captain America taking on Hydra and their leader The Red Skull (Hugo Weaving), aided by the Howling Mad commandos, Agent Peggy Carter (who would get her own TV show) and his best mate Bucky Barnes.
Speaking personally, I also have to say that - character wise - I don't feel that the Captain America movies really got good until The Winter Soldier, where the MCU really started exploring the 'man out of time' context of the character.
Having said that, this is perfectly pleasant.
Knightmare Arcanist (Frith Chronicles #1)
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Magic. Sailing. A murderer among heroes. Gravedigger Volke Savan wants nothing more than to be...
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LeftSideCut (3778 KP) rated Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - Season 1 in TV
May 28, 2019
The first season, for the first half at least, is pretty average, every week, Coulson and his team come across some kind of comic book threat, and swiftly put an end to said threat, rinse and repeat.
It's when the events of Winter Soldier happen when things really go up a gear.
As soon as the HYDRA plot point from the second Captain America film is put into action, the show turns into a thrilling drama, full of plot turns, good guys turned bad, and pretty solid action for the most part.
The main cast are all extremely likable and in turn, it's easy to become invested in what they do.
Add in some comic book characters here and there (Dethlok was a highlight here) and a cheeky cameo from Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury, and you end up with a debut series that is pretty entertaining, even if it does take a while for it to find it's footing.
Awix (3310 KP) rated Jason and the Argonauts (1963) in Movies
Oct 5, 2019 (Updated Oct 5, 2019)
The script is, to be honest, all over the place: it's episodic, the writers seem to have been making it up as they went (the most memorable character wanders out of the movie half way through), and Jason doesn't actually complete the mission he sets himself at the start (maybe they were hoping for a sequel). However, for a bad movie this has some of the most wonderful special effects ever put on celluloid, namely Ray Harryhausen's brilliant hand-crafted animation. Any amount of stodgy non-acting and dubious costume design would be a small price to pay for sequences like the ones with the bronze titan Talos, the Hydra, or the mob of skeletons at the end (the skeleton battle is such a breathtaking achievement it should really be playing on loop in art galleries around the world). They don't make them like this any more. Even the bad bits are kind of bad in a good way.
Demon Lights (Blackwater Lights Trilogy #3)
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From the cult-favorite author of Blackwater Lights comes the finale to a dark paranormal horror...
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Positive: A Novel
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In the bestselling vein of Guillermo Del Toro and Justin Cronin, the acclaimed author of Chimera and...