Despite insisting the stupidly truncated ending was always intended (and nothing to do with the show being canned, no sir), the last episode of Penny Dreadful was, well, dreadful. If the show was supposed to end there, tell me why Dr Jekyll was introduced with ZERO pay-off in the third and final season. An entertaining premise, great cast, largely solid acting, lush production values, rubbish 'finale'.
I was so cynical about this movie - NOT, I hasten to add, because of the all-female cast, but because I'm a fan of the original, which I think still stands up today, so why do a remake, right? But it was really, really funny and the cameos by almost all of the original cast lend it what feels like a genuine seal of approval. It's a thoroughly entertaining movie that totally won me over.
I wasn't excited about yet another attempt to kick-start Spidey until I watched CA:CW at a midnight screening last night. Young Tom Holland very nearly steals the show. His scene with Downey Jr had the audience in stitches and the action scenes elicited cheering and clapping from the crowd. Spiderman's look is great and feels closer to the comic book than ever. I've gone from total disinterest to enthusiastically hopeful overnight. Good job.
I'm hoping that since the trailer for The Phantom Menace made the suckiest film in the saga look really exciting, this underwhelming effort might actually mean the final movie is okay. Frankly, though, the cumulative effect of Lucas's execrable prequels and Disney's intent to flog the living daylights out of Star Wars until there's nothing left have driven me far, far away from anything remotely resembling excitement. And that comes from a bona-fide once-upon-a-fanboy.
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