The Flickcast

TV RECAP: ‘Sleepy Hollow’ Episodes 112 and 113: ‘Indispensable Man’ and ‘Bad Blood’

Posted on January 23, 2014

When I heard this week was a double episode I was surprised, and even more surprised to find it was the season finale. It seems rare to have just a 13-episode season, especially for a network show. And throwing the two episodes together seemed a little haphazard, but it actually worked really well.

The first half was a basic episode, but left enough to want to watch one more. And the ending of this season was so good and so unexpected, I was floored. It’s not too often that my jaw drops during a TV show, but it did twice during the last few minutes. Please keep in mind that this review covers two episodes, so it will be fairly lengthy. But, enough preemptive reacting, let’s get to the meat and potatoes.

Brooks finds his way into Abbie’s house and tells her that Washington’s bible contains instructions on finding a map that can lead them to a way to stop Moloch. Moloch cannot use the map, but wants to get it so they cannot use it. If Abbie gives Brooks the bible, she will be spared and given a spot in Moloch’s clan.

Here’s the New Trailer for ‘The Raid 2’

Posted on January 22, 2014

What can you say about Gareth Evans’ The Raid 2, the sequel to one of the greatest martial arts action films ever made? Well, knowing the original as we do, this sequel better be pretty damn good if it’s going to have any chance of even coming close to the original.

Fortunately, at least based on this new trailer, The Raid 2 looks like it just might be in the running for “Greatest sequel ever.”

Here’s more about the movie:

He thought it was over. After fighting his way out of a building filled with gangsters and madmen – a fight that left the bodies of police and gangsters alike piled in the halls – rookie Jakarta cop Rama thought it was done and he could resume a normal life. He couldn’t have been more wrong.

Formidable though they may have been, Rama’s opponents in that fateful building were nothing more than small fish swimming in a pond much larger than he ever dreamed possible. And his triumph over the small fry has attracted the attention of the predators farther up the food chain. His family at risk, Rama has only one choice to protect his infant son and wife: He must go undercover to enter the criminal underworld himself and climb through the hierarchy of competing forces until it leads him to the corrupt politicians and police pulling the strings at the top of the heap.

Discovering ‘Batman/Planetary: Night on Earth’

Posted on January 22, 2014

You may be thinking “Oh, look; another crossover where the good guys fight, figure it out and save the day.” I wouldn’t blame you. I had anticipated the same when I sat down to read this 2003 one-shot from DC Comics and Wildstorm Productions. Boy, was I wrong as this was definitely not your cookie-cutter team-up tale. Far from it.

While almost anyone reading comics has read Batman (or, at the very least, is familiar with the Caped Crusader), the same can’t be said for Planetary. With that, I can confidently state that my lack of exposure to the Planetary series and its characters didn’t hamper my reading experience at all. I’d actually argue that this is primarily a Batman-centric story; even though various members of Planetary get more “screen time” than Bats himself.

Which brings me to the creators. Warren Ellis is, well, Warren Ellis. If you don’t know what that means, you haven’t read much of his work. But if you have? You’re nodding along with me right now. Indefinable, he almost always seems to approach a story from a completely different angle than most of us can even conceive, and that’s part of what makes him a fan favorite.

His handling of Batman here is both exciting and (seemingly) an open love letter to the character. There’s barely a beginning or end to this original graphic novel, and frankly, it doesn’t need it.

TV RECAP: ‘Arrow’ Episode 210: ‘Blast Radius’

Posted on January 22, 2014

Arrow chases down a drug dealer and asks him about the man in the skull mask. He dealer claims to not know him. Arrow returns to headquarters and tells Diggle that no one on the streets seems to know this man. Felicity has gone to visit Barry, who is in a coma.

Laurel is still taking random pills, and is now investigating Sebastian Blood. She gets a weird vibe from him, and has found that he was connected to a psych building that was destroyed by a suspicious fire. He also has ties to Cyrus Gold, the man who killed several officers and almost killed Quentin.

Oliver hosts a party for Sebastian helping his campaign for mayor. While at the party, a man in a car spewing anti government rhetoric to himself blows up a building. Reports are that there was a cleaning crew and some bankers working late still inside. Arrow goes to help and helps the bankers escape the building.

Discovering ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’

Posted on January 21, 2014

Many mid-thirtysomethings like myself got a little excited back in 2009 when G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra hit theaters. Happy memories of action figures and cartoons dancing in our heads, combined with the technology we have today; what could possibly go wrong?

Well, also like myself, many of them walked away not very entertained. If you’ve seen that movie, odds are you have two prevailing thoughts: “Well, that sucked,” and “I got burned by the first; no way I’m checking out the sequel.” Allow me a moment to convince you otherwise…

First off, if you want a proper review of G.I. Joe: Retaliation our own Nat Almirall wrote up a doozy in March, 2013. There be spoilers there, matey.

TV RECAP: ‘American Horror Story: Coven’ Episode 311: ‘Protect the Coven’

Posted on January 21, 2014

Fiona delivers a quite uninspired eulogy for Nan, and Cordelia talks with Myrtle about again trying to get rid of Fiona. Queenie arrives with Delphine, who has been put back together. Everyone is surprised to see the both of them, as Queenie was believed to have died during the attack at the beauty parlor, and Marie had told Queenie to burn Delphine’s head.

Hank’s father has had his men arrange it so that it is never known that Hank was the shooter at the salon. He also wants to buy the coven off so that his company can recover. He vows to kill the witches after he gets what he wants.

The first part of this episode is a narrative by Delphine, which ends with her having a black handyman tied up in the attic room. She first discovered the joy of killing slaves when she first arrived in New Orleans. She has felt unfulfilled as of late, and figures that killing again will bring her vitality back.

Zoe uses her magic to find out that Fiona and Marie killed Nan in the tub. Madison has become jealous that Zoe fell in love with Kyle, and tries to hurt Zoe by seducing Kyle in front of her. Kyle refuses and says he loves Zoe. Madison is furious, and vows to take Kyle apart, since she was the one who put him together in the first place.

‘Skylanders: SWAP Force’ FINALLY!

Posted on January 21, 2014

I am a fan of Skylanders. It is just plain casual fun for me. To sit down, explore levels that aren’t exceptionally difficult and unlock the hidden items and secret paths is something that helps put me at ease. Not that there are a lot of mainstream games that are hard anymore with a few exceptions, there’s something I just enjoy about kicking back and playing Skylanders or checking out the stack of them on my shelf. But there is one thing I don’t like: The Release Schedule

When I play a game, I binge on it. I start playing it and I am content to go from start to finish and in most cases, that’ll be the majority of the time I spend with the game. Though I will go back to occasionally achievement hunt or if someone wants to hop on multiplayer or even have a party game while over my place, things usually wrap up once I have beat the game and move onto the next.

But because of the level design of the games and release schedule of the Skylanders figures, there are times that it is actually impossible for me to get as much out of the game as I want until months after release. This time with Skylanders: SWAP Force it ended up being three months and one week before I had the proper combination of figures to experience the majority of the title.

TV RECAP: ‘The Following’ Episode 201: ‘Resurrection’

Posted on January 20, 2014

Following a season one recap, the whole of the fight between Hardy and his neighbor is shown. She stabs him and Claire, but Hardy fights back and breaks her neck, killing her. Hardy later finds out at the hospital that Claire did not survive.

Fast forward to one year later, where Hardy is five months sober (apparently there was a relapse after Claire died) and a professor at the New York College of Criminal Justice. It is coming up on the one-year anniversary of the “Carroll Cult Killings”.

Hardy’s niece Max wants him to meet her new boyfriend, so he has them over to dinner, along with his AA sponsor and another woman from AA. Max admits she set up the dinner mostly to help distract Hardy from the anniversary of the murders. She also thinks that Hardy should ask out the woman from his AA class.

Hardy, as well as Mike Weston, are dragged back into action after some murders on a subway car in New York. The killers, donning Joe Carroll masks, enter subway car, pose for the cameras, and then stab everyone in the car, leaving only one woman as a witness. They chant “Resurrection” and say that Ryan Hardy cannot stop them, Joe Carroll lives, and the resurrection is coming.

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