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Shadowhunters – A Dark Reflection

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Shadowhunters - A Dark Reflection television review

Realizing Valentine‘s (Alan Van Sprang) plan, Clary (Katherine McNamara) and Jace (Dominic Sherwood) search for the Mortal Mirror with the help of Dot (Vanessa Matsui) who has become its protector following the death of its last guardian. It turns out the item is way easier to find than the other Mortal Instruments Clary has searched for since joining the Shadowhunters. Clary is conflicted by the mission. Despite seeing what her brother is capable of, but still unaware he’s walking around as Sebastian (Will Tudor), she hopes to save him and resents Jace for seeing the need to put him down.

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Josie and the Pussycats #8

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Josie and the Pussycats #8 comic reviewThere’s a full cast of characters when both Josie and the Pussycats and the Archies travel to Tokyo for a concert with the other band from Riverdale set to be the Pussycats’ opening act. Although it’s a bit of a struggle to find room for everyone, there are some fun moments here including Val and Veronica bonding over clothes. The trouble starts, however, when the comic begins to fracture that hard-won peace between Josie and Alexandra.

When the chance at romance blooms for Alexandra and Alan M. the pair take their page from any number of braindead romcoms and choose to hide the fact from Josie (despite the fact that there’s nothing really there to hide yet). As you can expect, Josie discovers it all on her own and overreacts in operatic fashion when she discovers a guy she only sorta likes and isn’t tied to in any way is dating a girl he has every right to see.

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Valerian and the Station of a Thousand Special Effects

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  • Title: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets movie reviewsWhether you are an optimist and view a glass of water as half-full or a pessimist and view it as half-empty, the fact is that there’s only water in half the glass. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is a lot like that. Sure, half the glass is filled with terrific imagery and an impressively designed world. There are creatures, gadgets, and CGI aplenty. And even when the sci-fi plot gets a bit dicey it still has a cohesive plot (which is more than I can say for all films released this week). It would be easy to praise Valerian for only the things it does right and just as easy to slam it for all it gets wrong. The truth is somewhere in the middle.

The latest from director Luc Besson is based on the French comic series Valérian and Laureline. As in the comic, our story centers around a pair of spatio-temporal agents Major Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Sergeant Laureline (Cara Delevingne). The script offers a glimpse into the contastly flirting partners’ lives aboard their ship and a mission that gets out of control before the film begins in earnest as the pair are called back to Alpa (the future version of the Intranational Space Station with thousands of aliens on board hurtling through space).

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Will – The Play’s the Thing

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Will - The Play's the Thing TV review

It may be unfair to criticize TNT’s new drama Will for not being Shakespeare in Love, but since the show was obviously inspired by the Oscar-winning film it’s not something you can easily dismiss either (even if it sorely lacks the wit of the film). Set during the beginning of William Shakespeare’s (Laurie Davidson) days as a struggling playwright, the show’s first episode brings the writer to London where his first play is presented to a starved audience looking for something new.

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Preacher – Damsels / Viktor

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Preacher - Damsels / Viktor TV review

After starting off the season with a strong pair of episodes Preacher crashes back to Earth. Well, they can’t all be winners. Believing their troubles to be over, but still in need of tracking down God, Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper), Tulip (Ruth Negga), and Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) arrive in New Orleans. While Jesse fails to find much of use, Tulip’s past comes back to haunt her as she’s taken by Viktor‘s (Paul Ben-Victor) men. The pair of episodes offers quite a bit of wandering and extended sequences of not much actually happening up until the end of “Viktor” where a distracted Jesse goes looking for his missing girl leading to an all-too-obvious American Pscyho rip-off action sequence and a revelation of just who Viktor is to Tulip.

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