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Giles #1

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Giles #1 comic reviewWe may never have gotten the Giles television show Joss Whedon wanted, but the Watcher now earns his own four-issue mini-series written by Whedon and Erika Alexander. To catch up those who don’t know, after being killed by Angel, Giles was resurrected but as a teenager. After helping the Scooby Gang, Giles has now been sent in undercover at an inner-city Los Angeles high school (partly to hide him from the anti-magic government and partly to allow the teenage Watcher to investigate odd occurrences in the high school).

Chronologically taking place somewhere near the end of Season 11, there’s more than a little deja vu here as Giles uncovers odd things happening in the high school basement and also falls for a female student named Roux who turns out to be a good vampire, a fact which doesn’t stop him from flirting with her.

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iZombie – Blue Bloody

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  • Title: iZombie – Blue Bloody
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iZombie - Blue Bloody television review

Murder on the golf course through the use of a makeshift golf-ball gun puts Liv (Rose McIver) on spoiled aristocrat brain which quickly rubs everyone, including Clive (Malcolm Goodwin), the wrong way. Discovering the motive for the crime and unmasking the killer leads to Liv and Ravi (Rahul Kohli) choosing to break the law to save a child’s life, but in doing so Liv strains her relationship with Major (Robert Buckley) past the breaking point. With both zombies now single, will we see new romantic possibilities for one or the other in the near future?

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iZombie – Are You Ready for Some Zombies?

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  • Title: iZombie – Are You Ready for Some Zombies?
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iZombie - Are You Ready for Some Zombies? TV review

It’s a brave new world for iZombie as the Fourth Season opens with Seattle cut off from the rest of the world over fear that the zombies may spread outside the walled-off city limits. Life is relatively normal for Liv (Rose McIver) who continues her role as assistant medical examiner helping Clive (Malcolm Goodwin). Things are a bit less normal for Ravi (Rahul Kohli) whose zombie vaccine is 90% effective except for his zombie-benders every few weeks. Major (Robert Buckley) is given a new role at Fillmore-Graves which allows him to put some old skills to use (although it takes him longer than expected to discover just why his boss wants him to help teen zombies on the streets). As for the city at large, some are taking the new status quo in stride while others have begun singling out zombies and forming gangs attacking the creatures who they believe have ruined their lives.

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Vampirella #10

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Vampirella #10 comic reviewOkay, I’ve never been much of a horror comic reader in general nor a Vampirella fan in particular. That said, when a comic chooses to celebrate one of my favorite cosplayers with a variant cover I’m all-in to show some support. Way to go Joanie!

For those, like me, a little unsure what they are stepping into, writer Jeremy Whitley does a good job setting the stage for the dystopian future where our heroic vampire now lives and offering a backstory for Pantha who plays a major role in the current plotline. It seems the future is a pretty screwed up shitstorm where no one can die and old friends want you dead.

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Get Out

/ / Home Video
  • Title: Get Out
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Get Out Blu-ray reviewThe suburbs aren’t really this bad. Honest. As much satire as horror, Jordan Peele‘s delightful film delivers a young black man (Daniel Kaluuya) into the mostly-white suburbia of his girlfriend’s (Allison Williams) parents (Catherine Keener and Bradley Whitford). From the start, it’s obvious to Chris that something is off with the household, the family’s strange black servants (Marcus Henderson and Betty Gabriel), and the glut of odd-acting neighbors and friends Chris meets the following day.

Clever and wryly entertaining, the first-half of the movie would work terrifically as an episode of The Twilight Zone as Chris’ paranoia increases to a fever-pitch. The discovery of what is really going on in the sleepy suburb is more than a little odd, as Chris’ loud-mouth-conspiracy-obsessed pal (LilRel Howery) suspects, but leads the character into a final act where he’s forced to confront childhood issues and make a stand if he has any hope to make it out of the suburbs alive.

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