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AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (2015)
If the box-office supremacy of The Avengers can be partly attributed to the simple mathematics of four established superheroes appearing in the same film, with lashings of tongue-in-cheek humour and more digital bedlam than the team’s previous solo outings combined, highly-anticipated follow-up Avengers: Age of Ultron has a far tougher job on its hands. If the original succeeded with…
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DAREDEVIL – Season One
The first of Netflix’s quartet of Marvel-produced comic-book dramas, Daredevil wisely introduces the character closest to being a household name—although The Man Without Fear’s last mainstream attempt was Mark Steven Johnson’s floundering effort from 2003, which turned a profit but disappointed DD fans and proved a creative disappointment. So not only does showrunner Steven S. DeKnight (Angel, Spartacus) have to…
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BLOODLINE – Season One
Created by the troika behind FX’s legal thriller Damages—Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler and Daniel Zelman—Netflix’s Bloodline is a very different show on the surface, but the underlying skeleton’s much the same. In both shows, episodes are bookended by flashforwards to events that seem inconceivably shocking, whilst being interrupted by flashbacks that gradually explain character behaviour and the causes…
