Crítica - Luke Cage (Netflix)

Me sorprenden muchísimo las declaraciones del señor Quentin Tarantino del otro día. No porque proclamara a los cuatro vientos que le ponía la cruz a esta serie por su falta de fidelidad con el material fuente, después de asegurar que nunca dirigiría una película de cómics por miedo al fandom. No. Es por criticar precisamente la falta de sentimiento exploit en la adaptación. Y es que no me prodigo yo precisamente en el blaxploitation setentero, aunque tampoco soy lo que se dice un neófito, pero encuentro precisamente en la no-tan-marcada herencia de la exageración hortera del Black Power la miga de la última serie Netflix/Marvel.

No tiene la profundidad emocional ni los personajes tan gigantescos que ofrece Daredevil (¡que vaya si ha acusado la marcha de Drew Goddard!) ni la embriagadora ambientación de Jessica Jones, pero emana personalidad, carisma y simpleza a raudales. La mitad del cast es de serie B, el protagonista es todo carisma y poquito talento, el personaje de Mahershala Ali es chirriante cuanto menos y la trama, a la par que obvia, bebe quizás demasiado del esquema de la primera temporada del diablo rojo de Hell's Kitchen. Pero hay una honestidad en esta serie, un compromiso y, sobre todo, un sentido del pragmatismo que la coloca por detrás de Daredevil S01 como la mejor temporada (la propia naturaleza de los crossover invita a esta distinción sobre "mejor serie") fruto del hermanamiento entre la empresa del ratón Mickey, Marvel y el servicio de streaming. 

Sabe lo que tiene entre manos, sabe que la profundidad emocional no es su objetivo, que la historia debe tener carisma, ser hortera, desenfadada, no perder el ritmo y, desde luego, no da lugar a piruetas narrativas. Y es que, como ya he mencionado, el personaje de Cottonmouth puede recordar a más de un infame y olvidable narcotraficante de la serie B más que al bueno de Wilson Fisk, pero ojo cuidado con los Killgrave de turno, que tienen que durar 13 episodios montando planes.

Mahershala Ali como Cottonmouth, el villano de la función

En cierto modo, y salvando las distancias, me recuerda a cuando sacó Darabont su adaptación de L.A. Noir y a cómo se la crucificó por plana, además de lloverle las comparaciones con Boardwalk Empire. La de Winter es de mis series favoritas, no voy a negarlo, pero donde esta se presentaba como un caldero de deconstrucciones trágicas al más puro estilo Coppola, la de la AMC era una taza de expresso pulp, muy edulcorado y con estilo y narices, aun contando con un reparto muy inferior. Era debatir entre peras y chirimoyas, pero una cosa estaba clara, quizás Mob City hubiera sido incluso peor si hubiera apostado por el terreno que pisaba la HBO con la serie de Winter, pero hizo un muy buen producto yendo a lo suyo, con su apuesta reverencialmente pulp, sin, como se suele decir, "mearse fuera del tiesto". Y en ese terreno se mueve Luke Cage, una serie que sale muy bien parada de la comparación con las dos últimas entregas que tuvimos en este universo.

Crítica - Capitán América: El soldado de invierno (S de Spoiler)

Seguimos en el #MesMarvel con la segunda entrega de la línea de películas individuales del Capi, continuación natural de los vengadores y que cerrará la trilogía con el estreno de Capitán América: Civil War el próximo 29 de abril. Reseña a fondo y con spoilers para explorar a fondo la que es una de las películas más aclamadas de la franquicia.

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Crítica - Los Vengadores (S de Spoiler)

Seguimos con el mes temático Marvelita con la reseña de una película que fue la culminación de un proyecto de 4 años y que dio trampolín a la franquicia más exitosa de la actualidad, siendo una de las películas más taquilleras de la historia.





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DRLUC Extra | Te echo de menos Nolan, vuelve bastardo

De vuelta al cole y de vuelta a lo nuestro con un #Extra menos incendiario de lo que el título puede dejar entrever, pero de lo más personal. Echo de menos a uno de mis directores favoritos, ¿qué le voy a hacer?

De Repente, La Última Cena | Ep. 05 - 'El Hombre de Acero'

Nuevo episodio de #DRLUC con nuestro repaso a las noticias más importantes y peculiares de esta semana del mundo del cine y la televisión. No se nos ha escapado el famoso segundo tráiler de 'Capitán Amércia: Civil War' y el popular nuevo traje de Spider-Man. Además, lo nuevo de Tim Burton tiene también nuevo traíler, así como la renovación de la tercera temporada de Gotham y el anuncio oficial de la nueva entre de Indiana Jones, con un Harrison Ford sobreexplotado de vuelta.

Y con todo y con eso, todavía hay hueco para una extensísima reseña de 'El hombre de acero' (Man Of Steel), uno de los blockbusters que más ha dividido a la audiencia en los últimos años, con motivo del estreno de 'Batman v. Superman: El amanecer de la justicia' este mismo miércoles.





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El Universo Cinematográfico de Tom Cruise

Se ha dicho mucho de lo maravilloso que es el universo de Marvel Studios o de Star Wars. La mayoría de vosotros argumentan y claman que hay una belleza en la manera en la que conectan todas las historias y atan todos los cabos en un medio tan complicado como el del séptimo arte, con todos esos problemas que tienen las productoras con los cambios de dirección, los presupuestos y el envejecimiento de los actores. Pero, ¿cuántas películas ha estrenado cada universo en total? ¿6? ¿12? Bah. Aficionados...

¿Qué dirías si te contara que existe un universo fílmico compuesto por hasta 38 películas? ¡Así es! Antes de toda esta fiebre por las precuelas, secuelas y reboots que está ahora tan de moda, ya existía una intrincada saga sobre un tipo cuyos ancestros fueron a diferentes guerrras y pasó de un chaval inseguro a abogado militar, pasando finalmente a salvador del mundo en una guerra contra alienígenas y ser clonados por esos mismos extraterrestres. La historia épica de un chico a lo largo de los siglos, mejor contada que Los Inmortales y más apasionada que Lo que el viento se llevó. Esta es la historia de Tom Cruise.

Imagina la historia de un niño cuyo abuelo, Claus von Stauffenberg, fue un nazi de pro que casi consigue asesinar a Hitler durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Después de su muerte, Tom (llamésmosle así ya que no sabemos relamente su nombre) fue dado en adopción a otro hombre (quien ya había adoptado con anterioridad a un chico con autismo) que terminó perdiendo sus piernas en Vietnam y volviéndose loco. Este niño tuvo una segunda adopción en una familia adinerada y que poseía un precioso huevo de cristal.

El pobre Tom perdió la virginidad en el metro con una prostituta al mismo tiempo que se encontraba en una crisis en la que no tenía nada claro aquello de estudiar derecho. Esto le llevó por primera vez al ejército y el primer trabajo que obtuvo Tom fue el de piloto. Pero aquello no fue muy bien y Tom intentó otros pequeños trabajos como camarero o jugador de billar. En esa época soñaba mucho con aventuras en otra época, en un extraño jardín y Tim Curry interpretando a un demonio un tanto extravagante. Ser adoctrinado en el billar por Paul Newman resultó ser más traumatizante de lo que esperaba y lo llevó a la facultad de derecho. Todo iba sobre ruedas para nuestro chico, pero los bufetes no eran tan pacíficos y limpios como esperaba y Tom decidió continuar su carrera en el ejército.

Sin embargo, los problemas no terminaron ahí. Un incidente con un oficial del ejército durante un juicio le forzó a usar su reputación para convertirse en un eficiente y apasionado agente de deportistas. Ayúdame a ayudarte. Tom triunfó. Se convirtió en un gran agente. Pero, desafortunadamente, esa era una habilidad muy peculiar para el ejército de Estados Unidos para usar en su beneficios en una guerra venidera con los alienígenas. A sabienda de que Tom había servido a su país en dos ocasiones, era el hombre perfecto para liderar una campaña mediática para reclutar ciudadanos para la contienda contra este ejército de aliens capaces de controlar el tiempo. Tom resultó crucial para el devenir de la guerra, pero el enemigo fue capaz de hacerse con una muestra de ADN de Tom y crearon clones suyos una vez ganaron la guerra, con intención de que repararan sus propias máquinas de vigilancia. Uno de estos clones tomó consciencia de su propia vida y voló por los aires la máquina principal y a él mismo, salvando el mundo.

El mundo fue reconstruido y año a año todos los clones de Tom fueron muriendo por causas naturales. Pero todavía quedaba una última aventura para nuestro Tom. Uno de sus tatarabuelos cambió de bando militar del estadounidense a un clan de samuráis. A este hombre le mordió un vampiro cuando se hallaba agonizando en el campo de batalla y cambió su nombre al de Lestat. Después del sacrificio en la máquina principal y una vez el mundo había sido reconstruido, Lestat era el único Tom que quedaba vivo y decidió dedicar su vida al servicio de la ley, tal y como había hecho Tom, así que se alistó a precrimen. Una vez estaba en activo, buscó en los archivos históricos de la policía y y descubrió que su pariente, Tom, así como había trabajado de abogado, también había prestado servicio a una división llamada FMI de vez en cuando, realizando misiones imposibles. También descubrió que, precisamente, el éxito de estas misiones fue la verdadera razón por la que el gobierno decidió mandar a Tom de un puesto de relaciones públicas al campo de batalla.

Esta es la verdadera historia de Tom. Recuerda que es solamente una teoría. Pero, ¿y si no lo fuera? ¿Y si Tom Cruise se hubiera quedado con nosotros todos estos años y es un plan que lleva planeado y elaborándose desde los años 80? No, la verdad es que no.

Tom Cruise Movies Universe

There's so much said about how wonderful is Marvel or Star Wars universe. All of you argue and claim there's a beauty on the way they connect every line and every story in something as hard as movies, with all this production companies issues with management, budget and cast aging. But how many movies did they release? 6? 12? Bah. Rookies...

What if I tell you there's an universe composed by 38 movies so far? Yeah! That's right. Before all of this prequels, sequels and reboots fever, it was and elaborated line about a guy whose descendants went to different wars and he comes form an insecure teen to an army lawyer and finally saved the world against aliens to be cloned by those same aliens. An epic story about a boy during centuries, better told than Highlander and more passionate than Gone with the wind. This is Tom Cruise story.

Imagine a story about a boy whose grandfather, Claus von Stauffenberg, was a former nazi who almost betrayed Hitler during WWII. After he died, Tom (let's just call him Tom as we don't have a name) was given in adoption to a man (who already had adopted a boy with autism), and ended losing his legs in Vietnam and becoming nuts. This boy had a second adoption and he got a rich and healthy family with a beautiful and expensive egg glass. 

Poor Tom lost his virginity with a prostitute at the same time he was in the middle of period when he started to doubt about studying law. This led him for the first time to the army, and Tom became a pilot as his first job. But that didn't go well, and he finally quit and tried little jobs as waiter or billiard player. During this period he often dreamed about adventure, a lady and a devil portrayed by Tim Curry. Being taught by Paul Newman happened to be such a huge traumatizing experience that he turned into law school. Everything was great for our boy, but firms are not as quiet as it seems and Tom decided to continue his career in the army.

However, problems didn't finish there. An incident with and officer during trial forced him to use his reputation to become and efficient and passionate sport manager. Help me help you. Tom succeeded. He became a great manager. But, unfortunately, that was a very particular skill for the US army to use in an upcoming war again aliens. Knowing that Tom had served his country twice before, he was the perfect man to lead a media campaign to recruit citizens for this war against an army of aliens with the ability of time controlling. Tom happened to result crucial at the end of the war, but enemies were able to access Tom's DNA an they created clones of him after they finally won he war, in order to repair their own control machines. One of these clones took conscience of his own life and blew up the main machine and himself, saving the world.

World was reconstructed and year by year all of Tom's clones died by natural causes. But there was a last adventure for our Tom. One of his grandfathers changed his side from the USA to join and lead a samurai clan. This man was bitten by a vampire after he died in battle and changed his name into Lestat. After the war against the machines, and once the entire world is reconstructed, Lestat was the only one Tom alive and he decided to dedicate his live to the service of the law, as well as our Tom did, so he joined precrime. Once he was in service, searched into police historical files and discovered that his relative, Tom, as well as we worked as an attorney, he also served to a force called IMF once in a wild, as a freelance. He also discovered that, precisely, the succeed of these missions was the main reason why US Government decided to send Tom directly to the field during the war against aliens.

This is the real story about Tom. Remember that this is just a theory. But, what if it isn't? What if Tom Cruise has been kidding with us all of the time and this was a plan already thought back in the 80's? No. Definitely not.

Top 5 Most Overrated Movies

Most of youtube channels or blogs use to make these kind of lists about best movies and most underrated ones. It's easy because there are tons of people just going around social networks prepare to defend their favorite films, and this assertion comes like a gift. And, on the other hand, we have fans of movies so badly rated they put huge effort on convincing everyone else justice has to be made. No dice.

But, what about overrated movies? This is somethig tricky. What do the most of the blogs and youtube channels when they're about to make an overrated movies top list? They pick most prizewinning movies that all of the people use to complain, and that's all. It's much easier just putting followers against the academy, right? However, are we users right indeed? Is actually consensus equal to truth? Definitely not. There's totally something going on with some movies which their sensationalism, pretentious or plot twists really may lift them up to a place they dont't belong. I know this is going to hurt so much, and it's gonna make all of you hate us but, here is our real top5 overrated movies (WATCH OUT, SPOILERS AHEAD):

5. The Sixth Sense

Yes. The best considered M. Night Shyamalan movie is one of the most overrated movies ever. Why? Because of the twist, precisely. All of the movie is based upon the mystery. It's just an horror movie, well shot and decently acted. The only drama that supposely raise it up to the category of great movie it's just a convinient fake trick. Why do the rest of ghosts look like dead (fresh wounds, puking...) and Bruce Willis not only doesn't realise of his wound, he even change clothes several times and, seriously, how the hell does he set a meeting with the child in the first place? Do you expect me to believe that a ghost could have 'accepting his death' as a purpose? Could any of you guys be able to live for weeks with your wife without crossing a word? Not even a 'who was at the phone?' or 'do you want me to prepare dinner?' COME ON! You even met up with her at the restaurant! Worst twist ever. So, it's not bad movie, we just consider it as a fine horror movie.



4. The Spectacular Now
This is probably the lesser-known movie of this list, but a 93% in Rotten Tomatoes make this an obligatory example. Lately, the increasement of blockbusters has, somehow, ended in more and more independent hits. Directors like Jason Reitman, Jonathan Levine or Marc Webb have come from indie field to the most commercial productions just because of this. And, in this particular case, Webb is one of the producers. Let's make it simple, The Spectacular Now is a disease. A disease particularly created from these hits. This movie is nothing but a attempt to transform the most conventional scripts ever made into something fresh and trascendent just by putting on an instagram filter over it, trendy indie cast and somebody with dinking issues. It's something pretty similar to the case of Short Term 12, but in that, Brie Larson totally saves the day.




3. A Beatiful Mind

Seriously, I've got to say this: I really do like the twist in this movie. I do. It's not actually smart but at least is early. The main issue with this film is that, what's told in it, could have been said in one minute. Just a minute of a guy (I'd rather have a biographer) sitting in front you saying: here's the story of John Nash, smart guy, mathematician, who made up friends and that almost cost him his sanity ad his marriage. And that's all. The second half of this movie is one of the most boring things I've ever seen. It's just a encore of the first half, but now you're sure he's crazy. Precursor of a whole generation of a-holes writing their math problems on the window. Just for that, it deserves to be the first one in our list, but let's move forward.




2. Intouchables

What the hell happened with this movie?! Seriously. The corny story of paralized man who's affraid of facing life and gets encouraged by an stereotyped joker. How many times we've seen this? A hundred? Thousands? I don't know. Has this movie better shots? Has this movie better jokes? Is this fresh or original? Really, there's nothing here but the same old cheesy overcoming story. I'm amazed by how many people can still laugh about the 'My-Fair-Lady-situation'. There's even a 'enjoying-life' montage with Nina Simone's 'Feeling Good'. 8,6 on IMDB. Guys...I mean, both actors make a good performance...but...are you serious?


Honorable Mentions
Although they're not bad enough to be on this list, or simply they're not as good considered and rated as the other 5, there're two movies that has to be mention, at least. There's an issue with the 'He's been dead all of the time' or 'He's making everything up' plot twist that obligates the script writer to be so carefull about the transition to that. Shutter Island just doesn't achieve this mission. Even being adapted from a Dennis Lehane novel, which is often translated into good movies. But in this particular case, it remains the feeling of being too easy just saying that he's completely nuts in a matter of seconds, using a blackboard as we, the audience, were supposed to be shocked by that fact, but the truth is we all have been considering it for the hall of the movie, but we refused to believed the writer was so lazy.

The other mention goes to Hatchiko. A movie just based in making dog-owners cry by the impossible chance that you're dog gives a shit about you. Yes, I recognize I cried like a baby, but that doesn't make the movie good at all. Because of they manipulate you, it doesn't mean what they're telling you is actually something powerful. Think about A Serbian Film. Just because you feel sick of seeing a fat guy raping a newborn doesn't mean the film is doing a great job. I could record myself killing your mother and that's not gonna make a good horror movie. No. Hatchiko is definitely a piece of shit.




1. Fight Club
That's it. Fight Club is one of those kind of movies ruined by their endings. But in this particular case, it's not just the ending. From the moment we realise Edward Norton is actually Tyler Durden, movie starts to fall apart and it doesn't stop. Firstly, we all got it from the moment Bonham Carter's character say his name is Tyler Durden. We're not stupid, we don't need a 9 minutes exposition. Seriously, the revelation montage, the voice-over, the whole travelling moment to the diferent Fight Club franchises is ridiculous, is for real dummies. No one is so stupid to need all of that explanation. Besides that, garage scene is horrible. What a way of destroying the movie! Is this something meta? Is Fincher trying to make an example out of the movie? Is it all about making a great movie and blasting it as an anarchy symbolism? For the record, according to David Fincher, if you shoot yourself in your ganglia, you don't die AND all of your multiple personalities die inmediately. Deal with it psychologists!

Scream (TV Series) Review

It's over. The first season of this attempt to bring Wes Craven's slasher love to the MTV is ended and it has bring us some fun, laughs, scares and disappointment. Sometimes teen meolodrama looking, sometimes soft tribute thriller, there's at least something really  good to say about Scream: it's fun as hell at some points. Yes, obviously the show does not keep that level at all of its 10 episodes, but pilot and last four episodes maintain suspense, jokes and reference. If we really take account that this is an almost 8 hours of approach to a 4 movie saga, this is quite admirable.



Introducing is half of a victory, and Pilot was something peculiar, fancy and mid interesting. Even when myself (who really enjoyed Pilot) claimed about no-phone call at the very first murder, there was still a really cool exposition about new suspense tricks taking new social networks as an useful tool. Never thought Snapchat could have a profitable existence. Also, we didn't have to wait so long for the first creepy psycho phone call, as we had that 'You gotta ask yourself: did you lock me in or out?' at the very second episode.



Characters: Here we got something kind of complicated, as Scream saga used to create stereotypes as part of the parody movie was. However, here we have really mediocre actors along some who are not so bad playing the stereotype. Shameful or the perfect cover? The point is not such a big deal when it comes to tense and funny scenes, but it's when drama comes around (along death, obviuosly) when this all deliberate ridiculous acting falls apart.


Story: The fact that this new version turns into pyschokiller mythos positively affects on the references (Friday the 13th is one of the biggest examples) but it carries the story into more predictable fields and less surprising and shocking moments. I'm not going to spoil you guys anything but if you pay attention careful, there's a huge hint in the middle of the season about who the real killer is, and it only happens cause they show too much background of the original murders.

But, don't get me wrong, it's still really fun to play with the mystery. And yes, as we all supposed even before first episode came out, best part of the show is the new Randy, here called Noah. They've added something even more interesting to the character. While at the first three movies (I don't count that double Randy at the fourth one, that didn't work for me at all) Randy was aware that the killer was using clichés for the murders, this Noah sometimes gives the impression of actually being aware of him being inside a slasher tv show. That meta approach is definetly one of the coolest moment.

Basically, Scream the TV Series achieve on twisting the saga into something fun, enjoyable, not so scary, that creates an entire new universe for his own purpose. They could definitely do better in casting and being more careful with hints they show during season. But, anyways, it has a cool cinematography if we consider that is MTV the one behind the project and, in opposite to show writers' opinion, second season should totally be based on college enviroment. That could give you wider options in cast and it would create a marvelous parallelism with movies.

Top 5 Found Footage Horror Movies

Here we are! Summer is about to finish and it seems it's the best time to keep our promise of talking here about Horror Movies (as we mentioned it in our 'Who we are' section). There's something about found footage movies that make everyone talk about it, as it is in a bad way or a good one. Many fans see this 'new' genre like something positive as makes easier to emphatize with characters and a very good approach to the experience. However, lots of critics and purists just complain about how companies just draw upon this new technique as it does not requiere a very good cinematography and photograpy skills. Also, this implies that they can be done on ridiculous budgets. The best example for that is the 'Paranormal Activity' saga, which take advantage on how easy are some audience to scare and the low budget require for release on chapter every year.

BUT, there's still hope. Found footage movies can be good and we've got the proves for that, movies that really understood what this was all about, and yes, THERE'S A SEQUEL ON OUR LIST. Amazing, huh? Life can be wonderful (in this case, horrifying).

5. Willow Creek (2013)

This movie basically follows the outline of The Blair Witch Project, which practically started the BOOM (yeah, Cannibal Holocaust...whatever). A small group of people decide to adventure into the woods in order to unsolve an horrofying myth. In this particular case, the group is reduced to a couple, what actually improve the situation and rise the stress, so they have to protect each other. Other winning move is actually something is becoming more and more popular as time goes, and it is giving characters at least 45 minutes to build their situation, emotions and reasons. In other words, create a connection between each other, even if it's based on something so ordinary as a honeymoon, it works. And that's something Bobcat Goldthwait does really good in this movie. But that's not the main reason Willow Creek is ranked as the fifth one instead of The Blair Witch Project. Its succes comes from creating great suspense in something so simple as 15 minutes of a couple recording each other into a tent. At the end, climax is not as good as we could have expected, but it cannot erase what it has already achieved.

4. VHS 2 (2013)

For those who have seen this movie, it's as simply as the short (actually is way longer than a short, but let's consider it a short as this movie is an anthology) Safe Haven directed by Gareth Evans, whom we can also thank for The Raid awesome movies, could make itself an amazing movie. Simply espectacular. That short is something crazy, inspired and with a great taste for bizarre. Besides it, Adam Wingard's short is pretty solid as a mix between a ghost night and surrealist comedy. Also, Eduardo Sanchez makes a very clever flick in Z genre, putting viewers into unbrained POV. Putting them together as a whole movie, it's not so well balanced as it should be, and the tone becomes even more separated between one short and another, but still some of them keep a heart that obviusly love horror legacy.

3. [REC] (2007)

Waiting for Amenabar's Regression and next J.A. Bayona movies, we can say that the main name in spanish horror movies panorama is Jaume Balagueró. Actually, Balagueró crashed in his first tries. Darkness and Fragile, counting with a solid american cast, couldn't end up in an envolving and terrorific story. But, in [REC] he achieved to fright a whole generation in a way no one could before: during the entire movie. Passing the first half of the movie, Balagueró give us a claustrophobic non-stop horror trip situated in these kind of historical spanish building he also used for Sleep Tight. Locked in the building with a bunch of crazy and superhuman zombies (in the sequel they happened to be possesed) movie use screams and on of the best monsters I ever seen to scare us as hell. Such a huge succes was this movie that it had a remake, two sequels (directed by Balagueró itself) and a prequel.

2. Creep (2014)

While in just three days this movie hits theatres, some of us have already the privilege of watching Creep, directed by Patrick Brice. And yes, it's one of the best found footage ever made. Why? Because it doesn't put its effort only in looking creepy (hahahaha TITLE), Brice also give us a reflection about insanity. How far can a person with a mental ilness go? Should we let our pitty act if this person is, in some way, not guilty of his actions? Should we care about him or just run away? These are some of the questions exposed in the film, all situated in an uncomfortable situation. Although there's a few moments when found footage really feels forced and non-sense, those are the moments that you really feel in a true horror movie. But the truth is Creep doesn't need to be a classis standard horror movie, because the amazing Mark Duplass performance is more than enough.

1. VHS (2012)

And here we come to the top of our list! Our pick for the best found footage horror movie goes to the first part of this particular horror saga. Why the first one? Because the level of all of the short is completely amazing, but that's not something that should surprise. There're 5 shorts in this movies, and only with the exception of Radio Silence (and whose short is one the best), the rest of them are citically acclaimed directors. Ti West (House of the Devil), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Drinking Buddies) and Adam Wingard (You're Next). All of them with great movies on their credits, they don't dissapoint on this anthology where we can find stories such as vampire-succubus horror, road trip thriller, 80's slashers tribute, first Teamviewer horror movie before Unfriended and a fun and creepy haunted house story. Even producers are planning to turn David Bruckner short "Amateur Night" into a 90 minutes movie. To be fair, I have to say that it won't keep you awake at night, but it is incredibly fun.

What do you think abour our list? Do yo miss any other found footage horror movie? Leave a comment below!

Convergence (Review)

Here we come, just after trying to solve problems with the TV show based on the adventures of our beloved Green Arrow, we're also dealing and reviewing with the biggest DC event in a very long time. Once Convergence is over, we're about to take a look over this story that is going to take us to the next level in DC and puts end to the controversials New52. Before starting, I got to make clear that we're only going to talk about the main Convergence story, as we forget about all of the tie-in.

First of all and most important: Convergence is a direct sequel of Earth-2 from the New52. This is not a new event with a new and different story that involves main characters from de DC universe. Yes, one the villains is new, but this is all about where the Earth-2 line let us hanged on. So this storyline could result (and problably will result) completely confusing for the new fans, the New52 Justice League fans and all of that peolpe who never read any of the DC's 'what if...' ever made.

Let's get to the story. This is all about Brainiac collecting cities from alternative lines which are already doomed. As you can guess, here appear Flashpoint, Kingdom Come, Red Son or Kingdom Come characters. Once these cities are trapped (or save?) on a new planet provided by Brainiac and outside the multiverse, the villain create for himself his own Silver Surfer, here called Telos. Once Brainic leave his planet in order to look for new doomed universes, Telos is left by the command of confront captured cities between each other. The point is: the one who survive, is worthy of inherit the planet. Meanwhile, Earth-2 main heroes are transported to the planet just by themself, because earth had just being destroyed by Dearseid. 

This is a story about Earth-2 characters, heroes who have not actually become theirself into it yet, but they have a road to go. As concern to Jay Garrick, Thomas Wayne, Alan Scott... they're the soul of the story and everything related to them are clearly the best stuff. Bad news: this is a hell of a disappointing event. The possibilities and hugeness of Convergence demanded something better with main line. Big and interesting fight have been relegated to the tie-ins. Actually that works in some lines, but there's no trace of it in the main story. There's a feeling of none taken chance over there. 

Visually, artists changing in the middle of the story does not affect too much to the final result. Indeed, we could say that, globaly, Convergence look is one of his strongest points, resulting with something colorful, dynamic and vivid, but certainly emotionless in episodes the book needed most.

At the end, what we have is a very funny and enjoyable comic book, who takes us to a very new and original world full of winks to the DC history. Lack of drama, and most important, relevance to the new upcoming universe, this Convergence, as much light as it is, only serve as a very good closing chapter to the New52 Earth-2 storyline, but nothing beyond that.

FIXING ARROW

It's been a while I've not written supid stuff over here such as Rey Harper becoming new Jason Todd in DC tv shows universe. Yeah, all of us have already guess how right I was about it. But, if that was a clever move, I disagree. I'm sure none of us liked the side-kick-changing from Roy to Thea. There's so many bad ideas coming from the writers on this third season that I can't take it any longer. I'm about to explode if the fourth season is going to be as bad as this last one. So, as a deliverance and something becoming regular, I'm about to tell you, all people in the world, but most specifically, CW's Arrow writers, how to fix the show:

1. Release Stephen Amell. Let him laugh, let him joke. Oliver Queen character is a big son of a bitch, but that doesn't exclude charisma, because at the end of the day he's more kind of a rogue. He can be dark, but also fun.

The lovely tie-arrow

2. Most important point: FIRE THAT HORRIBLE FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHER. He/she is terrible, I've seen nothing like this since Reeve's Superman. Character does a lot of unnecesary loop , use the bow on a pretty dumb way and he is fuckin' slow. Besides, that's enough for the tie-arrow wild card.

3. Romantic twist towards Laurel. I could have never imagine my self saying this but the show needs a li'l more romantic issues coming from the main character, and all of that hero-damsel thing doesn't work anymore with Felicity. They've made her silly this third season, she's not the sarcastic cad carachter anymore. Plus, Laurel is now at the same badass level as she is in the comics, now it's time for that weird relationship between her and Oli.

4. NO MORE FLASHBACKS. That's enough. I already know where the Arrow was, who trained him, why he's tormented, how he learned chinese, how he learnt how to torture...OK. Alright. Cause' this season flashbacks have been sooooo slow and soooo boring.

5. Oliver Queen back. And I mean he getting back the money, he adopting again the millionaire handsome alter ego. Let's se some versatility on the charachter.

6. The villain. This point is not so necesary, but the villain has to be again someone who take it personal. Thay've given us a curious and comic looking Ra's with lots of mythology. But the villain-hero conversations were too weak and repetitive. And with this, I come back to the previous point. Because a coming-back Oliver Queen who deals with the Star City (NOT Starling) jet set could find in the path some villains such as racism, corruption and people's hate.

7. And for the last: THE GOATEE!!

Mlissa Benoist suits up as Supergirl

Is well known that "Glee" star Melissa Benoist is playing Kal-El cousin role on the new CBS show based on the kryptonian young years. Now, after discovering that Toyman and Superman Cyborg are gonna be the recurrent villains, the blonde actress surprised us on Twitter with the final look this superheroine will have.

Basically, it looks awsome at the top part, which is pretty accurate to the Henry Cavill's suit for Man Of Steel. But follow that style come up like a huge fail at bottom. Skirt is kind of similar to the classic look of the character on animated movie, series and comics.

The worst part is definetely the tights. I guess that movement responds to avoid any erotic reference, which yes, SUCKS. This is a terrible idea. It seems to me like is a winter Supergirl, suffering for a terrible russiand weather. 

What do you think? Do u think it's badass?

Arrow - A Death in the Family (Castellano)

Bueno, como avisé, aquí va la primera review/opinión/noticia/chorrada...lo que sea, lo primero en español. Pero, ¡ojo! esto no va a ser traducción literal y fuera, es versión española, eso quiere decir que los chistecillos y las chorradas que me salgan de las manos salen en español. Bueno, a lo que vamos, que durante esta semana han aparecido tweets y posts en Facebook de Stephen Amell (Oliver Queen) y Colton Haynes (Red Arrow/Arsenal) que dejan entrever que en el capítulo 19 de esta temporada en la que estamos, el cual se va a llamar "Broken Arrow" por cierto, la va a palmar alguien. ¿Por qué? Porque los mensajes suenan a despedida, tristeza, "rodaje emotivo" etcétera etcétera. Casi seguro eso pues, comienza la lluvia de especulaciones de quién va a ser el que vaya a la morge. Muchos lanzan que se va a tratar del Capitán Lance, el padre de los canarios. Sí, los canarios...¡Oye! Pero que no lo digo yo, que lo dice el capítulo 3x13, a mí no me colguéis el muerto. Lance puede ser una opción fiable desde el punto de vista de que es un personaje tremendamente reemplazable, no por mi parte desde luego, pero tal y como lo están usando en los últimos capítulos, tampoco pasa nada si lo borran del mapa, y así ya de paso supone un golpe dramático para Laurel muy fuerte.

¡Pero no! Para mí tiene todo esto una pinta mucho mejor que eso. Y es que, ¿qué pasaría si...MUERE ROY?! Pensadlo. Tal y como se vio en el último capítulo (y en realidad a todo lo largo de la serie) que Ra's al Ghul le ofrece a Queen el trono de La Liga de las Sombras, está ya muy claro que Green Arrow es algo así como el Batman del universo DC de la televisión. Al margen de que en realidad lo único parecido entre personajes es que no tienen superpoderes, esto traería a la palestra un arco argumental de sobra conocido como es Una Muerte en la Familia. En este cómic, el Joker secuestra a Jason Todd (el segundo Robin) y lo asesina a batazos y con una bomba. Total, que Batman se queda desolado y culpable. Pero con el paso del tiempo, Todd vuelve y se convierte en un hijo de puta llamado Red Hood, que básicamente asesina a los villanos en lugar de arrestarlos, ya que, si Batman hubiera acabado con el Joker, él no habría "casi muerto". Todo este rollo está muy bien explicado en la película de animación Under The Hood, una maravilla por cierto,

El caso es que, ¿y si muere Roy por...digamos...Malcolm Merlyn? Diréis: Malcolm no es tan malo. Malcolm ES TAN MALO. Y por Dios que siga siendo malo, porque es de lo mejorcito de la serie, sólo falta que se deje un poco de perilla y ea. El caso es que

Merlyn lo mate, todo el mundo llore mucho y tal y tal y, para la siguiente temporada vuelva como el verdadero badass Arsenal de los cómics, odiando a Oliver por haberse confabulado con Merlyn. Otro punto que puede apoyar esta teoría es la foto que ha subido a Instagram Willa Holland, en la que le están tomando un molde de la cara para hacerle la máscara, probablemente para convertirse en Speedy (tal y como le llevan llamando toda la serie) que en los cómics es el compañero de Green Arrow.

Todo suena de puta madre, ¿a que sí? Pues probablemente por eso no pase. Pero bueno, los mismo a la gente de CW les da por ahí y todos felices y contentos.

Arrow - A Death In The Family

We're about to discover Arrow's cards for the end of this 3rd season and it seems to be related with the repeated plot of Ra's Al Ghul offering Batman to replace him and becaming the new devil's head of The League of the Shadows (League of Assassins here). But, as we all know and supose, Oliver Queen is not gonna accept this, so many more cliffhangers are gonna be shown and left at these last espisodes (because is Arrow, so why are you gonna write intelligent script when you can just drop as many cliffhangers as you can instead). Latest posts of Stephen Amell (Oliver Queen) and Colton Haynes (Roy Harper) sounding so close to farewell (death in the show) and the name of the episode they were filming "3x19: Broken Arrow" let some evident clues of what we can expect to see on this season finale, or proximately at least. 

Many people are debating and throwing theories about who could possibly die in the show. So many of them argue than Cap Lance could be a reasonable choice, taking account that is one replaceable character and, at the same time, his death could be so dramatic for the Team Arrow. BUT BUT BUT. The other day, actress who plays Thea Queen's role (Willa Holland) uploaded a pic of herself on a set test in order to take an scale model of her face, probably for a mask. As we know, Thea is the one the show called Speedy, who is the Green Arrow sidekick's alias in the comics. This fed my theory of Greg Berlanti and the rest of the gang are planning to introducing the arc of Death in the Family. In this arc, Jason Todd, the second Robin, is kidnapped by the Joker and murdered. Batman fall in depression for this and started to feel guilty for not being able to protect him. As time goes by, Todd reappears as a killing vigilante, something alike Punisher in some way, now called Red Hood. Once we know this, WHAT IF? What if...somebody, for example...Malcolm Merlyn, just because he's a son of a bitch, KILL ROY HARPER (o at least let him die, that as we saw in ... which was her name? Christ! you guys know what I mean! The japanese girl from the island!! awgggg... I give up, according to Dathstroke way of thinking Oli killed her and bla bla bla...) and he turns back on the next season as the motherfucking ARSENAL, as we know from the comics. And, at the same time, Thea replace him as a Speedy.

What do you guys think? Sounds as a pretty cool option to me!

SHADO!! That was the goddam name!!

Review: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2x11 "Aftershocks"

So this is the first one, the first i guess of many ones. What we got here is a very volatile show in a matter on tone. We've seen it passing from a non-so-clear superheroic and adveturer look, crearly defined by Joss Whedon's influence (actually he directed the pilot and his brother is showrunner), to the Ian Fleming's style of twisted plot, spies and betrayals. Actually, this change elevated the expectations and redifinied to something more interesting for the fans. Even became better, episode after episode. But we come here to the crucial scenario of intrduce "mutants" at the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Notice that I did say mutants, instead of Inhumans, 'cause practically these are gonna be the replacement for those who cannot be used by Marvel and find theirselves still under that vicious circle called "That's Okey But at the End Magneto is the Villain and Wolverine Saves the Day".

Coming back to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, the arrival of Inhumans should be responded with another change of tone, because...I don't know... INHUMANS HAVE POWERS!!! According to this point, in somehow, this has to mean the end of the realistic tone and the double agents plot. And here comes the first bloomer since that beloved 1x17 "Turn, turn, turn". If I'm understanding correctly, Skye is able to create earthquakes, but she is keeping the secret of the group, as Fitz is the only one who knows it. Uhmm this sounds to me like the typical move to l

engthen this piece of plot for another three episodes, +1 episode of revealing to the rest of the gang that, as we all know, finally won't care about it because Skye is their friends besides a partner bla bla bla bla... SOOOO LAZY WRITING!! Yep, and you'll come up with the argument that is like the mutants that are not well treated by society (see? I'm faster) and yes! That's goddam true. But as far as we know, there's no knowledge of inhumans existence to the public opinion, and the one they have about superheroes is pretty good, as we saw at the end of Avengers. So, why the hell Skye woudn't go out screaming and yelling: "Yeah bitch! I provoque fuckin' EARTHQUAKES!!!! Where are the Avengers that I'm joing them! Screw you, Coulson!!" Because, mutants are really afraid of the way they see that everyone treats the other mutants.

So we are getting an Inhuman version of Nighcrawler?

However, this episode has plenty of good moments as the discussion coming from Trip's death reasons and Rinah's fears and dissapointment for what she has become. But definitely, what makes this a really well episode is the scene of Hydra's heads assassinations. Christ! It recalled me so much (keepin' disctance) to The Godfather's baptism scene. Really great that!

So this episode really got me sometimes but, as I said before, I've got a suspicious about all this thing of Skye keeping her secret and not going out to beat some asses for once in two looong seasons.

7/10

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