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Batman Vs Superman: Dawn of Justice Review: DC’s Start-Up Pack

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(Image sourced from http://io9.gizmodo.com/zach-snyder-just-dropped-a-new-batman-v-superman-tease-1752027766 ) It’s here. The nerd holy grail. The fight everyone has been clawing to see on the big screen in magnificent live action. The expectations are high. The early reviews are brutal. The trailers weren’t so good and spoiled what looked to be like a lot of the films big surprises. And with all this baggage I went into this film expecting the worst. As the opening credits sprang up I clenched all my body, heart and soul in hopes this film would at least be good. But against all odds; 20 minutes into the film I couldn’t help but fall in love with it. This maybe because im a huge comic book nerd or still a gullible kid at heart but you know what, this movie ain’t that bad, in-fact for me it’s a bloody great time, and I am not ashamed to say that. The story is, well it’s in the title; it’s freakin’ BATMAN VS SUPERMAN! Do you really need much more? If the answer is yes, well, af

DareDevil Season 2 Review: Horns and All

With season 1 knocking it out of the park so spectacularly, acting as a tremendous rebirth for the man without fear, and the rest of Marvel’s more dark and mature Netflix series’ so far following in the line of such high quality; it’s safe to say I was more than excited for the return to the bloodied streets of Hell’s Kitchen. Now, 2 days of marathoning all 13 episodes behind me, it was definitely worth shutting myself in my dark room and absorbing this series in one(or two) meaty portions. This series, obviously, follows off from the last. With Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin, behind bars the city is now DareDevil’s to have and to hold. Well that is until a gun-toting maniac explodes, quite literally onto the scene. With bullet riddled corpses piling up on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen, it’s up to DareDevil to put a stop to this gunman’s seemingly unstoppable rampage. While this is the story for the majority of the first 4 episodes a seemingly secondary plot comes into play later on and