Review – Midnight Special

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by Old King Clancy

With Take Shelter and Mud under his belt, Jeff Nichols has made a name for himself crafting high-concept ideas and placing them within the low-key nature of Southern life. Midnight Special might be his most ambitious picture yet, proving to be a film big on ideas and big on relationships. There’s been a lot of comparisons to Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, and it’s not hard to see them.

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Review – Daredevil, Season 2

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by Taylor Lunsford

Following a stellar debut for Marvel on Netflix with the first season of Daredevil, the legendary comic book company ups the ante by adding the Punisher to the mix for the show’s second outing.

The first season of Daredevil gave us a grittier and more down-to-Earth level of hero than the MCU had previously given us. It was praised for being more realistic and showing a darker side of Marvel. Season two immediately takes the brutality to another level upon the Punisher’s introduction.

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