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The Last of Us: Created by Neil Druckmann, Craig Mazin. With Bella Ramsey, Pedro Pascal, Gabriel Luna, Isabela Merced. After a global pandemic destroys civilization, a hardened survivor takes charge of a 14-year-old girl who may be humanity’s last hope. If you didn’t play the second game you may have been shocked by the beginning and the end of this second season, and if you HAD played the season game, you may have been shocked that they actually went through with a couple shocking plot points. I hadn’t played the game, but had the opening spoilered long ago, but that...
A thrilling new novel based on the Paramount+ TV series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds! While patrolling the borders of the Klingon Empire, Captain Christopher Pike and the crew of the USS Enterprise detect a series of subspace echoes from a planet orbiting a volatile flare star — and when Lieutenant Spock and Commander Una Chin-Riley lead a landing party to learn more, they discover the ruins of a dead civilization and evidence of starship-grade metals…quite possibly a crash site. As they continue to investigate the strange signals, Spock and Una find shocking signs of dangerous alien life and remnants...
Interior Chinatown: With Jimmy O. Yang, Ronny Chieng, Chloe Bennet, Sullivan Jones. Background actor Willis Wu witnesses a crime in Chinatown while working on a TV show. As he investigates, he unravels a criminal web and experiences life in the spotlight he had dreamed of. Confusing, confounding, appealing, and a masterclass in deconstructing television tropes, I first saw a clip of this on Tik Tok, then spent 10 hours watching it on Hulu. There are many familiar faces including Chloe Bennet, who I loved in Agents of SHIELD. Buy On Amazon!
Lilo & Stitch: Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp. With Maia Kealoha, Sydney Agudong, Chris Sanders, Zach Galifianakis. A lonely Hawaiian girl befriends a runaway alien, helping to mend her fragmented family. A live action version of a movie that meant a whole lot to me and much like their past efforts there’s no real reason for this remake and it adds nothing of value to the franchise. It’s cute and is a perfectly fine movie, but it’s definitely not as good as the animated film. Buy On Amazon!
The Wheel of Time: Created by Rafe Judkins. With Rosamund Pike, Daniel Henney, Zoë Robins, Madeleine Madden. The lives of five young villagers change forever when a strange and powerful woman arrives, claiming one of them is the child of an ancient prophecy with the power to tip the balance between Light and Dark forever. I forgot that I even finished this latest season, there’s way too many separate storylines going on with too many characters for me to keep it all straight. If you were to watch this, I suggest watching it all at once and not as the...
Predator: Killer of Killers: Directed by Dan Trachtenberg, Joshua Wassung. With Michael Biehn, Doug Cockle, Rick Gonzalez, Damien C. Haas. Three of the fiercest warriors in human history become prey to the ultimate killer of killers. About as good as you can get for science fiction, I’m super happy to see that the Predator franchise is back in good hands and they seem to have a handle on what makes the Predatorverse so appealing to so many people. There’s a lot of world building here and some obvious sequel breadcrumbs, but the three stories here are fantastic. Buy On Amazon!
and I just finished trying them out. they were all great and were the perfect amount for a bowl of chili or rice and beans.
THE AWARD-WINNG DC PRIDE CELEBRATES ITS 5TH ANNIVERSARY WITH AN ALL-NEW SPECIAL IN AN ALL-NEW FORMAT! Written by Tim Sheridan, Vita Ayala, Josh Trujillo, Sam Maggs, Maya Houston and Jude Ellison S. Doyle Art by Emilio Pilliu, Skylar Patridge, A.L. Kaplan, Vincent Cecil and Others When a 100-year-old queer speakeasy-turned-bar-turned-restaurant-and-community-space in Gotham announces that it will soon be closing its doors, generations of patrons come to pay their respects–including Alan Scott, the Green Lantern. After all, this is the place where he and his first love, Johnny Ladd, long ago carved their names into the basement wall before it all...
Love, Death & Robots: Created by Tim Miller. With Fred Tatasciore, Scott Whyte, Emily O’Brien, Nolan North. A collection of animated short stories that span various genres including science fiction, fantasy, horror and comedy. Season 4 is here and it brings a ton of great stuff along with a couple that are less than great, but no stinkers this season! S4.E1 ∙ Can’t Stop – Stupid concept, but excellent execution, I hope they never do this again, because again, it’s a very dumb concept. S4.E2 ∙ Close Encounters of the Mini Kind – Another entry in the tilt shifted end...
Wicked: Directed by Jon M. Chu. With Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Yeoh. Elphaba, a young woman ridiculed for her green skin, and Galinda, a popular girl, become friends at Shiz University in the Land of Oz. After an encounter with the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship reaches a crossroads. I don’t like to slander well liked movies, but I honestly have no idea what anyone saw in this film. The music is flat, everyone is mean to each other, and the story doesn’t actually start until they get to Oz, which is in the last 30...
