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Directed by Garo Setian. With Elissa Dowling, Sadie Katz, Parry Shen, Graham Skipper. A workplace robot, AUTO, transforms into a killing machine when he discovers he will be replaced by a more efficient model. AUTO fears being terminated and will stop at nothing to prevent his own destruction. The human employees must band together to stop him before it’s too late. Extremely low budget, but there’s plenty of b-grade cheesiness here to love. Buy On Amazon!
Directed by Peter Weir. With Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, Billy Boyd, James D’Arcy. During the Napoleonic Wars, a brash British captain pushes his ship and crew to their limits in pursuit of a formidable French war vessel around South America. I had somehow managed to completely miss this when it came out and only saw it today because I had literally nothing else to watch. It’s a fine film, not up my alley, but still a fantastic story with amazing boat adventures. Buy On Amazon!
Directed by Chris Palmer. With Darren Criss, Zachary Quinto, Ike Amadi, Eugene Byrd. Daily Planet intern Clark Kent takes learning-on-the-job to new extremes when Lobo and Parasite set their sights on Metropolis. A well done origin story for a little known and seldom mentioned character named “Superman”. I’m told that this is yet another re-start of the animated universe for DC, so even the stuff that DC was doing right is now getting overwritten. Check it out if you’re excited to learn about Superman’s formative years in Metropolis in an alternative timeline that won’t matter in a few years when...
Directed by Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert. With Junming ‘Jimmy’ Wang, Robert Allen, Sherrod Brown, Dave Burrows. In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a factory in an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America. Absolutely horrifying to hear Chinese executives complain about how American workers won’t work weekends and want to see their families. Also horrifying to see that kind of behavior is acceptable and straight up expected from their employees in mainland China. QQ: if you have a job that you’re...
It’s four powerhouse tales in one colossal comic, as some of comics’ most legendary talents launch new tales of Firestorm, Metamorpho, Metal Men and Sugar and Spike—that’s right, Sugar and Spike! Two reason to pick this up: 1 – it sorta features one of the characters from the TV show of the same name. 2 – Sugar & Spike, the goofy / chibi characters from the 50’s are reimagined as hard boiled detectives that track down unique threats to superheroes. The Metal Men and Firestorm stories are what you would expect from those character, nothing too exciting, but as I...
In a darkly warped near future, lucrative disease cures are brokered on Wall Street’s Genetic Stock Exchange. And the hottest consumer products are artificially synthesized humans that serve as everything from domestic slaves to combatants in savage gladiatorial games. For Jack Saxton, the young heir to genetic design powerhouse Genico Inc., these Synthates are just a fact of life…until the murder of a high-profile genetic scientist leads a pair of seasoned NYPD detectives to Genico’s door. As a small band of Synthate rebels steps up its attack on the status quo, Jack encounters a pleasure-parlor girl who opens his...
Valérian and Laureline, spatio-temporal Galaxity agents, are playing chess when they’re called by the head of the space-time department. They’re told that Xombul has escaped from prison taking with him a space-time spaceship. He is located in New York in 1986, where the world is experiencing a global collapse, a cataclysm: the explosion of an H bomb in the Arctic is changing the climate of the Earth. Valérian heads off in search of Xombul. Amazon gave me #1, #25, and some other random issue of this series, of which I had no experience with. I was somewhat interested in the...
Directed by M.J. Bassett. With Megan Fox, Philip Winchester, Greg Kriek, Brandon Auret. O’Hara is a mercenary leading a squad of soldiers on their mission to rescue hostages in remote part of Africa. Unfortunately the mission goes wrong and the team are stranded, forced to survive against the local rebels. Bad CGI aside, this was a perfectly mediocre film that used nearly every badass lady trope that I know. Megan Fox was able to do it somewhat convincingly, at least she was more real than the lions in the film. Buy On Amazon!
I turned 40 last Thursday, I had a steak and potatoes meal, expertly cooked by my dear wife. It was followed by apple pie with ice cream. One of my cats continues to be sick and I’m not really sure what more I can do for her, she’s lost so much weight since we stopped leaving dog food down a year ago after my last dog died. I’m hoping she’ll take a better turn soon. I continue to be frustrated beyond belief by companies like Facebook and Google that provide services but no customer support at all. I’m dumping Facebook,...
