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Digital series that ties in with the Disney Interactive game. Absolutely pointless, I read it and thought that I was missing some issues, but looking into the series, it’s just a tie in to a mobile game. That wasn’t clear at all on the Kindle app, which I’m thinking more and more is pure garbage. Buy On Amazon!

Directed by Brian Kirk. With Chadwick Boseman, Sienna Miller, J.K. Simmons, Stephan James. An embattled NYPD detective is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers after uncovering a massive and unexpected conspiracy. A much stronger movie than I was expecting, though Chadwick Boseman looked like a skeleton for most of this movie. Buy On Amazon!

When the line between life and technology blurs, humanity must adjust its understanding of the universe. From bestselling author Christopher L. Bennett comes Among the Wild Cybers, eight tales portraying a future of challenge and conflict, but also of hope born from the courage and idealism of those heroes willing to stand up for what is right. An intrepid naturalist risks her future to save a new form of life that few consider worth saving. An apprentice superhero must stand alone against an insane superintelligence to earn her name. A cybernetic slave fights to save her kind from a liberation...

Directed by Martin Campbell. With Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rufus Sewell, Alberto Reyes. Despite trying to keep his swashbuckling to a minimum, a threat to California’s pending statehood causes the adventure-loving Don Alejandro de la Vega and his wife, Elena, to take action. I missed Anthony Hopkins, and the inclusion of a kid in the story somewhat made me groan, but there’s more than enough to love about this movie to make it all up to me. Buy On Amazon!

Directed by Peter Hyams. With Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro, Sam Waterston. A NASA Mars mission won’t work, and its funding is endangered, so they decide to fake it just this once. But then they have to keep the secret. Whole bunch of famous (and infamous!) faces here for a story about the lengths that people in power will go to, just to stay in power. There’s a chase scene towards the end that really impressed me. Buy On Amazon!

Directed by George McCowan. With Jack Palance, Carol Lynley, Barry Morse, John Ireland. Some time in the future, man has set up colonies on the Moon, when Earth becomes uninhabitable. A madman decides to destroy the Moon colonies with his robots and automated ships, and only three people and their robot can stop him. A delightfully low budget science fiction film from 1979 based on a story by Orson Welles written in 1933. The science doesn’t hold up even in the slightest and the story might as well be about an isolated town in the mid west that’s been taken...

Directed by Stephen Roberts. With Miriam Hopkins, William Gargan, Jack La Rue, Florence Eldridge. A wealthy but neurotic Southern belle finds herself trapped in the hideout of a gang of vicious bootleggers. The gang’s leader lusts after her, and is determined not to let anything stand in the way of his having her. A shocking movie that I was not expecting, I read that it had some issues with the censors of 1933. Buy On Amazon!

Directed by Tony Scott. With Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer. As students at the United States Navy’s elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom. the final movie of my independence day celebration, what more can be said about one of the most patriotic movies that caused more enlistments than captain america? Buy On Amazon!

Directed by Jack Eve. With Alice Eve, Hermione Corfield, Joshua McGuire, Trevor Eve. A widow hosts a gathering for her high-society friends in an attempt to help solve her husband’s murder. Found this on one of those “hidden gems” lists, but I couldn’t make it through the movie, it just didn’t do it for me at all. Buy On Amazon!