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Morbius: Directed by Daniel Espinosa. With Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris. Biochemist Michael Morbius tries to cure himself of a rare blood disease, but he inadvertently infects himself with a form of vampirism instead. I think I regret buying this for $8 on disk with digital code, then watching it. What an absolutely confusing mess of a film. Buy On Amazon!
Hancock is a superhero whose ill-considered behavior regularly causes damage in the millions. He changes when the person he saves helps him improve his public image. I’ve seen this one a few dozen times at this point but I don’t think I’ve ever seen it in 4k, which now I wish I didn’t. The 4k transfer is grainy and the HDR isn’t obvious in the least bit and honestly I think the blueray is the superior version. Buy On Amazon!
Yakitori: Soldiers of Misfortune: With Ron Bottitta, Frankie Kevich, Cherami Leigh, J. Michael Tatum. A young man’s rebel against authorities on a future version of Earth, after he has been recruited into an interplanetary military unit that suffers a 70% casualty rate. The action scenes, character designs, and base story concept are mindblowing and Iove everything about them. The voice Acting and writing however leave a lot to be desired with some pretty silly story elements being introduced in the middle of combat scenes that completely took me out of my appreciation of the glorious military science fiction. Buy On...
A young girl is destined to liberate her world from the grip of the Magisterium which represses people’s ties to magic and their animal spirits known as daemons. The second season of this sat on my “to watch” list for a few years and I’m happy to report that I’m fully disgusted in myself for waiting this long to watch it, it’s a fulfilling conclusion to the story and I loved everything about it. Buy On Amazon!
A coming of RAGE love story about a teenager and her crush, who happens to be a corpse. After a set of horrific circumstances bring him back to life, the two embark on a journey to find love, happiness – and a few missing body parts. Not as good as the trailer made me hope it would be, but still a good execution on a clever and familiar concept. Buy On Amazon!
A boundary-pushing science fiction epic, perfect for fans of We Only Find Them When They’re Dead, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Tom King and Elsa Charretier’s Love I ran into this series on the back issue shelves of my local comic shop due to the spaceship related cover that #4 had and it was just the next week that the TPB came out, so now I have that in my collection! The story is told over a longer than normal time period for comics, but fits well within what I enjoy about generational science fiction stories. There’s some clever insights...
After a family tragedy, affluent philanthropist Bruce Wayne transforms into The Batman, where his crusade for justice spawns unforeseen ramifications. A pleasant mashup of The Batman and The Animated Series, it’s only 10 episodes long, but there’s enough here to enjoy. Hamish Linklater is the new voice of Batman and he works very well in context of the above mashup. He does a different enough voice from both Kevin Conroy and Robert Pattinson that’s both familiar and unique and again, works very well. It’s a shame that television has shrunk to such a degree that all we’re getting in our...
Benjamin Sisko tells the story of his career in Starfleet, and his life as a father and Bajor’s Emmissary of the Prophets. Charting his rise through the ranks, his pioneering work designing the Defiant-class, his critical role as ambassador and leader during the Dominion War, and his sacred standing It was pure happenstance that I was half way through this when I started doing some interviews for my then upcoming trip to Shore-Leave 44 and was able to speak to Derek Tyler Attico about his career. Part of that conversation was obviously this book and after talking to him about...
The Boys: Created by Eric Kripke. With Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty. A group of vigilantes set out to take down corrupt superheroes who abuse their superpowers. One more hyper-violent season of The Boys has come and gone. While I enjoy the “superheroes can be assholes too” type of stories they’re doing, it does feel like everything is meandering along and there’s been a loss of focus along he way. Mind you, I’m there for the next season, but I really want more story! Buy On Amazon!
Deadpool is offered a place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by the Time Variance Authority, but instead recruits a variant of Wolverine to save his universe from extinction. Deadpool and Wolverine finely make their way to the MCU and they use every opportunity to remind audiences the safeties are off on the F-bomb and that it’s going to be used liberally. The story is straight up non-sense and cameos are egregious, but much like all of Reynold’s other project’s he understands the core of what audiences are looking for and I have nearly no notes. I’m happy to hear that...
