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Directed by Justin Lin. With Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana. The crew of the USS Enterprise explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a new ruthless enemy, who puts them, and everything the Federation stands for, to the test. The best of the relaunch movies, it’s starting to look more and more like this is the last one we’re going to get from them. Buy On Amazon!
Directed by J.J. Abrams. With Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Benedict Cumberbatch. After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction. Did they add a new scene of “Harrison” transporting to Kronos? did I just miss this complete the other 20 times I seent the film? I dunno, it’s still a well made film that I don’t really care for. Buy On Amazon!
Directed by Dimitri Logothetis. With Alain Moussi, Nicolas Cage, Raymond Pinharry, Mary Makariou. Every six years, an ancient order of jiu-jitsu fighters joins forces to battle a vicious race of alien invaders. But when a celebrated war hero goes down in defeat, the fate of the planet and mankind hangs in the balance. Absolute trash movie with a surprising number of A-list actors. It’s a mix of Predator style movie with the original Mortal Kombat film, but without all the hopeful notes of possible victory. Buy On Amazon!
With Jack Antonoff, Aaron Dessner, Taylor Swift, Justin Vernon. In “Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions,” Taylor Swift performs each song in order of her album, “folklore,” and reveals the stories and secrets behind all 17 songs. It’s a good behind the scenes style look at the album she just released, though the BTS stuff feels super produced, so it’s not too much unexpected stuff here that’s unscripted. the music is good though, I think this lady is going to go places. Buy On Amazon!
Directed by Eshom Nelms, Ian Nelms. With Mel Gibson, Walton Goggins, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Chance Hurstfield. A rowdy, unorthodox Santa Claus is fighting to save his declining business. Meanwhile, Billy, a neglected and precocious 12 year old, hires a hit man to kill Santa after receiving a lump of coal in his stocking. Everyone’s favorite alcoholic anti-Semitic racist grandfather stars as Chris Cringle. The broad strokes are laid out in the synopsis above, but the end result ended up being a better film than I thought it had any right to be. Buy On Amazon!
The Complete Saga of the 18th Race Series in One Omnibus Edition We are not alone! In exploring and colonizing the galaxy, humanity discovers evidence of eighteen sentient species. Seventeen of them had not developed interstellar travel. Those were destroyed by the species that did reach the stars. That space-faring eighteenth annihilated the human colony on the Semi-Autonomous World Troy. A Marine Force Recon platoon sent to investigate is wiped out almost to the last man. In reaction, the North American Union assembles the largest army seen since the major wars of the 20th Century. Things seem grim for Troy...
Directed by Miranda July. With Evan Rachel Wood, Debra Winger, Gina Rodriguez, Richard Jenkins. A woman’s life is turned upside down when her criminal parents invite an outsider to join them on a major heist they’re planning. This was not the laugh riot I assumed it would be (thanks trailers!) but it was an exceptionally heartfelt look at parental abuse and finding love where we can. Buy On Amazon!
Directed by J.J. Abrams. With Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Leonard Nimoy. The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father’s legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful Romulan from the future creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time. watched it again to finish out my star trek marathon that got sidetracked by a Star Wars game, every time I see this film I feel more and more that this was the right direction for the franchise to go in, but that it would be nice to...
Directed by Josh Boone. With Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Alice Braga. Five young mutants, just discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save themselves. The much maligned, much delayed, and the unfortunate finale to the Fox / Marvel comic book series of mutant movies has finally been released. I agree with many that this is not a knock out of the park as the final swan song for the x-men franchise, but it was never intended to be such a thing. If you’re big into the...
A galaxy-spanning adventure awaits in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, a new 3rd person action-adventure title from Respawn Entertainment. This narratively-driven single-player game puts you in the role of a Jedi Padawan who narrowly escaped the purge of Order 66 following the events of Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith. On a quest to rebuild the Jedi Order, you must pick up the pieces of your shattered past to complete your training, develop new powerful Force abilities, and master the art of the iconic lightsaber – all while staying one step ahead of the Empire and its deadly Inquisitors.While mastering...
