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Directed by Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen. With James Franco, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel. Six Los Angeles celebrities are stuck in James Franco’s house after a series of devastating events just destroyed the city. Inside, the group not only have to face the apocalypse, but themselves. I remember watching this in the theater and thinking it was pretty funny. I bought it on itunes, and turns out that it’s still a damn funny film Buy On Amazon!
Directed by Edgar Wright. With Ansel Elgort, Jon Bernthal, Jon Hamm, Eiza González. After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail. watched again because why not. Buy On Amazon!
Seeking atonement for past crimes, Breq takes on a mission as captain of a troublesome new crew of Radchai soldiers, in the sequel to Ann Leckie’s NYT bestselling, award-winning Ancillary Justice. A must read for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin and James S. A. Corey. “There are few who write science fiction like Ann Leckie can. There are few who ever could.” — John Scalzi Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship. Once a weapon of conquest controlling thousands of minds, now she has only a single body and serves the emperor.With a new ship and...
Directed by Nicolas Roeg. With Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jasen Fisher, Rowan Atkinson. A young boy stumbles onto a witch convention and must stop them, even after he has been turned into a mouse. A movie made in 1990 but feels like it’s from 1960s, which isn’t so much of a complaint as a quaint observation. I went in cold, just knowing that it was later remade and only vaguely knowing it was about witches, so I was somewhat surprised to see The Jim Henson Co’s logo in the title cards. Turns out they did all the mouse puppetry, and...
Set after the Battle of Endor and the destruction of the second Death Star, the story alternates between two customisable pilots who are flying for New Republic’s Vanguard Squadron and the Empire’s Titan Squadron. The multiplayer supports up to 10 players and pits two groups of pilots against each other. As players earn more experience, they can unlock new weapons, shields, upgrades and various cosmetic items for the pilot and their ship. Starts with a low budget but endearing opening cinematic, which transitions into a mandatory 46 page EULA and if that’s not a great example for what the game...
Created by Hannah Fidell. With Kate Mara, Nick Robinson, Ashley Zukerman, Rya Kihlstedt. A Teacher explores the complexities and consequences of a predatory relationship between Claire Wilson, a young teacher at a suburban Texas high school and her student, Eric Walker. A super heavy mini series that I honestly believe would be best consumed all at once. It all starts out hot and heavy, but then reality quickly kicks it’s way into the story and everything goes about as well as you would expect it to. Good, but god damn emotional. Buy On Amazon!
Directed by Craig Brewer. With Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Shari Headley, Jermaine Fowler. The African monarch Akeem learns he has a long-lost son in the United States and must return to America to meet this unexpected heir and build a relationship with his son. A fun movie that sorta made me miss the original film, but I just watched the original a couple weeks ago, so I’ll just live on that memory. Buy On Amazon!
Directed by Kevin Lewis. With Nicolas Cage, Emily Tosta, Beth Grant, Ric Reitz. A quiet drifter is tricked into a janitorial job at the now condemned Willy’s Wonderland. The mundane tasks suddenly become an all-out fight for survival against wave after wave of demonic animatronics. Fists fly, kicks land, titans clash — and only one side will make it out alive. Obviously I know Nicolas Cage, but Emily Tosta seems familiar to me, but I can’t figure out where I know her from. Caylee Cowan is also very familiar, but less because of her acting and more because she is...
The record-breaking debut novel that won every major science fiction award in 2014, Ancillary Justice is the story of a warship trapped in a human body and her search for revenge. Ann Leckie is the first author to win the Arthur C. Clarke, the Nebula and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in the same year. They made me kill thousands, but I only have one target now. The Radch are conquerors to be feared – resist and they’ll turn you into a ‘corpse soldier’ – one of an army of dead prisoners animated by a warship’s AI mind. Whole...
The Klingon Rebel Transport ship has painstakingly been recreated in die-cast with extraordinary attention to detail capturing the ships rugged, tough design. The warp nacelles and hull plate color… A short but sweet magazine that came with a spaceship model. I’m missing a whole bunch of ships from this ‘subscription’, though at this point I’m happy to just see the box, it’s been a while since I’ve received anything from them. Buy On Amazon!
