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Greenland: Directed by Ric Roman Waugh. With Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Roger Dale Floyd, Scott Glenn. To save his family from a catastrophic end of times, a man embarks on a risky quest to locate the last hope for salvation and witness the worst of mankind in the battle for survival. There’s going to be a sequel, which my wife has told me that she will not be watching because of how terrible people are to each other in this first film. I’m happy to go by myself, but I disagree with her assessment of the film, as this is...
Humanity’s last surviving heroes must protect a shattered civilization from an all-conquering enemy in this thrilling sequel to The Cruel Stars…. A fun sequel that doesn’t move as quickly as the first book but does a significant amount of world building, I thoroughly enjoyed the last third of the story. Buy On Amazon!
Pluribus: Created by Vince Gilligan. With Rhea Seehorn, Karolina Wydra, Carlos-Manuel Vesga, Miriam Shor. In a world overtaken by a mysterious wave of forced happiness, Carol Sturka, one of the immune few, must uncover what’s really going on – and save humanity from its artificial bliss. Vince Gilligan is back to form with this short form streaming series asking some really big questions through a truly flawed woman that’s just doing her best in an impossible situation. This is the type of hard science fiction that I really love to see on television. Buy On Amazon!
Avatar: Fire and Ash: Directed by James Cameron. With Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang. Jake and Neytiri’s family grapples with grief after Neteyam’s death, encountering a new, aggressive Na’vi tribe, the Ash People, who are led by the fiery Varang, as the conflict on Pandora escalates and a new moral focus emerges. The next entry in the Avatar television series that’s hilariously being shown in theaters, this time we get the same exact story from the second one, but this time with some really weird commentary on past American wars and some very tiny tiny world building....
Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts: Directed by Bill Benz. With Kumail Nanjiani. After nearly a decade away, Kumail Nanjiani returns to Chicago, where he got his start in standup, in a special that tackles anxiety, the perils of buying drugs pre-legalization, and cat medication. A hilarious standup session with a mega movie star who decided to do stand up one day. This was a reference to a joke he made in this session. You see it’s funny because he was a stand up comedian before he was a big movie star and got all buff and muscled up. Worth your time...
The Cat Returns: Directed by Hiroyuki Morita. With Chizuru Ikewaki, Yoshihiko Hakamada, Aki Maeda, Takayuki Yamada. After helping a cat, a seventeen-year-old girl finds herself involuntarily engaged to a cat Prince in a magical world where her only hope of freedom lies with a dapper cat statuette come to life. Studio Ghibli released this back in 2002 and it hasn’t aged at all! The story is a fun and absolutely bonkers adventure that involves transdimensional travels to a cat kingdom and the journey a young woman goes through to find maturity. I’m very happy to have started this journey of...
The galaxy was once terrorized by the Sturm, a group of “species purists” intent on destroying any human with genetic or cybernetic enhancements. Fashioning themselves as the one true “Human Republic,” the Sturm cut a bloody swath across the stars, killing billions before finally being defeated and driven into the far reaches of Dark Space. Centuries of peace bred complacency. Everyone believed the Sturm had died out in the Dark. They were wrong. The enemy has returned and, with a brutal and decisive attack, knocks out almost all of humanity’s defenses. Now on the brink of annihilation, humankind’s only hope...
Read all three graphic novels based on New York Times best-selling author Joe Hill’s short story “The Cape,” collecting The Cape, The Cape: 1969, and The Cape: Fallen. Every little boy dreams about putting on a cape and soaring up, up, and away…but what if one day that dream were to come true? Eric was like every other eight-year-old boy, until a tragic accident changed his life forever. The Cape explores the dark side of power, as the adult Eric—a confused and broken man—takes to the skies…and sets out to exact a terrible vengeance on everyone who ever disappointed him....
A zombie spoof featuring a group of friends on their journey to start a little business of their own…zombie catchers ! Los Angeles, 2064. In a world where humans have to live along the living dead, a new job opportunity arises: zombie catcher. Karl Neard, his sister Maggie, and his Belgian friend Freddy Merckx, all embrace this career in the hope of maki… This “spoof” didn’t do it for me and I’m honestly not sure how it ended up in my comic collection. It has some novel takes on the concept of zombies, but the entire business aspect and the...
The Muppet Christmas Carol: Directed by Brian Henson. With Michael Caine, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Jerry Nelson. The Muppets put their spin on the tale of an elder, Christmas-hating miser who is visited by spirits who foretell his future and share secrets from his past and present, which helps change his view on life. For your enjoyment: Buy On Amazon!
