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Climb aboard the starship USS Enterprise and learn how Jean-Luc Picard became one of the most beloved Starfleet members in the Star Trek universe.Star Trek stands as one of the most popular science-fiction series of all time, and Captain Picard is one of its fan-favorite characters Aimed at an audience much younger than me, this is still a an effective and quick look at both the character and the man behind the character, and even features a couple trivia topics that I was unaware of, like who Q was named after! I do have some minor complaints about the insertion...
A nerf-herder discovers an artifact that twists the Star Wars universe, swapping the roles of heroes and villains. He embarks on an adventure to restore order and emerge as the savior who reassembles the fractured galaxy. A cute mini series that’s about 2 hours long total, I hope Disney does more of these types of short form stories with heart! Buy On Amazon!
An ex-Marine grapples his way through a web of small-town corruption when an attempt to post bail for his cousin escalates into a violent standoff with the local police chief. We’ve seen this type of story a thousand times before and the only real question is if this is a good version of it. It is! There’s never a single moment that I doubted the movie was serious or had needlessly bad CGI. Never once did I get the feeling the characters were doing dumb things just because they were big ol’ dummies doing dumb stuff. In fact, there was...
Catch hundreds of tinykin and use their unique powers to bring Milo back to his home planet and back to normal size! If you’ve played Pikmin, you’ll know the game loops, but honestly I think Tinykin is the better game in the genre. It has a solid story, a catchy soundtrack, and doesn’t overstay it’s welcome. Buy On Amazon!
Spaceman: Directed by Johan Renck. With Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan, Paul Dano, Kunal Nayyar. Half a year into his solo mission on the edge of the solar system, an astronaut concerned with the state of his life back on Earth is helped by an ancient creature he discovers in the bowels of his ship. Every now and then actors that are known for one genre step out of that genre and do something more series and/or different than what everyone knows them for. Sandler does this pretty frequently, he’s known for being a hilarious comedian with a huge following, but...
On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal, and to restore order to his world. I found the 4k disk for pretty cheap and I’m happy to have checked it out, the transfer is amazing and there’s some really cool tricks that are slightly more obvious in 4k but are still just as impressive when you catch them. My favorite this time around was the long shot over a verdant valley and you can see the wind moving the trees, but it’s a trick! They just...
Return to a world of two realities: one, everyday life; the other, what lies behind it. To find out if his reality is a construct, to truly know himself, Mr. Anderson will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more. Watched again with my wife and while this is a pretty entertaining flick, I stand by my previous assessment that there’s too many memberberries and not enough forward plot movement. Buy On Amazon!
The Devolution’s invasion of Earth will be thwarted by coups and conspiracy unless Avigail can unite her extraterrestrial brethren. Comics’ next sci-fi epic beg IDW sent this to me (and a whole pile of other books!) to review and I picked this one because of the setup, but while it mentions a whole bunch of aliens and politics, it’s ultimately a hyper violent hack and slash with a thin veneer of science fiction to justify the extreme violence. I normally have no real problem with this type of stuff (Brzrkr has been a blast to read) but for some reason...
A family man is drafted to fight in a future war where the fate of humanity relies on his ability to confront the past. I watched it again! It’s still a great film with a cool concept and alien design. My wife was with me this time and she said she enjoyed it too, yay for marital bliss! Buy On Amazon!
2022: A future war has raged for decades between the few human survivors and an endless army of machines. 1997: The AI known as Skynet gained self-awareness and began its war against humanity. As a thought experiment among fans, this would be a neat discussion. As an officially released piece of media that’s an official expansion of the lore, this is a steaming pile of terminator scrap that completely changes the in-universe science. I’m perfectly fine with the new AI concepts that are introduced, the time loops are pretty well explained, but just the same, there’s an introduction to...
