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Mech Cadets: Created by Aaron Lam, Eileen Shim. With Brandon Soo Hoo, Aparna Brielle, Victoria Grace, Josh Sundquist. An underdog teen joins a group of young Cadets who’ve been chosen to bond with Robo Mechs from space and defend Earth against alien invaders. A delightful mix of Iron Giant, Starship Troopers, and Pacific Rim, I fully enjoyed the comic series and enjoyed this adaptation just as much. The scope is slightly scaled down, but it’s all the better for that, with a clearer focus on the singular character and the limited world view that he possesses. We get hints of...
A group of enslaved teenagers steal a derelict Starfleet vessel to escape and explore the galaxy. This is about as good as Trek gets, with a cast of characters that are extremely diversified and non-human and a cast of actors that give it their all. I’m somewhat miffed that we’re once again doing time travel shenanigans, but this is time travel done right. Buy On Amazon!
A devoted daughter is attempting to figure out the cause of her father’s passing. A fairly low budget action film with some super unfortunate and noticiable computer generated gun play in the opening scenes, all along with budget saving sequences in which all the expensive action like cars crashing or explosions happening is done off camera. It’s not a bad film though and fills a very specific ‘vet returns home to set things right’ void that we currently have, but the genre deserves better and Jessica Alba deserves better. Buy On Amazon!
A woman named Sam finds herself trapped in New York City during the early stages of an invasion by alien creatures with ultra-sensitive hearing. While I enjoyed the film, I would have enjoyed it so much more if there wasn’t a cat going in and out of scenes all willy nilly. By the end of the film I was beginning to seriously stress over the future of the cat and how it was going to make it out of this apocalypse and every scene I had one question on my mind: Where’s the cat? Buy On Amazon!
The Robinson family was going into space to fight for a chance for humanity. Now they are fighting to live long enough to find a way home. An enjoyable family friendly space romp that I remember seeing in the theater and enjoying at the time. I want to say this was one of the last films I remember having a song in the credits that included snippets of dialog from the film. Also that song i still a banger. Buy On Amazon!
This Documentary will feature interviews of fans of Jim Hensons work, interspersed with footage from Jim Henson’s works, including Wilkins and Wontkins Commercials that were previously lost. A fantastic look at the much too short life of Jim Henson, as prepared by director extraordinaire Ron Howard. Of particular interest is Henson’s work outside of the Muppets and Sesame Street. There’s familiar projects like the Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal, but I really enjoyed his short works that were briefly highlighted. Buy On Amazon!
‘Smart Brevity’ is a writing and communications manifesto for the information age. It will teach readers how to communicate better with fewer words and more pun As a book about saying more while pruning back the number of words, they do a good job of lending themselves as an example, the book is 224 pages long, but it’s a super breezy read. Most of that is because their primary point is that nearly all articles can be broken down into a missions statement with no more than 5 bullet points, then a “one thing you should take away”, and maybe...
3h 21m | PG-13 I watched the cartoon, so why not watch the extended edition of the trilogy? It made for a good weekend! Buy On Amazon!
2h 59m | PG-13 I watched the cartoon, so why not watch the extended edition of the trilogy? It made for a good weekend! Buy On Amazon!
2h 58m | PG-13 I watched the cartoon, so why not watch the extended edition of the trilogy? It made for a good weekend! Buy On Amazon!
