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Star Wars: Visions: With Michael Sinterniklaas, Adam Sietz, Patrick Seitz, Yuuki Shin. An anthology of animated shorts from around the world celebrating the mythology of Star Wars through unique cultural perspectives. A much weaker season than the previous two, the book end episodes are downright terrible with stylistically gross art styles and stories that were less than interesting. There’s some good meat in this moldy sandwich though, so if you can get through the first episode, you’ll enjoy everything except the last one. Maybe just skip those and watch them after you see the others. Buy On Amazon!
Gen V: Created by Craig Rosenberg, Evan Goldberg, Eric Kripke, Seth Rogen. With Jaz Sinclair, Lizze Broadway, Maddie Phillips, London Thor. From the world of “The Boys” comes “Gen V,” which explores the first generation of superheroes to know that their super powers are from Compound V. These heroes put their physical and moral boundaries to the test competing for the school’s top ranking. Gen V works best when it’s not tied up with it’s older sibling “The Boys”, but this second season is pretty great, even with the couple of tie in episodes that weigh it down to it’s...
The dedicated agents of the Federation Department of Temporal Investigations have their work cut out for them protecting the course of history from the dangers of time travel. But the galaxy is littered with artifacts that, in the wrong hands, could threaten reality. One of the DTI’s most crucial jobs is to track down these objects and lock them safely away in the Federation’s most secret and secure facility. When Agents Lucsly and Dulmur bring home an alien obelisk of incredible power, they are challenged by a 31st-century temporal agent who insists they surrender the mysterious artifact to her. But...
Predator: Badlands: Directed by Dan Trachtenberg. With Reuben de Jong, Cameron Brown, Elle Fanning, Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi. A young Predator outcast from his clan finds an unlikely ally on his journey in search of the ultimate adversary. I’ve very happy with the direction that the Alien/Predator franchise(s?) are going and Predator: Badlands just re-enforces that opinion. There’re a very limited cast here, I think we see only maybe 4 or 5 actors in the entire film, but the surprisingly (sorta spoiler) thing is that there isn’t a single human in the whole film. All we see are Predators, Human Synths, and...
Spirited Away: Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. With Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki, Takashi Naitô. During her family’s move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts. Such a fantastic and fun story of a girl moving to the country and losing her parents to their own poor decisions. The music is of particular appeal to me, there were a few moments it had my full attention. Buy On Amazon!
This is my 15 year old washing machine: TL;DR: the master control board on it is fried, it’s not made anymore so I had to spend $400 on a used washer to replace it. This is after the nightmare of having the floors redone in my house (maybe one day I’ll write about that?) and several other frustrating things happening all at the same time. Actually no, they’ve been nice enough to be sequential, which is the best way to have frustrations in life, just one after another so you can never catch your breath, but at least you don’t...
The agents of the Department of Temporal Investigations are assigned to look into an anomaly that has appeared deep in Federation territory. It’s difficult to get clear readings, but a mysterious inactive vessel lies at the heart of the anomaly, one outfitted with some sort of temporal drive disrupting space-time and subspace. To the agents’ shock, the ship bears a striking resemblance to a Constitution-class starship, and its warp signature matches that of the original Federation starship Enterprise NCC-1701—the ship of James T. Kirk, that infamous bogeyman of temporal investigators, whose record of violations is held up by DTI agents...
Alien: Earth: Created by Noah Hawley. With Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Essie Davis, Samuel Blenkin. When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat. Better than the worse Alien film, but not as good as the best Alien film, this series takes the familiar xenomorph and expands on the universe they live in, which is just utterly fantastic. The special effects are much better than I thought they were going to be for a television series too! Buy...
Peacemaker: Created by James Gunn. With John Cena, Danielle Brooks, Freddie Stroma, Jennifer Holland. Picking up where The Suicide Squad (2021) left off, Peacemaker returns home after recovering from his encounter with Bloodsport – only to discover that his freedom comes at a price. A fun but meandering season that slightly changes the prior season so that this season (but not the prior season) fits in the new DCCU that James Gunn is running. There’s plenty of goofy stuff that doesn’t work, but there’s also plenty of goofy stuff that does work. Not much about this character (or the series...
Only Yesterday: Directed by Isao Takahata. With Miki Imai, Toshirô Yanagiba, Yoko Honna, Michie Terada. A twenty-seven-year-old office worker travels to the countryside while reminiscing about her childhood in Tokyo. As a retrospective of a life, this is a good one, if somewhat hindered by the fact that the lady is only 27 years old and hasn’t really lived her complete life yet. This is best thought of as “what was my life up to now and where will I go now that I know where I’ve been”, but boy I was disappointed that they left so many dangling threads...
