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Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities: Created by Guillermo del Toro. With Lize Johnston, Kevin Keppy, Tim Blake Nelson, F. Murray Abraham. Bizarre nightmares unfold in eight tales of terror in a visually stunning, spine-tingling horror collection curated by Guillermo del Toro. Considered by many as one of the best curators of horror and suspense, Guillermo del Toro didn’t write all these stories, I think he only penned one of them, but they all feel like they’re right up his alley. Every story is fantastic in it’s own way and most of them are so good that I would recommend...
Boy Kills World: Directed by Moritz Mohr. With Bill Skarsgård, Jessica Rothe, Michelle Dockery, Brett Gelman. A fever dream action film that follows Boy, a deaf person with a vibrant imagination. When his family is murdered, he is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childish imagination and become an instrument of death. I’m a passing fan of Bill Skarsgard and a big fan of H. Jon Benjamin, so I thought this was going to be a sure thing, but sadly it didn’t turn out to be the knock out of the park that I had hoped for. The...
District 9: Directed by Neill Blomkamp. With Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, David James, Vanessa Haywood. Violence ensues after an extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth finds a kindred spirit in a government agent exposed to their biotechnology. I bought this as a three pack a few months ago, it came along with Chappie and Elysium. D9 is a great film that has a strong political message and I’ve been waiting for a sequel for more than the three or 5 years mentioned in the film, but I think the over waiting is part of the same...
Knuckles: With Adam Pally, Idris Elba, Stockard Channing, Edi Patterson. Knuckles the Echidna teaches deputy Wade Whipple the techniques of the Echidna warrior. The first two episodes of this “streaming event” are pretty ok but after that point the series drifts off into some pretty mediocre content with storylines involving a vaguely racist Jewish dinner, a missing father dealt with in the most cringeworthy possible way, and a bowling competition as announced by “The Ocho”, which was the same concept from the movie “Dodgeball”. There’s not much to like after the first 2 episodes are done and much more could...
Star Wars: The Bad Batch: Created by Jennifer Corbett, Dave Filoni. With Dee Bradley Baker, Michelle Ang, Noshir Dalal, Ben Diskin. The “Bad Batch” of elite and experimental clones make their way through an ever-changing galaxy. The final episode aired today and while it was a bittersweet ending, this series has had one hell of a journey from it’s humble beginnings of just following some genetic oddities from Batch 99 to seeing how they’ve effected the wider galaxy and the burgeoning rebellion against the Empire. There’s a neat ‘flash forward’ at the end that lays the groundwork for some future...
Archer: Created by Adam Reed. With H. Jon Benjamin, Judy Greer, Amber Nash, Chris Parnell. Covert black ops and espionage take a back seat to zany personalities and relationships between secret agents and drones. I gave up on this show when they started straying from the spy agency concept and it was all dream state illusions that had no impact or made any sense within the world that they had previously created and I completely missed it when they brought it all back to the basic formula that worked so well. I’ve finally caught up with the series and I’m...
The Sixth Men The last of the books in the “The Superhero Spectacular Book Bundle” that I bought just about a year ago, there were a total of 11 books in the bundle that ranged from nearly unreadable to some of the best super hero stories that you’re ever going to read, which was the one book that I’d already read, “Wearing the Cape”. This book from Jeff Deischer is in the middle of that range with ‘rebooted’ superheroes that had fallen into the public domain and while the story is set in a modern setting the story, characters, and...
The Crow: Wicked Prayer: Directed by Lance Mungia. With Yuji Okumoto, Marcus Chong, Tito Ortiz, Tara Reid. On his way to becoming an immortal demon, a gang leader orchestrates the murder of an ex-con and his girlfriend. No idea how the casting director managed this, but they got Tara Reid, David Boreanaz, Tito Ortiz, Danny Trejo, and Emmanuelle Chriqui all to appear in sizable roles in this direct to video final entry in the first run of “Crow” movies. This one is the most obviously low budget with minimal supernatural special effects and a whole lot of lingering static shots...
From Mark (James Axler) Ellis, author of the best-selling OUTLANDERS and Deathlands novels and comic series such as DOC SAVAGE and the legendary JUSTICE MACHINE, comes INVICTUS X, Book One in the INVICTAVERSE! Humanity holds Knightwatch in awe, their foes view them with fear. But never has this heroic juggernaut faced so deadly and powerful a force as INVICTUS X!The ruthless Invicta League has escaped from Tartarus, the most maximum security prison ever conceived. The warden, the beautiful and enigmatic Doctor Sirocco DeWynter, warns Knightwatch that the League seeks a power so vast it can kill all life on earth.Or...
