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Scarlett Johansson Disney Settle Explosive Black Widow Lawsuit

The settlement ends a back-and-forth PR battle pitting the CAA-repped star against the studio that was poised to have dramatic implications for all of Hollywood’s majors.

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    Before all the moments go asunder

    So, here we are. The eve of the official release date for Moments Asunder, the first book in the Star Trek: Coda trilogy.

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    Essay The digital death of collecting

    How platforms mess with our tastes. –Kyle Chayka

    I have often bemoaned when a service I use changes their interface, as it’s often an indicator that their changing focus from one aspect of the service to another. Looking at the software that I use most often, I found that the ones that haven’t changed very much since I started using them are the most used, and I distinctly remember when Facebook changed their desktop layout it completely killed the site for me and I only stop by from time to time to check in on some fish tank groups or LEGO groups that I might be interested in. Somewhere along the line both instagram and Facebook changed what they were about and whatever their new goals might be, they’re outside of what I’m interested in.

    Kyle Chayka makes some great points using examples that drive home the need to collect things yourself, using software that you’re in control of. I still have the installation files for Winamp, and have purchased all my music so it’s completely mine and that interface will likely never change, at least until I find something else that works better and what could? For music all I need is something to randomly play tracks that I’ve personally rated. I don’t need to see what the global rating is, or get suggestions from my music app, I get those throughout my day from a thousand other sources, from family and friends.

    This same issue is happening with WordPress too, just in a negative way. This time last year the dev team was absolutely adamant that the post creation UI for WP was going to change drastically, something they’ve been trying to get done for several years now (first pushed out just a couple weeks before Christmas, so thanks for that guys), but since it’s open source software, I’ll never truly be forced into the change.

    My digital book and comic books collections for the most part are all through Amazon, either Kindle or Comixology.  The books, I generally usually do not go back and re-read ebooks, if I like it that much I’ll buy a physical copy, and for the comics I’ve found that I absolutely hate reading them on a digital device with the locked in reader, the unstable experience, and the absolute dumpster fire of the economics of it all.  I can’t even find the emotional effort to read the digital comics I have downloaded locally from purchases on Humble Bundle, too busy with the physical books I get every week and I haven’t been able to find a reading system to catalogue them that syncs across PC/Android/Web.

    Another example is movies, but here I have to admit that I’m enamored by digitally collecting movies, it’s so much more space efficient and easy to consume than physical media.  Again though, if I like something enough to watch it several times, I’m going to buy the physical media so I don’t get the experience ruined by either a bad connection, a changing interface, or the service just straight up changing the content somehow like they’ve done with The Office or Babylon 5.  Why I’m ok with 20 long boxes of comics that i look at once very 10 years but  not 20 bankers boxes of dvds, I’ll never know.

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    Mars Was Always Destined to Die

    The Red Planet was doomed from the start, a new study finds

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    The Crazies 2010

    The Crazies: Directed by Breck Eisner. With Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Joe Anderson, Danielle Panabaker. After a strange and insecure plane crash, an unusual toxic virus enters a quaint farming town. A young couple are quarantined, but they fight for survival along with help from a couple of people.

    It’s a reboot / remake, I have memories of it being a sequel, but apparently that’s a fake memory because it’s not a sequel at all! It has a great opening song of “we’ll meet again” by the man in black and features a young Danielle Panabaker, who I always forget is a movie star on top if being a television star. In the original film, we we saw both side of the situation, military and civil, but in this one it’s just civil and is incredibly jarring. Directory Breck Eisner stays away from the modern horror tropes for the most part and never gives into the “more gore is better” nonsense that other directors fall for (lookin at you Rob Zombie), and the ‘crazies’ are still just people gone insane and not zombies. This 2020 release captures the the frantic energy of the original film, with the story moving at an extremely fast pace, the second two acts never really let up off the gas for very long and it ends with what I had hoped for in the original film, a nice big explosion, wiping out all the crazies.

    or does it? There’s been no sequel and Eisner hasn’t done a ton of work since, one or two movies and a handful of television episodes, which is shameful, he was able to make a great movie here and I’d like to see more from him.

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    Eaglemoss Graphic Novel Collection #6 Nero

    The Star Trek Graphic Novel Collection brings all-new adventure story set within the events of the hit movie 2009 STAR TREK movie presenting this fantastic hard-back Star Trek: Nero Book! Not an ad…

    A well illustrated book with the scraps of story left over from the 2009 Star Trek film, it literally ends on a stupid cliff hanger: leaving Spock on the surface of a barren ice planet to watch his planet be consumed by the Red Matter, something that happens in the move, but not in the book. It feels like a shameless money grab and could have been much better than it actually ended up being.

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    Punisher War Zone 2008

    Punisher: War Zone: Directed by Lexi Alexander. With Ray Stevenson, Dominic West, Doug Hutchison, Colin Salmon. Frank Castle, known as the Punisher, ruthlessly demolishes organized crime, but it starts an even bigger war.

    Ah, the Punisher. His first appearance in the comics was the same year as “Death Wish” and shares many of the same elements of death families, a third for revenge, and poorly thought out action scenes. This is the third Punisher film with the third actor to play the character, none of whom I actually liked all that much in the roles, either because they were too wooden, the story was too silly, or none of the pieces actually fit together. The prior two films had one or two of these elements, but “War Zone” shares all three! Shares name with the second Punisher ongoing series that first started in 1992 and was canceled in 1995, I believe it was mostly stories of Frank going around the world to see and kill exciting people, but the movie is about a home town beef he has with the Mafia. Ray Stevenson is a good actor, but this isn’t a role that I would point to when I want to show people that. Same with Dominic West (The Wire), Colin Salmon (Resident Evil / Arrow), or Julie Benz (Buffy / Angel / Dexter). I believe this is the first on screen appearance of Microchip, who they only barely introduce and don’t go into his backstory at all (NEWMAN!).

    As one of the last “bad” comic book movies, it really has it all:

    Really unfortunate portrayal of mental illness
    Punisher wants to quit but miceochip pulls him back in
    Terrible Choreography and cinematography that at times evokes “Batman and Robin”
    The bad guys go recruiting at “one race only” clubs while dancing and doing a weird patriotic speech

    In fact there’s two great examples of things that would have been made so much better. In one scene a Catholic priest is greeting Frank in a church and it’s an awkward clumsy things that would look better on a comic page but doesn’t work at all in the movie as is:

    priest: “I haven’t seen you”
    Frank: “Since the funeral”

    Why interrupt him? why not let the priest say the hole line, then give a solemn response? The second is right at the end when the bad guy says “I’m going to shoot Microchip or the girl, your choice.” Those of us who knew the character from the comics would know immediately that 1 – Frank Fucking Castle would never throw his guns down and 2 – FFC would NEVER throw his guns down just to protect Microchip, who absolutely knew what the stakes were and had the same rage inside his heart that FFC had, he just had a different skill set. FFC would absolutely save the girl first, then see if he could save Micro.

    Something that was cool to see was that it was released under the “Marvel Knights” banner, it was the first, then a few years later the second Ghost Rider film was under it too. So far I think those are the only two to use it, and it’s been pretty much retired for movie projects, especially with the purchase of Marvel by Disney just a year later in 2009, and the extremely recent advent of the situation with all Marvel TV and Movie project being done under Kevin Feige’s control.

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    Cobra

    The colony worlds Adirondack and Silvern fell to the Troft forces almost without a struggle. Outnumbered and on the defensive, Earth made a desperate decision. It would attack the aliens not from space, but on the ground—with forces the Trofts did not even suspect. Thus were created the Cobras, a guerilla force whose weapons were surgically implanted, invisible to the unsuspecting eye, yet undeniably deadly. But power brings temptation, and not all the Cobras could be trusted to fight for Earth alone. Jonny Moreau would learn the uses—and abuses—of his special abilities and what it truly meant to be a Cobra.

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    The first 1/3 of the book is pretty rough, but it quickly moves past the familiar story of a new recruit going off to war and into something much more interesting: what do you do with human weapons of war when you’re done with your war? I went in blind, so wasn’t expecting the second half of the book to take place where it did, but considering the books age (first published in 1985) it’s seems relatively topical and doesn’t have much of the out of the loop science fiction that was being released around that time.

    I am both happy and sad to see that Timothy Zahn (one of THE best Star Wars authors) went on to write another eight books in this series. Happy, because it means I get to read another 8 books from a great authors, but sad because it’s 8 more books to read, lol.

    I’m going to table the series for now though and move on to a Star Trek book that I got for a buck in a recent sale on Amazon.

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    Michael K Williams The Wire Actor Dies at 54

    The 54-year-old ‘Lovecraft Country’ star and Emmy nominee passed away on Monday, his reps confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.

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    Cryptozoo

    Cryptozoo: Directed by Dash Shaw. With Lake Bell, Michael Cera, Emily Davis, Alex Karpovsky. Cryptozookeepers try to capture a Baku, a dream-eating hybrid creature of legend, and start wondering if they should display these beasts or keep them hidden and unknown.

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    Night Sky

    Took a photo with the new camera. No moon but with a 30 second exposure time it picked up starlight that you couldn’t see with the naked eye. It also grabbed so much light that you can see a lot more detail on the houses than you could as well.

    I’m not sure if the blur is from the long exposure time or it the wind on my second story deck moving the camera.

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    I am now a Twitch Affiliate

    Sometime yesterday (9/1/2021) around 7:30am something (?!) happened and followers started to absolutely start pouring in for my twitch account, which at the time was just streaming my fish tank.  There were about 500is followers in about an hour!  Same thing happened to a much lessor extent this morning with another 30 coming in around that same time.

    www.twitch.tv/tgiokdi

    You can see the stream of it on nearly every page on this very website, but it’s a 720p stream of one fish in a 100 gallon tank.  He murders everyone else I put in the tank, rips up all the plants, and is kept separate from my main tank in my living room.

    Is this one fish so captivating that over 500 people thought they should follow my account? Or are they all Russian bots? Who knows!

    Regardless, Amazon decided that since I broken the arbitrary number of “50” that I’m now worthy of earning “income” on their site.  I have no clue how to track it and no clue when the pay out is, but I’m sure I’ll figure it out.

    What I DO know is that if you have Amazon prime, that comes with a “free to you” subscription for any random twitch account you want to contribute to.  From what I understand, I get money for every Twitch subscriber (which is different from a “follower”), so if you have an Amazon Prime account, it’d be sweet if you would subscribe to my twitch channel.  Note that this is a one month subscription that will cost you $0.00.

     

    Eaglemoss Graphic Novel Collection #4 Spock Reflections

    Celebrate 50 years of Star Trek with volume 4, this prequel to the 2009 Star Trek film explores what happened to Spock after the events of STAR TREK GENERATIONS and finds him looking back on his lo…

    A well written and well illustration story with some very well done flashbacks.

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  • Citadel

    It’s been two weeks since a missile with a nuclear warhead tore through the planetary defenses in the most blistering large-scale attack ever committed in the h

    The third book in Marko Kloos’s Palladium Wars series, I had forgotten that I preordered this back when I finished book two, and was surprised (happily!) when amazon send me confirmation of download to my kindle. Unfortunately I was in the middle of another book that I was already enjoying, so it took me a bit, but I finally got around to it, finishing the story in just a couple days. That kind of timeframe is normal for books from Kloos, they’re easy to read and have enough action happening in them that they go damn quick when in my hands. The story continues the unique four person POV story of a planetary system set after a civil war among the planets resulted in the main POV character ending up in a POW camp for years, then being kicked back out to a society that didn’t want to accept him back into their fold. He’s all for reformation and turning a new leaf, but there’s plenty of people out there that want to start the fight back up, and thus the story.

    I’m still enjoying this series as much as I am the author’s other series (“Frontlines” about massive unknowable aliens that are kicking humanity’s butt in the near future), so my only real complaint is that I wish he would be able to just pump these stories out quicker. Until that great day I guess I’ll just have to have patience.

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    They Live

    They Live: Directed by John Carpenter. With Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, George ‘Buck’ Flower. They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. They live.

    Released in 1988 and directed by one of 80s/90s horror’s greatest directors, starring a great wrestler and one of the greats voice over actors of our time. There’s a slow moving slug fest that goes on for nearly 5 minutes, it really feels like a “real” fight, and man it’s exhausting to watch. I truly didn’t expect the nudity at the end of the film, and it’s always a surprise when it pops up, but I guess that’s what the 80’s gave us.

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    Masks to Breath More Better At Night During Sleep

    I started a c-pap machine about a month ago.  It’s not been fun and I’ve not enjoyed my time with it so far.

    Have you had to experience this yet?

    I’m twitching with a buddy, trying to find a new game to play, any suggestions?

    If you’d like to see what video games I’m playing or what LEGO sets I’m putting together, follow me on twitch.tv/tgiokdi

     

    I’m currently at 31 followers, which not the 50 followers I need to start raking in the HUGE dollars, it’d be totally dope if you’d follow me too!

    At this remove there is a limit

    Star Trek comics can be a blast, but sometimes the copy editor seems to have been asleep at the wheel.

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    Ron Jeremy Indicted on Over 30 Sexual Assault Charges

    Adult film star pleaded not guilty to the charges against him after the indictment was unsealed

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    Future ‘Jeopardy’ Host Mayim Bialik Has a Few Scandals of Her Own

    The TV star has made a fortune promoting pseudoscience and making parents miserable — so does she deserve an even bigger platform?

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    The Green Knight

    The Green Knight: Directed by David Lowery. With Anaïs Rizzo, Joe Anderson, Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander. A fantasy re-telling of the medieval story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

    I was not prepared for how straight up weird this story was going to be. It started like a normal Authorian legends, but goes completely off the rails pretty damn quickly. It’s gorgeous, the story is bonkers, and the acting is delectable.

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    Respect

    Respect: Directed by Liesl Tommy. With Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, Audra McDonald, Saycon Sengbloh. Following the rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom, RESPECT is the remarkable true story of the music icon’s journey to find her voice.

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    Florida breaks record for COVID-19 hospitalizations

    A day after it recorded the most new daily cases since the start of the pandemic, Florida on Sunday broke a previous record for current hospitalizations set more than a year ago before vaccines were available.

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    Two travellers from US fined 20000 each for fake vaccination documents

    TORONTO – Two travellers who arrived in Toronto from the United States have been fined for providing fake COVID-19 proof of vaccination documents and …

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    Sparks

    Sparks: Directed by Todd Burrows, Christopher Folino. With Chase Williamson, Ashley Bell, Clancy Brown, Jake Busey. A masked vigilante who discovers the dark side to heroism. Going after the nation’s most notorious super criminal leaves Sparks’ life and reputation in ruins.

    Clancy Brown AND Clint Howard? They’re not stars of the film, but it’s still weird to see such big names in such a low budget effort. It’s low budget only in the financial aspect though, as the actual story and substance of the movie is pretty good.

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    Resident Evil

    Resident Evil: Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. With Ryan McCluskey, Oscar Pearce, Indra Ové, Anna Bolt. A special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident.

    After all those Fast & Furious films, I was wracking my brain trying to figure out what to watch that was even remotely connected, and thus, RESIDENT EVIL! I believe this was the first film I saw Michelle Rodriguez in, and she impressed me so much in the film that she made my ‘gotta watch’ list. Director Paul WS Anderson continued his string of hits with RE, it was a great start to a franchise that got completely forgettable there at the end.

    That cool laser hallway scene, what the fuck man.

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    Florida breaks record with more than 21000 new COVID cases

    ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida reported 21,683 new cases of COVID-19, the state’s highest one-day total since the start of the pandemic, according to federal health data released Saturday, as its theme park resorts again started asking visitors to wear masks indoors.

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    Scarlett Johansson Sues Disney Over Black Widow Streaming Release

    Scarlett Johansson, star of Marvel Entertainment’s 2021 movie “Black Widow,” has filed suit against Walt Disney Co. over the decision to release the movie on Disney+ at the same time as in theaters.

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    Fast Five

    Fast Five: Directed by Justin Lin. With Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson. Dominic Toretto and his crew of street racers plan a massive heist to buy their freedom while in the sights of a powerful Brazilian drug lord and a dangerous federal agent.

    The movie opens with a bus crash that in IRL would have killed everyone in the bus, including the target of the crash, Dom. There’s some talk at the start of how Tokyo has no extradition to the US, but I’m nearly certain that isn’t true. This is the movie where things truly go off the rails with the introduction of the oiled up beheamoth played by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, wearing a bear that does not work for him. Halfway through the movie, Luda mentions that he “wants to open a business” but I seem to remember that he had his own garage back in 2F2F, so whatever happened to that enterprise?

    Dom wasn’t drinking a Corona. The main ‘angry guy’ from the first movie dies from a weak ass gut shot, and the bigget stunt in the film is dragging a massive safe through the city streets, killing dozens, if not hundreds of people. Physics and all respect for believability go right out the window here, all tied up with The Rock executing a crime boss on live tv in the final moments of the film.

    The midcredit scene with Eva reminded me of when my wife and I saw the film in the theaters, we whispered “my god if The Rock is at the desk doing paperwork while all oiled up, I’m going to die laughing…” which is exactly what they did with the final reveal of a main character that was previously killed coming back to life.

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    The Fast and the Furious

    The Fast and the Furious: Directed by Rob Cohen. With Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster. Los Angeles police officer Brian O’Conner must decide where his loyalty really lies when he becomes enamored with the street racing world he has been sent undercover to destroy.

    A movie about a street punk that’s just too old for this shit stealing tvs with built in VCR players with his fellow street punks, all from the comfort of his family convenience store. This 4k version that I have is pretty super high contrast and washed out, not sure what’s going on with AppleTV here. There’s a fun look into a Hollywood version of street racing with teams of people setting up races and manually painting start lines right next to the DOT lines that are already on the street. This remains the only F&F movie with nudity, it’s become a much more family friendly series now days.

    I still love the film, but that ending is pure nonsense, Dom’s charger would have absolutely decimated the skyline that brian was driving.

    “any brew you want, as long as it’s a corona”

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    Do You Dream of Terra-Two

    Saving the future of the planet means sacrificing their own – one of Cosmopolitans books by people of colour to get excited about in 2019, this is The Long Way

    This is a well written book that’s not very well researched, nor does it go in any particular direction that I found to be interesting at all. There’s some significant issues with the story events, all of which could have been avoided if the author had just seen Apollo 13. First and foremost, the people being selected to go to this far off planet? They had no clue who was being selected and were in fact at home learning about who was going by watching TV with the rest of Humanity. It was announced at a press conference that didn’t include the actual astronauts, which I find baffling, surely even the author could come up with a better way for that to happen! IRL selection for even relatively minor space missions gets a fair bit of press, and more importantly, the participants all know they’re going to space before the presser even starts.

    Following the announcement there’s a couple incidents with the kids that are going to space because, I kid you not, they were permitted to wander around tree memorials and the city that was down the road, leading to some incredible confusing plot developments.

    Then, when they’re off in space, one of the beta team members says: “I’m on the beta team so I didn’t train as much as the alpha team did”.

    Gary Sinise played Ken Mattingly in Apollo 13, and I’m not sure which one of them would have been more offended by that idea. The backup team trains just as hard and is just as qualified to go to space as the primary mission team and would be ready to step in at even a moment’s notice. It’s insulting to think that the space program would train anyone less than they possibly could if they were expecting to possibly send them on the mission.

    The book is paradoxically good in the middle/end, the beginning and it’s assorted bad science is completely unfortunate, and the last page of the book made me absolutely rage. How can a book be so well written but be so terrible?

    Skip this book if anyone recommends it to you.

    SPOILERS:

    For the entire story several characters are dreaming of this planet, knowing things about it before the science catches up with them, there’s a huge thing being made about how there’s possibly a psychic connection to the planet, but instead of following up on that idea, and before they even leave the Sol system, the main character just goes back to Earth and moves in with her dad. The story of the ship going to this fantastic planet of Terra-Two? Dropped completely and forgotten about in the span of just 3 or 4 pages with no pay off at all. This was one of the worst cases of unrealized potential that I’ve ever read and it made me feel that my time had been wasted.

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    New Trek 4K releases for the 55th anniversary

    Paramount Home Entertainment and CBS Home Entertainment are releasing new versions of the first four Star Trek movies in 4K Ultra Had on September 7, 2021 in the US, and a day earlier in the UK. Newly remastered from original elements for optimal picture quality, each film is presented with Dolby Vision® and HDR-10.  This…

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