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• Star Wars
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• Star Wars: Episode 3: Revenge Of The Sith
• LEGO Star Wars
• Star Trek: Into Darkness
• Starbucks
• Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Star Wars: Rebels
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars
• StarCraft II
• Star Trek: Nemesis
• Star Trek: First Contact
• Battle Beyond The Stars
• Dark Star
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture
• The Last Starfighter
• Star Wars: Episode 7: The Force Awakens
• Starship Troopers
• Fist of the North Star
• Homestar Runner
• StarTalk
• Star-Lord
• Stargate: Universe
• Star Wars: Battlefront
• Star Fox
• Men Who Stare At Goats
• The Star
• The Minnesota Starvation Experiment
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• Star Trek: Beyond
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
• Star Citizen
• Star Wars: Celebration
• Starfire
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• Star Trek: Discovery
• Starry Night
• Stargirl
• Star Trek: Voyager
• Star Wars: The Old Republic
• Starsky & Hutch
• Star Trek: Enterprise
• Krystle Starr
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• Star Wars: Episode 8: The Last Jedi
• Star Trek: Axanar
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

Eighth Grade

Directed by Bo Burnham. With Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Jake Ryan. An introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school.

I Am Iron Man

This is a tribute to the one who started it all – Tony Stark Marvel Tribute Music: Balmorhea – The Winter Please donate to my PayPal if you enjoy and would l…

Veronica Mars Revival Series in the Works at Hulu

“Veronica Mars” could be making its long-awaited TV return. Sources tell Variety that a revival of the series is currently in the works at Hulu with original series star Kristen Bell.

I loved the series and really enjoyed the movie, it’d be great to see her come back, just as long as it doesn’t interfere with The Good Place.

Deanna Trois Weird Romantic History

Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Deanna Troi has had some strange relationships over time. Let’s look at them. â?ºâ?ºSubscribe To SYFY Wire: po.st/Subscri…

Comic Review for week of August 29th 2018

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  EXILES #7
  The change in artists is jarring, but they’re back to the style of art for the series that I remember from volume one.
   

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  G.I. JOE: A REAL AMERICAN HERO #255
  The cover is a three panel fold out that surprised me.  The story inside has been told a few times (scarlet <3 snake eyes on a boat) and does not feature anyone that’s on the cover, but man that cover is great.
   

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  HARBINGER WARS 2 #4
  I’m not sure if I’m a fan of having this world altering series come out monthly while other issues of the world are coming out at the same time.  At the end of the day the other series were off doing their own thing in other universes (shadowman) or doing flashbacks (x-o manowar), but I think it would have served everyone better if this was a weekly for an entire month.
   

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  JUDGE DREDD: UNDER SIEGE #4
  I still need to pick up the first issue of this (or just get the TPB), but the fourth issue wrapped up the story in a satisfying way with art that was on par with what I expect from a Dredd book.
   

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  STAR WARS ADVENTURES #13
  This was on my pull list at LOCG, but I neglected to actually order it or even pick it up after noticing my negligence.
   

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  STAR WARS: LANDO – DOUBLE OR NOTHING #4
  Not the last issue?  I thought this was a four issue mini series, but it’s not.  The art is fantastic, the story is middling, but maybe it’s going to go somewhere in issue 5?
   

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  STAR WARS: POE DAMERON ANNUAL #2
  A story that doesn’t matter in a series that’s already been canceled, but for the completionists out there you get to see how Poe Dameron does a thing!
   

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  X-MEN: GRAND DESIGN – SECOND GENESIS #2
  These books are good, but good grief they are dense. This one I had to read in a couple sittings, there’s just so much going on with each page, I really wanted to let it soak in.
   

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  X-O MANOWAR #18
  I’m not really too happy with this flashback story over 4 months, but I guess they had to do something with X-O while the Harbinger’s war story was going on.  I’m not happy with what they did with X-O in that story either, so I’m really hoping they get back to stories that are palatable in the main series.

This video explains why we cannot go faster than light

The Universe has a speed limit and it seems there is no way around it

I think this is a hateful lie, but their video is pretty interesting none the less.

Comic Review for week of August 22th 2018

Here’s some snap judgements on the comics I read this week:

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  BRITANNIA: LOST EAGLES OF ROME #2
  I’m surprised how much I’m enjoying a Valiant book with no superheroes in it.
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  BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON 12: THE RECKONING #3
  I’m assuming this is the final Buffy story due to fox taking back the franchise for their inevitable merger with Disney?   Regardless, it’s been well written and I’m sad to see the series go.
   

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  HIT-GIRL #7
  Why she gotta be so violent all the time?
   

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  THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN MARVEL #2
  This is one of the most wordy Marvel books that I’ve picked up in a long time.  Normally I enjoy reading wordy comics, but this one just kinda spins in the mud for a bit and doesn’t go anywhere.
   

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  THE PUNISHER #1
  Oh, the Punisher is off killing people because he’s the Punisher and they’re bad guys.  I don’t believe the main person that’s killed here is going to stay dead very long, they’re one of the biggest villains of the Marvel Universe and it would be just plain stupid to have “The Punisher” be the one that puts them in the ground forever.
   

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  QUANTUM & WOODY #9
  I’m pretty sure this is a new writing team and I’m not sure that I’m a fan yet.
   

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  SHADOWMAN #6
  Magic Man?
   

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  STAR WARS: DARTH VADER #20
  Emperor Pappy is a rude man and this issue lays out all the reasons why Vader ultimately threw him down a shaft.
   

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  STAR WARS: DOCTOR APHRA #23
  “Fungal Spectral Ghost of a Dead Jedi” is not a phrase I would have thought I would ever run in to, yet here we are.  This is consistently one of the better Star Wars books that come out every month, and what I would hope for in the “Star Wars Story” movies.

Apple Commits to Asimovs FOUNDATION

Apple continue to gear up to compete with existing streaming giants Netflix and Prime, with the announcement of yet another show now in production â?? better still, unlike Carpool bloody Karaoke, this is right up STARBURST’s street! An adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s wildly ambitious sci-fi novel Foundation has now been granted a full series order … Continued

I’m excited to see how they do this, the series of books got really bonkers in the last couple.

What Happened to Blade

Twenty years after Wesley Snipes gave Marvel its first box-office hit, the comic book powerhouse is more popular than ever, but the vampire hunter has disappeared into the shadows.

INFINITY WAR Parody by King Vader

Tony Stark holds a press conference in New York Assuring the world’s safety by World’s Favorite Superheroes The Avengers! Little that they know Thanos is com…

The Last Boba Fett

Boba Fett reimagined, takes you to the time of the samurai. I set out to create my favorite Star Wars character with a hint of lore infused into the design. He is very pose able with added points of articulation and a sturdy body structure. Equipped with his blaster rife, jet pack, and his newly acquired katana. There is no telling who he will be hunting next.

Cross Posts from other websites

I’ve written a fair bit of code to create a WordPress plugin that permits ethical linking to posts from other sites.  Combining that with the submission engine that I’ve hand crafted on on MCS+, and now there’s a whole bunch of content flowing in from multiple sites that I own and control:

2Queue – I hear about movies, books, games, and television shows months before they’re released and found myself completely forgetting about them until I ran into them months or even years later.  I built this site to help flag content I would be interested in.  I’m adding things to it all the time and will go back every couple months to see if I missed anything coming out.  I usually did and can find it on Netflix or for purchase.

BrickMeister – I just wanted a dedicated LEGO fan site, so here it is.  The king of all bricks.

Comical Creatures – Funny or cute animals, usually sourced from Reddit, with links back to the Reddit post so you can gush over how cute that rabbit with aviator glasses really is.

Comic Covers – Nominally it’s a site that has scans of comic books covers, but it’s morphed into comic book related news.  The thumbnails are all janked up on the front page, but the content is there to be read.

Crutch of the Weak – Fun news about how horrible religion is.

Halo Book Club – Halo book news and book collections.  Not feature complete and needs an upgrade, but it’s in the rotation to post about Halo news now..

I Hate Star Trek – Only fans can hate their fandom more than the true haters.  Just look at Discovery, literally “no one” liked it, everyone hated it, but at the same time, everyone’s watching it to see what they do next.  In 10 years it’ll come out that everyone actually liked it and thought it was amazing, just like what’s happening with Star Trek: Enterprise now.

Internet-D – A dumping ground for weird videos, politics, and other crap that doesn’t fit in anywhere else.

Movie Ties – Movie related products, sometimes interesting, sometimes stupid.

Music Video DB – I started this site several years ago because I was frustrated that a music video I had downloaded wasn’t being found by KODI when I searched for it using the music video parser they were using at the time.  It took me much longer than it should have, but now that I have a WP plugin to quickly post videos from youtube, now I have the ability to start adding stuff to the site.  One day I’ll work on adding something to the site so you can use KODI to search for your music videos.

Star Trek Book Club – The crown jewel of my non-MCS coding and data entry time.  It’s somewhat feature complete, though every time I change something small on the site I get “big ideas” that’ll take hours of data entry and research to complete (current project: finding the artists for all the book covers, yikes!).  You’ll get book review updates, author updates, new book previews and the ability to create a collection of your own if you register.

Star Wars Book Club – Same as above, but no where near feature complete, as there’s only about 1/500 of the Star Wars books on the site.  It’ll take me a couple years to get this one working the way I want, but it’s in the rotation to handle star wars content.

My intention isn’t to flood MCS with content from these 12 sites though, so I’m limiting both the volume of posts, only 1 out of every ten will make it to MCS, and the frequency of the posts are being reduced from once and hour to once every 6 hours.  If you’re interested in whatever’s going on with those sites, you can visit them directly and get all the latest updates as they happen instead of days later on MCS.

Comic Review for week of August 8th 2018

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  Valiant BLOODSHOT SALVATION #12  Aug 8th, 2018  ·  $3.99

  I’m not sure if this series is done now or even what it was all about.  I liked that they went back to 4001AD, if even for a brief moment.
   

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  Marvel Comics EXILES #6  Aug 8th, 2018  ·  $3.99
  Still not as good as the original Exiles series.

   

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  BOOM! Studios MECH CADET YU #11 Aug 8th, 2018  ·  $3.99
  First issue of this series that i’ve read and I’m completely lost.

   

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  Image Comics PORT OF EARTH #8 Aug 8th, 2018  ·  $3.99
  Aliens are bad, but there’s hints there are worse things coming our way…

   

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  AfterShock Comics RELAY #2 Aug 8th, 2018  ·  $3.99
  This is turning into more of a religious / philisophical series than I was expecting.  Not exactly a bad thing per say, just unexpected.

   

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  Marvel Comics STAR WARS: DARTH VADER #19 Aug 8th, 2018  ·  $3.9

  Darth Vader: Baby Killer.  There’s a few things I’m ok with in comics, but killing kids as much as they did in this issue was stomach twisting.

Dora the Explorer Movie Trailer with Ariel Winter

Get CollegeHumor straight to your inbox! www.collegehumor.com/static/newsletter Dora Trilogy PART 1 – bit.ly/ZrQzbz The “Modern Family” star b…

Comic Review for week of August 15th 2018

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  Dark Horse Comics HALO: COLLATERAL DAMAGE #3
  My comic shop neglected to pull this for me
   

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  NINJA-K #10
  Story felt rushed and out of place, but it’s a good issue to start with, they even have a “previously on” and “who you need to know about” at the start of the issue.
   

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  STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION: TERRA INCOGNITA #2
  I somehow missed the first issue of this, but I’m assuming that Broccoli is up to something nefarious, but there wasn’t much nefarious stuff going on here, just a standard shuttlecraft ride from the Enterprise to the surface of the planet.  Spoilers: it sorts crashes, much to no one’s surprise.

   

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  STAR WARS: BECKETT #1
  Photo realistic comic art is unnerving when it comes to actors you know doing stuff you’ve never seen them do before, like Woody Harrelson fighting a giant tentacle monster.

   

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  STAR WARS: POE DAMERON #30

  Another issue of Poe Dameron in which Poe is sitting in a chair the entire time watching a Holo of other people doing exciting things. At this point the story is feeling over extended and should have been wrapped up in a single issue, but that’s not the way Marvel nor LucasArts works.

Chris Pratt says its not an easy time for the Guardians cast since Gunns firing

Chris Pratt has been struggling with the future of the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise.  Talking to the Associated Press, Pratt, who plays Star-Lord, said that “it’s not an easy time” for him and his Guardians co-stars since writer/director James Gunn was fired from the franchise last month.

Treat yourself to a first peek at Dynamites five new Halloween oneshots

Even in the sweltering months of mid-summer, we’re just a bit over three months away from the spookiest time of year, Halloween, so it’s never too early to start celebrating.

Just added all five to the site!

Grown Men Express Hate For Show Meant For Little Girls

The Princess of Power makes a come back on Netflix! And her new look is stirring up emotions in internet trolls everywhere. They can’t get over her knew look! The internet is buzzing with talk of ‘the ideal woman’ and She-Ra’s boobs. But why are internet trolls climbing out of their basements to gab away […]

New DEEP SPACE NINEThemed Beer to Debut at STLV

Profet Motive Hopped Up Golden Ale makes its first debut at the Rio Hotel when the annual Star Trek Convention kicks off on August 1 in Las Vegas, released to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Deep Space Nine’s 1993 premiere — and labeled with the distinctive logo of Quark’s Bar.

I’ve had most of the Star Trek themed beers and while they’ve been pretty good I wish they would glom onto one and keep brewing it for longer than they’ve been doing it.

You can own Hans jacket from Empire Strikes Back for a cool million credits aka US dollars

It’s time to take a page out of Rey’s Jakku handbook from Star Wars: The Force Awakens and start scavenging for valuable parts out in the desert, which can then be traded in for cold hard cash. Why?

No word on if it was washed after filming.

BATWOMAN to Get Her Own CW Series

It was back in May when we reported that Batwoman would be debuting in the Arrowverse later this year as part of the annual crossover event between Arrow, The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, and Supergirl, and now comes word that the character is to get her own show! As per Deadline, Greg Berlanti … Continued

Darth Vaders Greatest Speech Ever Made

A visual representation of Charlie Chaplin’s famous speech from ‘The Dictator’ put into the Star Wars universe.

Eighth Grade

Directed by Bo Burnham. With Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Jake Ryan. An introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school.

Conquerors Pride The Conquerors Saga review

Timothy Zahn, Hugo Award-winning author of The New York Times best-selling Star Wars trilogy, blazes a spectacular new path across the sky in an epic original novel of star-spanning action adventure, mystery and intrigue. A long era of peace and prosperity in the interstellar Commonwealth has suddenly come to an end. Four alien starships of unknown origin have attacked, without provocation, an eight-ship Peacemaker task force, utterly destroying it in six savage minutes. The authorities claim there were no survivors. But Lord Stewart Cavanaugh, a former member of Parliament, has learned through back channels that one man may have survived to be captured by the aliens: his son, Commander Pheylan Cavanaugh. A large-scale invasion appears imminent, and the strictest security measures are in effect . . . measures that Lord Cavanaugh has no choice but to defy. He recruits Adam Quinn, who once flew with the elite Copperheads–fighter pilots whose minds are literally one with their machines–to rescue his son. Quinn assembles a crack force of Copperheads to steal out of the Commonwealth security zone and snatch Pheylan Cavanaugh from the conquerors. Depending on the outcome, Quinn and his men will retum home as heroes or as the galaxy’s most despised traitors–if they come home at all.

First of three, this is a fun book with some pretty interesting ideas, though I’m suspecting that I’m not going to like where they’re going with the sensor system.

5th passenger review

The year: 2151. In the aftermath of an oppressive class war, miller, a pregnant officer aboard an escape pod must struggle to survive with her remaining crew when a mysterious and vicious lifeform attacks, determined to become the dominant species.

Oddly the second movie I’ve watched today that was primarily green screened, but in a shocking turn of events, the one with all the Star Trek alumni is the better of the two. There’s unfortunately some story left out of the actual movie (no mention of a class war and the pregnancy wasn’t announced until half way through the movie as a surprise), but just the same it wasn’t a terrible film.

Here’s How Zofran Actually Works

Take Zofran during pregnancy? The drug has now been associated to fetal birth defects.

I’ve been on this shit for the last week, I’ve had the most horrible stomach issues. This stuff started working nearly immediately, thank god.

First Colony Book 1 Genesis review

A mission gone wrong. Innocent lives have been lost. Escaping wrongful imprisonment wasn’t something Connor had in mind, but being put into stasis aboard Earth’s first interstellar colony ship was something he couldn’t have prepared for. For three hundred thousand colonists, the new colony brings the promise of a fresh start…a second chance. Connor might be the wrong man for the colony, but he’s the right man to see that it survives what’s coming. A new world with new challenges, but the mission has changed. If you loved Old Man’s War and Ender’s Game, you’ll love Genesis – First Colony , a new military science fiction series.

It’s been a while since I’ve started a science fiction series that so totally and completely did not fit into what I thought it would be.  It’s nothing like Old Man’s War or Ender’s Game, despite anything said in the synopsis above.  There’s a whole lot of “Manliest Man In The Universe” type of machismo, but unlike OMW or Ender’s Game, it’s never really shown in any real way.  Maybe this series is for someone else (and for a $1 for the first book, why not give it a try), but it’s not for me.

Comic Review for week of July 27th 2018

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  I enjoyed this much more than I planned on enjoying it, I do wonder though if it ties into the wider Valiant Universe at all.
   

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  A shame the series is canceled, I’ve really enjoyed the 4 issues I’ve read.  Luckily it’s being started back up with a completely different premise as “Ascender” with a world of magic.
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  Reading this while also reading the other Valiant comics coming out is a pretty confusing exercise, I wish they had gone weekly with this story and only released HWII stuff during that time period.
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  Hyper violent and at times I wonder if this kid ever ages.  Time has moved forward for KICK-ASS, why not for HIT-GIRL?
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  I’m enjoying these IDW mini series much more than the official Megazine or even 2000AD, guess I can’t deal well with the anthology style of storytelling.
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  This War Machine story arch has been absolutely fantastic, I’m sad to see it end.
   

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  I occurs to me that I didn’t actually buy this comic but intended to.
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  This is only the second issue of Doctor Aphra that I’ve read and it’s ok.  I think I need to read more of the back story to really have an opinion on it, but I really enjoy the idea of a floating prison colony that’s tub boated around the galaxy to attack pirate ships.
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  This has been a somewhat disappointing mini series so far. Art work is pretty good, but there’s something forgettable and bland about the story.
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  The original X-Men: Grand Design was a densely packed, fantastic journey through the origins and first stories of the x-men, this is a look into the new group of x-men that came around during the 70’s and it’s just a densely fantastic as the original mini series.   Not a quick read by any stretch, I still suggest it if you’re a mutant fan.
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  Fantastically boring, I started reading this story because it was about a guy with a space suit blowing stuff up, this issue has no space suit and no explosions.

The Gifted Season 2

Action-adventure family drama THE GIFTED, from Marvel, tells the story of a suburban couple whose ordinary lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family joins up with an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive. Written by Matt Nix (APB, “Burn Notice”), directed by Bryan Singer (the “X-Men” franchise”) and executive-produced by Nix, Singer, Lauren Shuler Donner (“X-Men: Apocalypse,” “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” “The Wolverine”), Simon Kinberg (“X-Men: Apocalypse,” “X-Men: Days of Future Past”), Jeph Loeb (“Marvel’s Daredevil,” “Marvel’s Jessica Jones”) and Jim Chory (“Marvel’s Daredevil,” “Marvel’s Jessica Jones”), the series stars Stephen Moyer (SHOTS FIRED, “True Blood”) and Amy Acker (“Person of Interest”).

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Building a LifeSized LEGO Thanos Statue Timelapse Video

Watch as Thanos comes to life in brick form for its upcoming appearance at San Diego Comic-Con 2018. I’m sure the team behind the statue spend many hours building this, so don’t let this 50-second timelapse video belittle the effort they put on this thing! [IGN]

Cosmos Possible Worlds

Airing as a global event on FOX and National Geographic, the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning COSMOS will return for its third season in Spring 2019. It will once again be executive-produced, written and directed by Ann Druyan (NASA’s Voyager Record, “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage,” “Contact”) and executive-produced by Seth MacFarlane (FAMILY GUY, THE ORVILLE, COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY), Brannon Braga (THE ORVILLE, COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY), who also is co-writer and director of the series, and Jason Clark (THE ORVILLE, COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY). Neil deGrasse Tyson, the famed pop-culture icon, astrophysicist and host of the Emmy Award-nominated “StarTalk,” will return as host. Co-created by the legendary astronomer Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan in 1980, COSMOS has transported a global audience to the farthest reaches and most deeply hidden recesses of the universe. In the course of those journeys, the series has examined the real stories of the forgotten searchers who helped us understand our place in the universe. Following the wildly successful second season, COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY, seen by more than 135 million people worldwide on National Geographic and FOX, and the most-watched series ever on National Geographic Channels internationally, the new season, COSMOS: POSSIBLE WORLDS, will premiere in the U.S. on both FOX and National Geographic and globally on National Geographic in 180 countries and 43 languages. Continuing the legacy of its predecessors, COSMOS: POSSIBLE WORLDS will translate the revelations of science into a lavishly transporting experience, taking audiences on a series of spiritual voyages of exploration. We are living in the golden age of discovery of new worlds to explore and possibly inhabit. In the vastness of time and the immensity of space, their number and the stories they contain are virtually infinite. The new season will reveal previously uncharted realms, including lost worlds and worlds to come, and those that we may one day inhabit in a thrilling future we can still have. In conjunction with the launch of the new season, National Geographic Books also will publish a companion book, COSMOS: POSSIBLE WORLDS, by Ann Druyan, the long-awaited follow-up to Carl Sagan’s historic international bestseller, COSMOS: A Personal Voyage.

youtu.be/mXako3rIAr8

Return of the Jediinspired Throne

The Awesomer

Movie Ties for more!

Grown Men Express Hate For Show Meant For Little Girls

The Princess of Power makes a come back on Netflix! And her new look is stirring up emotions in internet trolls everywhere. They can’t get over her knew look! The internet is buzzing with talk of ‘the ideal woman’ and She-Ra’s boobs. But why are internet trolls climbing out of their basements to gab away […]

Disney’s Firing of James Gunn Wasn’t A Decision At All. It Was Just Dumb.

  A decade ago, Guardians of the Galaxy director, James Gunn, made some offensive tweets and ran an offensive blog. About 6 years ago, he was called out on it by Tumblr users and The Mary Sue. This week the internet dragged it all back up. This time, the outcry was bigger. This time, despite […]

Rebecca Romijn As #1

â??Just call me â??Number One!â? Honored to play such an iconic character in #StarTrek Canon originally played by the First Lady of Star Trek, Majel Barrett-Roddeberry! #StarTrekDiscoveryâ?

Dark Places review

From the best selling book by Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl), Charlize Theron stars in this acclaimed thriller about a woman investigating a family murder with the help of a secret society obsessed with solving notorious crimes.

Absolutely fantastic story, Charlize absolutely killed it, and there were a couple interesting story points that I didn’t see coming.

The Green Hornet review

After Bruce Lee’s untimely death in 1973 and the global success of enter the dragon two 90 min feature films were created to capitalize on lees world wide stardom. The green hornet has never been released on dvd until now. So come and get it while it last.

Not the full TV series and not the goofy action comedy that starred Seth Rogan, this is the combination of three episodes from the 60’s show that were ill advisedly mashed together with other action scenes to make one long movie. The sum product doesn’t work very well, but the original episodes are pretty fun. There’s some big game hunters going after mob bosses, a “man from mars” type of episode, then an incredibly unfortunate asian stereotyping episode where all the asians are either kungfu bruisers from Chinatown or Chinese restraunt owners from Chinatown. The first two episodes are great, especially the spaceman one, I honestly didn’t know which way they were going to turn with it and they went the right way for the tone of the show. The third episode was curious considering the second star in their show (and honestly the best fighter on the show) was Asian.

I don’t recommend watching this ‘movie’ but I do recommend watching the episodes, it was a great series that still hasn’t gotten the love it deserves.

Lifesize K2SO Statue

The Awesomer

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Factoring Humanity review

In 2007, a signal is detected coming from the Alpha Centauri system. Mysterious, unintelligible data streams in for ten years. Heather Davis a professor in the University of Toronto psychology department, has devoted her career to deciphering the message. Her estranged husband, Kyle, is working on the development of artificial intelligence systems and new computer technology utilizing quantum effects to produce a near-infinite number of calculations simultaneously.When Heather achieves a breakthrough, the message reveals a startling new technology that rips the barriers of space and time, holding the promise of a new stage of human evolution. In concert with Kyle’s discoveries of the nature of consciousness, the key to limitless exploration — or the end of the human race — appears close at hand.

Written by Robert J. Sawyer

This was a complete mind bender for me, there’s some high level philosophical quantum cube type of stuff that is both logical and mystifying. The pacing was perfect, though the story was damn uncomfortable towards the beginning.

In all honesty I have no clue how this book ended up on my device or even when it did. I found it there and started reading it without even looking at who the author was, trusting that my past self put some sort of thought into future me wanting to read it. Thanks buddy, you were right!

Den of Thieves review

A gritty Los Angeles crime saga which follows the intersecting and often personally connected lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff’s Dept. and the state’s most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank of downtown Los Angeles.

O’Shea Jackson Jr steals the show once again, as the only likable character in this entire film. It’s a great film with some pretty great firefights and plot developments, but all the characters are written in such a way to be so hateable that I was perfectly fine when people started getting shot in the 3rd act.

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Luke Cage Season 2 review

Luke Cage Returns!

I still think Daredevil had a better second season, the introduction of The Punisher and their recreation of several amazing comic books moments completely outshines Luke Cage’s second season…but only just barely. The Netflix/ABC/Marvel writers have finally figured out a few of the problems that have been around since the first season of their first series, namely that the seasons just drag on and on, with sudden shifts in villains that seem forced and uninteresting. Mike Coulter is absolutely amazing as always, but his supporting cast helps elevate him to a pretty cool place. I do wish they could figure out a better way to utilize Luke Cage’s power set, in Daredevil they have a cool “one shot fight scene” gimmick that works pretty well and is impressive, but I didn’t see anything in this season of Luke Cage that made me go “wow that was an incredibly well done scene and I’m impressed with Luke Cage as a character!”. Season one some what had a scene that did this (ripping off the car door and going through dozens of bad guys at the gang house) but season two was only able to give one interesting power utilization when another super powered guest star popped in for an episodes.

Season Two has only 10 episodes, down from Season One’s 13 and this felt like a good fit for the story they’re telling.

King of Thieves

From the producers of Legend and Baby Driver, and featuring an all-star cast of homegrown legends led by Sir Michael Caine, King of Thieves is the darkly funny, incredible true story of the Hatton Garden robbery, the most daring heist in British criminal history.

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All Eyez On Me review

Newcomer Demetrius Shipp, Jr. stars as the legendary Tupac Shakur in this powerful, true, and untold story of the rapper, actor, poet, and activist – from his early days in New York City to his evolution into a cultural icon whose legacy continues to grow long after his untimely death at the age of twenty-five. ALL EYEZ ON ME also stars Kat Graham, Lauren Cohan, Hill Harper, Jamal Woolard, and Danai Gurira.

A very well done look into what made Tupac into the super star he was becoming when he was shot to death whilst driving down the road. The murder is still unsolved and may never get solved considering the rumors and theories that suggest the police had something to do with the entire horrible situation. I went in wondering if I would even recognize any of Tupac’s music, I was never a huge fan and being a middle class white kid in a religious family his music wasn’t welcome in our home, so I was pleasantly surprised to recognize nearly a dozen of the tracks. Demetrius Shipp, Jr does an absolutely stunning job in his role, I’m sad that he hasn’t done much movie-wise since this came out in 2017.

Highly suggested.

James T. Kirk Bourbon Whiskey Ready to Beam Up

News – A new line of Trek-branded spirits kicks off today with the introduction of James T. Kirk Straight Bourbon Whiskey. Drink in the details ahead…

Ghost Rider Four On The Floor review

Collects Ghost Rider (2016) #1-5.The return of Robbie Reyes! And it’s hell on wheels as the Ghost Rider makes his roaring return! When a mysterious object from space crash-lands in southern California, some of the brightest minds in the Marvel Universe are drawn to Robbie’s backyard — including Amadeus Cho, the Totally Awesome Hulk! What mayhem will be unleashed as the high-octane hothead comes face-to-face with the jade genius? And with Robbie still possessed by the ghost of his evil uncle Eli…who’s really in the Ghost Rider’s driver’s seat? An all-new villain debuts — and who’s that on the tail of Ghost Rider? None other than the Wolverine! Strap in and start your engines, this one’s gonna be a scorcher!

I don’t feel too burned by this one, my local comic shop had a 3/$1 sale and I picked up the entire run of the “Ghost Rider” series from 2016 which only ran for 5 issues, long enough to tell this one story. It features a “new” Ghost Rider with no indication as to what happened to the original Ghost Rider and who this new guy is. There’s also a number of other superheroes that show up that are familiar in name only, as they’re the off brand / transgendered version: Female Wolverine, “totally awesome” Hulk, Silk, and confusingly Colson and May from the Agents of Shield television series.. Silk is the only one that makes me go “oh hey, I like that character, wonder what they’re going to bring to the table. Sadly the answer is “nothing”. Having Coulson and May involved in the story confuses the hell out of me, I didn’t think the MCU-ABC stuff was being included in “616” comics, and with all the other guest starts there isn’t much room in the five issues to explore this new Ghost Rider. He seems to be very similar to the Ghost Rider from tv’s Agents of Shield, but with enough of a different to wonder why they even bothered calling him Ghost Rider in either place.

It was an ok comic, but I can’t suggest it to anyone.

PS “Four on the Floor” means “a four-speed manual gearshift mounted on the floor of a motor vehicle.”  It was a new phrase to me and I thought it had to do with the number of guest starring characters until the 7th or 8th one showed up.

Father Figures review

Owen Wilson and Ed Helms play twin brothers whose mother (Glenn Close) raised them to believe their father had died when they were young, which they later discover to be a lie, prompting them to set out to find their real father. On the way, they discover more about their mother than they ever wanted to know. J.K. Simmons, Katt Williams, Terry Bradshaw (NFL Hall of Famer as himself), Ving Rhames and Christopher Walken costar in this outrageous and heart-warming comedy.

This ia a great movie for people celebrating Father’s Day (or even Mother’s Day!) but don’t have parents alive any more, but do have siblings. It’s a bit of a tear jerker at times, but man it was a fantastically funny movie.

The Mighty Thor Vol 1 Thunder In Her Veins The Mighty Thor 20152018 review

When Dr. Jane Foster lifts the mystic hammer Mjolnir, she is transformed into the Goddess of Thunder, the Mighty Thor! Her enemies are many, as Asgard descends further into chaos and unrest threatens to spread throughout the Ten Realms. Yet her greatest battle is against a far more personal foe: the cancer that is killing her mortal form. When Loki steps back into Thor’s life, will it ease her troubles or only add to her pain? It’s time to find out whether the next chapter in the twisting tale of the Trickster will be one of good or evil! There’s no such question about Malekith, though, as he and his Dark Council continue to fan the flames of a looming War of Realms! Jason Aaron continues his startling saga of the mighty Thor!

Welcome to yet another Marvel #1 that drops you right into the middle of a story with no explanation on what the fuck is going on. I give up Marvel, you’re the worst.

This was a good story with great art, but I have no clue why Thor is a woman, no clue why she was in a cancer ward as a patient, on idea why Odin was killing his own wife, where the “real” Thor was. Nothing was said about who this ‘council of the realms’ is, why they’re doing what they’re doing and why in the hell Roxxon Petroleum is in league with Dark Elves that are dropping bodies into low orbit around earth. I would read the second volume to maybe find out more, but it’s not included with Prime and this experience makes me feel the $15 they’re asking for V2 is not worth it.

Also as another frustration, I read this from Kindle because it was part of my overpriced Prime account. There’s about 5 or 6 double page “splash pages” that in a normal comic books are pretty damn impressive and are absolutely fantastic, but the Kindle app doesn’t rotate the way you would expect it to, it only supports double tapping the screen and it does a pretty nift super zoom that crops all the interesting parts of the art out in favor of just the words. If you thought you’d be able to pinch and zoom, well buddy have I got some sad news for you.

In all honestly the comics I download from shady pirate sites and read through other apps give me a better experience than this crap. I’m giving up on the kindle app for comics and my next one that I try will be through the Comixology app, which is also owned by Amazon, but designed by a different team.

The Boy On The Bridge review

Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy.The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their gates and sent him out into the world.To where the monsters lived.

The title has to be some kind of metaphor that I only barely get, because there’s no boy in this book (there’s a girl) and there’s no bridge (just lots of roads and nearly impassable fields). This book is a prequel to the rough around the edges zombie survival novel “The Girl With All The Gifts“, though there’s a epilogue that takes place way after the events of both books. Neither of these books are amazing enough to suggest you run out and read them, but they’re a quick enough read to add some pulpy fun to your summer if you can find them for under $3. Much more than that though and eh…..

There’s a couple other things to note that are somewhat related to this book, but only in the most remote personal tangent. On the Kindle app, instead of pages it gives you segments that you’ve completed and have left in the book, which is great unless they pad the backend of the book with a preview of a future book. I was all set to read for about an hour last night and the story ended with about 15% left of the book according to the kindle indicator, so I got about 15 minutes of reading instead of the full hour. Not the worst thing in the world, but I know they’re able to make those determinations based on the actual content of the book, after all they skip the cover, indicia and chapter list when you first open the book, surely they can just calculate to the final page of the story and not to the final page of the file.

The other and final item, I though I had actually lost the tablet that I started to read this on. I remembered taking it with me on a trip, then not seeing it all when I got back. Maybe I left it on top of the car? Maybe I left it at the bar? Maybe it was stolen? Nope, my wife had tucked it into her yarn back and found it a couple months later when she finally worked her way through the back unpacking stuff from it.

Two months to unpack! It’s a record in some ways

Cars 3 review

From Disney-Pixar, creators of FINDING DORY and Academy Award(R)winner INSIDE OUT (Best Animated Feature Film, 2015), comes an epic adventure packed with heart, hilarity and full-throttle FUN! Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers led by arrogant hotshot Jackson Storm, the legendary Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) is suddenly sidelined and pushed from the sport he loves. To get back on track, he’ll need the help of eager young racing technician Cruz Ramirez, inspiration from the late Fabulous Hudson Hornet and a few unexpected twists and turns of fate. Bring home the high-octane hit that’s fully loaded with unforgettable characters and spectacular animation!

purely by accident, my second movie today starring Owen Wilson, and another fun movie. I think I haven’t seen the second Cars movie, but I don’t feel like I missed much.