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Escape From New York Getting Remade By the Co-Creator of Saw

Leigh Whannell will write a new Snake Plissken script.

What an absolutely horrible idea. Why remake it when you can just continue the story?

A GOP mega-donors Islamophobic conspiracy emails are a major headache for the Chicago Cubs

Joe Ricketts, a prominent Republican donor and the founder of TD Ameritrade, bought the Chicago Cubs for his children in 2009. Now a leak of his personal emails has tested some fans’ loyalty.

A Bad Idea Gone Wrong

A comedy about two would-be thieves who accidentally arm the alarm system and have to break out of the house they just broke into. When they discover an unexpected housesitter, they suddenly have to deal with a hostage situation, double crosses, sexual tensions, and discoveries that make their difficult escape even more dubious. SXSW Special Jury Recognition for Best Ensemble.

Fantastic movie about idiots getting a bad idea in their head, then doing the entire thing completely wrong, to great effect. I really enjoyed the film.

The Accountant

A forensic accountant un-cooks the books for illicit clients.

I’ve seen this before and enjoyed it and enjoyed it this time too. I was given the opportunity to purchase it for $5 in MS money, which is free for some people, so I now own the 4k version of this film.

Yay me.

Punisher The Ghosts of Innocents

The Punisher’s harassment of the Kingpin finally overrides the amusement value of hiding the man the Punisher wants to kill. The criminal is thrown to Frank Castle, who executes him via train. This does not calm the ghosts.

There’s a couple different ways to portray The Punisher:

1 – He’s a crazy psychopath that had a horrendously traumatic event happen and now he’s a cold blooded murder that schemes and plots to kill the worst people in the world using the most violent and explosive methods possible.
2 – He’s a crazy psychopath that literally sees the ghosts of his family, along with the ghosts of any innocents that get wrapped up in his crusade against anyone that even so much as litters in his line of sight.

This two issue mini series went the second route. It’s not a horrible story, but man I do not like the idea that he’s just running around talking to ghosts and asking them who to kill next.

AI Helps Amputees Walk With a Robotic Knee

Computer algorithms help prosthetics wearers walk within minutes rather than requiring hours of training

The Kid Who Would Be King

In this epic adventure, when a bullied kid discovers Excalibur, the legendary Sword in the Stone, he and his friends (and enemies) join the wizard Merlin (Patrick Stewart) to fight evil!

The director’s previous film was “Attack The Block”, which was absolutely fantastic, so I didn’t hesitate to go see The Kid Who Would Be King in the theater. It was worth every damn penny I spent on my AMC A-List. There’s some changes to the Arthurian legend, but honestly at this point, who even knows about the finer details of that particular fairy tale?

This was great, you should check it out!

The Punisher Season 2

Season two was better than season one, season three isn’t looking like it’s going to happen due to the shenanigans that are going on with the upcoming “Disney Plus” service.

Trump accused of not working hard enough after averaging one event a day

President ‘sitting around watching Fox News and hate-tweeting all day’, former ambassador suggests

NRA says 2015 Moscow trip wasnt official Emails photos reveal gun groups role

Emails sent by NRA officials before the trip, as well as photos taken during the visit, offer greater detail about the organization’s role in arranging the excursion.

UltraViolet digital movie locker is shutting down

Users have until July 31st to preserve their libraries

Florida man jailed on false drug charge from OLeary police Miami Herald

Matt Crull said he was falsely arrested in December for possessing heroin in Martin County, Florida, when officer Steven O’Leary mistook his detergent for the drug. The cop was fired for 11 false drug charges.

Robocallers blasted Americans with 263 billion spam calls last year

Robocalls are up 46 percent from 2017

Germany to close all 84 of its coal-fired power plants will rely primarily on renewable energy

Germany, the world’s fourth biggest consumer of coal, aims to shut down all 84 of its coal-burning plants that produce 40% of the country’s electricity within the next 19 years in order to meet its international commitments in the fight against climate change, a government commission said Saturday.

On patrol with the enforcer of DCs plastic-straw ban

In the nation’s capital, plastic straws are out; hay straws are in.

Australia records hottest month ever

For the first time, January saw average temperatures exceed 30C (86F) across the country.

Google shuts down April 2 all data will be deleted

Google’s failed Facebook clone will be scrubbed from the Internet.

Assassins Creed Chronicles Russia

Join Nikolaï Orelov in his search for redemption as you journey through an iconic, propaganda art style Russia in 2.5D gameplay.

This was a beautiful game with a somewhat interesting premise, all ruined by absolutely confusing and frustrating controls. Not sure why they decided it was a good time to re-invent the wheel, but I gave up after the first level was completed.

WRC 6 World Rally Championship

Authentic: 14 official rallies with the official drivers and teams, 12 Super Special Stages faithfully reproduced on a 1:1 scale, Iconic locations from real events

A racing rally game, I would not have even tried it if it weren’t free.

I still feel like I wasted my time, as there were no spaceships, nor lasers involved with this game. Plenty of directions to turn left 2, hard right, no break, slow, no slow, hard right, full on.

I have no clue what any of that means and it wasn’t included in the tutorial, so no clue what I was supposed to do with it.

Zeus Died Yesterday

He was a good dog and I miss him.

Assassination Nation

Directed by Sam Levinson. With Odessa Young, Abra, Suki Waterhouse, Hari Nef. After a malicious data hack exposes the secrets of the perpetually American town of Salem, chaos decends and four girls must fight to survive, while coping with the hack themselves.

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.

Hidden

Directed by Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer. With Alexander Skarsgård, Andrea Riseborough, Emily Alyn Lind, Steven Elliot. A family takes refuge in a bomb shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.

Hot Summer Nights

Directed by Elijah Bynum. With Timothée Chalamet, Maika Monroe, Alex Roe, Emory Cohen. Circa 1980s, a sheltered teenage boy comes of age during a wild summer he spends in Cape Cod getting rich from selling pot to gangsters, falling in love for the first time, partying and eventually realizing that he is in over his head.

Bryan Singer still directing Red Sonja despite recent sexual assault allegations

Director Bryan Singer is still on track to direct Red Sonja for Millennium Films despite recent allegations of sexual assault brought up by a story in The Atlantic.

Not sure how we forgot that accusations don’t mean guilt.

In Darkness

Directed by Anthony Byrne. With Natalie Dormer, Emily Ratajkowski, Ed Skrein, Joely Richardson. A blind musician hears a murder committed in the apartment upstairs from hers that sends her down a dark path into London’s gritty criminal underworld.

What Will Happen to The Simpsons as Disney Takes Over Fox

When “The Simpsons” ends its 30th and current season this spring, it will have racked up 663 original episodes — having a season ago passed “Gunsmoke” (635) as the longest-running scripted program …

Florida Secretary of State Mike Ertel resigns after Halloween blackface photos emerge

Secretary of State Mike Ertel was captured in a photo wearing blackface at a private party 14 years ago.

Man who stole own car wins settlement

Illinois police arrested Lawrence Crosby for theft but it turned out to be his own car.

Meme of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called racist shared in Williamson County Republican Party email

A image of U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a racist joke was sent out in an email blast by the Williamson County Republican Party.

It’s a racist joke that doesn’t make much sense if you’re not on the inside loop of what the extreme right wingers are chattering about.

Longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone indicted by special counsel in Russia investigation

Stone, who has been under scrutiny for months by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, was charged on seven counts.

Dumplin

Based on a book of the same name, this is a great feel good movie with a confusing cast of characters playing outside of their range (20+ play teens? ok.), but still managed to end with a great sense of purpose.

When We First Met

Noah meets Avery at a Halloween party and falls in love but gets friend-zoned. 3 years later she’s engaged to someone else. Noah uses the photo booth time machine several times to return and fix things. Will it work or…?

It’s like groundhog day, but with a first date twist. I enjoyed it, as I enjoy most time loop movies, though the main character really didn’t use his loops the way most others do, he was pretty dumb about the whole thing and really only came out with a positive outcome because he just gave up on the idea of being with the perfect woman, as played by the nearly perfect Alexandria Daddario.

AOC Thinks Billionaires Are a Threat to Democracy So Did Our Founders

The idea that democracy and billionaires are incompatible might seem radical to conservatives. But to America’s founders, it seemed like common sense.

I Am Legend

Adaptation of a short story about the last man in the world.

The story’s been adapted before and I’m not sure which ending of this film I’m actually more a fan of, but I like the theatrical version enough to buy the 4k version digitally? Both versions of the adaptation suffer from missing the point of the name “I Am Legend” entirely, but this one missed it the most. it’s still a great film, just doesn’t do justice to the original short story.

This invisible skin stamp lets you know when its time to put on more sunscreen

Researchers say we don’t put on enough sunscreen. A Seattle startup has come up with a potential fix: an invisible ink stamp that notifies you when it’s time to re-apply. Michael Croix, a longtime…

Monstress

2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Writer
2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Painter/Multimedia Artist
2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Continuing Series
2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Publication for Teens
2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Cover Artist
2018 Harvey Award winner, Book of the Year
2018 Hugo Award winner, Best Graphic Story
2018 British Fantasy Award winner, Best Comic/Graphic Novel
2018, 2016, 2015 Entertainment Weekly’s The Best Comic Books of the Year
2018, Newsweek’s Best Comic Books of the Year
2018, The Washington Post’s 10 Best Graphic Novels of the Year
2018, Barnes & Noble’s Best Books of the Year
2018, YALSA’s Great Graphic Novels for Teens
2018, Thrillist’s Best Comics & Graphic Novels of the Year
2018, Powell’s Best Science-Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Graphic Novels of the Year

Set in an alternate matriarchal universe, in a richly imagined world of art deco-inflected steam punk, MONSTRESS tells the story of a teenage girl who is struggling to survive the trauma of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, a connection that will transform them both and make them the target of both human and otherworldly powers.

I loved absolutely every page of this series, I’m pretty late to the party, but Image did a preview of the first issue that blew me away so I bought the first three collections for about $10 each (still that price on amazon too, see the links above). There’s a bit of something in here for everyone, I particularly like the idea that cats are interdimensional travelers that got stuck in one universe and they’ve never forgetten they used to be able to do more. There a TON more in these books, little fox people, cats with multiple tails, demons embedded in amputated arms, queens, wars, old gods, and art that just amazed me every time I turned the page.

if you have a chance, check it out.

Warriors skip the White House meet with former president Barack Obama instead

Draymond Green described the visit as “amazing.”

Star Wars The Complete Collection

The first six Star Wars film in high definition!

Found it suspiciously cheap on Facebook Marketplace, but I didn’t want to look at this particular gift horse in the mouth and got what I was looking for. The six movies look great and the special features look like they’re going to be fun to watch. I was actually surprised how nice the films look, but I know that the moment there’s a 4k version of the original trilogy I’m going to be a sucker and get those too.

I Was a 4-Year-Old Trapped in a Teenagers Body

“I was all of the things people are when they’re 14 or 15” — except a decade younger.

FBI agents praised for arresting Roger Stone without pay

He is expected to be arraigned in court.

Bad Times at the El Royale

Circa 1969, several strangers, most with a secret to bury, meet by chance at Lake Tahoe’s El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one night, everyone will show their true colors – before everything goes to hell.

This was a fun movie with some great stories and has a great sense of mystery about the whole thing.

Gone With The Wind

Period romance. War epic. Family saga. Popular fiction adapted with crowd-pleasing brilliance. Star acting aglow with charisma and passion. Moviemaking craft at its height. These are sublimely joined in the words Gone with the Wind.

Another great CMX flashback experience with one weird caveat. Before the movie begins they have a guy telling you about the film (for the previous film I watched he went into detail about how the Alien franchise was not being developed but that James Cameron was interested so that’s how we got 5+ more films in the series). For “Gone With The Wind” I was sure they were going to mention that this movie should be enjoyed (it’s a great film with absolutely amazing acting, sets, and costumes) but that it has some aspects of the film that should be taken with either a grain of salt or an entire history lesson on the American Civil War and separately, the history of Black Americans. No warnings about how this is a romanticized version of “The South” and that the grandeur they show in the movie was little more than fiction. No warning about the racist language or concepts.

It was a good experience, but as you can imagine, I feel the introduction could have been a four hour special all on it’s own.

Summer of 84

Directed by François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell. With Graham Verchere, Judah Lewis, Caleb Emery, Cory Gruter-Andrew. After suspecting that their police officer neighbor is a serial killer, a group of teenage friends spend their summer spying on him and gathering evidence, but as they get closer to discovering the truth, things get dangerous.

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

Accompanied by his feisty, independent ex-flame Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen), the two-fisted archaeologist embarks on a thrilling quest to locate the mystical Ark of the Covenant. Indy must discover the Ark before the Nazis do, and he has to survive poison, traps, snakes and treachery to do so.

Always good to have on in the background, but then to forget what you’re actually doing and watch a great movie.

Glass

The worlds of Unbreakable and Split collide in the comic-book thriller, Glass, from filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, starring James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, and Samuel L. Jackson.

The trilogy that I never thought would be made wraps up the origin stories that started 18 years ago. There’s likely going to be some complaints about how slow the movie is, but that’s just how the M. Night works. His films have never been wall to wall action and honestly this is the most action I’ve seen from him in a long while, but it doesn’t compare to the Marvel / DC slug fests that we’re all accustomed to by now.

I really enjoyed it.

Oversight Committee to investigate White House security clearances

The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday announced it was launching a “wide-ranging” probe into the White House’s handling of its security clearance process, kicking off one of the first high-profile investigations into the Trump administration by the new, Democratic-controlled chamber.

Back to the Future The Game

A classic Telltale game that lead to their breakout hits The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, Game of Thrones, and Tales from the Borderlands

I’ve played through 3/4 of the Walking Dead games, so I’m pretty well over the Telltale formula of just wandering around a scene clicking on things and hoping you figure out the black magic to move the story forward. I know this was the game that launched a dozen other games just like it, but it did nothing for me, so after a single chapter of the first episode I just gave up. RIP TTG, you never did grow or change the game the way I was hoping you would.

Blue Planet II

David Attenborough returns to the world’s oceans in this sequel to the acclaimed documentary filming rare and unusual creatures of the deep, as well as documenting the problems our oceans face.

I really thought I had already watched this, but there were so many portions of it that felt new to me. It’s on Netflix right now in glorious 4k HDR, if you have the ability to watch it that way, I highly suggest it.

Aliens

Sigourney Weaver stars in Aliens, the sequel to the 1979 blockbuster Alien, reprising her role as Officer Ripley, the sole survivor of the spaceship Nostromo’s encounter with a deadly extraterrestrial. This time she returns to the very planet where her nightmare originally began with a squad of heavily armed marines, in a search-and-rescue mission for some missing space colonists.

There’s a semi new theater in town that has a full fledged restaurant and bar. It also features a weekly “flashback” movie that ranges from damn awesome (Aliens, Die Hard!) some interesting (Gone With The Wind!) and some that are just horrible (A christmas story? that’s on a legit 48 hour loop on TBS every year). Aliens is the first movie that I saw in this set up, I never got the chance to see it in theaters when it originally came out, I believe I was about 5 at the time. Had a buddy call me up and suggest we see it, so I dropped everything I was doing (I was still sleeping in bed) and went on down to see it.

It’s been years since I’ve seen the original version of the film as I only own the director’s cut. The original is still a great movie without many questions, though I did appreciate a couple scenes from the directors cut that I felt were missed in the original, the opening scenes on the colony (when they say we go, we go) and the turrets running dry from the xenos just throwing themselves at them.

It was a great experience, one that I had again the next weekend when I went to see Gone With The Wind, which I’ll review in a different post.