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NRA Show Puts Thomas the Tank Engine in KKK Hood to Criticize Diversity Move

The gun rights group’s sarcastic commentary on a move by the children’s show to diversify its cast left some asking if it had gone too far.

Doom

The adventure begins when a call for help from a research station on Mars sends a team of mercenary Marines, led by The Rock, into action in this unrated, extended version of the film.

It’s on Netflix now!

This was made back when The Rock was trying his hand at being the heel in movies and hadn’t gone all in on shaving his head. I’m happy he’s bald now, looks much better.

I had forgotten that Karl Urban was in this film and since I love Dredd so much, I was happy to see him here as the guy that shoots stuff. That’s my favorite role for him!

Bart in Action

Aliens vs Predator Requiem Uncut

Warring Alien and Predator races descend on a rural Colorado town, where unsuspecting residents must band together for any chance of survival.

As a direct continuation of the previous AvP movie, the big deal with this movie that it was rated R. If you notice that the title of the film is “requiem” (a moarning or gathering for the recently dead) and that lines up with the desire to let people know this is going to be a hard R movie, you get a cookie! The story fits pretty well into the franchise, but problem here though is both the color saturation and how dark everything ended up being. I watched this via Vudu and honestly thought I had accidentally purchased the SD version and not the HD / bluray version. After stopping the movie, verifying I had the right version, I hopped on the net and found a number of people complaining about the same thing on various forums and I think I even remember this being an issue when I originally watched this in the theater. It’s obvious that they were using the darkness to hide some CG sins, and I can’t honestly say that was a bad choice.

One of the better parts is the Pred-alien, what a fantastic creature! And the resolution of the story was absolutely fantastic, movies like these frequently pull their punches, so I’m always impressed when they go the distance. I wish there was some follow up with the stinger scene in the most recent “The Predator” film, other than showing all the Predator tech in a cabinet. How come 10 years later we don’t have laser cannons of our own?

Macaulay Culkin really wants to play a wizard in Fantastic Beasts 3

Macaulay Culkin is angling for a role in the Wizarding World. Culkin, the 38-year-old former child star remembered for films like Home Alone, The Pagemaster, and Saved!, recently revealed that he was repeatedly offered a key role in the hit CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory, only to turn it down.

Deputies Naked man chases 2 around Palm Coast ChickfilA parking lot

The arrest report offers no explanation for what may have prompted the man’s bizarre behavior.

The end of paper tickets for movies

I’m going to admit, this is going to be a whiny post about technology moving forever forward and leaving nostalgia behind. I’ve always enjoyed going to the movies, and I enjoy it even more going alone, watching a movie is definitely not something that requires someone you know to participate in, especially now that the internet has so many people on it, I’m never at a loss when I try to find someone else that’s just watched a movie that just came out, or even just watched a movie that came out 40 years ago that I also just watched.

I’ve tried to keep my movie ticket stubs from my 30 years of going to movies to some limited success, but as of 2018 I’m throwing in the towel. I’ve asked several of the companies that sell tickets, including AMC why they don’t include paper tickets and it usually boils down to the fact that everyone has a PDA on them at all times, and they’re not very likely to lose it since they’re usually several hundred dollars. I have a great book of movie stubs that I’ve frequently gone back to to see how I felt about a movie, but with the advent of paperless ticketing as the only option for movies, I’m finding more and more that I’m having to use my own blog to find the information instead of using a physical book. I love that book, but now I guess I’ll need to import all the movies from the physical pages into my site as pictures and blog posts. This isn’t just for movies too, several of the recent festivals I’ve gone to were digital only as well.

That’s all well and fine and normally I champion progress that results in less paper waste, but there’s something personal about the movie stub that I know I got back in ’98 and can still look at instead of a picture of a QR code or just a blog entry. I’ll always have my book, but it feels like the end of something more important, something more substantial.

You Were Never Really Here

A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe’s nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.

What a depressing waste of time.

Arrival of the Valkyrie

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Terminator 2 4k

Arnold Schwarzenegger returns as the Terminator in this explosive action-adventure spectacle. Now he’s one of the good guys, sent back in time to protect John Connor, the boy destined to lead the freedom fighters of the future. Linda Hamilton reprises her role as Sarah Connor, John’s mother, a quintessential survivor who has been institutionalized for her warning of the nuclear holocaust she knows is inevitable. Together, the threesome must find a way to stop the ultimate enemy: the T-1000, the most lethal Terminator ever created. Co-written, produced, and directed by James Cameron (THE TERMINATOR, ALIENS, TITANIC), this visual tour de force is also a touching human story of survival.

Amazon had it for $5 and I wish I had just kept my HD version, there was nothing special about the 4k, none of the scenes really popped and I didn’t think even once “hey I’m happy i bought the 4k version of this”.

Captain American Backpack

How video game music waltzed its way on to Classic FM

Once regarded as inferior to film and TV soundtracks, games scores are gaining recognition and awards as a valid form of contemporary classical music

The Kavanaugh assault allegations are a reminder that Democrats were smart to push Al Franken out

This could be going much worse.

Defcon Voting Village report bug in one system could flip Electoral College

High-speed tabulator vulnerable to remote attacks, and that’s only part of the problem.

Fox News Fires Contributor After He Calls Kavanaugh Accusers Lying Skanks

Kevin Jackson said that Christine Blasey Ford should stop “opening her legs.”

Ralph for President

People actually laughed at a president At UN speech Trump suffers the fate he always feared

The president had long accused American leaders of being taken advantage of by foreign counterparts. But on Tuesday, he was the one who suffered the indignity.

The Predator

In Shane Black’s explosive reinvention, the Predator is deadlier than ever, and only a ragtag crew can prevent the end of the human race.

Fits in with the other Predator movies, for better or worse. There’s some obvious problems with the editing of the film, which might be considered spoilers, so I’ll not go into details, but I do have to wonder: was it the behind the scenes drama where Munn decided to be a moral Judge Dredd or did the film run over budget and reshoots were not possible?

Other than the editing, the soundtrack had great callbacks, the special effects were pretty, and the story wasn’t complete trash. It could have been much worse, but it could have been a bit better too, but that’s just like all the other Predator films.

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Reed Richards. Sue Richards. Benjamin Grimm. Johnny Storm. They rocketed into outer space aboard an experimental starship, the first humans to attempt interstellar travel. But a freak encounter with cosmic radiation altered their lives forever, granting each amazing abilities! Now, Marvel’s First Family finds its members divided – their unique powers stretched to the absolute limit, their time-tested resolve pushed to the point of breaking. Each chapter of this quintessential collection focuses on one member of the cosmic quartet as the team’s greatest foes band together in an all-out assault on the FF! Plus: In Grant Morrison’s only other Marvel Knights story, superspy Nick Fury is targeted for death!

Found all four issues for $1 each in my LCS’s dollar bin, perfect condition! The story was pretty fun, but at times pretty confusing if you didn’t know what Doom was ultimately going to be up to here.

IIRC, this was back when the whole “Marvel Knights” thing was just taking off in an attempt to save Marvel Comics. Pretty sure it helped, I know that I enjoyed a fair number of the stories that were told in the MK books.

AntMan and the Wasp Coin Protection

Prison Architect Xbox One Edition

Take control of the building and running of a maximum security prison as the critically acclaimed lock-em-up arrives on Xbox One!

Free with X-Box Gold this month, but it’s not even worth that price. Boring and humorless and completely way too crass about the execution of prisoners, I really have to wonder what type of audience they’re shooting for here? Are there really a lot of Sim City fans that would enjoy building the execution chambers for a double murderer?  I uninstalled when they asked me to decorate the death room and place the death machines around the room, it was just too real for me.

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds sing and dance through an inspired tale of the story behind the demise of the real-life Chicken Ranch in the musical comedy, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. When a big TV crusader Melvin P. Thorpe (Dom DeLuise) threatens to expose the Chicken Ranch to public scandal and close it down, Miss Mona (Parton) doesn’t go down without a fight. With the help of Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd (Reynolds), the two join together to keep it open and find romance along the way. Sing along through this extraordinary story about passion, scandal and romance.

This was the first time I’ve seen this and I’m astonished at how much I enjoyed it, Dolly was downright perfect for this role and Burt played off her so well, I honestly felt they had a perfect on screen chemistry.

Much more nudity than I was expecting for a Dolly/Burt film, but I guess it makes sense considering the movie’s title.

Firefly Season 1

14 episodes, including 3 that never aired

Watched again because I bought it yet again and gorram it, it was time to watch it again. As time passed, cgi gets better, and all the actors age, it’s getting more and more difficult to revisit the series and not notice how rough around the edges everything is, the interior of the ship is amazing, but the exterior cgi is unfortunate, and damn everyone looks so young. Morena Baccarin is still as beautiful as she was at the time, but Nathan Fillion has definitely matured a fair bit since Firefly.

I wish there had been more, but I”m happy with what we got.

NJ Republican Under Fire For Comments About LGBTQ Adoption

Update: Sept. 13, 9:06 AM ET: After the publication of this post, the Smith campaign sent a full audio recording, which spanned nearly an hour, from the campaign event, which contradicts the Washington Blade’s characterization of his remarks.

Avatar at 2017 New York Comic Con

Chevy Chase is 74 sober and ready to work The problem Nobody wants to work with him

The man who helped revolutionize TV comedy with SNL in the ’70s is a tangle of contradictions.

Sierra Burgess Is A Loser

High school is hard. Dating is harder. But finding yourself? That’s the hardest.

The Beyond

Astronauts modified with advanced robotics are sent through a newly discovered wormhole. When the mission returns unexpectedly, the space agency race to discover what the astronauts encountered on their groundbreaking interstellar journey.

Tries to be too smart for it’s own capabilities, starts with a great premise of weird things going on into orbit and makes a massive and unexpected hard turn into robots and post humanist concepts that are great in a written form but are pretty boring to watch on the screen.

North Carolina didnt like science on sea levels so passed a law against it

In 2012, the state whose low-lying coast lies in the path of Hurricane Florence reacted to a prediction of catastrophically rising seas by banning policies based on such forecasts

Serenity

A passenger with a deadly secret. Six rebels on the run. An assassin in pursuit. When the renegade crew of Serenity agrees to hide a fugitive on their ship, they find themselves in an action-packed battle between the relentless military might of a totalitarian regime who will destroy anything or anyone to get the girl back and the bloodthirsty creatures who roam the uncharted areas of space. But the greatest danger of all may be on their ship.

4k on Vudu, it was only $5!

I should not have watched it immediately after watching the entire series in one day though, there’s a definite change in pace and a very obvious upgrade in special effect and cgi. These aren’t complaints mind you, but it just made the difference much more clear and jarring.

There wasn’t anything about this 4k presentation that really jumped out at me.

Melissa Howard former Florida House candidate could serve probation over fake diploma

Melissa Howard might still have the opportunity to serve area constituents.

I Love You America

Comedic genius Sarah Silverman is at it again with a new show that delivers hilarious comedy and at the same time works to spread the message that people should not be divided by their differences

Alien with Spines

Sheriff US border patrol agent arrested suspected of killing 4 women

A district attorney said officials considered the suspect to be a ‘serial killer.’

Avatar The Last Airbender Is Being Reborn as a LiveAction Netflix Series

Hot on the heels of Netflix’s The Dragon Prince, from Avatar: The Last Airbender head writer Aaron Ehasz, the studio has just stealthily announced that Avatar is coming back in an all-new, live-action series.

Guy Who Punched Charlottesville Organizer Fined a Measly 1

Jeffrey Winder won’t face any jail time after clocking the white supremacist in 2017.

FEMA postpones mobile Presidential Alert test to October 3rd

FEMA says the delay is due to Hurricane Florence and East Coast response efforts.

Rebel Galaxy

Rebel Galaxy is a swashbuckling space adventure, with action-packed combat, exploration, discovery, trade, and “negotiation” with the outlandish denizens at the edge of the known universe.

Released nearly 3 years ago to the day that I started playing it, I swear it was a coincidence, or at least I didn’t know why I picked it up. I seent it on humble bundle or chrono.gg for obscenely cheap, thought maybe I would try it out, but maybe I should check my Steam library before I spent $3 on it.

Low and behold, I’ve owned this since April 2017, it’s nice to get a game out of my unplayed queue after only a year and a half. I really wish I had started this back when I first bought it, I have some complaints about how shallow the gameplay is, but I honestly think that even that shallow game play is a positive with my current game playing style. All of the missions are resolvable within 20-30 minutes, the game automatically saves your progress when you quit out, and you can completely pause the game when you’re doing laundry.

The soundtrack is great the first 200 times I heard the twangy battle music, but after that….well I can see why they included a custom music direction option, so you can insert your own music into the game. Due to a severe case of apathetic laziness I did not partake in this feature, but if it annoys you, there it is.

Presidential Alert FEMA to test emergency alert system next week

You’ll soon be getting a message on your phone from the President of the United States — whether you are a supporter or not.

Avengers STRIKE

Doctor Who Season 11

A lady Doctor has appeared!

How Star Trek DS9 Paved The Way For Ron Moores Battlestar Galactica

Excerpt from new oral history features Ron Moore and other Trek writers talking about how ‘Deep Space Nine’ led to the ‘Galactica’ reboot.

I’m a fan of both franchises and a huge fan of Ron Moore’s work, I fully expect to enjoy this book when it comes out.

Inside the Aztec empires sacrifice city

Recent finds show that a vast rack of skulls stood in a temple at the heart of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital

IRS ruling allows 401k student loan benefits

More employers may move to adopt a student debt repayment benefit as part of their retirement plan.

Canadians who smoke marijuana legally or work or invest in the industry will be barred from the US Customs and Border Protection official

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that he will not “impress upon the U.S. who they have to let in or not.”

Microwave Weapons Are Prime Suspect in Ills of US Embassy Workers

Doctors and scientists say microwave strikes may have caused sonic delusions and very real brain damage among embassy staff and family members.

The Last Starfighter

“Greetings, Starfighter! You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Kodan Armada.” So begins an adventure of galactic proportions in The Last Starfighter. After Earthling Alex (Lance Guest) conquers the Starfighter video game, he is recruited by alien Centauri (Robert Preston) to be part of an elite legion of fighters. Leaving behind his trailer park home for the outer regions of space, Alex becomes the last hope for the beleaguered Star League and hundreds of worlds – including Earth. Loaded with out-of-this-world bonus features and digitally remastered for optimum picture quality, The Last Starfighter 25th Anniversary Edition is the ultimate video game fantasy come true!

Watching this in 2018, man what a corny flick with jarring CGI. It came out only a couple years after TRON and it really shows that while they were striving for something good, computer generated images simply weren’t ready to replace miniatures or practical effects. I applaud the effort though and because this movie is amazingly nostalgic for me (I don’t know why, I was two when it originally came out), so I can overlook any visual shortcomings it may have. The practical effects were actually pretty cool, I remember being freaked out by the Beta robot when it was growing it’s face, and Robert Preston stole every scene he was in.

BlacKkKlansman

Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan with the help of a white surrogate, who eventually becomes head of the local branch.