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I must be honest, that I’m not completely jazzed about Avengers: Doomsday.  Not like what happened the last time the Russo brothers made Marvel movies (Infinity War and Endgame).  Maybe I’m just tired of comic book movies?  Others seem to be feeling the same.  This and Dune Part Three are coming out on the same day and I know which I would get a ticket for.

What about you?  Does a new Marvel movie stoke you?

Well anyhoo, here is the first trailer for Avengers: Doomsday.

I do confess that Robert Downey Jr. playing Doctor Doom piques my curiosity.  So we’ll see.

And yes, I am aware that there is a new trailer for Dune Part Three.  But I haven’t watched it.  The first two movies were such a delight (though there was some deviation from the novel) that I want to go into this ...

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I have already told my best friend Chad that if I can get 250 miles to where he lives in November, we are going to see this movie.

Yowza!!  I believe already that MGM has a solid, solid hit on their hands.  This is going to connect with the fans and the critics.  Darn it, we need a feel-good inspirational movie right now, if we ever needed one at all.  And the story of how Sylvester Stallone came up from the streets to write and star in Rocky is as inspiring as it gets.

I Play Rocky comes out in select theaters on November 6th and all over the place later in November.  Plenty of time for award consideration.

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Masters of the Universe is officially the movie I most want to see this summer.  It looks like it’s going to be all kinds of bonkers good time!  It comes across as every Masters toy I had as a kid put into a big box and shaken around and then poured out on the carpet.  The design, the color palette, the voices…

This is going to be a supremely big dumb fun movie.  The perfect two-hour getaway from the craziness of the real world.
Here’s the new trailer that dropped yesterday.  Lots of stuff in this one, including our first look at Jared Leto’s Skeletor as he delivers some dialogue.

I think that there should be a collector’s popcorn bucket and that it look like Man-At-Arms’s helmet.  Practical and fashionable.

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Hot dang!  I have to see this when it comes out.  Masters of the Universe looks to be the most funnest movie that I would have beheld in a theater in too long a time.  And I will see this in a theater, Lord willing.  It’s just… awwww man this is simply awesome!  It’s like the Masters of the Universe figures that I had all together in a box, taken out and brought to glorious life.  Not sure about the “Earth angle” though, but I’m going to be more than willing to give this a chance.  Right now I want nothing more than the distilled essence of this trailer shot into my veins and giving me a hearty boost of magnificent.

Awright well enough of me blabbering on, here is the first trailer for Masters of the Universe: a film that dares to be better than we ...

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Since Thanksgiving night I have watched the first volume of the final season of Stranger Things twice.  The shock still hasn’t faded.  Dang it I want to talk openly about what’s been streamed so far!!!  But there are still so many who haven’t watched the latest episodes yet.  I’m going to be considerate of them.

But if you have seen the first four episodes of season five already, here is the new trailer that dropped earlier today:

I’ll share an interesting theory I’ve heard, though.  It’s being posited that Vecna, for all his malevolence and power, is not the ultimate villain of Stranger Things.  That there is some one or some thing over him that is the true monster behind everything that has happened.  I’ve heard it suggested that in keeping with the Dungeons & Dragons motif that’s rife through this show, this final entity could be code-named Tiamat.
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“William, you are going to help me… one last time.”

Love that cover of Queen’s “Who Wants To Live Forever?”  I have to wonder what that portends.

Feels like the end of an era of my lifetime is looming.  I really don’t know what is going to fill the void left by Stranger Things after the finale airs, streams, whatever.  I watched the first season on my iPad one day in a hotel room in Albuquerque.  From the very first moments I loved it.  That was nine years ago.  So much has happened since then.  And now… well, what do I do now?

The final season begins with volume one on November 26th....

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Okay, the past few days have been a little wacky on my side of the screen.  Quite a bit of stuff going on that has been below my radar and this is one of them.  Five days ago the trailer for Fallout second season dropped and I’m just now looking at it.

And having just seen it I got to say: it looks glorious!  Now, Fallout: New Vegas is the one Fallout title that I’ve yet to complete.  I bought it when the game first came out in 2010 and, let’s just say that real-world circumstances have kept me from finishing it.  The last thing that I did in the game before having to take a “leave of absence” from it was to get to New Vegas and explore around.  I’m pretty familiar with the landscape surrounding the city before arriving there.  So I already know much of the ...

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Just like “Running Up That Hill” did three years ago, “Child In Time” by Deep Purple is no doubt going to burn up the charts on Spotify and iTunes the next few days

Behold the trailer for the very last season of Stranger Things:

The kids look GREAT!  It’s almost like no time has passed at all since we last saw them in 2022.  For all the delays that COVID and then the strikes caused to this series’s production, it doesn’t really seem like the cast has become too old for their parts.

Maybe we should call Stranger Things “the little Netflix series that could.”

Part one of the final season drops the day before this Thanksgiving.  The second part on Christmas Day.  The grand finale on New Years Eve.  And I seriously don’t know what my pop culture drug of choice is going to be after this series ...

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Well, I know what I’ll be doing from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve in another six months…

“RUN!!  RUUUUUUUNNNN!!!!!”


Volume One at Thanksgiving.  Volume 2 on Christmas.  The finale on New Year’s Eve.

Stranger Things has been the only show that I’ve followed at all during this past decade. I seriously don’t know what’s going to fill that void in my life.  It’s one of the few things pop culture-wise that I’ve been interested in all this time.  I haven’t watched Star Wars: Andor though I keep getting told that I must see that, it’s supposed to be the best thing that Disney has done with that franchise since it took over.

But Stranger Things will forever have a very special place in my heart, just from when it started.  When I was on the road going across America for a year.  That it’s ending this coming holiday season, ...

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A couple of things went online today that I’ve watch a few times.  I’ve got a good feeling about both of these.

First, it’s the first trailer for the second season of Amazon’s  Fallout series.  As a die-hard fan of the Fallout games I absolutely loved the first season.  They completely nailed the look and feel of the franchise.  It was an astounding surprise that throughly delighted me.  Season two debuts in December, which may be a busy month for streaming if the final volume of Stranger Things comes out then also (as many are speculating).

So here’s the trailer for Fallout season two:

And then there’s this: the new (and probably final) trailer for Superman.  This is a project that has gotten me increasingly intrigued with each new spot that’s been released.  I think David Corenswet is going to do much as the great Christopher Reeve did ...

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