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 Looks like we’re  about to get a whole new meaning for  “going off the grid”…

Tron is one of the more delightful films from my childhood and I really liked Tron: Legacy when it came out in 2010.  Tron: Ares looks like it’s going hardcore for the next iteration of the franchise’s evolution: the digital world entering the real one.  Well, Flynn did tell his son in Legacy that the two realms are more connected than we realized.  And Clu believed he could invade our reality.  So that seed has already been sowed.

Maybe if Disney commits to a solid film without a “woke” agenda – like its Snow White currently bombing bigtime – I might see this....

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And, ummm… little on the fence about this.  I think David Corenswet is definitely tapping into the Superman mystique.  When I see him as Superman and then as Clark Kent it really is like looking at two different people, which is what Christopher Reeve – the gold standard for the character – pulled off magnificently.

I’m wondering if this trailer packs in too much for a teaser.  This is our first time looking at James Gunn’s Superman, due out this coming July 11.  It doesn’t give us as much sense of wonder about Superman himself as I was anticipating.  But, Krypto is awesome!  Who doesn’t love dogs? 🙂

Anyhoo, here is the teaser, which dropped a little while ago.  See for yourself and feel free to leave a comment.

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In the past couple of years some beloved characters have begun entering public domain.  And that’s led to them being abused by people with less than noble intent.  The worst example probably being the recent film Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, in which Pooh becomes a feral bear hellbent on revenge for Christopher Robin abandoning him.  It’s a horrible thing to do to such a revered children’s character and of course it found an audience, probably of people who never cared to even watch the Disney movie much less read the original book.

But what “they” have done to Popeye has got to be worse than that.

Here is the trailer for Popeye the Slayer Man:

This is actually one of two movies coming up featuring a murderous Popeye.  The other is Shiver Me Timbers and it looks more horrible than this one.

I’m sure the people ...

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Why didn’t somebody tell me about this??  It was released three weeks ago!!

Oh alright, I guess I’ve just been so busy with things that I didn’t notice.  The past three months or so have been so whacked on my end.  I’m sure an awful lot slipped under my radar.

But I’m glad to be seeing it now.  Stranger Things has more or less become the only pop cultural franchise that I’m interested in anymore.  Star Wars is now such a mess that I finally gave up being a fan.  And Doctor Who has gone completely off the rails in the worst way.

Well, there is one final season left of Stranger Things.  Feels like an enormous epoch of my life is winding down.  This show is going to leave a vacuum and I don’t know what is going to fill it.

So here is the teaser for season five, ...

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I’ve had the honor and the great pleasure of being among the cast of two productions of the stage play of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.  If it were possible I would play the head fireman every year for the rest of my life, it was so much fun!  It’s a wonderful story rife with holiday hilarity, hijinks, and hope.

I had no idea that this movie was coming, the announcement struck right out of the blue.  But I’m already looking forward to it with great zeal.  This is the second time that the book has been adapted into a motion  picture, the first was a television movie for the ABC network in 1983.  This new version is directed by Dallas Jenkins, who I have a lot of respect for.

And if done right The Best Christmas Pageant Ever could… emphasis could… become a holiday tradition movie every ...

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I  very rarely play video or computer games anymore.  Mostly it’s because of a lack of time.  And there are other amusements too, like having a miniature dachshund.  But that doesn’t mean I don’t have an active interest in the industry…

(I am currently trying to finish Fallout: New Vegas at last, whenever I’m having some downtime.  It’s only been out since 2010.  Time to wrap that baby up!)

There is one game franchise that is especially near and dear to my heart though: the Gears of War series.

Maybe it’s because each of the games seem to have coincided with some circumstance in my life.  Gears of  War was released on November 7th, 2006.  That was also Election Day of my first/likely last political campaign.  Then came Gears of War 2 two years later.  That game came out a few weeks after the worst thing that ever happened ...

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Word is breaking loose at this hour that Bethesda’s new Indiana Jones game has finally been revealed…

Coming later this year it’s Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.  Looks set pre World War II aka the “golden era” of the saga.  As for the “MacGuffin” of this particular adventure, there are hints of in in the trailer that went live a little while ago.

So let’s take a look at it!

I’m not much of a video game player anymore (though I still want to eventually finish Fallout: New Vegas) but this might tempt me to get a new console.  Well, of course a new BioShock game would make me want that even more 🙂

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 …and, well, I’m stoked about this movie.  It looks like it could be even better than Ghostbuster: Afterlife.  And I loved that movie a lot.

Here’s the teaser for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire that dropped yesterday:

I will definitely be wearing my Ghostbusters uniform to the theater to see this.  All the more reason to upgrade my boots for it 🙂

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It was released earlier today.  I’ve watched this trailer for Babylon 5: The Road Home at least five times now… and I am stoked.  It looks beautiful.  And it seems that they’ve done an excellent job at casting the voice actors for the characters whose original portrayers have “gone beyond the Rim” over the years.

(I’m hoping that we get at least one look inside Garibaldi’s quarters aboard Babylon 5.  Just to see if the painting of Daffy Duck is still there.)

Anyhoo… enjoy!

Babylon 5: The Road Home hits digital download, 4K, and Blu-ray on August 15th, 2023.

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