December 2016

Coming Soon – Alien: Covenant

  • Title: Alien: Covenant
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So I guess they are just going to keep churning these movies out. The first trailer for the sequel to Prometheus stars Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, and Danny McBride as the crew of a ship who come across a new world with dark secrets inhabited by the sole survivor of the Prometheus expedition. The sequel opens in theaters on May 19th.

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The Librarians and the Trial of the Triangle

  • Title: The Librarians – And the Trial of the Triangle
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The Librarians and the Trial of the Triangle TV review

Did I miss an episode? When did Flynn (Noah Wyle) become such an ass? And when did he get on the nerves of everyone else to the extent they needed to form an intervention? Once again, Flynn has come and go as he’s want to do over the course of a season, but I was surprised for the sudden need of an intervention from his peers to kick off the latest episode of The Librarians when the biggest negative impact he’s really had is not being around.

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Lion

  • Title: Lion
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LionOnly two films in 2016 offered a profound emotional reaction that forced me to tears. The first was a sobering documentary of an athlete struggling with the onset of an incurable and debilitating disease. Like Gleason, Lion has its basis in fact as director Garth Davis‘ film dramatizes the truth story of Saroo Brierley (Dev Patel) and his long journey to find home.

Offering us two films for the price of one, Davis expertly balances two threads set in different locales with completely different casts. This is no easy task, yet the film weaves both together into a compelling narrative about a sense of self, home, and place in the world.

Starting in the country outside of Calcutta, we meet a young Saroo (Sunny Pawar) and his older brother Guddu (Abhishek Bharate). Separated in the city from Guddu, Sarro narrowly escapes a terrible fate on the streets. Even with the help of authorities, the five-year-old can’t find his way back home and is eventually adopted by an Australian couple (David Wenham and Nicole Kidman) to be raised thousands of miles from his home.

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