Lindsey Stirling – Carol of the Bells
Here’s Lindsey Stirling with the video for “Carol of the Bells.”
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December 2017
Tomb Raider: Survivor’s Crusade #1
- Title: Tomb Raider: Survivor’s Crusade #1
- Comic Vine: link
- Writers: Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly
- Artist: Ashley A. Woods
The first issue of Tomb Raider: Survivor’s Crusade takes Lara Croft to Corniglia, Italy inside a secret underground tomb discovered by Trinity. Lara isn’t there for the tomb, its riddles, or its treasures. She’s come seeking out members of the mysterious organization for answers concerning the identity of the person responsible for her father’s death.
Narrated throughout with the multiple attempts by our protagonist to explain her absence, and failing, the first issue does a fairly good job in kicking off the point of the series and just what Lara is questing for this time around. Although I enjoy Ashley A. Woods’ work, I’m not wild about the art in this issue. The action scenes work well-enough but there’s a grit to Lara and her adventures that doesn’t come across well in this first issue.
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Eva Pentek knows how to Be Authentique
Model Eva Pentek‘s photo shoot with photographer Sandor Kovacs is collected by B-Authentique. You can find her pics inside.
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Blade of the Immortal
- Title: Blade of the Immortal
- IMDb: link
Based on the Japanese manga of the same name, Blade of the Immortal is bloody affair from director Takashi Miike. The story centers around the cursed samurai Manji (Takuya Kimura) who cannot die. Approached by a young girl (Hana Sugisaki) who reminds the samurai of his lost sister, our hero reluctantly agrees to help her get vengeance on the swordsmen who killed her father and their leader Anotsu Kagehisa (Sôta Fukushi).
In terms of action and body count, the movie doesn’t disappoint. However, adapting two books from the series into a single film proves to be a bit awkward at times. There’s a completely unnecessary subplot of a group of mercenaries killing off the same samurai as our hero which only bloats the film’s already considerable running time. Also troubling is the script’s inability to decide how great a swordsman our protagonist truly is. In the opening and closing scenes our hero is unstoppable, taking down an insane number of enemies. However, in pretty much every scene in-between, in one-on-one combat with Anotsu’s lieutenants, his skill is highly questionable. The result is an interesting, if uneven, action film.
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Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Orientation
- Title: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Orientation (Parts 1 & 2)
- wiki: link
Okay, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is officially out of ideas. Tell me if this sounds familiar, Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) and his team wake to discover they’ve been transported to a mysterious new world and will spend several episodes (about half a season, maybe) trying to find their way home? Yeah, that was last season’s second-half arc. It’s always where this season begins with the team abducted and shot into the future awakening aboard a Kree prison ship and struggling (and failing) to discover how and why they ended up in their current predicament.
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