July 2018

Teen Titans Go! To the Movies

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  • Title: Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
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Teen Titans Go! To the Movies movie reviewSince the show’s introduction back in 2013, Teen Titans Go! has met with mixed reaction from fans. Some love the madcap feel of the short adventures while other felt DC strayed too far from the earlier (more serious take) found on the first Teen Titans animated series. Even if the show’s writing has been somewhat inconsistent, I’ve enjoyed my share of Teen Titans Go! and my only real question was whether or not its slapstick style could work stretched out over a feature film? You bet your ass it can.

Full of DC fan references and inside jokes (such as Nicolas Cage playing Superman), the film is a nerdtastic delight.

The movie throws us into a world (not unlike our own) full of super-hero movies. Robin (Scott Menville), the selfish leader of the Teen Titans, desperately wants to join the ranks of Batman, Aquaman, Superman, and the rest of DC’s top heroes who have all earned their own movies. Alas, no one takes the sidekick or his misfit team seriously. The solution? Find an arch-nemesis and convince a studio exec (Kristen Bell) that the Titans are worthy of a movie.

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Voltron – The Colony

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  • Title: Voltron: Legendary Defender – The Colony
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Voltron - The Colony television review

“The Colony” offers the turning point to the season that been foreshadowed for several episodes. The return of Keith (Steven Yeun) allows for the reveal of who Lotor (A.J. LoCascio) really is, and what despicable lengths he is willing to go to in his quest for quintessence (including harvesting Alteans as living batteries). It seems there’s more than a little of his father in Lotor. Unfortunately for Allura (Kimberly Brooks), Keith doesn’t arrive soon enough to spare her heartache.

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Darth Maul Sixth Scale Figure with Sith Speeder

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Darth Maul Sixth Scale Figure with Sith Speeder

You can now pre-order your own Darth Maul Sixth Scale Figure with Sith Speeder including more than 32 points of articulation, interchangeable heads and hands, robe, two different LED-powered lightsabers (single and dual-blade) and interchangeable “in-motion” blades, speeder, and binoculars, which can all be yours for the low, low price of $405.

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Stellar #2

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Stellar #2 comic reviewIssue #2 features Stellar squaring off against her old friends while intercutting the battle and its aftermath with flashbacks to Stellar’s past and how, as children, they were chosen and turned into weapons for a higher purpose by a fascist government with their own agenda.

Although at first it looks like Stellar’s old pals are after revenge or justice, it turns out they merely want to return her to the only place in the universe she doesn’t wish to go: Home.

While slowly revealing its secrets, Stellar #2 continues to impress. The wasteland which her friends return Stellar to is hardly uninhabited, but the giant monster is far from the group’s biggest problem. It seems the most unstable member of the old gang, long thought dead, is in fact alive and (from what little we can gleam here) has some disturbing plans for his old friends.

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Elementary – Meet Your Maker

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  • Title: Elementary – Meet Your Maker
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Elementary - Meet Your Maker TV review

While on the search into a missing online dominatrix and part-time inventor, Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Watson (Lucy Liu) uncover the fact that both the woman and her boyfriend have been making illegal guns for a local gang (who have decided to cut out the middle man, kidnap the pair, and force them to teach the gang how to make the guns on their own). In an episode packed with quite a bit of plot, “Meet Your Maker” skips over the police taking down the gang and recovering the missing pair, instead of focusing on slowly unraveling why the motives behind her disappearance.

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