Alan Rapp

F1: The Movie

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  • Title: F1: The Movie
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A good racing movie can be an awfully fun time at the movies. While not a great film, F1 sticks to the basic formula giving us a gritty old veteran with something to prove, a hotshot rookie who hasn’t broken through, and a racing team outgunned and outmatched that desperately needs a miracle win. F1 may put the formulaic in Formula One, but there’s a reason the formula works as director Joseph Kosinski fits these pieces (and some darn good looking racing sequences – particularly in IMAX) into just the kind of fun summer movie I was hoping for and would make a fun pairing with something like Ford v Ferrari for a racing double-feature which ultimately has something similar to say about racing and the crazy fools who do it for a living.

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Titan A.E.

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  • Title: Titan A.E.
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back 25 years to a film that begins with the destruction of Earth but ends with hope on a new world. The final film of Don Bluth‘s run offering an animation alternative to the far more successful Disney, Titan A.E. stars Matt Damon as a displaced and disaffected human working on alien salvage rigs who is sought out by Korso (Bill Pullman) and his crew who believe Cale‘s genetic heritage is the key to finding a lost spaceship built and hidden by Cale’s father (Ron Perlman) during the destruction of Earth by the alien menace of the Drej.

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Bob’s Burgers – The Place Beyond the Pinecones

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  • Title: Bob’s Burgers – The Place Beyond the Pinecones
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“The Place Beyond the Pinecones” gives us a Tina (Dan Mintz) episode as she goes on an overnight wilderness retreat with her Thundergirls troop. Chosen to spy on a rival troop notorious for cheating at the yearly competition, Tina gets lost in the woods with Patty (Betsy Sodaro) and Rena (Sarah Baker) with the trio eventually making it out of the woods for a bizarre night at Donna Dane’s Etiquette Camp for Good Girls where the trio do not fit in. It’s a crazy night for Tina, including getting tied to a posture chair and setting a pinecone on fire, but a relatively uneventful one for the rest of the Belchers who spend it screwing with Tina’s stuff before she gets back.

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The Umbrella Academy – Plan B #1

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“He only told the world about seven.”

In the rubble of their former home, the Umbrella Academy is attacked by another team, a team built and trained in secret, a team of Sparrows. Rather than present the group as from an alternate timeline (as was shown in the Netflix series), this group has been together for years as seven additional children born on the same day and found by Sir Reginald Hargreeves. However, this group of heroes, even as children, play a bit harder than the Academy.

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Sherlock & Daughter – The Last Dance

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  • Title: Sherlock & Daughter – The Last Dance
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With no word on if the characters will return for another season, Sherlock & Daughter comes to a close with an episode wrapping up most of the season’s threads, although it does leave one dangling should the show get picked up for another season. The question of Amelia’s (Blu Hunt) paternity is put to rest once and for all as Holmes admits his relationship to Amelia’s mother.

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