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Scooby-Doo! Team-Up #14

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Scooby-Doo! Team-Up #14Mystery, Inc. leaves dry land for an ocean adventure in the latest issue of Scooby-Doo! Team-Up as the Scooby Gang teams up with Aquaman. The adventure is broken up into three separate storylines.

The first involves the gang exposing a group of mermen robbing cruise ships as nothing more than thieves in costumes working for one of Aquaman’s oldest foes. The second has Scooby-Doo and the gang step-in to help Aquaman defeat Black Manta who has kidnapped the prince of Atlantis. And the final storyline involves stopping Ocean Master from seizing the throne by taking advantage of the chaos.

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Batman: Bad Blood

/ / Home Video
  • Title: Batman: Bad Blood
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Batman: Bad BloodBatman: Bad Blood is the third straight-to-DVD movie in the series that began with 2014’s Son of Batman. Following the events of Batman vs. Robin, the third movie continues to adapt previous comic storylines (this time both Dick Grayson‘s temporary stint as Batman and the events of “Leviathan“) while growing Batman’s supporting cast. Written by J.M. DeMatteis, Bad Blood begins with Batman‘s (Jason O’Mara) disappearance from Gotham while saving new vigilante Batwoman (Yvonne Strahovski) from an attack by the League of Assassins led by the Heretic (Travis Willingham).

Realizing Gotham needs a Batman, Nighwing (Sean Maher) takes on the mantle of the Bat while working along with Batwoman and Damian (Stuart Allan) to keep Gotham safe while investigating Batman’s whereabouts. Like most of Grant Morrison’s later work, “Leviathan” is messy, over-complicated, and flawed. DeMatteis takes the best aspects of the story, boiling it down, and merges it with Dick and Damian’s entertaining time as the Dynamic Duo.

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Coming Soon – Ghostbusters

/ / Film News & Trailers
  • Title: Ghostbusters (2016)
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We now have our first trailer for the all-female reboot of Ghostbusters starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones. If this is any indication of the final product it looks like we’re in store for plenty of special effects and gross out comedy but also a remake that looks like it may be lacking the spirit of the original. The new Ghostbusters opens in theaters on July 15th.

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Star Wars Rebels – Shroud of Darkness

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Star Wars Rebels – Shroud of Darkness
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Star Wars Rebels - Shroud of Darkness

Beginning with Kanan (Freddie Prinze Jr.) and Ezra (Taylor Gray) narrowly escaping an encounter with Fifth Brother (Philip Anthony-Rodriguez) and Seventh Sister (Sarah Michelle Gellar), master and student seek out the advice of Ahsoka (Ashley Eckstein) which leads the three warriors to the Jedi Temple on Lothal in an episode that foreshadows dark days for our heroes. While the episode only features two regulars and one important guest-star, it is none the less an important turning point in the season suggesting bad ends for possibly all three of the Jedi warriors.

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Zootopia

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  • Title: Zootopia
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Zootopia

Part wacky buddy movie, part crime drama, part small town girl in the big city, there’s no shortage of themes in Disney’s latest animated feature Zootopia. Boasting three directors and more than a half-dozen writers, the various story elements pull the movie in numerous directions over its 108-minute running time. What the film lacks in a coherent vision it makes for in old-school animated fun.

Zootopia has two great strengths. The first is the world itself which is excellently designed and large enough to encompass far more stories than just the mystery we’re given here. The second is its leading lady in spunky new police officer Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) whose can-do attitude never falters, even when everyone around her scoffs at the idea of a bunny cop.

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