Alan Rapp

First Look – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

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Do you know what Jane Austen’s classic novel was missing? Zombies! Here’s a first look teaser trailer for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies starring Lena Headey, Lily James, Matt Smith, Suki Waterhouse, Bella Heathcote, and Charles Dance. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies opens in theaters on February 5th.

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Scorpion – Robots

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Scorpion - Robots

When the new Deputy Director of Homeland Security (Peri Gilpin) enlists the help of Walter (Elyes Gabel), Cabe (Robert Patrick), and Happy (Jadyn Wong) for a classified mission involving a trip on a Special Ops nuclear submarine to investigate an ocean-floor data-hunter attached to a fiber-optic cable on the floor of the Pacific Ocean used to connect the United States Department of Defense and Chinese Government the rest of the team is forced to sit this one out. However, when tragedy strikes and the submarine becomes crippled at the bottom of the ocean it will be up to Toby (Eddie Kaye Thomas) and Sylvester (Ari Stidham) to not only come up with the secret location of the crashed submarine but also a plan for saving their friends.

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Star Wars #10

Star Wars #10Separated into three stories, Star Wars #10 gives us Luke Skywalker captured and thrown into gladiator combat on Nar Shaddaa, the unlikely duo of Chewbacca and C-3P0 playing a version of good cop/bad cop for information about their missing friend, and Han Solo stuck between Princess Leia and his “wife” Sana Solo while fleeing from the Empire.

There’s strong foreshadowing here that writer Jason Aaron is already walking back the controversial reveal of Han Solo’s previous marriage (which drew the ire of several hardcore Star Wars fans). As for Luke, the comic mostly teases us with what’s in store for the future Jedi Master in a comic that feels every inch of a middle issue of an ongoing arc.

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Doctor Who – Under the Lake / Before the Flood

  • Title: Doctor Who – Under the Lake / Before the Flood
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Doctor Who - Before the Flood

The two-part episode featuring The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and Clara (Jenna Coleman) fighting off ghosts in an underwater mining facility in the near future has a strong set-up and some intriguing ideas behind it’s premise even if it does eventually falter and stumble with the reveal of the truth about its ghosts and the reveal of the Fisher King (who looks like he walked straight out of incomplete costume fittings of the classic Doctor Who). Even if only partially successful, it’s still better thought-out bootstrap paradox than Looper.

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