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The Great Films – Galaxy Quest

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Galaxy Quest

Far from a flop, but not the box office family comedy smash the fledging DreamWorks Pictures was hoping for, Galaxy Quest came and went in the winter of 1999 and early 2000 with marginal success. Those lucky enough to see the film in the theaters were in for a treat that stayed around the top 10 of the box office for several weeks earning positive reviews from critics and earning back double its production costs.  Without really knowing what they had on their hands, bungling the marketing of the film and hamstringing its release, DreamWorks had nevertheless produced the best Star Trek movie ever made.

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MaXXXine

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  • Title: MaXXXine
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Reveling in 80s style, writer/director Ti West completes his X series with MaXXXine featuring Mia Goth reprising her role from X. Having built up a name for herself as a pornstar, Maxine Minx finally gets her big break in an auteur’s (Elizabeth Debicki) horror film but that’s when her past comes to call in the form of a degenerate private investigator (Kevin Bacon) and his mysterious employer (Simon Prast) who know the secrets from Maxine’s past she wants to stay buried.

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Pearl

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  • Title: Pearl
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Made after, but set chronologically before, 2022’s X, Pearl acts as a prequel to the first film of the X Series with Mia Goth reprising her role as Pearl introduced as a not-quite-right young woman living on her parents Texas farm in 1918 while her husband fights abroad in WWI. The same location is used for the house as in the first film with it getting quite the makeover as well a concerted effort writer/director Ti West and cinematographer Eliot Rockett to exaggerate the look and vibrant color scheme of the film with brighter and bolder colors taking inspiration from Technicolor films of the past such as The Wizard of Oz and Mary Poppins.

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X

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  • Title: X
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Set in 1979, writer/director Ti West‘s X stars Mia Goth in dual roles as a stripper who heads off with friends to a Texas farmhouse to make a porn and also as the elderly resident of the home who goes on a sexually-frustrated murderous rampage as she begins picking off the visitors one at a time with the help of her equally bat-shit crazy husband (Stephen Ure).

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Arcane – The Complete First Season

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  • Title: Arcane: League of Legends – Season One
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Adapted from Riot Games’ League of Legends universe, the First Season of Arcane: League of Legends focuses on origin stories for sisters Vi (Hailee Steinfeld) and Jinx (Ella Purnell) while exploring the class struggles between the utopian city of Piltover and the oppressed underworld city of Zaun. The first thee episodes of the series provide examples of the girls’ childhood and how that life ended badly for all involved while the rest of the season picks up years later bringing the two sisters, each believing the other died years ago, together again. Also explored is the rise of scientist Jayce Talis (Kevin Alejandro) and his Hextech technology which will change the world. 

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