Inspired by fantasy role-playing games, with a definite early 90s computer game feel in the introductions to each story, and adapted from the manga of the same name, Dragon Pink offers three separate tales centered around a band of adventures in the not-so-heroic Santa (Chris Bowen), his catgirl slave Pink (Katsuyo Endou), the barbarian Bobo (Anthony Lawson), and the elf mage Pierce (Whitney Thompson).
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to another film involving a dragon with 2001’s Shrek. Parodying the fantasy genre by presenting characters in unfamiliar and unexpected ways, such as casting a grumpy ogre as the reluctant hero, the film was an immediate hit with both critics and audiences. Mike Myers, who replaced Chris Farley on the project after his death, stars as Shrek, a temperamental ogre none to pleased that the actions of the tiny, but quite evil, Lord Farquaad of Duloc (John Lithgow) are pushing fleeing fairy tale creatures into his swamp disturbing his peace and quiet.
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Set in the then future of 2020, see it was always going to be a shit year, Reign of Fire gives us a dystopian future where dragons have been awoken by man drilling too deep into the Earth (a common warning for science fiction tales) and have burned the world to ash. In an old broken down fortress in Northumberland, Quinn Abercromby (Christian Bale) has managed to keep a community alive. Enter dragon hunters from the United States led by the obsessed Denton Van Zan (Matthew McConaughey) who offer new hope with a dangerous plan of searching out the original dragon Quinn saw as the child, the only male dragon of the species.
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Given the path of his career, it’s still difficult for me to imagine a point where anyone saw Peter MacNicol as a potential action star, even one so far in over his head as Galen. In the 1981 fantasy film, MacNicol stars as a sorcerer’s apprentice who takes on the responsibility of vanquishing a dragon after his master (Ralph Richardson) is killed. The film, relying on practical effects (including life-size segments of a giant mechanical dragon), the use of version of stop motion known as go motion, and dozens of matte paintings, holds up fairly well today. And the film’s dragon remains one of the favorites ever put to film by both fans and other filmmakers, including Guillermo del Toro.
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The best thing to come out of Star Trek: Discovery was the re-introduction of the Christopher Pike (Anson Mount)) led USS Enterprise. Although delayed due to COVID, the show’s First Season eventually offered a new look at the classic starship long before it got its more famous captain by exploring the makeup of the crew from Star Trek‘s original pilot episode “The Cage.”
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