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Delta Space Mission

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  • Title: Delta Space Mission
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The trippy 80s film, Delta Space Mission, was the first Romanian animated film. Certainly a product of its time, you can feel the film from directors Calin Cazan and Mircea Toia drawing on pop culture of the time to create this journey into the far future where the universe’s most powerful artificial intelligence, created to communicate with intergalactic civilizations, does the unexpected and falls in love with an alien journalist.

With it’s electronic score and design inspired from video games and animation of the day, the 1984 film has been restored and is now available on VOD for American audiences. The story, whether pieces get lost in translation or if it simply jumps around a bit too much, does feel a bit choppy early on. However, Delta Space Mission is the kind of film you sit back and experience. Something of a time capsule, the movie harkens to both the future and our past.

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Overdrive

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  • Title: Overdrive
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An obvious attempt to take advantage of the popularity of the Fast & Furious franchise, 2017’s Overdrive offers a tale of car thieves in over their head. Aside from the short opening heist, which provides a look at the skills of brothers Andrew (Scott Eastwood) and Garrett (Freddie Thorp), the film races in fits and starts continuing pushing off the promised big heist with various subplots that are constantly mucking up the story. While we eventually get the heist we’re promised, by the time it happens does anyone still care?

Stealing from the wrong man (Simon Abkarian), Andrew and Garrett are forced to put together a crew to steal from an even more dangerous man (Clemens Schick). Rather than just move forward with that plot we get the pair making deals with the second target, facing retribution from old enemies, dealing with romantic entanglements, being investigated by Interpol, and on and on.

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Knock Knock

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  • Title: Knock Knock
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2015’s Knock Knock fits into the subgenre of male fantasy gone wrong having some similarities to 2006’s Hard Candy. The set-up, which could only occur on film, involves an architect (Keanu Reeves) being visited by two beautiful stranded bisexual nymphomaniacs (Ana de Armas and Lorenza Izzo) on the rainy night his wife (Ignacia Allamand) and children (Dan Baily and Megan Baily) have left for warmer climates. It’s not long before the the two young woman lose their clothing and begin making increasingly obvious advances to their host.

The first half-hour sets the scene with the pair working a little too hard to seduce the family man, while stealing glances letting us know more is a foot which becomes suddenly evident to Evan the morning after when the pair announce they have no plans on leaving and the mind games take darker and darker (and more ridiculous) turns.

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Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter

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  • Title: Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter
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An odd mix of western and horror genres, Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter leads a betrayed Jesse James (John Lupton) and his wounded friend Hank Tracy (Cal Bolder) to the door of Dr. Frankenstein’s granddaughter (Narda Onyx) continuing her family’s experiments along with the help of her reluctant brother (Steven Geray) in and abandoned mission in the Old West.

Various subplots include the outlaw who betrayed Jesse hunting him down and a local woman (Estelita Rodriguez) who leads a desperate Jesse to the Frankensteins, despite knowing how dangerous they are. Made as part of a double feature for Saturday matinees (both it and Billy the Kid Versus Dracula were filmed in a combined 8 days), the film is cheap, rushed, and isn’t much notable for anything other than its bizarre premise.

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Supergirl: The Complete Series

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  • Title: Supergirl (The Complete Series)
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At its highwater mark it was the best of the Arrowverse. At its weakest moments it was marginally watchable (although, even at its worst, was still better than Batwoman). All six seasons of The CW’s Supergirl are collected here on 24 discs. While the quality over the full run make be inconsistent, there’s quite a bit here for fans of the characters starting with Melissa Benoist as Kara.

The eventually bloated supporting roster didn’t do any favors to the show or to Benoist, but is worth noting for introducing Nicole Maines as a transgender hero on a network show, even if that show struggled to find interesting things to do with her, and making some smart decisions where the casting of the Luthors (Katie McGrath and later Jon Cryer) was concerned.

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