Secret Invasion – Resurrection & Promises

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  • Title: Secret Invasion – Resurrection & Promises
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Inspired by the Marvel comic storyline of the same name, Secret Invasion provides a mini-series where Skrulls have infiltrated the globe and are actively working to take control of the planet for themselves. Given their introduction as refugees rather than terrorists in the film which also introduced Carol Danvers, the show has to work four times as hard to try and position the Skrulls as bad guys. Two episodes in, by giving us Skrulls who largely stay in the shape of a single human, rather than quickly jump as they please or remain in their natural state, each limiting their abilities (and the show’s budget), the results are mixed

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Grumpy Indiana Jones and the Melancholy Journey Through Time

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  • Title: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
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Your impressions on Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny will largely be determined by your threshold for how far an Indiana Jones film can go before nuking the fridge (so to speak). The Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail? Great. Sacred glowing stones? Weird, but sure, okay. But jumping into the realm of aliens or time travel through clocks is, for me, a bridge too far as the latest entry to the franchise ultimately feels as much as a successor to Angelina Jolie’s Tomb Raider as Raiders of the Lost Ark.

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Batman, Supergirl & The Flash

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  • Title: The Flash
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Racing out of the ashes of the Snyderverse (which thankfully is in its final death throes) comes 2023’s The Flash with problematic Ezra Miller reprising his role as lab tech turned super-hero Barry Allen. Despite its multiverse themes, The Flash isn’t in the league of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. That said, being partly fueled by nostalgia of seeing Michael Keaton back as Batman, The Flash is still better than expected and a perfectly fine summer popcorn flick.

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The Blacklist – The Morgana Logistics Corporation

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  • Title: The Blacklist – The Morgana Logistics Corporation
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You can really feel The Blacklist pushing to its conclusion with Reddington (James Spader) helping the Task Force take down The Morgana Logistics Corporation which is responsible for thousands of falsified documents and companies operating covertly around the world. It’s a big win for the group when they need one, although Red doesn’t reveal that he was the one who built Morgana as part of his own network years ago and keeps all of his top lieutenants from ending up on the firing line. A risky play by Congressman Arthur Hudson (Toby Leonard Moore) leads him to a loose thread he begins to pull and allows him to tie Dembe (Hisham Tawfiq), and by association Reddington, to the Task Force as he redoubles his efforts to expose them.

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Stargirl – The Complete Third Season

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  • Title: Stargirl – Season 3
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It’s a little unfortunate the Stargirl didn’t start a year or two earlier. One of the better shows of the Arrowverse, the show concluded with its third and final season collected here on DVD (but oddly not also available on Blu-ray which both the previous seasons were released on). The season continues the heroic journey of Courtney Whitmore (Brec Bassinger) who is thrown for a loop by the return of the original Starman (Joel McHale) who outwardly attempts to help while sewing descension and uncertainty among the group in hopes of gaining control of the staff.

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