Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

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  • Title: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
  • IMDb: link

Wait, someone made a good Dungeons & Dragons movie? The long-delayed film various studios have been trying to make for a decade finally hits the big screen. It may only be spring, but Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is the type of summer popcorn flick you’ve been waiting for. Sure, those who know D&D are going to get more references than those just sitting down for a fun action-comedy, including a nice nod to the 80s cartoon, but, despite your level of familiarity with the role-playing game going in, you’re in for a great time.

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Scooby-Doo – Large Dragon at Large

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  • Title: What’s New, Scooby-Doo? – Large Dragon at Large
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As part of Dragon Week, Throwback Tuesday takes as back to What’s New Scooby-Doo? for a mystery involving some meddling kids and their talking dog. Mystery, Inc. discovers a dragon terrorizing a renaissance fair in Scotland. While mostly running from the creature, in ways that offer throwbacks to the earlier Scooby series with characters running up stairs or through various doors (here through the use of a maze), eventually a captured Velma (Mindy Cohn) makes the most important discovery to lead her to the secret of the dragon and the person responsible. We aren’t given a trap, and with the dragon revealed to be robot we don’t get the classic unmasking either, but otherwise this dragon-themed episode works well enough.

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Tipping Point

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  • Title: Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Tipping Point
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Taking place long enough after the previous episode for all the rebuilding on Pabu to be completed and the Bad Batch to grow comfortable in their new locale, “Tipping Point” begins pulling some threads together from various stories. After rescuing three Clones from the Empire, Echo (Dee Bradley Baker) returns to the squad with intelligence he needs Tech‘s (Baker) help decrypting, intelligence alluding to what the Empire is doing with their former soldiers including Crosshair (Baker) who we see tortured more this episode as well. While not advancing any of these stories all that much, it does bring Echo back into the fold and hold out hope for Crosshair as well (if he can hold out under Imperial torture long enough for his former squad mates to find him).

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Detective Comics #551

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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to another classic adventure involving the Dark Knight Detective. Continuing a storyline begun in Batman #384, Detective Comics #551 is the middle chapter of a story in which Calendar Man has been hired to kill Batman. Making it appear that the villain has plans to kill Robin, pushing Batman to protect the Boy Wonder (a choice that really pisses off Jason Todd who is already in prime bratty little shit form), Calendar Man continues to commit a series of robberies centered around holidays since the beginning of the year.

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Reign of Fire

/ / Home Video
  • Title: Reign of Fire
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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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