Offering a very natural feel of a father/daughter dynamic, writer/director Charlotte Wells‘ Aftersun offers a moment of time between Calum (Paul Mescal) and Sophie (Frankie Corio) on a vacation in Turkey which occurred on her 11th birthday. Intercutting between filmed scenes and those from the father’s camcorder, a large amount of the movie feels like life playing out naturally making me curious as to how much of smaller moments were scripted.
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Near the beginning of the pandemic filmmaker David Siev, who, like his siblings, moved back home to support his parents and the family business they started decades earlier, begins to record a film which will grow into a portrait of the American experience of an Asian-American family through their struggles and triumphs of 2020 in the decidedly white Conservative small town of Bad Axe, Michigan.
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It’s a challenging time for Atomic Robo with Alan entering a rebellious streak, Robo’s neighbor attempting to shut down Tesladyne’s latest (and often explosive) project, Dr. Dinosaur living with them, and Robo and his team taking back possession of Tesladyne Island from the government. With the team spread thin to cover a variety of needs, new dangers seem to spring up at once as old villains Tyrantula, Helsingard, and Undead Edison all hit Tesladyne looking for a fight with the absent Robo.
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Set after the events of WWII, Dynamite Entertainment’s one-shot resurrects the 1940s heroic duo of an orphan raised by tigers in the Burma who would return to civilization to use the powers discovered in the jungles to help the innocent and the young circus acrobat he would take on as his ward. If it sounds a bit like Batman meets Tarzan, well that’s exactly what it is. And if that unusual mashup of comic characters sounds good to you, then track down this comic.
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While the second episode of Willow primarily focused on the failures of Willow (Warwick Davis) to teach Elora (Ellie Bamber) magic while the group theoretically started their search for the captured Airk (Dempsey Bryk), “The High Aldwin” ended with Elora captured by the zombie soldiers following them setting up the events of “The Battle of the Slaughtered Lambs” with our fellowship once again abandoning the quest to find the prince and instead searching for Elora.
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