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Green Hornet • Miss Fury #1

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The first issue of the new mini-series putting the Green Hornet and Miss Fury together is a bit hit-and-miss. The comic opens with the action already underway and the pair fighting a group of thugs together under a circus tent. After the action is done we get the pair meeting out of costume at a charity event for an extended soap opera interlude before finally bringing back the costumes and bringing the pair back together for a bookend action scene where once again the audience is late to the party.

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Guilty Pleasure – Krull

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  • Title: Krull
  • IMDb: link

Flashback Friday takes us back to 1983, a young king, a captured queen, a motley band of heroes, a quest across a desolate landscape, some questionable special effects, a monstrous beast, a prophecy, and a fortress that relocates across the planet at every dawn. A sword-and-sorcery epic with sci-fi trapping such as alien soldiers with laser rifles, Krull introduces us to Prince Colwyn (Ken Marshall) and Princess Lyssa (Lysette Anthony) whose marriage will unite two warring kingdoms against an invading alien force until they steal the bride on her wedding day. 

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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Silly Nonsense

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  • Title: Nosferatu
  • IMDb: link

Once a serious horror movie has you giggling at it, it’s almost impossible for it to win you back. A scene at the opening of Nosferatu features a young woman’s bedroom being breached by a creature appearing in shadow (which is captured on the film’s poster). It’s a cool effect, seeing the outline of our vampire only shown in the shadow of the bellowing curtain. For me, it’s the first, and sadly last, creepy moment of the film. And once you can’t take the film that so desperately needs to be taken seriously, Nosferatu devolves quite quickly into silly nonsense.

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Heretic

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  • Title: Heretic
  • IMDb: link

Heretic is half a good movie that unfortunately falls completely off a cliff into unimaginative horror. The setup is strong as we meet two young Mormon missionaries making their final stop of the day to share the word of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with the middle-aged Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant). Tailor-made to play off an actor like Grant’s collective work, the charming man is of course not what he seems as the two young women slowly realize as an open discussion of religion becomes something far darker.

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Skeleton Crew – Can’t Say I Remember No At Attin

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  • Title: Star Wars: Skeleton Crew – Can’t Say I Remember No At Attin
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Still searching for their home world, the crew’s robot steers them to what was likely once very similar to At Attin but now is a post-apocalyptic hellscape (or the Disney equivalent where nothing remotely violent happens on-screen). The crew spends a single episode on At Achrann with the kids and Jod (Jude Law) each joining opposing warbands until they meet up again with the crafty pirate captain having crafted a fix for all of them. The end of the episode teases clues to the real At Attin until it’s revealed SM-33 (Nick Frost) has been programed to forget about his experience with the former planet. When those memories are unlocked by Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) his orders to kill anyone asking about the planet are revived as well.

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