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LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy – Part Four

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LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy - Part Four

The fun of LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy has been seeing the various strange mashups of characters and ships in the new universe Sig (Gaten Matarazzo) accidentally created. Unfortunately, by the time you get to the final episode, there are no more of these fun surprises left (except in the epilogue), leaving the show to struggle with only its base story to fall back on. “Part Four” does what you would expect, wrapping up the story while still leaving the world open to future adventures. However, other than the tease of the Landolorian (Billy Dee Williams) and Grogu there’s not much memorable here.

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Star Wars: Forces of Destiny – An Imperial Feast

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Star Wars: Forces of Destiny - An Imperial Feast

Star Wars Sunday takes us back to another Star Wars: Forces of Destiny short. Most of the shorts stay in their lane, so to speak, with characters interacting with those they usually do. “An Imperial Feast” is notable for a bit of a crossover with Han Solo (AJ LoCascio) needing to ask Hera Syndulla (Vanessa Marshall) for a favor just after the Battle of Endor to save the lives of some Stormtroopers the Ewoks plan to feast on. Unfortunately, there’s not too much to this with Leia (Shelby Young) forcing Han into the interaction and Han lying to Hera to tell her what she wants to hear and to get the rations he needs.

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Rescue: HI-Surf – Pilot

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Rescue: HI-Surf - Pilot

The “Pilot” episode of Rescue: HI-Surf comes off as slightly more serious Baywatch with less T&A but still plenty of soapy side-stories. The first episode introduces two new recruits to the underfunded North Shore of Oahu. The first (Zoe Cipres) earns her spot winning a competition against all other recruits while the second (Alex Aiono) is given a spot by being the son of a mayoral candidate that promises Captain Sonny (Robbie Magasiva) to pump some much needed funding into the overworked lifeguard stations. Rounding out the rest of the cast are the outspoken Em (Arielle Kebbel), the party-happy Laka (Kekoa Kekumano), and Adam Demos who already has one foot out the door.

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Megalopolis

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Megalopolis

Francis Ford Coppola‘s Megalopolis is an unusual experience. As cinema, or as art, it certainly holds value. As coherent storytelling, however, it leaves something to be desired. Conceived by Coppola in the 70s, and obviously spurred on by recent political events, the director has been toying with the idea for decades trying to make the film a reality. Maybe he should have waited just a bit longer. 

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Mr. McMahon – Junior

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Mr. McMahon - Junior

Filmed primarily prior to the allegations which eventually drove Vince McMahon from the wrestling empire he built, the first episode of Netflix’s Mr. McMahon feels more A&E Biography than Dark Side of the Ring. Largely toothless, the episode briefly mentions the allegations before moving into an episode that champions McMahon taking over the wrestling territory from his father and forcing his way across the country poaching stars and stealing talent from other promotions. As Vince puts it, he doesn’t know if was good for the industry but it was certainly good for him which the documentary chalks as a win. Those familiar with McMahon’s story won’t find much new here, except perhaps some commentary about his strained relationship with his father.

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