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Shin Godzilla

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  • Title: Shin Godzilla
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Returning to theaters, 2016’s Shin Godzilla, responsible for kicking of the franchise’s reboot into the Reiwa era, is an odd film. A talky film focused more on the politics and bureaucracy of Japan’s response to Godzilla than the monster (who literally just stands around for much of the film), it has notably prolonged lulls before returning to the title character. As for Godzilla, the film makes an interesting choice making the creature mostly unrecognizable (almost laughably so) on his initial emergence from the ocean and having him slowly metamorphize over the course of the film into something that finally more closely resembles classic Godzilla. 

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Secret Six #6

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Apparently ending the comic’s short run, Secret Six #6 ends with more of a whimper than a bang confirming this series was always more about setting up storylines for Jon Kent and his friends then highlighting the Secret Six or bringing them back to the DCU in any real way. The finale does have a nice moment between Catman and Kent showcasing the different ways the two view the world and we get more of Black Alice powered up, and more infighting within the group, but in the end the climax of the story doesn’t involve these characters at all as everything boils down to Gossamer and his feelings of betrayal towards both his boyfriend and Dreamer.

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Jurassic World: Chaos Theory – Excess Baggage

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  • Title: Jurassic World: Chaos Theory – Excess Baggage
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Kicking off approximately where the last season left off, the remaining Nublar Five, still stunned that Brooklyn (Kiersten Kelly) is not only alive but chose to leave with the Broker (Dichen Lachman) hitch a ride home with Jurassic World‘s Barry Sembène (Evan Michael Lee) who arrives on the island to help the abandoned dinosaurs. However, once in the air, the group begins to question whether or not they can trust Santos which becomes less of a problem after a dinosaur gets loose on the flight forcing and emergency landing the they choose to disappear into the wilderness rather than wait for rescue.

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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

/ / Home Video
  • Title: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
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Released in 1994, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is little more than the window dressing of a plot to allow Jim Carrey to go crazy on film for 86 minutes. The film was heavily rewritten after Carrey was cast and much of the scenes were improvised on set to take advantage of Carrey’s humor and growing popularity. Much like his role in Batman Forever, Carrey is unleashed where films like The Mask, The Truman Show, and Dumb and Dumber made more effort to fit his style into the larger context of the film.

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Escape to Witch Mountain

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  • Title: Escape to Witch Mountain
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back 50 years to the Disney adaptation of Alexander H. Key’s novel. The film, which whitewashes the protagonists and tones down the violence for a younger audience, is an odd tale of two orphans (Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann) with paranormal powers who are adopted by rich industrialist Aristotle Bolt (Ray Milland) obsessed with the subject. Bolt’s interest in them causes the pair to flee to a spot known for bizarre phenomena called Witch Mountain. Eventually revealed to be extraterrestrial witches, the two kids are reunited with their people at the end of the film flying back into space.

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