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Super Giant Robot Brothers – Gone and Back Again

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  • Title: Super Giant Robot Brothers – Gone and Back Again
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More like Pacific Rim for toddlers than Voltron, Super Giant Robot Brothers – Gone and Back Again features two bickering giant robot brothers (Eric Lopez and Chris Diamantopoulos) working for a world agency, run in part by a young genius (Eva Ariel Binder), working to save the world against invading kaiju that come from a black hole where the more annoying of the robots disappeared into for a decade. Filmed and then animated through motion capture, making the making of the series more interesting than the series itself, has an odd look with often minimal effort made to animated backgrounds in frame.

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The Gray Man

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  • Title: The Gray Man
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Ryan Gosling stars as a convicted murder turned killer for the CIA in a film with so much excessive overblown action in would make Arnold Schwarzenegger blush. The crux of the story involves Six’s (Gosling) villainous boss (Regé-Jean Page) putting out a hit on Six after proof of his corruption falls into the agent’s hands. Every action taken by Page’s character is the wrong one, including alienating another agent (Ana de Armas) enough to have her join Six’s cause of seeing the proof exposed and rescuing Six’s mentor (Billy Bob Thornton) and niece (Julia Butters) from the sociopath (Chris Evans) hired to find Six.

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G.I. JOE: The Movie

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  • Title: G.I. JOE: The Movie
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Wayback Wednesday takes us back to 1987 and the animated feature birthed from the G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero cartoon which is nearly as incomprehensible today as it was 35 years ago. Originally intended for a theatrical release, the movie instead went straight-to-video. It was also later split into separate episodes fitting the formula of several other multi-episode arcs of G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero.

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Asking for It

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  • Title: Asking for It
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The first feature from writer/director Eamon O’Rourke has some interesting ideas and a solid enough cast to explore them. Sadly, Asking for It never quite figures out what it wants to be or how to get there. While there are flashes of a revenge story following the previously-cheery Joey (Kiersey Clemons) joining a group of militant women (Alexandra Shipp, Vanessa Hudgens, Leslie Stratton, Radha Mitchell, Leyna Bloom, and Lisa Yaro) on an Indian reservation after being date raped by a longtime acquaintance (Casey Cott), Asking for It isn’t a revenge story. It also isn’t a character study or drama. It’s easy to focus on what the film isn’t, but much harder to nail down what Asking for It is.

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The Villains of Valley View – Finding Another Dimension

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  • Title: The Villains of Valley View – Finding Another Dimension
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The new Disney+ sitcom The Villains of Valley feels like a mix of 3rd Rock from the Sun and Fuller House. The opening episode of the series, complete with lame jokes and laugh track, introduces a family of super-villains hiding out in Texas after getting on the wrong side of the League of Villains. In the opener, the family’s mad scientist dad (James Patrick Stuart) makes a dimensional portal gun out of the microwave where his children (Isabella Pappas and Reed Horstmann) accidentally send their land lady’s (Patricia Belcher) happy-go-lucky daughter (Kayden Muller-Janssen). Wackiness, or what settles for wackiness, ensues. Yeesh. 

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