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The Freemaker Adventures – Race on Tatooine

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  • Title: LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures – Race on Tatooine
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The Freemaker Adventures - Race on Tatooine

Taking a job as a pit crew for a pod race on Tatooine, the Freemakers are unaware they are walking into a trap set by Graballa the Hutt (Dana Snyder) and his bounty hunters Dengar (James Patrick Stuart), Baash (John DiMaggio), and Raam (Danny Jacobs). Zander (Eugene Byrd), Kordi (Vanessa Lengies), and Rowan (Nicolas Cantu) work to stay one-step ahead of the bounty hunters, even going so far as to join the pod race.

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Guardians of the Galaxy – I’ve Been Searching So Long

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  • Title: Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy – I’ve Been Searching So Long
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Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy - I've Been Searching So Long

In “I’ve Been Searching So Long” the Guardians remain on Earth searching for the Cosmic Seed in the former home of Attilan deep in the Himalayan Mountains. The closer the Guardians get the seed each begins to experience visions similar to those of Peter Quill (Will Friedle) and they will be tempted to steal the seed for themselves. The team’s infighting comes at a horrible moment, allowing Ronan (Jonathan Adams) to sweep in and steal the prize. Although they Guardians are able to rally and retrieve the Cosmic Seed from their foe things take another dark turn with the arrival of Thanos (Isaac C. Singleton Jr.). Providing lots of action, the Cosmic Seed storyline wanes as the episode repeats Ronan’s control over the seed with Thanos leaving a cliffhanger which suggests the Guardians will need to regroup give us a very similar episode next week.

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Batman #1

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Batman #1I had a mixed reaction to Batman #1, as I do in any issue where Batman has to be saved by some outside force. The entire issue involves the Dark Knight Detective preventing a plane from going down in the heart of Gotham City. While I don’t mind that the greatest mind in comics is willing to let himself die to save others I do have some qualms about why Batman wouldn’t be able to save himself (such as couldn’t Batman have jumped free once he got the crashing plane above Gotham Harbor?). There are also nagging issues I have such as Batman and Alfred using real names over their comms (something that seems far too amateurish a mistake for Batman to make).

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1996 – Independence Day

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  • Title: Independence Day
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Independence DayOn our around this day 20 years ago Independence Day opened in theaters. Along with kicking off director Roland Emmerich‘s long-running fascination with disaster porn (and its diminishing returns), Independence Day raised the stakes for summer blockbusters.

When a series of giant alien spaceships begin hovering over major cities the world’s populace is unsure of what to make of things. While some celebrate the coming of alien life, one scientist (Jeff Goldblum) is concerned with transmissions between the ships which he discovers are a countdown clock to a coordinated attack. The world as as we knew it was over.

With the help of the scientist’s grumbling father (Judd Hirsch), a cocky pilot (Will Smith), and a ragtag fleet put together by the President of the United States (Bill Pullman), July 4th would mark the day where the Earth fought back and won its freedom.

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The Legend of Tarzan

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  • Title: The Legend of Tarzan
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The Legend of TarzanCreated by Edgar Rice Burroughs more than 100 years ago, Tarzan has been adapted countless times in film, radio, television, and print. The latest version of the jungle hero from director David Yates chooses to forgo an origin story (which is given to us in small flashbacks over the course of the movie) in favor of a more civilized Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård) returning to Africa with his wife Jane (Margot Robbie) to investigate troubling news concerning the Congo, where he was raised and became a legend – and where an old enemy (Djimon Hounsou) is waiting.

Physically Skarsgård is an imposing figure and he manages to capture both Tarzan’s fierceness and his large heart. Robbie is delightful as the feisty Jane. Kidnapped by Christoph Waltz as a corrupt Belgian, whose resemblance to René Emile Belloq is hard to see as coincidental, Jane finds a way to fight the villain and buy time for her husband to swing in on a vine and ultimately save the day (and all of the Congo). And if Waltz is sleepwalking in the lesser version of characters he has played countless times over, what is to be said of Samuel L. Jackson playing himself in order to add a little comic relief to the proceedings?

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