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City Hunter

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  • Title: City Hunter (1993)
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City Hunter

Adapted from the manga of the same name, 1993’s City Hunter is an odd flick. Over-the-top, wacky, and more live-action cartoon than anything else, the closest comparison is probably 2010’s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. In a film more notable for its comedy, fight sequences, and stunts than plot, Jackie Chan stars as private eye Ryo Saeba. The womanizing star hits on every woman he meets except for his former partner’s younger sister (Joey Wang), now his partner, who he swore never to pursue.

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Star Wars (Free Comic Book Day 2024)

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Star Wars (Free Comic Book Day 2024)

The Star Wars Free Comic Book Day issue provides two separate stories for fans, one of which ties heavily into recent storylines and one that works as a short standalone adventure, both set between the events of The Empire Strikes Back and The Return of the Jedi.

“Return to Echo Base” gives us Luke, Leia, Lando, and Chewbacca taking the Millennium Falcon back to Hoth to rescue a handful of Rebels who they left behind in their retreat from the Rebel base. There’s not much to the issue but it does feature a short shoot-out with Snowtroopers and our heroes loosing their pursuers in a blizzard by hiding in a cave which Luke remembers from his previous trip to the planet.

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Doctor Who – Space Babies

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  • Title: Doctor Who – Space Babies
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Doctor Who - Space Babies

After introducing us to the Fifteenth Doctor‘s (Ncuti Gatwa) new companion Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) on Christmas, the new series of Doctor Who kicks off with “Space Babies” in which The Doctor takes Ruby 150 million years into the past for a quick joke about chaos theory before jumping 19,000 years into the future and landing on a space station baby farm run by space babies who mistake the travelers for their missing parents. The only adult on the station is an accountant (Golda Rosheuvel) who has been hiding behind the scenes pretending to be a robotic nanny after the other crew left when the station was ordered to shut down.

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Blood Hunt #1

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Blood Hunt #1

Spinning out of the peripheries of Moon Knight comes The Structure, a vampire cult who have used dark magic to detonate Darkforce wielders all over the globe and use them as portals to pour in darkness from the outer dimension blocking out the sun and allowing vampires to storm the world while their super-powered number known as the Bloodcoven take down the Avengers. The revelation of who is behind the coordinated attacks is held back until the end of the issue as Doctor Strange discovers he, the Avengers, and the world have been betrayed by a former friend.

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Flower Drum Song

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  • Title: Flower Drum Song
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Flower Drum Song

Adapted from the Broadway musical of the same name, Flower Drum Song became the first contemporary Asian-American story featuring an Asian cast produced as a major Hollywood feature film. Like the play, the movie met with mixed responses with some praising Hollywood focusing on Asian-American characters while others took issue with Asian stereotypes, casting both Japanese and Chinese actors for the Chinese roles, and some problematic lyrics (also causing major productions of the play to halt for decades). In 2008 the film was added to National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as culturally significant, so significant it took Hollywood three decades to release another major film centered around, and starring, predominantly Asian leads.

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