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Stargirl – Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. (Part One)

Alan Rapp / August 5, 2020 / Television Reviews

Title: Stargirl – Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. Part One
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The first-half of Stargirl‘s Season One finale gives Barbara (Amy Smart) a close-up look at Courtney (Brec Bassinger) in action when Icicle (Neil Jackson) sends Sportsmaster (Neil Hopkins) and Tigress (Joy Osmanski) to murder the family as the heroes evacuate and hole-up in a cabin to plan their next move. There are some nice moments of parental pride not only in seeing Courtney kick some super-villain ass but seeing her daughter with her friends and the relationships she’s built in their new home. Rick (Cameron Gellman) is finally able to crack his dad’s journal, and Beth (Anjelika Washington) is able to find the ISA’s manifesto, giving the new JSA a clue to the ISA’s plans (which, aside from murdering 25 million people in the course of a half-hour, turns out to be not that awful).

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Red Penguins

Alan Rapp / August 4, 2020 / Home Video

Title: Red Penguins
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Red Penguins looks back at the Pittsburgh Penguins owner Howard Baldwin bailing out the once great HC CSKA Moscow hockey team. Completely unprepared for what they were getting into in a country still struggling with replacing Communism with Capitalism, the Penguins hoped to lay the foundation for Russian players making their way to Pittsburgh and the NHL. A young marketer named Steven Warshaw was sent over to try and drum up support for the flagging team and bring a bit of capitalist know-how and 90s marketing to the former Soviet Union.

The engaging documentary is a bizarre tale including interviews from both American and Russians about the partnership which only lasted two years but involved a strip club under the hockey rink, free beer, a culture clash, the Russian mob, a potential business partnership with Disney, the Russian Army, corruption, and the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Despite the insanity and mismanagement, the Russian Penguins (as they were rebranded) were a short-term success only to be mismanaged leading to the end of the team and leaving behind a bizarre legacy and a legend of dazzling failure.

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The Umbrella Academy – Right Back Where We Started

Alan Rapp / August 3, 2020 / Television Reviews

Title: The Umbrella Academy – Right Back Where We Started
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After ending the First Season of the show with an apocalypse, Season Two opens with another one. Picking up from the cliffhanger ending, “Right Back Where We Started” opens with the members of the Umbrella Academy being dumped in Dallas in the 1960s. Although the each end up in the same spot, they arrive months or years apart making them unaware of where the others have disappeared to. Five (Aidan Gallagher) is the last to arrive, appearing in the middle of a Soviet invasion of Dallas and a nuclear attack on United States soil. With the help of Hazel (Cameron Britton), Five returns 10 days prior in hopes of reuniting his family and preventing the end of the world (again). However, there are a trio of odd gentlemen who apparently have other plans.

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Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy – Siege Part 1

Alan Rapp / August 1, 2020 / Television Reviews

Title: Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy – Episode 1
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Set prior to the Autobots and Decepticons leaving Cybertron for Earth, the new series Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy opens with the war between the two races of transforming robots still raging on their homeworld but with the Autobot forces dwarfed by the might of Megatron (Jason Marnocha) and his Decepticons. Bumblebee (Joe Zieja) is introduced as a scout who has yet to take a side in the fight, but leads Wheeljack (Bill Rogers) to a source of Energon the Autobots desperately need to continue the struggle. Caught by Jetfire (Keith Silverstein) and his Seekers, the pair looked doomed until the arrival of Optimus Prime (Jake Foushee) to stand-up to Megatron and provide enough of a distraction to get everyone else out alive.

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Super Dinosaur – Big Brother

Alan Rapp / August 1, 2020 / Television Reviews

Title: Super Dinosaur – Big Brother
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When the probe from Inner Earth returns with three hatching dinosaur eggs, Super Dinosaur (Mac Heywood) immediately bonds with the trio of disruptive mini-dinos despite being told that they will need to sent home to Inner Earth. After being exposed to DynOre, returning them to Inner Earth is no longer a possibility and the rambunctious trio go wild in the Dynamo Dome. As the humans struggle to catch them, SD finds a different way to reach them proving his worth as a big brother. “Big Brother” is a great mix of chaos and fun while touching on themes from earlier episodes of SD’s isolation from other dinosaurs. While the trio aren’t sticking around, they do get a new home at an Earthcore facility allowing for the possibility of their return later in the series.

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