Wayback Wednesday takes us back to 1994 and a bus that couldn’t drop below 50 MPH or everyone onboard would die. There are action films that are so big they spawn imitators of every stripe for the next several years. An immediate critical and box office success, like Die Hard before it, where every pitch became “Die Hard on a ____,” so too was the case for Speed as countless studios attempted to recreate the formula.
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Set in the then future of 2020, see it was always going to be a shit year, Reign of Fire gives us a dystopian future where dragons have been awoken by man drilling too deep into the Earth (a common warning for science fiction tales) and have burned the world to ash. In an old broken down fortress in Northumberland, Quinn Abercromby (Christian Bale) has managed to keep a community alive. Enter dragon hunters from the United States led by the obsessed Denton Van Zan (Matthew McConaughey) who offer new hope with a dangerous plan of searching out the original dragon Quinn saw as the child, the only male dragon of the species.
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John Wick: Chapter 4 has the same strengths and weaknesses of the earlier films. We get bloody, brutal, and at times spectacular, violence set against the backdrops of music video sets brought to life, which are dragged down at times by stretches of world building unnecessary for our enjoyment of the former. The fourth entry of the franchise plays at cross purposes with John Wick (Keanu Reeves) looking to work his way back into the life he abandoned for his wife in order to get out again. In terms of story, it’s a bit of a mess. In terms of action, there are a couple of long sequences which fans will not doubt enjoy.
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to the 1980s when knowing was half the battle. While the Joes hold Cobra Commander in a hastily-assembled base high in the Rocky Mountains, one loyal soldier (a certain ninja clad in white, still relatively new to the comic) will work on freeing him, as Destro, Major Bludd, and the Baroness plot to take over the terrorist organization in his absence.
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Picking up the thread from the end of the last issue, we get James Bond desperately attempting to save a man he wants to kill from the terrorist organization of Myrmidon (which turns out badly for our hero) and getting a second go at the their cyborg henchman Rook. Although the six-issue series comes to a close with #007 #6, the storyline does not as it will continue in 007: For King and Country.
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