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Descendants

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  • Title: Descendants
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An attempt to cash in on the success of High School Musical while also incorporating the large catalog of Disney Princess characters. 2015’s made-for-TV movie introduced the world to four children of villains given the chance to leave the island prison where they were raised and join the “good people” and attend Auradon Preparatory High School. However, the foursome have a completely different mission assigned to them by their parents to steal a magic wand and free them all

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The Odyssey

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  • Title: The Odyssey
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Christopher Nolan delivers his epic interpretation of Homer‘s Odyssey which, behind gods and monsters, is the tale of one man’s journey home from war. Nolan casts Matt Damon as Odysseus who, when the film opens, is already lost to the world. His home has been overrun by suitors (most notably a sleazy Robert Pattinson) for his wife (Anne Hathaway) who have ill-intentions for his throne and his son (Tom Holland).

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The Legend of Vox Machina – De Rolo’s Eleven

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  • Title: The Legend of Vox Machina – De Rolo’s Eleven
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“De Rolo’s Eleven” is probably my favorite episode of The Legend of Vox Machina. The plan is simple: to break into the Cobalt Archive in Rexxentrum in search of information about The Whispered One. Nothing goes to plan, the results are less than ideal, but ultimately it’s all quite amusing.

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He-Man and the Masters of the Universe – Like Father, Like Daughter

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  • Title: He-Man and the Masters of the Universe – Like Father, Like Daughter
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Masters of the Universe takes us back to Eternia and the adventures of He-Man. As Teela (Linda Gary) finishes work on her father’s latest invention, He-Man (John Erwin) and Man-At-Arms (Alan Oppenheimer) head to the remote area of Stardica where Trap Jaw (Lou Scheimer) and Beast Man (Erwin) have restarted the abandoned fortress and are building Skeletor (Oppenheimer) an army of Serpentoids.

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The Warrior and the Sorceress

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  • Title: The Warrior and the Sorceress
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One of 10 films produced by Roger Corman in Argentina in the 1980s, The Warrior and the Sorceress is a thinly-veiled retelling of Yojimbo on an alien world (featuring the most modest of fantasy or sci-fi trappings). More sword than sorcery, the story opens with Kain (David Carradine), a former holy warrior turned mercenary, wandering into the village of Yamatar where the most precious resource is a well fought over by two warring gangs.

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