Fantasy

The Mighty Nein – Who Will You Be? / The Fletching & Moondrop Traveling Carnival of Curiosities

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  • Title: The Mighty Nein – Who Will You Be? / The Fletching & Moondrop Traveling Carnival of Curiosities
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The second and third episodes of The Mighty Nein continue to introduce most of the remaining core charactrs and put them on a path that will converge at the Fletching & Moondrop Traveling Carnival of Curiosities. We meet the young sailor Fjord Stone (Travis Willingham) whose ship and entire crew are killed by a sea monser. Brought back to life by something deep underwater with glowing eyes, Fjord finds himself alive, on shore, and with a set of new magical sword and powers to explore. He won’t be the last character we’re introduced to touched by some unknown powerful force.

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Eternity

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  • Title: Eternity
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As with A Big Bold Beautiful Journey released earlier this year, Eternity puts a supernatural twist on your basic romcom. After a full life Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) wakes up in a sort of train station for the afterlife one week after her husband Larry (Miles Teller) died. Returned to their ideal ages of themselves, each gets a week to choose a different perfect world in which to spend eternity, although those who can’t decide can choose to stick around the station which is where Joan’s dilemma arrives as her first husband Luke (Callum Turner), who died in the Korean War, has been doing that for 67 years waiting for the love of his life in order for them to wade into eternity together.

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The Mighty Nein – Mote of Possibility

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  • Title: The Mighty Nein – Mote of Possibility
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Coming out of Critical Role, and with more than a passing resemblance to The Legend of Vox Machina (and taking place in that same world), the opening episode of The Mighty Nein begins bringing together a part of mismatched adventurers who will be called upon to save the world. The show kicks off with the theft of a religious artifact by magician assassins known as Volstrucker which raises the already tensions between the Dwendalian Empire and the Kryn Dynasty to the brink of war.

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Wicked: For Good

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  • Title: Wicked: For Good
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Presenting the second-half of the Broadway musical Wicked as its own movie, I’ll admit enjoying Wicked: For Good slightly more than Wicked: Part I. Tension is already set at the beginning of the film as time has past since Elphaba Thropp’s (Cynthia Erivo) decision to stand against the Wizard of Oz (Jeff Goldblum). And, honestly, things are not going all that great for the most powerful witch in Oz. The Wizard’s soldiers are hunting her with his propaganda machine in full gear painting Elphaba as the cause for all evil. And the animals which Elphaba wishes to save, those who aren’t being caged, are fleeing Oz in great numbers unable to trust any humans.

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Aladdin

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  • Title: Aladdin (1992)
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Released to critical and box office acclaim, although not without controversy for its depiction of Arab characters and culture, it’s easy to forget the success Disney’s Aladdin had given it would be soon eclipsed by The Lion King just two years later. While not the title character, it’s impossible not to begin with Robin Williams as the voice of the Genie. Despite the negative experience with working with Disney, Robin’s stream-of-consciousness comic style translated terrifically to an animated character (even if I could do without some of the more obvious Disney pop-culture references).

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