Horror

The Sandman – The Ruler of Hell / More Devils Than Vast Hell Can Hold

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  • Title: The Sandman – The Ruler of Hell / More Devils Than Vast Hell Can Hold
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“The Ruler of Hell” and “More Devils Than Vast Hell Can Hold” conclude the season’s first arc with Morpheus‘ (Tom Sturridge) journey to Hell going not at all how he thought. Finding the realm empty and a weary Lucifer (Gwendoline Christie) abdicating their throne, inspired by Morpheus leaving his own realm, Dream becomes responsible for finding the next ruler of the Realm (and there are many who want the job from Norse Gods to Faerie Folk to demons to invisible entities in a box). 

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Shin Godzilla

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  • Title: Shin Godzilla
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Returning to theaters, 2016’s Shin Godzilla, responsible for kicking of the franchise’s reboot into the Reiwa era, is an odd film. A talky film focused more on the politics and bureaucracy of Japan’s response to Godzilla than the monster (who literally just stands around for much of the film), it has notably prolonged lulls before returning to the title character. As for Godzilla, the film makes an interesting choice making the creature mostly unrecognizable (almost laughably so) on his initial emergence from the ocean and having him slowly metamorphize over the course of the film into something that finally more closely resembles classic Godzilla. 

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Jurassic World: Chaos Theory – Excess Baggage

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  • Title: Jurassic World: Chaos Theory – Excess Baggage
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Kicking off approximately where the last season left off, the remaining Nublar Five, still stunned that Brooklyn (Kiersten Kelly) is not only alive but chose to leave with the Broker (Dichen Lachman) hitch a ride home with Jurassic World‘s Barry Sembène (Evan Michael Lee) who arrives on the island to help the abandoned dinosaurs. However, once in the air, the group begins to question whether or not they can trust Santos which becomes less of a problem after a dinosaur gets loose on the flight forcing and emergency landing the they choose to disappear into the wilderness rather than wait for rescue.

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Wednesday – Here We Woe Again

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  • Title: Wednesday – Here We Woe Again
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After a glimpse of her summer vacation, which included capturing her favorite serial killer, Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) returns to Nevermore Academy to find herself a celebrity due to her actions that saved the school at the end of the First Season. This time Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez) joins her as well (who will end up having his own unexpected adventure in accidentally raising the dead while investigating the school’s most famous ghost story). While struggling with her sudden fame, the idea that her mother (Catherine Zeta-Jones) might be sticking around to help with the school’s upcoming gala, and uncertainties over the school’s new principal (Steve Buscemi), Wednesday will also stumble upon new mysteries to solve.

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Weapons

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  • Title: Weapons
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It will be interesting to see if American audiences will be patient enough for the slow burn of writer/director Zach Cregger‘s Weapons which takes place one month after all but one student from an elementary classroom each leave their homes at exactly 2:17am one morning and disappear into the night. Presented in a series of vignettes highlighting different characters, some of which overlap more than others, the film digs into the trauma and fear the kids’ disappearance has caused before the movie, eventually, reveals the truth behind events. And, if you are patient enough to wait for it, Weapons delivers one of the most memorable climactic sequences in recent memory.

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