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The Great Films – Galaxy Quest

Alan Rapp / December 1, 2024 / Home Video

Title: Galaxy Quest
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Far from a flop, but not the box office family comedy smash the fledging DreamWorks Pictures was hoping for, Galaxy Quest came and went in the winter of 1999 and early 2000 with marginal success. Those lucky enough to see the film in the theaters were in for a treat that stayed around the top 10 of the box office for several weeks earning positive reviews from critics and earning back double its production costs. Without really knowing what they had on their hands, bungling the marketing of the film and hamstringing its release, DreamWorks had nevertheless produced the best Star Trek movie ever made.

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Transformers One

Alan Rapp / November 17, 2024 / Home Video

Title: Transformers One
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Playing with various versions of Transformers continuity to craft something new, Transformers One gives us the rise of both Optimus Prime and Megatron… eventually. The lack of recognizable characters may have played a role in the film’s box office struggles, but fans missed out on what is easily the best Transformers movie in decades.

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Terminator Zero – Model 103

Alan Rapp / September 17, 2024 / Television Reviews

Title: Terminator Zero – Model 103
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In the closed catacombs the Terminator finally catches up with the kids. Luckily for them, Eiko (Sonoya Mizuno) arrives soon after to buy them time to escape. Those segments in the closed down underground shop are pretty boilerplate Terminator while the thread of Malcolm Lee (André Holland) continuing to discuss humanity to his AI which he hopes will save humanity, but in Eiko’s timeline fails to do so, continues to feel like filler as nothing can advance in that subplot without either Ekio reaching Malcolm or Malcolm turning his AI loose.

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Uglies

Alan Rapp / September 17, 2024 / Home Video

Title: Uglies
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Based on the young adult novel of the same name, Uglies offers a dystopian world where children are raised in orphanages before coming of age where they are offered advanced plastic surgery in order to fit in and join the lavish city ending their life as “uglies” and beginning their lives as “pretties.” Wearing its themes on its sleeves, Tilly’s (Joey King) conception of the world is challenged by both her best friend (Chase Stokes) changing more than just his outward appearance after leaving the city and also by a new friend (Brianne Tju) choosing to abandon civilization rather than go through the procedure.

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The Umbrella Academy – Six Years, Five Months, and Two Days

Alan Rapp / September 16, 2024 / Television Reviews

Title: The Umbrella Academy – Six Years, Five Months, and Two Days
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While offering some interesting aspects, “Six Years, Five Months, and Two Days” turns out to be an odd choice for the penultimate episode of the series. Had there been more room to play with the looming finale spending a full episode on Five (Aidan Gallagher) and Lila (Ritu Arya) getting lost in subway to alternate realities or having Luther (Tom Hopper) and Diego (David Castañeda) waste their time with the CIA would certainly be worth exploring. However, that means everything else is put on hold leaving only a single episode to deal with Ben (Justin H. Min) and Jennifer’s (Victoria Sawal) badly-rendered CGI merging, the explanation for motives and events, and the final mission of the Umbrella Academy.

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