Science Fiction

Rick and Mory – A Ricker Runs Through It

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  • Title: Rick and Mory – A Ricker Runs Through It
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Exposing a betrayal of trust, in “A Ricker Runs Through It” Morty (Harry Belden) discovers Rick‘s (Ian Cardoni) cool friend Reese (Owen Wilson) who the duo enjoying hanging out with from time to time is nothing more than an android Rick whipped up in his lab. Reese purpose is to be a password authenticator created to show up when he gets so blackout drunk he gets locked out of the lab. Following a standard formula of the show, a hurt Morty attempts to help Reese (allowing us to venture into more of the subterranean levels of the basement) only to cause more harm and almost get the family killed when Reese, and Rick’s passwords, fall into the hands of vindictive space hogs.

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Spaceballs: The Movie Review

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  • Title: Spaceballs
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Released 5 years after the conclusion of the original Star Wars trilogy, and long before any glimmer of new Star Wars films ever being made, with Spaceballs writer/director Mel Brooks lampooned the cultural phenomenon along with countless other sci-fi properties including Star Trek, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien, and others. Although Brooks would go on to do other parodies in a similar vein, arguably learning the wrong lesson from the film, Spaceballs marks the end of the director’s better work which peaked far earlier in the early 1970s.

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Disclosure Day

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  • Title: Disclosure Day
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For the fifth time in his career, and the first time since 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, director Steven Spielberg returns to the subject of alien life on Earth. Through the use of Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor who somehow know things beyond what is possible, Eve Hewson as O’Connor’s religious girlfriend, a government conspiracy run by Colin Firth, and an underground movement to reveal the truth led by Colman Domingo, Disclosure Day asks the question: Do those who know the truth of alien life have a right, or an obligation, to share that knowledge with he world?

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Starchaser: The Legend of Orin

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  • Title: Starchaser: The Legend of Orin
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Starchaser: The Legend of Orin is a movie that has alluded me most of my life. Just missing out on seeing it theaters, somehow I never caught up with it on home video, cable, or streaming. Until now. Sadly the ambitious, albeit derivative (stealing prominently from Star Wars and countless other sci-fi tales), animated 3D film wasn’t worth the wait.

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Why Minority Report Kinda Sucks

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  • Title: Minority Report
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Released in 2002, Steven Spielberg‘s Minority Report offered a slick sci-fi thriller set in the not-too-distant future resulting in huge financial and critical acclaim. However, before it was a feature film adapted by Scott Frank and Jon Cohen (who admitted in an interview with Script Magazine that he didn’t understand the original story) The Minority Report was a short novella by Peter K. Dick. And for those who read the story before seeing the movie it’s almost impossible to reconcile the fundamental changes to not only the narrative but also the core ideas Dick was exploring to such an extent that the film’s title no longer makes sense. It would be another decade before a writer and director would so fundamentally misunderstand their source material resulting in Man of Steel.

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