Science Fiction

Peripheral – What About Bob? / Fuck You and Eat Shit

  • Title: Peripheral – What About Bob? / Fuck You and Eat Shit
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Two more episodes don’t do much of anything in regards to the investigation of what happened to Aelita West (Charlotte Riley), but we do get more the convenient here than gone medical effects on Flynne (Chloë Grace Moretz), a short confrontation between Flynne and Cherise (T’Nia Miller), and the introduction of yet more characters in another hired killer (Ned Dennehy) in the present and a pair of investigators (Alexandra Billings and Anjli Mohindra) in the future. Because both episodes are so geared to adding more to the story, unfortunately we don’t get much movement on existing stories, although we get some flashbacks including one that shows the injuries to Conner (Eli Goree) were caused by one of the experiments from the future (which you would expect to have some sort of payoff).

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Spoils of War / Ruins of War

  • Title: Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Spoils of War / Ruins of War
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Star Wars: The Bad Batch returns for its Second Season with the Empire’s power growing and a dangerous but lucrative opportunity for the crew offered. Looking for a big score, for either retirement or help with the Rebellion (the Clones have differing opinions on their next course of action), the team accepts a risky mission stealing from the Empire who are cleaning out Count Dooku‘s vaults. Even a single cargo container could be the Bad Batch’s biggest score. However, things don’t go quite according to plan. Both the first two episodes focus on the heist, where the team gets separated, and then bringing the group back together (albeit without the big score they hoped for).

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NOPE

  • Title: NOPE
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There’s quite a bit worth noting about writer/director Jordan Peele‘s NOPE which touches on themes of spectacle and exploitation, the legacy of film, and science fiction. While the individual parts of the film, highlighted by some terrific scenes, are better than the combined whole, the film still delivers an interesting take on the fascination of UFOs and fame.

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Crimes of the Future

  • Title: Crimes of the Future
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Writer/director David Cronenberg returns to science fiction and body horror in a film about the evolution of the human race and the spectacle of surgery as entertainment. Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux star as a pair of artists in this new world. His body continues to grow new organs which she removes in front of an audience as both spectacle and, as both admit to each other, sex.

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