Science Fiction

Outland

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  • Title: Outland
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Set in a mining station on the moon of Jupiter, 1981’s Outland stars Sean Connery as the recently-assigned Marshal William T. O’Niel. With his wife (Kika Markham) and son (Nicholas Barnes) unable to deal with the conditions of his job any longer, and leaving for Earth, O’Neil finds himself increasingly isolated especially after he begins looking into a series of suspicious deaths and uncovers a company-approved amphetamine smuggling operation increasing the productivity of the miners but also making a number of the workers insane.

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Tron: Ares

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  • Title: Tron: Ares
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Tron: Ares is the movie Tron: Legacy should have been. Largely ignoring the events of Legacy, the new film give us corporate espionage while also playing on the real-life debate of greed and fear of the proper use of Artificial Intelligence. On one side we have Eve Kim (Greta Lee), stepping in as the head of ENCOM following Sam Flynn‘s departure. On the other side we have Julian Dillinger (Evan Peters). Both are pursuing the breakthrough to manifest physical objects and programs into the real world for longer than 29-minutes (at which they become unstable and dissolve into dust).

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Rick and Morty – The CuRicksous Case of Bethjamin Button

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  • Title: Rick and Morty – The CuRicksous Case of Bethjamin Button
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As Rick (Ian Cardoni) takes Morty (Harry Belden), Summer (Spencer Grammer), and Jerry (Chris Parnell) to an alien theme park based on Earth which if far less bizarre and crazy than he claimed, the episode’s B-story features Beth (Sarah Chalke) and Space Beth de-aging themselves back to kids in an attempt to rediscover the joy that both have lost. The main story is a thin excuse for the show to get as crazy as possible when the park beneath the park is revealed. It’s the Beth storyline of the pair working out their ennui and pained frustrations to both their lives and their father that has a bit more meat on the bone. It also provides a couple of interesting nuggets in revealing how batshit-crazy-awful Beth was as a kid and the lengths Rick takes to try and control their neighbor Gene‘s (Tom Kenny) response to the number of bizarre and crazy things he’s seen over the years.

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Foundation – When a Book Finds You / The Stress of Her Regard

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  • Title: Foundation – When a Book Finds You / The Stress of Her Regard
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As the Mule‘s (Pilou Asbæk) influence on Kalgan continues to grow, something which Han Pritcher (Brandon P Bell) gets a glimpse of for himself, “When a Book Finds You” and “The Stress of Her Regard” develop the partnership between Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell) and Brother Dawn (Cassian Bilton). Flashbacks explore how their conversations began while the current crisis forces Dawn into a difficult decision heading into a cliffhanger with not one but two Cleons abandoning their posts as Demerzel‘s (Laura Birn) actions to end his his problematic romance to a woman who worships robots which in turn forces Brother Day (Lee Pace) to leave the palace as well. As one heads to the stars to a future he can’t fathom, the other dives deep into the planet in search of  something lost.

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The Fantastic Four: First Steps

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  • Title: The Fantastic Four: First Steps
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The fifth time’s the charm? With the exception of The Incredibles, Hollywood has had a pretty bad record adapting a good Fantastic Four to film. The Fantastic Four: First Steps is easily the best attempt (even if the bar is ridiculously low). The first thing director Matt Shakman, writers Josh Friedman, Eric Pearson, and Jeff Kaplan, and producer Kevin Feige get right is capturing the proper setting for a film as we open a world set in the kind of 60s futurism that spawned the original comic book. From its opening moments to its closing credits we believe this is a world where the Fantastic Four could thrive, where a robot like H.E.R.B.I.E. would help babyproof the Baxter Building, where you could see the Fantasticar pass by, and where the fate of the world would rely on a family coming together to save the day. A strong argument could be made that the look of the film is its unsung hero.

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