Month: June 2018

Comic Book Review – Legends

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Legends (1987)
Written by John Ostrander & Len Wein
Art by John Byrne

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On the planet Apokolips, the god Darkseid makes a wager with the Phantom Stranger that he will turn humanity against their most celebrated heroes. Darkseid accomplishes this by sending Glorious Godfrey, a supernaturally powered svengali to sway the general public. He also dispatches the psychic terror Dr. Bedlam in the form of a manufactured villain Macro-Man and the fiery acolyte Brimstone. The first target is the bastion of goodness Captain Marvel, and he is the first of many heroes to fall. Along the way, the Justice League of America crumbles, and Batman is driven from his cape and cowl when given orders by the Gotham City PD. However, this is the beginning of a new era in DC Comics with the introductions of Blue Beetle and Captain Marvel into the DC Universe as well as the reintroduction of Wonder Woman.

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TV Review – Utopia Series 2, Episode 3

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Utopia Series 2, Episode 3 (2014)
Written by Dennis Kelly
Directed by Marc Munden

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There is a universal human tendency to value the lives of your loved ones over the lives of others, particularly strangers. You’ll commonly hear new parents express that they have a sudden sense that they would die for their newborn children. People will make drastic moves to protect their loved ones even in the face of death. But we don’t see often is what a person will do when it comes to harming another in the name of saving their loved one. Would you be willing to kill to protect the people you love? Not kill someone who intends harm, but someone whose continued life might put your family in jeopardy. This is an innocent, for all intents and purposes, who isn’t an immediate threat, but could become one. Would you kill them?

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Movie Review – While We’re Young

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While We’re Young (2015)
Written & Directed by Noam Baumbach

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Josh is documentary filmmaker stuck on the same project for the last ten years. His wife, Cornelia, is a producer whom he won’t work with, and his father in law is a famous documentarian whom he also won’t work with. During a lecture at a college where Josh works, he meets Jamie and Darby, a young couple who are full of the sense of life he is missing. Josh and Cornelia become fast friends with the couple and learn Jamie is also a filmmaker seeking out an excellent topic for his own documentary. Josh finally breaks his taboo of never collaborating and decides to help Jamie out with a Facebook-centered doc idea he has. As the two couples become more closely intertwined more tension bubbles to the surface until Josh’s personal life begins to crumble around himself.

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