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The band La Luz played a live set at KEXP’s Iceland Airwaves event at the Kex Hostel in Reykjavik, and the station just got around to posting it online the other week. Why a Seattle radio station decided to record a Seattle band in Iceland I have no idea, but I really like their retro sound, so I am glad they did. KEXP is constantly uploading and streaming some of the best music you never heard, they are well worth tuning in.

This is actually the Outcast trailer, but Nick Cage went so over the top yet again I had to rename the post to his character. This one looks like it will be a lot of fun, and I will be in the theater for it. I would have been in the theater for it 6 months ago, but the release got delayed a bit.

A ton of movies based on Philip K. Dick books have been made, but Amazon is taking a shot at doing a TV series based on The Man in the High Castle. This multi-award winning novel takes place in a parallel time line where Germany and Japan won WWII, and the number one underground hit in occupied America is a science fiction story about the Allies winning the war instead. Executive produced by Ridley Scott, this is part of Amazon’s new Amazon Pilot Season. They basically made the pilot episode, you watch it, and you rate it, telling them if you want to see more. They will turn some of these pilots into original series which you can watch on their streaming service, and I really hope they go with this one; the pilot was excellent.

Project Almanac is about a group of friends who stumble across a time machine one of their parents were working on, and finish assembling it. It doesn’t take them long to realize this was a mistake. Alien Outpost is about a documentary crew following an elite unit of soldiers in the wake of an alien invasion. Hard to Be a God has group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization. The movie is Russian, I have no idea why the official site I found for it is in Japan. At least the The Official Site of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, the folks who wrote the story it is based on, is from there. In Legends from the Sky a Native American Veteran is looking for his missing grandfather after his land is taken over by an unknown federal organization looking for a UFO. Note that some of these are limited engagements and won’t be found in a lot of theaters.