There is a new trailer from the reboot of The Man From U.N.C.L.E., which looks even better than the first one. I loved the original series, and I will definitely be doing the 3D IMAX screen for this one. I even got ready for it by taking a recent journey to The Spy Museum, which was running a huge exhibit called Exquisitely Evil: 50 Years of Bond Villains. I should see if any of my pictures came out and post a few of them here.
The tag line for the new movie The Martian is: Help Is Only 140 Million Miles Away. Pretty scary, but very true for this scenario. It has an all star cast (as you can tell from the trailer), and it is a Riddly Scott movie. What’s not to love? Other than the fact that we have to wait until forever for it to come out, of course.
A cute little animation, Devils, Angels & Dating was posted in January of 2012, and has won an assortment of awards at various film festivals. Enjoy!
If you have any love of SciFi at all, run, don’t walk, to your nearest online streaming service, log into Netflix, and start watching Sense8. Eight cities, what starts out being 8 people (who rapidly become one), and one central theme; Homo Sapiens are becoming Homo Superior, and the powers that be will do everything they can to kill them before they lose their own power to control the world forever. This brilliant series includes the Wachowskis as creators, but J. Michael Straczynski of Babylon 5 fame is the real storyteller here.
This week we finally get Jurassic World, the latest in the Jurassic franchise. I have liked these since the very first one, and I will definitely be in the theater for it, hopefully the IMAX 3D version. There are also a limited number of theaters which will be showing Debug, a film about 6 hackers who go up against the AI in a derelict space ship, which will be a show I will be passing on.
In movies this week we get Kingsman: The Secret Service, an action/adventure/comedy based on the Mark Miller Marvel comic book series The Secret Service. In TV we get The Last Ship: The Complete First Season, an end of the world thriller with a lot of action.
In Anime, Hyperdimension Neptunia is one of those recursive anime about gaming on thinly disguised platforms anthropomorphized as (of course) cute girls. Knights of Sidonia: Season 1 takes place a thousand years after the destruction of the Earth by the Gauna, with the remnants of Humanity still fleeing for their lives. This one is a Netflix original, and they have already signed on for season 2, which will be online on July 3rd. Mardock Scramble: The Trilogy puts both the directors cut and the theatrical version of these three movies into a single box set for the first time. Our protagonist is murdered in the first film’s opening sequence, and her memory recording (taken before her human body fully cooled down) spends the rest of the story wearing a cyborg body and attempting to bring her killer to justice. It is just as cyberpunk as Ghost In The Shell, and worth watching.