The Age of Adaline is a story about a woman who does not age, as the world changes around her. It is an epic romantic drama, her story taking place over the span of 10 decades, and based on the trailer it looks worth checking out. It will be on the bigh screen on April 24th.
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Somehow I can’t get excited over The Pyramid this week, another in a long line of cursed tomb films. The fact that this plot line has been done to death probably has something to do with that. This will be a good weekend to catch up with the TV series I haven’t had time to get through yet this year.
In Movies we get Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, the second film in the recent reboot of the classic series. This set of films is probably the best example of the state of the art in computer generated characters I have seen. Also this week, the live action version of Kite, based on the groundbreaking anime classic.
In TV, The Strain: The Complete First Season is a show about viral vampires, as done by Guillermo Del Toro and a few other award winning writers. Also out, The Simpsons: The Complete Seventeenth Season continues the animated silliness for more years than I even dreamed were possible when the show first hit the airwaves.
In Anime, Diabolik Lovers: Complete Collection finds Yui sharing a home with 6 vampires, and keeping them at fangs length is becoming quite stressful. Note that this is the DVD only; the Blue Ray version will be out at the end of February. In the magical combat comedy we get Fairy Tail: Part 14, bringing episodes 154 through 164 to North America. Finally, Queen’s Blade: Beautiful Warriors is a 6 episode OVA series telling the tales of the most recent contestants as they make their way through the world after their competition.
The first track is 2014’s Elektryczny, the second is 2012’s Ognia!, and the third is 2013’s Jutro jest dziś. The Męskie Granie Orkiestra (Men Playing Orchestra) is one of the more interesting bands to come out of Poland this decade. A big chunk of the reason is they are more of a project than a band, with a ton of quality artists drifting in and out of the core group, contributing their talents to each song they are involved with. These few songs give you an idea what they are up to; there are a lot more in their discography. If you like what you hear you should check the rest of them out, you can find lots of them on You Tube and iTunes.
The Librarians arrive on Sunday, December 7th on TNT, and I am so ready for this series! TNT were behind the original movies series this is based on, and I loved those movies because of the way they blended silly with action, and for the excellent premise. I am setting my DVR now, so I don’t miss an episode!
The animated George Lucas film Strange Magic will be in theaters on January 23rd, and should be a lot of fun. It looks like some of the same folks are involved who created Epic if the character design and animation style is any indication.