A short featurette about the next Avengers movie, with a bit of the thinking behind the franchise, and maybe a spoiler or two.
The choice this week is obvious: The Great Wall took 1,700 years to build and was over 500 miles long; so just what was it built to defend against? The Western mercenaries came to buy the latest super weapon, gunpowder, but one of them found a war worth fighting. This is where you will find me this weekend, enjoying this joint Chinese/US production.
On March 9th, for one night only, Sword Art Online The Movie -Ordinal Scale- will be on the big screen, this time with a story based on AR, rather than VR. This is another Fathom Events special transmitted digitally to theaters across North America, with the distribution rights going to Aniplex. It appears to be booked in more theaters than these things usually are, so there is a good chance it is somewhere nearby. The Anime are based on a series of light novels by the same name written by Reki Kawahara, who also had his Accel World series of books turned into Anime. Both series have also become Manga and Video Games, of course.
The LEGO Batman Movie should be the same silly fun as the last LEGO movie, and my choice for the one to see this weekend.
With Scarlett Johansson, Beat Takeshi, and Pilou Asbæk heading up Section 9, the live action version of Ghost In The Shell is a movie I have been waiting roughly 25 years for someone to make. Only a few more months to go before we get to see it! The Super Bowl spot has some new footage we haven’t seen before.
The winner this week may be The Space Between Us, about the first person born on Mars. When he returns to visit the Earth, find his father, and meet the first new people in his life, they discover his body can not handle the environment. We also get Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back, the second movie in the Steven Chow series.