This one should be fun, in an Indie kind of way. Her is about a specially designed artificial intelligence, custom built for the end user, and the poor schmuck who has to spend the rest of his life with her. Sometimes our Evil Robot Overlords are also our better half.
I know everyone has already seen the new Captain America: The Winter Soldier trailer, but I don’t care; here it is again. So far each Marvel movie in the Avengers series has been better than the one before it. I don’t think they can keep that up, but I will keep going to them to find out.
This is shaping up to be an excellent movie month, with several films to chose from this week. I absolutely have to be in the theater for Thor: The Dark World with the 9th Doctor (Chris Eccelston) playing the bad guy, and Chuck (Zack Levi) playing one of the Warriors 3 as kind of a variation on his role in Tangled. For those disappointed that About Time didn’t come out in a theater near them last week, it goes into much wider release this week, so you have a better shot of finding it. And The Starving Games is a parody of The Hunger Games that looks like it could be pretty funny.
In film, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey leads us off, and if you don’t already know all about this one you haven’t been distracted, you’ve been comatose. Computer Chess is set in a 1980 tournament where some of the best programmers in the world got together to run their programs against one another and determine a winner. A comedy-drama about the first steps on the road to the invention of artificial intelligence and the creation of software that can beat us at our own game. I should probably mention that while this is its DVD debut, it have been available for purchase and download at iTunes and the like for a while. Much as I hate sparkly vampires I suppose I have to mention Twilight Forever: The Complete Saga, for those who somehow missed it earlier, or who absolutely have to have the several minutes of extra footage they stuck back in.
In TV we have Under the Dome, the series based on the Steven King story.
In Anime Hiiro no Kakera – The Tamayori Princess Saga Season 2 tells of Tamaki, the new Tamayori Princess. Which makes her the protector of the universe, with 5 protectors of her own. The five hansom boys devoted to her well being do cause a bit of confusion among her high school peer group, and more than a little amusement for the viewer. Living to inhabit her new role is not at all guaranteed, with lots of things doing their best to kill her. Zetman is about two guys with special powers, who each want to use their gifts in the cause of justice. What justice means is different for them, which becomes a source of trouble as their lives intertwine.
Fate/Zero is about the first Holy Grail War, which took place 10 years before the one covered in Fate/Stay Night. If you are not already following this series, whoever wins the wars gets an item that will make any dream come true, no matter how impossible. This particular special edition is a bit pricy for me, so I will be waiting for a more cost effective release to come out.
The film Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? is made by Michel Gondry, the man who did Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep, and stars MIT’s Noam Chomsky. Gondry also did the interesting animation for the documentary, which has a nice texture to it and visually enhances the dialog. You are going to want to bring your brain to this one, it looks like good intelligent fun.
What could be more American than Mister Peabody and Sherman? I can’t wait for the new movie to be in the theaters, and once more hear that exciting command: Sherman, set the WayBack Machine! Along with Fractured Fairy Tales, this was something I looked for every week in the Rocky And Bullwinkle Show.