Revolution kicks off on NBC on September 17th, and I was planing to be watching it anyways because it is science fiction by J.J.Abrams. But after watching the trailer I had to mark it in my calendar so I don’t miss it; this one looks like fun.
They changed the name, but The Watch is about a neighborhood watch team that is out to protect their town from aliens from outer space… whether they are a danger to anyone or not. Somehow this one doesn’t really appeal to me, probably because I don’t find either Stiller or Vaughn more than boring. The plot seems to be an Americanized remake of Attack The Block except without the inter-character relationships that made the original film interesting. But it does have Richard Ayoade and Billy Crudup, and I suppose they might manage to save the movie.
It doesn’t look like we get any genre movies this week, so I thought I would mention the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, about the award winning ten seat sushi restaurant in a subway station in Tokyo and the man that runs it.
We do a little better in TV this time, with both Touched By An Angel: The Complete Fifth Season and Touched By An Angel: Seasons 1 through 5. The show ran 9 seasons, so the latter set brings you to just past the halfway point. If you missed it when it originally aired it was quite a well done fantasy about helpful spirits. The other TV release is Sheena: The Complete Second Season, which completes the series which ran from 2000 to 2002. The original Sheena TV series ran in the 1950s, and both series were based on the comic book which ran from 1937 to 1953, the very first comic book series with a female protagonist. Wil Eisner and Jerry Iger created the character, which they based on H. Rider Haggard’s 1886 book She.
The anime release for this week is Golgo 13: The Professional, and that is more spy thriller than sci-fi or fantasy. It is also a re-release, the original feature length film came out in 1983. And yes, this is the movie, not the OVA.
The London version of the Doctor Who Experience was amazing, and I loved visiting it. But it shut down and moved a while ago, and finally today the Doctor Who Experience Cardiff opens its doors on its new home. Be sure to check it out, it is well worth spending the time to explore.
You still can’t see Continuum here, at least not yet, but there are rumors they are working on a deal for a US network to carry it. In the meantime though, there is another trailer to watch.
Obviously The Dark Knight Rises is the movie of choice this weekend, but at select theaters you can also see the Dark Knight Trilogy. Apparently they were pretty impressed by what Marvel pulled off with their marathon leading up to the midnight release of The Avengers, so Warner Bros stole the idea. Batman Begins starts on Thursday evening the 19th at around 6PM with the new film playing at midnight, and the entire run of three movies will take 8 hours and 45 minutes.