The fun never stops when the McClane family is in town, as they are for A Good Day to Die Hard. The latest episode is family oriented, with the kind of generational changes most families go through. The son is in a different line of work than the father when you look at the letter, but the same when you look at the spirit. I am looking forward to this one, only a handful of weeks away now, being released on February 14th. I don’t think my mom would have approved this as an appropriate Valentine Day movie, but my dad would have loved it.
While it probably will not be showing on a huge number of screens, the one that excites me is Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo. I have been enjoying the reimaging of this series, as it gets redone as four feature length films. It pulled in over a billion Yen on its opening weekend in Japan, so I am obviously not the only one who likes it. The trailer for the fourth and final film in the series is apparently embedded at the end of the credits, so walking out while they are scrolling up the screen is not recommended. The other film which may be released this week is The Elegant Clockwork of the Universe, a time travel tale.
In movies, Dredd is the 2012 version, which went back to the original source material rather than remaking the earlier movie. They played it a bit less campy and closer to the graphic novel’s intentions. The animated Frankenweenie is another of the strange partnership between Disney and Tim Burton that has brought us so many interesting movies. 2012’s Timekeeper centers around a 14 year old accidental time traveler.
Red Dwarf: X is pretty much the US premier of the series, or at least I haven’t found the channel that is carrying the series in North America. I am glad that Dave TV picked up the series and continues to generate new episodes, but I wish that someone would carry it here. Methematica from PBS is a 20 part series that explains some of the basic principles of mathematics in an accessible and easily understandable way. Mathematica is also the name of a very powerful programing environment that runs on Unix and Linux systems and uses Parallel Batch Scripting to run on a number of CPUs at the same time to speed up processing, so don’t be surprised if you get some interesting search results on that one.
In Anime, Bodacious Space Pirates is the first collection in this series, starting us off with a full 13 episodes. A high school girl has just discovered that her dad was captain of a pirate ship, and she has inherited the position. If you want to check it out, you can watch episodes on Crunchyroll to get an idea of the show.
You have to love a title like Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl, and this one involves an adolescent boy who lives with his aunt, only to discover she has a secret daughter from outer space. His life is anything but normal after that, as they try to figure out where she was for the year and a half she went missing.
I am not usually a Zombie fan, but for the first time since Shaun Of The Dead I have a film I would actually like to see; Warm Bodies. This one has a spark of humanity that is rare even amongst the movies starring the living. I suspect I will have to see this one on the big screen, to get the full effect.
Not a lot coming out this week, but there is a chance All Superheroes Must Die might hit the big screen. It was called VS in its earlier incarnation, if the trailer made you wonder. The Prototype is also a possible option this weekend, but be warned, it is the lesser of the two movies with that title scheduled to be released in 2013. Finally, Sushi Girl is another one of those movies that was available On Demand before it is actually released in theaters. This weekend is its theatrical release.
Looper is a movie that reminded me of the better aspects of Bladerunner, and it tops this weeks list of new DVDs; if you can only add a single title to your collection this week it should be this one. Not that there are a lot of new releases at the moment, but Looper would be at the top no matter when it came out; it is just that powerful and important.
In TV, Being Human: The Complete Second Season is the American version of the series, the UK version being several seasons father along. I prefer the British show, but this one is quite similar. I suspect my preference is because I saw that one first, so those are the actors who make up the show to me.
In anime, Mardock Scramble: Second Combustion is finally coming out in the US. Cyborg Rune Balot continues to try to bring her killer to justice while some of her team recovers from the attack that almost wiped them out. Finally, Penguindrum: Collection 1 is the story of Himari, who’s death is reversed by wearing the Penguin Hat. But a full resurrection will only come once she has the Penguin Drum, so the search is on to change her destiny.