The only real choice this week is the conclusion to its series: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2. Hopefully this will live up to the story Suzanne Collins created when she wrote the books. Everyone has seen the trailer by now, so instead I am including a wonderful fan tribute parody theme song.
Movies brings us The Man From U.N.C.L.E. for our original release, so if you missed this excellent film in the theaters you now have another shot at it. While there isn’t anything previously unreleased in it, I do have to mention The Collected Works of Hayao Miyazaki brings together everything Disney has distributed by him in a single box set. No TV to speak of this week.
In Anime, Buddy Complex: The Complete Series is a story about time travel, interstellar combat, giant mecha’s, and all the other things that make high school such a learning experience. Tiny though the story arc is for Sword Art Online II: Calibur, it is still world class and well worth watching as the SAO franchise keeps gathering momentum. Finally, Invaders of the Rokujyoma!? brings a collection of characters that include a girl ghost, a Magical Girl, a luscious Subterranean bombshell,
and a fiery space princess!
It looks like they have put some effort into Warcraft: The Beginning, which will be hitting theaters on June 16th, 2016. There is nothing to their web site so far, but there is a little bit of info on their facebook page. Personally, the trailer sold me; I will definitely be in the theater for this one.
Several days ago Disney released its first look at Tim Burton’s Alice Through The Looking Glass, the sequel to his Alice in Wonderland from several years ago. It definitely looks like it needs to be seen on the big screen, just like the first one did, and you will be able to do so next May 27th, provided it doesn’t get delayed.
In Movies, Terminator Genisys brings Arnie back to the franchise as both his young and old self. I missed this one in the theater, so I am going to try to check it out this time around. Self/Less looks like quite an interesting story of attempted immortality, and the law of unintended consequences. Finally Mr. Holmes is a story about Sherlock in his later days taking on one last case.
While not quite genre, TV brings WKRP in Cincinnati: The Complete Final Season. As a person who worked on FM Rock Radio in those days, this show was the closest thing I have ever seen to the way it really was.
In Anime Danganronpa: Complete Series is a high school where the best are out to kill each other off in their attempt to escape getting slaughtered themselves. It has quite an interesting animation style, and is based on a game franchise of the same name. There are also two new entries from long running favorites, Naruto: Shippuden, Box Set 24 with episodes 297 through 309, and One Piece: Collection 14 with episodes 325 through 348.
In the animated short film Sumer by Alvaro Garcia the ionosphere has been destroyed, and the planetary ecosystem followed close behind it. The animals and plants died a while ago, leaving one small group of humans in an artificial environment. In nine minutes this film tells quite a complex story, and in the year it has been making the Film Festival circuit it has won over 50 awards, including winning 14 Festivals outright. Thanks to CGI Bros for making this available online.