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News about the Kelvin Universe prequel movie, sounds like a reboot of First Contact and Star Trek: Enterprise.

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X-Men: First Class (2011, Matthew Vaughn)

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X Men: Dark Phoenix (2019)

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rebels...s1e1...10/3/2014

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WATCHLIST 2023: The 355

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"Invasión de Apple TV+ se renueva para una tercera temporada"

Apple TV Plus ha confirmado que su popular drama de ciencia ficción, “Invasión”, regresará para una tercera temporada, luego del éxito de la segunda temporada que concluyó en octubre. Aunque los detalles sobre la nueva temporada son escasos, se ha anunciado que la producción comenzará en febrero, manteniendo a los fanáticos en vilo sobre qué giros emocionantes traerá la historia. El creador de…

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While you wait for shops to open, here's some comic related news and a review from around the web #comics #comicbooks

It’s new comic book day! What are you all excited for? What do you plan on getting? Sound off in the comments below. While you wait for shops to open, here’s some comic related news and a review from around the web. The Mary Sue – Why Is Chris Hemsworth Apologizing for a Movie That Doesn’t Deserve the Hate It Gets? – It’s interesting he’s taking the blame and not blaming others. Feels weirdly…

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Say what you will about Dark Phoenix but Simon Kinberg was like "Fuck it it's the last one of this franchise" and put his favorite X-Men character Dazzler in it and I think that's iconic

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X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019)

"The mind is a fragile thing. Takes only the slightest tap to tip it in the wrong direction."

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THIS MEANS WAR

I just saw this movie on TV. It’s a romantic comedy starring Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, and Tom Hardy. Witherspoon plays a woman named Lauren who moved to L.A. six months earlier, to be with her boyfriend, who then subsequently dumped her. So now she’s living alone, working at a job as a product tester, and her only friend is a woman named Trish, who is played by Chelsea Handler. Trish tries…

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The 355 (2022)

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Have you heard of “Invasion” on AppleTV+? I was looking some something to watch and I decided to give it a try. So far I’ve only seen one episode… it’s intriguing but I hesitate to watch more.

As the title suggests, it’s about an alien invasion but the angle is that it focuses on the humans characters, not the aliens or special effects. It features an international cast. The first episode folllows a small town sheriff (Sam Neill), a Long Island house wife, and a Japanese astronaut. (Not all of these characters survive the first episode).

The Sam Neill portion probably hints at the aliens most (crop circles) but it emphasizes Neill and his meth troubled town more than the aliens.

The house wife portion is probably the best. Golshifteh Farahani’s character appears to have a loving family - husband and 2 kids. The alien aspect is hinted when all the kids at school get nose bleeds. She tries to reach her husband all day but he never answers. That night she has a confrontation with him. I thought her performance was terrific.

The astronaut portion is also good… subtlety hinting at a secret relationship. And it has a big surprise twist involving the aliens.

I hesitate going forward because:

The focus on the character building is slow moving. I had the urge to fast forward.

There are 2 twists that made me feel I was wasting my time getting to know some of the characters. Will that happen every week?

The series was released in 2021 and didn’t get great reviews (47% at Rotten Tomatoes). Although it’s been renewed for a second season.

It’s created/written by Simon Kinberg. He’s written 4 X-Men films, although one was good (Future/Past) the 3 others were terrible. His recent film “The 355” (which he wrote & directed) has an RT score of 24%.

As I tried to decide whether to invest more time, I learned that a major plot point (spoiler alert) involves a few human children can some how telepathically “hear” and communicate with the aliens. While other aspects of the show seemed unique, this telepathic children trope is over used and a writers cheat (Kinberg) to resolve the story. So I’ve decided to not watch more. (But Golshifteh Farahani is very good in the show and I’ll look out for her in the future.)

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The 355