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Watch: First Trailer for Chris Pratt’s ‘Tomorrow War’ Sci-Fi Film

Posted: 30 Apr 2021 07:55 AM PDT

Amazon has released a trailer for the upcoming sci-fi thriller The Tomorrow War, debuting this summer.

The movie, out July 2, stars Chris Pratt as Dan Forester, a high school teacher who is recruited by a group of time travelers to fight a war in the future. As an alien species threatens life on Earth, the only hope for survival is for soldiers and civilians from the present to travel to the year 2051 and help save the planet. Dan teams up with his estranged father, played by J.K. Simmons, and a brilliant scientist, played by Yvonne Strahovski, to rewrite the fate of mankind.

Written by Zach Dean and directed by Chris McKay, the film's cast also includes Edwin Hodge, Sam Richardson, Betty Gilpin, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Jasmine Mathews and Ryan Kiera Armstrong.

 

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via Variety

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If They Weren’t So PC, Comics Could Make Great Science Ed Tools

Posted: 30 Apr 2021 06:15 AM PDT

The Conversation wrote about what they see as the scientific benefits of comic storytelling. It’s an interesting subject in itself, but they make the mistake too many today do of citing modern, PC-laden mainstream publications to make their points:

 

Some superheroes have scientific careers alongside their alter egos. For example, Marvel's The Unstoppable Wasp is a teenage scientist. And DC Comics' super-villain Poison Ivy is a botanist who saved honey bees from colony collapse.

 

And why must this new protagonist in a Wasp outfit count, but not the classic creation of Stan Lee to fill the Winsome Wasp role, Janet Van Dyne? She dabbled in science almost as much as Hank Pym did; that’s one of the reasons she could handle her costumed crimefighting career as well as her fashion career in the past stories. Though citing a villainess like Poison Ivy can be worse, because there’ve been too many villain-worship examples in this era.

 

I think the medium can be a great place to teach science. But the way they play up the new Wasp at the expense of the old is decidedly going a PC route that doesn’t serve the article’s main focus well, and only ends up validating Marvel’s politically correct pathways. And why does Poison Ivy count for focus in science, but not Swamp Thing, considering Len Wein’s plant creature was practically science walking on two? These cheap citations are ruining what could make for good science articles.

 

Originally published here.

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You’re Invited to DC FanDome: The Virtual Event Returns This October

Posted: 30 Apr 2021 04:45 AM PDT

DC FanDome is going to follow up its massive 2020 event with a virtual gathering in 2021, DC Comics announced on Wednesday.

 

“This October, you’re invited to DC Fandome,” a video tweeted by DC Comics announced. The first DC FanDome kicked off in August as a massive 24-hour event. At the last minute, it split into two separate days and allowed some of its programming to be more spread out while content was also given an opportunity to be created for the later event behind-the-scenes. The first event featured movie and TV announcements, DC Comics publishing content and events, and more.

 

 

Now, as the future of the DC movie world looks to find its footing, the new event will have plenty of titles to pull from on the movie front. The Suicide Squad will release before this October event but Black Adam, Shazam!: Fury of the Gods, The Flash, The Batman, and HBO Max’s Peacemaker series are among titles following it. The event will also feature plenty of comics content, as well as updates and panels for the DC TV shows which air on The CW and HBO Max.

 

DC FanDome will return on October 16, 2021.

 

 

via ComicBook

 

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Christopher Nolan’s Films Ranked: #3 ‘The Dark Knight’ (2008)

Posted: 29 Apr 2021 04:55 PM PDT

#3 in my ranking of Christopher Nolan's films.

 

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The marriage of the crime epic with Batman was kind of perfect in concept from the beginning. Batman, as a superhero, was always more commonly concerned with more down to earth problems, so taking those down to earth problems in the direction of something like Michael Mann's Heat was such a natural fit that it's a wonder no one really thought of it before in cinematic terms.

 

Hinging on the final exchange in Batman Begins, The Dark Knight takes on the idea of escalation, extending it into absolute chaos as manifested by The Joker. Heath Ledger's Joker is fantastic, and I'm far from the first to note it more than a decade after this movie's release, but it can be said again. This Joker is intelligent, methodical, and vicious while also ideologically driven. He's an anarchist who wants to bring Gotham to him, having it abandon its thin veneer of society that hides their true nature. When a gangster says that he's crazy and he responds, very quietly but earnestly that he's definitely not, I totally believe him. I think he's in complete command of his faculties with a vision for the world that he wants to implement. That the vision is awful doesn't mean he's insane, it means that he's evil.

 

 

In order for Batman to face this rising threat, he must test his limits. That happens most obviously when he must go to Hong Kong. The mob, having been beaten back since Batman arrived and in tandem with the rise of the new District Attorney, Harvey Dent, are at risk of losing their cash holdings, so their accountant Lau, a Chinese national, hides all of their money and flees back to Hong Kong. Gotham's law enforcement can't reach him because of their limits within the law, but Batman operates outside the law so he can go to Hong Kong, break into Lau's office, and essentially kidnap him back to Gotham without concern for legalities.

 

 

That testing of Batman's limits is what The Joker becomes concerned with, and that's one of the joys of the movie for me. The Joker starts the movie seeing the Batman as an impediment to his chaotic schemes, being the symbol of order, but Batman's incorruptibility gives The Joker a new purpose. He begins to see Batman as a plaything, pushing him closer to The Joker's own madness and anarchy with every encounter. That central relationship, bred from decades of history in the comics and made exquisitely real by Nolan and his co-writing brother Jonathan, is the marvelous core of this film. It's a fight between two opposing ideologies that will be in perpetual conflict, touching on central themes from reality about the tension between order and chaos.

 

 

One of the central ironies of the film is that while Batman ends up being the incorruptible one, in part because of his status as a symbol rather than just a man like Bruce Wayne, as opposed to Harvey Dent. Dent is the White Knight of Gotham, the new district attorney who is unafraid of the organized crime families and their efforts to outright kill him. He can't be bribed, but he contains a dark side that is evidenced by the nickname the police officers at the major crimes unit had for him: Harvey Two Face. After The Joker assassinates the police commissioner and a judge, he attacks the public funeral and Dent gets one of The Joker's men off alone where he threatens him with a gun. It's dark stuff, not quite so dark since Dent is using a two-headed coin to determine whether he shoots or not, but it's the sort of thing that you would never expect to see from the White Knight.

 

 

The Joker, in his effort to bring down Gotham into anarchy, targets the two most prominent saviors of the city, Batman and Dent. He discovers that Batman and Dent, whether they are the same person or different people for all he knows, have affection for Rachel Dawes, Bruce Wayne's childhood friend and Dent's current girlfriend. In an elaborate scheme that influenced action movie conventions for a decade in stuff like Skyfall and Star Trek Into Darkness, The Joker gets himself captured in order to free Lau from captivity. He also kidnaps both Dent and Dawes, forcing the choice on Batman about whom to save, the White Knight or Batman's personal connection. Batman chooses Rachel, but The Joker switched the locations of them, so he saves Dent instead who ends up so scarred by the explosion he barely escapes from, along with the news that Rachel is dead, that he rejects everything he held dear before. The Joker guides him to accepting anarchy's lack of meaning as the only source of meaning, turning him fully into the coin flipping Two-Face.

 

That underlying conflict of ideologies that colors every major interaction is what gives the film so much of its depth. These aren't just well-written protagonists and antagonists against each other, they are at the same time representative of something greater than themselves as just characters. They can be read as just characters or as vehicles for greater ideals, and that provides a lot of the fun of watching as the two layers of the individuals are so well thought out and executed that they exist on both levels comfortably at the same time.

 

 

This is also Nolan embracing the spectacle of Hollywood filmmaking to its utmost. The capture of the Scarecrow, the kidnapping of Lau in Hong Kong, the transportation of Dent and subsequent attack by the Joker, and the fight up the tower to get to the Joker before he blows up two ferries are cleanly filmed, edited together clearly, and scored excitingly by Hans Zimmer. They're pulse-pounding sequences that are buoyed by the great character and thematic work around them. The sequences can stand on their own as entertainment, but as extensions of the actions of everything else, they gain even greater urgency.

 

 

This is really top flight entertainment. With wonderful, multi-faceted characters, incredibly well-filmed, and a great score, The Dark Knight is probably the pinnacle of the superhero genre. Not every superhero movie needs to be dark and brooding, but The Dark Knight does it better than the rest while functioning as a great thrill ride at the same time.

 

Rating: 4/4

 

 

Originally published here.

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Original Diablo Dev Calls Out Blizzard’s Woke Revisionism in Diablo II: Resurrected

Posted: 29 Apr 2021 02:55 PM PDT

 

 

Mark Kern is better qualified to take Blizzard to task than most, being a pre-Ground Zero game dev from the days when developers made games for players, not for themselves. Author Adam Lane Smith sums up Blizzard’s aesthetic malpractice in one picture that speaks a thousand words.

 

 

Caesar and the Amazon: separated at birth?

 

The evidence speaks for itself. AAA game studios no longer put serving their customers first. They haven’t for a long time.

 

Instead, they serve the precepts of an inhuman cult that hates beauty – especially feminine beauty.

 

Playing Diablo II: Resurrected is tantamount to participating in a humiliation ritual. Don’t give Blizzard the satisfaction.

 

Best-selling author Nick Cole offers firsthand testimony from AAA’s fellow travelers in Hollywood.

 

Don’t give money to people who hate you.

 

 

 

Originally published here.

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Watch: Guillermo Del Toro Shares Troll Hunters: Rise of the Titans” Trailer

Posted: 29 Apr 2021 01:15 PM PDT

 

Guillermo del Toro has been instrumental in some monumental storytelling over the years, ranging from macabre horror to family-friendly fare. One of the most popular examples of the latter has been the Tales of Arcadia franchise, a trio of Dreamworks animated series created by the iconic director and writer.

After taking to social media earlier in the week to tease that he would be announcing something, del Toro has revealed the first teaser trailer for Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans, the movie that is expected to bring the entire franchise to a culmination.

The trailer also reveals the release date of Rise of the Titans, which is expected to debut on July 21st.

 

 

via ComicBook

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Comic Review: Bettie Page Queen of the Nile

Posted: 29 Apr 2021 10:45 AM PDT

Bettie Page queen of the Nile

 

Bettie’s back and in all kinds of trouble! A low-budget time machine mistakenly transports Bettie to ancient Egypt, where she battles the High Priest of Amon Ra, assorted thugs, and a lovesick mummy twice her size. She wiggles and squirms and bumps and grinds to avoid their evil clutches, but she can’t avoid the inevitable: everyone falls in love with her and she manages to frequently lose her clothes. When Bettie falls for none other than Julius Caesar, the Roman general can’t decide between Bettie and his main squeeze, Cleopatra! Collecting Jim Silke’s outrageous and stunningly illustrated series, as well as his hard-to-find Bettie Page Comics: Spicy Adventure.

 

First Impression

Firstly, this book is spicy. You’re taking a huge bite of cheesecake when you read this. There isn’t really anything more spicy than Bettie being topless a couple of times, but there is also a lot of innuendoes.  That said, this feels like a love letter to Bettie as a female figure in the comic book world. Bettie is frequently cited as the original pin-up girl and this collection focuses a lot on that. Is it a lot of cheesecake? Yes. When you take a look at the way the character is posed in those panels, you’ll immediately notice that it’s in some form of a modeling pose, but it’s not really lewd, more of an appreciation of her alluring form. 

 

The story is pretty basic. Following a sudden kidnapping, Bettie goes from damsel in distress to time traveler and eventually. ‘Bettie Page: Queen of the Nile’ is a fun mash-up of genres, but ultimately it sticks to a steady formula in terms of narrative. The simple story though keeps everything light and fun, much like Bettie herself. 

 

Final Verdict

I recommend this, for the age-appropriate audiences of course. It’s a spicy cheesecake that goes down easy. If you’d like to grab this spicy trade for yourself than you can do so here

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