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  • First Time Watching Ewoks: The Battle for Endor

    Having never watched The Battle for Endor before, I was truly shocked by its opening. Two decades before Anakin will slaughter younglings in Revenge of the Sith, this light and fluffy children’s movie begins by brutally butchering most of the cast of the first film. Caravan of Courage’s kid...
  • Ranking Every MCU Movie & Disney+ Series – Falcon & Winter Soldier Update

    With the release of Avengers: Endgame, the first saga of the Marvel Cinematic Universe – The Infinity Saga – was completed. We may not know what grand form the franchise is set to compose next, even with the following few years’ worth of content mapped out, but the series will...
  • Could A Gundam Movie Succeed?

    Last week, Netflix announced that it was collaborating with Legendary Entertainment to produce a live-action Mobile Suit Gundam film. The Director of Kong: Skull Island, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, is attached to direct with award winning comic book writer Brian K. Vaughan writing the screenplay. Legendary and Sunrise had announced that...
  • First Time Watching Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure

    Finally putting an end to those irritating YouTube videos titled things like “The Star Wars movies they don’t want you to see,” Disney have added the 1980’s Ewok movies to Disney+, introducing a new generation to the bizarre made-for-TV films spinning off the furry aliens from Return of the...
  • Geek Out Weakly 18 – Nick Box: Indie Filmmaker, game developer, and more

    Aadil sits down with indie horror filmmaker turned game developer Nick Box. We chat about making independent films in the 2010s, the rise of indiscriminate platforms like amazon and turning to games development to put his art out in new ways and to new audiences. We also touch on...
  • First Looks – Dracula vs the Ninja on the Moon

    Aadil takes a first look at the movie based on a cult bad-movie “Dracula vs the Ninja on the Moon” Several loops and some tracking problems ensue....
  • Geek Out Weakly 15 – The Phantom Tollbooth

    With the passing of Norton Juster, Aadil nostalgia watched the Chuck Jones animated feature “The Phantom Tollbooth”. Some waxing poetic about its impact on his childhood, as well as a discussion of the film vs. the bookl; all in an attempt to convince Ben to watch/read one of his...
  • Ranking Every MCU Movie & Disney+ Series – WandaVision Update

    With the release of Avengers: Endgame, the first saga of the Marvel Cinematic Universe – ‘The Infinity Saga’ – was completed. We may not know what grand form the franchise is set to compose next, even with the following few years’ worth of content mapped out, but the series will...
  • Sputnik is Chernobyl with Aliens

    Parasite or symbiote? That’s the question at the core of the 2020 Russian chiller Sputnik. In 1984’s Kazakhstan, a space module returns to Earth carrying two cosmonauts, and in turn one of those spacefarers may be carrying something else. Something otherworldly. Confined to a military installation with seemingly no...