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Darth Vader Falls Silent

There wasn't a single Generation X boy who didn't at least once (when no one was looking) wheez mechanically in and out through his teeth and pitching his voice as deep as it go, growl, "I. HAVE. YOU. NOW."James Earl Jones has passed away at the age of 93.Born in 1931 in Arkabutla, Alabama to a mixed race heritage of Irish, Cherokee, and of course African American. His father was a prize fighter, turned actor turned deadbeat. His...

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Top 5 Rorschach Heroes

Joker II is launching soon and frankly, it's going to bomb. They don't have the slightest freaking idea why Joker sold or how to replicate that success. Since it mostly stars Lady Gaga as Harlot Quinn I don't they are even trying.Now the first one was an earthquake for Hollywood. Walter Hamada, before Zaslav fired him, had sold off the revenue before it hit the box office so Warner Brothers saw almost nothing of that $1 billion. ...

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LucasFilm Comes For Nerdrotic and Company

The Acolyte has turned out to have had a far greater impact in death than it ever had in life. There really wasn't much going on out of the ordinary while the Acolyte was streaming new episodes. New episodes are streamed on Disney+ once a week. The Fandom Menace (myself included would shell it), repeat until the season was over.Although, now that I think about it an outright cancelation is something new. I mean sure there are Star Wars projects...

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Harddrive-by: Concord

Harddrive-by is particularly appropriate when discussing this game. It has been shot deadThere has been so much going on in the gaming scene and I’ve had so little time to pay any attention to it. I’d started to write a piece on Dustborn, the Wokest disaster in gaming when Concord, the second Wokest blew up in the wire.Concord AKA Portland-Overwatch was in development for eight tragic years. Which means it started life back when Overwatch was the biggest thing in...

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The Rings of Power Ep 2-3: Orcs Are Immigrants Too!

“For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be...

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Fools Parade – Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

REPOST: This is post from September two years ago but it is unusually timely at the moment.But now Ilúvatar sat and hearkened, and for a great while it seemed good to him, for in the music there were no flaws. But as the theme progressed, it came into the heart of Melkor to interweave matters of his own imagining that were not in accord with the theme of Ilúvatar; for he sought therein to increase the power and glory of...

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Josh Brolin Offered the Role of Hal Jordan

James Gunn is going heavy into the Green Lanterns for some Gunnish reason of his own.“Lanterns” will tackle two intergalactic cops (Hal Jordan and John Stewart) investigating a murder in the American heartland. Nathan Fillion is set to co-star in the series as Guy Gardner. No word yet on whether Gardner or Jordan will be portraying the Green Lantern as both characters have done so in the comics.Damon Lindelof (‘Watchmen”) will be an executive producer on the show. Chris...

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The Fall of Gaiman Begins: Deadboy Detectives is Dead

Neil Gaiman's second series at Netflix has been axed. For some mysterious reason..."The first season, which dropped on April 25, will now be the final season for the show, which was originally set up at Max.The news is not entirely surprisng..."Yeah, no kidding."Dead Boy Detective spent only three weeks in Netflix’s Top 10 for English-language series, peaking at #2 in Week 1 behind phenom Baby Reindeer. Based on the comics of the same name by Neil Gaiman and part of The...

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The Rings of Power Season 2 Ep 1 – Guess What? It’s Still Bad

"I am the Elder King: Melkor, first and mightiest of the Valar, who was before the world, and made it. The shadow of my purpose lies upon Arda, and all that is in it bends slowly and surely to my will. But upon all whom you love my thought shall weigh as a cloud of Doom, and it shall bring them down into darkness and despair. Wherever they go, evil shall arise. Whenever they speak, their words shall bring ill...

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Totally Eighties Indies: Comico

Back in 1982, even the movies that flopped became classics.  Imagine that for a second, you go to the Googleplex Theater and have to pick between Conan the Barbarian, The Thing, Tron, Blade Runner, or The Dark Crystal, and these were the misses. As for the hits, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was a box office win but E.T. left it so far in the dust that the dust had settled before the Enterprise could reach it.  ...

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