Coming Distractions - The Latest Movie and TV Reviews

In 2048, on an Earth overpopulated and ridden by violent conflicts, scientists are looking to Saturn's moon Titan as a new home for humanity, spearheaded by Professor Martin. Rick Janssen, a war pilot who survived for 3 days in the Syrian desert without food or water, is chosen to be a part of an experiment that forces humans to adapt to the surface of Titan, due to his past ability to survive in extreme conditions.

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The film is set in the year 2045, when much of humanity, escaping the desolation of the real-world, uses the virtual reality software OASIS to engage in work and play. Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) discovers clues to a hidden game within the program that promises the winner full ownership of the OASIS, and joins several allies to try to complete the game before indentured players working for a large company, run by Nolan Sorrento (Mendelsohn), can do so.

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Ten years after the Battle of the Breach, the oceans have become restless once again, but the Jaeger program has evolved into the next generation for the PPDC. However, a mysterious organization has reopened the Breach for the Kaiju and a Jaeger has gone rogue. Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost, rises up to stand against the evolved Kaiju and the mysterious rogue Jaeger, Obsidian Fury, to prevent humanity's extinction and preserve his father’s legacy. John Boyega leads a team of new pilots alongside Scott Eastwood and Cailee Spaeny to try and stop a new set of kaiju from reaching their final objective of destroying the Earth.

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After the Defenders, we get to circle to the individual stories of the 4 titular heroes of the universe. Jessica Jones season 2 picks up back with our angry superpowered private detective and her quest to find out more about what or who gave her superpowers and why. This season focuses on not only Jessica's origins so to speak but also the origins of her friendship with Trish. This season also goes much further into showing Trish, Malcolm, and even Hogarth as a supporting worth truly caring about. 

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Tomb Raider is a 2018 American action-adventure film directed by Roar Uthaug and written by Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Alastair Siddons, from a story by Evan Daugherty and Robertson-Dworet. It is based on the 2013 video game of the same name, with some elements of its sequel by Crystal Dynamics, and is a reboot of the Tomb Raider film series. The film stars Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft, in which she embarks on a perilous journey to her father's last-known destination, hoping to solve the mystery of his disappearance. Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu and Kristin Scott Thomas appear in supporting roles. When the heir to a family fortune is thrown into a series of events, she must head to an island that holds secrets of her father, her legacy, and possibly her future.

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Movie Review: Gringo (2018) Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) is an average businessman who works for Cannabax Technologies Inc, a company that has developed the "Weed Pill", medical marijuana that has been simplified into a pill. Harold's bosses, Elaine Markinson (Charlize Theron) and Richard Rusk (Joel Edgerton), send him to Mexico to handle the manufacturing of the product, but while out partying he ends up getting kidnapped by the cartel, which holds a grudge against Harold's bosses and their company. Richard hires a professional named Mitch (Sharlto Copley) to safely get Harold out of harm's way, only for the two to end up having to survive one outrageous situation after another. The film is directed by Nash Edgerton and written by Anthony Tambakis and Matthew Stone. This is an Amazon Studios production.

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After learning her astrophysicist father, Alex (Chris Pine), is being held captive on a distant planet deep in the grip of a universe-spanning evil, Meg Murry (Storm Reid) works with her highly intelligent younger brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe), her new friend and fellow student Calvin O'Keefe (Levi Miller), and three astral travelers, Mrs. Which (Oprah Winfrey), Mrs. Whatsit (Reese Witherspoon) and Mrs. Who (Mindy Kaling) to save him. The film based on the 1962 sci-fi novel by Madeleine L'Engle was directed by Ava DuVernay and written by Jennifer Lee.

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In 1974, Charles Bronson took on the role of Paul Kersey, an innocent man who is set over the edge into a sea of violence when his wife and daughter are attacked. the film sparked a five-film long series. Now in 2018, director Eli Roth attempts to put his gorry stamp on his own version of the series. This time starring the aging action icon Bruce Willis who plays Kersey, this time re-imagined as a doctor. Kersey, after losing his wife to a home invasion, teaches himself how to shoot, and takes to the streets of Chicago to enact vigilante justice. Kersey delivers brutal justice to bad guys and the ones who wronged his family.

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When a newly recruited Russian spy named Dominika Egorova (Jennifer Lawrence) is set to search for a mole but instead falls for a CIA officer (Joel Edgerton) the stakes become incredibly high in this cat and mouse spy thriller directed by Francis Lawrence.

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Director Alex Garland takes another ambitious shot at the sci-fi genre with his latest film, Annihilation. The film follows Natalie Portman as a research biologist who's husband has been missing for over a year while he was on a covert military operation. His return thrusts her into a connected assignment. She alongside several other military research experts must explore an alien entity called The Shimmer. Once inside this entity they encounter various genetically altered species of animals and plant life. The Shimmer is far more than it seems to be and Portman and her team are forced to reflect on their bizarre findings as well as fight for survival.

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