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In DARK PHOENIX, the X-MEN
face their most formidable and powerful foe: one of their own, Jean
Grey. During a rescue mission in space, Jean is nearly killed when she
is hit by a mysterious cosmic force. Once she returns home, this force
not only makes her infinitely more powerful, but far more unstable.
Wrestling with this entity inside her, Jean unleashes her powers in ways
she can neither comprehend nor contain. With Jean spiraling out of
control, and hurting the ones she loves most, she begins to unravel the
very fabric that holds the X-Men together. Now, with this family falling
apart, they must find a way to unite -- not only to save Jean’s soul,
but to save our very planet from aliens who wish to weaponize this force
and rule the galaxy.
https://youtu.be/QWbMckU3AOQ
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY
Simon Kinberg
PRODUCED BY
Simon Kinberg, Hutch Parker, Lauren Shuler Donner, Todd Hallowell
Cast
James McAvoy,
Michael Fassbender,
Jennifer Lawrence,
Nicholas Hoult,
Sophie Turner,
Tye Sheridan,
Alexandra Shipp,
Kodi Smit-McPhee,
Evan Peters,
and Jessica Chastain
The much-anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed, global box office phenomenon that started it all, “The LEGO® Movie 2: The Second Part” reunites the heroes of Bricksburg in an all new action-packed adventure to save their beloved city. It’s been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are now facing a huge new threat: LEGO DUPLO® invaders from outer space, wrecking everything faster than it can be rebuilt.
The battle to defeat the invaders and restore harmony to the LEGO universe will take Emmet, Lucy, Batman and their friends to faraway, unexplored worlds, including a strange galaxy where everything is a musical. It will test their courage, creativity and Master Building skills, and reveal just how special they really are.
Reprising their starring roles from the first film are Chris Pratt as Emmet, Elizabeth Banks as Lucy (aka Wyldstyle), Will Arnett as LEGO Batman, Charlie Day as Benny, Alison Brie as Unikitty, and Nick Offerman as Metal Beard. They are joined by Tiffany Haddish, Stephanie Beatriz, and Arturo Castro as, respectively, new characters Queen Watevra Wa’Nabi, Sweet Mayhem and Ice Cream Cone, and by Maya Rudolph.
“The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part” is directed by Mike Mitchell (“Shrek Ever After,” “Trolls,” “Sky High”). It is produced by Dan Lin, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Roy Lee, the team behind the LEGO film franchise since “The LEGO Movie” debuted in 2014, and by Jinko Gotoh. The screenplay is written by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, based on LEGO Construction Toys.
Serving as executive producers are Jill Wilfert, Keith Malone, Matthew Ashton, Chris McKay, Zareh Nalbandian, Ryan Halprin, Will Allegra, and Chris Leahy. Patrick Marc Hanenberger (“Rise of the Guardians”) is the production designer, and Claire Knight is the editor. The music is composed by Mark Mothersbaugh (“Thor: Ragnorak,” “The LEGO Movie”). Trisha Gum is the animation director.
The film opens nationwide in 2D and 3D on Friday, February 8, 2019.
Warner Bros. Pictures and Warner Animation Group present, in association with LEGO System A/S, a Rideback/Lord Miller/Vertigo Entertainment Production, “The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part,” distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.
I usually post information on comic books that a pure entertainment and fun escapism. Comic books that you enjoy on a lazy Saturday afternoon alone or with best Bud. Today, is not usual and the graphic novel Sarai is far from fun and escapism comic. No, Sarai is an in your face, eye opening, gut wrenching look at the terror of some young women and Nigeria forced into slavery.
Below is the official description and a special note from the author of Sarai, Sonica Ellis. --- Description:
Sarai by Sonica Ellis and Jeffrey Lewis
"I want to kill them. I want to kill them all." Sarai is a 12-year-old Nigerian girl whose modest village life is shattered when she is captured by the Ken Jou Plek (Afrikaans for "Know Your Place"), an extremist organization dedicated to the idea that women and girls should be kept down. Like all extremists, the KJP are prepared to realize this vision through torture, slavery, and bloodshed. Certain she is going to die, Sarai makes a bargain with an unusual ally in an attempt to save her life and the lives of her fellow captives.
Tragedy, trauma, man's seemingly limitless capacity for cruelty, the frailty of human existence, justice, and retribution are all laid bare in this cutting-edge graphic novel.
Brutally relevant and emotionally powerful , Sarai fits perfectly alongside such iconic antiheroes as Marvel Comics' The Punisher, Wolverine and Moon Knight and Image Comics' Hit-Girl
Note from the Author
"I can still remember the exact moment the idea came to me. It was April 14, 2014 and I was sitting in front of the TV, frantically trying to get my taxes done so they would be postmarked April 15th, when I heard the CNN anchor say "...as many as 200 girls were abducted from their boarding school in northeastern Nigeria by heavily armed Boko Haram Islamists who arrived in trucks, vans, and buses, officials and witnesses said." Having a young daughter myself I immediately set aside my W-2s and 1040. In the days that followed, I could think of little else. How terrified those poor girls must be. What horrible abuse might they be experiencing at the hands of these savages? Was there anything anyone could do to save them? To cope with this terrible tragedy my mind began to think what it might be like if one of the girls had the power to fight back, to save her fellow classmates, and to exact righteous vengeance on their captors. Hence Sarai was born."
Sarai is on sale at Amazon.com the comic book section.
REMEMBERING
THE SOCIAL ANDCREATIVE INFLUENCE OF COMIC
BOOK CREATOR STAN LEE (1922-2018)
My
husband woke me at five this morning to tell me that comic book mogul Stan Lee
has died at age 95. That instantly
brought about a rush of childhood memories of the years that we as kids back in
the fifties and early sixties were told that people that readcomic books were of lower intelligence and other
such nonsense. These nonsensical notions were usually passed down to us by well
meaning parents, teachers and neighborhood bullies wanting to steal our
treasured comic books that we used our meager weekly allowances to buy, but only
served to make comic books a not so well hidden cultamong the youth of America.
We
loved are comic books so much that we bought the newest issues in droves.Whenever we had free time we could sometimes be
caught reading them between the pages of encyclopedias, biology and geology textbooks. They would be confiscated
and trashed but usually not before our parents sneaked a peek at those colorful
pages they had condemned as bad for us. Those pages opened our small world to unimaginable
adventure, intrigue and drama, which was either absent or limited in the early
days of children and youth entertainment. Stan Lee's comic books also gave us, for a
short time a method of escape from the
strict norms of our era, which attempted to define who we should be as kids and
young adults as appose to who we could inspire to become. An attempt that met a
fast and painful death among the so-called ruling class in the sixties.
As
adults and the survivors of the great social suppression attempt of comic books
as well as the attack on human intelligence,
we were the first to see our comic book heroes in movie's theaters back in the late
seventies. Stan Lee's superheroes freed
our imaginations, and made us want to be heroes too. As the decades marched on,
Stan Lee's comic books help to end the divide between the arts, the sciences,
and beyond.
What
Stan Lee created in the early 1940s has an even greater impact on our culture today and worldwide.
There is not a day that goes by where we don’t see a comic book based movie in
theaters or streaming online. Television networks, like the CW, Fox, NBC, and
Freeform air weekly DC Comics series. Each and every day and at any hour we can
buy comic book based clothing, artwork, games, devices in stores and for sell
online.
All
this is due to the help and influence of the creative imagination of Stan Lee.
Tonight Iwatched the
debut of Dc Universe first original series, DC Titans. Most DC Comics fans knew
that the series would be live-action. However, I do not believe anyone was
prepared for the dark side of the series to be darker than that of Batman Beyond,
or to surpass the violence in that of the most recent DC movies.
Once you got over the brutality displayed by Dick Grayson, it
was easy to admit that making the series for online streaming was a wise
choice. Because nowhere in the history
of the Titans will you find them as such extremely dark, damaged and dangerous
anti-heroes. These incarnations of the Titans were all grown to adapt to the world
inside the Dc Universe in which they
live.
The main characters are easily recognizable with Rachel Roth
as a scared teenager coming into her own as the Raven.Frighten of the alien force inside her,
Rachel goes on the run after witnessing the death of her mother. Koriand'r /
Kory Anders / Starfire with her flaming red hair and glowing emerald eyes that
shine brightly when she is aflame. In the series Starfire is puzzle when she wakes
up without a memory of who she is, that men are trying to kill her and why she
is looking for Rachel Roth. That she can burn men to cinders disturbs her only
a little. Then there is the changeling, Garfield
"Gar" Logan, a green haired kid who is better known as Beast
Boy.He is so immature that he can only
think of using his abilities of changing into any beast he wants just to steal
video games.
Finally, Richard "Dick" Grayson/Robin, like Bruce Wayne, Dick lost his parents
to violence.After learning all that he
could from Bruce/Batman and fearing that he would not become his own person if
he stay with him, Dick strikes out on his own and during the series forms the Titans. With no superpowers
of his own, Dick as Robin, but looking like Nightwing, is no less hindered in
his fighting skills than his super pals. He, like the others, tends to go over the edge
when dealing with criminals more than we ever saw in the Titans animated series.
Here in the DC Universe series, Dick
Grayson is a detective for the Detroit Police Department.
One must sign up for an account to stream videos on DC
Universe. However, the cost is minimal for the chance to stream some great entertainment
from new and classic series, movies, cartoons, plus DC Universe Live Presents: DC Daily, where host Kevin Smith
introduces you to all the great features of the DC Universe.
DC Titans stars Brenton Thwaites as Richard "Dick"
Grayson / Robin, Anna Diop as Koriand'r / Kory Anders / Starfire, Ryan Potter
as Garfield "Gar" Logan / Beast Boy, and Teagan Croft as Rachel Roth
/ Raven.
If you have been a fan of the role-playing game The Witcher you will love knowing that your favorite characters are coming to Netflix in a live action series. This series is based on the fantasy novels of Polish writer, Andrzej Sapkowski.
The good news today is that it was announced that the actresses Freya Allan and Anya Chalotra were cast in the roles of Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon (better known as Ciri and Yennefer of Vengerberg. The actresses play opposite Henry Cavill who is to play Geralt of Rivia. This live action fantasy drama is perhaps Netflix most interesting original series to date because The Witcher is an multi-award PC game that has been around since the days of Atari. I am sure some of you remember the Atari games and consoles.
In the game The Witcher follows the story of Geralt of Rivia, a witcher: a traveling monster hunter for hire, gifted with unnatural powers. The story takes place in a fictional medieval world. on Geralt of Rivia is also known as "the White Wolf", who at the beginning of the game suffers from amnesia. He gradually learns that he was a very renowned witcher, and that he had friends and enemies almost everywhere, who remember him but whom he does not remember. Through the player's actions, he will redefine those relationships and choose his path in the political intrigue that surrounds him.
Also in the game, Ciri, was born in 1253, and most likel during the Belleteyn holiday. She was the sole princess of Cintra, the daughter of Pavetta and Emhyr var Emreis (who was using the alias "Duny" at the time) as well as Queen Calanthe's granddaughter.
After Geralt of Rivia helped lift Duny's curse, Duny asked what reward the witcher would like and Geralt proclaimed the Law of Surprise, as it turned out Pavetta was pregnant with Ciri, unbeknownst to Duny.
On the other hand, Yennefer was born in 1173, and she had a rough childhood from the moment she was born, having been born a hunchback. Her father immediately detested her due to this deformity and blamed Yennefer's mother for it, claiming it was through her side, with mages and elven blood, not to mention her having had an abortion before, that caused the deformity. Her mother initially tried to protect Yennefer, believing it was by the will of the gods, but her father still struck Yennefer until one day he left them both for someone else. After this, her mother, upset that her husband had left, also began to beat her own daughter.
During the Battle of Sodden Hill she was blinded by Fringilla Vigo, a Nilfgaardian sorceress. Her sight was later magically restored but she still bore the emotional scars.
Like most sorceresses, she was sterile. She secretly sought a way of restoring her fertility. She gave her motherly love to Ciri - the child destined for Geralt by the Law of Surprise - teaching her about magic while in Ellander, at the Temple of Melitele under the watchful eye of Nenneke.
Added to the list of The Witcher's cast members are Jodhi May playing Queen Calanthe of Cintra; Björn Hlynur Haraldsson will play her husband, Eist. Adam Levy will play Mousesack the Druid; MyAnna Buring is the head of the magical academy named Tissaia; Mimi Ndiweni and Therica Wilson-Read play the two apprentice sorcerers, Fringilla and Sabrina; and finally, Millie Brady will play an outcast princess, Renfri.
If the Witcher is anything like Game of Thrones, it will make history for Andrzej Sapkowski and Netflix.
Also from Netflix:
Raise hell! Castlevania Season 2 — join our awakening October 26, only on Netflix.
