Author: Shmee

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The Finale For The Magicians Was … Wow!

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It has been a long time since a TV show has given me nightmares, but the season finale of The Magicians did just that.  There has not been a show like The Magicians that has managed to go between being so light and airy and so grim and dark so effortlessly.  It keeps you laughing until it horrifies you.  Had you told me that The Magicians was a horror series after the fist couple of episodes I wouldn’t have believed you, but that is exactly what it is: Horror pretending to be Harry Potter, and just so we are clear, I like it.

Unlike The Walking Dead, who’s cliffhanger felt like a dirty trick, The Magicians’ cliffhanger felt earned.  They promised a showdown with The Beast, and they delivered one.  The fact it did not go how just about anyone planed or surmised is credit to the writers.  I can’t wait for next year to find out how they get themselves out of the mess they are in.

The SyFy Channel has really managed to turn their programming around.  Between The Magicians and The Expanse, they are delivering real quality original programming.  Not to mention thanks to shows like Killjoys and Dark Matter SyFy is finally living up to its name.  I went from watching nothing on the SyFy Channel a year ago to having three must watch shows on that station.  That is quite the feat.  I hope they can keep it up!

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We Finally Get A Look At Doctor Strange!

I have had a hard time psyching myself up for Captain America: Civil War, but man does Doctor Strange look good.  You know what I love most?  So far there are no connections to the other Marvel movies.  I would watch this movie with or with out the ‘Marvel’ brand.  It looks like I will have one more thing to be thankful for this November!

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These Sisters Should Have Been More Fun To Hang Out With!

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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are comedy super-friends, and they are two of the funniest women working today, so a movie featuring them as dysfunctional sisters should have been hysterical.  Instead the result is sadly uneven.  When Sisters commits to being silly it works well, but when it tries to slow down and get serious it doesn’t just slow down it grinds to a halt.  Like many comedies Sisters falls in to the trap of thinking it needs personal drama to go with its over the top zaniness.

Sisters is about two sisters (go figure) who have to rush to their childhood home to pack up all their stuff because their parents are selling it.  When they get there however they decide that since their parents didn’t make this decision with their approval that they are going to throw the biggest party in their old neighborhood’s history. Oh and one sister is by-the-book (Amy Poehler) and the other is a free spirit (Tina Fey) (conflict), and the free spirit is having troubles with her daughter (drama).

The two sisters throwing a crazy party is a lot of fun.  The two sisters settling their old differences and dealing with an upset daughter is kind of a drag.  If Sisters would have focused on what Fey and Poehler do best, be funny, Sisters would have been great, but instead they insist on shoehorning in all sorts of extra drama, and the film suffers for it.  Comedies need to remember that people come for the laughter, so it is okay to cut out everything else.

Fey and Poehler are great when cracking jokes, but much like the movie, less great when it is time to get serious.  I don’t doubt that they can be serious actors, but the script doesn’t really help them out.  They did the best with what they got, but that wasn’t much.

If you like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Sisters is probably still worth watching, but if you were hoping to laugh non-stop you will be disappointed.  It seems like I am always deriding comedies for trying to get serious, but the sad fact is that the inserted drama is always worse than comedy, so they should have just stuck with the jokes.  Sisters is unfortunately no different.

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Thanks To The MTV Movie Awards It Is Trailer Day!

First up we got the new Suicide Squad trailer!

With Batman v Superman underperforming DC/Warner Brothers are doing everything in their power to make sure that the Suicide Squad is a hit, and I do have to say it is looking very fun.  This trailer mostly has longer shots of things we have already seen, but that is alright with me.  I think we can safely say that Enchantress is the big bad guy in this movie.

Next we have Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them!

Again Warner Brothers is really ramping up the hype train, and this movie looks great!  We get to see a little more magic in this trailer, and we learn a little more background info about Newt.  On thing is for sure I will be in the seats come November!

Now how about a video game with Gears of War 4!

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Clearly the people over at Microsoft are paying homage to the classic ‘Mad World’ Gears of War trailer with a very somber cover of ‘Sound of Silence’.  This trailer sets up the new character and the setting for Gears 4 pretty well, and I have to say after not playing the last two Gears of Wars games this makes me pretty excited for Gears of War 4.

Happy trailer day everyone!

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Trailer Time! Rogue One: A Star Wars Story!

I have to say I didn’t think there was anything they could do to make the Death Star cool again, but I was wrong!  This looks great!  I guess Disney is getting even more of my money this Christmas.  They way things are going maybe I should just start giving them money on an installment plan.