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Ten years ago, the moviegoing public was officially introduced to Tom Holland as the newest iteration of Peter Parker/Spider-Man for the Marvel Cinematic Universe and last weekend, Holland’s most recent outing in the role was released with “Spider-Man: Brand New Day.”
The movie follows Peter as he anonymously protects New York City as the hero Spider-Man and investigates a powerful new threat while his powers undergo an unexpected and potentially dangerous evolution. I’ve yet to see a truly bad piece of Spider-Man media, and I ended up being VERY pleased with this latest outing.
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A few winters ago, there was a weekend when I came down with a particularly nasty cold, which meant I was homebound and basically welded to my recliner because I was in no mood to do anything. That weekend, I was surfing through Netflix for something to watch while working on getting better, and I came across the “Avatar: The Last Airbender” cartoon. I blew through the series in less than a week and ended up absolutely falling in love with it – the animation is fantastic, the voicework from the entire cast is amazing, and the writing is some of the best animated series writing I’ve come across ever. I could probably write an entire series of essays about why I love the original series, but I know I’ve got limited space, so I’ll just encourage you to either watch the show or do some research online.
When I heard earlier this year the show’s immediate story would be continuing with a new movie, “Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender,” I got EXTREMELY excited and couldn’t wait to see where the story took our heroes after all this time. The movie follows Avatar Aang (Eric Nam) and his allies as they discover Tagah (Dave Bautista), a surviving airbender, and join him in searching for a staff that could bring back the Air Nomads before it gets in the hands of the Denied, an aggressive group of non-benders.
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ELLY GRIMM
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When it comes to modern filmmaking and storytelling, one of my favorite directors is Christopher Nolan, whose work I was technically introduced to back when I was in high school with “The Dark Knight,” which remains one of my favorite movies to this day.
Since then, I’ve followed his films off and on, and when I heard a couple years ago he would be taking on adapting Homer’s “The Odyssey,” I became VERY excited, especially when the teaser trailer was finally released with “Jurassic World Rebirth.” For those who might not know, the story takes place shortly after the end of the Trojan War and follows Greek general Odysseus (Matt Damon), the king of Ithaca, as he undergoes a long and perilous journey home and encounters mythical beings as he attempts to reunite with his wife Penelope (Anne Hathaway) and son Telemachus (Tom Holland).
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Those looking for a good show about one of the beginning eras of Earth will soon have just that opportunity later this month thanks to PBS.
“Eons: Life and Death on Pangea,” an upcoming six-episode series from PBS Digital Studios and Complexly, will explore the “Great Dying,” the most catastrophic mass extinction in our planet’s history. Set during the Permian Period, the show will transport viewers to a world shaped by the supercontinent Pangea. The episodes will include “How The Formation of Pangea Changed the World” (July 29); “How Eating Plants Shaped Life on Land” (July 29); “The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Reef” (Aug. 5); “A Tale of Tusks and Saber Teeth” (Aug. 12); “That Time Almost Everything Died” (Aug. 19); and “Who Survived the Great Dying (and Why)” (Aug. 26).
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ELLY GRIMM
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Back in the early 1990s, superhero cartoons were plentiful, including “X-Men: The Animated Series,” which I wasn’t able to fully appreciate until I binged it on Disney+ a few years ago. Because the show was so beloved, a reboot, “X-Men 97” was developed with the first season released back in 2024.
After a massive cliffhanger (and a couple years of waiting), the beginning of the second season was finally released at the beginning of this month and and must find their way back to the 1990s to stop big villain Apocalypse after being scattered through time at the end of the first season. I ended up absolutely loving the first season (while experiencing multiple emotions each episodes), and when the teaser trailer for the second season FINALLY dropped, I could not have been more excited and last week, I jumped right in.
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