News Around the Net!
A blu-ray of the amazing documentary What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which I reviewed on Wednesday, is now available for pre-order at Amazon!
Have you heard about the kids at North Bergen High School in New Jersey who adapted Alien for the stage? The full recording is now available to watch, and it is so fun:
Wait, Avengers: Endgame ISN’T actually the end of the MCU? Heh. Here’s a new trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home:
That looks great. I loved Spider-Man: Homecoming, and I’m eager for more of the MCU’s Spider-Man. I’m intrigued by Jake Gyllenhaal’s Mysterio, presented in the trailer as a good guy! It’d be fun if the film does something different with Mysterio, but since I’m not seeing evidence of another villain in the film, I’m assuming he becomes evil by the end… we’ll see what surprises the film has in store. (I’m intrigued by the references to the multiverse, which suggests the film is somewhat based on how Brian Michael Bendis used the character in his Ultimate Spider-Man comic-book series. This also, of course, makes me think of the phenomenal Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Is it possible that Far from Home will connect to Spider-Verse somehow? That’d be fun.) The film, thankfully, seems like it won’t ignore the events of Endgame, though I remain worried, as I wrote in my Endgame review, as to how this and other future MCU films can possible deal satisfactorily with the fallout from the “five years later” jump. Far From Home director Jon Watts has good things to say about being excited to explore the fallout from Endgame in his film… so we’ll see how this all plays out…!
Here’s our first trailer for It: Chapter Two:
That’s a great trailer! I love the choice to present that long scene. I loved It: Chapter One and this sequel has a fantastic cast, including Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, and James McAvoy. I can’t wait.
I’m not sure the new Watchmen series for HBO, overseen by Damon Lindeloff, is anything close to a good idea. But I must admit to being intrigued by the notion of carrying the story forward beyond the events of the graphic novel by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons. This first trailer is interesting, even though I don’t have much of a clue what’s going on:
I’m disappointed that Angie Tribeca has been cancelled. I’m not shocked, as this show seems to have been flying completely under most everyone’s radar. Personally, I loved the first three seasons (click here for my review of season one) and I’ve been enjoying season 4 so far as well. (It was dumped by TBS in a full-day marathon with little fanfare right before the start of the new year. I DVRed it and have been gradually making my way through the season.) I’ll miss this very silly show!!
This feature-length documentary on the original Ghostbusters sounds great! I’d love to see it!
I’ll leave you with this: a fan’s reimagining of the Kenobi-Vader fight from the original Star Wars. The CGI is a big dodgey in a few shots, but this is a ton of fun and dripping with love for Star Wars in every frame. Check it out: