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Title: His Dark Materials Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy First aired: 2019-12-31 Cast: Dafne Keen, Ruth Wilson, James McAvoy, Clarke Peters, Richard Cunningham, Tyler Howitt, Ian Peck, Lin-Manuel Miranda Overview: Lyra is an orphan who lives in a parallel universe in which science...

Title: The Dead Don't Die (2019) Genre: Comedy, Horror Director: Jim Jarmusch Cast: Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloë Sevigny, Selena Gomez, Austin Butler, Steve Buscemi, Tilda Swinton, Rosie Perez, Daniel Craig, Caleb Landry Jones, Tom Waits, Danny Glover, Iggy Pop, RZA, Sara Driver...

Apparently we will be getting these over the next few weeks as part of a push PIXAR is making with their development of shorts. These are intentionally created by a very diverse group of creators and, judging from the first, seem to highlight diversity as well...

Title: Miracle Workers Genre: Comedy Creator: Simon Rich Cast: Steve Buscemi, Daniel Radcliffe, Geraldine Viswanathan, Karan Soni, Sasha Compère, Jon Bass First aired: 2019-02-12 Overview: A comedy set in the offices of Heaven Inc. When God plans to destroy the Earth, two...

Title: The Umbrella Academy Genre: Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy First aired: 2019-02-15 Creator: Steve Blackman Cast: Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, Robert Sheehan, Mary J. Blige, Emmy Raver-Lampman, David Castañeda, Aidan Gallagher, Cameron Britton Overview: A dysfunctional...

Title: Blade Runner: Black Lotus Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy Cast: Jessica Henwick, Arisa Shida, Will Yun Lee, Shinshu Fuji, Samira Wiley, Takako Honda, Brian Cox, Wes Bentley, Josh Duhamel, Barkhad Abdi, Peyton List

This is being billed as short retellings of the Saga with an eye towards being more eye catching for today's youth...

So I saw this on Steam right before turkey-day and decided to check it out : Its a tactics strategy game with some degree of progression, similar to Xcom but less robust, in how you level up your Tech Priests and what missions you choose to take on. There's an overall game 'timer' that runs...

Title: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Genre: Animation, Kids Cast: Aimee Carrero, Karen Fukuhara, AJ Michalka, Marcus Scribner, Reshma Shetty, Lorraine Toussaint, Keston John, Lauren Ash, Christine Woods, Génesis Rodríguez, Jordan Fisher First aired: 2018-11-16 Overview: In this...

Title: Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019) Genre: Mystery, Action, Family Director: Rob Letterman Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, Bill Nighy, Suki Waterhouse, Ken Watanabe, Chris Geere, Rita Ora Release: 2019-05-09 Plot: A live-action film franchise based on...

Title: Andor Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery Creator: Tony Gilroy Cast: Diego Luna, Stellan Skarsgård, Adria Arjona, Fiona Shaw, Denise Gough, Kyle Soller, Genevieve O'Reilly Overview: The adventures of rebel spy Cassian Andor during the formative years of...

Title: The Dragon Prince Genre: Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Animation Creator: Justin Richmond, Aaron Ehasz Cast: Jack DeSena, Sasha Rojen, Paula Burrows First aired: 2018-09-14 Overview: Two human princes forge an unlikely bond with the elven assassin sent to kill them...

Anyone try this out? It seems like your usual Diablo-like game but with a bit of a twist in having multiple 'forms' and existing in two dimensions somewhat like Shadow of Mordor.

Breach | Welcome to the Dungeon Brawl So this would appear to be what was going to once be Shadow Realms before EA decided to abandon ship with that concept and much of their Austin TX Bioware staff.

Title: Star Wars Resistance Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy First aired: 2018-10-07 Creator: Dave Filoni Cast: Oscar Isaac, Gwendoline Christie Overview: Star Wars Resistance is an upcoming new animated adventure series about Kazuda Xiono, a young pilot recruited by the Resistance and...

Title: Shazam! (2019) Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction Director: David F. Sandberg Cast: Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Mark Strong, Djimon Hounsou, Jack Dylan Grazer, Grace Fulton, Faithe Herman, Ian Chen, Jovan Armand, Cooper Andrews, Marta Milans, Adam Brody, Michelle...

Now I love me some alternate history stuff. I'm all for the Dreadlands, Crimson Skies, Earthdawn, Temeraire, FrostPunk, Scythe, etc. and so something of this nature is instantly compelling for me. That having been said I can't help but feel this is going to be writ large as 'evil white men...

Title: Untitled Star Wars/Jon Favreau Project Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy First aired: 2019-11-20 Overview: Plot under wraps

Toys ‘R’ Us, Seeking Stability, May Close 200 More Stores This is a nice example of why the financial industry, and private equity firms in particular, are the root of pretty much all evil in the world. In 2005 some executives from a small group of private equity firms took Toys R Us private...

Title: Lost in Space Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy First aired: 2018-04-13 Creator: Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless Cast: Toby Stephens, Molly Parker, Ignacio Serricchio, Taylor Russell, Mina Sundwall, Max Jenkins, Parker Posey Overview: Stranded light years from their destination, the...

US mall operators must buy into e-retail and new use of space Toys R Us Teetering on the Brink of Collapse, UK Retail Sector Crisis Perfect Storm :: The Market Oracle :: Sears Strikes Second Deal With Amazon as Core Business Continues to Collapse As we exit the holiday season I can't help...

https://www.cengage.com/unlimited I've seen a bunch of those 'pay what you can to learn Javascript' etc. bundles from various entities before, but this is the first time I've seen a major textbook publisher offer up an all-you-can-learn package. Thoughts?

Title: Downsizing Genre: Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction Director: Alexander Payne Cast: Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Kristen Wiig, Rolf Lassgård, Ingjerd Egeberg, Udo Kier, Jason Sudeikis, Margo Martindale, Neil Patrick Harris, Laura Dern, Joaquim de Almeida, Niecy Nash...

110 N.F.L Brains New York Times article on the research of Dr. Ann McKee. Obvious selection bias since the families involved offered the posthumous opportunity to examine their loved ones based on a suspicion they suffered from a degenerative brain disorder. Even still it is fairly...

Someone at work linked to this in Slack: I mean it sounds really cool and all, especially since it runs by using a turbine fan to leech off your condenser vented air... but using vaporization to significantly lower air temperature is only going to really work in a very arid environment. It...

Title: The Orville Genre: Drama, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy First aired: 2017-09-10 Creator: Seth MacFarlane Cast: Seth MacFarlane, Halston Sage, Adrianne Palicki, Scott Grimes, Peter Macon, Penny Johnson, J. Lee, Mark Jackson Overview: Follow the crew of the not-so-functional...

Title: The Gifted Genre: Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy First aired: 2017-10-02 Creator: Matt Nix Cast: Jamie Chung, Stephen Moyer, Sean Teale, Natalie Alyn Lind, Amy Acker, Emma Dumont, Percy Hynes White, Coby Bell, Blair Redford Overview: A suburban couple's...

Title: Marvel's Cloak & Dagger Genre: Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy First aired: 2018-06-07 Creator: Joe Pokaski Cast: Aubrey Joseph, Olivia Holt, Deric Augustine, Noëlle Renée Bercy, Andrea Roth, Gloria Reuben, Miles Mussenden, James Saito, Carl Lundstedt, J.D...

Dimension 404 Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy First Aired: Overview: Inspired by the Internet’s “404” error code, Dimension 404 aims to evoke that 3 AM feeling of wandering onto the weird side of the web, stumbling upon stories that cannot be explained in the world that we know.

Title: Santa Clarita Diet Genre: Comedy First aired: 2017-02-03 Creator: Victor Fresco Cast: Drew Barrymore, Timothy Olyphant, Liv Hewson, Ricardo Chavira, Skyler Gisondo Overview: They're ordinary husband and wife realtors until she undergoes a dramatic change that sends them...

3% Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy First Aired: 2016-11-25 Overview: A thriller set in a world sharply divided between progress and devastation, where people are given the chance to make it to the "better side" but only 3% of the candidates succeed.

So today is the release date for Recore, which was a darling of E3 last year and looked interesting with its concept of robo-animals that you make use of in a modular sense. It seems, however, to not amounted to much given that it has almost zero marketing associated with it for a first-party...

So I stumbled onto "Turn" last night on Netflix and have been quite impressed with the quality of it. I'm even more shocked that it's been on for two years and just started season 3 yet I've never even heard of it before... Stars the guy who played "Billy Elliot" plus a bunch of other BAFTA...

Might as well get the party started... its not like I have any chance of not buying it when it comes out.

An amusing short that made me actually laugh out loud. If you are a fan of horror films you may get a kick out of this:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102670331 Verizon announced this morning their intent to buy AOL at ~$50 a share ($7.50 over what it is currently trading at) or around $4.4 billion total. AOL would become a wholly owned subsidiary of Verizon in this software merger / acquisition deal. My question...

New Dungeons Dragons Game Sword Coast Legends Coming in 2015 - IGN So it looks like the 4v1 human controlled gameplay trend has reached Dungeons and Dragons. Makes very much sense in the context of the genre. I've been expecting this for some time really. Either from D&D or some other pen...

Title: Krypton Genre: Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy First aired: 2018-03-21 Creator: David S. Goyer, Ian B. Goldberg, Damian Kindler Cast: Georgina Campbell, Ian McElhinney, Cameron Cuffe, Wallis Day, Aaron Pierre, Ann Ogbomo, Shaun Sipos, Blake Ritson Overview: Set...

Might be too much to carry a whole picture... but I'll still watch