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Hawk the Slayer - (1980 movie)

2020-05-30

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080846/

Our hero the American is requested to aid a church with a ransom.

A campy movie that's precisely what you'd expect for a 1980 sword and sorcery movie.

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Chernobyl - (2019 show)

2020-05-18

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7366338/
https://www.hbo.com/chernobyl
https://www.sky.com/watch/chernobyl

A miniseries told around the Soviet Chernobyl disaster.

A tense, decently-paced look at how communist lies spell disaster, and how communism once again cost tens of thousands and almost tens of millions of lives.

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Star Wars - The Least Jedi - (2018 movie)

2020-05-05

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Luke's character is on the poster but not in the movie

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2527336/
https://www.starwars.com/the-last-jedi/

A fan edit of Star Wars - The Last Jedi - (2017 movie). It's actually quite good, though its ending is incomplete.

Supergirl is super, and something about the last of the fleet that isn't the last, and shit characters and shit writing.

The earlier movies are mandatory for this. If you thought the earlier movies were shit, then this is the nail in the coffin. Just let the franchise die.

Properly titled Episode VIII - The Last Jedi

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Warstone TD

2020-04-26

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Entertainment > Games >

https://store.steampowered.com/app/562500/Warstone_TD/

A pretty basic tower defense game.

Pass.

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The Boys - (2019 show)

2020-04-12

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190634/

A bunch of superheroes aren't so super.

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Preacher - (2016 show)

2020-04-03

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190634/
https://www.amc.com/shows/preacher

A kickass preacher is infected with a power, and for some reason there's a vampire.

Maybe it has potential, but it's scatterbrained and kept sliding into slow moody boringness.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108941/

A highly-virulent weaponized virus breaks containment and wreaks havoc.

It starts strong then goes downhill into some odd religious stuff. Generally terrible later on. Worth watching if you're into this genre.

Based on The Stand - (1978 book), by Stephen King

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2106651/
https://www.netflix.com/title/80098200

An optics specialist is sent to investigate the unusual readings the military is getting from his equipment.

A solid movie all around. Great action and a good world, but with enough fuzzy science and The A-Team-style jury-rigging to rivet it solidly to TV-movie quality.

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