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[Movies] New ‘Star Wars’ trailer drops

[Movies] New ‘Star Wars’ trailer drops

The first trailer for the next Star Wars movie was released. The movie is titled The Rise of Skywalker, and will conclude the trilogy that includes The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi. The trailer opens with Rey walking through the desert, holding what looks like Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber, and Luke’s voice saying, “We’ve passed on all we know. A thousand generations live in you now. But this is your fight”.

Next, We see Kylo Ren fighting with his signature red lightsaber in a forest, Chewbacca and Lando flying in the Millennium Falcon, and unused footage of Carrie Fisher hugging Rey in a forest. The most revealing information came from the end, in which Rey and her squad are in a desert, looking at wreckage of the Death Star. We then hear an evil laugh that sounds too much like The Emperor/Palpatine to not be him.

To me, the name of the movie, and beginning and end of the trailer are the most telling. Yes, General Leia is still alive after miraculously flying through space with presumably her force powers, so “The Last Skywalker” could mean her. However, I have a feeling that Rey is also a Skywalker, a popular fan theory, so the title refers to her. This is supported by Luke’s quote in the beginning which yes, on the surface, could easily be referring to Rey inheriting all the history of the Jedi. However, I think this is Luke telling Rey she is a Skywalker, because of the use of the word “generations”. After all, “generations” is often used when describing a position within a family tree.

And then obviously, the Palpatine reveal is huge because we all assumed he died at the end of The Return of the Jedi. I wouldn’t be surprised if he attempts to corrupt Rey too, and possibly successfully, like Anakin Skywalker. If that happens, I assume C-3PO will save the day as a social commentary on the rise of AI.

Let me know what you think about this trailer in the comments

[Movies] Opening weekend tickets for Avengers: Endgame going for crazy prices on eBay

[Movies] Opening weekend tickets for Avengers: Endgame going for crazy prices on eBay

Endgame, eBay, profit.

That seems to be the mantra some savvy eBay users have been using. The follow up to Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame is set to be one of the biggest movie events of the year. The internet almost ceased to exist when tickets for Endgame went on pre-sale on Tuesday. Eager fans braved crashing servers and long wait times (everyone’s worst nightmare) while trying to buy tickets. As it turned out, Avengers: Endgame broke the record for most pre-sale tickets sold in 24 hours.

With tickets for certain theaters selling out extremely quickly, some clever scalpers are taking advantage of the high demand and reselling tickets to these sold-out tickets online. On eBay, one seller in Chicago is offering four opening night tickets for $5,000. Another seller in Nevada is asking for $25,000 for two opening weekend tickets. The bidding started at $15,000, so it can only go up from there.

As an economist might have predicted, there are those that are starting to offer tickets at lower prices, which would obviously bring more bidders. Sellers are offering some for between $100-$300. The hype for Endgame tickets is at its highest it’s been, and an interesting little economy is being formed for them.

I was planning on seeing Endgame but I don’t think I can afford to see it opening night, apparently. My advice to you if you’re in a bidding war on eBay for Endgame tickets, wait it out, because prices will likely continue to drop in the future.

[ENTERTAINMENT] THE STORY SO FAR: UNBREAKABLE (2000)

[ENTERTAINMENT] THE STORY SO FAR: UNBREAKABLE (2000)

Spoilers Ahead for “Unbreakable”

Leading up to the release of the highly anticipated “Glass”, let take a look back at where the story began with “Unbreakable”. Starring Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson, “Unbreakable” was ahead of its time by being a superhero movie that brought respect and maturity to the genre before the modern superhero craze we have today.

“Unbreakable” is directed by M. Night Shyamalan and stars Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson as David Dunn and Elijah Price.
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The story of “Unbreakable” begins with the birth of Elijah Prince (Samuel L. Jackson) in 1961 in a Philadelphia Department Store. At first, assuming the newborn has been dropped, the doctor is shocked to reveal that baby Elijah was born with broken arms and legs due to the pressure forced on him during delivery.  

Fast forward to modern-day where David Dunn (Bruce Willis) awakens in a hospital bed after a disturbing train ride. A doctor walks to David as he notices a body bleed out in front of him. Uncomfortable with the doctor’s expression, the doctor explains to David what has just happened to him along with all the other passengers on the crashed train.

David Dunn (Bruce Willis) waking up after train crash.
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“To answer your question, there are two reasons why I am looking at you like this. One, because it seems in a few minutes, you will officially be the the only survivor of this trainwreck. And two, because you didn’t break one bone. You don’t even have a scratch on you.”

-Hospital Doctor informing David of recent events

After the memorial service of the tragic victim of the crash, David receives a “Limited Edition” branded note on his windshield reading “How many days of your life have you been sick?” Disturbed by the implications of his survival, David asks around his work and household about the last time he has taken a sick day or showed any symptoms of an illness. David’s boss informs him of his perfect 5-year work attendance and his wife fails to recall any time of David being ill.

Flashback to 1974 in West Philidelphia, where a young Elijah Price is sitting in his room scared to go outside and break another bone. The kids make fun of his amount of broken bones and call him “Mr. Glass”. Elijah’s mother (Charlayne Woodard) motivates her son to go outside by placing a gift in the middle of the playground for Elijah to retrieve. The gift is of a comic book, which start’s Elijah’s obsession with superheroes.

Back to present day, David visit’s Elijah’s comic art gallery, “Limited Edition” with his son Joseph (Spencer Treat Clark). Elijah explains to David how he has been searching through reports on accidents to find a sole survivor to make it out unharmed. As Elijah is on one side of the spectrum, with his brittle bones and weak immune system, he’s destined to find his counterpart that on the other side who healthy and invulnerable.

David rushes Joseph out of Elijah’s gallery and believes that Elijah is trying to scam them. Still having Elijah on his mind the following night, David goes into an old closet where he finds a gun and a collection of newspapers that reported on his college accident.

Refusing to give up on him, Elijah visits David at his work as a university stadium security guard. Elijah is amazed by how fate has brought David to taking a job relying on protecting people. As David reaches his post, he notices a shady camouflage dress man appearing to be holding a gun.

David and Elijah observing the stadium crowd and stopping an armed man from entering
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David tells Elijah about his instinct of knowing when someone has done or is planning to do something wrong. Later on, when Elijah spots the same camouflage man, he tries and fails to stop him, leading to Elijah falling down a flight of stairs and breaking even more bones. Elijah’s accident leads him to become a patient of David’s wife, Audrey (Robin Wright). Through their sessions, Elijah reveals his intentions with Audrey’s husband and she reveals her hatred towards violence in her life.

As Audrey explains her day with Elijah to David, Joseph gets a hold of David’s gun and points it at him to prove that he cannot be harmed. After some attempts to talks Joseph from shooting, David admits to his strange power of invulnerability and successfully gets the gun our of Joseph’s hands.

After some brief separation from Elijah, David receives a call from him explaining his realization of David being connected to him as counterparts:

“Your bones don’t break. Mine do. Your cells react to viruses and bacteria different than mine. You don’t get sick. I do. But for some reason, you and I react the exact same way to water. We swallow it too fast, we coke. We get some in our lungs, we drown. However unreal it may seem, we are connected you and I. We are on the same curve on opposite ends.”

-Elijah Prince

Recalling his past accident in college with his wife and not receiving any injuries during the accident, David calls up Elijah for help as to what he should do next.

David Dunn standing in the middle of a crowded train station with his signature rain coat.
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Wearing his signature university raincoat, David is informed to go to a crowded area and search for trouble. Walking slowly through a crowded train station, David puts out his arms and bumps into random people to see visions of their criminal intentions.

After a couple visions that David cannot stop, he stumbles across an ex-convict that has invaded a family’s home and keeping them all as hidden hostages. David follows the convict back to the house and frees the two children. David is ambushed and pushed off the balcony into the covered pool. As the cover slowly falls apart. David begins to drown. The two kids he rescued pulls him out, leading to David going back up and choking out the ex-convict.

David returns home and reconnects with Audrey. The following morning appears to be normal for Joseph as his mom and dad are simply having breakfast. As Audrey turn away to do some dishes, David points out the newspaper headline of his triumphant rescue the previous night.

The newspaper headline follow the night of David’s rescue of an innocent family.
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As the story comes to its conclusion, David visits the crowded “Limited Edition” to find Elijah’s mom pointing out to him how the villain is always drawn with larger eyes than the hero and how every rivalry can be defined as being either a physical rivalry or a rivalry of the mind.

The final scene of “Unbreakable” has David meet up with Elijah for a final goodbye. Getting in contact with Elijah for the first time, David sees visions of Elijah setting off various disasters and the infamous train derailing that David was on. Knowing how David has taken the mantle of being a hero, Elijah finally knows his place in the world as the villain. David rushes away from Elijah as a text comes up revealing the aftermath of Elijah’s master plan

“Elijah Price is now in an institution for the criminally insane”

After looking over the events of “Unbreakable” what is there to take away to hint at the upcoming events of “Glass”. The most crucial information comes from the origins of David Dunn and Elijah Price along with setting up where they have been left after this original movie. Elijah is sent to the institution and David is off to save the world. How David gets thrown into the institution with Elijah remains to be reveal in “Glass”

I’d like to wrap up by discussing the deep foreshadowing that was not discovered until the release of “Split”. Mainly referring back to Elijah’s mom’s comments to David, both of her statements remain true when looking over the advertising and relationships between the three main characters in “Glass. Elijah’s mom comments on the size of the characters eyes, which are appropriate in the new film’s poster.

“Glass” is the third installment in director M. Night Shyamalan’s superhero trilogy releasing on January 18th.
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As David Dunn, the hero, is shown squinting with minimum coverage with his eyes, Elijah Price and “Split’s” Kevin Crumb’s (James McAvoy) eyes are wide and prominent, indicating the hero and villains. Also, Elijah’s mother states how rivalry can be split into physical and mental; which each villain represents against David. Elijah rivals David with his mind while Kevin Crumb rivalry’s David with his physical Beast personality.

[ENTERTAINMENT] “THE MULE REVIEW”

[ENTERTAINMENT] “THE MULE REVIEW”

“Friendly old Clint Eastwood getting mixed up with the Mexican drug cartel”

There have been countless dramas to come out focusing on drug smuggling and the Mexican cartel. With various degrees of quality, the genre has followed a basic formula that’s in danger of running dry. While “The Mule” does rely on the same beats as other drug smuggling drama, the likably flawed performance from Clint Eastwood and a much lighter tone make the film stand out as very enjoyable.


“The Mule” is directed by and starring Clint Eastwood about an elderly drug smuggler.
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“The Mule” is the latest drama directed and starring Clint Eastwood as Earl Stone, a deadbeat father focusing too heavily on his horticulturist work and neglecting his family. When given the opportunity to become a driver of mysterious duffle bags through Illinois, Earl quickly realized the millions of dollars worth of cocaine in each bag; along with the crazy amount of money he earns after each trip. Can he keep his drug smuggling gig going before the cops catch on to his action?

After being told never to look at the content of the bags he’s transporting, Earl (Clint Eastwood) realizes the true purpose of his new job right as a police officer pulls him over.
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“The Mule” follows the same formula as any other drug smuggling drama you’ve seen before. There’s the innocent family distant from the drug life, the dangerous gangsters ready to shoot at the slightest wrong turn, and the police procedures of the search for the mysterious driver. Where “The Mule” separates himself from other films in the genre is the likably nieve, yet competent performance from Eastwood.

After nearly a decade away from being in the front of the camera, Eastwood delivers a performance that feels appropriate for his elderly age. Earl behaves like an innocent grandfather that’s difficult not to love. From his naivety to the actual job description to his difficulty of understanding how to text feature on his phone, Earl starts off as the representation of all of our innocent grandfathers. Once he quickly discovers the amount of money he’s making and how well his naivety is grazing him along this illegal adventure, he starts to use his stereotype to his advantage. While nowhere close to the legendary performances from his long-lasting career, Eastwood brings alot of heart and soul to this basic character starting out without any affection or care towards his loved ones.

Dianna West co-stars with Clint Eastwood as his former wife that he let slip away.
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Just as Earl abandons and ignores his loving family, the supporting actors in the film are just as neglected and forgotten about. Some talented actors occupy the supporting roles and none of them leave much of an impact. The distant relationship between Earl and his daughter feels incredibly harsh with the wrong character to blame and his broken marriage with Dianne West’s character have very little justification. The closest anyone gets to leave an impact on the film is the latter half of Bradley Cooper’s conversations with Eastwood. With just two casual scenes, Cooper and Eastwood express so much bonding and chemistry with each other.

“The Mule” is a surprisingly enjoyable drama with a very charming tone of an elderly man going through this illegal journey of drug smuggling. As strong as leading character Earl is, the remaining cast leaves very little of an impact. The performances are not the issue, rather the material given is very centric on Eastwood’s Earl rather than giving any meat to the rest of the cast. While nothing to ride home about or rush out to see in theaters, “The Mule” makes for a strong rental that will keep your interest from beginning to end.


[ENTERTAINMENT] “SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME” TRAILER RECAP

[ENTERTAINMENT] “SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME” TRAILER RECAP

The brand new teaser trailer has been released for the highly anticipated Marvel sequel, “Spider-Man: Far From Home”. The trailer offers new information on the film’s plot, displays some of Spidey’s new suits, and introduces the first appearance of Jake Gyllenhaal’s Mysterio.

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Taking place after the events of “Avengers: Infinity War”, the trailer gives no reference or mention to the past movie to avoid any spoilers for the upcoming “Avengers: End Game”. As this movie has to be advertised, Peter Parker and friends are shown to have survived the events of End Game.

Spider-Man gets congratulated at a fundraiser with Aunt May (Marisa Tomei)
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The trailer opens at a fundraiser where Aunt May is thanking Spider-Man to the crowd. Backstage, Aunt May and Peter are congratulating each other when Happy Hogan suddenly shows up late. Aunt May and Happy share some flirty banter as Peter is confused as to what is going on.

Following the Marvel logo, Peter is packing for his big school trip to Europe, where he purposely leaves his Spidey suit behind to ensure a normal, safe trip with his friends: “Europe does really need a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.”

MJ (Zendeya) admiring Peter (Tom Holland) during a tour.
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In Europe, MJ and Peter are slowly starting to like each other with their attractive glared towards each other and calling each other pretty.  Right as Peter is talking to Ned about his realization that MJ likes him, Ned is darted and knocked cold to the floor. A mysterious figure talks to Peter about how nice it is to finally meet Spider-Man. That mysterious figure turns out to be Nick Fury: “I think Nick Fury just hijacked our summer vacation” -Peter Parker

As Peter originally tried to leave his superhero duties aside for once, his run-in with Fury has ensured that his trip will be an action-packed Spidey adventure. Various shots are shown of Spidey gliding into destruction to save the day of a burning bridge and an exploding building.

Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and SHIELD agent shooting at possible the Sandman.
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A mysterious shape-shifting figure emerges as Fury and a SHIELD agent begins shooting at it. With his apparent sand abilities, it appears at first to be the introduction of the Sandman. As the trailer continuous, the mystery villain takes the form of fire and water as well, so the identity of this villain is yet to be revealed.

First image of Spider-Man’s new stealth suit.
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Along with his slightly altered red and black suit that seemingly Fury give to him, Peter also is given a completely black stealth suit. As his friends are shown to have guns pointed at them, this stealth suit will play a major role in Peter having the restriction of saving the day without being noticed.

First appearance of Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) as he prepares to rush into battle.
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The biggest reveal of the trailer comes from the first appearance of Jake Gyllenhaal’s Mysterio. He’s first shown without his round helmet, but still wearing his cape and armor. Mysterio appears to be saving Peter from the fight rather than fighting against him. Mysterio shoots out a green blast and jumps right into the battle. A few moments later and Mysterio is show to be fighting with his round helmet on.

The title card plays as a quick scene follows of Peter’s friends calling Mysterio “Like Iron Man and Thor rolled into one.” Flash comments that he is no Spider-Man, showcasing his appreciation for the mask hero, right before ironically shooting down Peter randomly.

The “Spider-Man: Far From Home” trailer made the wise choice of selling it as the follow up to “Spider-Man: Homecoming” rather than the aftermath of “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Avengers: End Game”. The movie is expected to release on July 5th, 2019

[MOVIES] The Actor Playing ‘Halloween’ Murderer Michael Myers Was Coached In Murdering By An Actual Murderer

[MOVIES] The Actor Playing ‘Halloween’ Murderer Michael Myers Was Coached In Murdering By An Actual Murderer

James Jude Courtney used to live with a hitman, who gave him pointers on how to look more like he was about to kill someone

Faceless, voiceless, emotionless slasher Michael Myers has been played by six actors over the years, but the latest to take up the mask is probably the only one to have been given pointers on how murderers go about murdering by an actual murderer.

James Jude Courtney, who plays Myers in the new sequel to the original Halloween after a lifetime of odd parts in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Babylon Five and a later slide toward less exciting roles (Huge Goon’ in The Gray In Between; ‘Mafia Goon’ in Soccer Dog: The Movie)

While they lived together Courtney took his flatmate out to see him in The Hit List not the 2011 one with Cuba Gooding Jr, the 1993 one with a late-period James Coburn in which Courtney plays ‘Final Hit-man’.

The actor recalls this experience in a Vanity Fair interview, explaining that he took said contract killer to see “The Hit List,” a movie he was in, and recalls him saying “Jimmy, it’s a really nice movie, but that’s not how you kill people.”

This year’s Halloween takes place exactly 40 years after the events of the original film, which means that Myers is right around 60 years old in this particular timeline; and he’s spent those past 40 years locked up in an asylum. However, the second you see Courtney in the mask, it’s clear that though Michael may be older, he’s damn sure no less terrifying than before. Courtney under the mask, may be the ruthless Michael Myers up to date.

Michael Myers been around too long sometimes I’m just like is he ever going to die lol. Maybe in this movie he finally will die and it will be the last of Michael Myers even though I love watching Halloween.

Do you like scary movies? Will you be at the theaters when it comes out? Comment down below!