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Movie: Daredevil
A man blinded by toxic waste which also enhanced his remaining senses fights crime as an acrobatic martial arts superhero.
Grace Cummings
So I was out yesterday and listening to the NPR show World Cafe, as I do if/when I'm out at that time, and the host starts going on and on about the voice of the featured artist that day, about how stunning it is, and I'm thinking, come on, don't oversell it. They weren't overselling it.
Movie: Knox Goes Away
When a contract killer has a rapidly evolving form of dementia, he is offered an opportunity to redeem himself by saving the life of the adult son with whom he had been estranged.
The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy: The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy
Animated series that does just what it says in the tin: takes a comedic look at the title institution. You could call it "Star Trek: Lower Decks only just the sick bay, but larger and with more doctors and people" or "Rick and Morty meets Scrubs," and you wouldn't exactly be wrong, but it seems maybe a little bit more than that.
Movie: Elektra
Elektra the warrior survives a near-death experience, becomes an assassin-for-hire, and tries to protect a single father and his young daughter from a group of supernatural assassins.
I Am Groot: I Am Groot (Full Season)
I am Groot. [Translation: Season 2 of the cartoon shorts featuring you-know-who encountering the unknown... well, unknown to him at that point, which is before Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.]
White House Down (and Up)
What If...?: What If... Kahhori Reshaped the World?
A different sort of What If...? with a point of divergence in a much earlier time, in a different place.
What If...?: What If... Happy Hogan Saved Christmas?
This holiday season, things are gonna get... purple.
What If...?: What If... Peter Quill Attacked Earth's Mightiest Heroes?
Which is to say, what if Yondu handed young Peter over to his father, Ego the Living Planet, as per the original plan? Well, then you might have a gathering of Earth's Mightiest Heroes... of 1988. Can a couple of plucky kids help save the day? Hey, it's the eighties.
What If...?: What If... Nebula Joined the Nova Corps?
The multiverse-spanning animated series starts its second season with the cyborg daughter of Thanos working as a part of the planet Xandar's police force in what you could call NCPD Blue. Jeffrey Wright returns as the Watcher.
Star Trek: Lower Decks: Old Friends, New Planets
That's not how I would have called that match.
Star Trek: Lower Decks: The Inner Fight
Mysterious Little Ship: now with 100% less mystery.
Star Trek: Lower Decks: Caves
Cave missions: when you need to do a bottle episode but don't want it to seem like one, there's always the cave set. [pause] But LD is an animated series... it doesn't use--never mind.
Star Trek: Lower Decks: A Few Badgeys More
Badgeys? Badgeys?!? We don’t need no stinkin’ Badgeys!
Star Trek: Lower Decks: Parth Ferengi's Heart Place
Ferenginar, joining the Federation? Cerritos better hope that all that latinum doesn't flatten 'em.
Star Trek: Short Treks: Very Short Treks
A very special quasi-season of ST:ST, these are micro-episodes of Trek done in the style of Star Trek: The Animated Series. [CW: some gore, improbable aliens]
Star Trek: Lower Decks: Empathalogical Fallacies
Betazoid? More like Beta-annoyed, amirite?
Book: Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
The last few years of cryptocurrency/web3/NFT mania, with appearances by most of the major players, by Zeke Faux.
Star Trek: Lower Decks: Something Borrowed, Something Green
Tendi is summoned back to Orion for a wedding. Spoiler alert: not hers! Not that that makes it any easier, or less involving blades...
Star Trek: Lower Decks: In the Cradle of Vexilon
Well, have you tried switching the world off and switching it back on again?
Star Trek: Lower Decks: I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee
It's hard to say what's worse: finding out that people can hear what you're doing in the holodeck, or Moopsy.
Movie: Bottoms
Unpopular best friends PJ and Josie start a high school fight club to meet girls and lose their virginity. They soon find themselves in over their heads when the most popular students start beating each other up in the name of self-defense.
The Space Program That Fell To Earth
The failure of Luna 25 cements Putin’s role as a disastrous space leader. [Ars Technica] The destruction of the lunar probe--which would have been Russia's first lunar mission since a Soviet uncrewed probe in 1976--is the latest in a long line of failures and downgradings of the program that once accomplished the first successful satellite launch, the first man and woman in space, and the first spacewalk.
Movie: Blue Beetle
Recent college grad Jaime Reyes returns home full of aspirations for his future, only to find that home is not quite as he left it. As he searches to find his purpose in the world, fate intervenes when Jaime unexpectedly finds himself in possession of an ancient relic of alien biotechnology: the Scarab.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Hegemony
[Season finale] The crew is in especially dire straits; to get out of this one, they'll need some sort of miracle worker.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Lost in Translation
Uhura is receiving strange signals, but she's distracted by a zombie of the stratosphere.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Charades
Spock has a very crucial meeting with the future in-laws to attend, but he may be missing a couple of important points.
Muscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American Gladiators: Season 1
A five-part documentary on the original American Gladiators series, a competition reality show that pitted muscular red-white-and-blue-spandex-clad Gladiators against more-or-less ordinary people as competitors in a series of unusual athletic contests and direct battles in the late eighties and early nineties. The show features interviews with many of the original Gladiators, show creators, staff, and competitors. Streaming on Netflix.
Barbenheimer
Forget DC vs. Marvel, scruffies vs. stuffies, even Pepsi vs. Coke--the real match of the century is nearly upon us. In this corner, Christopher Nolan with the dawn of the atomic age in all its nuclear-powered fury! In this corner, Greta Gerwig with umpteen squigglewatts of shocking pink hot-pink-laser girlitude! Which one will you choose? Or, you know, just do both.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
La'an gets her chance to score the coveted hidden square of Enterprise Bingo: going to Earth's past to save the future with zero prep.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The Broken Circle
[Season Premiere] Needs of the many? Needs of the few, or the one? Whatever; we gotta do a thing, even if it's not strictly... logical.
Movie: Cloverfield
Not your average kaiju film.
Don't Fear the Reaper
“You are locked in? This is what you want? Because it sounds like you have a lot going on,” the agent said, according to the affidavit. “You’re in the military. You’ve got college. You’ve got a lot going on, as far as good things in your life to kinda’ get in this world. It is a shady world, and I just don’t want you to have regrets if you come to work for us, because it, I mean it messes with your mind, shooting people.”Applying for a job through rentahitman.com is not recommended. [WaPo/archived; NBCNews]
Cocaine Cat
You've heard about Cocaine Bear, now get ready for Cocaine Cat. Found after it escaped from a car during a traffic stop in Cincinnati, the serval (which is illegal to own in Ohio), named Amiry, was tested and found to have cocaine in its system.
Hell Yeah to the Chief
What is grief, if not love persevering?
What you learn about beauty and grief as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Bringley writes about going to the Philadelphia Museum of Art with his mother shortly after his brother’s death. They each gravitated toward a single painting. Bringley found himself before a medieval Adoration of the Christ, depicting Mary tender and peaceful with her newborn son. His mother, meanwhile, went to an early Renaissance Lamentation, in which Mary cradles her son’s tormented corpse. They each stood before their paintings, the way I had stood in the lovely May garden with my mother, and they wept."
Saving Icarus
On the 20th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, Ars Technica published two articles; the first asks if NASA has fixed its safety culture, and the second, a reprint of a 2014 article with some updates, wonders if, had the damage to the ship's wing that occurred on launch been detected before they started reentry, the crew could have been saved. (Previously on the blue; Columbia previouslies)
Star Wars: The Bad Batch: Ruins of War
War! Huh! Good God, y'all, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing... except maybe a few stray war chests.
Star Wars: The Bad Batch: Spoils of War
The Bad Batch is back, baby! And pulling a heist. [Season premiere]
Movie: Superman II
Clark Kent meets up with some people from the old hometown, but the reunion isn't a happy one.
Movie: Superman
Undocumented immigrant combats rich asshole's real estate scheme, gets cat out of tree, performs other duties as necessary.
Be water, my friend, but don't drink it all
Who killed Bruce Lee? The hyponatraemia hypothesis [link to Clinical Kidney Journal article, should be non-paywalled]
Movie: The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special
Rey leaves her friends to prepare for Life Day as she sets off on an adventure to gain a deeper knowledge of the Force. At a mysterious temple, she is hurled into a cross-timeline adventure. Will she make it back in time for Life Day?
Movie: Captain America
Ever wonder why the MCU didn't start up earlier than it did, say, in the early 90s, after the runaway success of Warner Bros.' Batman? Call this film Exhibit A, for America.
Movie: The Avengers
A group of people without a lot in common--only some of them are super, only a couple are friends--are asked to get together to deal with the oldest one's brother, who has stolen a cube.
Tales of the Jedi: Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
A six-episode series of short episodes (about 15 minutes each) with stories about characters from the prequel trilogy and The Clone Wars, particularly Ahsoka Tano and Count Dooku.
Little Demon: Little Demon, Season 1
The Antichrist is a 13-year-old girl; after her powers manifest following her first period, her dad (aka Satan) reappears in her life, much to the dismay of her mother, who has devoted her life to fighting Satan and his minions. It's the first adult animation show from Canada's Atomic Cartoons, and stars Lucy DeVito, Danny DeVito, and Aubrey Plaza voice-acting the above characters. [CW for animal sacrifice, nudity, and buckets of gore, sometimes in actual buckets IIRC.]
Star Trek: Lower Decks: Trusted Sources
Big new initiative for the California class, a reporter shows up to embed on their away mission, and Mariner tracks what seems to be about twenty gallons of blueberry pie filling throughout the ship.
Movie: The Incredible Hulk
Originally planned as a sequel to the 2003 Ang Lee movie, then converted to a reboot, this nascent MCU Hulkathon has a new cast (including the second of three big-screen Hulks), a new villain, and a new director, but the same old Jade Giant: mean, green, and busting up the scene.