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Need a Netflix Recommendation? Give “Project Power” a View! by Angela Rairden
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Although it was first released in August of 2020, I just recently caught Netflix’s film Project Power and was intrigued by its action-packed storyline. Starring big names like Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the plot involves recently developed pills that give their users unpredictable superpowers, but only for five minutes at a time. The film explains that the pills are derived from evolutionary developments found in animals, such as a cheetah’s speed or a chameleon’s ability to change colors. The pills are sold on the street by drug dealers for astronomical prices with the tantalizing concept of “what’s your power?”...
"A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night" is a Different Type of Vampire Tale by Angela Rairden
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The other day, I picked up volume one of Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, a comic adaptation of Amirpour’s 2014 film of the same title. Although I couldn’t find anything official to indicate how many single issues are enclosed in this trade collection, it appears to be only the first two – “Death is the Answer” and “Who Am I”. The film, which is in Persian, is touted as “the first Iranian vampire Western,” and follows the doings of a character known only as The Girl, who is a young-looking female vampire inhabiting the seedy...
SyFy’s Resident Alien is an Enjoyable Ride By Angela Rairden
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Resident Alien, a SyFy show based upon Dark Horse’s comic of the same name, made its stellar debut last Wednesday night. It stars Alan Tudyk (of Firefly fame, among other things) as a down on his luck alien who crash lands on Earth and finds he must fit in with the human race. Conveniently, he lands in middle-of-nowhere Colorado where he assumes the identity of Dr. Harry Vanderspeigle. The alien discovers the doctor alone at his remote, snow-covered cabin, where he murders him and assumes his form until such time when he is able to complete the mission that he...