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2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
It’s a major double-cross when a former cop teams up with his ex-con buddy to transport a shipment of
“dirty” money for a shady import-export dealer. But the two are actually working with an undercover agent to bring the bad guy down.
Along Came Polly (2004)
After his wife dumps him on their honeymoon for their scuba-diving instructor, uptight Reuben reconnects with Polly, an irreverent childhood friend who teaches him to live life on the edge.
American Girl: Grace Stirs up Success (2015)
Grace has a real talent for baking and a passion for making delicious dreams come true. When her mom announces a trip to visit relatives in Paris, Grace isn’t so sure about leaving her friends and their cupcake business. That is, until she discovers she’ll get to work with her uncle and cousin in a real French pastry shop!
Angry Birds Toons: Season 1
Angry Birds Toons brings to life the characters and adventures from one of the beloved games in history!
Bring It On: Fight to the Finish (2009)
After her mom gets remarried, Lina says adios to East Los Angeles and readjusts to life in affluent Malibu, where the new girl pledges to whip her school’s cheerleading squad into shape. But will Lina’s moves be enough to topple the ranking champs?
Bring It On: In It to Win It (2007)
Carson sets out to guide her squad to victory and to win the heart of rival cheerleader Penn at the Cheer Camp Nationals, taking on competitive Brooke in a one-on-one battle. It seems that Brooke wants not only the trophy but Penn’s affections, too.
Catwoman (2004)
Liquidated after discovering a corporate conspiracy, mild-mannered graphic artist Patience Phillips washes up on an island, where she’s resurrected and endowed with the prowess of a cat — and she’s eager to use her new skills as a vigilante.
The Celebrity Plastic Surgeons of Beverly Hills: Season 1
In a town built on good looks, the elite plastic surgeons of Beverly Hills put their A-list patients under the knife so they can look their best.
Constantine (2005)
A private detective with a taste for the supernatural investigates an apparent suicide in this thriller based on the comic book “Hellblazer.”
Forensic Files: Collection 2
Detectives and crime lab technicians use the latest and most fascinating procedures to solve crimes in this documentary-style show.
Friday Night Tykes: Season 1-2
Peewee football is taken to the big screen in Texas.
The Good Road (2013)
Three tales of travelers — a 9-year old runaway, truckers turned con artists and a vacationing family — unfold on a rural Indian highway.
House of Wax (2005)
A group of friends on their way to a college football game fall prey to two murderous brothers in an abandoned small town. They discover that the brothers have expanded upon the area’s main attraction — the House of Wax — and created an entire town filled with the wax-coated corpses of unlucky visitors. Now, the group must escape before they, too, become permanent exhibits. Stars Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray and, yes, Paris Hilton!
How to Change the World (2015)
In the 1970s, a group of activists who gathered to protest nuclear testing formed the iconic Greenpeace environmental organization.
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (2006)
Global warming waits for no man — or animal. These critters have to get the word out before paradise floods over!
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
Attorney Miles goes toe-to-toe with his wealthy client’s ex-wife, expert gold-digger Marylin, in this battle-of-the-sexes comedy. Just when Marylin thinks she’s cinched another fortune, she’s defeated by the
“Massey pre-nup” and schemes to get even.
Journey to Le Mans (2014)
A British privateer team pushes itself to the limits of human endurance and engineering mastery to compete in the world’s most challenging motor race.
Loins of Punjab (2007)
This raucous mockumentary follows six Indian immigrants and one non-Indian as they vie for big bucks in a low-rent New Jersey singing competition.
Meet the Fockers (2004)
In this sequel to Meet the Parents, newly engaged Greg and Pam join Pam’s straitlaced family on an RV trip down to Miami to meet Greg’s eccentric parents. Once again, Greg’s future father-in-law refuses to play nice with anyone.
Meet the Parents (2000)
Male nurse Greg Focker meets his girlfriend’s parents before proposing, but her suspicious father is every date’s worst nightmare.
Nanny McPhee (2006)
The recently widowed Mr. Brown and his domineering aunt can’t seem to control the numerous and naughty Brown children until Nanny McPhee comes to stay. Now, with the help of some magic and a little discipline, their household runs like clockwork.
Piku (2015)
A taxi driver gets caught in dysfunctional family dynamics when he drives a young architect and her curmudgeonly father from Delhi to Kolkata.
Pooh’s Heffalump Movie (2005)
Winnie the Pooh, Tigger and the loveable residents of the Hundred Acre Wood embark on a journey of discovery in search of the elusive Heffalump.
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
In this retelling of Jane Austen’s novel set in 19th-century England, Mrs. Bennet is all atwitter in hopes of marrying her daughters to prosperous gentlemen callers, especially when a wealthy bachelor moves nearby.
The Rundown (2003)
Looking to retire and open a restaurant, a bounty hunter named Beck gets roped into one final assignment: fetching his employer’s errant son from the Amazon jungle. Along the way, Beck finds himself involved in a treasure hunt and a rebel uprising.
Shout Gladi Gladi (2015)
A former nurse in Africa works to eliminate fistula, a condition caused by obstructed labor that carries both physical and social consequences.
Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassins’ Ball (2009)
In this comic shoot-’em-up prequel to 2006’s Smokin’ Aces, a federal agent discovers there’s a price on his head and has 12 hours before throngs of assassins descend on him to fulfill the hit and mayhem ensues.
Something New (2006)
Struggling with her personal life, black career woman Kenya agrees to a blind date with a sexy, free-spirited landscape architect. Her new love interest is white, which isn’t necessarily a deal-breaker, until she meets a seemingly perfect black man.
Stephen Fry Live: More Fool Me (2014)
With the release of his new memoir, Stephen Fry takes to the stage to recount tales of his hard-partying life in the late 1980s and early ‘90s.
Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle: Season 3
Sketches, short films and cameos from TV personalities and comics punctuate stand-up comedian Stewart Lee’s BAFTA-winning series.
Swordfish (2001)
Determined to get his mitts on $9 billion in a secret DEA account so he can use it to fight terrorism, rogue agent Gabriel Shear recruits encryption expert Stanley Jobson to hack into the government mainframe.
The Tale of Despereaux (2008)
An unusually gifted mouse named Despereaux is different from other mice in that he reads books and has disproportionately large ears for his body. But with help from a rat named Roscuro, he sets out to win the girl of his dreams — a human princess.
Under Arrest: Season 1: “Put Some Clothes On”
Real-life crimes. Real-life criminals. And the real-life law enforcement officers who bring them to justice.
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
Eva’s relationship with her son, Kevin, has been difficult from the beginning. When the 15-year-old boy’s cruel streak erupts into violence, Eva wonders how much blame she deserves for his actions.
The Wedding Date (2005)
Single girl Kat can’t stomach the idea of attending her sister’s faraway London wedding, where her ex-boyfriend will likely be a guest. So instead of facing the embarrassment of showing up alone, she hires a male escort to accompany her.
The Whole Ten Yards (2004)
In this sequel to The Whole Nine Yards, hit man Jimmy the Tulip still lives next door to meek dentist Oz, who’s now married to Jimmy’s ex-wife, Cynthia. Jimmy’s trying to go straight, but all bets are off when Cynthia is kidnapped.
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30 for 30: Four Falls of Buffalo
The Bills went to four straight Super Bowls from 1990-1993, but they aren’t remembered for that feat. They’re remembered for losing each one of them.
I’ll Have What Phil’s Having: Season 1
Besides being the creator of “Everybody Loves Raymond,” Phil Rosenthal also happens to be a foodie. Follow his culinary exploits around the globe.
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Sofia the First: Season 2
When her commoner mother marries the king, average-girl Sofia finds that being a real princess isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
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Blunt Force Trauma (2015)
In the seedy world of underground dueling, a talented young shooter seeking the ultimate thrill crosses paths with a girl looking for vengeance.
Training Day (2001)
Staying on the right side of the law becomes an occupational challenge for rookie cop Jake Hoyt when he’s partnered with narcotics agent Alonzo Harris, a veteran detective whom Hoyt suspects may have more in common with crooks than cops.
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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 10
Four narcissistic friends run a Philadelphia bar where their juvenile behavior brings situations from uncomfortable to hysterically horrible.
New Girl: Season 4
Still rebounding from a breakup, Jessica Day moves in with three single guys, all of whom are ready to help her understand the ways of the world.
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Adult World (2014)
Recent college graduate Amy is sure she’s going to be a famous poet. But until then, she takes a job at an adult book and video store to make ends meet. Meanwhile, she stalks reclusive punk poet Rat Billings in an effort to make him her mentor.
Dragons: Race to the Edge: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
From the creators of How to Train Your Dragon comes an all-new Netflix original series that takes Hiccup and Toothless to the edge of adventure!
Tom Segura: Mostly Stories (2015) — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Naked old men. Naughty nurse fantasies. Racially charged small talk with Dad. Stop him when it gets awkward.
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Dos Hermanos (2010)
After 60 years with her, Marcos thinks he’s free the day his controlling mother dies. His life changes when he goes into exile at an Uruguayan spa.
El Hombre de al Lado (2009)
Leonardo, a famous designer, lives a quiet life with his family. But his life changes when a neighbor starts doing home improvements without a permit.
Esperando La Carroza (1985)
Cora has three sons and a daughter and she’s almost 80. One day during a family reunion the big question comes up: who will be her heir?
The Marziano Family (2011)
A down-and-out londer is too poor to afford treatment for a mysterious ailment, so he seeks out the help of his wealthy, estranged brother.
Rosario Tijeras (2005)
In this scorching thriller, Rosario Tijeras is a sexy hit woman caught in a steamy love triangle while she works for urban drug lords in the crime-plagued streets of Medellin, Colombia, circa 1989.
Un Oso Rojo (2002)
Oso (Bear), a violent man, is out on parole after seven years in prison for murder. Now all he wants is to start a new life and get his family back.
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Littlest Pet Shop: Season 4
Blythe discovers that she can talk to the animals at the Littlest Pet Shop, a day camp for all types of pets, kicking off a series of fun adventures.
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The Ladykillers (2004)
A Southern professor-turned-criminal-mastermind puts together a group of thieves to help him rob a New Orleans riverboat casino. But when the old lady who’s renting them a room gets a whiff of their plan, they have no choice but to kill her.
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Parks and Recreation: Season 7
In this Emmy-nominated comedy, an employee with a rural Parks and Recreation department is full of energy and ideas but bogged down by bureaucracy.
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The Testimony (2015)
The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has cost more lives than any other since World War II. THE TESTIMONY chronicles the largest rape tribunal in Congo’s history, offering an unprecedented glimpse into the lives of its women and the unshakable strength of the human spirit.
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Degrassi: The Next Class: Season 1– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
A new generation navigates high school drama in the latest installment of this award-winning series. If you’re a teen, this is your life.
The Last Five Years (2015)
Telling their story through song, novelist Jamie and his actress wife Cathy retrace the blossoming and decay of their five-year romance from opposite ends of the timeline and meeting in the middle — with Jamie’s marriage proposal.
Moonwalkers (2015)
A brain-addled war vet, a falling band manager and a Stanley Kubrick impersonator help the CIA construct an epic scam by faking the 1969 moon landing.
Occupied (2015)
Occupied is a multi-layered political suspense thriller set in a not so distant future where Russia, on behalf of EU, has staged a “silk-glove” invasion of Norway, who has stopped production of oil for climate reasons. The official reason is that the Russians want to secure the oil import for the rest of the world and that they will retreat once this has been accomplished. The series will examine what happens to a nation when it is under a “silk-glove” occupation. What happens when life seems to continue as normal and when nothing has changed on the surface? What if everyone gets to keep their lifestyle, all material things and the sense of security- will they rebel? Will they fight? The series explores the themes of loyalty to oneself, one´s family and one´s country under foreign invasion.
The Overnight (2015)
Transplants from Seattle, Alex and Emily feel like fish out of water in Los Angeles until a meeting at a park leads to a play date for their son and a dinner date for them. But they soon discover that their hosts have more in mind than friendship.
Sirens: Season 2
This raunchy comedy series follows three Chicago EMTs who frequently find themselves in absurd situations, both on and off the job.
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Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
When the king and queen of England visit U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt hoping for support on the eve of World War II, Roosevelt must deal with his official duties as well as the competing interests of his mother, his wife and his mistresses.
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Z Nation: Season 2
A team embarks on a perilous cross-country mission to transport the one man who survived a deadly zombie virus, hoping he holds the key to a vaccine.
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Curve (2015)
A young woman becomes trapped in her car after a hitchhiker causes her to have an automobile accident.
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Drone (2014)
Explore the murky world of drone warfare, from the young gamers groomed to kill to the pilots and grieving families left grappling with the aftermath.
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When Calls the Heart: Season 2
Leaving behind her upper-crust city roots, a woman journeys west in the early 1900s to become a teacher in a small Canadian mining community.
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Sharknado 3 (2015)
When a vortex of airborne sharks attacks Washington, D.C., then threatens Florida’s theme parks, Fin must again risk it all to save the children.
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Chelsea Does (2016) — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
In her new documentary film series, Chelsea Handler delves into four topics that fascinate her: marriage, racism, Silicon Valley and drugs.
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From Dusk Till Dawn: Season 2
Bank-robbing brothers encounter vengeful lawmen and demons south of the border in this original series based on Robert Rodriguez’ cult horror film.
Turbo Kid (2015)
A teenage orphan in a post-apocalyptic world scuffles for survival. But when his friend is threatened, he becomes a superhero to save her.
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Frozen Planet (2011)
Go on a wonder-filled journey through the Arctic and Antarctic with this visually stunning program that explores both of these wildernesses and their inhabitants, including courting polar bears, surfing penguins and the wandering albatross.
Frozen Planet: On Thin Ice (2011)
David Attenborough journeys to both polar regions to investigate what rising temperatures will mean for the people and wildlife that live there.
Frozen Planet: The Epic Journey (2011)
Collecting highlights from the epic documentary series that explores the entire polar year and the inhabitants, from the north to the south.
The Making of Frozen Planet (2012)
Documentary crew members brave Earth’s most frigid regions to capture the majesty and mystery found in the chillier side of the animal kingdom.
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Ever After High: Dragon Games — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The kids of fairy-tale characters attend a school with two cliques: those who accept their fairy-tale destinies and those who want to write their own.
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Words and Pictures (2013)
A picture is worth a thousand words — or is it? That’s the question prep school students must answer as their teachers egg them on in this diverting romantic comedy starring Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche as the instructors who spark the debate.
Joy Ride is an extremely raunchy and hilarious comedy that takes the mantle of ensemble risky
comedies that at times, leave your mouth on the floor. Joy Ride focuses on two best friends
Audrey and Lolo (Ashley Sullivan and Sherry Cola) end up getting roped up into a trip to Asia,
they end up on gals pal cross-continent trek to find Audrey’s long lost birth mother so she
doesn’t lose a huge business deal.
The chemistry in this movie is superb. Every character has their moment to shine and there’s
rarely a scene where you don’t get a belly laugh. I was shocked at how crazy and bold this
movie got, continually pushing the line to get a laugh. The movie does a good job of getting to
the point and getting to the scenes that really make you chuckle. There are some editing choices where the story flies by some stuff, and it feels a little incomplete, but never at the expense of really enjoying being around for the journey.
I thought that this was a sleeper for this year and certainly a movie worth watching with your
friends some weekend. It’s great to throw on if you want a laugh and really just enjoy some
great actors riffing off each other. The focus on culture was a nice touch and really elevated the movie to another level. While I would say if you’re easily offended, this movie is not for you – if you’re looking for a no holds barred comedy, Joy Ride is a trip worth taking.
Hasbro has had their pulse app out for a while now. It allows for access to items to buy, preorder, and a look into future projects and releases. It also allows for a very cool thing most nerds (a group of which I am a proud card-carrying member) have always wanted, the ability to make yourself into an action figure. I’ve contemplated making one for a time but, I finally got my chance to get my hands on one at Comic-Con this year. Now, of course, I had to wait in line as it was a pretty sought-after item. Who doesn’t want to have themselves wear the ninja suit of Snake-Eyes or dressed like a Mandalorian? I was approached by one of the booth staff as I was showing my nephew all the cool ways we could get him his own MIles Morales action figure with his face (as he’s a massive fan) and invited to take a seat and scan our faces into the Hasbro Pulse app with the help of their awesome team and make this dream a reality. My wife was with us, so of course she got in on the fun too. We scanned our faces in and it was very simple and quick. Then we all selected our figures to add our heads to. We all chose Power Rangers(Me as the Black Ranger, my wife chose the pink ranger and the nephew got the red ranger). Then we were told that we needed to wait about 4-6 weeks and we’d have our custom action figure team in our hands. This was a major part of our Comic-Con adventure and definitely, a memory my wife and nephew won’t forget (as it was both of their first Con ever). Thank you to Hasbro for being so generous(also getting me brownie points that home) and I highly suggest checking out Hasbro Pulse and all the cool stuff it has to offer.
Adapted and written largely from the Captain’s Log chapter of Bram Stoker’s magnum opus Dracula, The Last Voyage of the Demeter tells the story of Dracula’s journey by ship from Carpathia to London, and what happened to her crew in the interim.
So here we are in Bulgaria, middle of 1897, and Captain Eliot (Liam Cunningham) of the Russian schooner Demeter is here to take on some strange cargo from some unknown client and transport it to Carfax Abbey in London. In need of some extra hands, the Captain sends out his capable Second Wojchek (David Dastmalchian) to scout for some, and initially the roving black doctor and aspiring philosopher Clemens (Corey Hawkins) is passed over in favor of more work-roughened men. The adorable cabin boy of the Demeter, Toby (Woody Norman), narrowly misses being crushed by the mysterious dragon-marked crates being loaded onto the ship, saved by Clemens himself and switched out with the superstitious sailors running from the Demeter like they had been poisoned by the sign of Dracul. And now, armed with some nine or so crewmen, Doc Clemens, and Captain Eliot himself, the twenty-four strange what looks like coffins adorned with dragon signs brought mostly safely aboard, the Demeter can make for open water and the Hell that awaits them there.
The duty of showing Clemens around the ship falls to a cheerful Toby, who proudly shows him the living areas, the Captain’s quarters, the very-large cargo hold, the galley and kitchen where the overly-devout Joseph (Jon Jon Briones) cooks the crews meals, the various above decks, even the sails, and the rigging are all at least touched on, and the livestock pens that Toby himself is in charge of, including the handsome good-boy doggy Huckleberry, or just Huck. We the audience get a very clear feeling of what it’s like to actually be aboard the Demeter, just how large she really is, and what living on a ship for months at sea is really like, the reality and practicality and the dangers of it.
Everyone more or less settles in for a hopefully uneventful voyage, taking mess around the common table and exchanging ideas or aspirations for when they arrive in London early thanks to the fair winds, and receive a handsome bonus for their troubles. But that involves being alive and making it to London to spend said bonus and pay, and the coffin crates spilling dark soil from the motherland and disgorging all sorts of other nasty secrets, have some serious plans to the contrary.
First, it’s the livestock, innocent and shrieking in their locked pens as a monster takes great furious bites out of their necks, and of course, the creature just straight up ruins poor doggy Huck. Then there’s the fully grown girl that gets dislodged from an open coffin-crate, covered in bite scars and as pale as death, she eventually starts interacting and talking after several blood transfusions from Doc Clemens, Toby learns her name is Anna (Aisling Franciosi). And then, as the weather turns foul and the winds begin to be a serious problem, the attacks turn toward the remaining humans onboard the Demeter.
Most people these days are familiar with Dracula, that gorgeous cunning vampire Elder who can supposedly transform into a bat or a wolf, seducing women to voluntarily offer up their veins like an unholy sacrament, a being at once beautiful and powerful, but also horrific and murderous if given half a heartbeat to smell your blood. This is not Dracula.
Instead, the creature that hunts the humans occupying the Demeter is an absolute monster, not a single human feature left to it, barely even recognizable as humanoid-shaped, instead boasting not just full-length bat wings but an entire exo-skin of bat membranes that can be used for feeding, a mouth full of needle-like teeth akin to a predator of the deepest darkest parts of the ocean, those yellowed Nosferatu eyes that will not tolerate light in any way, and of course giant pointy bat-ears. This is a thing, a grotesque straight from the depths of Hell, and no amount of glamor magic can make this Dracula (Javier Botet) seem like anything other than what he, is – a parasitic demon who only wants your blood. There is no reasoning with it, no trapping it, not even really any talking to it (kinda hard to talk when your throat has been ripped out), and, like the much more frightening Dracula stories of old, no amount of pure faith behind a symbol does anything other than give false hope.
Coming face to face with an actual abomination does different things to different people. The formerly delightfully foul-mouthed Abrams (Chris Walley) dissolves into a blubbering mess; poor Larsen (Martin Furulund) didn’t even get to see his own death coming; and it turns out Olgaren (Stefan Kapicic) wants to live so badly, he’ll suffer becoming a blank-eyed Renfield if that’s what it takes. All of Cook Joseph’s purported pure faith didn’t stop him from trying to take the coward’s way out and didn’t save him anyway when the sound of unnatural bat wings descended on him. I find that kind of irony delicious. Dear Anna, resigned to her fate to be eternal food for the horror that terrorized her village, nevertheless wants to try and save whoever is left of the Demeter with her own sacrifice, and there aren’t many. Wojchek of course wants to kill Dracula, but for all his logic and solid practical nature, has no experience whatsoever with this sort of thing, and sure doesn’t want to sacrifice the Demeter, the beloved ship he called home that was promised to him by Captain Eliot himself, in order to destroy that demon. Even poor sweet Toby isn’t safe from the creature’s clutches, and what happens to the cabin boy of the Demeter is what finally sends Captain Eliot over the blooming edge. And who could blame him? For this sort of thing to happen during the last voyage of such a proud, solid ship as the Demeter, is some serious bullsh*t.
To leave such a film open for a potential sequel, especially when called the last voyage of something, was a pretty hefty ask, and somehow the filmmakers managed it. I personally think a different version of Van Helsing, the infamous vampire hunter, teaming up with a certain black doctor who nurses a serious grudge against Dracula, could be a kickass sequel. Until then, experience the doomed final journey of the Demeter and her poor crew in all it’s bloodstained glory, in theaters now!
Joy Ride Is An Extremely Raunchy And Hilarious Comedy
Who Doesn’t Want To Wear The Ninja Suit Of Snake-Eyes Or Dress Like The Mandalorian?
The Last Voyage of the Demeter: Double-knock on wood!
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Is A Dizzying Traversal Across A Multiverse
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Disney Legend Andreas Deja’s Hand-Drawn animated short MUSHKA premiere
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William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill
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