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Release date: January 22, 2016
Studio: Columbia Pictures
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Starring: Chloe Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, Ron Livingston, Maggie Siff, Alex Roe, Maria Bello, Maika Monroe, Liev Schreiber
Genre: Thriller

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Ever since the initial explosion of income from the first Hunger Games movie Hollywood has been looking for it’s successor. Divergent, Mortal Instruments, Maze Runner are all young adult books that have tried their hand at taking the throne away from Katniss Everdeen. Enter new challenger, The 5th Wave. It has all the elements of the standard bearer as it’s rife with children in life or death combat, a possible love triangle ( or maybe a love square ? …Is that a thing), a brave older sibling trying to save their younger sibling, and kids as the last hope for a better tomorrow. It has all these things and frankly it works against it.

Chloe Grace Moretz is a fine actress but this material is not up to her standards. This doesn’t give her a great deal to work with. With it’s questionable writing and dialog it screams turn your brain off. About five minutes in to the movie I called the sappy and predictable love triangle between Cassie (Moretz), Ben (Nick Robinson), and Evan (Alex Roe). The plot twists you can almost see from a mile a way (I didn’t read the book it’s based on). In addition to it’s predictability there are logic holes galore. Cassie goes from high school soccer player to killer and willing resistance fighter against The Others (what the aliens in the movie are called) in a short amount of time. She gets over her first ever kill with sociopath like quickness. Liev Schreiber is wasted as bland Colonel Vosch.

There few things I did like about this film. The weight the combat seemed to carry was good. The military takes the children and trains them to fight The Others dressing them up in full combat uniforms. This visual lends a surreal quality to a fire fight we witness in the middle of the film as we see young children take bullets and die. That’s something most young adult book adaptations shy away from. It’s not full on Apocalypse Now type bloodletting, but it added something to me. The manner in which the The Others released the four waves of destruction in the form of an EMP killing all electronic convenience and communication, Earthquakes, a modified version of Avian Flu, and The Others taking over humans and controlling them (in order from 1st – 4th). The Fifth I won’t reveal as it’s a spoiler. I think that was an intelligent way to carry out the systematic eradication of the Human race.

The 5th Wave isn’t a worthy successor in the sea of Hunger Games followers but still not a completely bad time at the cinema. It’s teen cinema at it’s most pedestrian. With it’s unimpressive performances from the cast and predictable plot end this potential trilogy for me before it gets started.

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Paramount+ Reveals Official Main Title Sequence for the Upcoming Series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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During the TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES panel earlier today at San Diego Comic Con, Paramount+ revealed the official main title sequence for the series. The sequence is composed by EMMY® nominee, Matt Mahaffey, known for his work on Sanjay and Craig, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and much more. 

From the studios of the Mutant Mayhem film, the all-new Paramount+ original series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES explores the adventures of everyone’s favorite pizza-loving heroes as they emerge from the sewers onto the streets of NYC. Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey are faced with new threats and team up with old allies to survive both teenage life and villains lurking in the shadows of the Big Apple. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Point Grey Pictures.

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is executive produced by Chris Yost (The Mandalorian, Thor: Ragnarok) and Alan Wan (Blue Eye Samurai, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2012 Series]). Production is overseen for Nickelodeon by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, TV Series Animation, Nickelodeon, and Nikki Price, Director of Development and Executive in Charge of Production.

In addition to the upcoming new series, stream all things Turtles on Paramount+.

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DISNEY+ CASTS DANIEL DIEMER AS FAN-FAVORITE ‘TYSON’IN SEASON TWO OF “PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS”

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 in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (“Under the Bridge”) will star as fan-favorite cyclops “Tyson” in the epic adventure series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.

Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series titled “The Sea of Monsters” by award-winning author Rick Riordan. In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.

Diemer stars as Tyson – a young Cyclops who grew up all alone on the streets, and finds it difficult to survive in the human world.  Shy and awkward, with a heart almost as big as he is, Tyson soon discovers that Poseidon is his father, which means Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson may have finally found a home. 

Diemer recently starred in the Hulu limited series “Under the Bridge” based off the critically acclaimed book of the same name and a tragic true story of a missing teen girl in Vancouver in 1997. He will next star in the indie “Thug” opposite Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was recently seen as the lead in the indie “Supercell” opposite Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead in the film “Little Brother” opposite Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel can also be seen in the Netflix series “The Midnight Club” and recently starred as the male lead in the breakout hit Netflix feature “The Half Of It” from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.

Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.

The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is available on Disney+

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