Alan Rapp

Arcane – The Complete First Season

/ / Home Video
  • Title: Arcane: League of Legends – Season One
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Adapted from Riot Games’ League of Legends universe, the First Season of Arcane: League of Legends focuses on origin stories for sisters Vi (Hailee Steinfeld) and Jinx (Ella Purnell) while exploring the class struggles between the utopian city of Piltover and the oppressed underworld city of Zaun. The first thee episodes of the series provide examples of the girls’ childhood and how that life ended badly for all involved while the rest of the season picks up years later bringing the two sisters, each believing the other died years ago, together again. Also explored is the rise of scientist Jayce Talis (Kevin Alejandro) and his Hextech technology which will change the world. 

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Interior Chinatown – Generic Asian Man

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Interior Chinatown – Generic Asian Man
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Set in a heightened reality, the opening episode of Interior Chinatown introduces us to waiter Willis Wu (Jimmy O. Yang) in a world that feels more like a police procedural than real life with Willis cast as nothing more than a background actor. Witnessing an abduction brings Willis to the attention of Detective Lana Lee (Chloe Bennet) who reveals to Willis his older, and far more talented, brother who disappeared years ago was helping her department get to the truth of what is going in Chinatown. Lana offers Willis the same opportunity.

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Wicked

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  • Title: Wicked: Part I
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Mean Girls with a side of fantasy? Adapted from first act of the Broadway play, Wicked: Part I covers the childhood of Elphaba Thropp (Cynthia Erivo) and her enrollment at Shiz University where she’ll be partnered with the mean but popular Galinda (Ariana Grande). It’s also where Elphaba will discover that her magical ability is even rarer than her bright green skin eventually leading to trip to the Emerald City and an audience with the Wizard of Oz (Jeff Goldblum).

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G.I. JOE #1

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The relaunch of a new main G.I. JOE title offers us a team of Duke, Rock ‘n Roll, Stalker, Cover Girl, Clutch, and (most surprisingly for those who didn’t read the Duke mini-series) the Baroness. The new series continues the story started in the various mini-series introducing key characters to merging G.I. JOE into a shared universe with the Transformers. The first issue introduces the team and points out early on that despite their skills they are far behind the group who has yet to be revealed as Cobra who is already maximizing Engeron to bolster their forces and the unknown threat of transforming robots from another world.

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