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Seven Samurai

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  • Title: Seven Samurai
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Seven Samurai

Widely regarded as on of the finest, and most influential, films in the history of cinema, the Criterion Collection releases this new 4K/Blu-ray combo featuring the extras of previous releases and the film available in 4K for the first time. Akira Kurosawa‘s classic about a group of ronin hired to protect a village provided a template that would be reused, repurposed, and remade countless times over the years from The Magnificent Seven to Three Amigos to “The Magnificent Ferengi” while specific scenes from the film have inspired sequences in everything from Blade Runner to Mad Max: Fury Road.

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The Authority #2

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The Authority #2

Flashback Friday takes us back to a higher Authority. In their defense of London, The Authority #2 shows us just how scary powerful the group is that Jenny Sparks has assembled culminating in her electrocuting and drowning a large number of the Children of Kaizen Gamorra in the Thames. The second issue continues the opening arc with plenty of examples of the team kicking some serious ass together. It’s in the quiet aftermath, after the Doctor saves Apollo from going splat, however, that the comic really digs in to what makes this group tick.

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The Caves of Steel

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  • Title: The Caves of Steel
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The Caves of Steel

Throwback Tuesday takes us back more than seven decades into a futurist world of robots and murder. The first of the Robot novels, and the first full-length robot novel written by Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel offered the author an opportunity to meld detective and science fiction while exploring sociological elements of an overcrowded future version of Earth where humanity lived underneath the surface in great domes giving the novel its name.

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Planetary #1

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Planetary #1

Wayback Wednesday takes us back to the introduction of the Archaeologists of the Impossible. Debuting in 1998 under the WildStorm brand, Planetary #1 opened the door to a world of possibilities introducing a secret organization who investigated all kinds of weird and amazing things over the comic’s 27 issues. We start with the recruitment of the grumpy Elijah Snow, born on January 1, 1900 (an important date for not just this comic by the wider WildStorm Universe) now spending his days in the middle of nowhere. Enter Jakita Wagner offering the old man a job, to work for Planetary and investigate the weirdness of the secret history of the world beyond what anyone knows is possible. 

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The Great Films – Lost in Translation

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  • Title: Lost in Translation
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Lost in Translation

Anyone who has spent time alone in a hotel room isolated and far from home, dealt with the uncertainties of your early 20s or a emotional barrage of a mid-life crisis, or spent time with a stranger who has somehow changed your life, can appreciate at least some of the various themes writer/director Sofia Coppola explores by putting Bill Murray in Japan. Bill Murray in Japan, that’s the premise that Coppola started with. And to it she blended in the talents of a young up-and-coming actress named Scarlett Johansson. The rest, as they say, is history.

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