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Saturday, July 13, 2024

After multiple re-shoots, it's finally here...


Captain America: Brave New World
"You may be Captain America, but you're not Steve Rogers."
You don't need serum to be a super-soldier – at least, we hope not. Sam Wilson's Captain America is taking off for the first time on the big screen, and the new world order has some world-class problems. For one thing, they have a Hulk – but what else is going on that you might've missed?
"You're right... I'm not."

Friday, July 12, 2024

Kathleen Kennedy's True Plans Revealed...

Disney's The Acolyte has turned the Jedi into Villains...    A betrayal of GeorgE Lucas's Vision of Star Wars!

"Now we have the truth about what this series has been about all along, trying to tear down the Jedi and trying to make the Jedi look like the villains. This is what they've wanted to do, and it's been obvious if you've watched the show or even heard these people talk about it. Leslye Headland, from the get-go, wanted to make a show where you want to be sympathetic towards the Sith’s point-of-view, and the Jedi are actually evil. They Jedi are the problem. If you've watched the prequels, it's not like the Jedi are perfect. It's not like they're infallible, but certainly they are the good guys. George Lucas has made that clear time after time, but of course, this is not George Lucas's Star Wars anymore. This is DISNEY Star Wars! So, what do you get when you hire a bunch of activists that don't know anything about Star Wars and are literally hired just because of their gender or their sexuality or the color of their skin and even the fact that they don't like Star Wars as a motivator to hire people on this writing team? You end up getting a story where it's supposed to criticize the people in power, because when people have power, things don’t go well for the marginalized people. This entire lesbian witch cult, which is just a self-insert for all the lesbians and gay people on the writing team, say we are unnatural, and people don't like that, and people don't accept us. And that's not okay. It's completely, totally pathetic, but this is what you get when you start with an identity politics driven narrative, that is your focus, your goal. That's who you hire on the writing team! That's who you cast when it is the main purpose, instead of actually entertaining people with something that fits within this universe. This is the end result. We get The Acolyte."

 

Sources have discovered that the new Rey movie will be about Rey becoming the grand-master of a New Jedi Order. Her school will be the bestest ever! She will be better than Yoda. Better than Luke Skywalker. It is a reflection of Kathleen Kennedy’s own desires. To be the best amongst her peers. All those years of being Steven Spielberg’s assistant and coffee fetcher has made her bitter. They used to laugh at her ideas and suggestions. Now she has the power.

 

It all fits in Kathleen Kennedy’s overall purpose for having changed Star Wars so radically. In order to make Star Wars her own, she must remove all the good that George Lucas has done in the original six movies. By turning George’s heroic Jedi knights into murderous villains, she paves the way for Rey (Kathleen Kennedy’s self-insert) to become the Master Jedi, where her moral authority is good and unquestionable. No doubt that her new Jedi school will be made up of all females, because all men BAD. Girl power is good. Kathleen Kennedy is the best. That will be her legacy.

Star Wars X Plot LEAKED? Alleged Rey Movie Details 

Posted And They're Laughably HORRIBLE!

Thursday, July 11, 2024

Something in These Hills... Something Haunted...

HELLBOY: THE CROOKED MAN
From master storyteller, and Hellboy original creator: Mike Mignola and Brian Taylor, the twisted mind behind Crank, comes Hellboy: The Crooked Man based on the critically acclaimed graphic novel. Coming Soon.

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Nothing like a good slap in the face...

 G O D S L A P 
GODSLAP is a book that combines my love for slapping with my love for outrageous over-the-top nuts to buts action and gore,” Charlie White said. “It marries them in this universe that you won’t help but fall in love with.” He said the idea for the comic arose when he and co-creator Jackson Clarke were pitching ideas for content and Charlie’s pitch for a slapping anime was the greatest idea of the bunch.

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Believe in the Unbelieveable...

D A N   D A   D A N
This is a story about Momo, a high school girl who comes from a family of spirit mediums, and her classmate Okarun, an occult fanatic. After Momo rescues Okarun from being bullied, they begin talking. However, an argument ensues between them since Momo believes in ghosts but denies aliens exist, and Okarun believes in aliens but denies ghosts exist.

To prove to each other what they believe in is real, Momo goes to an abandoned hospital where a UFO has been spotted and Okarun goes to a tunnel rumored to be haunted. To their surprise, they each encounter overwhelming paranormal activities that transcend comprehension. Amid these predicaments, Momo awakens her hidden power and Okarun gains the power of a curse to overcome these new dangers! Their fateful love begins as well!? The story of the occult battle and adolescence starts!

DAN DA DAN is coming to Crunchyroll October 2024!

Monday, July 8, 2024

How Bob Iger Destroyed Disney From the Inside...

"A great civilization is not conquered from without,
until it has destroyed itself from within."
They were hiring animators from Tumblr to do major Disney films, and so they ask, “do you have friends?” And so now they're bringing in their Tumblr Community into Disney and what happened then is this community of Tumblr artists became a faction within the company, and they began, basically, using their influence and their influence to push out all the old, white guys, and the ones that stayed behind, just like this gentleman, had for as long as he could until he realized that you know, “I was told when I started here 20 years ago that the sky was the limit but then 20 years into it things radically changed under Iger and the limit was lower than the sky.” For the people that left it's one thing, but for the people that stayed, just like Allan talked about in Film Threat, they were, “Hey shut up, go in the corner and if you say anything against the people that look a certain way, it might be taken as an istophobe remark, and you people were afraid to speak their minds like the veterans that were there, the people that had done it for 20-30 years, in some cases some cases, maybe even longer. This is how you know we've been doing this at Disney this way for a while, and it's worked well. Now suddenly, 10 years ago, they were looking at things changing internally to where there's the younger newer voices coming in that are in a lot of cases, they're taking over job positions inside Disney Studios. Even the IT department are walking in on day one taking over those positions to where people that had been there for 10-15 years, took them that long to get there inside of Disney and being told to, basically, just shut up. Not a real good work environment. That's one of the things he talked about was how the people that are still there know a lot of the employees there are walking around on eggshells. One of those guys was Don Hall, a longtime director at Disney Animation. He didn't do anything. It all went down when he was the co-director of Raya and Strange World, and where's he now? He's over at Skydance!
All of the older, more experienced artists were pushed out in favor
of the younger, less talented ones, who believed in the woke agenda.

Sunday, July 7, 2024

Fifty Shades of Star Wars...

The Acolyte ep. 6 gets THIRSTY women percolating!
Kathleen Kennedy's Star Wars agenda REVEALED!
Disney has finally found the audience that they've been looking for with modern Star Wars and this Screen Rant article kind of ties into that, so it's got to be the silliest thing that I've ever seen because they're trying real hard to turn the Sith into the oppressed and the Jedi into oppressors...

Saturday, July 6, 2024

The Boy Who Ran Away and Became a Hero...

The Elusive Samurai
In the year 1333, the Kamakura shogunate government comes crumbling down. A trusted vassal, Ashikaga Takauji, betrays the shogunate and organizes a rebellion. Hojo Tokiyuki, the rightful heir, escapes the massacre with a Shinto priest named Suwa Yorisige to Kamakura. On the run and fighting to stay alive, Tokiyuki sets in motion his plan to reclaim his birthright.
The Elusive Samurai is coming to Crunchyroll July 6th!

Friday, July 5, 2024

Take Flight, Kamen America!

KAMEN AMERICA
"Doing what's right isn't always what's fashionable!"
Join the super-charged patriotic paladin KAMEN AMERICA in her ongoing graphic novel series as this high-flying henshin heroine relies on her grit, self-determination, and loyal compatriots to fight the forces of evil!

Kamen America soars to even greater heights as a new story begins: plus, the debut of the official Kamen America action figure!
Go to Kickstarter to find out more!

Thursday, July 4, 2024

Celebrating America! - Anime Edition...

As long as the flag soars, you are free. 
Happy 4th of July!
May this day be a symbol of peace, prosperity, and happiness in your lives.
God bless America and the people who live here!
 
(Americans on 4th of July...)

Wednesday, July 3, 2024

The End is Near...

DEMON SLAYER: INFINITY CASTLE
Crunchyroll is excited to bring Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle to theaters as an epic trilogy event!
Trilogy Coming to Theaters!
It is the Taisho Period in Japan. Tanjiro, a kindhearted boy who sells charcoal for a living, finds his family slaughtered by a demon. To make matters worse, his younger sister Nezuko, the sole survivor, has been transformed into a demon herself. Though devastated by this grim reality, Tanjiro resolves to become a “demon slayer” so that he can turn his sister back into a human, and kill the demon that massacred his family.

Tuesday, July 2, 2024

The Best Star Wars Show in a Star Trek Universe!

STAR TREK: PRODIGY
In Season 2 of Star Trek: Prodigy, these six young outcasts who make up the Prodigy crew are assigned a new mission aboard the U.S.S. Voyager-A to rescue Captain Chakotay and bring peace to Gwyn’s home world. However, when their plan goes astray, it creates a time paradox that jeopardizes both their future and past.

Monday, July 1, 2024

The Monolith can both Heal and Destroy...

Esluna: The First Monolith
Raised in a monastic order, plucky Maeve spends her time seeking ancient relics with her robot Mochi, but she finds herself teaming up with an archaeologist and a boy with strange powers to stop Esluna's tyrannical queen from activating a powerful and ancient technology that threatens to destroy their world. This animated feature film was made over the course of nine months.
The entire pre-production and production was done by a sole artist, Denver Jackson, working overtime with storyboards, animatics, background paintings, animation, compositing, editing and directing. During the post-production process, Denver was animating and painting backgrounds all while finding what little time he had to direct voice actors, sound and music.