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What I’m looking forward to in 2019

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There’s a lot of cool things coming in 2019 and this list is by no means a definite one since I’m sure I’m missing things, but it’ll have to do for now.

TV

  • Project Blue Book — This new series on History about government sponsored UFO hunters in the 1960s looks to be an unofficial prequel to The X-Files. January 8
  • True Detective — After a delay of more than three years comes the third season of this HBO series. January 13
  • The Passage — This series on FOX is about a vampire apocalypse in the making. January 14
  • Roswell, New Mexico — A reboot of the popular early 2000s The WB series Roswell. January 15
  • Star Trek: Discovery — The second season of this CBS All Access series brings the Enterprise into the fold. January 17.
  • I Am the Night — TNT dramas can be hit or miss, hopefully this one is more Mob City than The Alienist. January 28
  • Doom Patrol — This series based on the comic book of the same name is set to premiere on the DC Universe streaming service. February 15.
  • Mindhunter — The second season of this series about FBI serial killer hunters is set to premiere in 2019 on Netflix.
  • Stranger Things — The kids of Hopkins, Indiana return to the “upside down” on Netflix next year.
  • Game of Thrones — The final season of the hit HBO series is set to premiere next spring.
  • Deadwood — This movie that was originally announced more than a decade ago is finally set to debut on HBO sometime next year.
  • Veep — The final season of this series is set to premiere in 2019 on HBO.
  • The Punisher — Reportedly debuting at the end of January is the second season of this Netflix show.
  • The Expanse — The fourth season of this series will debut on Amazon Prime in 2019.
  • Star Wars: The Mandalorian — This first live-action series based in the Star Wars universe, not counting the Star Wars Holiday Special, will launch the Disney+ streaming service at the end of 2019.
  • The Twilight Zone — Jordan Peele (Get Out) is set to reboot The Twilight Zone on CBS All Access in 2019.
  • Watchmen — A TV version of the Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons seminal comics work Watchmen debuts on HBO next year.
Alita: Battle Angel

Movies

  • Glass — This is the third movie in the M. Night Shyamalan Unbreakable franchise. January 18
  • Alita: Battle Angel — Based on the manga Battle Angel Alita this one is directed by Robert Rodriquez and produced by James Cameron, who was originally slated to direct years ago. February 14
  • Captain Marvel — The first Marvel Studios movie of the year is set to launch a new character into the universe. March 8
  • Pet Sematary — Kind’a a remake of the 1989 movie but really based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, this movie has one disturbing ending. April 5
  • Shazam! — This one looks to be a lighter look into the so-far dreary DC Universe of comic book movies. April 5.
  • Avengers: Endgame — While it’s called “Endgame” I can’t imagine any scenario where there aren’t more Avengers flicks since every time they come out Disney adds a billion + bucks to their bottom line. April 26
  • Brightburn — What looks like a horror version of the Superman origin mythos, this movie marks James Gunn first movie back after being fired from the Guardians of the Galaxy movies. May 24
  • Godzilla: King of the Monsters — The second of the new Godzilla movies, this flick is set to introduce a slew of new creatures to this universe. May 31
  • X-Men: Dark Phoenix — So far delayed three times from its original release date, this EIGHTH X-Men movie is out this summer. June 7
  • Spider-Man: Far From Home — Spider-Man returns from the dead for the second film in his modern franchise. July 5
  • Once Upon a Time in Hollywood — Four years after his previous movie Quentin Tarantino next one takes place in late 1960s Hollywood. July 26
  • *The New Mutants — Another delayed movie, I sense a theme, this one looks to cross horror with Marvel superheroes. August 2
  • IT: Chapter Two — The second and final movie of IT is set to move the monster fighting action from the early 1990s to the present day. September 6
  • Gemini Man — Originally announced more than 20 years ago and set to star Mel Gibson, Gemini Man is finally set to hit theaters with Will Smith in the title role. October 4
  • Joker — A stand-alone Joker movie starring Joaquin Phoenix hits theaters in time for Halloween. October 4
  • Midway — This one is set to bring modern CGI special effects to the WWII naval battle. November 8
  • Terminator — Yet another reboot in the Terminator franchise, this movie is set to bring the original Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) back into the fold after nearly 30 years. November 15
  • Star Wars: Episode IX — The final movie in the modern Star Wars trilogy hits theaters in time for Christmas. December 20

Bird Box movie review ⭐⭐

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There is really only one rule in monster movies: at some point the filmmakers have got’ta show the monster. If they don’t it doesn’t make their movie sophisticated, it make it lame.

In the new Netflix movie Bird Box, one day creatures begin appearing all over the planet, and whomever looks at one of them immediately goes crazy and commits suicide. Which is pretty interesting and unique. What’s been done before, and it’s done well in Bird Box, is that in the chaos that follows the first wave of suicides a group of people find refuge in a Los Angeles home and quickly figure out that if they want to travel outside they must do it blindfolded less they accidentally see one of these things. The survivors spend their days arguing with each other, venturing outside looking for supplies and trying not to see anything while also trying to figure out their next steps.

Think the standard people trapped in a house zombie movie, minus the zombies but with more blindfolds, and you’re pretty close to what Bird Box is.

Told in conjunction with this story is another set five years in the future where one of the people in the house Malorie (Sandra Bullock) and two kids have to make their way down a river blindfolded in order to find refuge outside of LA. IN the city certain people with mental illness can see these creatures and aren’t affected and are going around forcing everyone else to de-blindfold and look at the monsters.

The beginning of Bird Box is a lot better than the end where the whole thing kind’a falls apart. It’s almost like two different movies, both survival films but each different. The first chunk of the movie is Bird Box and the second Bird Box part 2. I think the movie would’ve been much stronger if it would’ve just ended with the people in the house present day, it actually has a natural ending now that I think about it, rather than going on into the future.

However, my main problem with the movie is that you never get to see these terrible creatures that have caused the mass suicides. I know, I know, I know — how do you depict something on-screen that’s so hideous it makes people almost immediately kill themselves? It’s impossible! Guess, what? I don’t care. At some point in a monster movie, you have to see the monster. Either the monster will look good, or the monster won’t, but no matter what it has to be shown. Otherwise what’s the point?