Alien Earth Update.

 ALIEN: EARTH (FX)

Premiere Date: Aug. 12, 2025 (Two episodes at launch then weekly)
Finale Date: Sept. 23, 2025
On Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ Internationally

Genre: Drama
Season:  1
Episode Count: 8

Synopsis: When the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, Wendy (Sydney Chandler) and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat in FX’s “Alien: Earth.”

In the year 2120, the Earth is governed by five corporations: Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic and Threshold. In this corporate era, cyborgs (humans with both biological and artificial parts) and synthetics (humanoid robots with artificial intelligence) exist alongside humans. But the game is changed when the wunderkind founder and CEO of Prodigy Corporation unlocks a new technological advancement: hybrids (humanoid robots infused with human consciousness). The first hybrid prototype named “Wendy” marks a new dawn in the race for immortality. After Weyland-Yutani’s spaceship collides into Prodigy City, Wendy and the other hybrids encounter mysterious life-forms more terrifying than anyone could have ever imagined.

Cast: The series stars Sydney Chandler, Timothy Olyphant, Alex Lawther, Samuel Blenkin, Babou Ceesay, Adrian Edmondson, David Rysdahl, Essie Davis, Lily Newmark, Erana James, Adarsh Gourav, Jonathan Ajayi, Kit Young, Diêm Camille, Moe Bar-El and Sandra Yi Sencindiver.

Credits: FX’s “Alien: Earth” is created for television and executive produced by Peabody and Emmy® Award-winning Noah Hawley. Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, Joseph Iberti, Dana Gonzales and Clayton Krueger also serve as executive producers. “Alien: Earth” is produced by FX Productions.

Amazing Music Video by The Talking Heads released nearly 50 years after the album. Link below.

 I’m amazed at the amount of work that must’ve gone into making this video because I was sure that these were scenes from a movie put to the Talking Heads song since it’s not unheard of that happening especially on YouTube. However, doing my research it turns out that all of this was done, especially For the Talking Heads song psycho killer. It’s a shame that not more people will be able to see this video only because it’s done so well. I think that in the days of MTV when it was actually a music channel, this would get a special award. It’s done beautifully in every way possible. I’m getting amazed that the amount of work done to make this complete. Thank you, Mike Mills, and the Talking Heads.

https://youtu.be/CJ54eImz88w?si=Q5e-MzLOQugfocc1

Snow White 2025 Digital Copy Review.

Rachel Ziegler is actually the least problem within the recent digital release of Disney’s Snow White live action 2025 adaptation. The quality has nothing to do with the sound and picture which are excellent and the bonus extra value features that are provided are also spot on. The main problem is not anything other than the fact that the story is completely mishandled with poor casting and terrible costuming. 

To begin with the CGI dwarves simply look out of place and they look rushed and are more frightening than they are cute. In addition to this, the costuming, particularly given to Rachel Ziegler does not fit her at all and in trying to make her look like some version of the original animated classic, they actually Made her look silly in an outfit that never gets dirty and in an environment where she supposed to be hiding from her life and all she does is stick out like a sore thumb. Gal Gadot cannot sing and she is also poorly cast in this film. 

There’s nothing wrong with organic diversity, but the attempt to appeal to just about every single demographic there makes it Unrelatable for nearly anyone who watches it. Some of the logic of the story does not work at all, and ultimately the sub storyline with the thieves is just a mess as well. 

I had difficulty sitting through this film so much that I’m grateful I talked to my brother into watching it with me because I knew that he would sit with me and then we could talk about it and we both agreed that while Ziegler’s singing is great, she really is also the least problem with this movie. 

Look in my humble opinion she’s a young woman, and who hasn’t said something they regret after the fact when they were young, or who hasn’t double down on something in the defensive take. What I’m trying to state is let he or she, who is without sin, throw the first stone. Ziegler is a great singer and in under the right casting as she gets a little bit older and more savvy, I believe that she has great promise if not in the movie theaters then on Broadway. 

The music for the most part is actually pretty good, especially when they stick close to the traditional Disney style music that one has come to expect for the last 25 years. The extra value features on the digital copy include sing-along featurettes as well as behind the scenes looks and more. Once again, the picture quality and sound quality is excellent with nice deep bass tones and an atmospheric feeling in Dolby Atmos. 

I really wish I could say nicer things about this film, but I would be lying. Little kids should like it regardless, especially those who are just coming into it without any pre-judgment or understanding of the media surrounding the making of the film, which definitely tinged it. Yet since little kids are open minded, they should enjoy it.  Again I want to emphasize that there are good things in this film. It’s not a total washout. Miss Ziegler sings well. It’s the script and the costuming that fail her. 

In short, you might want to wait till it streams on Disney+. Snow White 2025 is available at digital online retailers now.

(C) Copyright 2025 By Mark A. Rivera

All Rights Reserved.

Official Press Information For Predator: Killer of Killers and Alien Earth.

Official Press Information For Predator: Killer of Killers and Alien Earth.

PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS
Premiere Date: June 6, 2025
On Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ Internationally

Genre: Animated Action-Adventure Film

Synopsis: “Predator: Killer of Killers,” an original animated action-adventure film set in the Predator universe, will premiere June 6, cidijqvb2025, exclusively on Hulu. The anthology story follows three of the fiercest warriors in human history: a Viking raider guiding her young son on a bloody quest for revenge, a ninja in feudal Japan who turns against his Samurai brother in a brutal battle for succession, and a WWII pilot who takes to the sky to investigate an otherworldly threat to the Allied cause. But while all these warriors are killers in their own right, they are merely prey for their new opponent – the ultimate killer of killers.

Cast: The series stars Lindsay LaVanchy, Louis Ozawa, Rick Gonzalez and Michael Biehn.

Credits: “Predator: Killer of Killers” is directed by Dan Trachtenberg with Josh Wassung, from animation company The Third Floor, serving as co-director. The film is written by Micho Robert Rutare and story by Trachtenberg and Rutare, based on characters created by Jim Thomas & John Thomas. The producers are John Davis, Dan Trachtenberg, p.g.a., Marc Toberoff, Ben Rosenblatt, p.g.a., with Lawrence Gordon, James E. Thomas, John C. Thomas and Stefan Grube as executive producers.

ALIEN: EARTH (FX)
Premiere Date: Aug. 12, 2025 (Two episodes at launch then weekly)
Finale Date: Sept. 23, 2025
On Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ Internationally

Genre: Drama
Season:  1
Episode Count: 8

Synopsis: When the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, Wendy (Sydney Chandler) and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat in FX’s “Alien: Earth.”

In the year 2120, the Earth is governed by five corporations: Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic and Threshold. In this corporate era, cyborgs (humans with both biological and artificial parts) and synthetics (humanoid robots with artificial intelligence) exist alongside humans. But the game is changed when the wunderkind founder and CEO of Prodigy Corporation unlocks a new technological advancement: hybrids (humanoid robots infused with human consciousness). The first hybrid prototype named “Wendy” marks a new dawn in the race for immortality. After Weyland-Yutani’s spaceship collides into Prodigy City, Wendy and the other hybrids encounter mysterious life-forms more terrifying than anyone could have ever imagined.

Cast: The series stars Sydney Chandler, Timothy Olyphant, Alex Lawther, Samuel Blenkin, Babou Ceesay, Adrian Edmondson, David Rysdahl, Essie Davis, Lily Newmark, Erana James, Adarsh Gourav, Jonathan Ajayi, Kit Young, Diêm Camille, Moe Bar-El and Sandra Yi Sencindiver.

Credits: FX’s “Alien: Earth” is created for television and executive produced by Peabody and Emmy® Award-winning Noah Hawley. Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, Joseph Iberti, Dana Gonzales and Clayton Krueger also serve as executive producers. “Alien: Earth” is produced by FX Productions.

Rick And Morty: The Anime Blu-ray Disc Review

Rick And Morty: The Anime is it’s own thing complete with different English and Japanese Voice Talent providing our heroes with distinct speech that helps to set it apart from the main series. This is a standalone 10 episode arc by Takashi Sano, who directed two episodes previously for the Adult Swim Digital Platform.

The disc on Blu-ray contains all ten episodes presented in their original broadcast aspect ratio in glorious 1080p Full HD with an engaging English DTS-HD MA Soundtrack along with Japanese Language Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround. English Subtitles for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired. The run time is 207 minutes.

Rick And Morty: The Anime is available on Blu-ray Disc and DVD, but sold separately now retailers on and offline courtesy of Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment.

(C) Copyright 2025 By Mark A. Rivera

All Rights Reserved.

Dune: Prophecy: The Complete First Season on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc Set Review

Dune Prophecy: The Complete First Season is the HBO MAX/ Warner Brothers Discovery series loosely adapted from the Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson prequel novel, Sisterhood of Dune and is set 10,000 years before the birth of Paul Atreides. We are in the rule of the Empire under House Corrino from the Planet Salusa Secundus. The planet is quite different from what we saw in Dune Part One with beautiful vistas and a bustling Imperial Capital City near by. 

When the mysterious Desmond Hart (Travis Fimmel) arrives at court on the eve of a royal marriage unifying the Great Houses Corrino and Richese.  Events surrounding his presence captures the attention Reverend Valya Harkonnen (Emily Watson) with their interactions illustrating how formidable both characters are. Fimmel plays crazy so well that one can almost imagine that he has built his whole career playing these types of characters.

What follows is a kind of Chess game between different factions and agendas for control of the Imperium. 

The production value value of the series is captured beautifully on a 4K ultra HD Blu-ray Disc and the Dolby Atmos soundtrack also is quite atmospheric and discrete at the same time. What I also like about these discs as well as the original series when it aired this past November 2024 is that we get to see things that Dune fans are aware of from reading the books, but have never seen dramatized in any other format that I am aware of. 

This is a slow burn, which means that you do need to have some patience, but it will reward viewers by the end. I highly recommend watching this program and now that it’s on 4K Ultra HD, it’s it more than easy to be able to watch it on physical media, which is the best way to view something with the highest possible picture, quality And sound quality available for home users.

The five exclusive extended featurettes appear to been derived at least partially  from what was originally provided by MAX when the episodes originally premiered. The disc come packaged in a four disc black keep case with two discs on one side and two discs on the other for safe transport. There are no inserts containing episode information. The packaging is understated, but does the job. English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired are provided along with its Dolby Atmos surround soundtrack.

Dune: Prophecy: The Complete First Season is available now on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc, Blu-ray Disc and DVD, but the formats are sold separately, at retailers on and offline courtesy of Warner Brothers Discovery Home Entertainment. Get your copy now. The spice must flow.

(C) Copyright 2025 By Mark A. Rivera

All Rights Reserved.

BAMBI: THE RECKONING The Twisted Childhood Universe Welcomes Bambi

LOS ANGELES (May 15, 2025) - From Jagged Edge Productions and ITN Studios, the makers of Winnie-The-Pooh:Blood and Honey 1 & 2, comes Bambi: The Reckoning, the newest entry in the Twisted Childhood Universe. Directed by Dan Allen and written by Rhys Warrington, Bambi: The Reckoning arrives in theaters on July 25, 2025 by Seismic Releasing.

The official synopsis for Bambi: The Reckoning reads: After a mother and son get in a car wreck, they soon become hunted by Bambi, a mutated grief-stricken deer on a deadly rampage seeking revenge for the death of his mother.

"We are excited to bring the first live-action Bambi film ever to the screens...of course, a horror version," notes Stuart Alson, President of ITN Studios. Tickets to see the haunting new take on the classic tale will go on sale July 10, 2025.