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And lastly, Blade Runner turns 40 (as well as John Carpenter’s The Thing) and two back-to-back horror trailers, Barbarian and They/Them.
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Afronerd Radio can now be heard LIVE courtesy of Apple Music/Itunes
Let's just get into this, shall we? Check out the latest installment of Afronerd Radio's Grindhouse broadcast, airing every Sunday at 6 p.m. eastern on the BTalk 100 internet radio platform. Listen to your chemically-enhanced (Compound V?) AFROnerdist hosts discuss the following topics: well it's no longer a rumor or theory, the longstanding Roe Vs Wade statute which gave women the right to an abortion was just officially overturned and the country appears to be on edge about this SCOTUS decision; we have our thoughts; and speaking of SCOTUS decision making, it was also determined that NY law violated a citizen's right to carry a concealed gun outside the home for self-defense-the irony is that this is occurring when gun violence is at an all-time high in NYC and the nation at large; the third season of the wildly popular streaming series, The Umbrella Academy premiered this weekend; and as S3 of Amazon's The Boys chugs along, we give you our impressions of the extremely provocative "Herogasm" episode; a recent Comics Beat piece reports on the decreasing attendance of the once-popular ReedPop trade shows and (comic) conventions, post the COVID crises; Dburt ponders why so many rap performers (mostly Black males) are dying and/or are getting shot in high profile and violent ways without the media or the public asking simply...Why?; we never did get the chance to talk about actor, Ezra Miller's latest run-in with the law and how this affects the DCEU/Flash franchise; legendary actor, Wesley Snipes is actively promoting a comic book series that has already garnered 6-figures in less than 24 hours via a new Kickstarter campaign;
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A long time ago we ranked Obi-Wan and Anakin’s lightsaber duel from Revenge of the Sith as one of Star Wars best. Since then there have been many more live-action laser sword showdowns. Between the sequel trilogy and Disney+ series, the galaxy far, far away keeps giving us lightsaber battles to enjoy. Obi-Wan Kenobi had so many we could make a list of just the ones we saw on the show. But as good as they all were, someone just made the series’ most epic fight even better. They recut the Jedi’s last big duel with Darth Vader to John Williams’ “Battle of the Heroes.” That’s the iconic song that played when the two fought on Mustafar in Episode III.
The YouTube channel CineVore rescored the big showdown from Obi-Wan Kenobi‘s season finale. This version (which we first learned about at Boing Boing) replaces the show’s music—which was consistently fantastic—with the song that played during their first fight a decade earlier. As with most things in Star Wars, a big reason that lightsaber duel worked as well as it did was because of John Williams’ score.
No surprise that the music still works here. Obi-Wan and Darth Vader changed their fight’s venue from a world full of lava rivers for one with a rocky terrain on a desolate planet. The operatic nature of Williams’ song still perfectly captures the tragic nature of the pair’s relationship. Two men who were once brothers found themselves fighting for the very soul of the galaxy. And also for the soul of each other.
Okay, that’s it. After talking about it so much we have to go back and rewatch their Mustafar duel now, too. And we will. Just as soon as we watch this rescored new battle a few more times.
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Episode three of Ms. Marvel was full of secrets. From the reveal of the Clandestines to the truth about Kamala’s powers, there was a lot to dig into. So you might have missed a massive MCU Easter egg in the opening moments of the show.
The big moment came as Najma, Aisha, and the other Clandestines searched for the bangle to help them get home. Picture this, it’s 1942, the year before Captain America took the Super Soldier Serum. In the ancient ruins of the temple, the desperate team looks for a pair of cosmic artifacts. They eventually find one! As we pull away from the ruins, we see the symbol of the Ten Rings organization carved into the ground.
The group was first introduced in Iron Man as a generic terrorist outfit. The third Iron Man film reimagined them as a front for evil scientist Aldrich Killian with Ben Kingsley’s comedic thespian posing as “The Mandarin” in order to instill fear. That was all reconsidered in Shang-Chi, which introduced us to the real leader of the group, Xu Wenwu, played by Hong Kong cinema icon Tony Leung. There we learned the ancient history of the group and how they used the magical Ten Rings—which were possibly created by the Eternals—to run a massive criminal enterprise.
During Shang-Chi, the titular hero of the movie has to find his father, Wenwu, and ends up taking the physical Ten Rings from the man who raised him. Ending his tragic story, Wenwu perished in the final battle of the movie. Eventually, Shang-Chi took ownership of the real Ten Rings, while his sister Xialing secretly took over the criminal organization of the same name.
We can assume that the Ten Rings either built the temple or marked it as a place with powerful artifacts. Although we don’t know when or the exact reasons, we can likely guess that it’s to do with the bangles that Najma and her family were searching for. It’ll be interesting to see if we get any more nods to the organization or their connection to the bangles and their original hiding place as the series goes on.
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