Premiering a week ago, the latest installment (35th entry) from Tsuburaya's long running Ultraman franchise has dropped: Ultraman Omega. They release a new episode every Friday on the Tsuburaya YouTube channel. Thus far, we've gotten the first two episodes. The series begins on an alien planet, where Ultraman Omega is fighting an army of insect-like creatures. After defeating them and blowing up the planet, the blast sends him hurtling into space. He ends up falling to Earth and is struck with amnesia, trying to remember who he was, and also adjusting to life on a foreign planet. He ends up befriending a guy named Kosei Hoshimi, who at first is annoyed by Omega's presence. This changes when Kosei realizes the guy is an alien, when he transforms into the Ultra giant to battle a kaiju that emerges from underground right before his eyes. Kosei ends up naming his new Ultra friend Sorato Okida. They both cross paths with a biologist named Ayumu Ichido, who is investigating the a...
Currently streaming on Tubi, I finally got the chance to see this movie that I'd heard good things about. It's a sci-fi / horror starring Nicholas Cage, based on the short story by H.P. Lovecraft. Nathan Gardner (Cage) is living on a remote farm with his wife Theresa, who recently had a mastectomy, and his children Lavinia, Benny and Jack. One night, a meteorite crashes into their yard. It eventually sinks deep into the ground, and ends up contaminating the water supply. Everyone on the farm, as well as the environment, slowly begins to change, displaying mood swings, lost time and illness. It becomes clear that some lifeform that was attached to the meteorite has infected the area, causing all sorts of increasingly bizarre phenomena. A hydrologist named Ward, who's taking water samples, attempts to get to the bottom of things and help Lavinia and her family as the odd occurrences continue to escalate. This film is wild, creepy, bizarre and well done. It contains many eleme...