224 - Mortal Kombat and Stowaway (Netflix)

MORTAL KOMBAT!

Intro - Allergies are terrible.  Grayson forgot his name for a moment.  Jock Jams and Mortal Kombat is similar.   Demon Slayer movie is doing great business.  Roger has a Birthday!

0:05:15 - Box-office, upcoming releases

0:11:50  **NEW EGMENT** What's Streaming? HBOMAX

TENET, Dir. Christopher Nolan – John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Michael Caine, Kenneth Branagh. 2020

JOKER, Dir. Todd Phillips – Joaquin Phoenix, Robert DeNiro, Zazie Beetz, Brett Cullen, Shae Whigham. 2019

MORTAL KOMBAT ANNIHILATION, Dir. John R Leonetti – Robin Shou (LiuKang), James Remar (Raiden), Sandra Hess (Sonya Blade), Lynn Red Williams (Jax), Brian Thompson (Shao Khan).  1997

0:13:14:15 - Trailers - ARMY OF THE DEAD, THE TOMORROW WAR and WEST SIDE STORY

0:22:30 - STOWAWAY, Dir. Joe Penna

0:59:00 - MORTAL KOMBAT, Dir. Simon McQuoid

Stowaway

Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim, Shamier Anderson, Toni Collette.  Four cast members.  All pretty strong performances to help this Sci-Fi stay afloat when, at times, it's close to really running out of gas (or oxygen). A mission to Mars takes a very unexpected turn when a lunch engineer is knocked unconscious and trapped inside a panel and discovered 12 hours after launch.
Stowaway does a few things right- Really brings morality font and center as a theme explored heavily- really gives weight to a decision to have one of the crew members stop using supplies and, more importantly, oxygen.  It's an odd thing to have a film with more than one great moment and Stowaway has three.  Well worth the 1:45 investment.  (6.5/10)
 
Mortal Kombat
 
1995 and 1997 gave us Mortal Kombat movies which we remember fondly.  Mortal Kombat (2021) has upped the ante a little bit with decades of improved CGI and digital effects.  This is a MK film in the MK universe and it feels good and more like what we deserved decades ago for this franchise.  Josh Lawson's Kano is well worth the ticket price and will have you belly laughing many times.  Scorpion and Sub Zero feel and look as any fan would want.  Fans of the game franchise will be very happy with Mortal Kombat as are your mid 90's selves if they could have seen this in the SNES and Sega days.  Finish Him! (4.5/10)
 

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