Netflix’s The Titan is Underwhelming Sci-Fi

The Titan premieres on Netflix on March, 30th

Starring Avatar’s Sam Worthington, Orange is the New Black’s Taylor Schilling, and Batman Begins’ Tom Wilkinson, The Titan is a mild sci-fi offering that feels perfectly designed to nest and reside within Netflix’s “Because You Watched…” scroll.

The Titan, from writer Max Hurwitz and director Lennart Ruff, isn’t a bad film, it just never pops. And it spends the bulk of its body focusing on the wrong story. By the time the tale ends, you feel like you’ve just finally reached something interesting because the hour and a half leading you there contained a ton of filler and unnecessary fat. If we’re talking Netflix Original sci-fi flicks, The Cloverfield Paradox immediately springs to mind here, as it too felt like an unnecessarily reverse-engineered backwards race toward a much more interesting story happening elsewhere.

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Gemini Review: A Mediocre Murder Mystery

If a movie was entirely about setting a mood and sticking with it, Aaron Katz’s Los Angeles murder mystery, Gemini, would be an unbridled success. Katz, serving as writer, director, and editor of the movie, sets the scene brilliantly. What he fails to do is serve up a story that is remotely worthy of its trappings.

At the center of the movie is Jill (Lola Kirke), an assistant to movie star Heather Anderson (Zoë Kravitz). They may be friends, but there is no question that Jill works for Heather, so when Heather—for no reason the movie cares to delve into—decides she wants to drop out of a project, it falls to Jill to make Heather’s desires known. It is Jill who has to try and keep away adoring fans. It is Jill who has to keep Heather out of trouble. It is Jill who is deemed a suspect when a dead body is found in Heather’s home.

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Twitch Streamer Becomes Sea of Thieves’ First ‘Pirate Legend’

Less than two weeks after release, a Sea of Thieves player has sailed the high seas enough to achieve “Pirate Legend” status, opening up post-game content not yet seen by players.

Twitch streamer Prod1gyX has been broadcasting his playthrough of Sea of Thieves and his journey toward Pirate Legend, which means he has maxed out the level cap of 50 for all three of Sea of Thieves’ pirate factions.

Achieving this status is meant to open up a new secret quest for Sea of Thieves players, as well as additional secrets yet uncovered. Ahead of launch, Sea of Thieves Executive Producer Joe Neate told IGN that “Becoming a Pirate Legend is really just the start for players.

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