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THE ELECTRIC STATE MOVIE REVIEW
Directors Anthony and Joe Russo (Those Avengers Endgame fellas) and their frequent screenwriting collaborators, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (those other two Avengers Endgame fellas) continue their Netflix contract obligations by delivering one of the most expensive movies ever made (none of it going to Chris Pratt’s wigs) with an adaptation of the extraordinary illustrated novel by Simon Stålenhag. In an alternate 1990, a war between humans and robots ended with humanity’s victory, thanks to Ready Player On-uh, I mean Neurocaster technology, which allowed humans to upload their minds into drone robots. By 1994, most people live in virtual states, while robots were exiled to an exclusion zone. Michelle (Millie Bobby Brown), a rebellious teenager who refuses to use the Neurocaster tech discovers a sentient robot controlled by her deceased younger brother Christopher. They embark on a journey to locate him somewhere out in the post-robot-war America, with the help of a veteran named Keats (Chris Pratt) and his sidekick robot, Herman (Anthony Mackie). Rae, Melina, and T.C. get online in the One Of Us holodeck to determine whether or not the $500 million price tag was well spent or if the Russos have offered up another The Gray Man.
DIRECTED BY: Anthony and Joe Russo
STARRING: Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt, Ke Huy Quan, Stanley Tucci, Woody Norman, Giancarlo Esposito, Jason Alexander, Martin Klebba, Marin Hinkle, Michael Trucco, Holly Hunter, Anthony Mackie, Woody Harrelson, Jenny Slate, Alan Tudyk, Brian Cox, Hank Azaria, Colman Domingo, Rob Gronkowski, Billy Gardell, Susan Leslie, Jordan Black
YOUR REVIEWERS
T.C. De Witt (Screener Squad)
T.C. De Witt is a multi-awarded writer/director originally from Wisconsin and now based in Los Angeles. His life has been devoted to the arts since he was a child. He’s been a stage performer, playwright, stand-up comic, film and television actor, radio DJ, podcaster published author, recorded musician, and comic writer/illustrator. He is now a professional screenwriter and has been thriving for the past decade, regularly offering his talents to production studios in LA, Chicago, Milwaukee, and internationally in Sydney and Poland. He’s provided content for Amazon Prime, Netflix, and several YouTube partners. His films have screened internationally, and his stageplays have been performed across the country. In the last ten years, he has directed 57 films, 23 episodes of his series The One Minute Rewatch, 300+ episodes of podcasts, and his multi-award-winning short film Screen: Righter screened at the Festival de Cannes in 2016. He has released two feature films, The Princess Knight and A Christmas Sunset. He thrives on collaboration and the thrill of sharing stories in all forms.
Lyrae Anderson (Screener Squad)
You can call me Rae. You can also call me a film lover. I’ll watch it all — small screen; big screen, and everything in between. I have attended and worked for Fantastic Fest and South by Southwest for many years. I married a film geek as well. While we don’t agree on everything, we agree on our love of movies.
Melina Eames (Screener Squad)
Melina first discovered that she carried the nerd gene at the tender age of four following her exposure to a little film called A New Hope. In the twenty-some years that followed, Melina continued to grow into her geek identity through the discovery of Batman, Mst3k, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings and The Mandalorian. But perhaps her most significant discovery came at the age of fourteen when a night of YouTube mining led her to the review site of Spill.com. Melina became a devoted follower whose fandom did not end with the site’s demise. By then, it had worked its dark magic and left her with a love and appreciation for film criticism that she has yet to shrug.
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