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Review: Avatar II: The Way of Water – James Cameron

Inevitably, the Sky People return to Pandora. Jake Sully organises the Na’vi resistance. But when he finds out the humans are specifically targeting him and the family he has built in their absence, he decides that the best way to protect his family and the clan that adopted him is to move far away, to where the human’s can’t find them. Right?

Review: Avatar – James Cameron

In this visual spectacle, a disabled marine, travels to the distant moon of Pandora to join a corporate mining operation. He will enter the avatar-programme, whose members transfer their consciousness to human-alien hybrid clones to communicate with the local population.

Review: Aliens – James Cameron

Decades after the events of Alien, Ripley returns to the planet with a military rescue mission. But she is not the only one with back-up…

Review: Starship Troopers – Robert A. Heinlein

The Earth is at war with several alien races. On a whim, rich kid Johnny Rico joins the Mobile Infantry on his 18th birthday, to serve a term and earn citizenship. But as he goes through bootcamp to join humanity’s greatest military outfit, and he trains for orbital drops on alien planets, his resolve is sorely tested.

Yearly Wrap-up: 2022 in Review

At the start of 2022, our curators chose some resolutions for themselves? Which media on their to be read/watch/listen/play piles did get their attention? And what else did the year bring?