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Last Week in Pop Culture 015, 4th week of December 2018

Quite a quiet week to end the year. Let's hope 2019 will start with aplomb!

Here's my accumulated news list for last week that I used for reference for this post.

Thank you for your patronage and I hope to see you again next week!

00. In memoriam: America's oldest living WWII veteran, Richard Arvin Overton
{May 11th, 1906, - December 27th, 2018}

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01. Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

Black Mirror event 'choose your own adventure'-style. Since I do not have Netflix, I won't be able to watch this in its correct way but I know this is just like how Telltale Games is, choosing a path for your character to take which will eventually lead to one of the five endings. Which one is yours?

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02. Commando Ninja, an 80's action comedy, tribute to the Action Hero Movies

'John is a Vietnam Green Beret Vet, Half Commando, Half Ninja, whose daughter has been abducted by a secret Ninja Organization, led by a Central-American dictator, who wants to create a new-world order... through time.'
Below the whole movie! Watch it and have fun!

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05. the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild fan animation

If you're watching the gif, you know this is a fitting tribute to the game, warranting its own full feature.

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06. Us, Jordan Peele's Get Up followup [March 15th]

After having a successful debut in that exceptional (genre-bend?) horror thriller, here he is commentating on the society once again, seemingly manifesting the bad in us into life and let it run amok on us..

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