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Last Week in Pop Culture 016, 1st week of January 2019

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.

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01. Arctic [February 01st]

A film by Joe Penna @ Youtuber MysteryGuitarMan. The trailer looks great, seeing the potential coming to life on screen. Again I hope he will follow in Bo Burnham's footstep after last year's Eighth Grade with this year's Arctic.

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02. Black Monday's free series premiere [Sunday 20th] (Showtime)

I will always highlight a free early sneak peek of an upcoming show.

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04. Carmen Sandiego's trailer [January 18th] (Netflix)

I already heard of criticism of turning her into a thief among thieves, which is apparently against her original role as the mysterious antagonist on the game show. Well, you can't satisfy everyone ...

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07. Hotel Mumbai's official poster & trailer [March 29th] 

'HOTEL MUMBAI recounts the 2008 siege of the famed Taj Hotel by a group of terrorists in Mumbai, India. Among the dedicated hotel staff is the renowned chef Hemant Oberoi (Anupam Kher) and a waiter (Academy Award-Nominee Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire) who choose to risk their lives to protect their guests. As the world watches on, a desperate couple (Armie Hammer, Call Me By Your Name and Nazanin Boniadi, "Homeland") is forced to make unthinkable sacrifices to protect their newborn child.' This is such a great poster, representing peace and chaos in one limited frame from the clean aesthetic of the hotel and the flower petals starkly contrasting with the bullet holes and the blood in the water ....

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08. One Piece goes live-action for Indeed ad campaign

'Countless people looking for work turn to Indeed, and the company is hoping even more will follow suit once they lay their eyes on a new ad campaign. The campaign in question teams Indeed up with the Straw Hats themselves in the form of a live-action collaboration commercial. The results are actually kind of awesome. Takumi Saitoh leads the crew as Luffy, with Hiroyuki Ikeuchi as Zoro, Rika Izumi as Nami, Daigo (of comedy duo Chidori) as Usopp, Yosuke Kubozuka as Sanji, and, well, you'll see Chopper for yourself.

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10. Rick and Morty Season Four teaser [2019?] (Adult Swim)

Well okay then!

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12. Stranger Things Season Three [July 04th]

That's so long away though!.

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13. Sonic the Hedgehog's fan-art of Jim Carrey as Dr Robotnik

Yeah ...

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14. the Punisher Season Two [January 18th]

The remaining two Marvel Netflix shows ....

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