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Civil War by Alex Garland is more like a Civil Dud.

Civil War by Alex Garland is a film that imagines a dystopian America caught in a second Civil War. California and Texas have united to create the Western Forces while Florida, Alabama, and a few other states form the Florida Alliance. There are apparently two more alliances, but the film doesn’t bother to introduce them. I had to check an online article to find out more information. Before you…

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Tokyo Vice season 2 loses what made season 1 so great.

Tokyo Vice is a show on Max (formerly HBO Max) that follows the story of Jake Adelstein (Ansel Elgort) a young American journalist who relocates to Japan in order to make a name for himself. He works for the biggest Japanese newspaper in town called the Meicho Shimbun and quickly has to learn that the things he could do in America would never fly in Japan. Supposedly, this show is based on true…

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#HBO Max #Tokyo Vice

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Happy Leap Year!

Ninjas! I couldn’t resist an opportunity to post my typical Thursday blog on Leap year. So here it is. I’ve been MIA for the month of February because I was going through some medical issues. I originally wasn’t going to post a blog either but I don’t want to miss out on having a blog post on leap year. There is a bit of a time crunch as I wasn’t able to focus on my blog -at all- during this…

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"I don't need to be good, just remembered."

I recently watched this documentary on the making of the video game Blasphemous. Blasphemous was enthralling. It is the only 2d platformer that combined horror and Catholicism in a video game. Towards the end of the video, one of the game developers shared something profound. “I’d like us to be, maybe not the best, but the most remembered.” This statement deeply resonated with me. I watched…

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#Editing #The Silver Ninja #Wilmar Luna #writing #writing a book #Writing tips

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Release Dates and Displates and a Happy New Year!

Ninjas, There was no November blog post because my website was under maintenance for backend upgrades. As a result, December’s blog post will contain DOUBLE the news. Let’s get started. My guest appearance on The Merry Writer podcast with hosts Ari Meghlen and Rachel Poli If you’re a horror fan and you want to know a bit about the craft and secrets of writing horror, this is the episode for…

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#Project updates #The Darkness at Home #Wilmar Luna #writing

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It's my birthday and here's how I'm going to celebrate!

Ninjas, I’ve completed 39 rotations around the sun, and I can’t say I feel any different than the thirty-eight that came before. There are more grey hairs, more unwanted bumps, and a belly I can’t seem to shrink. My wife wanted to drag me to all sorts of fun events. I declined and said my perfect day would be to take off from work and stay home to relax and recharge. THEN, on Saturday, take my…

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#Displate #The Darkness at Home #The Silver Ninja #Wilmar Luna

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TMNT: Mutant Mayhem better than the original?

Is TMNT: Mutant Mayhem somehow better than the original? Read my review to find out.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is a brand-new entry and reboot of a franchise that existed before cell phones and the internet. What you may be surprised to know is that TMNT was NOT created in Japan. It is actually the product of Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, two Americans. They weren’t professionals when they created TMNT, they were amateur nerds who wanted to write their own…

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#films reviews #Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #The Silver Ninja #TMNT Mutant Mayhem #Wilmar Luna

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Summer Update 2023

It's been a busy 2023 summer, here's what I've been working on.

S’up ninjas! If you’re not subscribed to my newsletter, you may have been wondering why this blog hasn’t been updated since June. I informed my subscribers I would be taking a short hiatus to work on my writing projects. The hiatus is over and you missed on some cool artwork of Cindy, Jadie, and a secret unannounced character planned for a later book. If you don’t want to miss out on this…

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Succession why should you watch a show about awful people?

I thought we all hated the rich? Succession is a show on HBO Max about three siblings squabbling for control of Waystar Royco when it becomes apparent their father Logan Roy can no longer lead the company.Logan has to decide which one of his incompetent kids has the killer instinct to carry on his legacy. Basically, the Murdoch family – Fox News TV show. Why would anyone want to watch…

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Does Everything, Everywhere, All at Once deserve its Oscars?

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once is the most insane, off the wall, completely bananas movie I had ever seen and it’s a really, really long title. From now on, I will be referring to Everything, Everywhere, All at Once as EEAAO. Should you watch it? Let’s dive into what all the buzz is about. Streaming on: Paramount+ with Starz upgrade as of this writing. So, even though you have broken my…

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#at #EEAAO #everything #everything everywhere all at once #everything everywhere all at once movie review #everywhere #once

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Physical 100, a competitive game show done right

Physical 100 takes away everything I hate about American competitive gameshows and whittles the concept down to the single most important part of these shows . . . the competitors. As someone who grew up on American Gladiators and have watched American Ninja Warrior, Broken Skull, Road Rules, The Challenge, Physical 100 blew my expectations out of the water. What does Physical 100 do differently…

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#Choo Sung-Hoon #Jang Eun Sil #Netflix Reviews #Physical 100 #Physical 100 review #Show Reviews #The Silver Ninja #Wilmar Luna #Yung Sun Bin

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2023 Project Goals

Happy New Year readers! As has so far been tradition . . . January is officially the month where I write a blog post on my writing and project plans for 2023. Consider this the literary version of the State of the Union or… the State of the Ninja, lol. I talk about my plans for the future, goals, and what projects I’m working on. Let’s get started. What am I working on? For those of you who…

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#sanctifiction #Silver Pencil Books #State of the Ninja #The Silver Ninja #Wilmar Luna #Writing updates

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Advent Train Stories: The Dreamer

Advent Train Stories: The Dreamer

My mother couldn’t tell the difference between now and then, here and there, him or her. She was trapped in a perpetual lucid dream where dead relatives lived again. The heart attack left her crippled and the stroke erased her identity. She had survived several brushes with death only to become a yarn of tangled thoughts and crisscrossed wires. Some days she could tell me what day it was and…

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#Advent Calendar Short Stories #Advent Train #The Dreamer #writing

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She-Hulk Attorney was the forty-four years a waste?

She-Hulk Attorney was the forty-four years a waste?

After years of legal battles, false starts, and test photo shoots with Bridgette Nielsen, She-Hulk has finally gotten her live-action debut. It took forty-four years to see the sensational jade giantess in live-action form. Was it worth the wait? I guess it depends on what you were waiting for. For me? The answer is no, but it wasn’t a chore to watch. It was weird and shallow but not the worst…

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#she hulk attorney at law #she hulk disney show #she hulk live action #she-hulk

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A Horror Treat for Horror Fans

A Horror Treat for Horror Fans

Hello readers, Originally this story was going to be exclusive to newsletter subscribers. After some thinking, I realized this type of content should be segregated from those of you who follow the blog or the facebook page. However, newsletter subscribers still get the advantage of early access, providing feedback on future projects, and special discounts and promotions. The cost? One email a…

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Don't make your female fantasy fight scenes boring

Don’t make your female fantasy fight scenes boring

When I was a kid, I gained my knowledge of fighting styles through Hollywood movies and cartoons. My juvenile mind truly believed, with all my heart, a one-hundred-and-ten-pound female could stand toe-to-toe with a beastly two-hundred-pound male. I wrote the first Silver Ninja (Prototype series) with an adolescent knowledge of combat. No one told me punching someone in the face could break your…

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Elvis by Baz Luhrmann. Should you watch or skip? Movie review.

I should be promoting my book Narco Hotel, but we need to talk about Baz Luhrmann's Elvis.

In Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, the king of rock n’ roll lives again. This review was initially scheduled for the week after the release of Elvis. Unfortunately, a bout with covid put a delay on my release plans. Even though this won’t be great for my SEO ranking, I still felt it was important to get my Elvis review out there. If it wasn’t obvious from the trailers, Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis is a stylized,…

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#Austin Butler #Baz Luhrmann #Elvis #Elvis Presley #The Silver Ninja