Every Friday, I recommend four different types of entertainment. These weekly recommendations can include any type of media, genre, platform, age range, or year of release. Why? Because every now and then you just need something to get into.
Lego: Pirates of the Caribbean
- Video Game: PlayStation, Wii, Nintendo DS/3DS, Xbox
- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Puzzle, Lego
An installment in the Lego video game franchise, based on the film series Pirates of the Caribbean. Its plot spans the first four films. Play as your favorite characters, such as Captain Jack Sparrow, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swan, Davy Jones, Captain Barbossa, and others. It combines comedy, action, and adventure. Fight pirates and British soldiers, solve puzzles, collect studs to purchase more characters and vehicles, and search for hidden Lego bricks.
Log Horizon
- Anime, 62 episodes
- Fantasy, Adventure, Isekai, Science Fiction, Video Game
With the most recent update, Elder Tale MMORPG players find themselves transported into the game with no way to log out. Shiroe is a socially awkward college student, game veteran, and master strategist who accepts his situation as it is and decides to explore his new world. Shiroe, along with his two friends, Naotsugu and Akatsuki, leads many of the other confused gamers to make the best of their current situation as well as properly interact with the game’s NPCs, who are much more real than they would have expected.
I Married the Male Lead’s Dad
- Webtoon
- Fantasy, Romance
Aisha Heathcliff was once a modern-day girl who obsessed over the main character of her favorite book, Abel Louvremont. After she was hit by a truck, she awakens in her favorite novel as a baron’s daughter, and when Abel is still a child. She wants to spoil Abel, but when her gifts convince his father that her love is for him, he agrees to marry her. Aisha initially rejects the marriage until she meets young Abel in person and realizes that this marriage could result in her becoming his mother. She now simply wishes to spoil Abel as his mother and make sure the Duke doesn’t find out the truth. Read this webtoon on Tapas.
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Movie
- Action, Adventure
Indiana Jones is a professor and archaeologist hired by government agents to find the lost Ark of the Covenant. However, Nazi Germany is also after the Ark, and Indiana Jones must contend with Nazis as well as his rival, French archaeologist René Belloq, and find it before Nazi Germany gets their hands on it.
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