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In the 1950s, Elizabeth Zott’s dream of being a scientist is challenged by a society that says women belong in the domestic sphere. She accepts a job on a TV cooking show and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives way more than recipes. I was hoping for a light hearted story when I first started watching this with my wife, but there are some very heavy topics covered in the first 3 episodes and it made us put the entire thing on the “maybe when we have time” list. I finally watched it solo and the end...
On one last grueling mission during Army Ranger training, a combat engineer must lead his unit in a fight against a giant otherworldly killing machine. Alan Richson is quickly becoming a modern go to muscle man with a great acting range and a great taste in role selection. This movie reminds me of a game I played named “Generation Zero” crossed with a Ranger specific patriotic film that you would expect from director Michael Bay. If you’re even remotely interested in either of those concepts or really enjoy over the top military science fiction, this should be on your watch...
When we found out that my wife was pregnent, we decided that it was time to redo the floors in our home. They were the original 30 year old carpets and tile that the original construction company had installed and just during my time in the home had been well loved by over a dozen cats and dogs, many of whom were fosters and had made many messes. You can only wash a carpet so many times before it starts to fall apart, which is where we found ourselves. After the absolute horror of a project was done, we were...
In a retro-futuristic world, charismatic salesman Jack Billings leads a team of fellow sales associates determined to revitalize their customers’ lives by hawking timeshares on the moon. I spent half the series wondering if any of the technology, promises, or even the basic premise was fake, but it turns out that’s the core of what this story is trying to tell. I think one season of it was enough, but they left the end open enough for another season to come along and continue the shenanigans. Buy On Amazon!
New York mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi is released from prison after 25 years and exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Realizing that his mob family may not have his best interests in mind, Dwight slowly builds a crew. Season 3 is more of the same ridiculous and over the top macho propaganda that the first two seasons were, but this time the wires got a little crossed and the final couple episodes felt like it was a thematic cross over with Lioness. Our Tulsa based thugs all turned into professional gun men and...
David Jung, a mysterious former US intelligence operative living in hiding in South Korea, has his life blown to pieces when the consequences of an impossible decision from his past come back to haunt him, and he finds himself hunted by Rebecca, a deadly young assassin, and Caddis, the sinister spy organization she works for. I have no idea where I got the idea this was going to be a fun comedy about spies in the family, because it is decidedly not that. It’s a highly competent spy thriller about choices from the past coming back to haunt the future....
Night Visions: Created by Dan Angel, Billy Brown. With Henry Rollins, Johnny Cuthbert, Meghan Black, Emily Holmes. “Night Visions” was a hosted anthology series similar to “The Twilight Zone” – some tales are supernatural, others are just commentaries on twisted human nature. Each hour show is made up of two half-hour stories aired back-to-back. I think I watched about 3 full episodes of this on TikTok before I found it streaming on the Roku channel, it’s a 2001 suspense / horror show in the style of The Twilight Zone, but instead of Rod Serling doing book end statements for each...
The Witcher: Created by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich. With Freya Allan, Anya Chalotra, Eamon Farren, Henry Cavill. Geralt of Rivia, a solitary monster hunter, struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts. I believe this is the first season we have with Liam Hemsworth as The Witcher and while it’s obviously a different actor in the role, the handoff from Henry Cavill was much less painful than I was expecting. The writing is still goofy, the lighting and horrendous, the special effects are still great, the cinematography is bafflingly bad, and if you...
Lazarus: Created by Shin’ichirô Watanabe. With Mamoru Miyano, Makoto Furukawa, Maaya Uchida, Yuma Uchida. In 2052, an emergency task force is assembled when a miracle cure is hijacked for purging populations. The concept is a good one, the animation is top notch, the music is fantastic, but somehow all the perfect pieces didn’t come together to make a superior product at the end of the day. I think my main complaint is how silly nearly ever detour was that the team took, every one of the felt like padding to a story that was relatively straight to the point and...
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning: Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. With Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg. Hunt and the IMF pursue a dangerous AI called the Entity that’s infiltrated global intelligence. With governments and a figure from his past in pursuit, Hunt races to stop it from forever changing the world. The missions were certainly impossible in this, the possibly final Mission: Impossible movie, the latest entry in a multi-billion dollar franchise. It’s much better than the previous film but continues the rather silly Terminator storyline in which an artificial intelligence is taking over the world’s nuclear...
