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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...
Knock Knock: Directed by Eli Roth. With Keanu Reeves, Lorenza Izzo, Ana de Armas, Aaron Burns. A devoted husband and father helps two stranded young women who knock on his door, but his kind gesture turns into a dangerous seduction and a deadly game of cat and mouse. I thought this was going to be a totally different movie than it actually turned out to be, which is weird “all women are crazy and can’t be trusted” kind of psychological horror film that makes little sense if you think about any one part of it for more than a couple...
Landman: Created by Taylor Sheridan, Christian Wallace. With Billy Bob Thornton, Ali Larter, Demi Moore, Jacob Lofland. A modern-day tale of fortune seeking in the world of West Texas oil rigs. I felt like I watched half this season on TikTok before I actually go around to watching the official release on Paramount+, it’s just as rediculous and over the top as the first season, but I’m still in love with everything about it, sans the two ladies played by Ali Larter and Michelle Randolph. They’re the most vapid and unrealistic characters that I’ve seen on tv in a while...
Wild: Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. With Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Gaby Hoffmann, Thomas Sadoski. A chronicle of one woman’s 1,100-mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent personal tragedy. My wife hadn’t seen it and she wanted to watch something interesting. I warned her this was going to be much more extreme than she was likely looking for, but I think she still enjoyed herself. Buy On Amazon!
Muppets Treasure Island: Directed by Brian Henson, Mark Loparco. With Bill Barretta, Kevin Bishop, Kevin Clash, Billy Connolly. This game is played by Jim Hawkins from a first person view, as he finds the map as you go to four places, first at “The Benbow Inn”. “The port town Bristol”, on “The Hispaniola Ship”, and on “Treasure Island”. My sister came to visit my son and we put this on while we were up way too late with the new born child. He slept through the entire movie, but the mildly awake adults enjoyed the film. Buy On Amazon!
Star Trek: The Motion Picture: Directed by Robert Wise. With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan. When an alien spacecraft of enormous power is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk resumes command of the overhauled USS Enterprise in order to intercept it. I watched this with my son, he slept through all of it and has no concept of the final frontier, but I believe this was his first film. Buy On Amazon!
2025 was an absolute whirlwind of changes in my life, from a new job to a new car, to a happy surprise of a pregnancy. When I first put together the stats for the year in December, I looked back at 2024’s numbers and laughed that I didn’t post until the end of January, but here we are half way through February and I’m just now hitting publish on this one. So first, some numbers! 36 books reviewed 6 games reviewed 89 movies reviewed 42 television series reviewed All of these numbers are in line with 2024 with the exception...
