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Wake Up Dead Man: Directed by Rian Johnson. With Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin. Detective Benoit Blanc teams up with an earnest young priest to investigate a perfectly impossible crime at a small-town church with a dark history. Not as goofy as the second movie, but just as mediocre. My wife enjoyed it though! Buy On Amazon!
Stranger Things: Created by Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer. With Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Winona Ryder, David Harbour. In 1980s Indiana, a group of young friends witness supernatural forces and secret government exploits. As they search for answers, the children unravel a series of extraordinary mysteries. We’ve finally seen the end of this series that was well past its expiration date years ago. With a cast that was doing a fine job at acting, but being saddled with the impossible task of playing characters that were at least 5 years younger than any of them could possibly look. There were...
Discontinued: With Bruce Campbell, Andre Meadows, Andrea Lopez, Chris Porter. Bruce Campbell hosts this series that takes a comically nostalgic look at pop culture phenomena that have long since been discontinued. I watched this during 2025 and was gravely disappointed that it wasn’t a scripted show about bonkers things, but instead ended up being just a VH1 style goofy show with people talking about nostalgic stuff that was once cool and is no longer being sold. Buy On Amazon!
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy: Directed by Adam McKay. With Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd. In the 1970s, an anchorman’s stint as San Diego’s top-rated newsreader is challenged when an ambitious newswoman becomes his co-anchor. I got to view the unrated version of the film, which honestly doesn’t work as well as the theatrical version. Buy On Amazon!
Greenland: Directed by Ric Roman Waugh. With Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Roger Dale Floyd, Scott Glenn. To save his family from a catastrophic end of times, a man embarks on a risky quest to locate the last hope for salvation and witness the worst of mankind in the battle for survival. There’s going to be a sequel, which my wife has told me that she will not be watching because of how terrible people are to each other in this first film. I’m happy to go by myself, but I disagree with her assessment of the film, as this is...
Humanity’s last surviving heroes must protect a shattered civilization from an all-conquering enemy in this thrilling sequel to The Cruel Stars…. A fun sequel that doesn’t move as quickly as the first book but does a significant amount of world building, I thoroughly enjoyed the last third of the story. Buy On Amazon!
Pluribus: Created by Vince Gilligan. With Rhea Seehorn, Karolina Wydra, Carlos-Manuel Vesga, Miriam Shor. In a world overtaken by a mysterious wave of forced happiness, Carol Sturka, one of the immune few, must uncover what’s really going on – and save humanity from its artificial bliss. Vince Gilligan is back to form with this short form streaming series asking some really big questions through a truly flawed woman that’s just doing her best in an impossible situation. This is the type of hard science fiction that I really love to see on television. Buy On Amazon!
Avatar: Fire and Ash: Directed by James Cameron. With Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang. Jake and Neytiri’s family grapples with grief after Neteyam’s death, encountering a new, aggressive Na’vi tribe, the Ash People, who are led by the fiery Varang, as the conflict on Pandora escalates and a new moral focus emerges. The next entry in the Avatar television series that’s hilariously being shown in theaters, this time we get the same exact story from the second one, but this time with some really weird commentary on past American wars and some very tiny tiny world building....
Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts: Directed by Bill Benz. With Kumail Nanjiani. After nearly a decade away, Kumail Nanjiani returns to Chicago, where he got his start in standup, in a special that tackles anxiety, the perils of buying drugs pre-legalization, and cat medication. A hilarious standup session with a mega movie star who decided to do stand up one day. This was a reference to a joke he made in this session. You see it’s funny because he was a stand up comedian before he was a big movie star and got all buff and muscled up. Worth your time...
The Cat Returns: Directed by Hiroyuki Morita. With Chizuru Ikewaki, Yoshihiko Hakamada, Aki Maeda, Takayuki Yamada. After helping a cat, a seventeen-year-old girl finds herself involuntarily engaged to a cat Prince in a magical world where her only hope of freedom lies with a dapper cat statuette come to life. Studio Ghibli released this back in 2002 and it hasn’t aged at all! The story is a fun and absolutely bonkers adventure that involves transdimensional travels to a cat kingdom and the journey a young woman goes through to find maturity. I’m very happy to have started this journey of...
