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The Grand Army of the Republic – led by Yoda, Mace Windu, Obi-Wan Kenobi and the other Jedi knights – fight the New Droid Army of the Separists in this latest ‘ This was included in a box of Star Wars books I got from the local Goodwill for a couple bucks. It’s not a bad book, but it’s definitely written for beginners, both to the Star Wars universe and to reading in general. Buy On Amazon!
Liar Liar: Directed by Tom Shadyac. With Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Justin Cooper, Cary Elwes. A fast-track lawyer can’t lie for 24 hours due to his son’s birthday wish after he disappoints his son for the last time. It was on my list of movies that I own but hadn’t watched, which I guess is because I had watched it last before I was logging movies. I was happy to go back to watch it again though, as Carrey really did well with the entire premise, even introducing the novel character of “The Claw” something that the insufferable Jerry tries...
Pokémon Detective Pikachu: Directed by Rob Letterman. With Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, Bill Nighy. In a world where people collect Pokémon to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent talking Pikachu who seeks to be a detective. This is becoming one of my go to movies for an emotional pick me up, the entire thing works the way that I want a video game movie to work. Nostalgic, but not stupidly so, which is surprising to me since i’ve never once played a pokemon game. Buy On Amazon!
Jumanji: Directed by Joe Johnston. With Robin Williams, Jonathan Hyde, Kirsten Dunst, Bradley Pierce. When two kids find and play a magical board game, they release a man trapped in it for decades – and a host of dangers that can only be stopped by finishing the game. I had forgotten that Kirsten Dunst was in this film. I had also forgotten how young she was at the time. This is another Robin Williams film on our journey of Robin Williams films. It’s among his better films. More at 11. Buy On Amazon!
The Best of Times: Directed by Roger Spottiswoode. With Robin Williams, Kurt Russell, Pamela Reed, Holly Palance. A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game. Released in 1986, this was well before I was tracking Robin WIlliams, as I was only six at the time, so not really too much to explain there, especially since this is a mostly forgettable film with plenty of people that were famous previously or become much more famous after The Best of Times. It’s a perfectly cromulent film and I don’t have any major...
One of my cats, Miles, not the one that’s in the picture, got on top of my fish tank and knocked off a LEGO AT-ST that I had up there. Luckily all the pieces were sitting right there and I could put them back together, but the tragedy of this is that now Miles knows he can get up there, so I need to figure out how to cat proof the top of a fish tank that’s feet off the ground. This isn’t my cat, but a year or so ago, we got super friendly with her and were feeding...
Sonic the Hedgehog 2: Directed by Jeff Fowler. With James Marsden, Jim Carrey, Ben Schwartz, Tika Sumpter. When the manic Dr Robotnik returns to Earth with a new ally, Knuckles the Echidna, Sonic and his new friend Tails is all that stands in their way. I never thought that we’d get one good Sonic movie, much less TWO good Sonic films, especially after the disaster that was the original trailer for the first film. Somewhere along the line though, they figured it out, refined nostalgia for a wildly popular video game franchise, and delivered a fuzzy experience that I enjoyed...
Star Trek: Picard: Created by Kirsten Beyer, Michael Chabon, Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman. With Patrick Stewart, Alison Pill, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera. Follow-up series to Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) that centers on Jean-Luc Picard in the next chapter of his life. Season 2 has come and gone, and it’s abundantly clear that my opinions of what Trek is about vs what the creative minds of this show consider the heart of Trek are in completely different places. The season opened with a couple minutes of gloriously blurry spaceship scenes with all the lense...
The Last Shift: Directed by Andrew Cohn. With Richard Jenkins, Shane Paul McGhie, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Ed O’Neill. Stanley’s last shift at his fast food job takes an unexpected turn when he befriends a young African-American work employee. I was hoping for more than what we got, but I’ll have to admit the final product is well done. I had built this movie into something it wasn’t in my head, as it’s been on my watch list since I ran into a trailer back in early 2021, and finally found it on a random streaming site. I had the impression...
This is the old lady. she’s doing pretty well for her age, but still needs to eat more than she’s eating. Mama Nyx trying to use her eye balls to make me just adopt her forever. Not going to work Mamanyx! you’re going to be easy to adopt out because of how awesome you are! My boy Odo putting his best food forward. He’s a foster fail, which isn’t going to happen with the other cats, I swear to god. This guy isn’t my cat, we named him “Richard” because of the phalic white patch he has, but I think...
