Author: tiki god

Madame Web: Directed by S.J. Clarkson. With Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, Celeste O’Connor. Forced to confront her past, Cassandra Webb, a Manhattan paramedic that may have clairvoyant abilities, forms a relationship with three young women destined for powerful futures, if they can survive their threatening present. Watching this at home wasn’t a jarring as watching it in a theater. It feels much more at home on a smaller screen with distractions happening every 20 minutes and a wife asking questions every other scene about the scene that just happened. The story isn’t all that complicated, it has plenty...

A Family Affair: Directed by Richard LaGravenese. With Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron, Joey King, Kathy Bates. A surprising romance kicks off comic consequences for a young woman, her mother, and her movie-star boss as they face the complications of love, sex, and identity. This was the late night movie that I settled on to close out our lazy snow day and it turned out to be much more than I was expecting from everyone involved. The story is much more nuanced, the characters much more believable, and the situations all less sitcom / soap opera than Netflix is known for....

The Day After Tomorrow: Directed by Roland Emmerich. With Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Dash Mihok. Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age. This was the first movie we watched after the apocalyptic snow storm here in Florida, we received well over 2 inches of snow! It promptly sorta melted, then turned into ice and now it’s unsafe to drive on and we have icicles. Buy On Amazon!

Star Trek Beyond: Directed by Justin Lin. With Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana. The crew of the USS Enterprise explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a new ruthless enemy, who puts them, and everything the Federation stands for, to the test. I watched this on January 20th, 2025 because there was nothing better to watch on TV. I still love this film and am sad that there hasn’t been a Trek movie since. Buy On Amazon!

Star Trek Into Darkness: Directed by J.J. Abrams. With Leonard Nimoy, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana. After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction. I watched this on January 20th, 2025 because there was nothing better to watch on TV. It’s still a well made but goofy movie that I have many issues with. Buy On Amazon!

Star Trek: Directed by J.J. Abrams. With Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy, Eric Bana. The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father’s legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful Romulan from the future creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time. I watched this on January 20th, 2025 because there was nothing better to watch on TV. Buy On Amazon!