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Tron: Directed by Steven Lisberger. With Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan. A computer hacker is abducted into a digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program. I did this out of order, watching Tron: Ares first, then watching the first two films, but my house was a complete mess and I couldn’t find the 4k disks I just bought, but here we are! I found them! The first movie is simplistic, stylistic, and works on every level for me. I loved...

Tron: Ares: Directed by Joachim Rønning. With Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Jeff Bridges, Evan Peters. A highly sophisticated Program, Ares, is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission. As good as we’re going to get, this is by no means a bad film, but it barely holds a candle to the prior movie or even Uprising, the often unknown television series that lasted two seasons on Disney XD. The music didn’t really capture me the same way Legacy did and the story mostly took place IRL, which is just silly when you have the...

The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz: Directed by Kirk R. Thatcher. With Ashanti, Jeffrey Tambor, Quentin Tarantino, David Alan Grier. This version of The Wizard of Oz is played by the Muppets. A remake of the 1939 film. I had no idea this was even a thing until I saw it come across a movies sale page. I do miss having Muppet adaptations of these classic stories and while this one starts off in a bumpy way that hasn’t aged very well, once they got to the Land of Oz the Muppets were as good as I’ve ever seen them. The...

Long Distance: Directed by Josh Gordon, Will Speck. With Anthony Ramos, Naomi Scott, Kristofer Hivju, Zachary Quinto. It follows an asteroid miner who, after crash-landing on an alien planet, must make his way across the harsh terrain, running out of oxygen, hunted by strange creatures, to the only other survivor. Other than some tik toks, I completely missed the marketing for “Long Distance”, which is a damned shame, this is a great movie! Anthony Ramos does great in a nearly single character story, there’s only one other face we see until the last 20 minutes of the film, and it...

Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult: Directed by Peter Segal. With Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, O.J. Simpson. Frank Drebin comes out of retirement to help Police Squad infiltrate a gang of terrorists planning to detonate a bomb at the Academy Awards. The third movie in a series of extremely funny movies that never once overstayed their welcome. There’s a dance scene that I enjoyed. Buy On Amazon!