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Top Gun: Directed by Tony Scott. With Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards. As students at the United States Navy’s elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom. I watched this again because it was included on Paramount Plus and I was about to go see it’s sequel in a few hours. It still holds up as one of Tom Cruises finest roles. It’s pure American propaganda, but I’m ok with that. Buy On Amazon!
Mainstream: Directed by Gia Coppola. With Maya Hawke, Andrew Garfield, Kalena Yiaueki, Nat Wolff. In this cautionary tale, three people struggle to preserve their identities as they form an eccentric love triangle within the fast-moving internet age. Not everyone can be famous, and most of the people that become famous had little personal input on what happened to their fame after they became famous. Some people don’t want to be famous at all, yet are famous because the world doesn’t care about your feelings, the world just wants to be entertained, maybe even a little shocked at what you’re doing....
Directed by Rob Lindsay. No Responders Left Behind is a feature documentary following 9/11 responder & activist John Feal who, along with comedian Jon Stewart and FDNY hero Ray Pfeifer, fought the U.S. Congress to ensure that thousands of terminally ill 9/11 First Responders got the health care This was released back in 2021, but I just now found a stream of it, and I promise you, I’ve been looking! It’s every bit as emotionally frustrating as I expected it to be, with the same obvious players making life difficult for everyone around them, using morally corrupt reasoning to cause...
Habit: Directed by Janell Shirtcliff. With Bella Thorne, Andreja Pejic, Gavin Rossdale, Libby Mintz. A street-smart party girl gets mixed up in a violent drug deal and finds a possible way out by masquerading as a nun. It took me about 3 tries, but I finally got through the film. There’s a few famous people present, but I think they forgot to polish the story before filming. There’s definitely a story to be told here, but it’s one that you have to get to despite the uneven acting and unnatural lighting in nearly every scene. Buy On Amazon!
I did a thing for Reddit and they sent me $50 in snacks, which I promptly ate in about 2 days. I have one of these on my a/c and it’s going to cost something like $400 to replace. Or, I can choose to abandon it in place. Guess it’s going to be there a while. I did something to my eye. I woke up with it like this a couple week ago. It’s back to normal now, but yikes that was concerning to wake up to! Foster kittens being adorable. Syrah with a couple Trek books I found at...
The Northman: Directed by Robert Eggers. With Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Ethan Hawke. From visionary director Robert Eggers comes The Northman, an action-filled epic that follows a young Viking prince on his quest to avenge his father’s murder. I love Alexander Skarsgard, but this movie went too heavy into the deep catalog of northern mythology for me to enjoy the film. It’s definitely got a fantastic story and the acting is pretty damn good too, just didn’t do it for me personally. Buy On Amazon!
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit: Directed by Nunnally Johnson. With Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Fredric March, Marisa Pavan. An ex-soldier faces ethical questions as he tries to earn enough to support his wife and children well. This is one of the most serious and mature film that I’ve seen from the 1950’s, and it’s about the effects of PTSD on soldiers from the second world war that wrapped up about a decade previously, and how they were dealing with the fact that the country had developed a national amnesia to the fact that a large part of their...
The Night House: Directed by David Bruckner. With Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Evan Jonigkeit. A widow begins to uncover her recently deceased husband’s disturbing secrets. This movie has some of the most creepy use of negative space that I’ve ever seen in a film and goes up on my list of great suspense films like “It Follows”. Buy On Amazon!
In Kingdom Two Crowns, players must work in the brand-new solo or co-op campaign mode to build their kingdom and secure it from the threat of the Greed. Experience new technology, units, enemies, mounts, and secrets in the next evolution of the award-winning micro strategy franchise! A game without a User Interface, but fantastic concepts and soundtrack. It’s way too short though, but well worth your time if you’re into chill games that you can just vibe to. Buy On Amazon!
One of my neighbors had a huge pine tree removed from their property, a company that had “TallyTrees” all over their trucks was doing the job, and from my vantage point I was pretty impressed by how well they were doing with the crane truck, moving the pieces from the back yard, then cleaning everything up afterwards. Bonus, it only took them about 2 hours to do the entire job! It wasn’t until about 2 hours later when I was taking the trash out that I noticed that they had dumped the entirety of the project into my side yard,...
