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Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey: With Kate McNally, Nicholas Kartashov, Marco Colosimo, Jewelle Barlow. Examines the rise of Warren Jeffs in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and his shocking criminal case. A short mini series of the extremist offshoot of the already extremis Morman religion, this one chronicles the child rapist Warren Jeffs, who was the only person to actually go to jail for the organized child rape cult that he ran, which really makes me wonder about what the actual fuck is going on out where these cults are operating? Buy On Amazon!
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven! I’ve played about 15 hours of this world building game and while I’m no where near done with it, I have enough of a feel for the game to give it a strong recommendation with some very slight caveats. I got the game as a part of the Humble Bundle for Ukraine, which was only $40 for a large list of games, including Back4Blood, so the price was...
We Own This City: Created by George Pelecanos, David Simon. With Jon Bernthal, Wunmi Mosaku, Jamie Hector, Josh Charles. Tells the story of the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force and the corruption surrounding it. With only six episodes to tell the story, there’s not much breathing space or time for nuance, so a couple of the ‘bad cop’ characters come off as caricatures, but from what I’ve read up on them, this is pretty much what they were like. Jon Bernthal in particular is all over the place with out he portrays the...
Zola: Directed by Janicza Bravo. With Taylour Paige, Riley Keough, Nelcie Souffrant, Nasir Rahim. A stripper named Zola embarks on a wild road trip to Florida. I swear I didn’t mean to watch two A24 movies back to back, but after “Hot Summer Night” this was up next on my watch list, partially there because I thought my wife would enjoy it, and partly because I had read the tweets that the movie was based from, then the reddit drama that occurred afterward. I don’t think I knew Taylour Paige or Riley Keough, but their IMDB page suggests that Taylour...
I went to InfinityCon 2024 and this is the only photo I took. No idea why I didn’t take more, perhaps I was too busy looking for Star Trek comics? Sometimes you stare into the void, something something, the void stares back. Odo can yawn real good. Miles lookin pretty in the sun I got a new weed eater, which I opened under Odo’s supervision. It’s much more powerful than I was expecting it to be! Current foster status: cute. Foster Nyx status: adorable He’s got some legs on him, that’s for sure.
Hot Summer Nights: Directed by Elijah Bynum. With Timothée Chalamet, Maika Monroe, Alex Roe, Emory Cohen. In the summer of 1991, a sheltered teenage boy comes of age during a wild summer he spends on Cape Cod getting rich from selling pot to gangsters, falling in love for the first time, partying and eventually realizing that he is in over his head. Set in Cape Cod during the 1991 pop culture enlightenment, this is the first movie that I think I’ve seen Timothée Chalamet in other than his somewhat confused performance in Dune, and his acting and presence is much...
Secret of the Incas: Directed by Jerry Hopper. With Charlton Heston, Robert Young, Nicole Maurey, Thomas Mitchell. An adventurer searchers for hidden treasure in the Peruvian jungles. A film mentioned in a book I read recently, “California Tiki”, “Secret of the Incas” features the singing of Yma Sumac, well known for her “Exotica” album work. As a happy coincidence, one of my favorite silver screen actresses is here too, Glenda Farrell is here, but to be honest I didn’t even catch on to that fact until after the movie was over, some super sleuth I’d be! More apparent though is...
After World War II, suburbs proliferated around California cities as returning soldiers traded in their uniforms for business suits. After-hours leisure activit It should be no surprise that I found this book to be both entertaining and informative, as I’ve long has a fascination with what I knew of pop tiki culture since I was in high school and was introduced to it through MTV’s Beachhouse Tiki God. The MTV version was terrible on nearly every level, but it was the seed that grew into wanting to know more and forming an identity for myself. I’m the proud owner of...
War of the Worlds: Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto, Justin Chatwin. An alien invasion threatens the future of humanity. The catastrophic nightmare is depicted through the eyes of one American family fighting for survival. After getting home from seeing the latest “Top Gun” film, Netflix suggested that I watch “War of the Worlds”, which I remember as being a fine movie, but that there’s been a couple better made adaptations of the story in recent memory from 2019 period piece mini series to the 2019 ongoing modern series. I also remember that I had...
Club Paradise: Directed by Harold Ramis. With Robin Williams, Peter O’Toole, Rick Moranis, Jimmy Cliff. A retired Chicago firefighter partners with a reggae singer to turn a seedy Caribbean nightclub into a resort for affluent tourists. Another movie from early in Robin William’s career, this is much better than the last couple I checked out. Weird thing about this one is that I don’t think there was a single brassiere in the entire film. It’s only rated pg-13, but if brassiere-less women is your thing, this is the place to be. As a PS, a few hours after I wrote...
