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Celeste & Jesse Forever

Celeste & Jesse Forever: Directed by Lee Toland Krieger. With Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, Ari Graynor, Eric Christian Olsen. A divorcing couple tries to maintain their friendship while they both pursue other people. Gut wrenching and emotional and hilarious and about as real as you can get with the subject matter. Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg are both hilarious people, and they’re both hilarious in this film, but it’s the kind of funny that’s more realistic and sad at the end of the day, instead of the campy goofy humor that they’re known for. Well, Andy at least, Rashida has...

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Star Trek: Discovery Season 4

Star Trek: Discovery: Created by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman. With Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Emily Coutts. Ten years before Kirk, Spock, and the Enterprise, the USS Discovery discovers new worlds and lifeforms as one Starfleet officer learns to understand all things alien. Season four is done and I’m pretty sure I’m done with the series, at least in a “gotta watch it as it comes out” sense. It’s not necessarily a bad series on the whole, but I’m not a fan of the story telling method, nor the special effects decisions that they’ve made, nor the universe that...

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Blinds, softball weddings, fish, and vaccuums

I hung up some blinds in my bed room, obviously I had to be supervised. I went to a wedding that took place at a softball field.  we waited about an hour, then the ceremony took about 4 minutes to complete, then we went to a reception at a place that I had no idea even existed. It was fun! This is the vacuum I own, it needs a new brush thing as well as a new locking mechanism to keep it upright.  The parts are only about $35 total, but we’re getting dangerously close to just replacing it. Goldy...

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Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back

Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back: Directed by Irvin Kershner. With Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams. After the Rebels are brutally overpowered by the Empire on the ice planet Hoth, Luke Skywalker begins Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued across the galaxy by Darth Vader and bounty hunter Boba Fett. Had some horrible news today, so I’m drinkin beers and watching movies that make me feel better. It helps that I’m able to quote like 99% of the lines in Empire. Buy On Amazon!

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Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi

Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi: Directed by Richard Marquand. With Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams. After a daring mission to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels dispatch to Endor to destroy the second Death Star. Meanwhile, Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side without falling into the Emperor’s trap. I had some horrible news tonight, so here’s the second movie that I watched to try to make it more better. It sorta helped. Buy On Amazon!

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After School

After School: Directed by William Olsen. With Sam Bottoms, Renée Coleman, Edward Binns, Dick Cavett. A student-teacher relationship goes way beyond the classroom, including pre-historic times. I got suckered in by that absolutely amazing poster by Drew Struzan. The movie itself is a fairly straightforward and well done story of man’s belief in a higher power, the structures of religion, and how life doesn’t go the way you planned it to. Combined with this story, there’s a story going on about love in pre-historic times with bountiful nudity, lots of grunting, and an alarming amount of grape eating. The combination...

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Moonfall

Moonfall: Directed by Roland Emmerich. With Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley, Charlie Plummer. A mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it. It’s a disaster film form Roland Emmerich, who’s been pretty damn consistant in his previous post apocalyptic work with “ID4”, “2012”, and ‘The Day After Tomorrow” all having the same type of feel to them that “Moonfall” has. Sure there’s some really bad green screen work, but the concept is solid as a “terrible science fiction” b-movie concept that we all...

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Doom Patrol Season 3

Doom Patrol: Created by Jeremy Carver. With Diane Guerrero, April Bowlby, Matt Bomer, Brendan Fraser. The adventures of an idealistic mad scientist and his field team of superpowered outcasts. Season 3 ended back in November of 2021 and I’m just now getting around to watching it, and while I love how weird the show is, I think they’re going in a direction that’s just too esoteric for my tastes, and they’re definitely not connecting with any of the other DC shows anymore, so I won’t be missing much if I skip season 4 of this and just watch Titans. The...

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Batman: The Long Halloween

Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One: Directed by Chris Palmer. With Jensen Ackles, Josh Duhamel, Naya Rivera, Troy Baker. Batman investigates a murder spree that takes place on holidays. The first of two movies adapting the 13 volume comic book series by Tim Sale and Jeph Loeb, originally written in 1996/1997, and I still have both the single issues and a omnibus of the story sitting on a shelf in my office. It was one of the better Batman stories at the time, which is saying something, as this was near the height of the Batman comic universe at the...

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The Hunt for Bin Laden

The Hunt for Bin Laden: Directed by Leslie Woodhead. With Allen Farmer, Richard Clarke, J. Cofer Black, Pat D’Amuro. Witness the 20-year, billion-dollar hunt for the Al-Qaeda leader, as told by the main players who finally brought him down. Released in 2012 just a few years after the arrest, death, and dumping of Bin Laden’s body into a deep dark grave in the middle of the ocean, this is a good summary of the lead up to the American incursion into a foreign country without their knowledge or permission. It didn’t go as well as we had hoped, one of...