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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: Directed by Sam Raimi. With Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Wong. Dr. Stephen Strange casts a forbidden spell that opens the doorway to the multiverse, including alternate versions of himself, whose threat to humanity is too great for the combined forces of Strange, Wong, and Wanda Maximoff. Sam Raimi is gonna do what Sam Raimi is gonna do, and while this is decidedly a Marvel movie with all the Marvel baggage that good Marvel movies come with, this is still a delightfully Sam Raimi movie, with everything you’d expect from him....
Perfect Sense: Directed by David Mackenzie. With Eva Green, Lauren Tempany, Ewan McGregor, Connie Nielsen. A chef and a scientist fall in love as an epidemic begins to rob people of their sensory perceptions. Not a movie I want to see while the world is winding down from a global pandemic that removed many victim’s sense of smell, but the film has s a artistic poetry to the extinction of humanity that’s beautiful in it’s own way. Buy On Amazon!
Star Trek has energized friendships for over 50 years. Whether it’s exploring a convention, beaming into a movie theater, or joining in on a landing party watch party, generations have been as united in their love of the franchise’s bold storytelling and stunning action as they are in the honest fully realized relationships of their favorite characters. The publisher of the book was kind enough to send me a copy of the book, it’s both on instagram AND on my bookshelf. It’s a uniquely weird type of book, something that I’ve never run into in all my time collecting and...
The Grand Army of the Republic – led by Yoda, Mace Windu, Obi-Wan Kenobi and the other Jedi knights – fight the New Droid Army of the Separists in this latest ‘ This was included in a box of Star Wars books I got from the local Goodwill for a couple bucks. It’s not a bad book, but it’s definitely written for beginners, both to the Star Wars universe and to reading in general. Buy On Amazon!
Liar Liar: Directed by Tom Shadyac. With Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Justin Cooper, Cary Elwes. A fast-track lawyer can’t lie for 24 hours due to his son’s birthday wish after he disappoints his son for the last time. It was on my list of movies that I own but hadn’t watched, which I guess is because I had watched it last before I was logging movies. I was happy to go back to watch it again though, as Carrey really did well with the entire premise, even introducing the novel character of “The Claw” something that the insufferable Jerry tries...
Pokémon Detective Pikachu: Directed by Rob Letterman. With Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, Bill Nighy. In a world where people collect Pokémon to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent talking Pikachu who seeks to be a detective. This is becoming one of my go to movies for an emotional pick me up, the entire thing works the way that I want a video game movie to work. Nostalgic, but not stupidly so, which is surprising to me since i’ve never once played a pokemon game. Buy On Amazon!
Jumanji: Directed by Joe Johnston. With Robin Williams, Jonathan Hyde, Kirsten Dunst, Bradley Pierce. When two kids find and play a magical board game, they release a man trapped in it for decades – and a host of dangers that can only be stopped by finishing the game. I had forgotten that Kirsten Dunst was in this film. I had also forgotten how young she was at the time. This is another Robin Williams film on our journey of Robin Williams films. It’s among his better films. More at 11. Buy On Amazon!
The Best of Times: Directed by Roger Spottiswoode. With Robin Williams, Kurt Russell, Pamela Reed, Holly Palance. A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game. Released in 1986, this was well before I was tracking Robin WIlliams, as I was only six at the time, so not really too much to explain there, especially since this is a mostly forgettable film with plenty of people that were famous previously or become much more famous after The Best of Times. It’s a perfectly cromulent film and I don’t have any major...
One of my cats, Miles, not the one that’s in the picture, got on top of my fish tank and knocked off a LEGO AT-ST that I had up there. Luckily all the pieces were sitting right there and I could put them back together, but the tragedy of this is that now Miles knows he can get up there, so I need to figure out how to cat proof the top of a fish tank that’s feet off the ground. This isn’t my cat, but a year or so ago, we got super friendly with her and were feeding...
Sonic the Hedgehog 2: Directed by Jeff Fowler. With James Marsden, Jim Carrey, Ben Schwartz, Tika Sumpter. When the manic Dr Robotnik returns to Earth with a new ally, Knuckles the Echidna, Sonic and his new friend Tails is all that stands in their way. I never thought that we’d get one good Sonic movie, much less TWO good Sonic films, especially after the disaster that was the original trailer for the first film. Somewhere along the line though, they figured it out, refined nostalgia for a wildly popular video game franchise, and delivered a fuzzy experience that I enjoyed...
