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Kingsman: The Secret Service: Directed by Matthew Vaughn. With Adrian Quinton, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Jonno Davies. A spy organisation recruits a promising street kid into the agency’s training program, while a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius. I had to re-watch this after having such a positive reaction to the third film, I remembered how much less serious this first film was, but still being a fantastic movie. While yes, it’s goofy with the lispy villain and predictable story, it was still well done. Buy On Amazon!
I did a LEGO puzzle while drunk. There’s a live stream of it out there somewhere and I stayed up until about 7am doing this thing. I plan on taking it apart and giving it to some family members that have kids, I’m sure they’ll enjoy it. Syrah sleeping next to my desk. Mani / Pedi with the wife, I was very happy with the service itself, but this nail polish ended up being garbage and had to be removed just a couple days after application. I flipped the two monitors on the right hand side there and reconfigured how...
The King’s Man: Directed by Matthew Vaughn. With Djimon Hounsou, Ralph Fiennes, Shaun McKee, Peter York. In the early years of the 20th century, the Kingsman agency is formed to stand against a cabal plotting a war to wipe out millions. I watched this with a bit of a jaded eye, all I could remember was my impressions of the previous film, The Golden Circle, and remembering how poorly it was received, but I’m happy to report that this is the best of the three movies so far. I’m not certain it was received by main line professional critics the...
The 355: Directed by Simon Kinberg. With Jason Flemyng, Pablo Scola, Marcello Cruz, Eddie Arnold. When a top-secret weapon falls into mercenary hands, a wild card CIA agent joins forces with three international agents on a lethal mission to retrieve it, while staying a step ahead of a mysterious woman who’s tracking their every move. While all the pieces of this film are just fine, the entire sum of their parts are just adequate, feeling much more familiar than it should have, and should have likely been a direct to tv movie instead of a wide release. I actually watched...
50 years ago, human intervention triggered an ancient alien system designed to warn of the emergence of intelligence in this sector of the galaxy. For aeons the Much better than the first in the series, with a lot more action and much less philosophizing. There’s new characters to enjoy, along with a few of the ones from the previous book, and the system level threat finally does what we’ve been building up to this entire time, with some pretty cool results. I continue to have problems telling the two main female leads apart, mostly because Reynolds uses their last names...
Peacemaker: Created by James Gunn. With John Cena, Danielle Brooks, Freddie Stroma, Jennifer Holland. Picking up where The Suicide Squad (2021) left off, Peacemaker returns home after recovering from his encounter with Bloodsport – only to discover that his freedom comes at a price. Man, this is a stupid, low brow television show that has no reason to exist, is about as low budget as you can get, and I love absolutely every damn minute of it. It’s only eight episodes long, and they’ve already approved a second season. Also, there’s about 30 jokes set up throughout season one that...
The Book of Boba Fett: Created by Jon Favreau. With Temuera Morrison, Ming-Na Wen, Frank Trigg, Collin Hymes. Bounty hunter Boba Fett & mercenary Fennec Shand navigate the underworld when they return to Tatooine to claim Jabba the Hutt’s old turf. Jon Favreau once joked that Book of Boba Fett was going to be “The Mandolarian Season 2.5” and that’s actually what we damn near got here. I’m not really complaining, because as the two of them are currently written, Mando is by far a much more interesting character than Boba Fett, which honestly is a damn shame. Boba has...
Reacher: With Alan Ritchson, Malcolm Goodwin, Willa Fitzgerald, Hugh Thompson. Jack Reacher was arrested for murder and now the police need his help. Based on the books by Lee Child. There were two movies made with this character, but in those he was played by Tom Cruise, a great actor, but not known for his height or bulk. Alan Richson however, is known for being a tall dude with some absolutely impressive bulk, something he’s been building on since I first saw him back in Smallville or even the failed Aquaman television plot. It was a few year between his...
Murderville: Created by Krister Johnson. With Will Arnett, Haneefah Wood, Lilan Bowden, Philip Smithey. Eccentric detective Terry Seattle teams up with clueless celebrity guest stars to investigate a series of murders in this improvisational crime comedy. It’s got a pretty unique concept and it works for the most part, but I do feel there could have been more done with it. I don’t regret watching it though, it was pretty funny. Buy On Amazon!
Daredevil: Created by Drew Goddard. With Charlie Cox, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Vincent D’Onofrio. A blind lawyer by day, vigilante by night. Matt Murdock fights the crime of New York as Daredevil. I started re-watching this after I saw the latest Spider-man film, and forced my wife to sit with me while I was watching it. It’s still the best Marvel content that Netflix put out, followed closely by season 2 of Daredevil, none of the other stuff comes even close. There’s a rumor going around that all the Marvel stuff is going to be moved from Netflix in...
