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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...
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope: Directed by George Lucas. With Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing. Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire’s world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader. I had this on my list of things that I watched while I was blitzed out of my mind on cold medicine during my covid infection. Watched it in 4k on D+ and I have limited memories of actually watching it...
Meet Nick Sax, a corrupt, intoxicated ex-cop turned hit-man I had unfortunately seen the forgettable and not recommendable (even though it inexplicably went for two entire seasons) television show that I repeat, was not very good at all. So, when I got this TPB in a HumbleBundle, it went to the bottom of my ‘to-do’ list, which I just recently found when I started using a new book/comic book management application. The comic itself is pretty good, if pretty much exactly what I would expect from Grant Morrison circa 2012, with all the gratuitous violence and strawmen that normally comes...
Jonathan Swift’s timeless political satire takes a saucy turn when a student, Gullivera, finds herself shipwrecked. Barely clad and washed up on a beach she’s t I received this as a part of a HumbleBundle and it’s much more pornographic than I thought it was going to be, but it’s also much better than it has any right being. It’s a 1995 adaption of Jonathan Swift’s 1726 “Gulliver’s Travels” which was a satirical rip on European politics and governments of the day. Manara’s version of the story is more luridly salacious, foregoing any kind of society commentary for expertly drawn...
Knight Rider 2000: Directed by Alan J. Levi. With David Hasselhoff, Edward Mulhare, Susan Norman, Carmen Argenziano. In the future, guns are banned and criminals are frozen for the duration of their sentences. A recent spate of killings involving handguns brings Michael Knight back to fight for justice, but he insists on the help of KITT, his artificially-intelligent car from decades ago. The only problem is that KITT has been deactivated. Release 3 years before William Shatner’s “TekWar”, this tv movie shares many of the same concepts with freezer prisons, cops that don’t use real guns anymore and a future...
The Harder They Fall: Directed by Jeymes Samuel. With Chase Dillon, DeWanda Wise, Julio Cesar Cedillo, Jonathan Majors. When an outlaw discovers his enemy is being released from prison, he reunites his gang to seek revenge. I gave up half way through the movie, I see what they’re going for, but boy howdy this is not for me. Buy On Amazon!
Ben Percy (Wolverine) and Ramon Rosanas (Star Wars: Age of Resistance) team up to present an epic tale that offers a global look at the Zombie Apocalypse. A Jap A comic book anthology mini series with four issues that have four different stories that all take place in each issue. Does it work as well as having one issue dedicated to each story? For me, who has all four issues, sure, but I know when I was buying single issues that I hated this kind of set up and would much rather have one story per book. It’s good enough...
Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection #180 Borg Cube This is the final issue of the series, it’s hard to believe that I’ve been a subscriber for as long as I have, nearly 10 years! There’s still about 7 ships that Eaglemoss has been unable to ship to me for whatever reason, so I look forward to getting those one day, either through Eaglemoss or through alternative vendors. Of course there’s a large and still growing “bonus issue” collection that they’re still adding to, but I think I’m done with the series for the time being, outside of the afore...
