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A family man is drafted to fight in a future war where the fate of humanity relies on his ability to confront the past. I watched it again! It’s still a great film with a cool concept and alien design. My wife was with me this time and she said she enjoyed it too, yay for marital bliss! Buy On Amazon!
2022: A future war has raged for decades between the few human survivors and an endless army of machines. 1997: The AI known as Skynet gained self-awareness and began its war against humanity. As a thought experiment among fans, this would be a neat discussion. As an officially released piece of media that’s an official expansion of the lore, this is a steaming pile of terminator scrap that completely changes the in-universe science. I’m perfectly fine with the new AI concepts that are introduced, the time loops are pretty well explained, but just the same, there’s an introduction to...
This fresh Godzilla OGN proves that kaiju are for kids. Especially the ones who’d rather befriend beasts than fight them. This was a weird one for me and I only read it because IDW is flooding my inbox with Godzilla books. It’s not a franchise that I’m a big enough fan of to read the tie in comics usually, but on the surface this is a unique concept that seemed far enough out there that it would be worth checking out. It turned out to be worth my time with some great art by Oliver Ono who is able to...
A stuntman, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job. What could possibly go right? The marketing I saw for this really missed the mark for me, from what I remember they were highlighting the romance and goofy capers that he got up in in pursuit of love, which is fine, but didn’t really make me want to see the movie in theaters, something that I wish I had been able to do now. j...
In the near future, a ‘Grand Lottery’ has been newly established in California – the catch: kill the winner before sundown to legally claim their multi-billion dollar jackpot. It’s hard for me to believe that the same director did the hilarious “Bridesmaids”, then went on to stink up the place with “Ghostbusters (2016)”, and returned to absolutely killing it with Jackpot. The cinematography, the acting, the scrip, the action, and the soundtrack all line up to make a film that I think would have done pretty well in theaters. This isn’t a theatrical release though and only viewable on Amazon...
Hit Man: Directed by Richard Linklater. With Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Austin Amelio, Retta. A professor moonlighting as a hit man of sorts for his city police department, descends into dangerous, dubious territory when he finds himself attracted to a woman who enlists his services. A very funny and fantastic movie with a True Story that I’m not entirely sure is true at all, but after all, what is truth really? Glen Powell and Adria Arjona knock it out of the park, though I mistook Adria for Eiza Gonzalez for the entire film. Buy On Amazon!
Mike, a down-to earth construction worker, is thrust into the world of super spies and secret agents when his high school sweetheart, Roxanne, recruits him on a high-stakes U.S. intelligence mission. The end result is a little less serious than I thought they were originally going for, but I think at the end of the day I still enjoyed the journey exploring the first steps of a Union CIA spy hitman / construction worker. Buy On Amazon!
A crew of oceanic researchers working for a deep sea drilling company try to get to safety after a mysterious earthquake devastates their deepwater research and drilling facility located at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. This one caught my eye again because first off, it’s a great film with some pivots that completely caught me off guard the first time I saw it in theaters and second, I just watched The Abyss and apparently I’m a fan of underwater science fiction dramas? Buy On Amazon!
POW Aden Jansen has lost a decade of his life to both the war and internment when he’s recruited by the Alliance. He’s to return to Gretia as an undercover Blac Kloos is firmly one of my favorite military science fiction authors right now and this fourth entry into his Palladium series continues to reaffirm that affinity. There’s not enough spaceship combat for my tastes, but it’s more than made up for by the political and personal drama happening on the surface of one of the main planets. Buy On Amazon!
It’s been a minute since I’ve written an update on my life and since I’m just got over covid, I figured I’d celebrate being able to breath properly with a new post with words. I’ve started a new job with the state (a few months ago back in June!) and while I’ve been exposed to a ton of new people and new things, it wasn’t the job that granted me access to my second covid infection, that came from my wife who brought it back with her from a concert she went to with some family down in Tampa. She was...
