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Strange World: Directed by Don Hall, Qui Nguyen. With Jake Gyllenhaal, Dennis Quaid, Jaboukie Young-White, Gabrielle Union. The legendary Clades are a family of explorers whose differences threaten to topple their latest and most crucial mission. I remember seeing a few trailers for this in front of movies at the theater, but other than that, there was a significant lack of marketing, which is a damn shame, as this is a fun and unique take on a hilarious concept that opens all sorts of questions about eh universe that these characters all live in. It’s on D+ now, so if...
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. Still a fun movie with some minor issues, none of which are show stoppers. I have some major complaints about what’s going on with the HDR in the movie, but I’m not entirely sure if that’s some weird interaction between my streaming device (xbox one this time) or my television. I still smile like a...
Betty White: First Lady of Television: Directed by Steve Boettcher. With Betty White, Valerie Bertinelli, Sandra Bullock, Tim Conway. A look at Betty White’s life and career features behind-the-scenes clips of her work on television and comments from her friends and co-stars. One of the last films that I watched in 2022, but here I am saying I watched it during 2023. It’s a great look bad at a wonderful career, one that I didn’t know spanned as many tv series and decades as it did. I also didn’t know that the entire seven seasons of the Mary Tyler Moore...
300: Directed by Zack Snyder. With Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Dominic West, David Wenham. King Leonidas of Sparta and a force of 300 men fight the Persians at Thermopylae in 480 B.C. I’m pretty sure this is the movie that gave Zack Snyder the political clout to be given the reigns to the DCU. Sadly the success of “300” was accomplished with slow motion, hyper masculine men doing hyper masculine things, all with some extremely heavy filters and high contrast cinematography, none of which translated well enough to be effective in comic books movies. They did certainly work for this...
JJ and Syrah on a huge stack of blankets we have in the corner of the couch, they’re both very happy to be up that high. NYE spread that I made for me and my wife, I ate too many gherkins. Charlotte and JJ. It seems that JJ has been able to force a nap on everyone she gets too close to! We got a cat nip growing set and it came with this 1 inch thick by 4 inch round disk that when you add water to it turns into a large bucket of soil like cocopeat to grow...
Woooooo! Becoming Ric Flair: Directed by Ben Houser. With Ric Flair, Tom Rinaldi. “Nature Boy” Ric Flair, the most prolific and controversial Superstar in professional wrestling history, discusses his 50-year Hall of Fame career. I never did watch a ton of wrestling during Ric Flair’s time at the top, but it would be hard to say that I never heard of the dude, he was at the center of a LOT of interesting stuff going on in the industry. This is a great, if self serving, documentary about his blessed but troubled life. It barely touches on his less than...
It’s Christmas, Eve: Directed by Tibor Takács. With LeAnn Rimes, Tyler Hynes, Gwynyth Walsh, Laurie Murdoch. An interim school superintendent finds herself in a tough spot when she is assigned to shut down a school’s failing music program, and must come to terms with her musical past. I was only able to hear about 1/10 of the film and only visually saw about 1/3 of it, but it was on a tv that I was sitting near for several hours, so I figured that counts as being technically “watched”. the bits and bobs that I was able to see were...
Wednesday: Created by Alfred Gough, Miles Millar. With Jenna Ortega, Gwendoline Christie, Riki Lindhome, Jamie McShane. Follows Wednesday Addams’ years as a student, when she attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart and solve the mystery that embroiled her parents. A tv show about a character that was in a couple movies that were based on a tv show which in turn was based on a cult comic series. It’s good though! Not as good as I was lead to believe, but still eminently watchable and entertaining. Buy On Amazon!
Secret of the Incas: Directed by Jerry Hopper. With Charlton Heston, Robert Young, Nicole Maurey, Thomas Mitchell. An adventurer searchers for hidden treasure in the Peruvian jungles. I finally got around to watching the amazing bluray that I bought from Grindhouse Video. Mind you I didn’t watch the movie proper, I watched it while a film historian went over every single amazing detail they could possible talk about, including the whole reason I ended up buying the film, Glenda Farrell! She’s not playing a main character, but I’m slowly building a collection of movies with her in it and one...
LEGO Builder’s Journey: A free-form geometric puzzle game set in the world of LEGO. This is hands down one of the worst LEGO games i’ve ever tried to play. Nothing makes sense on it from the controls to what they’re even trying to make you do, it’s a complete mess of nothingness that doesn’t make any sense at all. Didi I not understand something about the game? Who knows?! There’s no tutorial, no intro, and nothing that makes me think this game is anything more than a shameless cash grab. skip if you can resist, give up after about an...
