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Alien from L.A.: Directed by Albert Pyun. With Kathy Ireland, William R. Moses, Richard Haines, Don Michael Paul. A young woman with a childish voice travels to Africa looking for her missing archaeologist father, and stumbles into a strange subterranean civilization. An absolutely fantastical adventure of a pitifully ugly and awkward young woman who falls down a bottomless pit to the center of the earth to save her father, who has also fallen down that same stupid pit. Playing this disgusting looking girl with big glasses, terrible hair, and revolting eyebrows is Kathy Ireland, and actress that would go on...
The Night Before: Directed by Jonathan Levine. With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anthony Mackie, Jillian Bell. On Christmas Eve, three lifelong friends spend the night in New York City looking for the Holy Grail of Christmas parties. Such a fun film, filled with drugs and a ton of really inappropriate but totally hilarious situations, all wrapped up with a great Christmas message. This isn’t my first time watching the film, but I got it for free because Sony really likes me. Also, I bought enough movies to get it as a rewards, but I’d like to think they’re huge fans...
An indepth look deep inside the world’s biggest animal rescue. Find out what REALLY happened on the Gulf and how you can help save America’s pets today. Orphans of Katrina is a vivid journey, a historical account, and a celebration of the volunteer rescuers–and the animals we share our world with. I got this back in 2017 for free from Amazon and the contents of it are about as professional as the cover image is, which isn’t necessarily a knock against the book, but it’s obvious that this was an author that put it together themselves or with a low...
Stargirl: Created by Geoff Johns, Greg Berlanti. With Brec Bassinger, Trae Romano, Amy Smart, Luke Wilson. Teenager Courtney Whitmore joins the Justice Society of America. Based on the character from DC Comics. Yet another satisfying season, it’s a shame this is it for the show, but I’m happy they went out on top. I’ll miss seeing Brec grow as a superhero, but I’m sure she has a great career ahead of her. Buy On Amazon!
Killzone: With Kal Weber, Taylor Lawrence, Tom Clarke Hill, Sean Pertwee. The Helghans have rebuilt their planet after the first Helghan War and have attacked the ISA on the colony planet Vekta, who are heavily outnumbered. Captain Jan Templar and his squad are sent to find the ISA operative. I have extremely vague memories of playing this game back when I owned a PS2 20 years ago, but I know that I never finished it, because that entire stack of games was stolen during a house party when I was in college, along with Time Splitters and Aqua Aqua. I...
Home Sweet Home Alone: Directed by Dan Mazer. With Ellie Kemper, Rob Delaney, Archie Yates, Aisling Bea. A married couple tries to steal back a valuable heirloom from a troublesome kid. This is the 5th or 6th film in the franchise and while I think they’ve beaten the dead horse into a fine dust, this isn’t a bad film, and now I’m wondering what it would look like if Disney just had a new version of the movie out every couple years with an completely different cast, difference creative team, and different set of circumstances. This time around there’s no...
The Trial of the Incredible Hulk: Directed by Bill Bixby. With Bill Bixby, Lou Ferrigno, Marta DuBois, Nancy Everhard. When Banner is held as a witness to a violent crime linked to the Kingpin, the fugitive is helped by lawyer Matt Murdock who is also the superhero, Daredevil. This is the movie that I actually meant to buy, as it features Stan “The Man” Lee as one of the random jury members during a dream sequence trial of the Incredible Hulk. That’s right: the name of the movie is based on something that doesn’t even ‘really’ happen in the film!...
Spirited: Directed by Sean Anders. With Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds, Octavia Spencer, Patrick Page. A musical version of Charles Dickens’s story of a miserly misanthrope who is taken on a magical journey. I wasn’t expecting a musical, but that’s what I got and I’m perfectly happy with it. It’s the same story that you’re familiar with, but with some twisted twists that are all both expected and welcomingly new. Buy On Amazon!
The Incredible Hulk Returns: Directed by Nicholas Corea, Bill Bixby. With Bill Bixby, Lou Ferrigno, Jack Colvin, Lee Purcell. Hopefully on the verge of curing his Hulk condition, Banner meets his colleague, Don Blake, who is mystically linked to a Viking warrior, Thor. This one has Thor in it! It’s not a terrible film and it really wears it’s comic book ambitions right there on it’s sleeve. Buy On Amazon!
The Santa Clause 2: Directed by Michael Lembeck. With Tim Allen, Elizabeth Mitchell, David Krumholtz, Eric Lloyd. Scott Calvin has been a humble Santa Claus for eight years, but it might come to an end if he doesn’t find a Mrs. Claus. A novel way of keeping the “Clause” aspect of the franchise going, but I’m kinda skeeved out by the idea that Santa was using magic to convince the woman to love him, instead of allowing his completely lovable normal self to win her over. Was nice to see Elizabeth Mitchell again, it took me a minute to realize...
