I got nothing. It’s too long?
★★
An exiled anxiety-ridden homebody must battle an alien who's found its way into her home.
Month: August 2024
After moving to a small town, Zach Cooper finds a silver lining when he meets next door neighbor Hannah, the daughter of bestselling Goosebumps series author R.L. Stine. When Zach unintentionally unleashes real monsters from their manuscripts and they begin to terrorize the town, it’s suddenly up to Stine, Zach and Hannah to get all of them back in the books where they belong.
Watched with my 9 y/o. Neither of us have read any of the books so I am sure there was some fan service that was wasted on us, but we both enjoyed it and I had a lot of good laughs. In terms of “scares” there was just the right amount of tension to make it fun.
9 y/o decided that Slappy was easily the scariest thing in it.
★★★
A troubled starlet is dogged by invasive paparazzi while dealing with the consequences of a hit-and-run incident.
Let’s be honest, the story is not even remotely close to what you’d expect from Black Mirror, is it?
But I liked it. It’s short and yet achieves as much as similar genre efforts, and more than some.
★★★
Wisecracking mercenary Deadpool battles the evil and powerful Cable and other bad guys to save a boy's life.
It’s not as funny as it ought to be. Josh Brolin is admirable playing the straight man without which I am not sure most of this would work.
★★★
After his retirement is interrupted by Gorr the God Butcher, a galactic killer who seeks the extinction of the gods, Thor Odinson enlists the help of King Valkyrie, Korg, and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster, who now wields Mjolnir as the Mighty Thor. Together they embark upon a harrowing cosmic adventure to uncover the mystery of the God Butcher’s vengeance and stop him before it’s too late.
Watched this for family film night. Drew some big laughs from the kids but…
I feel like this is a classic example of a film where none of the fun from the creative process actually translates into the movie. I often review films based on whether (I think) they achieve what they set out to do. Aside from making Mighty Thor pretty awesome, I am not at all sure what this movie achieves.
This is in stark contrast to Deadpool 2, which I watched later, which is similarly anarchic and unsubtle in its humour but does exactly what you’d expect.
★★
Song · Ramones · 1979
Judy Is a Punk by Ramones
A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.
This review may contain spoilers.
I dunno which version has the aliens threatening mankind with tidal waves but that bit is shit
★★★★ (contains spoilers)
The benefits of finding exactly what you expected
I “do” data stuff for work. We look at patient experience in health and social care services. When I first joined, I (and colleagues) genuinely believed there was some revelatory nugget of insight (or even scandal) hidden away in the data. Now I’m just happy when our results affirm things everyone already assumes to be true, like working people would like increased access to evening and weekend appointments. Findings like people in poorer areas rely more on public transport, validates our research approach and methods. So, when we do find something slightly unexpected, it has a lot more credibility.