Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon.
Ten years later it’s easier to look past the technical misjudgments and plot contrivances. Armitage and Freeman are both great.
★★★
I know it’s an old complaint but, wow, starting Windows after a decent break is a disaster.
I’ve got Windows Updates, Windows Store updates, Office updates and Sophos EndPoint all trying to do everything all at once.
How are at least the Microsoft systems not talking to each other?
Heaven’s knows I’m in no rush for Sticky Notes to be updated!
That was from the comments…
After a young man's premonition of a deadly race-car crash helps saves the lives of his peers, Death sets out to collect those who evaded their end.
Having said of the last installment “where could you go wrong?”
Well, here most of the foreshadowing is replaced with premonitions and that doesn’t work as well.
Still, there are some wildly inventive fatalities and the finale does actually take it up a notch.
★★★
I hope…
Firewatch is a first-person single-player mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
I played this back in August 2021 and just found some screenshots. I enjoyed it as a game but my over-riding memory is this:
Basically, the protagonist is a shit.
Also, very, very lazy effort on the stars:
A minor #accessibility triumph #a11y https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tabindex-and-accessibility/
A college campus is plagued by a vicious serial killer murdering students in ways that correspond to various urban legends.
I had very fond memories of this but, actually, it’s pretty bad. There is a super high body count, though!
★★
On a dark and somber night, a secret cabal of monster hunters emerge from the shadows and gather at the foreboding Bloodstone Temple following the death of their leader. In a strange and macabre memorial to the leader’s life, the attendees are thrust into a mysterious and deadly competition for a powerful relic—a hunt that will ultimately bring them face to face with a dangerous monster.
Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.
Simultaneously total 1 ⭐️ timey-wimy bollocks and a 5 ⭐️ masterpiece of such ambitious extent you’ll be mulling it over for days afterwards.
★★½
