Watching Cross because Aldis Hodge, and while it's good and the performances are excellent across the board there are two things that a preventing me from truly enjoying it:

1) The cinematographer apparently went to the Game of Thrones school of no lighting ( Read more... )

That is certainly a thing that happened.

...I am not going to be completely mentally, emotionally and physically wiped out and will actually post again.

Possibly in 2075?

...if VW really wanted to dominate the EV market they would make an electric Bug ( Read more... )

It's too damn hot to think these days, so I watched The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. It was very violent, but very fun, and I do enjoy a good round of Nazi killing. Add in a bit of a heist element, and it's very enjoyable. Ritchie brings out a comedic side to Cavill that no one else seems to reach. And Cavill had good enough chemistry with ( Read more... )

Watched the Fall Guy over the weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it. Granted, in the finest desert life tradition, the hotter it is, the more you appreciate a movie that doesn't require much mental processing - and it's been damn hot. So my opinion may be environmentally biased. But ( Read more... )

Watched Jim Henson: Idea Man tonight. I'm sure most of Gen X already knows pretty much everything in the film and that it is intended both for those of us who want to visit an old friend and those out there who were born after Jim left, so that they could get a chance to know him and then miss him, too. It was a lovely, warm story and fun to see ( Read more... )

Watched Reacher coz I kept seeing people say it was much better than you'd think it would be, even if it was super violent. True on both counts, really. I do like that his team keeps making cracks about how slow he is, because, yeah, a guy that big is not going to be speedy. I dunno, maybe it's the actor's tan and blond hair but I kept thinking " ( Read more... )

So I started watching Wheel of Time again, mostly just so I can check it off the list. I think I would be having more fun with it if I didn't think Rand was just painfully boring. And, from what I've seen of the fandom, I'm definitely in the minority in preferring the first season Matt actor. It's...OK, really. Enjoyable, but partially background ( Read more... )

Today I learned that there is a company called Anduril Industries, and they make military drones among other things ( Read more... )