Akira 4.5/5 - Got to see the IMAX restoration of this. It rocked

Fight Club 5/5 - Saw this at a local independent cinema while getting drunk. It’s still pretty great and relevant

Tony 3/5 - I don’t really have any exposure to Anthony Bourdain and I find it a little implausible that all of this happened over the time frame that the movie suggests. Still, he was a compelling character and I particularly like the wordless conversation that happens towards the end of the clam bake

Over Your Dead Body 3.5/5 - Missed this in theaters but saw it streaming at home. It’s funny, but gets a little over gorey towards the end of the movie. I’m growing a little tired of “breaking a knee the wrong way” as a comedic device. I’ve seen at least 3 new releases this year that use it

Best Little Whorehouse in Texas 5/5 - I had never seen this before and saw it at a charity screening for the Imagination Library. I wasn’t fully on board when the gayest football team I’ve ever seen attempted to convince me they were excited to sleep with women, but when the governer showed up and had a whole song and dance about how much he loved to not do his job I was in. Apparently the general outline of the story is largely true!

You can buy early access to the President’s tweets

I like it but I have a lot of nostalgia attached to it. I imagine given the average demographic of this website you’d find it relatable, but the humor might be a little 2010s internet dated for current tastes

This old YouTube series: VGHS

This isn’t a couple meme? This is for single people or poly groups

Coyote vs. Acme 4.5/5 - I’m really glad this got out of studio hell. The themes about corporations ignoring consumers, the comfort of habit vs embracing the future, and the value of working hard even for no reward are all very timely and I would suspect part of why this had a hard time getting to theaters. It’s really funny, touching, and definitely worth seeing

Rounders 4/5 - I liked the characters and story in this quite a bit. My minor gripe is that like most poker movies it has too many scenes where the pivotal hand is something that rarely happens in poker, though at least nobody won with a royal flush at any point

Justice League: War 3.5/5 - Pretty good for the DCAU, it’s got a full cast, doesn’t do much for origin stories and quickly has the action start. Green Lantern repeatedly getting his shit rocked is very funny

Wet Hot American Summer 4/5 - This was actually my first time seeing this and it was pretty crazy to see a cast that was just absolutely stuffed with comedy legends. Definitely a stoner movie but once I got on board with it being stupid I had a great time

It Ends 4/5 - Pretty good for a mystery movie. It felt like another response to covid and was impressive with what they accomplished on a small budget. Liminal indie horror is in!

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin 4/5 - Really solid Hong Kong kung-fu

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice 3/5 - Intentionally circuitous like a lot of time travel movies but it splits the difference between fighting, crime, comedy, and sci-fi. It had a moment where it does each of those well, but none of those moments coinicide. Also the ending is meh

Super Troopers 3 3.5/5 - It’s better than 2, though that’s not a high bar to clear. I imagine this could be really funny if they wrote more new jokes and stopped repeating the best joke from the first one for a third time

The End of Oak Street 3.5/5 - The best Jurassic movie in a long ass time. I liked dinosaurs being absolutely ruthless and the “modernized” interpretation of dinosaurs that Jurassic Park has locked themselves out of doing. I have a specific gripe about the very end of the movie that’s a spoiler:

There is nothing crazy about this. Plenty of movies rerun the previous ones to hype up the new one and make more money. Avatar, Mission: Impossible, Dune, Mean Girls (which had actually been brought back to theaters multiple times) and Beetlejuice all did it too. It’s also in the same year they had a movie make 2 billion dollars, of course they want to continue the momentum. Finally, people want this, there’s a lot of hype for this

Well the airforce did build a PS3 supercomputer

Spider-Man: Brand New Day 3/5 - After the last movie brought in all of the people associated with Spider-Man I knew this was going to have to tone everything down and it did. It’s a good Spider-Man movie with an interesting villain, better than most of the MCU stuff right now

Ice Cream Man (2026) 1.5/5 - It’s in the splatter horror genre like Terrifier which I’ve found to be disappointing in general. Usually there’s an emphasis on over the top gore but it often comes around to being cartoonish because it’s so unrealistic and that’s the case here. Add in AI scenes, child sexualization, and vague racism and there’s not much redeemable here

The Hobbit (1977) 2.5/5 - Watched this in honor of the new magic set. It’s goofy as hell, but has a lot of hand drawn charm. It’s been a long time since I read The Hobbit but if you told me all the songs in the movie were from the book I’d believe it. The Gollum scene drags on for far too long, but overall I appreciate it as being pretty faithful, if not abridged

Heat 4/5 - My first time seeing this and it was pretty good. I think an hour of build-up and character building is on the long side for what the movie needed, and the heist itself was a little simplistic for my tastes. Overall still very well executed

SOULM8TE 2.5/5 - If you’re going to rip off movies like Companion and Ex Machina you gotta do something to differentiate yourself, and the opportunity was right there considering this is (supposedly) in the M3GAN universe. They don’t really bother taking advantage of the crossover and while there are some interesting kills and funny moments, overall they don’t really capitalize on the premise

The Dink 4/5 - What if we made Challengers palatable for Republicans? I jest, it’s funny, pretty self aware, and manages just enough swerves to keep you engaged. I appreciated that the main character was a fucking moron and that they never redeem that. He is just so dumb. Also John McEnroe is fucking hilarious in every movie he’s in

You’re a little late to the party. Brain Rot skins (the actual in game names) have been around for a while. Before that there was AI Darth Vader, and it used James Earl Jones’ voice

The one thing Trump is actually afraid of: Discovery

To be honest I have no idea how retroachievements works. I just remembered that game as being easy to get all of them and assumed it’d be the same across platforms like most achievements are these days

From that time I remember people getting Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Burning Earth because you could get all of the achievements in under 5 minutes by just spamming your basic attack on the tutorial mobs

Elijah Wood is in Back to the Future 2 as one of the children playing an arcade game at the throwback cafe

This one sees a lot of use lately (Fight Club):

A good Hell Yeah! is frequently warranted (Harley Quinn):

Of course surprised Pikachu is a classic but recently I like this remix:

And this is for when people invite me to make questionable decisions (Rick & Morty):

According to his website there are 56 movies based on his stories

• The Monkey
• The Running Man
• The Long Walk
• The Life of Chuck

Additional fun fact, he has had 4 years where he had at least 4 movies he did the original story for: 2025, 2019, 2017, and 1990

I really liked The Long Walk, it did a good job of sticking with me and I’ve come back to it a few times. I think it was probably the best of the 4 movies King had last year, but I liked Life of Chuck more