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2022: The Year In Movies

After seeing my movie watching crater last year, with my lowest total of movies seen since 1988, I managed to bounce back a little bit this year.  I finished the year with 68 movies last year, still on the lower side based on past performance.  Despite being home all day and not needing to bother with pesky things like a commute.  Or exercise.

Here’s a look back at the first 50 movies I watched last year and what recollection, if any, I have of them. The films are listed in the order I saw them.

The Lost Daughter (2021)
A woman goes on vacation without her family and ends up confronting issues from her past.

Wind River (2017)
Two Avengers team up outside of the MCU.

I Am Mother (2019)
After the extinction of humanity, a young girl raised by a robot meets another survivor.

The Craft: Legacy (2020)
A new collection of young girls experiments with witchcraft.

A Family Man (2016)
A man tries to balance the needs of his career versus those of his family and sick child.

Spiral (2021)
A detective finds himself drawn into the games of a mysterious killer.

Scream (2022)
Ghostface is back to terrorize a new generation of Woodsboro teens, but series stalwarts Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, and David Arquette are on hand to assist.

The Fallout (2022)
After a school shooting, three teens bond in mysterious ways.

The Woman In The Window (2022)
An agoraphobic woman starts spying on her neighbors but sees something she shouldn’t.

Bill & Ted Face The Music (2020)
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter reunite after 30 years to bring us this tale of music saving the universe. Continue reading →

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Book 28 (of 52) – The Storyteller

The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music – Dave Grohl

When the world shut down in March of 2020 due to the corona virus, Dave Grohl put down his guitar and picked up a pen.  His stories cover the gamut of his life, from his childhood in Virginia, to his fateful trip to Chicago where a concert at the Cubby Bear introduced him to the world of punk rock, from joining local-punk legends Scream right out of high school to hooking up with an up-and-coming Nirvana after Scream imploded to creating the Foo Fighters after the death of Kurt Cobain, from going on epic concert tours to planning tour dates around his children’s school dances.

Dave Grohl has been a favorite for years, from his time with Nirvana through his years as the leader of the Foo Fighters.  The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music does a great job of explaining where his love of music came from and how he has used that to build a pretty great and surreal life for himself and his family.  If you are looking for a tell-all book about the inner demons of Kurt Cobain or a listing of all the celebrities he slept with, this is not the book for you.  Instead, it is a journey through life with music, and the love of music, as its throughline.  Dave Grohl is considered to be one of the nicest people in rock and roll and, reading his stories, you can see why.

 

 

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FB 8 – Week 2

A tremendous week of fun in the sun, as we easily surpassed my weekly goal for the first time since the end of March, beat my daily goal all seven days for the first time since early August of 2020, and my highest total since traveling to DC in early June of 2019.  Things got off to a great start on Sunday, as I parlayed a morning walk and a trip to the local multiplex to see the new Scream into 10,000 steps, the first time I’ve surpassed that milestone in 2022.  Monday was slightly better, thanks to a walk down to the beach for a swim in the ocean which left me 15 steps shy of 10,400.  Tuesday was nearly the same, with another 10,300 step day in the books. Wednesday bumped things up slightly, going above 10,400.  Walks away from the resort for food on Thursday and Friday put me over 12,300 steps each day. I wrapped up the week with my final full day at the resort with 11,500 steps.

Total steps: 77,397

Daily average: 11,056.7

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Book 37 (of 52) – The Final Girl Support Group

The Final Girl Support Group – Grady Hendrix

Imagine, if you will, a world where slasher films like Halloween, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Scream were not works of fiction, but instead were based on real life events and the final girls, the real life Laurie Strodes and Sydney Prescotts, all travelled to Los Angeles for a monthly group therapy session?  That is the basic premise of The Final Girl Support Group, that latest entry from Grady Hendrix.  When someone starts attacking the remaining Final Girls, all evidence points to it being one of their own, but the truth is even more insidious.

Through the first 2/3’s of this book, I was completely on board.  But, I feel like things went a little off the rails in that last third.  You know going in to a book like this that there is going to a twist or two, but there really wasn’t so much twists as characters jumping back and forth from suspects like crazy.  Still made for an enjoyable read, but I feel like it missed the landing just a little bit.

 

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2015 New Fall Season – Tuesdays

old-tv-set1Continuing our look at the new fall season, here are the offerings that I may find myself interested in for Tuesdays.

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The Muppets – ABC brings a new version of the Muppets to television, this time as a work place comedy.  Basically, The Office but with Kermit.

The Flash – A surprisingly fun adaptation of the DC superhero.  The first season was very satisfying and I hope for more of the same.

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Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Another new status quo, following the end of last season and the events of the latest Avengers movie, as we head in to season 3.

Scream Queens – Emma Roberts and Jamie Lee Curtis team for this horror comedy, hopefully in the vein of the Scream films, from FOX.  I’m certainly willing to give it a shot to impress.

iZombie – The zombie comedy, which was a midseason surprise last spring, returns for a full season.  I have a lot of faith in EP Rob Thomas, so I’m looking for good things. Continue reading →

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Post Mortem – Stalker

Stalker_logoThe latest show from Kevin Williamson, creator of Dawson’s Creek and the Scream franchise, focused on a LAPD team that worked stalking cases.  Starring Maggie Q and Derbel McDillet, er, Dylan McDermott, the show was eviscerated by critics for its alleged misogyny, the show actually debuted to big numbers, but quickly fell off as viewers realized that it wasn’t a particularly good show.  Despite ending on a cliffhanger, it certainly won’t be missed.

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Things I Love

In honor of Valentine’s Day, here are some things I love.

Community has been off the air for a few months now, and I still miss it every Thursday night when it isn’t on.  I understand that people have a problem following a sitcom that doesn’t follow the normal tropes of the genre, but that doesn’t make it any easier to take when NBC continues to air the likes of Whitney, the silly Chelsea Handler show, and Grimm.  The cast is phenomenal, especially Donald Glover, Danny Pudi, and Alison Brie.  Speaking of whom…

 

Aside from her role on Community, Alison Brie also appears on Mad Men and made a big screen appearance last year in Scream 4.  Continue reading →

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2011 Movie Review – Part 2

The 131 movies I saw last year was good (bad?) enough for 4th all time, behind only 2000, 2008, and 2001.

Now, continuing Tuesday’s look at the first batch of 50 movies that I saw last year, here are movies 51-100.

 

The Thirst (2006)
A dying girl becomes a vampire to stay alive.

 

The Good Life (2007)
A kid who doesn’t fit in meets a girl who encourages him to look beyond the town’s borders.

 

Thor (2011)
The Norse thunder god falls from grace and recovers quickly to save Asgard.

 

The American (2010)
George Clooney stars as a former hitman trying to go straight.

 

Due Date (2010)
Robert Downey Jr goes through his own Planes, Trains, and Automobiles moments while trying to get home for the birth of his child.

 

Valentine’s Day (2010)
A group of vignettes celebrating the day that celebrates love.

 

MacGruber (2010)
The latest one-note SNL sketch to get strectched out to feature length. 

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