Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Started: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (This is a reread.  It was read to me multiple times in childhood.)


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Doctor Strange: Movie Review


This is my first time watching this movie, so according to my new rules, I'm doing this as a video only review.





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Tuesday, December 30, 2025

One Battle After Another: Movie Review

This is my first time watching this movie, so according to my new rules, I'm doing this as a video only review.



Links to stuff mentioned:
'One Battle After Another' is a Perfect Movie by Vince Mancini: https://vincemancini.substack.com/p/one-battle-after-another-review-perfect
Awards Season Rivals Sinners and One Battle Another Are Both Very Good, Very Fun, and Very Overrated: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/awards-season-rivals-sinners-and

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Monday, December 29, 2025

West Side Story (2021): Movie Review

This is my first time watching this movie, so according to my new rules, I'm doing this as a video only review.




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Sunday, December 28, 2025

Started: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

Watching Progress (Dates indicate when episodes are completed)
December 28, 2025--2 The Star-Spangled Man
December 29--3 Power Broker
December 31--4 The Whole World Is Watching
January 1, 2026--5 Truth
January 3--6 One World, One People
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West Side Story (1961): Movie Review

(Movie Reviews--My Favorite Movies)

As I mentioned in the video, this is a rewatch.  But this is the first time I'm reviewing it on this blog,  so according to my new rules, I'm doing this as a video only review.







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Saturday, December 27, 2025

Started: Suicide Squad Vol. 8: The Final Mission by John Ostrander and Kim Yale
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Thursday, December 25, 2025

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Avatar 2: The Way of Water: Movie Review


This is my first time watching this movie, so according to my new rules, I'm doing this as a video only review.



This is, once again, a video in which I didn't fully get out all my thoughts because I got cut off at the end, but let me briefly jot a few more things down here:
* The visual designs of the Navi unfortunately sometimes make it difficult to distinguish which one is which, particularly in the action sequences.  And the I particularly had a difficult time distinguishing between the two sons.  When they were sitting and talking, it was okay.  But when they were running around, I couldn't distinguish between them.
* Speaking of the two sons, they sounded a bit too much like California surfers for my taste.  (e.g. "Bro, come on, Bro.").  It took me out of the movie a bit.

***SPOILER*** There's a death at the end of the movie which should be an emotional moment, but the movie doesn't quite know how to process it.  It places the death right during the big climax of the movie, and the movie wants to keep the momentum of the climax going, but also wants to have the death feel emotional and meaningful.  But in my opinion the momentum of the climax overshadowed the emotion of the death, and as a result the death scene doesn't hit the emotional notes that it should.  And because of this, the death doesn't pay off emotionally, and feels empty.
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Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Pentatonix - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen--Sharing Music I Like

Since it's Christmas time, it's time to share some Christmas music, right?
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen has always been one of my favorite Christmas songs.  A few years ago, when I was still living in Vietnam, I was searching for an online version of that song to share with my kids, and discovered this version.  Which I like.
I've never heard of this group before, but their Wikipedia page is HERE.

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