The Review: The Mandalorian Season 3

The Mandalorian Season 3 (6/10)

This previous season of The Mandalorian while it was good it was not close to as entertaining as previous seasons. This felt like TV shows back when I was younger that came out in the '70s '80s and early '90s where there would be episodes where the main character was barely in it and it focused mainly on side characters or new characters. Next thing you know you realize that it was setting up for a spin-off. That's what this season felt like. I remember on Married with Children there were a few episodes where the same thing happened and I just sat there like “What the hell does this have to do anything with the show?” It was cool and everything but I didn't like the way the main villain was taken out and that maybe half the season focused on the Mandalorian. I did not hate the season but I'm not excited for another one the same way I was after season one and season two.

Pedro Pascal as Din Djarin/The Mandalorian

Katee Sackhoff as Bo-Katan Kryze

Emily Swallow as The Armorer

Carl Weathers as Greef Karga

Katy M. O'Brian as Elia Kane

Mercedes Varnado as Koska Reeves

Giancarlo Esposito as Moff Gideon

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The Review: Creed II

Creed II 6/10

I have actually been waiting a while to see this movie because when it was first released and I saw the storyline I thought it was too soon to be doing it. This takes place a couple of years after the first film and Adonis has been fighting to get back his belt. He ends up winning but then he is challenged by Ivan Drago's son. For those who don't know somehow Drago is the one who killed Adonis's father Apollo Creed in Rocky IV (which is the best Rocky movie ever). He eventually ends up fighting him and wins but just because Ivan's son is a dirty ass fighter and keeps listening to his evil father. Adonis also discovers that his girlfriend is pregnant and he's afraid that his daughter will be born with hearing issues just as she has.

The Review: Everything Everywhere All At Once

Everything Everywhere All At Once 10/10

How do I even begin to describe the movie Everything Everywhere All At Once? The basic premise is that it's about this lady who's a Chinese American immigrant who works at a laundromat with her husband they ended up coming to America and she had a daughter named Joy. She ends up going to the IRS because they're being audited and suddenly her husband begins acting like another person and tries to quickly explain to her that he is from a multiverse and that there is someone on the hunt and killing them and versions of this lady who works at the laundromat. The next thing you know there is some of the best fight choreograph choreography I've ever seen and an actual incredible story about family.

Sitting In The Aisle: Ant-Man And The Wasp Quantumania

Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania 8/10

So here is my late ass review for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. I had not seen a Marvel film in theaters since 2020 so I was super excited when L. and I went to go see this. I like the first Ant-Man okay but wasn't a huge fan of the villain but seem to like Ant-Man more as he popped up in other films. We were mostly excited to see the villain Kang the Conqueror in this because when he popped up and Loki it was incredible. This movie is about parents in their relationships with their children pretty much. I know that sounds weird but it makes sense.

The Review: The Woman King

The Woman King 8/10

As I sit here with my feet soaking in warm water with bubbles in between my toes I realize that after watching a film like The Woman King I would not have survived that environment in real life nor the training done to do this movie. The Woman King turned out to be a far better film than I expected it to be. Not that I thought it was going to be bad or anything but I pretty much thought it was just going to be an action film with a lot of tough ass looking women and that's about it. I was very wrong. This is about a general and she leads and trains a group of women warriors from all different parts of Africa. Colonizers start arriving and she begins to realize that they are just trading their own people for more weapons and losing more and more of themselves as time goes on. The king agrees with her but he also has his evil ass wife in his ear who tries to go behind his back and make decisions because she wants to be declared the next woman king.

The Review: A Soldier's Story

A Soldier's Story 8/10

This is a damn good movie. L. got me to watch A Soldier's Story which came out in 1984 and I only knew one line from this damn movie and it was from watching that show Martin. This is this takes place during World War II and one of the most evil acting man who is a master sergeant is found shot dead on the side of a road. Most people just say the local Klan did it but a captain is sent to investigate this. The thing is is that this captain is Black and there is not many other Black captains if any so a lot of the soldiers are super proud and shocked when they see him and anyone that's white is confused and baffled as to why they need to salute or listen to this man because he's Black.

The Review: Black Panther Wakanda Forever

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 9/10

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was great. I know I keep on saying how I rated the first Black Panther film way too high, but honestly I was caught up in so much of the personal hype regarding that film that I forget that the last battle scene was so not good. I also did not enjoy that they killed the villain but Marvel has gotten better at not letting every villain die at the end of their films. This one picks up six years after the blip and T'challa passes away. They don't show how which was very classy of them and I really did appreciate. So now the queen is trying to run Wakanda with people slowly trying to invade it to get some of their Vibranium. Meanwhile Shuri is upset that she was not able to save her brother so she is just burying herself in work.

The Review: The Menu

The Menu 9/10

I finally decided to check out this movie The Menu because a few people I know had seen it and talked about how good it was. They did not spoil it for me which I very much appreciated so I'm going to do the same thing. I went into this movie not knowing anything about it except one of the main actors and that's about it. The basic premise is that about a dozen people pay a lot of money to have dinner on this island where there is a world-famous chef. Once they get there they're served multiple course meals that look extremely pretty and fancy but out of all of them there was only one that I thought I would try. This always happens whenever I see anything very fancy being made. It doesn't look appetizing to me and I know I do not have the pallet or food language to describe what I like about anything that I eat. So at first you're just watching these different people and these different couples talking about themselves mostly and about their lives and then they're interrupted by the chef who explains a small story about each dish and then it continues to get weirder and weirder after every single course until all hell breaks loose. This was a really good movie. I started watching it while I was ironing and then slowly started ironing less and less until I was just very much into this. You can check this out on HBO Max. It's a good quick watch that is in a 3-hour movie doesn't need a sequel and has a satisfying ending.

Ralph Fiennes as Chef Slowik

Anya Taylor-Joy as Margot

Nicholas Hoult as Tyler

Hong Chau as Elsa

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The Review: House Of The Dragon/Pale Blue Eye/Wednesday/The Imperfects

House Of The Dragon 10/10

This is me catching up on the whole lot of different things at once. The first one is going to be House of the Dragon. I watched this show as it debuted and watched every single episode as they came out and absolutely loved it. This takes place a couple of hundred years before the Game of Thrones so you don't really need to have watch that show to enjoy this one. It does help with random little Easter eggs like when you hear a certain name or something and you recall it from Game of Thrones. The basic story of this without getting way too deep into it is that there's a princess and her father and mother who are the king and queen are having trouble giving birth to an heir that is a boy and when they finally do the child ends up dying along with the mother. The princess is supposed to be made the leader eventually but nobody wants to listen to women so she ends up hooking up with her uncle eventually which is really weird and creepy but after listening to so many episodes of that Noble Blood podcast was totes norms back in the day. This show had a really cool story, really good casting even though it was kind of weird to get used to this young girl suddenly being a grown woman. I enjoyed every single episode of this and none were wasted and could have easily watched twice as many if they had made them. Is this show bloody and violent? Yes, very much so. But I would not expect anything less from HBO or the creator of the series of books. This also filled the fantasy whole that was left by certain shows either not coming back or not being made. Every year I need at least one show with some kind of magic or science fiction or something and can't sit around watching nothing but detective stuff all the time.

The Review: Glass Onion

Glass Onion 9/10

I really liked this damn movie. I was very surprised to see that it was already available to watch on Netflix because I thought I was going to have to wait a month or two to finally check out Glass Onion. I really liked Knives Out and didn't have super high hopes that this would be as close to as good as that movie was but I was very surprised. What I'm not surprised by is the fact that I am a terrible detective and that if I was ever in a situation where I had to solve a mystery I would fail. This rich jerk named Miles invites a bunch of his different friends and people he's known for years to his island for a murder mystery game but not before making them solve this crazy ass puzzle just to get the invitation. One of the friends named Andi ends up just smashing it open and heading to the island.

The Review: Bullet Train

Bullet Train 1/10

You ever see a preview for a movie or look at the cast listing and think holy crap this movie might be bad but it'll be kind of cool in a bad way? That was not this movie. This movie was straight up trash. There have been a lot of films that have had a large cast and a crazy insane storyline and fights but have done it so much better. Everyone has been comparing this to Smokin' Aces which is an insult since that movie is actually really cool. I got absolutely zero joy out of watching this and was barely able to make it through. I'm not going to waste my time listing the cast of this film because it is actually embarrassing that so many really good actors and actresses wasted their own time being in this. I'm also not going to waste my time saying what this is about. This was just trash and barely deserves a 1 out of 10 but it gets that score because I finished it.

The Review: It Happened On 5th Avenue

It Happened On 5th Avenue 8/10

I don't have too much to say about this movie. I don't mean that in a bad way because this was probably the most Christmassy Christmas movie I have ever seen in my life. This is about a hobo who likes to stay in rich people's homes over the holidays while they're gone. He ends up shacking up with this soldier who has no place to stay and while they're there this girl sneaks in it turns out to be the owner's daughter but they don't know that. So while they're staying there they end up inviting a lot of other people who have no place to stay and pretty much turning the place into a free hotel. The owner of the place ends up coming and he wants them all out but the daughter convinces him to play along and pretend to be somebody else because she's in love with the soldier. That's about it. This movie was very happy, very cheerful, and made me feel all of the holidays and I would seriously suggest adding this to your Christmas movie watching list. I had never even heard of this movie. I think my only complaint would be that the hobo in question begins to take his role a little bit too seriously and bossing people around.

Don DeFore as Jim Bullock

Gale Storm as Trudy O'Connor

Victor Moore as Aloyisius T. McKeever

Charles Ruggles as Michael J. "Mike" O'Connor

Ann Harding as Mary O'Connor

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The Review: White Christmas

White Christmas 8/10

One of the Christmas movies we watched was called White Christmas. This takes place during World War II and this Broadway performer is there and the major general shows up to let them know that he's leaving. Moments after he takes off they start getting bombed and shot at. The Broadway performer who is named Bob ends up getting saved by Phil but Phil ends up getting his arm hurt. While he is recovering to make up for it he decides to let Phil join him and they become a Broadway act together. They end up becoming very successful and they hear about these two other singers the Haynes Sisters and this is pretty much an elaborate plan because Phil thinks that Bob will be much happier in a relationship and it would improve his life.

The Review: The Invitation

The Invitation 7/10

So L. and I watch this movie called The Invitation. All I knew about this movie from the trailer was at this girl gets invited to go overseas and then weird things start happening in the house that was pretty much the extent of my knowledge on this film. Now it's about this girl named Evie who works freelancing at a catering place and getting felt up by pervy men and somebody leaves a gift bag where you can do DNA test. She takes it and is contacted by a cousin that's in England somewhere. Her best friend tells her that she shouldn't go and she's going to end up killed or something but she doesn't have any other family so she decides that she's going to make the trip. Now at the beginning of the film we saw some woman end up hanging herself with a piano wire trying to get away from everybody in the house and now Evie starts seeing weird visions and having dreams about this woman. There's also some maids that are working for this gathering of all these different people and they all start getting picked off one by one by some creepy ass monster this giant manner is owned by this guy named Walter who takes a liking the Evie.

The Review: Paper Girls

Paper Girls 8/10

There was this show called Paper Girls that Miss Jackie told me about. When I read the premise I did not think that I would be even kind of interested in this but after the first episode I knew I was going to plow through this show. It came out in July of last year on Amazon but this show got absolutely no advertisement. I have seen a lot of reviews compare it to Stranger Things even though this show came out and comic book form before stranger things did but nobody likes to do any kind of research. Plus the guys who created Stranger Things have already been accused of stealing the entire shows idea. I am rambling so let me get to the main part of this review.