Curtain Call: Gem Of The Ocean

Gem Of The Ocean 8/10

Last night me, my lady L, and Cam went to see Gem Of The Ocean at the Long Beach Playhouse. None of us had been there before and we've been trying to see all the August Wilson shows. I have seen four now and each of them have seen others but we hadn't seen this one. In writing about this I am also going to talk about the theater itself because this was our first visit and I have to. We got to the theater which wasn't too hard to find and they had plenty of parking for free which was awesome. No going through tunnels or having to find a meter a mile away. Just straight up parking right there. The bathrooms are in the lobby and if you are waiting in line you will block one of the theater entrances and the door stays open. The ladies experienced this but I did not cause I went before we got there. Inside the theater it is small but not as small as The Fountain Theater where L and I saw Freight and she got lost in Lil Murda's eyes. I'll include a picture of the setup.

The Review: Dead of Winter

Dead Of Winter 7/10

I don't even recall why or how me and my lady started watching this movie on HBO. It started off slow but when it got going it got going hard. Then we forgot about it with half an hour left and finished it weeks later. That happens sometimes when between the two of us we watch a lot of TV and such. This movie is about this lady named Barb (find that out way later) that is heading out to this old fishing hole that she and her late husband used to go to and had their first date. She is driving and the weather is ass and she spots a place to ask for some help. She sees a guy and notices that there is blood on the ground after asking for directions. When she leaves and finds the fishing hole she sees this young girl with her hands tied trying to get away from the dude. He snatches her and leaves.

The Review: Predator Badlands

Predator Badlands 6/10

I finally was able to check out this movie. I have enjoyed this strange renaissance that Predator as a character has had. From movies to an animated series people have finally realized that you can do so much with this clicky bastard because you aren't tied down to one timeline or even planet. So this is about Dek. He a runt and his father wants him dead. Dek's brother Kwei wants to protect him but father is like “Kill his weak ass.” Kwei throws Dek onto a ship and sends it off as he is killed by his father. These creatures do not play. Dek heads to get this creature and bring it back to prove he belongs. I shit you not, before he even lands on the planet its trying to kill him. Flying things attack him first. He lands on the ground and trees attack him. The grass cuts him. Flowers shoot darts. Fuck this place.

The Review: Frankenstein/The Vince Staples Show/Fallout Season 2

I watched a few movies and TV shows over the last few weeks and have been not writing reviews like I should so I am gonna cram them all into this one post. Okay? Good. Now lets get started.

Frankenstein 9/10

This movie was great and I wish I had seen it in theaters but since it was on Netflix they had it in theaters for a few weeks. My lady watched this and knew I would like it but I dragged my ass to watch. I did and it made me remember how much I like Guillermo del Toro and the way he does everything. From music, scenery, acting, writing, directing. The man is amazing. I admittedly do not give a damn about Frankenstein but this movie made me like the portrayal. From the way the story was told from Victor's point of view and acting like the victim to the monsters side of things. This was a very good movie and worth watching. Would have made my best of 2025 list for sure.

The Review: Black Phone 2

Black Phone 2 (9/10)

This was a really good movie. After watching the first movie years ago and then more recently with my lady we found out that they were making a sequel which was confusing considering how the first movie ended. How in the hell could they begin to make another one? Turns out they could make a very good one. This takes place four years after the last movie in the early 80s. Finney is an angry ass kicker now. His dead friend Robin's brother Ernesto likes Finney's sister and invites her to a show. Finney's sister Gwen is having dreams about old murders happening in the woods from the 1950s. Gwen signs up as a camp counselor in training after discovering that her mother worked there when she was younger. Finney wants no part of this but decides to go. Its a super Christian camp. They get through this crazy ass storm and arrive. There are no kids there because of the snow storm.

The Review: Nobody 2

Nobody 2 (4/10)

Everything that made me enjoy the first Nobody movie is why I didn't like this sequel. It didn't need to happen. It felt almost beat for beat like the first film. I was jokingly saying to myself that “I bet there is some violent Home Alone trap at the end.” There was. This movie wasn't horrible or anything but I don't think it should have been made without some new ideas or a better story because the first movie was very entertaining. I just know that they will make another one of these with the same story except more than his wife will get involved. Meh.

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The Review: His & Hers

His & Hers 9/10

All the spoilers. My lady and I watched this crazy ass six part series on Netflix recently. This lady named Anna returns to Atlanta to get her job back as a news anchor. The problem is that she has been missing for a year and someone else has the job now (naturally). Soon as she gets back there has been a murder in town of a well known woman named Rachel. Anna's estranged husband Jack is a detective in this place, Dahlonega, and is investigating with his new partner from Boston named Priya. So far we know that Anna knew Rachel and Jack was boning down with her. Rachel was married to a very well known business man. Oh, and when I said that Jack was boning down with Rachel I meant very recently as in the same night she was murdered. Rachel was stabbed 40 fucking times so whoever did it was not playing around.

The Review: Bugonia

Bugonia 8/10

All of the spoilers! Me and my lady watched this movie the other day. I didn't really know anything except a lady gets kidnapped and on the bus ads she looked greasy. This weird ass movie was super good. This starts off with this CEO named Michelle Fuller who runs a pharmaceutical place starting her day exercising, fight training, and jogging before heading to work and speaking corporate jargon. She did not come across as very likable. Just...there. We then head on over to Teddy and his cousin Don. They are beekeepers and training for something as well. Something sinister. Teddy won't stop talking about conspiracies and such and sounds way too much like people you can easily find online. He says an alien race known as Andromedans are killing the bees and forcing humanity into servitude.

The Review: King of The Zombies

King Of The Zombies 6/10

We stumbled upon this strange movie while just trying to find things to watch. This is just over an hour and a easy and odd watch. This pilot named Mac is up in the air with Bill Summers and Jefferson Jackson when he realizes that the plane is low on fuel and they can't get in contact with anyone. They get a faint signal and decide to land there. And by land there I mean completely crash the hell out of the plane. By the way, when Jefferson popped up on screen me and L both gasped at the same time “A Black!” Its a thing I do with old movies. Its rare to find one where a Black person isn't a servant in the background and has speaking roles. This movie had plenty of Black people which caught my ass off guard. They end up at this weird ass dudes place named Dr. Miklos Sangre and his wife. Jefferson knows some weird things are up and mentions zombies which was still a new term in 1941. He sees the Dr.'s wife doing some spooky shit one night and vanishes into a wall. Fast forward a whole lot of nothing really but some funny parts and the pilot gets his ass turned into a zombie and someone has ruined the plane so it really can't take off. During a ritual Mac gets the spell broken as the Dr. falls his goofy ass into some flames freeing all the other zombie folk. Maybe that is how zombie rules were back then. There was a cute maid named Samantha in this who looked like she time traveled.

Dick Purcell as James "Mac" McCarthy

Mantan Moreland as Jefferson "Jeff" Jackson

Henry Victor as Dr. Miklos Sangre

John Archer as Bill Summers

Patricia Stacey as Alyce Sangre

Marguerite Whitten as Samantha

Leigh Whipper as Momba

Madame Sul-Te-Wan as Tahama

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The Review: The Old Guard 2

The Old Guard 2 (1/10)

I saw the first movie. It was fine. This one? This did not need to be made. I am not gonna recap this because this could have been the first maybe 20 minutes of the film but they had footage from the locations they filmed in and damn it they were gonna sue them. The team minus the traitor are tracking an arms dealer. The lady mentioned in the first movie is pulled from the sea and wants to destroy all humans. The oldest immortal is no longer immortal. Andy is still not immortal until she is because traitor man. Woman that was focus of first film is relegated to background character until she is needed to forward paper thin story. Fight scenes for no reason. Music nothing to write home about. This was just terrible in every sense. And then they have the nerve to threaten me with another sequel?! Hell no! This needs to just fade away.

Charlize Theron as Andy/Andromache of Scythia

KiKi Layne as Nile Freeman

Marwan Kenzari as Joe/Yusuf Al-Kaysani

Luca Marinelli as Nicky/Nicolò di Genova

Matthias Schoenaerts as Booker/Sébastien Le Livre

Veronica Ngô as Quỳnh

Chiwetel Ejiofor as James Copley

Uma Thurman as Discord

Henry Golding as Tuah/Hang Tuah

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The Review: All Her Fault

All Her Fault 10/10

This show had me and my lady in a headlock! She mentioned hearing about it and that it was good so we decided to check it out and within the first few minutes we had our jaws on the floor. The premise sounds simple: family has son that was kidnapped and they try to find him. No. This show has so much more than that and I want everyone to watch it but since its on Peacock maybe two people I know will have access to it. That is what sucks about that channel. They have like two good things a year you wanna watch and Olympics.

The Review: First Christmas

First Christmas 6/10

This movie was okay even though I still experienced rage while watching. This lady named Halle that was given up for adoption as a baby is a successful author going through writers block. She gets an invite to see her family for the first time in New Orleans. Her actual father has passed away and she is sent a DNA kit to use and confirm her heritage for a letter from his estate. She is hesitant but decides to give it a go. She gets a phone call from her grandmother aka Memaw. She heads to New Orleans and meets a bunch of confrontational psychos who are her family.

The Review: 24k Christmas/The Christmas Campaign

24k Christmas DNF/10

This movie was ass and me and my lady stopped about halfway through and didn't even bother finishing it. This lady makes jewelry and gets set up on a blind date. She belittles the guy with her clumsy ass and leaves him. He comes to her jewelry shop to pick up the rings for his friends wedding but she lost them because clumsy. Who gets married on Christmas Eve anyway? That is so inconsiderate to guests! They go searching for the rings and can't find them. We gave up because the lady was horrible which is a thing that these Christmas movies do now. They make women pretty (questionable) but with a shitty attitude for whatever reason but the guy still chases them down and they end up together. The end.

Best And Worst Of 2025

2025 was a year of things either being incredible or terrible. There were also some disappointments. I made this list of ten of the best things from this year and five of the worst. There were way more bad ones but I didn't want to make this a top twenty worst, because, yeah. Lot of stinkers. Gonna start with the best. You agree with me? Don't matter. Its my blog. Click the title of each of these to see my long review and ratings.

The Review: It Welcome To Derry Finale

It Welcome To Derry Finale 10/10

Holy crap this was an amazing series! Eight episodes and not one of them dragged or was useless which is how any show that isn't some twenty-something episode long series should be. Not one could be skipped. Damn. This starts off with a thick fog rolling across Derry and everyone like “What's happening here?” Except this one woman that is smiling all creepy like Pennywise. The military and their dumb asses are watching from their base tracking what is going down but doing nothing because this is what they wanted!