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Has been traded to LA.

As a Raven’s fan, wooohooooo.

Man LA is going to be scary next year!

I just watched the first episode of Pluribus and holy shit I put off watching this for too long.

The episode was great. At first it started off kind of awkward, as it is a Giligan show I expected it t be, but holy moly did it ramp up fast.

I am stoked for episode 2 this Thursday.

OK, so I guess this is my week of checking out Old guy, revenge gun Movies that are absolutely bananas and on the surface should be so idiotic that They should be terrible but… no.

Nobody Is a heap of fun from start to finish, and at the same time so absolutely over the top. Bob Odenkirk is one of the greatest.

I mean, who doesn’t want to see Christopher Lloyd mow down Russia mobsters with a double barrel shotgun?

Highly recommend this one

This movie was just absurd .. but at the same so much fun. Who doesn’t want to see a Finnish Super Soldier slaughter nazis, and then slaughter more Nazis and top that off with even more slaughtering of Nazis.

If you want to see a guy board a plane in flight using a pick axe… and then.. slaughter more nazis, than this movie for you!

I have a ridiculously long list of games that I want to play so I finally got a copy of this game.

I am about 3 hours into and and Wow, it is really great. The save system is a bit wonky so about an hour of that three hours was being annoyed getting past the first boss. You are only allowed to save at save points and the first save point you get to is after the first boss. So I died on him/it twice.

Most of what you do leading up to the first boss is just learning the mechanics of the game. So having to redo that three times was .. annoying.. but that makes you learn fight mechanics, so I appreciated that after I got him “down”.

Visually the game is great. The combat system is really intuitive and the game uses camera angles that are a bit jarring at first. Sometimes the camera angles feel like old school 90s arcade games. The aesthetic of the game is awesome.

The game seems to be very deliberately rolling out the story, so the experience so far has been very hack and slash. I am curious how that will play out. I am hoping that the story gets more involved the more I play the game.

Like I said I am only three hours into it and so far it has been fun!

The tag line for this movie is, family is who you make it. The story rolls out in really predictable ways and you will be able to see major story events coming.

With that said, Justin Timberlake does a fantastic job as a lowlife ex-con, Palmer, who wants to do better and Rider Allan is great as a little kid just trying to get by in a world of shit. Who had no one on his side until he met Palmer. Watching the Timberlake and Allan characters bond is really great. These two make the movie worth it.

Juno Temple stars as the kid’s mother who has no business raising a kid.

I haven't seen much Timberlake stuff, but i will be checking out more now.

In honor of one of the greats. Here is my list of my favorite Robert Duvall’s roles:

~~- Tender Mercies: This is such a low key movie where Duvall illustrates dealing with alcoholism and how to build relationships as a sober person.~~

Unfortunately there can only be ten so one has to go.

• Second Hand Lions. Like Jones and Duvall in Lonesome Dove, Duvall and Caine in Second Hand Lions is such an excellent pairing of two of the greats. Duvall was great as the tough guy partner to the duo with Caine. I loved this movie and if there was ever a movie that needed a prequel TV show this is it.

• To Kill a Mockingbird. This is Duvall’s very first movie role and man was it a good one. He shared the screen with one of the Titans of Hollywood, Gregory Peck, who was delivering his greatest roles. Using next to no dialogue Duvall not only shared the screen with Peck, he owned the scene.

• A Civil Action: If you want to see a masterful display of an actor being the bad guy but in no way appearing to be the bad guy, watch this movie. Duvall crushes Travolta’s character’s hopes and dreams at every turn.

• Open Range: Everything about Duvall’s character in this movie is awesome starting with his name Boss Spearman. Boss is his nickname, Blue Bonnet is his given name, but don’t become between blue bonnet and those that he care about.

• The Apostle. Often passion project of actors are flaming disasters, this is not.

• Network: This movie is a comedy and is an invisceration of TV networks.

• Lonesome Dove. This was a TV mini-series and it starred Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones, and many others. Jones and Duvall on screen chemistry is on par with Redford and Newman, Lemon and Matthau, Hepburn and Tracy.

• Apocalypse Now. Who doesn’t love the smell of naplam in the morning? Duvall was on screen for about 3 minutes (probably a lot more, but it is short) and delivered one of most iconic roles of all time.

• The Great Santini: Another absolute masterful performance as a macho Marine Pilot who is to scared to love his children and has no idea how. Duvall just blows you away with how subtly he illustrates that. As the macho asshole marine does all the wrong things to those that matter to him the most.

• The Godfather. Duvall is the legal council to the Godfather and his criminal empire and man Duvall is unreal

This movie was great! Riz Ahmed stars as a fixer who uses a relay service to help his clients. A Relay service is typically for people with speech or hearing difficulties to use phones. It was directed by David Mackenzie, who also directed Hell or High Water.

This movie is a tight thriller and Riz Ahmed just killed it! The whole cast does.

Tim Blake Nelson is just excellent. The guys does it all so well. I will be checking this out!

So they are trying again with Harry Hole. The first major attempt to bring this character to western audiences was in The Snowman.

The Snowman was made by the same guy who directed Tinker Tailor Solder Spy.

While I found Tinker Tailor.. a hard watch the first time around, there was enough goodness to make me rewatch it. On rewatch it has became one of my favorite movies.

The Snowman is another animal all together. The movie is a mess from the start and just gets worse.

Harry Hole is pretty popular in Norway, I wonder how this will be.

How are you guys doing?

Seven Feet of Snow is pretty wild.

I have seen the first episode. Parts are a bit clunky and parts are good. Star Trek shows have a long history of having shaky pilots so I am going give this show some rope.

The music is not so good and I am not what to make of the ship, also the uniforms kind of suck.

I haven’t watched any Star Trek shows in is entirety since STNG, so I have no idea what “The Burn” is, I suspect that will either not matter or will get explained later.

So far the character set ups have been good. There is some good seeds planted there.

I do have to tip my Holly Hunter. She looks great.