THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE

STAR TREK: VOYAGER

Joss Whedon

I was watching Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. And rewatching Firefly. Both of these are Joss Whedon products, but there can only be one Firefly, Dear Reader! In the Special Features of Firefly Whedon talks about how difficult the series was for marriages. Nobody is laughing now. 

"'Stick 'em up!"

AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.

Post-Hemorraghic Stroke Update

I don't read like I used to. If it were up to me I'd be blogging about the anniversary edition of A Year With Swollen Appendices  or Runaway College, but I don't (in the village there was a guy who would greet me with "The hippies have taken over Rochdale!"). 

But that's another story, Dear Reader!

GODLESS

I've seen it twice before, actually. 

NORM MACDONALD HAS A SHOW

Actually, I've seen it before. 

RIPLEY

The version with Matt Damon, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jude Law sucks! The version with John Malkovich rules!

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

MANIAC

STRANGER THINGS

Please only watch the first season. 

JUSTIFIED: CITY PRIMEVAL

THE LEGO MOVIE

The real Get Smart of movies! Except for the last five minutes with Will Ferrell. Those are kind of pathetic. 

LUTHER: THE FALLEN SUN

TROY

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS: THE MOVIE

I'm seeing this again too, actually. 

TROY

STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE

I'm watching it again, actually. 

ELVIS

MEN OF A CERTAIN AGE

HEREDITARY

I actually saw this in a movie theatre... 

BROOKLYN 99

F IS FOR FAMILY

BIG VAPE

ALIEN: PROMETHEUS

THE MAN FROM UNCLE

"I can sing, I can dance, I can fly..."

THE BEAR

RUSSIAN DOLL, SEASON 2

RIP, M. Emmet Walsh, 1935-2024

Long live M. Emmet Walsh. 

DARK

DOPESICK

Confession...

I don't know why, but Blogspot is posting my "Vintage Whisky" blurbs one year later. Do keep tuned, Dear Reader!

The thanks are sincere, though!

Vintage Whisky 2023

• One thing I learned: my hemorrhagic stroke part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, Angus Young, watching Codco, High Windows, Get Smart, Part 3. 
• Books: Milan Kundera, 
• Cannington: The miner,
• Winnipeg: Ah, the mullet!, Concessionaire!, Blade Runner!, The Blue Bombers, Astral Photo, The Assineboine River, National Cameras, The Red River Bookstore,
• Toronto: The Ticket, The Albert Britnell Bookshop, Waffles, Cycling, an OBC Doorman Part 1, Part 2, The Revivalist, The Eglinton Theatre, 
• NYC: Day 1, Day 2, Central Park, Times Square, CATS!, The Staten Island Ferry, Matches, Back In Winnipeg. 
• Mennonites: The Menno Pause, Red Rock Bible Camp, Margruite Krahn, Red Rock, Part 2, 1967 AutoWorld Catalog, Urbana '87. 
• SCTV:  One, Two. 
• California: Daniel Amos, Anaheim, 
• Metal Songs:  Judas Priest, Monuments, Mastodon, Project 86, Devin Townsend, etc. 

(Devin Townsend. I'm a fan -- who knew?)

GET SMART

I'm watching it yet again. 

Illo by Luce Reimer. 

BABYLON BERLIN

Liv Lisa Fries is the very definition of, "Teutonic."

STAR TREK: SPACE SEED

I tell you Dear Reader, it's Comfort Food. 

THE EXORCIST BOX SET

The first movie is good, of course. The second one is garbage. But after that the others are pretty good, too. 

"How-WOOO!"

A WP flashback. 

A SCANNER DARKLY

AI

Maybe AI ISN'T such a good idea. 

WILD CARD

A WP flashback. 

AMERICAN NIGHTMARE

 

ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

BLADE RUNNER 2049

A WP flashback: 

"You're a good Joe."

MURDERVILLE

"Muh hair!"

CARNIVALE

Honestly, who doesn't want to see this more than once? 

STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE

O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU ?

THE STRANGER

SHREK 2

FOOL ME ONCE

Vintage Whisky 2023

"I once was blind

but now I see..."

Vintage Whisky 2023: 

• One thing Angus Young taught me, my former roommate, Codco, High Windows. 
• RIP Billy Joe Shaver, Charlie Watts, Aretha Franklin, William Friedkin, Suzanne Somers, Milan Kundera, Astrud Gilberto, Gordon Lightfoot, Cormac McCarthy, Robbie Robertson. 
• Mennonites: Working with, Margruite Krahn, URBANA '87
• Movies: Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek II, Star Trek III, Star Trek IV, Star Trek V, Star Trek VI, Star Trek: First Contact,(gee whiz, there should really be a "Star Trek" category!), Star Trek: Generations, Richard III, 300: Rise of an Empire, Zero Dark Thirty, Kiki's Delivery Service, The Emperor's New Groove, Haywire (yet again), Cosmopolis (Don DeLillo and a Canuckle-head -- whodathunk it?), Spirited Away, Leon: The Professional, Monty Python's: The Life of Brian, The Warriors, The Limey, A Scanner Darkly. 
• Music: Ah, cassettes!
• Metal Songs: start here (you can do worse). 
• Miscellaneous: Blade Runner, 1982, Casa Bonita, 2023 was the year I saw Beef; I recommend it, I also recommend Blackberry, an OBC Doorman part 1, part 2. 

INDIANA JONES & THE DIAL OF DESTINY

GODFATHER OF HARLEM

FURY

BAND OF BROTHERS

THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT

BETTER CALL SAUL

In Better Call Saul Rhea Seehorn's Kim Wexler provides much of the show's energy. The truth is other characters are more alive when they are in Saul Goodman's immediate orbit. 

I don't mind admitting: I was affected for days after I finished watching the final episode of this show.  

Better Call Saul can be streamed on Netflix. Watch it -- if you dare. 

FOOL ME ONCE

BREAKING BAD

"I AM the the one who knocks!"

STRANGER THINGS

SICARIO

The film was directed by a French-Canadian, no less. 

THE MITCHELLS VS. THE MACHINES

Hey, that's me!

THE UNTOUCHABLES

Yeah, it's ultra-violent. And it stars Kevin Costner. But I have happy memories.