Last night I went to the theater for the first time since the Winter omicron surge began. I had been waiting to see the new Spider-Man picture until the crowds had died down some. The experience strengthened my resolve to earn my way into a highly paid field like software or web development just as quickly as I can, because that is the only way I will ever be able to afford the kind of home theater that will save me from the experience of going to a cinema in most cases.
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Brian’s Exploratory Christmas Endeavor ’21: A Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
Last year I watched the original A Miracle on 34th Street, and I liked it a lot. There was another in the 50s, and one more in the 70s before this version which came out when I was a boy. Of the two that I have seen so far, this one is easily the weaker. But it isn’t awful.
continue readingBrian’s Exploratory Christmas Endeavor ’21: The Family Stone
My mother has been asking me to watch this film for years. Of course, the year I finally did, it was because my other mother decided to put it on in the middle of a very busy living room, and with me sitting at perhaps a 20 degree angle from the television. I am fully committed to re-watching the movie, but for now, take this review with a grain of salt: I was literally incapable of giving this movie my full attention.
continue readingBrian’s Exploratory Christmas Endeavor ’21: A Castle For Christmas
The fact that I forgot to review this movie (forgot I watched it, in fact) may be an indicator as to how I felt about it. But with that jab out of the way, I have to say: I didn’t hate it.
continue readingBrian’s Exploratory Christmas Endeavor ’21: A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas 3D
I’ve mentioned this film a number of times in the blog but I only realized a couple entries ago that I’ve never actually written about it.
continue readingBrian’s Exploratory Christmas Endeavor ’21: Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas
Whether he was always this way, or whether it was a psychic defense mechanism Cameron evolved in order to exist as the Born Again Christian he became as a young man, Kirk Cameron’s singular defining trait is that he must always be the one who is right. In any situation or argument, he knows better than you do, and in fact, that is probably why he started talking to you in the first place. And while you’re speaking back to him, he’s smiling, nodding, arming his next arguments, and waiting for you to stop so that he can illuminate you on how he is actually the one who is right.
And he is so enthusiastically that way that he made a 78 minute movie about it.
CONTINUE READINGBrian’s Exploratory Christmas Endeavor ’21: Love Hard
This is another one of those films that I have to hate more for the fact that it could easily have been better.
Continue ReadingBrian’s Exploratory Christmas Endeavor ’21: London Mitchell’s Christmas
This movie is nearly as low-budget as A Christmas Hero but is less idiosyncratic in its focus, which is the mildest compliment I believe I’ve ever given anything in my entire life.
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Hot take: This is the worst episode of King of the Hill. It has the worst writing, the fewest jokes, the silliest premise, the most wasted guest star, and what makes it all just a little worse: it’s (loosely) a Christmas episode.
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