Sparks

Directed by Todd Burrows, Christopher Folino. With Chase Williamson, Ashley Bell, Clancy Brown, Jake Busey. A masked vigilante who discovers the dark side to heroism. Going after the nation’s most notorious super criminal leaves Sparks’ life and reputation in ruins.

Hidden

Directed by Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer. With Alexander Skarsgård, Andrea Riseborough, Emily Alyn Lind, Steven Elliot. A family takes refuge in a bomb shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.

where the fart never ends

Hot Summer Nights

Directed by Elijah Bynum. With Timothée Chalamet, Maika Monroe, Alex Roe, Emory Cohen. Circa 1980s, a sheltered teenage boy comes of age during a wild summer he spends in Cape Cod getting rich from selling pot to gangsters, falling in love for the first time, partying and eventually realizing that he is in over his head.

Blur – Song 2 on FLOPPOTRON

Patreon: www.patreon.com/floppotron PayPalMe: paypal.me/floppotron Blur – Song 2 cover by The Floppotron, computer hardware orchestra. Which …

Bryan Singer still directing Red Sonja despite recent sexual assault allegations

Director Bryan Singer is still on track to direct Red Sonja for Millennium Films despite recent allegations of sexual assault brought up by a story in The Atlantic.

Not sure how we forgot that accusations don’t mean guilt.

In Darkness

Directed by Anthony Byrne. With Natalie Dormer, Emily Ratajkowski, Ed Skrein, Joely Richardson. A blind musician hears a murder committed in the apartment upstairs from hers that sends her down a dark path into London’s gritty criminal underworld.

Captain Marvel Character Posters

What Will Happen to The Simpsons as Disney Takes Over Fox

When “The Simpsons” ends its 30th and current season this spring, it will have racked up 663 original episodes — having a season ago passed “Gunsmoke” (635) as the longest-running scripted program …

Florida Secretary of State Mike Ertel resigns after Halloween blackface photos emerge

Secretary of State Mike Ertel was captured in a photo wearing blackface at a private party 14 years ago.

Man who stole own car wins settlement

Illinois police arrested Lawrence Crosby for theft but it turned out to be his own car.

core sample of a race road

Meme of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called racist shared in Williamson County Republican Party email

A image of U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a racist joke was sent out in an email blast by the Williamson County Republican Party.

It’s a racist joke that doesn’t make much sense if you’re not on the inside loop of what the extreme right wingers are chattering about.

Longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone indicted by special counsel in Russia investigation

Stone, who has been under scrutiny for months by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, was charged on seven counts.

Dumplin

Based on a book of the same name, this is a great feel good movie with a confusing cast of characters playing outside of their range (20+ play teens? ok.), but still managed to end with a great sense of purpose.

Sen Michael Bennet D-CO on Government Shutdown C-SPAN

Senator Bennet (D-CO) responds to Sen Ted Cruz: “These crocodile tears that the Senator from Texas is crying for first responders are too hard for me to take…

oral sex car sticker

your friend who always has a knife

hey man if you need to use my knife it’s right here. – Please subscribe so I can eat: bit.ly/21Xhy2m â??FOLLOW GUS OR WHATEVERâ?? – Twitter: twitt…

Motorbike Passenger Had Helmet The Wrong Way

This is the hilarious moment a motorcycle passenger needs teaching how to wear a helmet – after he was seen riding with it the wrong way round. A passing del…

VICTORIA The ITV Drama – Official Titles Music by Martin Phipps

From the ITV drama, ‘Victoria’, this is the official Titles Music written by Martin Phipps, featuring vocals by Mediaeval Baebes. For more information about …

VA Legislator Votes Against Equal Rights Amendment Since God Made Us All Equal

Del. Margaret B. Ransone’s justification for rejecting the ERA was willfully blind, horribly ignorant, and typically Republican.

Charlie Hunnam

When We First Met

Noah meets Avery at a Halloween party and falls in love but gets friend-zoned. 3 years later she’s engaged to someone else. Noah uses the photo booth time machine several times to return and fix things. Will it work or…?

It’s like groundhog day, but with a first date twist. I enjoyed it, as I enjoy most time loop movies, though the main character really didn’t use his loops the way most others do, he was pretty dumb about the whole thing and really only came out with a positive outcome because he just gave up on the idea of being with the perfect woman, as played by the nearly perfect Alexandria Daddario.

AOC Thinks Billionaires Are a Threat to Democracy So Did Our Founders

The idea that democracy and billionaires are incompatible might seem radical to conservatives. But to America’s founders, it seemed like common sense.

I Am Legend

Adaptation of a short story about the last man in the world.

The story’s been adapted before and I’m not sure which ending of this film I’m actually more a fan of, but I like the theatrical version enough to buy the 4k version digitally? Both versions of the adaptation suffer from missing the point of the name “I Am Legend” entirely, but this one missed it the most. it’s still a great film, just doesn’t do justice to the original short story.

This invisible skin stamp lets you know when its time to put on more sunscreen

Researchers say we don’t put on enough sunscreen. A Seattle startup has come up with a potential fix: an invisible ink stamp that notifies you when it’s time to re-apply. Michael Croix, a longtime…

Monstress

2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Writer
2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Painter/Multimedia Artist
2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Continuing Series
2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Publication for Teens
2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Cover Artist
2018 Harvey Award winner, Book of the Year
2018 Hugo Award winner, Best Graphic Story
2018 British Fantasy Award winner, Best Comic/Graphic Novel
2018, 2016, 2015 Entertainment Weekly’s The Best Comic Books of the Year
2018, Newsweek’s Best Comic Books of the Year
2018, The Washington Post’s 10 Best Graphic Novels of the Year
2018, Barnes & Noble’s Best Books of the Year
2018, YALSA’s Great Graphic Novels for Teens
2018, Thrillist’s Best Comics & Graphic Novels of the Year
2018, Powell’s Best Science-Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Graphic Novels of the Year

Set in an alternate matriarchal universe, in a richly imagined world of art deco-inflected steam punk, MONSTRESS tells the story of a teenage girl who is struggling to survive the trauma of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, a connection that will transform them both and make them the target of both human and otherworldly powers.

I loved absolutely every page of this series, I’m pretty late to the party, but Image did a preview of the first issue that blew me away so I bought the first three collections for about $10 each (still that price on amazon too, see the links above). There’s a bit of something in here for everyone, I particularly like the idea that cats are interdimensional travelers that got stuck in one universe and they’ve never forgetten they used to be able to do more. There a TON more in these books, little fox people, cats with multiple tails, demons embedded in amputated arms, queens, wars, old gods, and art that just amazed me every time I turned the page.

if you have a chance, check it out.

super stretch

Warriors skip the White House meet with former president Barack Obama instead

Draymond Green described the visit as “amazing.”

Comic Review for week of January 23 2019

• 
  BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #1 DUNLAP VIRGIN VARIANT
  What a horrible misstep for such a great franchise.  The cover has absolutely nothing to do with any of the characters inside, though I do like it.  Be warned, this is not the buffy story that you’re familiar with, it appears they’re just dumping the decade of continuity and re-imagining the entire thing as if someone said “hey, remember that buffy movie?  Maybe we can do a comic book follow up to that” and only got a rough draft of the first episode of the actual tv series to base the comic from.
   

• 
  G.I. JOE: A REAL AMERICAN HERO – SILENT OPTION #3
  Diamond did not ship this book to my comic store.
   

• 
  LIVEWIRE #2 COVER B HUTCHISON
  Our hero goes from a prisoner to something else.  I like where they’re going with this.
   

• 
  STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION: TERRA INCOGNITA #6
  Is this the final issue?  If so, it’s underwhelming.
   

• 
  STAR WARS #60
  Luke faces off against someone I’ve never seen before but with whom he obviously has history!  People die because of Luke!
   

• 
  TRUE BELIEVERS CONAN SECRET OF SKULL RIVER #1
  Don’t drink water from a river named “Skull River”, you’ll end up knocked out and in a town that demands your help with a evil sorcerer.
   

• 
  TRUE BELIEVERS KING CONAN #1
  I was unaware that Conan ever had a kid, much less a wimpy punk like this guy.
   

• 
  X-O MANOWAR #23 COVER B YAPUR
  Floating spaceballs aside, who are these people that are coming to Earth to fight X-O?

Star Wars The Complete Collection

The first six Star Wars film in high definition!

Found it suspiciously cheap on Facebook Marketplace, but I didn’t want to look at this particular gift horse in the mouth and got what I was looking for. The six movies look great and the special features look like they’re going to be fun to watch. I was actually surprised how nice the films look, but I know that the moment there’s a 4k version of the original trilogy I’m going to be a sucker and get those too.

The Umbrella Academy Official Trailer HD Netflix

When it rains, it pours. From the minds of Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá, The Umbrella Academy is the story of a super-dysfunctional family of superheroes who ha…

written and directed by quentin Tarantino

Roger Stone Yakety Sax

I Was a 4-Year-Old Trapped in a Teenagers Body

“I was all of the things people are when they’re 14 or 15” — except a decade younger.

CHICKEN SODA

Chicken Soda An instructional video by @alexag Merchandise: facebook.com/slickenfingers Chicken Tenders provided by Sticky’s Finger Joint Director / Editor -…

FBI agents praised for arresting Roger Stone without pay

He is expected to be arraigned in court.

Bad Times at the El Royale

Circa 1969, several strangers, most with a secret to bury, meet by chance at Lake Tahoe’s El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one night, everyone will show their true colors – before everything goes to hell.

This was a fun movie with some great stories and has a great sense of mystery about the whole thing.

my other car is a boat

Gone With The Wind

Period romance. War epic. Family saga. Popular fiction adapted with crowd-pleasing brilliance. Star acting aglow with charisma and passion. Moviemaking craft at its height. These are sublimely joined in the words Gone with the Wind.

Another great CMX flashback experience with one weird caveat. Before the movie begins they have a guy telling you about the film (for the previous film I watched he went into detail about how the Alien franchise was not being developed but that James Cameron was interested so that’s how we got 5+ more films in the series). For “Gone With The Wind” I was sure they were going to mention that this movie should be enjoyed (it’s a great film with absolutely amazing acting, sets, and costumes) but that it has some aspects of the film that should be taken with either a grain of salt or an entire history lesson on the American Civil War and separately, the history of Black Americans. No warnings about how this is a romanticized version of “The South” and that the grandeur they show in the movie was little more than fiction. No warning about the racist language or concepts.

It was a good experience, but as you can imagine, I feel the introduction could have been a four hour special all on it’s own.

Summer of 84

Directed by François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell. With Graham Verchere, Judah Lewis, Caleb Emery, Cory Gruter-Andrew. After suspecting that their police officer neighbor is a serial killer, a group of teenage friends spend their summer spying on him and gathering evidence, but as they get closer to discovering the truth, things get dangerous.

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

Accompanied by his feisty, independent ex-flame Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen), the two-fisted archaeologist embarks on a thrilling quest to locate the mystical Ark of the Covenant. Indy must discover the Ark before the Nazis do, and he has to survive poison, traps, snakes and treachery to do so.

Always good to have on in the background, but then to forget what you’re actually doing and watch a great movie.

Glass

The worlds of Unbreakable and Split collide in the comic-book thriller, Glass, from filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, starring James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, and Samuel L. Jackson.

The trilogy that I never thought would be made wraps up the origin stories that started 18 years ago. There’s likely going to be some complaints about how slow the movie is, but that’s just how the M. Night works. His films have never been wall to wall action and honestly this is the most action I’ve seen from him in a long while, but it doesn’t compare to the Marvel / DC slug fests that we’re all accustomed to by now.

I really enjoyed it.

Bondage Bird House

Oversight Committee to investigate White House security clearances

The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday announced it was launching a “wide-ranging” probe into the White House’s handling of its security clearance process, kicking off one of the first high-profile investigations into the Trump administration by the new, Democratic-controlled chamber.

Back to the Future The Game

A classic Telltale game that lead to their breakout hits The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, Game of Thrones, and Tales from the Borderlands

I’ve played through 3/4 of the Walking Dead games, so I’m pretty well over the Telltale formula of just wandering around a scene clicking on things and hoping you figure out the black magic to move the story forward. I know this was the game that launched a dozen other games just like it, but it did nothing for me, so after a single chapter of the first episode I just gave up. RIP TTG, you never did grow or change the game the way I was hoping you would.

Blue Planet II

David Attenborough returns to the world’s oceans in this sequel to the acclaimed documentary filming rare and unusual creatures of the deep, as well as documenting the problems our oceans face.

I really thought I had already watched this, but there were so many portions of it that felt new to me. It’s on Netflix right now in glorious 4k HDR, if you have the ability to watch it that way, I highly suggest it.

Aliens

Sigourney Weaver stars in Aliens, the sequel to the 1979 blockbuster Alien, reprising her role as Officer Ripley, the sole survivor of the spaceship Nostromo’s encounter with a deadly extraterrestrial. This time she returns to the very planet where her nightmare originally began with a squad of heavily armed marines, in a search-and-rescue mission for some missing space colonists.

There’s a semi new theater in town that has a full fledged restaurant and bar. It also features a weekly “flashback” movie that ranges from damn awesome (Aliens, Die Hard!) some interesting (Gone With The Wind!) and some that are just horrible (A christmas story? that’s on a legit 48 hour loop on TBS every year). Aliens is the first movie that I saw in this set up, I never got the chance to see it in theaters when it originally came out, I believe I was about 5 at the time. Had a buddy call me up and suggest we see it, so I dropped everything I was doing (I was still sleeping in bed) and went on down to see it.

It’s been years since I’ve seen the original version of the film as I only own the director’s cut. The original is still a great movie without many questions, though I did appreciate a couple scenes from the directors cut that I felt were missed in the original, the opening scenes on the colony (when they say we go, we go) and the turrets running dry from the xenos just throwing themselves at them.

It was a great experience, one that I had again the next weekend when I went to see Gone With The Wind, which I’ll review in a different post.

Lets Kill Wards Wife

Directed by Scott Foley. With Amy Acker, Ava Carpinello, James Carpinello, Dagmara Dominczyk. Ward’s wife is a bitch. Everyone knows it. Including Ward. After numerous conversations and ruminations on the subject amongst Ward’s colorful group of friends, a fortuitous accident leads to a whole new world of problems and possibilities.

gun tights