Hopefully it gets a theatrical rerelease of some sort.

The Day the Earth Blew Up (theater)

Mission: Impossible

Ash (theater)

Mission: Impossible II

Raising Arizona

Mission: Impossible III

Magazine Dreams (theater)

Planning on seeing A Working Man and Death of a Unicorn this weekend.

Our city added a B&B theater and I’d probably go to it if they offered a subscription service that competed with AMC’s A List. I love that they have stuff like pickleball and arcade games. I remember the AMC I used to go to had arcade games, pinball, air hockey, and I think even a pool table somewhere. I still go to that AMC nearly twenty years later and they have maybe a few claw machines and the theater is much more run down than it used to be overall.

I think at some point, it may just become untenable for these giant 10-25 screen multiplexes to continue and the theater industry will revert back to smaller 1-5 screen theaters with bars and/or additional entertainment in the front area.

I’ll also add that I don’t think the endless dooming about how there are no good movies is actually true. I go to 75+ movies in the theater a year and I’d say 90% of the ones I see are at least decent. There’s always gonna be some stinkers out there though.

I don’t think it’s been confirmed whether they’ve actually written this one off yet or not. There were reports that they had written off somewhere around $115m for scrapped projects last year, but there were no confirmations around which projects specifically were written off.

I’m not an expert in these matters at all, but if they had written it off, wouldn’t they have had to destroy the materials?

Man, I hope this is good. The action sequences they put in the previews at least look pretty cool. I suspect it’s not gonna be good though.

Nah, AFAIK they just didn’t release it because they thought they wouldn’t even get more revenue from it vs just writing it off. They tried to shop it around but apparently no distributors offered enough on it.

Just saw it. I thought it was good, but definitely stretched too thin in some ways. It was like they were trying to fit as much from the book as possible but the runtime was too short for that. Overall still good and worth a watch IMO.

My own little pet theory is that 17 is a liberal and 18 is a leftist.

In the past week I’ve seen:

Ne Zha

The Rule of Jenny Pen (theater)

Ne Zha was decent. Really fun action sequences and great visuals in the action sequences. Some of the humor didn’t land, likely because it’s a kids movie and maybe because I’m American and Chinese humor just doesn’t land as well for me.

The Rule of Jenny Pen was certainly something. Its basically John Lithgow physically and mentally abusing elderly people with a puppet. I’d recommend watching it. Lithgow does a great job playing an absolutely unhinged psychopath.

He’d probably never get the opportunity in the first place. It would be cool to see what he could do with an action movie though if he ever gets bored of doing horror.

Recent one for me is Love Hurts.

Had a few things going right for it. The early fight scene between Ke Huy Quan and Marshawn Lynch’s characters was really fun and cool. You could see the bones of a really fun John Wick clone but with a bit of an 70’s/80’s kung fu twist to it. But then they completely ruin it with the love interest plot and the boring bad guy and boring later fights. Take that early part of the movie and expand on it, and drop the love interest crap, and it might have been pretty good.

Librewolf is a fork of Firefox.

From their site:

LibreWolf also aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances, as well as disabling anti-freedom features like DRM.

In the future, Ladybird or a browser built on top of Servo might be alternatives, but both projects are pretty far from being usable right now.