Kevin C. Wong

Spot Reviews 07/21/23


Movie - World War Z (2013) [/] UN WMD investigator Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) and his family are caught in a zombie outbreak that threatens the world. He is sent all over the world trying to find the cause and/or a cure... Re-watched this recently and I guess I appreciate it a bit more. Good amount of action and set pieces. The different locations are sort of different stories but I guess in the novel each chapter focuses on a new character and in the movie it's Gerry Lane at the center of the action.

TV Series - Lucifer #1.1 to #1.6 (2016) [/] Police homicide investigator procedural. Detective Chloe Decker (Lauren German) is the detective whom no one wants to partner with. Lucifer Morningstar (Tom Ellis) is the former Lord of Hell who nows runs a high end night club in Los Angeles. He decides to help Decker because homicides bring out the worst in people and he likes that, though in a fun way not evil way... I watched the first six episodes of Lucifer and after the first episode it kind of went downhill. Probably gets better since it did run six seasons. Lucifer is a bit too smarmy which is really annoying if the whole series he's like that.

Novel - The Excalibur Alternative (2002) [-] David Weber novel about 14th century British army taken by aliens to be used in their wars, told mostly (all?) from the point of view of their leader Sir George Wincaster. I got through the first two chapters but found it uninteresting.

Software - Worldographer [-] Worldographer is mapping software that is Mac compatible (though uses Java runtime). $35 for base license which is just outdoor hex maps. $30 modules for cities and for dungeons ($90 bundle for all three). You can try it for free with limited though useful functionality. I found the UI pretty bad though much better than the previous incarnations (Hexographer, Dungeonographer). Don't think this would be mapping software I'd enjoy using.