Spot Reviews 01/26/24
Jan 26 2024
The Marvels (2023) [+] After their powers become entangled Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris), and Ms Marvel (Iman Vellani) team up gallivanting across the galaxy trying to stop the Kree leader Dar-Benn (Zawe Ashton) from destroying three planets in order to save her homeworld… It’s a fun intragalactic action film reminiscent of Thor’s space movie. The biggest problem is that Monica and Ms Marvel’s backstories were more developed in WandaVision (where Monica got her powers) and Ms Marvel (which has her origin story) and if you haven’t seen those then this movie doesn’t really try to catch you up.
Invasion (2021 TV Series) [/] A global catastrophe strikes Earth and we see the results through the eyes of four people: Aneesha (Golshifteh Farahani), a mother of two who is afraid her neighbors will think it’s 9-11 again and attack her family out of fear; Trevante Cole (Shamier Anderson), a US soldier in Afghanistan whose squad is wiped out by a mysterious floating thing; Mitsuki (Shioli Kutsuna), a comm tech at Japan’s space agency investigating the loss of a Japanese crew traveling to the ISS; Caspar (Billy Barratt), a bullied English high-school-type student who is stranded with his classmates when their bus crashes in a remote area of England… After three episodes it’s moving a bit too slowly for me and it doesn’t help that half the stories are not that interesting.
Loki season 2 (2023) [-] Loki season 1 was quite good. Come back a couple of years alter and season 2 is a bit of a mess. The Time Variance Authority HQ is going to be destroyed because all the new timelines are overloading the flux capacitor (or whatever). Loki (Tom Hiddleston) is randomly shifting through time and using that opportunity to gather the people he needs to fix the problem. It’s a bit of a confusing deus ex machina ending which I had to research to understand what actually happened. Just a rather disappointing ending to the series.
Trader Joe’s Step Up To The Snack Bar Mix [/] $6 for a 12 oz can of mixed mostly non-nuts: honey mustard pretzel pieces, honey roasted peanuts, corn chips, cheddar cheese crackers, sesame sticks, chili lemon corn sticks. It’s good for the price though I guess I’d rather have mixed nuts.
SP!ING (2021) [/] Apple Arcade game where you try to collect all the gems on a level and make it to the exit while avoiding obstacles and traps. Anchor points are located in various places. Tap and hold and your ball attaches to the nearest anchor point and then revolves around it. Release at the right time to fling your ball, which can bounce off walls and is affected by gravity. Simple mechanics though requires timing and if you die you restart the level.
Invasion (2021 TV Series) [/] A global catastrophe strikes Earth and we see the results through the eyes of four people: Aneesha (Golshifteh Farahani), a mother of two who is afraid her neighbors will think it’s 9-11 again and attack her family out of fear; Trevante Cole (Shamier Anderson), a US soldier in Afghanistan whose squad is wiped out by a mysterious floating thing; Mitsuki (Shioli Kutsuna), a comm tech at Japan’s space agency investigating the loss of a Japanese crew traveling to the ISS; Caspar (Billy Barratt), a bullied English high-school-type student who is stranded with his classmates when their bus crashes in a remote area of England… After three episodes it’s moving a bit too slowly for me and it doesn’t help that half the stories are not that interesting.
Loki season 2 (2023) [-] Loki season 1 was quite good. Come back a couple of years alter and season 2 is a bit of a mess. The Time Variance Authority HQ is going to be destroyed because all the new timelines are overloading the flux capacitor (or whatever). Loki (Tom Hiddleston) is randomly shifting through time and using that opportunity to gather the people he needs to fix the problem. It’s a bit of a confusing deus ex machina ending which I had to research to understand what actually happened. Just a rather disappointing ending to the series.
Trader Joe’s Step Up To The Snack Bar Mix [/] $6 for a 12 oz can of mixed mostly non-nuts: honey mustard pretzel pieces, honey roasted peanuts, corn chips, cheddar cheese crackers, sesame sticks, chili lemon corn sticks. It’s good for the price though I guess I’d rather have mixed nuts.
SP!ING (2021) [/] Apple Arcade game where you try to collect all the gems on a level and make it to the exit while avoiding obstacles and traps. Anchor points are located in various places. Tap and hold and your ball attaches to the nearest anchor point and then revolves around it. Release at the right time to fling your ball, which can bounce off walls and is affected by gravity. Simple mechanics though requires timing and if you die you restart the level.