Kevin C. Wong

Spot Reviews 04/05/24

Ballerina (2023) [/] South Korean action film. Martial arts expert and former VIP bodyguard Jang Ok-ju (Jeon Jong-seo) finds her old friend committed suicide and left a note for her. Tracking down the note she finds the man, Choi Pro (Kim Ji-hoon), who had turned her friend into an escort. Bloody vengeance follows... It's fine as an action film where the plot doesn't need a huge budget.

Liaison (2023) [-] A six episode French/British drama on Apple TV+. Terrorists have burrowed inside the UK's secure networks. A Syrian hacker and refugee might have the code to stop them. Former French DGSE Gabriel Delage (Vincent Cassel) is sent bring the hacker back to France while his former lover Alison Rowdy (Eva Green), a British Home Office special advisor, wants him so he can stop the terrorists... A bit of a confusing plot and not much thriller to it. Episode five has some nice action. But overall I think this series is a waste of time.

Laughing Monk Brewing and Gastropub, Sunnyvale, CA [/] Upscale-ish American bar/restaurant and micro-brewery. Kind of typical for this area. I had the Fish and Chips which was ok. An Apple Cider mixed drink which was also ok. Perfectly fine food and atmosphere though no reason to ever come back here.

Chameleon Run+ (2021) [/] Apple Arcade auto-runner. In each level you want to get to the end as fast as possible. You have a change color button (your guy has to match colors with the ground) and a jump button (and you can do double jump). There are globes to pick up, speedups to run over (and you also get a speed boost by changing color just before you land on the ground), and probably other things. It's a fairly polished reflex game.