Spot Reviews 09/20/24
Sep 20 2024
A Family Affair (2024) [+] Netflix movie. Zara (Joey King) is the overworked assistant to action movie star Chris (Zac Efron) who is shocked and vehemently against the budding relationship between Chris and Zara's mother Brooke (Nicole Kidman)... This movie contrasts the other older-woman/younger-and-famous-man romance of The Idea of You (2024) which concentrates more on how paparazzi and fans affect that relationship whereas in this movie that doesn't come into play at all. In this movie it's Zara that's the main obstacle and two-thirds through the film I realized this is actually a story about Zara's coming of age going from self-absorbed young adult to someone who starts to be a better daughter and friend. Overall a fairly nice film and much better than The Idea of You.
Super Stickman Golf 3+ (2021) [+] The Apple Arcade version of SSG3, an excellent cartoony side-view miniature golf game. IIRC SSG3 was disappointing because it had lots of ads and micro-transactions but in Apple Arcade no ads and everything is un-lockable without paying money.
wurdweb (2021) [/] Apple Arcade word game. A bit like a simple Scrabble: a grid with some spaces that give you +1 or +2 words (and points if that is the variant), a list of words and a starting word in the middle of the board. You take a word from your list and connect it with an existing word on the board by overlapping one of the letters (and as far as I know you can only touch one board word so you can't do vertical and horizontal words in one go like in Scrabble). The objective is to get 10 (or more) words down and you need to hit the +1 to +3 bonus squares so you get more words to pick. All puzzles are randomly generated so that's interesting. An ok game but not terribly interesting.
Chicken Meets Rice [/] Fast food (Singaporean-style?) chicken and rice. Fried or steamed chicken, rice, two of about six sauces, broth, sliced cucumbers, sliced carrots, cilantro. I had the fried chicken which is more like asian style chicken nuggets with a light fried batter and the rice is good, made with chicken broth. Tasted fine and it's $14 + tax so not bad for fast food meal.
Super Stickman Golf 3+ (2021) [+] The Apple Arcade version of SSG3, an excellent cartoony side-view miniature golf game. IIRC SSG3 was disappointing because it had lots of ads and micro-transactions but in Apple Arcade no ads and everything is un-lockable without paying money.
wurdweb (2021) [/] Apple Arcade word game. A bit like a simple Scrabble: a grid with some spaces that give you +1 or +2 words (and points if that is the variant), a list of words and a starting word in the middle of the board. You take a word from your list and connect it with an existing word on the board by overlapping one of the letters (and as far as I know you can only touch one board word so you can't do vertical and horizontal words in one go like in Scrabble). The objective is to get 10 (or more) words down and you need to hit the +1 to +3 bonus squares so you get more words to pick. All puzzles are randomly generated so that's interesting. An ok game but not terribly interesting.
Chicken Meets Rice [/] Fast food (Singaporean-style?) chicken and rice. Fried or steamed chicken, rice, two of about six sauces, broth, sliced cucumbers, sliced carrots, cilantro. I had the fried chicken which is more like asian style chicken nuggets with a light fried batter and the rice is good, made with chicken broth. Tasted fine and it's $14 + tax so not bad for fast food meal.