Kevin C. Wong

Spot Reviews 11/22/24

Never Been Kissed (1999) [/] Nerdy newspaper copy editor Josie Geller (Drew Barrymore) gets her big shot at being a reporter by going undercover at a local high school to do a story on how today's teens live. Although she first starts out with the geeks, led by Aldys (Leelee Sobieski), she manages to turn herself into a popular girl and starts having the time of her life, including a possible romance with history teacher Sam (Michael Vartan), which suddenly becomes the story since Josie is masquerading as an underage high schooler... It's an ok film but the high school stuff seems rather stereotypical. Has Jessica Alba before Dark Angel.

Kingdom Rush Frontiers TD+ (2021) [/] Tower defense game in the Kingdom Rush franchise and available for Apple Arcade. It's the usual bad guys use paths to get to your base and build towers to shoot them. Some towers send out troops to fight and slow down the bad guys. You also have a hero who you can move around and activate special powers and you have a few magic spells of your own. Kind of difficult even on casual and I always find it annoying when the base towers have no range and everywhere the paths are wide.

LEGO Star Wars: Castaways+ (2021) [/] In this LEGO game you are a random person who is marooned on a planet where a bunch of other people have been marooned. Do missions, level up your character, get better weapons. Missions are 2-1/2D where you go around breaking things, activating things, shooting enemies. Looks nice, has good on-boarding, and it's an MMO-like world. But I didn't really find it interesting.

Trader Joe's Gourmet Fried Onion Pieces [/] It's a can full of bits of battered fried onion usable sprinkled on food. Not really that crisp nor tasty though not horrible. I'd say doesn't really add to whatever food you sprinkle it over unless that food is really bland. I've used it with rice, scrambled eggs, spaghetti. Maybe I just haven't found the right food.