Spot Reviews 07/11/25
Jul 11 2025
Ditto (2000) [/] South Korean romance/drama. Yoon So-eun (Kim Ha-neul) and Ji In (Yoo Ji-tae) go to the same university and talk to each other via HAM radio but they’re separated by time. She lives in 1979 and he lives in 2000. As they get to know each other and give relationship advice to each other she realizes that his mom and dad are her best friend and the person she likes the most… It’s an ok film with a poignant, maybe, ending. With Ha Ji-won (who played the leader in The Huntresses) as Ji In’s romantic interest that he kind of ignores.
Stitch. (2022) [/] Stitching-themed puzzle games where you stitch a pattern. Each section is subdivided and there are numbers. Drag your finger to stitch a line or area with the number of subsections as in the number in that area. The numbers can be colored in which case you’re stitching that color so it has to match the pattern. If you do it wrong it tells you immediately. Seems rather simple so I guess for a younger audience.
NBA 2K23 Arcade Edition (2022) [/] Five on five basketball with “real” NBA players. It’s an arcade game and even with a controller I found it hard to pass and shoot. There is also a campaign mode where you have a team, play games and train your players up. Graphics are good though not as good as dedicated console or PC. There is voice commentators which make it more real. Overall not really my type of game.
The Official Prisoner Companion (1988) [/] Mass market TPB about The Prisoner which had aired two decades previously. Episode Guide with synopsis and observations of each episode; Notes, anecdotes, and nonsense which is trivia stuff; The Great Debates with a couple of pages devoted to each topic; What Does It All Mean? with speculation on what the themes are might be; Talking with McGoohan reprints a short 1985 interview; Source of Information has where to get more info including Six of One: The Prisoner Appreciation Society which is still ongoing; Shooting Scripts has excerpts of key or notable scenes. I found the book interesting but rather shallow. It’s meant for people who’ve watched The Prisoner and want more but don’t want to get too deep into the lore.
Stitch. (2022) [/] Stitching-themed puzzle games where you stitch a pattern. Each section is subdivided and there are numbers. Drag your finger to stitch a line or area with the number of subsections as in the number in that area. The numbers can be colored in which case you’re stitching that color so it has to match the pattern. If you do it wrong it tells you immediately. Seems rather simple so I guess for a younger audience.
NBA 2K23 Arcade Edition (2022) [/] Five on five basketball with “real” NBA players. It’s an arcade game and even with a controller I found it hard to pass and shoot. There is also a campaign mode where you have a team, play games and train your players up. Graphics are good though not as good as dedicated console or PC. There is voice commentators which make it more real. Overall not really my type of game.
The Official Prisoner Companion (1988) [/] Mass market TPB about The Prisoner which had aired two decades previously. Episode Guide with synopsis and observations of each episode; Notes, anecdotes, and nonsense which is trivia stuff; The Great Debates with a couple of pages devoted to each topic; What Does It All Mean? with speculation on what the themes are might be; Talking with McGoohan reprints a short 1985 interview; Source of Information has where to get more info including Six of One: The Prisoner Appreciation Society which is still ongoing; Shooting Scripts has excerpts of key or notable scenes. I found the book interesting but rather shallow. It’s meant for people who’ve watched The Prisoner and want more but don’t want to get too deep into the lore.