The Old Guard 2 (2025) [/] "Andy" Andromache (Charlize Theron) is back leading a team of immortal mercenaries. At the end of the last movie she had been turned mortal but that's kind of quickly restored but at least that plot device is the big motivation of the big villain Discord (Uma Thurman), the First Immortal? Also Discord brings back Andy's great love Qu`ynh (Veronica Ngô) who is resentful that Andy gave up searching for her 500 years ago... Has some good action scenes but ends in a cliffhanger with the story half done so I wouldn't recommend this movie until part 3 comes out, if it ever does.

Messi's World Cup: The Rise of a Legend (2024) [+] Documentary in four 45-minute parts. The main framework is Argentina's 2022 World Cup run with one episode mostly devoted to each of two group play games, the quarter finals game vs Netherlands, and the final vs France. Besides lots of interview footage with the players (during and afterwards) there is stuff Lionel Messi's origins, career, previous World Cup disappointments, and what he means to the Argentine people. I really liked the four featured games as the narration and editing is good to make them exciting.

Japanese Rural Life Adventure (2023) [/] Apple Arcade game. JRPG 8-bit graphics game where you go to an abandoned Japanese countryside home, fix it up and plant crops and maybe there are actual adventures. But it seems to be mostly doing routing things in a JRPG way. For example you get a quest to clean the bedroom, but you need materials and you go to the storehouse and find them, then walk back and do the cleaning task. Definitely its own relaxing vibe, if you can stand it.

Ming Tasty, Sunnyvale [/] Cheap Chinese food restaurant. We had one of the family meals, soup + 3 entrees with rice extra. That was enough food for four people and a kid and it came out to $60. Food is pretty average so that's good enough.