Spot Reviews 04/10/26
Apr 10 2026
Highest 2 Lowest (2025) [/] Music mogul David King (Denzel Washington) wants to buy back control of the label he started but after his son Trey (Aubrey Joseph) is kidnapped he might have to use that money to pay the ransom. Complication when it turns out that it's Trey's friend Kyle (Elijah Wright) -- son of his driver/assistant/good friend Paul Christopher (Jeffrey Wright) -- and now the conundrum is choosing to save his company or a non-relative... Better movie than I expected with a lot of stuff filmed in the streets of New York City.
Jeopardy! World Tour+ (2023) [/] It's an abbreviated form of Jeopardy with three categories each with three questions. You do that twice with the second time the questions are worth double. Then there is Final Jeopardy question. You alternate picking questions and only you can answer -- there is a timer and three choices. You are "playing" against other people who are actually not picking from your board -- they each have their own question board which means the game can just replay their scoring. Jeopardy is not one of the better quiz shows but it works with a good host and personable contestants neither of which this game has.
Star Trek: Countdown (2009) [+] I reviewed this comic book series when it came out and thought it was average. Re-read it and now I think it's pretty good. Star Trek (2009) movie script writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman did the story so this comic book story does seamlessly integrate and leads right into the movie and fills in some gaps that may have been mentioned in the movie but were not elaborated upon. This is the story of how Spock with the help of the TNG characters saved the main universe but let Romulus be destroyed hence leading Nero on his quest for vengeance with an advanced-tech ship.
Big Al's, Milpitas, CA [/] I guess this is a more family friendly version of Dave & Buster's. Restaurant, bar, video games, bowling. Went here after gaming with my friends. Food is about what you'd expect and the games had a selection which kids could play even though they were not kids games.
Jeopardy! World Tour+ (2023) [/] It's an abbreviated form of Jeopardy with three categories each with three questions. You do that twice with the second time the questions are worth double. Then there is Final Jeopardy question. You alternate picking questions and only you can answer -- there is a timer and three choices. You are "playing" against other people who are actually not picking from your board -- they each have their own question board which means the game can just replay their scoring. Jeopardy is not one of the better quiz shows but it works with a good host and personable contestants neither of which this game has.
Star Trek: Countdown (2009) [+] I reviewed this comic book series when it came out and thought it was average. Re-read it and now I think it's pretty good. Star Trek (2009) movie script writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman did the story so this comic book story does seamlessly integrate and leads right into the movie and fills in some gaps that may have been mentioned in the movie but were not elaborated upon. This is the story of how Spock with the help of the TNG characters saved the main universe but let Romulus be destroyed hence leading Nero on his quest for vengeance with an advanced-tech ship.
Big Al's, Milpitas, CA [/] I guess this is a more family friendly version of Dave & Buster's. Restaurant, bar, video games, bowling. Went here after gaming with my friends. Food is about what you'd expect and the games had a selection which kids could play even though they were not kids games.