Movies
Queen & Slim (2019)
Normally, I see big releases the weekend they come out, and I saw the trailer for Queen & Slim plenty of times before the movie came out. Why did I wait to see this one? Bad weather. I figured I Read more…
Movies
Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost (2019)
Scooby-Doo, the cowardly glutton of a crime solving Great Dane, has been around more or less continuously for roughly fifty years. He’s been in a lot of different series, some of which follow the classic formula of four teens and Read more…
Movies
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
As I have mentioned before many, many times, the original Star Wars is the first movie I can remember seeing in a theater. I loved it then and I loved it now. The prospect of more when Disney bought out Read more…
Movies
Halloween (2018)
Since I finally got around to the 1978 Halloween this past week and the 2018 sequel was leaving HBO at the end of the month, I opted to see it as well. This one, made 40 years after the fact Read more…
Movies
Halloween (1978)
In the past year or so, I’ve really gotten into the better movies in writer/director/composer John Carpenter’s filmography. But somehow, I’d never seen the original Halloween. That’s mostly likely due to the fact I’ve only recently gotten into horror movies. Read more…
Books
Dark Age (Red Rising Book 5)
I generally really like the work author Pierce Brown has done with his sci-fi Red Rising series. Although the first book sounds a lot like a more adult-version of The Hunger Games, Brown presented a rather morally complex world where Read more…
Movies
6 Underground (2019)
It seems like everyone is releasing movies straight to streaming now and by-passing the traditional theatrical release, or at least just issuing a limited one. But if it was good enough for Martin Scorsese, it should be good enough for Read more…
The Podcast
Tomcast 2020 Podcast: Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
The podcast returns, and this time around, Jen and I talked 1986’s Big Trouble in Little China. Funny thing, though. I actually never saw Big Trouble as a kid whereas Jen saw a lot of it. Consequently, she’s a big Read more…
Movies
Richard Jewell (2019)
I think the trailer for Richard Jewell bothered me a little bit. I generally enjoy movies directed by Clint Eastwood, but of late, he’s been on something of a “real American heroes” thing, where most of his movies have been Read more…
Movies
Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)
I’ve mentioned before many times, even on the Tomcast 2020 podcast, that I have a certain formula for remakes. First, the remake should have a distinctive reason to exist and not simply be some kind of shot-for-shot rehash. Second, it Read more…