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Project Hail Mary is good, but flawed. 7.5 out of 10.

A group of us went to see Project Hail Mary last night.  I was disappointed.

Youtube reviewers and people in real life have been raving about it, and I really enjoyed the book.  My expectations were too high.

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This isn’t very charitable.

When she puts in the effort, Milly Alcock is attractive.  When she looks rough, people aren’t kind.

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Supergirl is supposed to be a loser.

The Supergirl movie is coming this summer, and it already looks like the studio wants to lose money.

The actress, Milly Alcock, is attractive.  She isn’t at the Melissa Benoist level, but they make it worse by portraying her as a saddle tramp.  She looks like she smells and her suit is holding in her gut.

Writing for superhero movies has been weak, but for this movie, the choice of writers is baffling.  Here’s what IMDB has to say about the three writers.  Tom King and Bilquis Evely have no writing credits for anything that has been produced.  The third writer, Otto Binder, has been dead for fifty years.

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Valerie Perrine is gone and will probably be forgotten.

Valerie Perrine passed away today at 82 years old.  That’s her on the left.  The other woman is Caitlyn Jenner1.

Valerie was a minor league hottie, but was in some memorable movies like Superman and Slaughterhouse Five.  She did topless scenes, which we liked, but could look really rough when she didn’t put in the effort.

One role she had was in a series that I had only heard of recently.  It came out in the 1980’s.  It’s called, Faerie Tale Theatre.  The name and production values look like soft-core porn parody, but the actors are A-listers.   Valerie Perrine appears with Billy Crystal and Jeff Goldblum.

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I Swear and hurl racial epithets.

Six weeks ago, I watched, I Swear, after hearing about it on a round up of movies from 2025.  There weren’t a lot of great movies, but the reviewer mentioned it as an impressive movie that didn’t get much buzz.

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This reflects poorly on movie reviewers, not on Melania

USAToday  Leftist critics hate ‘Melania,’ but the audience loves it

Movie reviewers trade their credibility to be snidely and biased.  I understand why Youtube reviewers would do that.  Nobody knows who they are, but some reviewers are with established media outlets.  If Trump Derangement Syndrome determines the movie review, there’s not point to reading the column.

I’m not going to watch Melania because I’m not interest in first ladies or a look behind-the-scenes.  I just got tired of journalists who put partisanship over professionalism.

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Emma Stone deserves a win.

Emma Stone should win the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Bugonia.

The Best Actor or Best Actress should go to someone who convincingly plays a difficult role.   Here are the nominations.

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Some Academy Awards nominees are worth watching.

CNN:  Here are the 2026 Oscar nominees

The Academy Awards have evolved into a virtue signalling, Hollywood, circle jerk, but I always check the list in case there is a good movie I missed or to see if we agree.

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Roofman is a movie that most people haven’t heard of or have already forgotten. 7 out of 10.

This has been a bad year for big budget movies, so movie reviewers are recommending movies that were overlooked.  That’s how I ended up with Roofman.

It’s based on a true story about a guy who couldn’t get on track after leaving the Army.   He started robbing fast food restaurants by cutting a holes through the roofs.  When the cops were after him, he spent several months living inside a Toys ‘R’ Us store.

Early on in the movie, one aspect of the story was too incredible to suspend disbelief.

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Klaus is an animated Christmas movie worth watching. 9 out of 10.

Christmas movies can be sappy or overly sentimental.  The good ones are not.  In It’s a Wonderful LIfe, George Bailey is a man who is knocked flat by life, and kills himself.  The dark is necessary for a meaningful journey to the light.

Klaus is a good Christmas movie that gives an explanation for Christmas traditions without a Christmas miracle.