The Hammer
(Tubi)

Attorney Kim Wheeler is appointed as a judge for Nevada's 5th district after the former judge's death. As the investigation into the death intensifies, Kim's sister, who runs the local brothel, becomes the prime suspect.

Pope Joan (2009)

A movie about a woman who became the pope. I guess the only interesting part of this movie is how they recreated the medieval times.

It's another movie in which the makers seemed to believe in the movie, although the story is on the level of a children's picture book. It's a straightforward story of a woman who we follow from the moment of birth and who is smart and honest and who pretends to be a man in order to become the pope. And it's so easy to write a character that will succeed in the medieval hierarchy: just write him or her as someone who doesn't take the silly medieval science for granted, so she'll see that the medieval medicine is a joke and automatically be able to heal an important person, thus gaining his trust and quickly advancing.

Manodrome
(Netflix)

Conflicted about his girlfriend's pregnancy, Ralphie's life spirals out of control when he meets a mysterious family of men.

Wind Chill
(Netflix)

Two college students share a ride home for the holidays, but when they break down on a deserted stretch of road, they are preyed upon by the ghosts of people who have died there.

Spent the weekend cutting out fabric and watching LOTR again. For someone who seldom watches movies, that was quite a viewing.

'Second Hand Lions' (again). This scene is a cautionary tail about the danger of fucking with old people.





Boru

"Bring your broken clocks and watches to the theater."

As you might have guessed, it is a biopic about modern day Jesus: Uri Geller.

And it is a movie made by idiots for idiots.

The movie opens with these lines:

I am Edgar Mitchell. When I was 41, I walked on the Moon. But walking on the Moon is only one part of my career. Two years later, I was in a scientific laboratory investigating a rather amazing individual: Uri Geller. Uri's ability to perform amazing feats of mental wizardry is known the world over.

Uri is not a magician. He is using capabilities that we all have and can develop with exercise and practice.

You will get a chance to practice with Uri at the end of this film.

(November 18, 2025 at 11:38 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:

"Bring your broken clocks and watches to the theater."

As you might have guessed, it is a biopic about modern day Jesus: Uri Geller.

And it is a movie made by idiots for idiots.

The movie opens with these lines:

I am Edgar Mitchell. When I was 41, I walked on the Moon. But walking on the Moon is only one part of my career. Two years later, I was in a scientific laboratory investigating a rather amazing individual: Uri Geller. Uri's ability to perform amazing feats of mental wizardry is known the world over.

Uri is not a magician. He is using capabilities that we all have and can develop with exercise and practice.

You will get a chance to practice with Uri at the end of this film.

I wonder if they included the clip of Geller being humiliated by Johnny Carson…

Here’s the Fry and Laurie ‘tribute’ to Uri Geller:





Boru

(November 18, 2025 at 11:57 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I wonder if they included the clip of Geller being humiliated by Johnny Carson…

Ha, ha, no. The movie seems to be based on the writings/ claims by Andrija Puharich. So we see Geller teleporting his dog and other stuff around his house, reading people's minds, communicating with super intelligent computers from outer space, getting messages about the doomsday if humans do not change their ways, Geller talking to dead people, and similar.

And it ends with Geller himself telling to the camera and thus to the supposed people in the movie theater (although, this movie playing in any theater is dubious) to wind their old watches and see them "magically" work again—magic that Edgar Mitchell fell for and announced at the beginning of the movie.

I guess the only curious thing is that the movie was made in 1996, which, as far as I know, was when Geller's fame had already faded.

I watched the new Fantastic Four movie, up to a point, and I was fascinated how bad this movie is.

You know how sometimes people complain that some movie has wrong pacing? Well this movie has no pacing.

Or how movies usually begin with a part where you get introduced to who the characters are? Well, this movie expects you to know that and starts in the middle of conversation where this woman announces that she's pregnant. Then she tells some more people that she's pregnant and the movie goes on with the pregnancy that you wonder if this is that movie "What to Expect When Expecting". IDK but it seems that pregnancies are overrated in movies.

Then the action starts, kind of, and they have a V'Ger-like scene where I gave up.

I mean this Fantastic Four comic has been going on for decades, but the only villains that end up in movies are Galacticus with Silver Surfer, and Dr. Doom. You would think they've come up with some other villains that could be used in movies, but apparently not.