New season of #ItsAlwaysSunny tomorrow night.

I'm in the middle of like... my 5th or 6th rewatch of the series? Doesn't matter. I still find it hilarious.

Newer seasons have a few duds, but the old eps are always solid.

#RIP Reggie Bannister (1945-2026)

He'd been in the hospital for a while, so it wasn't unexpected, but it's still a major bummer. I met him about 10 years ago and he was perfectly capable and friendly then. I would never have guessed he'd be gone just a decade later. Phantasm rules, and he was a huge reason why.

Don Coscarelli wrote a nice tribute to him on X:
https://x.com/DonCoscarelli/status/2086953441939828739

#ISpitOnYourGrave3 (2015)

I haven't seen this since it came out, but I needed a movie starting with "I". I forgot how good this remake series was. All three of the movies are solid, which is uncommon, and even more uncommon when the remake is better than the original.

This one has an interesting take. Jennifer Hills from the 2010 movie is living in the city under an alias, and therapy starts to circle back to familiar territory. She has serious PTSD and needs to channel that into something constructive: taking out rapists.

There's a lot of fantasizing going on in her mind. She gets carried away and wants to take it out on innocent people, or at least assholes who deserve a mere beatdown rather than brutal murder. The violence isn't as graphic as the last two, but there are definitely squeamish moments here, and Sarah Butler does a great job going from victim to unhinged vigilante. And she's hot as hell.

It really sucks that the next entry in the series, a direct sequel to the original, was an excessively long cringy piece of shit. Quit after this movie and you'll view the whole series favorably.

#GoodBoy (2025)

A guy moves to a cabin that's a real fixer-upper. It also happens to be haunted. Him and the dog start seeing shadows, and the shadow starts making the guy sick. What's a good boy supposed to do when his master is being possessed by evil?

I'd been wanting to see this for a while. A horror movie from a dog's perspective. The dog is adorable and does a great job. He must have been really confused making this movie. However, the story is paper thin, and it's kind of boring for a big chunk of it. It's mildly effective here and there, but yeah... there's really not much going on and nothing is explained. It's just a dog running from shadows. Until it isn't.

#Tamara (2005)

High school bullies prank and kill an ugly nerd girl. I mean, seriously... look at how ugly and nerdy this girl is. She's just asking to be made fun of, right?

This girl, however, was into witchcraft, so when she dies, it isn't permanent. She comes back and tries to bone her teacher and kill everyone responsible for her "death".

Our hideous lead actress is Jenna Dewan, who was married to Channing Tatum for about 10 years. He probably divorced her because she's such an ugly nerd.

Eli Roth just admitted to using some generative AI in his new movie Ice Cream Man. I'll be skipping this one on principle.

#Vigilante (1982)

Robert Forster stars in this old school urban revenge flick by William Lustig. After his wife is assaulted and his son is murdered, the judge doesn't do shit and he has to spend a moment in prison because he's rightfully pissed the fuck off about it. With the help of Fred Williamson and some other pissed off residents, he does what we all would do in this situation. He becomes a... VIGILANTE!

Forster often plays it real casual, and I've always liked him for that. Fred "The Hammer" Williamson is always cool, even when he does his fake kung fu moves. Twenty years ago when I was just getting into exploitation movies, I would have eaten this stuff up. It already felt like the type of movie they didn't make anymore, but now? It seems like a golden cinematic era that's lifetimes ago.

I love the feel of these older crime movies because the grit doesn't feel fake. They didn't have huge budgets to give a movie the polished dirty feel. No, they were just authentically raw, and it shines through. This is the heyday of exploitation from one of its pioneers.

#Spiderman #BrandNewDay (2026)

I'll try to be vague and not spoil anything. It's 5 years after the last movie and Peter is all alone. No friends, but the city loves him. We jump right into the main plot where Peter has to figure out this possession nonsense, check in on his old friends, and figure out why he's going through changes. That's about all I'm going to say on that.

If you've seen the trailers, nothing in this movie will really suprise you. If you've heard some theories about this or that, they're probably true. Marvel is notoriously horrible at keeping secrets, and thus there are no real plot twists in this movie.

That doesn't mean it's bad. I enjoyed it. It delivers.

• Jon Bernthal has plenty of screentime, and his character isn't butchered. He doesn't drop any F-bombs, but he tries. He's definitely a highlight.

• The Hulk isn't a major role, but he has important scenes. Mark Ruffalo is a horrendous twat in real life, but fortunately, his role in the movie is decent. We get the real Hulk and not some watered-down friendly version.

• "Black Widow" as she's called is pretty minor, but I like Florence Pugh way more than Scarlett's super dull character.

• Aside from Scorpion, all those other villains you see in the trailer are only there for like 5 seconds. They're all C-list characters anyway, so fuck 'em.

• Zendaya has a decent role that doesn't undermine the last movie. I'm also very happy that they didn't give that stupid asshole Ned more screentime. He may play a "smart" character, but he's sooooo dumb. I hate him.

The movie has heart. It will pull your heart strings a little, it doesn't feel over-stuffed, and it feels like Marvel in a good way. I'm not sure what the hell the end credits scene is setting up, but we'll find out.

I'm going to see #Spiderman today. This movie made almost a billion dollars on its opening weekend. I've been pretty successful at avoiding spoilers. Whenever I see a Spider-Man post, I scroll past it as fast as possible, because people are stupid fucking assholes.

I've been teasing a new feature for a while now, so I figure I'll give you regulars a crack at the beta version.

Explaining too much of it now will ruin the fun, so I'll let you wing it for now.

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