Why would the white supremacy party do that?!

I watched a few with my kids this weekend: Porco Rosso, Big Fish, and Oceans 11.

Beautiful animation in Porco and a fun adventure story.

Big Fish is a pretty great movie, probably Tim Burton at his best.

Oceans 11 was a fun romp, but the teens didn’t really care for it.

I just watched it again a few months ago. It’s even better than I remembered.

This seems like an appropriate way to deal with Andrew: stick him in an enclosure and let kids pelt him with rotten produce.

Thank the gods that police can now use big tech to harass people instead of relying on their teensy little brains. I bet their metrics have improved significantly.

I don’t mind superhero movies, but I don’t see the need to slog through another formulaic cash grab.

He must hate people with fit legs?

And the teacher says no energy drinks in the math test because you won’t always have one on hand in real life.

Flock continues to spread like a malignant tumor.

Or how zero could be a number instead of a null value

Also, birds are warm-blooded reptiles.

I took the kids to see this one. It was fantastic: good music and a compelling take on the Orpheus and Eurodice myth. Patrick Page has an amazing bass voice, and Amber Gray stole the show as Persephone.

Oh, and last week I watched Furiosa, Fury Road, and The Road Warrior back-to-back over three days. What a spectacular set of movies.

I watched The Hot Rock, a heist movie from the early 70s starring Robert Redford and Zero Mostel by the same screen writer as The Princess Bride.

A criminally (ha) underrated caper; only one plot point didn’t age well, but fortunately it was only immersion-breaking and not skeevy. Highly recommended.

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Of all the soulless live-action remakes, this one seems to be the most pointless.

The trailers looked mediocre, but everyone says it’s great. I’ll have to give it a watch.

I really need to see this one. I’ve heard it’s great.

Smokin’ Aces was so bad that I can’t believe I sat through the whole thing. It looked like it would be a fun heist/fiasco movie, but it was incredibly dull without any likeable characters.

I rewatched The Great Escape, I haven’t seen it in forever.

Still one of the best heist movies of all time. The only shame is that they had to make so many of the main characters Americans to get the thing made.

I think Houston has a bit cooler temperature from Dallas due to the proximity to the ocean, but the humidity more than makes up for it.

It’s just impossible to cool down in that kind of climate.