Watched: The Conjuring: Last Rites 🍿

Not the worst of the Conjuring series but that’s not a huge accomplishment given all the movies since the first have been generally terrible. Add in the misguided attempt to redeem the Warrens and it’s a generally miserable movie.

Watched: The Social Network 🍿

The genesis story of why everything is so terrible today. Everyone in the film is just terrible, and the 15 years since have only proven that out even more.

A true ship of Theseus. Longest serving full time member of Kansas has only been in the band since 2014 and the audience probably had an older average age than the band. Didn’t matter to the guy next to me who had a hell of time.

It’s fine, not particularly memorable, just fine. Drags in the middle but kind of recovers at the end.

It only takes one sweaty Henry Fonda

Finished reading: Bad Company by Megan Greenwell 📚

Finished reading: The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown 📚

The thing about Dan Brown’s Langdon books is they’ve lost the charm of the early ones. Angel & Demons through Inferno had the ability to convince you Robert Langdon was an academic caught up in international conspiracies all the while “enlightening” you about art. But now they’re just kind of ridiculous and a bit too long.

Nick Offerman had way too much fun here.

I don’t hate Rami in it, which is a change of pace. And honestly it’s hard to make a film about Nazis have some legitimately funny parts but they did it.

The movie lost a lot of the charm and context of the book turning it into a basic low-budget slasher. Albeit one that largely avoids the main point of its existence for the entire first half of the video. Given its box office success it’ll probably get some sequels but this was enough for me.

You’re telling me the guy with thousands of dollars in audio equipment is streaming music from Spotify?

I don’t even know honestly

This review may contain spoilers.

The Peter Thiel witch lady has her weapons turned against her in the most gloriously hilarious way possible.

Your standard feel good 1990s movie you’d find on television during a random statue day afternoon. Joe Pesci is a delight the rest is kind of an inferior Good Will Hunting three years early.

It’s a very 90s movie in all the best kind of ways.

Watched on Sunday October 26, 2025.

I love Springsteen, so a biased review. If I didn’t enjoy the music and know more of the backstory it’d be a lower rating.

Finished reading: A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst 📚

Finally nice to have a spot to use the hammock that was bought during the pandemic and sat unused for years.

Finished reading: Death at the White Hart by Chris Chibnall 📚

Phones

I wanted more Benicio

Nic Hoffmann: “We need cultural moments. We need permanence. A society that forgets too quickly invites easy rewriting. In an era of censorship, content removal, demonetization, and deletion, controversial works must exist in owned form. VHS may have been clunky and fragile, but no one could patch, delete, or erase it without leaving scars. It embodied permanence in a way digital platforms refuse. Streaming feels convenient but unstable; tapes remain inconvenient but reassuring.”

The ending was too long

Thou shall not kill Jennifer Love Hewitt.