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Barebottle Brewing Company Tap Room LIVE! – Beer Tasting
It’s Friday and time for another beer tasting and, this time, we are LIVE(!) from the Barebottle Brewery Taproom in Santa Clara, California where we’re tasting five flavors from their “Hoppy Flight”! So, please, go get your favorite beverage, sit down, kick back and enjoy as we do our tasting!
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The 5 Days of Cinco De Mayo: Beer Tasting! – Night 5
Welcome to the final night of our Cinco de Mayo tasting! We are officially celebrating the big day today and finishing up our tasting of 25 different Lager beers from around the United States and the rest of the world! So, please, go get your favorite beverage, sit down, kick
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AEW Dynamite – May 4, 2022: Not A Downward Spiral
AEW Dynamite Date: May 4, 2022 Location: Chesapeake Employers Insurance Arena, Baltimore, Maryland Commentators: Excalibur, Jim Ross, Tony Schiavone I’m not sure how but we’re less than a month away from Double Or Nothing. Last week’s show saw the announcement that CM Punk would be challenging Hangman Page for the
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The 5 Days of Cinco De Mayo: Beer Tasting! – Night 4
Welcome to the fourth night of our Cinco de Mayo tasting! For the next five nights, we will be tasting 25 different Lager beers from around the United States and the rest of the world, doing five beers a night! So, please, go get your favorite beverage, sit down, kick
Film
‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ is a re-hash — but a re-hash with a heart
GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE DIRECTOR: Jason Reitman STARRING: Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Carrie Coon, Logan Kim, Celeste O’Connor, Paul Rudd, Now in theaters GRADE: B- When I think about the fact that nearly 40 years have passed since my grandmother took my 7-year-old self to see Ghostbusters at the Town & Country
‘Halloween Kills’ is a pointless, meandering sequel
HALLOWEEN KILLS DIRECTOR: David Gordon Green STARRING: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney, Nick Castle, Airon Armstrong, Will Patton, Thomas Mann, Jim Cummings, Dylan Arnold, Robert Longstreet, Anthony Michael Hall, Charles Cyphers, Scott MacArthur, Michael McDonald, Ross Bacon, Kyle Richards, Nancy Stephens, Omar J. Dorsey Now
‘No Time to Die’ review: A lot of time for a lot of death
NO TIME TO DIE DIRECTOR: Cary Joji Fukunaga STARRING: Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Rory Kinnear, Jeffrey Wright, Billy Magnussen, Christoph Waltz, David Dencik, Ana de Armas, Dali Benssalah, Lisa Dorah-Sonnet Now in theaters GRADE: C+ If there’s anything I have
‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ review: Polishing a Turd
Zack Snyder’s Justice League DIRECTOR: Zack Snyder STARRING: Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Gal Gadot, Ray Fisher, Jason Mamoa, Ezra Miller, Willem Dafoe, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeremy Irons, Diana Lane, Connie Nielsen, J.K. Simmons Available on HBO Max GRADE: D+ If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million
Television
NCIS: Hawaii – ‘Boom’ review: That’s more like it
NCIS: Hawaii “Boom” Mondays at 10PM on CBS GRADE: B- Last week, we were witness to the fairly boring debut of the new CBS NCIS spin-off, “NCIS: Hawaii” starring Vanessa Lachey. This week, the show manages to turn things around a bit with a nice Five-0 like episode entitled “Boom”.
NCIS: Hawaii – ‘Pilot’ review: I mean…at least it’s set in Hawaii…
NCIS: Hawaii “Pilot” Mondays at 10PM on CBS GRADE: C- Ah, September, you’re here at last to grace us with some new television. And what better way to start than to give us a brand-new TV show set in Hawaii…because what’s not to like about Hawaii? CBS has had nothing
‘The Twilight Zone’ Season 2 Episode 10 Review: “You Might Also Like”
THE TWILIGHT ZONE Season 2, Episode 10 “You Might Also Like” Available on CBS All-Access GRADE: A- Housewife Jane Warren is stuck in a tree. She’s unable to move because one of her legs is tied to a medicine ball which is also tied to a large chair from her
‘The Twilight Zone’ Season 2 Episode 9 Review: “Try, Try”
THE TWILIGHT ZONE Season 2, Episode 9 “Try, Try” Available on CBS All-Access GRADE: B- Let’s just get this out of the way, it’s like watching Groundhog Day…if it were hosted like a CNN interview and limited to one location. “Try, Try” is the penultimate episode of the second season
Gaming
“Mystery Science Theater: Pinball Peril” is gorgeous to look at, yet so shallow
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Pinball Peril (Based on Taito’s “Polar”) RELEASE DATE: September 8th, 2021 EMULATOR: Visual Pinball 10.6 or higher, PinMAME 3.3 or higher ARTIST(S): Mark Paulik (based on JPSalas’s “Polar” table) HARDWARE: Windows PC with an Intel i5 Quad-Core processor with a Nvidia GTX 960 or higher graphics
Food & Drink
Barebottle Brewing Company Tap Room LIVE! – Beer Tasting
It’s Friday and time for another beer tasting and, this time, we are LIVE(!) from the Barebottle Brewery Taproom in Santa Clara, California where we’re tasting five flavors from their “Hoppy Flight”! So, please, go get your favorite beverage, sit down, kick back and enjoy as we do our tasting!
Culture
AEW Dynamite – May 4, 2022: Not A Downward Spiral
AEW Dynamite Date: May 4, 2022 Location: Chesapeake Employers Insurance Arena, Baltimore, Maryland Commentators: Excalibur, Jim Ross, Tony Schiavone I’m not sure how but we’re less than a month away from Double Or Nothing. Last week’s show saw the announcement that CM Punk would be challenging Hangman Page for the
Film
Stuff I Watch in December: Home Alone – The Holiday Heist (2013)
Happy Holidays and welcome! We are counting down the days until December 25th and, in that time, I will be reviewing each and every Christmas/holiday film I watch during the month. They’re mostly a selection of films in my own library or films and shows that have been recommended to
Stuff I Watch in December: Iron Man 3 (2013)
Happy Holidays and welcome! We are counting down the days until December 25th and, in that time, I will be reviewing each and every Christmas/holiday film I watch during the month. They’re mostly a selection of films in my own library or films and shows that have been recommended to
Stuff I Watch in December: The Holiday (2006)
Happy Holidays and welcome! We are counting down the days until December 25th and, in that time, I will be reviewing each and every Christmas/holiday film I watch during the month. They’re mostly a selection of films in my own library or films and shows that have been recommended to
Stuff I Watch in December: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Happy Holidays and welcome! We are counting down the days until December 25th and, in that time, I will be reviewing each and every Christmas/holiday film I watch during the month. They’re mostly a selection of films in my own library or films and shows that have been recommended to