2034 Olympics on the Way

Good Afternoon Ladies & Gentlemen,

That's right! It was officially announced early this morning (Pioneer Day aka Utah Statehood Day) that the 2034 Winter Olympics will be coming to Salt Lake City for the 1st time since 2002!!! It was kinda known for several months now... but it's good that the IOC didn't pull the ultimate joke & deny us on the state's birthday! Oh... and I saw some movies...

July 19 – Vicious Lips (1986)
 
In the distant future, a lady rock band is given the opportunity to be on the intergalactic stage… all they have to do is make it across the galaxy in less than a day… and as luck would have it, they’ve crashed on a desert planet… and they stole a ship that has a serial killer in the back… hijinx ensue. Okay, this movie is made by Albert Pyun (“Cyborg” & other questionable movies) and this is an early one that apparently he bailed on after filming and was like “Good luck making it a story!” Izzy loves this movie… for some reason… but what do I think about it?
 
Rating - ???/10 – Find out on the Grindbin Podcast where we talked with Mike & Bobby about it!!!
 
July 21 – Dangerously Close (1986)
 
While researching “Vicious Lips”, we found out that the lead actress had a small part in this movie… about a band of rich kids who are hellbent on cleansing their prep school of the unsightly Nair-do-wells… and then after a few kids end up dead or missing, then the others kinda do something about it… sorta… apparently this was a whole genre of movies in the 80s where the jocks were cleaning out the nerds via gestapo tactics or something… but this one has John Stockwell, Carey Lowell (Bond girl debut) & friend of the podcast Anthony DeLongis as a cop in one scene… oh yeah, and directed by Albert Pyun within a few months of Vicious Lips. Oh how the hijinx ensue…
 
Rating – 8/10 – Look, this movie was kinda dumb & predictable… but I had a good time with it… though I’ve never understood the whole bully thing… maybe I’M the bully?
 
July 23 – Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise (2006)
 
Yup, another Jesse Stone movie where Tom Selleck is an aging alcoholic LA cop who moved to small-town Massachusetts because he’s separated from this wife (don’t worry about it) and as luck would have it bodies start falling like Murder She Wrote & Jesse always has a new hot chick to run through casually while going through his mental problems through a bottle of whiskey. In this one, the body of a teenage girl washes up on shore… while a man also beats his wife unrelated… and the mystery is whether the teenage girl was killed by her WASP father, the rich author that she trusts, or the dozens of teenage boys who raw dog her on a weekly basis. Jesse meanwhile has finally decided to see a psychiatrist… who may or may not be him from 10 years in the future (played by William Devane) and hijinx & hilarity ensues. Oh & he’s nailing the schoolmistress who didn’t realize that the dead girl was actually an honor student at her last school but then immediately had issues once moving to town… but hey, that’s not her job… she’s pretty.
 
Rating – 7/10 – That being said, I still kinda like these movies. Tom Selleck is great… Viola Davis too…

The next few weeks are going to be hella busy with Izzy's art shows but... I'll keep you posted when/if I can... until then, HAPPY PIONEER DAY!!!

​Steve