December Movies - Week 1

Good Afternoon Ladies & Gentlemen,

Thanksgiving was late this year, but also great! Four day weekend of watching football... and maybe a few movies...

November 29 – Poolhall Junkies (2002)
 
This is the timeless tale of a degenerate gambler getting in over his head… but luckily the writer & director is also the star (Mars Callahan) so this normally harrowing tale is really just a venue for displaying little vignettes of hustles, jokes & situations that he can just magically write himself out of. The rest of the cast is stacked with Christopher Walken, Chazz Palminteri, Clint Eastwood’s daughter, Michael Rosenbaum & such… but it’s 2002 as heck & this guys tries to be the next Tarantino… playing pool. Will it work on me?
 
Rating - ???/10 – Everything I Learned from Movies on all the major podcatchers as we’re Walken in a Winter Wonderland all December!!!
 
December 1 – Alien: Romulus (2024)
 
In the not too distant future, due to corporate greed & treachery, a group of young adults find that the only way for them to leave their oppressive status is to hijack a decommissioned spaceship & head to another planet… but they soon find out why the ship was decommissioned… and it’s Xenomorphs. Now, this latest Alien movie is great in that it’s back to the standard horror format as opposed to… whatever the last few Ridley Scott things have been… but pretty simple story, pretty simple plot, fairly predictable, so was it done well?
 
Rating – 9/10 – I really enjoyed it… but hey, I also liked AVP so I’m probably the target demographic
 
December 3 – Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983)
 
We rewatched “The Fall Guy” (2024) for an upcoming episode on another podcast… and as you may know, the movie they’re making is called “Metalstorm” in the movie… but it wasn’t until I was doing a little research that apparently that was based on a little known Full Moon production… which is this movie here. Now, obviously it’s really in name only because in the new movie, they’re doing some weird space cowboy loves an alien revolt saga… but in this one, it’s even advertised as “Star Wars Meets Mad Max” where it’s a desert planet, there’s a warlord that gets power from crystals, a vengeful daughter of a slain scientist, and of course… a race of cyclops… and hijinx ensues. We’ll definitely be talking about this on the podcast in 2025… but just to spoil it a bit…
 
Rating – 8/10 – This was my jam…
 
December 5 – Agatha All Along (2024)
 
Yes, we watched all nine episodes of the Disney+ miniseries about a character from WandaVision years ago & her witchy coven spinoff but… look, Kathryn Hahn was the best part of WandaVision & now they’ve added Aubrey Plaza to the mix… and that was before I knew they were going to be an estranged couple in the series (witchy lesbians?) but will Agatha be able to get her powers back and continue on in the MCU Multiverse… or will we have to rely on some younger, more affordable version of her? I think you know that answer… but will Steve like it?
 
Rating – 8/10 – It wasn’t that bad… the witchy stuff was okay… kinda meh for the most part but also fun at times… just drags out a bit for my liking

Trying to get a few more 2024 movies in for the Stevie Awards... coming soon!!!

​Steve