“Ass, comma, sounds like this job is a pain in the.”

broderic on September 21, 2026

Hope

Hope’s final fifteen minutes confused me. I thought it was just a straight up sci-fi thriller, action film, but it turned out to be the opening chapter of a series of movies. A trilogy? Two movies? Who knows? I went in thinking it was a self-contained universe, but left with a large universe to reckon with.

The last half even had no explanation of who was who or what was what. We just know that the aliens didn’t want to see some dude explode. Who that alien dude was only the writer knows. We’ll find out in part 2.

I think everyone going in wasn’t expecting it to be continued. It made people hate it for that.

3 of 5 stars.

“Taxi cabs. That would be under ‘Yellow, comma, things that are.'”

broderic on September 21, 2026

Coyote vs. Acme

Coyote vs. Acme was withheld from theaters a few years back because Warner Bros., the distributor, thought to save money by not releasing it. No film in theater and no money spent for anything. They took a tax write off. But the movie was already finished and a lot of people complained. So here we are in 2026 it finally got released. Was it worth it?

No.

The movie was terrible with a very D-list cast. Not that anyone was bad, but no one but the Road Runner, the Coyote, and Will Forte are well known. Not that the rest were bad just that I never heard of them at all. I hope though they get some work from this.

The movie just didn’t have enough comedy to make me laugh.

2 of 5 stars.

“My cat is getting a hysterectomy.”

broderic on September 21, 2026

The End of Oak Street

The End of Oak Street was set in the eighties. I felt like a movie you would’ve watched in the eighties. You would’ve seen the trailer and wanted to watch dinosaurs roaming a neighborhood. You would’ve taken a matinee to see dinosaurs ravage a neighborhood. You would’ve loved it.

It had the feel of the eighties with a story you would not have known about before hand. You would be surprised and amused at the film Then you get to the see some dinosaurs sexing on a house. Or you get to see someone get chomped up (SPOILER ALERT!).

It was good fun. An enjoyable movie. You get you’re money’s worth.

3 of 5 stars.

“They’re not going to fire everyone. They’ll probably just… hold us all to our contracts and change the format to Soft Rock of the Seventies until we get so sick of hearing ‘Afternoon Delight’ that we kill ourselves and they hire new people to fill our positions.”

broderic on September 28, 2025

Freakier Friday

Overall it was fun and I was happy that Lindsay Lohan is making a comeback. I liked the fact that it was a double/triple/quadruple switch. I saw it too long ago to finish out this blog post with something positive. So I’ll just end it here.

3 of 5 stars.

“And this is my cabin.” “Looks more like a rustic convention center than a cabin, sir.” “Well, I bought 50 cabins, dismantled them and then reassembled them into one big-ass cabin.”

broderic on September 14, 2025

Link of the Day [9.14.25]

Trump ruins everything he’s touched, and yet he’s winning. We? We’re losing.

With the removal of the “de minimus” rule because of the ongoing tariffs, it makes it harder to justify purchasing Nogizaka good from Japan. I mean BluRays are crazy expensive already, but add some sort of tariff/tax/VAT on shipping to the US, it will just push the price of Yoda’s graduation concert BluRay or the upcoming 13th Birthday Live release into an another realm.

Should I buy them? I’ve weighed it in my mind and I lean towards no. They may end up being 400 dollars!

I hate this present and president. We need more patriots to take aim and take them down.

https://www.404media.co/its-just-a-mess-23-people-explain-how-tariffs-have-suddenly-ruined-their-hobby/

“Hello, children. Welcome to the magical world of radio.” “Shut up, Spaz!”

broderic on September 12, 2025

Link of the Day [9.12.25]

I like programming in Perl, so the title of this Wired article is a bit hyperbolic. I like Perl’s regular expressions. I use it every day especially with the grep replacement, ack. It’s written in Perl and I like that it allows me to search with Perl regular expression.

I’ve been trying to write my programming thesis in Perl. One day it will happen.

https://www.wired.com/story/programmers-arent-humble-anymore-nobody-codes-in-perl/

“No desk, no dinner… Land of Opportunity my ass!”

broderic on September 29, 2024

Going back to my favorite topic, Nogizaka46. Here we got one of their videos on their YouTube channel — the one that shows members checking out their past costumes from their daily uniforms to their concert costumes and everything in between. It’s a nostalgia tour.

What did you find interesting? Do you want me to point out my favorites? Too bad, I’ll do so any way. Nanmin’s gold track suit. The 14th single uniform. Any uniform with a jacket. These are ones I like. In the future there will be many more.

“Eww. Has anyone ever actually eaten one of those dried-up, old leathery specimens?”

broderic on September 27, 2024

As we exit September (News Radio Quote Month!) and enter October, the month of spooks, let’s celebrate with Nogizaka46 back when they had Halloween Concerts… ENJOY!

From 2015 and right around the time I was beginning my Nogizaka46 fan journey. This is the 13th single senbatsu which in the end is my classic lineup. None of these members are here today, and I still love the group. Lately, there music hasn’t been my favorite, so watching this really reminds me that their music always was first with me (Popipapapa aside).

“You’ve gotten soft. You’re like one of those police dogs who’s released into the wild and gets eaten by a deer or something.”

broderic on September 22, 2024

Pixar is in trouble with sequelitis and Inside Out 2 is another example of that terribleness. It lacks the emotion of its predecessor. Funny, that, considering that there were additional emotions added to the four from the first film. Every new one was funnier than the new emotional antagonist. Ennui and embarrassment were fun. Anxiety not so much. The additions were not enough to make me like the film.

2 of 5 stars.