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Noel J. Penaflor

#Watching M3GAN 2.0

Relatively fun if overly long sequel. There are times when it feels like it's amping up the greatest hits from the original at the effect of narrative momentum. You can see why it got crushed at the box office by Brad Pitt driving a car and dinosaurs.

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letterboxd.comA ★★★ review of M3GAN 2.0 (2025)Relatively fun if overly long sequel. Eschews whatever horror roots it had back in 2023 to be an sci-fi thriller and does its best saddled/shackled with a PG-13 rating. There are times when it feels like it's amping up the greatest hits from the original at the effect of narrative momentum. You can see why it got crushed at the box office by Brad Pitt driving a car and dinosaurs. If you liked the original you'll like this one a little less. But at least you can dance to it. 4 Horror Movies Like M3gan 2.0 That Have Numbers Embedded
Strypey

#Watching a #MentalOutlaw video that mentions the TPM 2.0 module in the official hardware requirements for Windows 11;

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As you might have guessed, I have thoughts.

TL;DR You don't need to buy a TPM module, or new hardware that has one. Keep your existing PC and replace MS Widows with a reputable GNU/Linux OS. It'll keep working for years with guaranteed software updates, and no viruses, and it'll probably run faster,

(1/?)

PeerTubeThis Isn't The Desktop Linux Victory We WantedBy Mental Outlaw
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Noel J. Penaflor

#Watching RIFF RAFF

Tonally all over the place crime "comedy" with a cast that keeps you more or less invested while the bullets fly.

Feels like an early aughties Guy Ritchie movie but the dialogue's less inane and the actors have a lot more range.

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letterboxd.comA ★★★ review of Riff Raff (2024)Tonally all over the place crime "comedy" with a cast that keeps you more or less invested while the bullets fly. Feels like an early aughties Guy Ritchie movie but the dialogue's less inane and the actors have a lot more range. Bill Murray stands as a mob boss on a New Year's road trip. You wonder why he wasn't cast as a heavy more often. The surprisingly eclectic cast gets one exposition flashback each even if it stops the narrative momentum. Nothing groundbreaking, but you've seen worse. For those of you who just want to hear Jennifer Coolidge say
Noel J. Penaflor

#Watching THE WOMAN IN THE YARD

88-minutes PG-13 horror that's all portent and setup leading to a halfway decent ending. You're not sure it's worth the time it took to get there but again, it's barely 90 minutes.
Most of the scares and tropes (THE CAR WON'T START) are of the Smile generic sort but at least the movie knows to keep you awake.

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letterboxd.comA ★★½ review of The Woman in the Yard (2025)This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.
Noel J. Penaflor

#Watching THE OLD GUARD 2

With an ending the movie does not earn and 12 minutes worth of credits making you wonder how so many crew members could make something so mediocre.

Charlize Theron tries her best to make you care, but while she emotes you wonder what else is on Netflix. After wasting money on this you can expect yet another Netflix price hike.

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letterboxd.comA ★★½ review of The Old Guard 2 (2025)Thoroughly generic action movie most of the cast sleepwalks through. Most of OG 2 is talking heads with occasional perfunctory action. With an ending the movie does not earn and 12 minutes worth of credits making you wonder how so many crew members could make something so mediocre. Charlize Theron tries her best to make you care, but while she emotes you wonder what else is on Netflix. After wasting money on this you can expect yet another Netflix price hike. 5 Streaming Services Along With the Eldritch Demons That Inhabit Them! (Link Below) hub.me/aoAdV
Noel J. Penaflor

#Watching THE HEAT

Bullock and McCarthy's verbal and physical comedy more than make you wish there was a sequel. C'mon, Sandy! You did Speed 2 and Miss Congeniality 2. Your sequel standards cannot be that high.

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letterboxd.comA ★★★½ review of The Heat (2013)Thomas F. Wilson could live to be 200 and play hundreds of different characters but he'll always be Biff Tannen. Every time he appears onscreen you hear the audience silently mouth "Biff". Standard buddy comedy with startling (but still funny) levels of violence. The chemistry between Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy keeps this movie afloat. The movie almost doesn't need a plot but just has one so these characters can get to point A to B to C. Bullock and McCarthy's verbal and physical comedy more than make you wish there was a sequel. C'mon, Sandy! You did Speed 2
Noel J. Penaflor

#Watching SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED

Low to no budget time travel comedy lives on its charm and performances.

Aubrey Plaza killed a PA and they worked it into the story.

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letterboxd.comA ★★★½ review of Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)Low to no budget time travel comedy lives on its charm and performances. Aubrey Plaza and Mark Duplass give relatively modulated performances while Jake Johnson is in this playing Jake Johnson. You forgive the lack of special effects because you're laughing more often than not. Proof that imagination means more than budget, a very good indie film is more or less guaranteed. Aubrey Plaza killed a PA and they worked it into the story.
Noel J. Penaflor

#WATCHING I DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU

The best horror movie from a director with three first names (David Joseph Craig).

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letterboxd.comA ★★½ review of I Don't Understand You (2024)The best horror movie from a director with three first names (David Joseph Craig). Labeled "horror" but it's more a (muted) Coen Brothers black comedy. Takes the entire first act for the movie to start. More than once you wonder when it's going to get "Good". After 45 minutes you finally get the predictably unpredictable violence you've waited half the movie for. Nick Kroll and Andrew Rannells have excellent comedic reactions to some of the bloodier sequences. If you're willing to wait a full hour in a 90 minute movie then you'll laugh a handful of times even though it
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Noel J. Penaflor

#Watching F1

F1 = Fun or F1N in honor of the M3gan sequel.

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letterboxd.comA ★★★ review of F1 The Movie (2025)From the HEART AND SOUL of the guy that did, um, Tron Legacy. You don't go into a movie like F1 for plot or character development. You go to see the vroom vroom cars go round and round and *checks notes* around again. To that end F1 is worth every penny you spend to see this on the biggest screen possible. I don't even watch racing and I was into it more than I was expecting. Brad Pitt charms his way on to the racetrack and into everyone's hearts. Javier Bardem creams his cullotes over another possible white savior (see:
Noel J. Penaflor

#Watching DEATHDREAM

Bob Clark's mid-70s horror movie is affecting at times and at times feel like a heavy-handed allegory about Vietnam.

Andy is a kid killed in Vietnam until he's not because his overbearing Karen of a mother really, really, wants him alive and she''ll speak to however managers she needs to speak to in order to make it happen.

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letterboxd.comA ★★★ review of Dead of Night (1974)Bob Clark's mid-70s horror movie is affecting at times and at times feel like a heavy-handed allegory about Vietnam. Andy is a kid killed in Vietnam until he's not because his overbearing Karen of a mother really, really, wants him alive and she''ll speak to however managers she needs to speak to in order to make it happen. Ostensibly horror, but feelsl ike a dysfunctional family drama with some zombie tropes dipped in. Walter Sobchak would love this movie so much he'd shoot the TV.
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