This week I started watching the new Star Wars series The Acolyte. It has a 4.1 rating on IMDB and I have no idea why because it wasn’t bad at all. I also watched the movie Godzilla Minus One. I found it on Netflix and started watching it not realizing it was actually a Japanese movie dubbed in English. But something about the way it was shot caught my attention, it was a really beautiful looking film and it’s why I continued watching it. Turned out to be pretty good so glad I watched it.
This long weekend I’m going to watch Presumed Innocent which just got released on AppleTV+ and I need to start the new season of The Boys and finish up Clarkson’s Farm and Palm Royale (have like 2 episodes left I think). I might also watch Bad Boys at the theater, but need to find out first if anything is cut or not.
Oh and Netflix just announced “CHESTNUT VS. KOBAYASHI: UNFINISHED BEEF”. I’ve been following their story since before Kobayashi got banned from the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest, and this past week there was a lot of drama because Chestnut was also banned this year because he signed a deal with Nathan’s rival, Impossible Food. In my head yesterday I was thinking both should team up and do their own thing and I woke up this morning to find out Netflix is doing exactly that. It’s going to be such an exciting face-off!
Let me know in the comments what you recently watched or planning to watch.
Movies at the Cinemas
The movies below are now showing at the local cinemas:
New This Week:
Inside Out 2 (8.2)
The Strangers: Chapter 1 (4.7)
Other Movies Showing:
Bad Boys: Ride or Die (6.8)
Dragonkeeper (5.8)
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (8.1)
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (6.5)
IF (6.8)
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (7.4)
Kung Fu Panda 4 (6.4)
Tarot (4.9)
The Garfield Movie (6.0)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Classic/2002) (8.8)
The Watchers (5.7)
The numbers in brackets refer to the IMDB rating at the time of publishing.
9 replies on “Movies & TV Shows to Watch this Long Weekend”
I initially started watching Godzilla minus one in English but quickly realized it sounds boring; so switched to Japanese with English sub-titles and and wow..it felt so much better.
I kept the English dubbing since it gave me an 80s old school Japanese movie feel
+1 for Godzila Minus One especially in the original Japanese audio.
Bad Boys isn’t as butchered – only one particular scene in a strip club is cut to bits. Would recommend for a fun watch
– Presumed Innocent 2 episodes released. exceeded my expectations. loved the cliff-hanger in each episode
– I can’t wait to watch The Boys season 4
– The Acolyte episode 3 was a disappointment
– Dark Matter episode 7 was very nice
– Smiling Friends (2020) animation tv show. season 2 is not as good as season 1 but episode 6 was something else
– The Beast (2023) french movie. I thought it’d be thrilling but was very chill. not recommended
– The Animatrix (2003) 9 short animation films was a waste of time. the animation was beautiful though
What was so disappointing about Acolyte ep3? I thought it was fine. Also, The Animatrix was fantastic; The Second Renaissance Parts 1&2 were the best part of the anthology.
Acolyte ep3? Rushed story and some cheesy moments. Or maybe because I don’t like flashbacks.
I would recommend the new season of Doctor Who on Disney+, so far there are 6 eps (technically 7, because for some reason they added the 2023 xmas special as ep1), and this is a great starting point if you never watched the show before.
I also finished Eric, and it was fine for what it was, but still depressing.
Slumberland was great; a total visual feast.
Batman: Hush was interesting, but it has a different outcome than the original comic book storyline.
Godzilla shocked me at how good it was. There’s a whole big debate now about how did Japan create such a good film with 15 million budget when Hollywood can’t stop releasing flops worth 200-300 million.
15?? Yeah definitely wouldn’t have gotten done in Hollywood for that much