Category: Reviews
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Review: A Natural History of Empty Lots by Christopher Brown
Earlier this year a good friend gave me a book, “A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places” by Christopher Brown. The book follows Brown primarily, occasionally including members of family, after he moved to Austin, Texas and purchased an empty lot in an industrial section…
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Random Movie/TV Thoughts and Reviews (July 2026)
Spartacus: House of Ashur (2025) is a continuation of the original Spartacus series from 2010 in which Ashur is given an alternate fate than received in the original. This allows a reimagined story ending and launch into the new that finds himself dominus of the very ludus that had previously owned him. Rather than just…
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Starfleet Academy; The Review
Starfleet Academy (SA), the latest TV show in the Star Trek line, debuted this year with a lot of fanfare and a fair share of drama. The show almost immediately hit the news with cries of it being “too woke”. The Washington Times headline called it a “woke culture war casualty” and Outkick said the…
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We Are Legion (We Are Bobservations); Answering a “Simple” Question
In late February, a friend linked an article about a science-fiction book and asked if I had read it. I told her that I hadn’t but after reading an abstract it sounded good. She asked if I would be her designated reader due to her workload, and report back. I said sure! She was particularly…
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Random Movie/TV Thoughts and Reviews (March 2026)
Afterburn (2025) – When will we have a movie with shotguns that don’t send people flying back 10 to 20 feet?! Is that so much to ask for? Not that this was the movie to do it, given how ridiculous it was. Set six years after a solar flare creates a dystopian future, where “food…
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Random Movie/TV Thoughts and Reviews (February 2026)
Reviews One Battle After Another (2025) is the kind of movie, to me, that seems to have everything right; good acting, interesting plot, good character development. And yet somehow it just doesn’t click for me. I understand why it would win an award for any given acting role, but overall as a movie I think…
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Random Movie/TV Thoughts and Reviews (January 2026)
Reviews I finished Trigger (2025), a Korean cop/crime/action series that was pretty good. The most interesting aspect was the entire premise that is “what if guns flooded into South Korea?” So it basically becomes a gun epidemic that the police are fighting which is obviously a stark contrast to the United States. It’s simple, yet…
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Random Movie/TV Thoughts and Reviews (December 2025)
Reviews Bad Words (2013) – I somehow missed this movie from a good while ago, but it is hysterical!. Full of over-the-top adult humor yet it delivers not just in comedy, but with a fun story. It’s always amusing, to me at least, when you have an adult / kid duo that involves corrupting the…
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Random Movie/TV Thoughts and Reviews (November 2025)
Reviews Obliterated, a TV series on Netflix made me wonder early on as the presentation image used on the platform to represent the show has several people walking forward confidently, but several of them ultimately have nothing to do with the actual show? Why is that, what is going on? Anyway, as far as the…
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Random Movie/TV Thoughts and Reviews (May 2024)
I haven’t had time to do clean write-up reviews of various movies every time, so here are some random thoughts about recent content. In no particular order… Netflix: Heart of the Hunter is advertised as “John Wick, but in Africa”. No, not even close. Just a string of cliches and not even well done at…