Review Tuesday: Superman - 2025

 

 

SUPERMAN

2025 

Superman has to save the day after his first defeat. 

There has been an enormous amount of controversy around this film. I wanted to get to the bottom of it all in my mind.  

 

The movie starts off with a minimum of exposition. Superman was just dealt his first defeat. It happened as the consequence of his intervention of a local war. The rest of the movie is about Superman realizing his destiny while being hindered by Lex Luthor every step of the way. 

 

 

 

Let's start from the top. This isn't a typical reboot. It feels like a picking up an issue of a Superman comic. Just another story. The only really big twist is the emphasis on family. They made a modification on his originally intended purpose. Other than that, he's the usual boy scout we know and love.   

 

 

 

Superman / Clark Kent is played expertly by David Corenswet. The only thing that he is guilty of doing wrong is being in some bad promo photos. Otherwise he looks and acts the role well. Nicholas Hoult played a most believable and HATEFUL Lex Luthor.  

 

This struck me as your typical James Gunn superhero film. It's polished, makes sense, great action scenes, and tugs at the heart strings. And it's loaded with jokes, sarcasm, and one-liners so it doesn't get dull. 

 

 

 

To address this movie being woke - I don't see it. I can see how people might MISINTERPRET certain things into a woke meaning, but that's more of a symptom of of modern fan abuse. The audience has been subjected to so many woke and political messages packed into our beloved nerd films that it's practically expected at this point. So if you want it to interpret it as some woke political message, go for it, but I didn't see it that way.

 

 

 

Other things worth mentioning. Lois Lane, played by Rachel Brosnahan, is an amazing character. She's loyal, smart, and sexy. Great choice. Nathan Fillion is HILARIOUS as Green Lantern Guy Gardner. Mikaela Hoover is is distractingly hot as reporter Cat Grant. Edi Gathegi stole the show as Mr. Terrific. Actually, the entire cast is pretty great. And the entire movie was a lot of fun. And I would say this is definitely a good movie worth watching.  

 

*** 

 

SPOILER ALERT

 

***

 

I only have ONE gripe / spoiler about this movie. For what ever the reason, they decided to change the reason Superman was sent to Earth. I feel that entire scene could've been changed and made that it was a doctored recording. Why change one of the most basic aspects of Superman's origin story?   

   

Review Tuesday: Ash (2025)

  

 

ASH

2025

A woman awakes to find that her entire crew dead on an alien planet.

Okay, my best friend suggested watching this movie. Eiza Gonzalez is really easy on the eyes so I agreed. 

 

Riya (Eiza Gonzalez) awakes, covered with blood and no memory of how it got there. The rest of the movie is about her teaming up with Brion (Aaron Paul) to figure out how the entire crew ended up murdered in grisly ways and how to get off planet before running out of air. 

 

This wasn't a bad idea, and the film looked pretty refined. It's almost the same story as ALIEN. The trouble is that it seemed to drag at points. A movie that is only 95 minutes should feel like it was too long, but it was. With some better editing this movie could be quite good. AS is, I would call it okay. Like I said, Eiza Gonzalez is really easy on the eyes  

 

  

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

lese majesty \LEZ MAJ-uh-stee, LEEZ-\, noun:

1. Law. a. a crime, especially high treason, committed against the sovereign power. b. an offense that violates the dignity of a ruler.
2. an attack on any custom, institution, belief, etc., held sacred or revered by numbers of people: Her speech against Mother's Day was criticized as lese majesty.

This term, which entered English in the 1400s, comes from the Latin laesa majestos, which literally means "violated majesty."

 
cad 

• A rogue, or bounder. A cad is a man who is aware of the codes of conduct which seperate a gentleman from a ruffian, but finds himself unable to quite live up to them. Cads are quite capable of disguising themselves as good chaps for some time, only revealing their true nature in circumstances of particular stress or temptation. Others embrace their caddishness whole-heartedly and delight in behaving in a manner which is, to be quite frank, not cricket. They are certainly intelligent, educated, often cultured and frequently very witty, but, alas, are simply unreliable.

"Even by the standards of Permanent Secretaries, Appleby really was rather a cad."

wog { /wäg/ (n.) offensive slang. 1925-30, from 'Golliwogg': a 19th century blackface doll; or alternately, an acronym of '(W)orthy (O)riental (G)entleman' } 

British English: 

1. *racist* a black African or dark-skinned South Asian (usually Indian or Pakistani)
2. *Anglocentric* a non-Briton or non-Englishman: "The wogs start at Calais" (across the English Channel in France) -- British proverb

Australian English: 

1. a non-Anglo-Celtic European, esp. from Southern or Eastern Europe (e.g. Greek, Italian, Balkan, Slavic, etc.)
2. an Asian, esp. a West Asian (e.g. Lebanese, Turkish, Armenian, Iranian, etc.), but now also inclusive of South Asians and Pacific Islanders

USAGE: Until 1973 Australia had a white-only immigration policy, so the term used mainly as a racial slur in Britain was applied to ethnic European immigrants of the post-WWII "populate or perish" era. By now it has greatly lost its sting, and many ethnic Australians have reclaimed it as a jocular term, with some cleverly riffing on it (e.g. 'clog wog' for a Dutchman, 'frog wog' for a Frenchman). Since the 70s, the wog label has been extended to include newer immigrants arriving from the Middle East and other parts of Asia, and many have come to identify strongly with it, facing resistance from more assimilated European wogs who harbor racist and anti-Muslim attitudes. The term is almost completely unknown in the United States and Canada, but in Britain it remains extremely offensive, somewhat akin to 'nigger'.

 

History

• margarine: Hippolyte Mège Mouriés got a patent for the butter substitute in France (1869)
• Reconstruction: Georgia became the last of the Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union after the American Civil War (1870)
• Second Battle of the Marne: World War I fight began; the Allies' victory halted the German advance toward Paris (1918)
• MSNBC: the 24-hour all-news network debuted on cable TV and the Internet (1996)
• the Mozilla Foundation: was founded to govern development of the open source Mozilla project; it's the creator of the Firefox browser and other web products (2003)

Birthdays

• Rembrandt Van Rijn 1606
• Clement Clarke Moore 1779
• William Winter 1836
• Dorothy Fields 1905
• Richard W. Armour 1906
• Cowboy Copas 1913
• Philip Carey 1925
• Non Clow Martin 1927
• Clive Cussler 1931
• Julian Bream 1933
• Alex Karras 1935
• Ken Kercheval 1935
• Patrick Wayne 1939
• Tommy Dee 1940
• Millie Jackson 1944
• Jan-Michael Vincent 1944
• Peter Lewis 1945 - Musician (Moby Grape)
• Linda Ronstadt 1946
• Peter Banks 1947 - Musician (YES)
• Trevor Horn 1949 - Musician (Buggles, YES)
• Jesse Ventura 1951
• Rick Kehoe 1951
• Terry O'Quinn 1952 - Actor ("Lost")
• Jeff Carlisi 1952 - Musician (.38 Special)
• David Pack 1953 - Musician (Ambrosia)
• Joe Satriani 1956 - Musician
• Marc Bell 1956 - Musician (The Ramones)
• Ian Curtis 1956 - Musician (Joy Division)
• Kim Alexis 1960
• William Aames 1960
  
• Forest Whitaker 1961
• Lolita Davidovich 1961
• Brigitte Nielsen 1963 - Actress
• Phillip Fisher 1967 - Musician (Fishbone)
• Stan Kirsch 1968
• Beth Ostrosky Stern 1972
• Scott Foley 1972
• Brian Austin Green 1973 (former Mr Megan Fox) 
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Pamela Laveux

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Monday, July 14, 2025

snood \snood\, noun:

1. a netlike hat or part of a hat or fabric that holds or covers the back of a woman's hair.
2. a headband for the hair.
3. the distinctive headband formerly worn by young unmarried women in Scotland and northern England.
4. the pendulous skin over the beak of a turkey.

verb:

1. to bind or confine (the hair) with a snood.

Snood comes from the Old English term snod meaning "ribbon for the hair."

 
Piss Angle

• Piss angle is an intense math calculation that dudes use when trying not to get back-sprayed while pissing into a urinal. Pissing against the back wall of the urinal at a 90 degree angle will cause extreme backspray. Thus, a man must strategically place his piss stream onto the side wall of the urinal, preferably at less than 20 degrees to prevent getting back-sprayed.

Dude why are your pants all wet? 
Dude I was pissing in the urinal, and I forgot to adjust my Piss Angle 
Bro, never forget to adjust your Piss Angle

I gotta go take a piss guys 
Mind your Piss Angle, Bro!

 

Sexting

• The unauthorized, non-maritime use of sextants in our schools.

"My friend Katy said we were going to drive up to Mile Rise, because some older boys wanted to determine its exact position relative to the moon. I didn't want to tell my mom what we were doing, because she doesn't approve of sexting, so I told her I was staying over at Katy's house."

  

 

History

• Sedition Act: Congress passed a law prohibiting publishing false, scandalous or malicious writing against the US government (1798)
• the Matterhorn: the Swiss-Italian Alp was first scaled, by British mountaineer Edward Whymper (1865) 
• Billy the Kid: the 21-year-old outlaw was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in New Mexico (1881)
• Sacco and Vanzetti: the two infamous anarchists were convicted of murder and sentenced to death (1921)
• Mariner 4: spacecraft performed the first flyby of another planet and sent back the first pictures of the surface of Mars (1965)
• large denominations of US currency: were officially discontinued by the Federal Reserve System, leaving the $100 bill as the largest unit of circulating currency (1969)

Birthdays

• Andrea del Sarto 1486
• Emmeline Pankhurst 1858
• Florence Bascom 1862
• William Leefe Robinson 1895
• Ken Murray 1903
• Irving Stone 1903
• Gloria Stuart 1910
• William Hanna 1910
• Terry-Thomas 1911
• Woody Guthrie 1912
• Gerald Rudolph Ford (U.S.) 1913 

  
• Douglas Edwards 1917
• Ingmar Bergman 1918
• Arthur Laurents 1918 - Playwright ("West Side Story," "Gypsy")
• Frances Lear 1923
• Dale Robertson 1923
• Harry Dean Stanton 1926 - Actor
• John Chancellor 1927
• Nancy Olson 1928
• Polly Bergen 1930 - Actress, singer
• Del Reeves 1932
• Roosevelt "Rosey" Grier 1932 - Football player
• Karel Gott 1939
  Sid Haig 1939 - Actor
  
• Spencer Davis 1941
• Vincent Pastore 1946 - Actor ("The Sopranos")
• Chris Cross 1952
• Jerry Houser 1952
• Eric Laneuville 1952
• Jane Lynch 1960 - Actress ("Glee")
• Jackie Earle Haley 1961
• Darrelle Revis 1961 - Actor
• Matthew Fox 1966 - Actor ("Lost", "Party of Five")
• Tonya Donelly 1966 - Musician (Belly)
• Missy Gold 1970 - Actress
• Tameka Cottle 1975 - (Xscape)
• Taboo (Jaime Luis Gomez) 1975 - Rapper/singer (Black Eyed Peas)
• Scott Porter 1979 - Actor ("Friday Night Lights")