2026 Movies and TV Shows

I've been watching Stuart Fails to Save the Universe. It's totally different from The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon, and Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage. It sort of reminds me of the old TV show Sliders. Mainly it's stupidly entertaining, but I'll keep watching it. Plus, it's great seeing some of the original cast members. I think the only cast members who haven't appeared yet are Sheldon, Leonard, Howard, and Amy. I don't know if Priya might count, since she was on toward the end of the series.
 
It's greeting seeing Ted Lasso back, I still need to do a marathon watch on the old seasons.
 
There’s one game show that’s been on for nearly a month. I just started watching it, Nation’s Dumbest, and the contestants are:

  • JoJo Siwa
  • Ice-T
  • Steve-O
  • Hilaria Baldwin
  • Andrew Yang
  • Carmen Electra
  • Anthony Michael Hall
  • Chase Hudson
  • Matt Leinart
  • Jon Heder
  • Dr. Drew Pinsky
  • Elle King
The show is pretty entertaining. The leaderboard shifts throughout the competition: correct answers move a celebrity up by earning more stars, while wrong answers can send them down into the danger zone.

There are different types of challenges, including:
  • Logic & Lateral Thinking: Puzzles like “Mayer’s 2 Ropes” test basic problem-solving and everyday reasoning.
  • Grade-School Pop Quizzes: Nostalgic trivia covering things like geography, spelling, zoology, and history.
  • Physical Gym Class Tasks: Fast-paced games involving coordination, balance, and physical agility, such as spinning-wheel challenges.
  • The Final Exam: The lowest-performing contestants face a high-stakes final test to see who avoids—or earns—the ultimate unwanted title.
  • Graduation: The best-performing (or least “dumb”) contestants can safely graduate from the episode early.
It’s basically a bunch of celebrities being put through tests that you’d expect them to have learned in grade school, and watching them struggle with some of the questions is what makes it so entertaining.
 
Wolf said:
  • Carmen Electra
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This woman (in the 90's) was a genius and perfect in every way.

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And she was a physicist:



What an epic Bond line: "I thought Christmas only comes once a year". Hahahahah. Bond was so corny good.
 
I had a nice time at the Tuesday movie today with my Monica Barbero movie. "One Night Only" I was served by my favorite free Popcorn lady I had not seen in a few months, but I did not buy anything extra like a hotdog or soda. I had this movie circled on my calendar since early May when I saw the pin up poster, but the previews did not look so good. But it was a really cute idea: Unmarried couples could not have sex except for one night in the year. Maya Hawke was also in the movie as well as Molly Ringwald and Levar Burton played the parents. And they had phone photos of Chris Hemsworth (who was in the last Monica Barbero movie) and Sydney Sweeney. And musical background from Arlo Parks and The Jungle. It turned out to be surprisingly better than the previews. I would call it the Sleeper of the Year #3.

This week I also saw The Family Plan 2 on Apple TV. It was good with the ending credits by Benson Boone's "Mr Electric Blue" Apple shows most of the ending credit before it cuts to the next movie/show. I think I saw The Family Plan on Apple TV too. That one was better than 2

I am still debating if I want to go see "The Odessey" since it is 3 hours long, but it should still be around for at least another two weeks
 
JHDK said:
And she was a physicist:



What an epic Bond line: "I thought Christmas only comes once a year". Hahahahah. Bond was so corny good.
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I thought that was Denise Richards
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Going back to my movie on Tuesday "One Night Only", it was a bit like "Nick n Nora's Infinite Playlist"
An overnight adventure with New York City as the setting
 
Madison said:
I thought that was Denise Richards
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Going back to my movie on Tuesday "One Night Only", it was a bit like "Nick n Nora's Infinite Playlist"
An overnight adventure with New York City as the setting
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You are correct, sir.
 
1. A Bay Of Blood ( 1971 )
2. The Strange Vice Of Mrs. Wardh ( 1971 )
3. Strip Nude For Your Killer ( 1975 )
4. Don't Torture A Duckling ( 1972 )
5. Send Help ( 2026 )
6. A New Love In Tokyo ( 1994 )
7. Love Object ( 2003 )
8. Arco ( 2026 )
9. The Howling III : The Marsupials ( 1987 )
10. One Battle After Another ( 2025 )
11. Alien Seed ( 1989 )
12. Alice In Wonderland/Through The Looking Glass ( 1981/1982 )
13. The Evil Of Frankenstein ( 1964 )
14. Tale Of Tales ( 1979 )
15. Vertigo ( 1958 )
16. Allegro Non Troppo ( 1976 )
17. Bubba Ho-Tep ( 2002 )
18. Shotgun ( 1989 )
19. The Fabulous Baron Munchausen ( 1962 )
20. Last Year In Marenbad ( 1962 )
21. Project Hail Mary ( 2026 )
22. The Terribly Sad Princess ( 1968 )
23. The Girl On The Broomstick ( 1972 )
24. The Crimson Kimono ( 1959 )
25. The Mandalorian And Grogu ( 2026 )
26. The Cassandra Cat ( 1963 )
27. Deep Rising ( 1998 )
28. Gojira ( 1954 )
29. The Green Fog ( 2017 )
30. Ikiru ( 1952 )
31. The Ear ( 1970 )
32. The Jackhammer Masscre ( 2004 )
33. Planet Of The Apes ( 1968 )
34. Godzilla VS Hedorah ( 1971 )
35. Picnic At Hanging Rock ( 1975 )
36. Blood Simple ( 1984 )
37. 9 1/2 Minutes/Clinic/Night Of The Carrots ( 90's )
38. Strangers On A Train ( 1951 )
39. The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant ( 1972 )
40. Ankle Biters ( 2003 )
41. Thunderbolts* ( 2025 )
42. Effects ( 1979 )
43. The Legend Of The Sacred Stone ( 2000 )
44. Suddenly In The Dark ( 1982 )
45. Spiderman : Brand New Day ( 2026 )
46. Bluebeard/Barbe Bleue ( 2009 )
47. Spiderman : Brand News Day ( 2026...2nd viewing )
48. Feeding Billy ( 1995 )
49. Jabberwocky ( 1977 )
50. The Long Goodbye ( 1973 )

Getting caught up from the last couple weeks again. The "Feeding Billy" screening was especially fun, because it was a local production. After seeing it projected from a VHS copy, there was a Q&A with the director & a couple other guys who were in it. Lots of fun stories about a buncha kids in the mid-90's making a shitty, no-budget horror movie.
 
I'm noting a troubling trend. When the Mrs. and I are looking for new shows to watch, I check-out the ratings from Rotten Tomatoes. And while many people liked Widow's Bay (rated 98% by critics and 92% by audiences), we thought it was just weird, meandering, and unsatisfying. I couldn't rationalize the disconnect between the near perfect reviews and the impression the show left us.

Well, now we're two-thirds through Ride or Die on Amazon Prime TV, with Octavia Spencer and Hannah Waddingham (rated 98% by critics and 84% by audiences on Rotten Tomatoes), and I've been wanting to bail since episode 2. Oddly, Mrs. Scotch, who can't watch any of the plentiful gory scenes, wants to "hang in there"; most likely because she's guessing that I want to get through it. Also, we've got nothing else to watch, other than a once-a-week episode of Ted Lasso (also with Hannah Waddingham).

I've seen other review sites (like Variety), where they give it a middling review. It seems like Rotten Tomatoes is like Florida in the winter; it's "hit or miss".
 
I skipped my Senior classic movie on Monday but made it for my Tuesday $6 movie at the theater. I saw "The Brink of War" based on the Ronald Reagan/Mikhail Gorgachev arms talks. Much to my surprise, I saw Barry from "The Big Bang Theory" and the Stuart show. I said Hey what is he doing here this is a serious movie. He played one of Ronald Reagan's advisors. I did not know. I'd be interested in the cost of making this movie as it was pretty much all talk in a few rooms. I stayed interested though it all.
 
The Brink Of War had a production budget of $21,000,000. Eighteen of the 20 days of filming were done at the Höfði House, site of the 1986 summit between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. The production team paid 6,300,000 Icelandic krónur to rent the Höfði House from the city of Reykjavík. In United States dollars, that is $51,325. The movie grossed $2,689,529 in its opening weekend.

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The Höfði building has a very remarkable history. In the 104 years since it was taken into use, there have been consuls, ambassadors, poets, and artists among others, living there. Höfði is today the mayor's reception hall. Höfði house was taken into use in 1909 and has a remarkable history...
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