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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Tommy 1/5 - It’s not at all clear how much of this is metaphor and literal. It’s wild that Tina Turner plays a literal sexual iron maiden but none of the huge swings seem to be in the same direction

    The Bride 3/5 - Eh, I don’t know what caused all the Frankenstein stuff to be in the zeitgeist but this is pretty middling

    Ready or Not 4/5 - Good horror with a competent female lead. Great ending too

    Palm Springs 4.5/5 - Something about Groundhog Daying is just so compelling and this is one of the best versions of it. Interesting characters, a little philosophy, some good hyjinks, I’d highly recommend this

    The Napa Boys 4/5 - This is an indie from a group of LA comedians and honestly it’s a little unapproachable. It’s parodying so many things simultaneously it gets hard to know who and what are the butts of the jokes. Still, I was laughing the whole time with 3 other people in my tiny theater and I mostly got the jokes

    How to Make a Killing 2.5/5 - Hahahaha, fuck the rich… except the shittiest one who wins the whole thing? I don’t really understand what the message of this was supposed to be and frankly it didn’t make a ton of sense. I can’t decide if I like Glenn or not

    Project Hail Mary 4.5/5 - Excellent, go see it on a huge screen. Andy Weir writes books to be made into movies and it works here. The movie is more emotional and less sciencey than both the novel and The Martian but it works

    The Sting 4.5/5 - Pretty cleanly establishes the template for the grift. Robert Redford and Paul Newman’s beautiful eyes are the stars of this and it’s hard not to fall in love with those sleazeballs


  • It’s not exactly seasonally appropriate but I think it would be really funny if they were hired by a grumpy old man who was being harassed by ghosts and couldn’t sleep. Then since your players are murderers they’ll probably default to killing the ghosts. As it goes on it becomes apparent they’re killing the ghosts of Christmas future, present, and past in that order and that they’re actually ghost busting for Scrooge. Then depending on the level of the 1 shot you can have him be a scooby-doo villain that they fight after as a lich/demilich/archmage/etc