My Two Blessings

  August Reading Log  August 3 :  I spent all day yesterday reading Nalini Singh’s Primal Mirror, #8 in the Psy-Changeling Trinity series. Awesome addition to the series and will say no more as I know others may not have read it yet. “Daughter of two ruthless high-gradient telepaths, Auden Scott is not the child her Psy parents wanted or expected, even before her brain injury. Her thoughts are scattered, her memories fuzzy—or just terrifyingly blank. The only thing she knows for certain is that she must protect her unborn baby…a baby she has no recollection of conceiving and who draws an abnormal intensity of notice from her dead mother’s closest associates. Leopard alpha Remi Denier is a man driven by the primal instinct to protect. Protect his pack, protect his allies… and protect the mysterious woman who has become a most unlikely neighbor. With eerie eyes that see too much and a scent that alters in ways disturbing and impossible, Auden Scott is the enemy…but nothing ...

  Yo. Remember that classic 90s film known as The Mask starring Jim Carrey? Of course you do, I did a review of the movie. Well, get ready for the sequel... without Jim Carrey, but it has Alan Cumming as Loki and Jamie Kennedy as a cartoonist. Oh, and this story is going to be freaking weird, also, it came out in 2005 over 11 years after the OG movie dropped. Alright. So, the film takes place some years after THE MASK ends and Loki shows up, looking for his mask, and terrorizes a museum. Meanwhile, a dog finds The Mask in a river and takes it to his owner, a cartoonist named Tim Avery, who is reluctant to have kids with his wife. Things change when he puts on The Mask at a party, spices things up, and, long story short, he and his wife end up having a baby... WITH CARTOONISH POWERS and this is all because Avery wore The Mask during the little guy's conception. "LOKIIIIIIIIIIII!" Odin calls out to his son, Loki, and tells him a child of The Mask was born. Loki looks everyw...

  Hi, it's me, here to review FANTASTIC FOUR from 2005. Before we start, I have quite the interesting relationship with this movie as this was the first live-action superhero film I ever watched, the first Marvel movie I saw, and one of the first PG-13 rated movies I ever watched. Heck, the first time I watched it in 2009, I was sick and was reading the novelization for the film with my mom at the time. Okay, so what is the story behind this film? Starring Ioan Gruffudd as Mr. Fantastic, Jessica Alba as the Invisible Woman, Chris Evans (the future Captain America) as the Human Torch and Michael Chiklis as The Thing, Fantastic Four sees Reed Richards and Ben Grim preparing for a space mission with Victor Von Doom, Sue Storm, and her brother Johnny. During the mission, a solar storm hits ahead of when Reed and Victor initially predicted it and the whole crew is drastically affected by it. After returning to Earth, everyone appears normal, until the effects of the storm kick in as Joh...

  Hello again, true believers, and welcome to my review of 2024's MADAME WEB. For those of you who just got into the Spider-Man comics, if you are out there, Madame Web, real name Cassandra Web, is a mutant with spider powers who observes all Spider-Man related activity in the multiverse and is in charge of the web of destiny (I think) and she's met with Peter during various Spider-Verse adventures in the comics and in the cartoons. Anyway, this film is sort of an origin story for a different Madame Web played by Dakota Johnson. As for the story, allow me to give you a brief rundown: In the early 2000s, three girls, whose names are Julia, Anya, and Mattie, are targeted by a man with spider powers named Ezekiel Sims, who has visions about the trio coming to kill him, and Cassandra, who works for a hospital, takes it upon herself to protect them and learns she is dealing with the man who shot her mother before she was born. Oh, and meanwhile, Cassandra's friend Mary Parker is...

  Hellooooooo, Spider-Man fans. We're back with a review of MORBIUS, released in 2022, and starring Jared Leto as Dr. Morbius and Matt Smith as Milo (respectively). Produced by Sony and based on the Marvel comics, MORBIUS bombed at the box office and was negatively received. However, what is the film about? Dr. Michael Morbius carries a blood disease which sees him on crutches, and as he tries to make a cure for himself, he winds up turning into a vampire and attacks people. Later, his brother Milo drinks the infected blood that Dr. Morbius took to go into vampire mode and becomes a vampire himself, setting the stage for a battle between the brothers. In all fairness, despite the issues that people have, Morbius isn't a bad vampire film and is one intense thrill, pushing the PG-13 rating with the vampire-related action. It may not be R-rated, but this film does not hold back with the blood and is scary. Matt Smith, who played the 11th Doctor in Doctor Who, is a treat to watch w...