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[Nerdspresso] I Spy a Mediocre Espionage Romp in "Argylle"

This movie is just a collection of spy movie tropes, buoyed by an awesome cast and supreme production values.

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[Nerdspresso] Bad Monkey's Good, Actually!

There’s a good chance that we’ll meet most of these folks again because Bad Monkey has been renewed for a second season.

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[Nerdspresso] Mom's Got a Wild Side in Nightbitch

Maybe the movie is about this first-time mother’s metamorphosis or maybe she’s just dealing with the transition to her next stage of life?

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[Nerdspresso] Did You Get the World for Christmas?

One Christmas gift stands out in my memory. It didn’t start out as monumental, but has grown to mean a lot to me over the years.

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[Nerdspresso] The First Know-What-I-Mean-El?

Ernest Saves Christmas is a collection of pratfalls and dumb jokes wrapped in Christmas paper.

Kirk, McCoy, and Spock aboard the USS Enterprise.

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[Nerdspresso] I Have Seen The Future - It's Very Beige

The massive success of Star Wars lit a fire under every studio executive as they searched for sci-fi stories for their own blockbusters. And now as a diehard devotee of laser guns and spaceships, I couldn’t have been happier.

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[Nerdspresso] Nutcrackers: A Bittersweet Holiday Treat

Nutcrackers is billed as a holiday family comedy, but that’s just the wrapping this gift comes in.

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[Nerdspresso] Drinking Raindrops While Talking to Gorillas on My Congo Vacation

Michael Crichton was THE Man in the mid-90’s. After grinding it out for decades as a science fiction writer and b-movie director, Mike hit it big with the one-two punch of Jurassic Park on the big screen and ER on TV. Those blockbusters made him the writer du jour

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[Nerdspresso] Movies to Soothe Your Turkey Day Food Coma

This Thanksgiving, we will all get to a time following the big family meal when we stare across the desecrated battlefield that was our Thanksgiving dinner and wonder what’s next. The turkey’s been picked over, you’re stuffed with stuffing, the empty bowl of mashed potatoes is mocking

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[Nerdspresso] Bone Tomahawk Still Hits Hard

While cruising Netflix recently, a movie popped up that I haven’t watched in a while so I queued it up for a rewatch. I did so with some trepidation. Not because it isn’t good, but because it’s so intense. Bone Tomahawk has a sterling cast and a

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[Nerdspresso] Remembering Teri Garr

We lost a national treasure recently when Teri Garr passed away at the age of 79. My first real memory of her was from a Star Trek rerun I watched as a kid in the mid-70’s. She played a secretary for some time-traveling alien super spy that encounters Kirk

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[Nerdspresso] Forgetting Mrs. Tingle

Cruising the streaming channels for what to watch is like combing the beach with a metal detector. Sometimes you find a gold coin, but often you just unearth a discarded tin can. While perusing Paramount+ recently, I stumbled across a title that I hadn’t thought about since the late