#Anime on @Tubi: "Wicked City" - A Great Prototype for @StarWars Porn

*This blog post was started on October 22, 2021.

An exciting weekend has lead into a stressful work week.

Of course when the manager gets exposed to COVID 19, vaccinated or not, everything goes wrong. A fraudulent check ring has emerged. There is a new person to train. I actually had to figure out how to place holds on check without ever being trained how to. We are frankly all impressed that everything seems hunky dory.

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I guess there being so many questions leaves me with a bit of excitement? Life is not mundane for the moment, and perhaps that is what keeps me going. The moment I know things are going to get dull, I am fucked.

With that said, I am back at the retailer starting November 6.

Until that day, I have the upbeat attitude for a bunch of double features. The podcast I am recording this week with Kodiak Thompson will be about "Event Horizon". To get myself more material, the "Hellraiser" franchise seemed to run parallel to Paul W.S. Anderson's classic from 1997. Shudder allowed me to watch the first two for free.

October 26's episode of "NinetyForChill.com - The #Podcast" has the padding with those two features, but I was still in the mood for "the sights" Pinhead suggested showing me. Signing up for a free trial to AMC+ to see the other eight features in his franchise seemed like a hassle, so I turned to Tubi for Barker-like material. This lead me to revisiting "Wicked City", a feature I did not particularly care for back when I saw it on Starz a decade prior.

I guess giving this feature a second chance comes from my time buying anime on VHS. Renting was rarely an option, so if you dropped $25-30 on a tape, you got to justify the purchase. In other words, desensitizing one self allows for enjoyment of even the most blatant softcore porn that distracts from the narrative. With Yoshiaki Kawajiri film (TV movies in many cases), this is a common practice.

Wicked City (1987)

Check out the rest of this critique at AnimeRuss.blogspot.com - For those curious about anime but hate the geeks

76-Minutes DVD - "When Evil Calls", It Is Misleading.

76-Minutes DVD - "When Evil Calls", It Is Misleading.

Lionsgate cannot appropriately promote a Winstone Sister DVD. Ray should have a word with them.

Jaime's "Cravings" is not about vampires and Lois's "When Evil Calls" is not a Japanese, paranormal horror knock off. It is definitely not a full-length feature. Was this distributor trying to come off as trashy as the lesser Family Video DVD providers? Trash is what was rented when "The Dark Knight" was checked out. That is a sideways move.

 

Check out the rest of review at "Ninety For Chill: A More Acceptable Runtimes

Shudder: The Streaming Service and WWE Tag Team Booking.

*This blog post was started on October 13, 2021.

Here is to hoping for an exciting weekend. I am just waiting for the Chicago Wizard World Comic Con schedule to be released to see if I get to catch any All Elite Wrestling live. There are so many YouTube recaps that I will need to watch Sunday night, provided I am up for it after 4.5 hours of driving. If it is all pushed back to Monday, how will I have the time to drop my latest episode of "NinetyForChill.com - The #Podcast"?

I guess that means I really need to watch something on Shudder tonight to warrant the charge that is coming Saturday. After looking through their line up, no justification is actually needed. With HBO Max, Disney+, and Peacock giving me three studio catalogues worth of movies, Shudder is the final part of the puzzle to capture the joy of 2010 Netflix, a service that was once dependent upon classic films. For me, Peacock is free and Disney+ is "taken care of". HBO Max and Shudder are the only things costing me any money. Amazon Prime feels like an essential and the free shipping is nice.

Hulu is about the only thing I consider cancelling, but you get some weird moments. When "Possessor" from Brandon Cronenberg was discounted on iTunes, not enough to demand I buy it but enough to ask Siri if there was other ways to watch it, the streaming app that should be dedicated to Touchstone's R-Rated material came through.

Shudder will end up saving me money because I did not realize that most of the cheap, newer horror iTunes places a more than reasonable discount on, they are already on Shudder. I imagine films like "The Columnist" will be rotated out, so I need not worry about watching them whenever I like. But from last Saturday forth, I know not to get so trigger happy when it comes to making a purchase based solely on a cool gimmick.

Gimmick, a word associated with my preferred profession, pro-wrestling. Pro-wrestling is a sport that I am paying $15.98 a month for, $10 of which goes to New Japan World. It is a service I do not watch enough of, which is sad because I do have the time without cable TV. But, with the purchase of a Fire Stick so that I may troubleshoot those of my friends and relatives I provided, there is really no excuse no to access it. 

The only one that I can come up with is there is just too much plugged into my primary TV. NJPW's Fire TV app is so much easier than using a Chromecast. It just feels wrong moving my Nintendo Switch to the port saved for my Classic video game systems.

I who has too many unnecessary accessories. This leaves me fearing that I will return from Wizard World having spent too much and further exasperating the lack of space in my apartment. Just like the Men's Doubles World Championship, its better to have them than to wish for them I suppose.

It is not about it being a weak transition. It is about being able to transition at all. The world needs fewer arguments anyhow.

The Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Championship:

The 121st Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWE Tag Team Champions

Cesaro and Tyson Kidd (4/18/2015 to 4/26/15)

The 122nd Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

Open the Twin Gate Champions (Dragon Gate)

Masato Yoshino and Shachihoko Boy (4/26/15 to 6/13/15)

The New Day dethroned the WWE Tag Team Champions and are one reign away from starting the longest WWE tag team championship reign. ROH's champions were Kaz and Daniels. TNA's champions were the Hardys. IWGP's belts were being fought over by the Kingdom and the Good Brothers. It came down to determining the best of the three remaining Japanese championships.