I'll round out 2021 with a short little write-up of this sweet, occasionally funny, and often heartbreaking WWI movie -
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A couple of days ago, I watched the first episode of Knight Rider on Netflix for nostalgia value/cheesy entertainment, after noticing that it was streaming. If you grew up in the US (or US-adjacent) in the 80s, you almost can't not know about this show, in which David Hasselhoff is consistently upstaged by a talking car; I was head over heels for ( Read more... )

I still really like it! Though I don't remember Toby Maguire making me think quite this much of a concussed baby deer the last time around.

- "I accidentally fused myself with evil sentient octopus arms" is still one of the most hilarious villain origin stories I have ever seen.

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