I’ve been seeing such a discourse on social media surrounding this film, which is AMAZING! Having a healthy discussion about the merits of a movie like Halloween Kills is super important and I like seeing everyone’s opinions, both for and against the movie. In fact, REGIONFREE will be doing a live discussion tonight that you should absolutely check out!
That said, I’ve seen a lot of folks out there trashing other people’s opinions because they don’t align with their own. This movie landed on Thursday night in advanced screenings and as I’m posting this it’s Tuesday and Halloween Kills is still dominating my Twitter feed and I’m not really liking the conversations I’m seeing.
In video gaming circles, we call it “fanboy”-ism (I added the -ism). I’m not sure what to call it in the film community.
I knew my lucky streak of great and recent horror films would break eventually and that day has come!
I heard a lot of hype surrounding Hunted, a Shudder exclusive that dropped on January 14th, 2021. I decided I’d give it a shot, even though I had my doubts. I should’ve listened to my inner voice!
Check out my thoughts on the movie right here.
Did you enjoy Hunted? Or did you dislike it, as well? I’d love to hear your thoughts in a comment – here or on YouTube – or you can always hit me up on social media!
Well, in my effort to tackle more modern horror I’m batting 2 for 2!
The Empty Man is a film that I absolutely would’ve bypassed if it weren’t for reviews from my pals from REGIONFREE, Lorne Dixon and pizowell, letting me know it was worth a watch.
My general vibe going in was that it was a teen supernatural horror flick that would be like a Slender Man movie or something, but it is nothing like that! It is a supernatural detective procedural psychological horror film. Yes, that many adjectives!
It’s all those things, but never boring or hard to understand (except maaaaaybe the well-built twist ending!) and really I can’t recommend it enough!
Check out my thoughts in the video below and please sound off on your thoughts if you checked out the movie! You can leave me a comment on the video, this blog post, or via any of my social media outlets.
I’ve been telling myself for a few years that I need to get caught up on the latest horror film releases.
Back in the early ’10s (people say that, right?) I got out of horror big time. I was so sick of all the remakes, thinly-veiled remakes, and derivative stuff that was getting churned out of the Hollywood machine.
In recent years, we’ve seen a serious uptick in quality horror films and it’s made me want to go back and revisit some of the movies I’ve missed and also entices me to try out some of the more current offerings.
With a site called RETRODEF it will come as no surprise that my default is always to go with an old classic instead of something new, but I really need to rectify that and support new and burgeoning horror films and filmmakers.
So, to kick off my new initiative I recently took in The Dark and the Wicked, written and directed by Bryan Bertino (of The Strangers fame), and starring Marin Ireland, Michael Abbott, Jr., with a cameo by Xander Berkeley.
It’s a very bleak supernatural horror film that puts a spin on a few familiar horror tropes. Check out my video and let me know what you think!
If you’re from outside of Canada, you’ve likely never heard of The Raccoons, although it did air in the US on the Disney Channel, I think? It was a cartoon created originally as a Christmas special titled The Christmas Raccoons for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in 1980 by showrunner Kevin Gillis, who produced this show and more recently Atomic Betty.
After a series of TV specials, like The Raccoons on Ice and The Raccoons and the Lost Star, The Raccoons finally started airing as a regular television series in 1985 and ran until 1991.
It’s hard to describe exactly how beloved The Raccoons is up here in Canada, but I think you can liken it to something like The Smurfs. It was a wholesome, fun cartoon that anyone could enjoy. Oh, and they played hockey!
So, why am I bringing this show up now? It’s Halloween, for crying out loud!
Well, I always remembered watching an episode of The Raccoons that I thought was their Halloween special. I distinctly remembered watching TV one day and seeing a commercial that a monster episode was going to air around Halloween and that I was stoked! Well, I recently stumbled upon that promo – big thanks to the Betamax King on YouTube!
I saw this video a while ago, so I decided to add this episode of The Raccoons to my Halloween watch-list, which I curate during the off-months in preparation for September and October – yes, I’m a geek. It was just last week when I finally got to sit down to it!
And… this is most definitely not a Halloween special. Don’t get me wrong, it was fun and it definitely (kinda) had a monster in it, but it was apparent fairly quickly that this was simply aired around Halloween, but was not produced with that intent.
The Raccoons features anthropomorphic woodland animals that live in Evergreen Forest. It’s focused on three raccoons: married couple Ralph and Melissa and their live-in friend, Bert? Kind of a weird relationship there. They’re usually up against Cyril Sneer, a wealthy industrialist who is always trying to make a buck. His son Cedric is a friend to the eponymous Raccoons. It turns out the Sneers are aardvarks? I’ll be honest, when I was a kid I thought it was weird that they were the only two “monster” characters in the show, because I could never place what animal they were supposed to be. You live and you learn!
“Monster Mania!” is set during the summer. One day Bert and Melissa are hanging out by the lake (better watch out, Ralph!) and they see a fire-breathing monster emerge from the lake! Melissa grabs her trusty camera and manages to snap a blurry picture of the creature.
Ralph runs the local newspaper, The Evergreen Standard, so Melissa publishes her picture and the news story, which picks up national attention, bringing lots of news crews and monster hunters to the Evergreen Forest. This all plays perfectly into Cyril Sneers pockets as he benefits on the extra publicity.
The episode is an obvious nod to “real-life” stories about the Loch Ness monster or Ogobogo in Lake Okanagan, British Columbia. It even receives the moniker “Evie”, much like “Nessie” or “Oggy”. If you’re a regular reader, you know how much I love old paranormal TV shows, especially around Halloween, and they often prominently featured these stories, so I appreciate this premise for their “Halloween” episode.
As usual with the show, it features environmentalist motifs. Cyril Sneer wants to mow down the lake to make an amusement park to benefit from the monster’s exposure and all the news crews and thrill seekers visiting the lake are trashing the surrounding area. Guess who wins in the end? The environment!
When writing about The Raccoons you just can’t leave out the amazing music produced by Lisa Lougheed. For this particular episode, the producers featured a song called “Growin’ Up”, which plays in a hilarious scene while some of Sneer’s cronies – who were totally oblivious pigs – are trying to do a water-skiing demo. This is just one of the great songs Lougheed performed and produced for the series over the years, but the most notable song she did was without a doubt “Run With Us”, which was the outro music to every episode. Walk up to just about any Canadian in their 30s and 40s and ask them to sing “Run With Us”. I promise, you won’t be disappointed.
Anyway, spoiler alert – Cyril Sneer built the monster as a hoax to drum up business and, of course, The Raccoons foil his plans once again. Ralph – who was jealous at Melissa’s success the whole episode – gets to eat a little crow, too. Happy ending!
You know what’s really cool? It looks like Kevin Gillis is trying to reboot the series! I’ve seen some concept art for The Raccoons: The New Adventures, and it looks really great and pays homage to the old show quite nicely. I’m really looking forward to it! What’s also awesome is that it looks like all of the old episodes of The Raccoons have been legitimately posted to YouTube by the production company Run With Us Productions, so you can actually kick back and watch “Monster Mania!” for yourself!
It’s admittedly not a Halloween episode – in fact, another episode that aired years later titled “The Phantom of Sneer Mansion” would be a better fit – but it did play a part in my Halloween in 1988 and it was a great trip down memory lane revisiting The Raccoons!
I want to take you back now to… THE YEAR 2000! April 24th, 2000, to be exact. I was a teenager who was into geeky things and one of those things was anime. I’d had plenty of run-ins with anime from the ’80s onward – or as we called it, “Japanimation” (still don’t know why that didn’t stick). Some of my favourite shows as a kid were Astro Boy and Tekkaman, but at the time I had no clue they were any different from G.I. Joe or He-Man.
In my teenage years I had more of an understanding of the anime scene and would start to seek out some of the best stuff available, like Bubblegum Crisis, Akira, and Galaxy Express 999.
Most of the stuff that I wanted to get my hands on was hard sci-fi that just had a completely different look-and-feel that we didn’t get in the West. I was certainly drawn to that. The thing is, I wouldn’t say I was or am an “anime fan”. There are plenty of shows and movies that I absolutely love, which – although they certainly are anime – I don’t even really care to put in that “bucket”. I just enjoy them, because they’re awesome!
One of those shows – if not the show – is Mobile Suit Gundam Wing.
I stumbled upon Gundam Wing one night while doing my usual thing – channel surfing. I was a TV junkie as a kid and even into early adulthood. Honestly, it’s something I miss. It was totally normal for me to eat dinner and then spend the next six hours glued to the tube. On this particular day, which was Easter Monday in my neck-of-the-woods, I would’ve had a whole lazy day in front of the TV. Good times!
I watched just about anything and everything, but YTV (stood for Youth Television, maybe?) was definitely a station of choice. It was the place to watch cartoons in Canada, although Fox Kids certainly gave it a run for its money in the Saturday morning market during the ’90s. I want desperately to gush about YTV and its evening programming block called The Zone, but I’ll keep it brief for this post and just say that it contained slightly more “adultish” shows for the nighttime crowd and was a place a teenager could still safely watch cartoons without losing their self-perceived edge.
At the time, the phenomenon that was Dragon Ball Z was syndicating in Canada and the US. It wasn’t the show’s first kick at the cat, but in late-1999 and onto the early-2000s the show was being re-aired uncut for the first time, so the fervor for it was reaching new heights. I had seen an episode here and there of its predecessor, Dragon Ball, which aired a few years earlier on Saturday mornings and… it wasn’t really my thing. A friend of mine was all about Dragon Ball Z and kept recommending it, so I thought I’d give it a shot – heck, what did I have to lose? I had all the time in the world back then!
On the evening in question, however, Dragon Ball Z was not being aired. In its stead was Gundam Wing. I’m assuming that after seeing the resurging interest in DBZ that Gundam Wing was a bit of a safe bet to bring to North America. Unlike DBZ, which ran for over 150 episodes, Gundam Wing only had 49 and a sequel OVA (original video animation), which is geekspeak for an “anime movie”. Producing English dubs for the whole series was likely less of a scary investment and good way to see if more of this kind of thing would stick during primetime TV blocks in North America. But what do I know!?
In an effort to give the show a foothold, on its first night airing on YTV they played it in place of Dragon Ball Z, so all the fans of that show could give Gundam Wing their undivided attention. Even better was that instead of showing one half-hour episode, they aired three whole shows back-to-back! You could even vote for the show on The Zone’s website to let the station know if it was a hit or not. This was an event night and, boy, let me tell you, event nights on TV were absolutely my thing.
I’d give you a really cerebral description about Gundam Wing and it’s incredibly nuanced story, but at the end of the day it’s a show about giant robots. Awesome giant robots. Like, giant robots with laser swords and machine guns. That’s all I really need, if I’m being honest with myself. It didn’t hurt that it had a really excellent dub, which could always be hit-or-miss with anime. In a brilliant move, Ocean Productions – the company that dubbed this series as well as earlier iterations of Dragon Ball Z – brought in Peter Cullen to narrate some promos for the show. Not only was he Optimus Freakin’ Prime, but he did the same style of narration for Voltron, so it was a really nice throwback for kids like myself who grew up on those shows.
Anime or not, Gundam Wing is just a really great dramatic action show. Sure, the backdrop is a war between Earth and colonized space structures that circle the globe where giant robots are the primary weapon, but don’t let all that get you hung up. I really think it’s a show that anyone can enjoy if they just put aside the trappings of “anime” and give it a shot.
So, why have I written 1000 words about this TV show from my youth, you ask? Well, because recently I came across a VHS tape with a recording of this very night in question! It was amazing to sit back and relive those exact moments again 20 years later and I just wanted to share some of that.
As you can see, I’ve uploaded The Zone segments that aired during the show to the VHyesterdayS YouTube channel and I plan to upload some of the commercials that aired as well, but I think that will be a post on its own. There’s some really good stuff in there! I’ve also uploaded the theme songs for Gundam Wing in all their glory. As much as I’d like to upload the episodes in their entirety, we all know how that’d end. At the very least you can get a taste for the show’s look-and-feel to see if it’s something you’d like to seek out. Sorry for the hum on the audio – it’s an artifact of the tape. I did my best to clean it up, but it still a little buzzy.
I hope you enjoyed this little walk down memory lane! R
P.S. This tape also has the Gundam Wing OVA I mentioned called Endless Waltz: Special Edition. This did air on YTV as well, but during the later block at night so the commercials aren’t for cartoons and cereal, but ads for adult stuff like toothpaste and the upcoming Sydney Olympics. If I find anything actually interesting, maybe I’ll post some clips from this block, too.
It’s been a long while since I did one of these videos, but I saw the opportunity this evening and decided to kick back with a cold beer and watch a movie! I’m just now realizing, however, that I’ve never posted a Brew and a View video to the site before. I guess they used to be a YouTube exclusive, but no more!
This time I actually decided to watch something new. I took in Alone, which just came out on VOD yesterday. As for the beer, I had a Boxing Rock Wild Axe pilsner.
I acknowledge that, but it turns out this horse has a little life left! When I wrote about UFO Abduction, Dean Alioto’s first film foray – a shot-on-video found footage feature 10 years before The Blair Witch Project – I mentioned that it was difficult obtain a legit copy of the film outside of a few avenues, but that is no longer the truth!
It turns out that in October of last year POV Horror – a streaming site for found footage indie films – released a DVD copy titled The McPherson Tape: UFO Abduction, which includes the film, as well as several audio commentary tracks by the director and Found Footage Critic (which has also thoroughly covered the film), an alternate “Bootleg” version of the film, a making of featurette, and a few trailers.
I’ll be honest, I figured outside of a few limited run DVDs that Dean Alioto might print and sell himself that there would never be a full feature release of this short film, let alone one with so many extras.
What’s even more surprising is that there was also recently a Blu-ray release of the film! That’s right. The American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) and distributor Vinegar Syndrome – the place for cult film preservation and hard-to-find film releases – actually put out a high definition release of UFO Abduction in April of this year. This release contains – as far as I know – the same cut of the film as the DVD, but also comes with the Encounters TV segment about the film, which I mentioned in a previous post, and a Q&A from Fantastic Fest. As much as I wanted to pick up the Blu-ray, it’s neither easy nor inexpensive to buy Vinegar Syndrome releases in Nova Scotia, but I could get the POV Horror release at a decent price, so I opted for the DVD.
When I previously watched this movie I had to settle for a very poorly encoded YouTube video from an old VHS that was probably bootlegged and sold at UFO conventions in the early-90s. It made the experience incredibly sub-par, to say the least. Finally getting the see the film as it was intended was a real treat and I very much enjoyed it.
Here’s a video of my thoughts on the DVD!
One thing to note is that it is super weird that they branded this movie “The McPherson Tape”. The family – although I don’t think their last names are ever mentioned – are the Van Heese family. Hilariously, some of them are named Van Hesse on film’s credits. Either way, they are not the McPhersons! That name was the family name of the characters in the second of Alioto’s UFO films. I assume it was renamed this, because it gets more search hits and they wanted the DVD to sell better, but that’s speculation.
So, hopefully this is the last time – at least for a while – that I’ll cover these films. I can’t say never, because if somehow the “actual” The McPherson Tape did get a release, I would most certainly review that, as well!
Much like my post last week, today we're revisiting my collection of Marvel Universe Trading Cards Series 2! Here's the video from the old post. I'll say again, this is a long vid of me going through each and every card, so make sure you've got your popcorn ready.
Series 2 has always been one of my favourites. I loved the vibrant colours of the borders, which were a big level up from Series 1 and their white borders around the cards artwork. It has a very 80s vibe to it, which make sense since the hangover of the 80s lasted well into the 90s.
The biggest improvement in this series were the Power Ratings, which picked six different attributes and ranked all of the character cards accordingly. There was Strength, Speed, Agility, Stamina, Durability, and Intelligence. This rating system would continue after Series 2 and became my favourite thing about collecting these cards.
Ever argue with your buddy about who would win in a fight: Spider-Man versus Daredevil? Well just compare the Power Ratings! My friends and I would pore over these cards and ratings and practically memorize all of them, so we could throw them out on the fly whenever one of these arguments reared its ugly head.
We also used to often "play Marvel", which meant we'd each pick a character and we'd act out our own scenes. So if we were playing and Ultron was facing up against Wolverine, knowing these Power Ratings and special abilities could mean life or death to an 8 year old.
As I mentioned with Series 1, there were different subsets in each series. In Series 2 we had Weapons, Legends, and Arch-Enemies. Arch-Enemies is really just a re-brand of Famous Battles, Legends would essentially feature old and (at the time) dead characters within the Marvel U, and Weapons would give you the low-down on the different "tools of the trade", like Wolverine's claws or the Infinity Gauntlet.
There were five holograms in this set, as well. I managed to snag two this time: Doctor Doom and Fanastic Four vs. Mole Man. The foil on these cards actually went all the way to the border, as well, which makes them look even more impressive when you manage to snag one.
I hope these old trading cards are getting you amped up for the upcoming release of Avengers: Endgame. I know they're having that affect on me! Stay tuned for more! Next up we'll finally get caught up with Series 3, which I affectionately call "the cosmic set".
Waaaaay back in 2014, around when I first launched Retro-Def, I figured a great feature for the site would be a look back at my Marvel Universe trading card collection. I ended up making two videos fairly quickly and then getting busy and forgetting to continue on with the series.
That's a real shame, because not only were these cards incredibly important to 7-year old me, but I think they're a really cool slice of the Marvel Universe in the 90s. With the recent passing of Stan Lee I've found myself flipping through my old card binders and I felt the need to share!
Let's start by revisiting Marvel Universe Trading Cards Series 1. The video I made in 2014 still stands, and some of the reminiscing you'll find here is in the video, but I'd say only the most hardcore fan would be interested in watching the whole thing. It clocks in at around 25 minutes and I go through each and every card.
Excuse the old website branding!
The Marvel Universe Trading Card series was launched by Impel in 1990. You might not remember the name Impel, especially if you weren't into trading cards in the 90s, but you may recall SkyBox, which was a re-brand of Impel in 1992.
The base set was 162 cards. The subsets included Super Heroes, Super Villains, Rookies, Famous Battles, Team Pictures, Most Valuable Comics, and Spider-Man Presents.
Wolverine as "Patch"
Most of these are self-explanatory, except for Spider-Man Presents. This particular subset featured Spider-Man attempting to interview some of the heavy-hitters in the Marvel U. They were like little mini-comics and I thought they were hysterical. I remember thinking the Spider-Man Presents: Wolverine card was one of the funniest things I'd ever read.
Each of the super hero and villain cards would feature a drawing of the character on the front with a unique backdrop like it had been pulled right from the pages of a comic. On the back you'd find all kinds of cool information about the character, like their aliases, how many battles they'd had, their win/loss ratio, some information about the character, and finally some trivia.
I have no idea who "Roughhouse" is...
One neat thing that was only featured in this particular set was that certain characters could appear multiple times, like Wolverine, who appeared in the super hero subset three times; once in his brown and tan costume, again in his blue and gold costume, and finally as "Patch", his secret alter-ego.
Features of this set that didn't carry forward are the Spider-Man Presents cards and the Most Valuable Comics. Each set would feature something unique from the others, but you could always expect to see super heroes, super villains, special teams, and cards that somehow featured big events and battles from Marvel's storied history.
See, it's hilarious!
This was my first foray into trading card collecting and I was only 7, so some of the cards in my set are a little roughed up on the corners, but they hold so much nostalgia and importance to me, it's hard to state. This was my gateway vehicle into comic books and super heroes. Growing up on an island, it wasn't difficult to get comics, but it certainly wasn't easy to get them all in order each and every month. Also, without any sort of archive of Marvel Comics, this was the only way to really dig into the historical events in the Universe and learn all the backstory for the characters.
I started buying these cards in a corner store in the summer of 1990, but eventually had to start going to a hobby store as I worked at getting the whole set. Every red cent of my allowance went into these cards. Each pack would contain 12 cards, so over time you'd amass a stack of what we called "traders". The hobby store would keep a box of their own traders so you could swap out your extra cards for a card you still hadn't found in a pack. They'd usually do a 2:1 trade to keep their stock high and some cards, which were harder to come by, would require more traders or you'd just have to buy them outright.
Danny Ketch Ghost Rider's rookie card - one of the rougher cards in my set
As I mentioned, there were 162 cards in the base set, but there were also five hologram cards, which were the holy grails. There was only one hologram per box, as far as I know, so they were hard to come by. I never did collect all the holograms for each set. I managed to get a few here and there, but buying them at the card store was usually highway robbery and not something my parents were interested in funding, so I would shoot for the base set and hope to get a few holograms along the way.
It was a crazy summer when I first found these cards and little did I know that I would spend at least the next four or five years collecting the different sets of Marvel Universe Trading Cards. I have some of my fondest memories buying, trading, and most importantly, poring over these cards and gleaning as much information as I could about the amazing characters and stories they represented. My friends and I would commit so much of the information on the cards to memory and have classic conversations about who would defeat who in a fight or who the most powerful bad guy was.
My lone hologram from Series 1: Cosmic Spider-Man
Well, that's it for Series 1. Next time we'll revisit Series 2 and then hopefully I won't forget and we can finally take a look back at Series 3 and onward!
I hope you enjoy this trek down memory lane as much as I did.
Have you had enough of all the controversy surrounding the release of Marvel's latest film, Captain Marvel? Well, Cole and I took in a viewing and here we are talking about the film without any of the BS!
I feel a little remiss not saying anything regarding the controversy surrounding the film, so what I'll say is that this is a really fun action, comic book film. If you've been reading Marvel Comics as long as I have, you might even find Captain Marvel to be the most "comic-y" (I'll call Encyclopedia Britannica and have the word added, post-haste) of the MCU films to date.
There's all sorts of anti-feminist vitriol and conspiracy regarding Rotten Tomatoes review scores and the belief that Disney has been pushing this film a little bit extra, because it's bad and they secretly want to trick you into seeing it.
This is an MCU film; they sell on name alone. They make bonkers money, no matter what. The Disney Stonecutters don't need some wild agenda to get you into the theatre to see Captain Marvel. It's a good movie that stands on its own two legs just fine and it is worth your time to see it, especially if you're going to see Avengers: Endgame in a few weeks.
Disney has been brokering deals with theatres for a long time when they are releasing their films. They have the hot movies and they know it, so they can "ask" certain things of theatres that want to screen them, like early "VIP" showings the night before release or a certain proportion of screens dedicated to their films, and get away with it. They did the same thing with Star Wars: The Last Jedi in 2017, which caused a big media buzz, as well. This isn't something special they've cooked up for Captain Marvel out of some crazy feminist conspiracy.
If you're looking for a fun two hours, turn your brain off, log off of social media, and settle into Captain Marvel. Cole and I found it really enjoyable and there's setup there for Avengers: Endgame hitting the silver screen on April 26th!
Here's some more VHS love to spice up your Friday!
As promised, in this edition of VHyesterdayS we'll be chatting about what I'm pretty sure is a 1992 release of Terminator 2 by Carolco and Live Entertainment.
I mention a Subway commercial that appears at the start of the tape, in lieu of any teasers for other films. I said in the video that it was a franchisee commercial, but I just got my thoughts jumbled. It's a regular old Subway ad from the early 90s. I wrote my notes over a month ago, wrote down that the actor looked like a franchisee, got it all mixed up when I was recording, and since this is my second time in the last few weeks re-doing this video, I'm not fixing it!
Welcome to the wonderful world of un-professional, just doing it for the kicks, content creation, folks!
Here's the ad:
As always, I hope you get something out of my obsession with old VHS tapes!
Cheers, R EDIT: It appears that Lionsgate feels that my video somehow infringed on their copyright for Terminator 2 and even after disputing with YouTube my video has been disabled. I don't see me having time in the near future to re-record the video to avoid copyright infringement (I played the trailer for the movie in the background without audio, if you're wondering) so for now, unfortunately, this video is dust. If I can upload a revised version in the near future, I'll make sure to update this post and make an announcement on my Twitter feed!
EDIT2: I've moved the video to DailyMotion. Have a watch!
Here we are once again as I dig through my personal treasure trove of VHS tapes and pull out some of the gems.
I can still recall when I first saw Terminator 2: Judgement Day, but I can't really recall my first viewing of The Terminator. I've always felt that T2 was the better movie - and that still stands - but I must say that over the years the original Terminator film has grown on me significantly.
In this episode of VHyesterdayS we examine a late VHS release - the 2000 Alliance Atlantis Canadian copy of The Terminator - and have a brief chat about some of the releases that preceded it.
Hot off the heels of getting to see the original Halloween in theatres, it's now finally time for Cole and I to check out the latest in Michael Myers' saga, again titled Halloween.
It's time, yet again, to dig into the VHS Vault and since we're in the month of October the spooky films keep coming!
Here are my thoughts on the VHS release of The Blair Witch Project. I've been wanting to check this out on VHS again for a long time!
Unfortunately, there are no Coming Attractions on this tape. It did come with an additional scene at the end, but I opted not to upload that as it's a special feature on many of the home releases.
My good friend Cole and I finally managed to catch Blade Runner 2049, the newly minted sequel to the original Blade Runner, starring Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Jared Leto, and directed by Denis Villeneuve. Here are our thoughts after we left the theatre!
