HobbyScope
Movies, Games, and Whatever Else Comes to Mind
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Saturday Morning Cinema – Bugonia
What is Bugonia? It’s a dark world of delightful weirdness with excellent performances and edgy direction. For me, it was an unexpected watch that ended up making my day.
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Movies I Like Ep. 1: Soldier
Soldier is everything good about 90’s sci-fi action, and yet, despite a great cast and a good Hollywood pedigree, it remains a “you had to be there” classic.
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Saturday Morning Cinema – Network
About a 5-minute read Here’s a movie I didn’t expect to go off the rails: Network. Number 64 on the American Film Institute’s 100 Greatest American Films of All Time, this 1976 Sidney Lumet film looked like a peek behind the curtain of television in the Seventies, where, in this reality-adjacent setting, four major networks…
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Battlefield 6: Fighting for Nostalgic Survival in an Era of Competitive Youth
Multiplayer games of today require reflexes and precision that I no longer have at my world-weary age. Battlefield 6, however, rekindles memories of more youthful days, and I’m still able to enjoy playing the objective. Join me as I fight the good fight of keeping games fun, no matter the stage in life.
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Saturday Morning Cinema – Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
1991’s Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is a movie steeped in nostalgia, but it is also a weird movie with eccentirc characters. This article explores what makes Prince of Thieves enjoyable and what brings it down.
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Un-Authorized Warfare
Sometimes, the world feels like the outcome of bad writing. The words do not seem real, the events are bizarre, and the people with the power are caricatures. How does that happen? What if some of it ends up being your fault? What if the government kidnaps you and forces you to create THEIR story?
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Out of Sight, Out of Mind explores a dystopian America where misinformation and greed erode societal common sense and civic services collapse. Amidst this chaos, Esther Covey, a humanitarian volunteer, ignores medical advice and contracts an unknown virus with potentially disastrous effects. Upon awakening from her illness-induced coma, Esther struggles with memory loss and identity,…
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Saturday Morning Cinema – The African Queen
Continuing through AFI’s top 100 American movies of all time, we come to number 65, The African Queen. An epic tale about an epic voyage, this film has just as much action behind-the-scenes as on the silver screen.
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Saturday Morning Cinema – Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark ignited my imagination as a child, launching a lifelong love of cinema. Spielberg’s direction, John Williams’ score, and unforgettable characters made Raiders a keystone film—one that still thrills, inspires, and earns its place among the greatest American movies ever made.
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Saturday Morning Cinema – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
When your relationship persists in misery, do you suppress it in silence or does it lead to the occasional lash out? Or, perhaps you can push through the negative and rediscover the positive that created the relationship in the first place. Number 67 on AFI’s Top 100 American Films of All Time is Who’s Afraid…
