First off, let me apologize for the lack of new posts. Baseball is a lot easier to write about in the offseason when there is no baseball to watch. The Brewers have been playing pretty good lately, aside from the abortion in Chicago. They went into today tied for first place with the Cards, but Zack wasn't Zack and they lost. Another reason I haven't been posting is all the movie watching I've been doing thanks to Netflix. Plus the work, family and nice weather have kept me plenty busy. Here are some quick reviews of movies I've watched lately, including a quick summery (without spoilers) and my take on it.

Killers (starring Ashton Kutcher, Katherine Heigl, Tom Selleck) C-
It's about a guy who falls in love with a girl. They get married and he gets sucked back into his old life, he thought he had abandoned. It was pretty bad, but did have some kinda funny parts. It was a bad version of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Neither "stars" were very good, but Tom Selleck's mustache made it worth watching.

Scorched (starring Alicia Silverstone, Woody Harrelson) D
A bunch of people work in a bank and it gets robbed. It becomes a "who dunnit" type of comedy. Calling it a comedy is kind of an insult to comedies. Silverstone was slightly better as Batgirl, if anybody gets the reference and I've finally seen a Harrelson movie I'd like to forget.

Naked Ambition (starring a bunch of porn stars) DD
A celebrity photographer, Michael Grecco goes to Vegas to take pictures and make a documentary about the Adult Video Awards. Not a very good doc, and nothing to spank it too.

Sunshine Cleaning (starring Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Steve Zahn) B-
Strapped for cash a maid starts cleaning up murder and suicide scenes with her sister, and her crazy family is never out of the picture. Pretty good movie, funny stuff and a good story. I'd check it out, gets sappy towards the end, but it's kinda a chick flick.

Howard the Duck (starring a guy in a duck costume, Lea Thompson, Tim Robbins) C
Howard the Duck is taken from his duck planet and brought to earth, watch as he tries to figure out how and why is on Earth. I'm a sucker for comic book movies, especially Marvel movies. This is a campy movie from the 80s, which is also a plus. The only reason I'm giving it a decent grade is because of the duck boobs in the first five minutes or so.

Predators (starring Adrian Brody, Topher Grace, Danny Trejo) C
A bunch of people are taken from Earth and released on a planet where they are the game and the Predators are the hunters. If you go into it thinking it's going to be cheesy and gory. You won't be disappointed, it was a bad movie but entertaining off and on. The action was good but the story was lacking. Go figure. I liked it more than I let on to the wife, who hated it. She called it unrealistic, mainly because the Predators bled green ooze.

That's all for now, hope that helped you decide to watch or avoid that cluster of movies. I am now going to update my queue and watch Resident Evil Apocalypse. Wish me luck.

Ronald