movies

Good Fortune (2025), a film about an angel switching the lives of a rich guy and a poor guy to give them better perspective of their own lives. It was... unique. Definitely felt like it had a mixed message at times. And I felt like it had a kind of non-ending.

Susie Q (1996), about a girl who died on prom night in 1955, and 40 years later, a teenager moves into her old home and can see and hear her ghost. So he helps her resolve a problem with her still-living parents so she can move on.

My wife loved this film as a kid, so she introduced me to it. It was one of the early films starring Amy Jo Johnson, the actress who played the Pink Power Ranger on Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (1993). It was very cheesy, definitely a low budget film.

Interesting fact: The film never got a home video release. No one knows who actually owns the rights to the film, so it can't legally be released on DVD/Blu-ray or streaming services. Amy Jo Johnson streams the whole film on her website, if you create a free account. (It's under the toy box link).

My wife and I met Amy Jo Johnson at a convention last weekend and she said it's her hope that someone sends her a copyright strike so she can find out who actually owns the film and can work with them to get it legally released. No one who made the film knows; it was a weird deal where everyone was hired by an outside organization to make the film.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992). This is the original movie Joss Whedon wrote that inspired the TV show a few years later. Having watched some of the TV show previously, it was interesting to see the film it was based on. I only watched a few episodes of the show growing up, and my wife has never seen it, so we plan to binge it one day soon.

...And we're still binging House, M.D. (2004) for the second time through. We're about a third of the way through season 2 now. This is our comfort show, when we want to watch something but can't decide what.