June Swoon 4: Two A Day!
We are under a month until our fourth annual June Swoon… except, there will be a twist this year.
There have been a lot of movies that I have missed so far in 2025 that are showing up on the streaming services. I was looking for a way to do a big couple of day watch… much like the Friday Fun Festival I did late last year, but the timing just was not working out.
The list was getting longer when I came up with the idea. I knew the June Swoon 4 was starting on June 1 (I can announce that September 5 is the first film of the June Swoon this year), and I thought… what if I did a movie from this year every day as well.
Typically, the June Swoon is a DailyView, where I watch a movie that I missed from 2024, once a day from June 1st to June 30th. That will still be in place. Joining the movie from 2024 will be a movie from 2025, giving us two movies a day, every day for the month of June!
I love this as a new challenge. EYG has done the June Swoon for three previous years and this new wrinkle will spruce up the event even more. It will be a busy month as I would like to finish the X-Files this summer, there is the Sunday Morning Sidewalk continuing, and any continuing series are still on the docket.
I would guess that the new releases on the weekend during June will count as movies from 2025 for this challenge.
I am excited about the new June Swoon! Starting on June 1st…
June Swoon 4: Two A Day Movie List
It’s Then Now: 2024 movie
It’s Now: 2025 Movie
June 1
It’s Then Now: September 5
It’s Now: Black Bag
June 2
It’s Then Now: Hundreds of Beavers
It’s Now: Into the Deep
June 3
It’s Then Now: Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
It’s Now: The Luckiest Man in America
June 4
It’s Then Now: Flow
It’s Now: Screamboat
June 5
It’s Then Now: Memoir of a Snail
It’s Now: A Working Man
June 6
It’s Then Now: The Only Girl in the Orchestra
It’s Now: Wick is Pain
June 7
It’s Then Now: Ghostlight
It’s Now: Wrestlemania IX: Becoming A Spectacle
June 8
It’s Then Now: Sing Sing
It’s Now: The Ballad of Wallis Island
June 9
It’s Then Now: Love Lies Bleeding
It’s Now: Death of a Unicorn
June 10
It’s Then Now: Y2K
It’s Now: Becoming Led Zeppelin
June 11
It’s Then Now: My Dead Friend Zoe
It’s Now: Warfare
June 12
It’s Then Now: Caddo Lake
It’s Now: Karen
June 13
It’s Then Now: Small Things Like These
It’s Now: Fear Street: Prom Queen
June 14
It’s Then Now: Queer
It’s Now: The Rule of Jenny Pen
June 15
It’s Then Now: The Brutalist
It’s Now: Finger Food
June 16
It’s Then Now: The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
It’s Now: Magazine Dreams
June 17
It’s Then Now: Ultraman: Rising
It’s Now: Rust
June 18
It’s Then Now: The Last Showgirl
It’s Now: Mountainhead
June 19
It’s Then Now: Black Barbie: A Documentary
It’s Now: Titan: The OceanGate Disaster
June 20
It’s Then Now: In a Violent Nature
It’s Now: The Surrender
June 21
It’s Then Now: I’m Still Here
It’s Now: The Friend
June 22
It’s Then Now: The Fire Inside
It’s Now: Another Simple Challenge
June 23
It’s Then Now: Nickel Boys
It’s Now: Nonnas
June 24
It’s Then Now: Tuesday
It’s Now: Revelations
June 25
It’s Then Now: Chicken for Linda
It’s Now: Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse
June 26
It’s Then Now: Your Monster
It’s Now: Until Dawn
June 27
It’s Then Now: Hitpig
It’s Now: Star Trek: Section 31
June 28
It’s Then Now: Babygirl
It’s Now: K-Pop Demon Hunters
June 29
It’s Then Now: The Order
It’s Now: G20
June 30
It’s Then Now: Absolution
It’s Now: Deep Cover
Peacemaker Season two Official Trailer
This looks great. Season one was a surprise hit and showed us what a perfect casting John Cena was as this C-level character. This’ll be a treat to balance out going back to school.
The Long Walk trailer
EYG Favorite Comic Cover of the Week
May 8
Here we are on Thursday, not Wednesday. Why is that?
Diamond.
Curse you Diamond. Once again, the Diamond order does not arrive when it was supposed to arrive. It also did not arrive today yet. That means that there are no Marvel or other company’s books in the race for the cover of the week this week.
Medal Winners this Week:
Bronze Medalist
Don’t Run With Scissors #1
Cover art by Stefano Cardoselli
This is one of the most interesting covers of the week. This cover makes me curious about what is going on here and the color scheme for the cover is sensational. I also love the X’s through the title card. Keenspot has a history of great covers with Mark Spears, and this is yet another one.
Silver Medalist
Los Monstruos #1
Variant Cover C
Cover art by Marcos Martin
I was looking at the variant covers for this book and I saw this C cover and I loved it. It had such an old school noir feel to it. I was intrigued by this book already and this cover only amplified that.
Gold Medalist
Two-Face #6
Cover art by Baldemar Rivas
The final issue of the Two-Face mini series saved the best for last. This is a great cover with a horrific image on Harvey Dent’s face and the iconic coin in his hand. The white background remains as one of my favorite background in comics.
The Conjuring: Last Rites trailer
The Studio S1 E8
Spoilers
“The Golden Globes”
I did not love this episode of The Studio because I am not a fan of our main protagonist acting the way he did. When the character becomes so crazy, it was not that funny for me. It was more pathetic.
It was fun to see the background of the Golden Globes and it felt very realistic with the way some of the creators would act.
I did feel badly for Matt. It is a shame how everyone made such a big deal out of being thanked, but he went out of his mind. I preferred the Matt at the very end, even though he was depressed over the lack of a thank you.
Zoë Kravitz and Adam Scott were the main cameos of this episode. Kravitz was the director of the movie that came from Matt’s studio which was up for the Golden Globe.
Of course, I want to thank Sal Saperstein.
Word Cloud: Best Pop Culture Mustache
Squid Game Season 3 Official Teaser
The Last of Us S2 E4
Spoilers
“Day One”
So I got to watch The Last of Us on MAX last night, but I had to wait until the Dodgers/Braves game ended, and I did not have time to do the write up.
This was a heavy Ellie/Dina story with them trying to navigate the city of Seattle. They are in search of Abby for revenge, but they have yet to find her.
Ellie and Dina had some big things happen.
- They get together and make love. Dina told Ellie about her real feelings.
- They get caught in a building with a bunch of infected and try to run.
- Just before Dina gets bitten, Ellie stuck her arm in the way and takes the bite.
- Ellie confesses to Dina that she was immune to the infected.
- We meet Isaac, who killed his whole FEDRA unit.
Isaac is played by Jeffrey Wright, who is an awesome actor. His scenes with the naked guy he was torturing was intense. I am looking forward to seeing what this guy’s story is going to be.
- Dina tells Ellie that she was pregnant.
- Ellie finds a guitar and plays “Take on Me.” She sings to Dina. I really liked that scene.
These Wolves look to be a real problem.
Wick is Pain trailer
The Studio S1 E7
Spoilers
“Casting”
Oh, Yeah!
Who would have thought that the announcement of Ice Cube voicing the Kool-Aid Man would turn into a major race problem?
Only those on The Studio, as they, once again, turn the situation upside down and parody discussions that really happen in Hollywood.
Matt (Seth Rogen) is just trying to cast his movie, but when black tropes and stereotypes threaten to crush his film, things spiral out of control ridiculously as only The Studio can do it.
Watching Matt, Sal and Patty spin out over every perceived racial slight and their attempts to overcorrect them was hilarious. Kathryn Hahn, especially, was at the top of her game in this episode.
Meanwhile, the show does something sneaky as it takes the race argument out of the final moments and replaces it with a comment on AI, something Matt had okayed earlier in the episode to replace some special effects artists in order to keep the film on budget and release schedule… stuff that was messed up because of the massive recasting that was going on because of race.
Genius.
This show has been exceptional and only seems to be getting stronger with each passing episode on Apple TV +. If you are not watching The Studio and you have any interest in the way films are developed, you are missing some excellent stuff.
Light and Magic S2 E3
“There’s No Going Back”
One more May the 4th watch. I watched the third and final episode of Light and Magic, the second season documentary detailing ILM’s history.
They talked about the work on Revenge of the Sith and then moved on to Pirates of the Caribbean. We see a couple of Oscar winning moments for ILM.
The creation of Davy Jones was one of the more intriguing parts of this documentary.
They looked at some of the competition that was springing up in the movie industry.
It was a fine conclusion to the second season, but honestly, there was not anything that really stood out as excellent in this episode. There was just a lot of interesting moments and images.
Andor S2 E4, E5, E6
May the 4th be with you!
It was not intentional that I watched the three Andor episodes on Star Wars Day. It is merely a coincidence. The second season of Andor releases three episodes every Tuesday night at 8 PM my time. That does not give me much time to watch on Tuesdays so I have been pushing it off to the weekend. For the second week in a row, I watched them on Sunday, which just happened to be Star Wars Day.
It’s nice when things work out like they should.
Leia’s adopted father, Senator Organa made a cameo walk through in episode six, but, surprise, surprise, he has been recast. Benjamin Bratt is now playing the role instead of Jimmy Smits. Reportedly, Smits could not shoot the role because of scheduling conflicts. Organa does not make much in the episode four, so I can only assume that the character is more vital as the season continues, otherwise, this cameo would be easily removed, I would think.
Saw Gerrera made an appearance in these episodes as well, and I have to say, Forest Whitaker is downright creepy in the role.
These episodes have been fine to me. I have not absolutely loved these episodes, but there are some really strong points. I thought that every scene involving Diego Luna was perfect. The tension of episode six was palatable.
It seems as if every block of episodes has some tragic occurrence going down. Episode six had one of those as Cinta was shot accidentally by Samm, who was not supposed to have a blaster. This was just after Cinta and Vel reunited, which should have tipped me off that something bad was going to happen to one of them. It was the old LOST thing about when someone is happy, that is when everything goes to hell.
Oh, and when Bix (Adria Arjona) got some vengeance on Dr. Gorst, who tortured her in season one, that was epic. Really bad ass and how she and Cassian walked away together after… loved it.
Doctor Who S2 E5
Spoilers
“Lucky Day”
I loved this episode. Unlike a certain faction of fans online, I loved Ruby Sunday as the Doctor’s companion in season one of the show on Disney +, and I thought it was great to see Millie Gibson once again.
I was sad that we did not get much involvement with the Doctor in this episode, but I understand the importance of that for the character of Ruby.
We did get to see how much of a bad ass Kate from U.N.I.T. was though. Her scenes facing off with Conrad were intense.
This episode of Doctor Who dealt with the idea of misinformation and the spreading of lies and half-truths across the internet and social media. Conrad’s vileness through the second half of this episode spoke to the disillusionment of many people in our institutions because of this misinformation that has been weaponized by certain individuals and groups.
I did not see Conrad’s betrayal coming. Not even a little bit. As the show was setting up Conrad and Ruby as, apparently, a new and happy couple, I was buying into the relationship 100%. To reveal the truth in such a callous manner was tough to watch as Ruby did not deserve such hostility. I went from really liking Conrad, hoping that he could be another important piece in Ruby’s life and an ally for the Doctor, to absolutely despising the bastard. I will say that the fact that the ending clearly showed that, with Mrs. Flood’s arrival, Conrad has a bigger role to play this season. Actor Jonah Hauer-King does an exceptional job as this character. he made me hate him so much. I am glad that there seems to be more for him to do moving on.
I reiterate, what the heck is up with Mrs. Flood?
The monologue that the Doctor delivered to Conrad at the end was one of the sharpest moments Ncuti Gatwa got to have. There was something about that speech that felt off though. Perhaps the timing…
Doctor Who has been one of my favorite shows so far, as it has had a bunch of amazing episodes this season. It was great to see Ruby again and I enjoyed how the show delved into the idea that companions might have a difficult time getting back to a normal life after their time with the Doctor ended. One could even argue that Ruby is suffering from a form of PTSD, which is why Conrad’s betrayal was all the worse.
