MANUFACTURER: EDUCA
PIECES: 1000
MOVIES: THE CARRIER, HEAVEN HELP US
PODCAST: CASEFILE
June 14th, 2018
So we are going on a month and a half now of the Covid-19 hanging over us and three weeks of being to to stay at home, and the results have been pretty predictable: lots of time to work on puzzles. I don't think I'm alone in this either. One of the places I've been getting my puzzles from lately is a free, neighborhood library in someones front yard. Until this thing started, the little bird house sized box was overflowing with puzzles and they even had a plastic tub next to it that was also full of puzzles. Now the tub is gone and the little house is down to one or two small ones. Its not just this quarantine either, apparently there's even a jigsaw puzzle renaissance going on.
This puzzle was from June 14, 2018. A simpler time when we all lived care free lives full of nothing but whatever our hearts desired. One thing that was not simple though were these damn Educa puzzles. I'll do a review or discussion about at the main companies some other time, but to preview, Educa is one of the more difficult ones. What's most frustrating about them though is that their images are fantastic and their quality is really high, but their piece are so similar and often times even fit together so when you're doing a anomalous area like the sky, you can easily get thrown off by putting pieces in the wrong spot. Some of my greatest all time puzzles though were from Educa though, so it's an uphill battle that is usually worth the struggle.
The featured film is the gonzo 1988 cheapie The Carrier. This is a movie that you'll enjoy most if you just read a description of it and don't actually ever watch it. Its about a small town where a man is somehow inflicted (I have no intention of watching again to get the details) with a condition where everything he touches turns into a flesh devouring inanimate object. Like he touches a bible and the bible literally starts munching on some poor saps hand. The town quickly devolves into warring factions who go into battle wearing garbage bags and fight over ownership of the local cat population. Actually, this is starting to sound good again... C
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Our second feature is 1985's Heaven Help Us, a coming of age comedy/drama about Andrew McCarthy as the new kid in a Catholic high school and his struggles with authority, bullies, and a budding romance. Not a lot to right about this one. A pretty typical movie that was made and fades into obscurity, but had some good big name actors in it like John Heard, Donald Sutherland, Wallace Shawn, Kevin Dillon, Patrick Dempsey, and Mary Stuart Masterson. C+
The last thing of mention is the first appearance of a podcast to this list. Other than watching movies or TV shows, the most common thing I'll do while working on a puzzle is listening to a podcast. The vast majority of the time the podcast will be either a movie review podcast or a crime podcast. This particular is called Casefile, a very well done, albeit a mostly Australian centered program. I much prefer the single narrative driven crime podcasts like this one rather than the multi host discussion style programs that seem to be the more popular ones.
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