The Wizard

Corey Woods breaks his little brother Jimmy out of an institution and heads for California. Along the way, he discovers that Jimmy is incredibly talented at video games. With the help of a precocious young girl named Haley, the three runaways head for Los Angeles to enter Jimmy into the Video Armageddon tournament. The Wizard is notorious for essentially being a ninety minute commercial for Nintendo and it's various games and accessories. The movie does have a surprising amount of heart though and is actually a decent adventure/road trip movie. The young leads are all very good and the movie is padded out with a great supporting cast that includes Beau Bridges, Christian Slater and Sam McMurray. It's so bad. 

Rating: 64%

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Angler's Pale Ale

I would describe Angler's as an IPA-influenced straight pale ale. It's strong (5.8%) and hoppy, with a nice rusty finish, and it comes in an adorable stubby bottle with a big speckled trout on it. It's reminiscent of St. Arnold's Elissa IPA, except I'd probably classify the latter as a gutless IPA and the former as a pale ale on steroids. My current hypothesis is that residents of Salt Lake City can't find India in the Book of Mormon, and thus don't believe it exists. Yes we can.

RATING: 78%

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