RunPee Weekly Newsletter 22st edition (August 12th, 2020)

Don’t get up and leave when this Groundhog Day themed comedy ends, especially if you’re watching it at the drive in. There are three symbolic endings, and I’ve broken down each. Plus: DINOSAURS.

NULL grade films
Movies so bad not even ratings can escape them.

Here’s the small but proud list of 0% ratings movies ever took home from Rotten Tomatoes. Do you know what normally reliable actor makes this list TWICE? How bad can a film *be*?
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Oh Look! It’s Him Again! – Recognizing Actor Timothy Spall
Timothy Spall may not be recognizable without his Harry Potter makeup, but the man’s been everywhere. Like the rat Wormtail, the Shakespearean trained actor is infinitely adaptable!
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Every Harry Potter Film, Ranked
In honor of schools opening up soon — including Hogwarts — we’re featuring posts this month about Harry Potter and the Wizarding World. Here’s our list of each HP and FB movie, ranked. Wingardium leviosa!
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Classic Movie Review – Austin Powers & It this safe to watch with kids?
The first Powers film and still the most fun, can you believe Mike Myers made a trifecta of shagadelic Bond spoofs around the turn of the century? Here are the main themes, and why you can get away with showing the original to your older kids.
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Ta-dum! Netflix has a new extended theme composed by Hans Zimmer
The Netflix “Ta-dum” theme is short and to the point. I like it. But they couldn’t leave well enough alone so Netflix convinced — and I’m sure paid Hans Zimmer a handsome amount — to make an extended version of their NF theme.
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Weekly progress diary on RunPee:NX
We are rebuilding the RunPee app from scratch using Google Flutter. Here’s a brief report on our weekly progress:

Writing server code is easily my least favorite part of app development. But, it’s an essential part of the app and needs to be bulletproof. Meaning everything has to work, 100%, all the time. That takes a lot of testing.

I’m confident that the registration/sign in process in RunPee:NX will be much improved from the original. This is a feature that really needed a rewrite.