RunPee Weekly Newsletter 23st edition (August 19th, 2020)

RunPee has been busy behind the scenes during the pandemic. We’re rewriting code for the app, adding new Peetimes for old favorites into the database, and catching up on classic movie reviews. Most of these you can watch at drive-ins in your car’s bubble, or streaming with your safer-at-home household. Plus, we’ve added Peetimes/review links for 6 2020 NEW movies to enjoy. (More to come soon!)

More than Snape: Remembering Alan Rickman
Before there was Harry Potter, Rickman was already a beloved legend. In honor of schools — including Hogwarts — opening up again (for better or worse) here’s everything you need to know about the man behind Hans Gruber, Dr. Lazarus, and the Sheriff of Nottingham. “Now turn to page 394…”
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The decade of 2010s when female protagonists said #MeToo to Science Fiction
Science fiction has long been dominated by male protagonists to placate the mostly male audience. But times are a changin’. Some of the most outstanding science fiction of the 2010s featured women as either the protagonist or equal partners alongside a male counterpart.
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Classic Movie Review — Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me
In the age of #MeToo, some jokes aren’t cool anymore. Why this 1999 Mike Myers sequel isn’t as funny as it used to be, and what gags still work today.
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Movie Review: My Spy
This Dave Bautista film was made to appeal to kids, but it has enough adult humor to keep adults engaged, or at least awake. It’s also a new movie playing at drive-in theaters. Grade: C+
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First View Movie Review – Matilda (1996)
For a story about a child with magic powers, it was not at all like Harry Potter, although it may have inspired JK Rowling. Roald Dahl fantasy is as deeply dark for kids as Tim Burton fantasy is for adults. I just wish it had been more fun.
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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:

I made good progress this week on the Subscriber Options, but there’s still a long way to go. I have 11 days left in the month to meet my goal of beginning beta testing around the 1st of September.

Time to get back to work!