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09 Mar 2025, 1:51 pm

Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie (2023)
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I've watched this before, in 2023. I am 100% certain I posted it then.

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2002)
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I'd forgotten there was so much arterial blood spray.

Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
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09 Mar 2025, 4:57 pm

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Flow

A foreign animated film that was well-made and worthy of its surprise win for Best Animated Film that happened last Sunday during this year's Academy Awards.

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09 Mar 2025, 9:40 pm

A couple of delightful adaptations of Oscar Wilde plays

The Importance of Being Earnest, 2002

An Ideal Husband, 1999

If you aren't English, then the subtitles will come in handy. The witticisms are fast and furious, and you're likely to miss them, unless you're English.

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09 Mar 2025, 10:46 pm

The Phantom Lake Kids in the Unseen Invasion (2020)

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Stuck in their house during a government-mandated worldwide quarantine, the Phantom Lake Kids (Danny Johnson, his sisters Alice and Evelyn, and their wacky friends Butch, Chip, and Billy Blue) are shocked when most of the gang inexplicably disappears in a flash of light-then reappears moments later. When Alice doesn't return, the rest must meticulously (and hilariously) unravel the mystery behind her disappearance and the invisible forces behind it. Could it be...aliens?
—Christopher R. Mihm

Danny and Evelyn Johnson? Danny Johnson? From Danny Johnson Saves the World? The tenth film in the Mihmiverse?
Yes. The same. It's all part of the Mihmiverse.

This was a fun film involving characters that could not be seen.

The Phantom Lake Kids in the Beast Walks Among Us (2021)

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When a local man is suspected of having been transformed into a hideous monster, it is up to a scrappy gang of local kids (Danny and Evelyn Johnson, Butch, Chip, and their friend Billy Blue) to uncover the truth and save Phantom Lake County-and everyone in it-from certain doom in writer and director Christopher R. Mihm's tribute to the creature-features of the 1950s, the history of the Mihmiverse, and "Scooby Doo!"
—Christopher R. Mihm

Christopher Mihm plays the mayor. His wife plays his administrative assistant, Ms. Kleiber, who he is allegedly having an affair with. They're funny. He's enept politian funny. She dead pan funny.
Mayor - "Where would I be without you?"
Ms. Kleiber - "Probably happily married."

It does have nice Scooby moments and motifs.
Early in the film, there is also a nod to The Ghost and Mister Chicken with Don Knots. The newly elected sheriff gives a nervous speech that is pretty close to Luther Higg's (Don Knots) speech about bravery.

After watching both of these films, I am convinced that the smart one of the Phantom Lake Kids is Evelyn, or Evey, as she is referred to.

The Mihmiverse Holiday Special (2021)

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Steve has gone missing but, luckily, his loyal sidekick (and nephew) Stu knows exactly what to do to find someone who can help locate his uncle: get human help. Unfortunately, Stu has no idea what a human is. BUT he knows he can find out by locating Steve's old friend, Danny Johnson-or the next best thing, Danny's sister Evelyn (Alice Mihm). With Evelyn's help, Stu embarks on a wild adventure that takes him from outer space to the North Pole and several exotic points in-between to do battle with an old nemesis, meet up with one of the most legendary holiday characters on Earth, and celebrate the joys of the holiday season.
—Christopher R. Mihm

Steve first shows up in Danny Saves the World.
Danny saved the world, but Evelyn saves Christmas.

I thought this was a delightful fun "made for TV special," complete with commercials.
I enjoyed the puppet work.

The program is 39 minutes long. Not a movie, but not really a television special either.

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09 Mar 2025, 11:32 pm

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I read the play, The Importance Of Being Earnest, back in college. I thought it was hilarious.

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10 Mar 2025, 1:51 pm

The Wind (1928)
streamed on Tubi

Starring Lillian Gish
Directed by Victor Sjöström

I remember first hearing about this film in the 1970s. I may have seen it then as well, or clips of it while Dick Cavett narrating a history of motion pictures. I may have seen it in college at the university's theater.

The film shown on Tubi has the happy ending.

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10 Mar 2025, 3:08 pm

A Complete Unknown. It was surprisingly good for being a biopic and somebody trying to impersonate Bob Dylan.

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10 Mar 2025, 4:51 pm

We watched:

The Phantom Lake Kids in the Beast Walks Among Us [2021]
<=>"A horrific creature terrorizes small town U.S.A.!"

<=>F!U!N!!

...I think the boys could go on to careers in comic films...as could a number of other amateurs in this film.

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11 Mar 2025, 10:11 am

1. Not without my Daughter

2. Amber's Story

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11 Mar 2025, 11:48 am

Last night we watched:

The Mihmiverse Holiday Special [2021]

FUN!

Not a full-length movie but rather a 39-minute "Holiday Special" drawing upon earlier Mihmiverse works.

Still fun!

It is about a specific holiday: Christmas.

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13 Mar 2025, 3:35 pm

Double Retired and I watched Wicked (aka Wicked Part 1) on Tuesday night. I thoroughly enjoyed it. He was less impressed but thought it was okay. At least that what he implied.

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13 Mar 2025, 4:06 pm

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Double Retired and I watched Wicked (aka Wicked Part 1) on Tuesday night. I thoroughly enjoyed it. He was less impressed but thought it was okay. At least that what he implied.

Not my normal kind of film but it was good...but would've been better if it had been like two hours shorter.

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^{And it was only "Part I"!}

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13 Mar 2025, 6:29 pm

a perfect world. one of eastwood's better efforts. it got to my heart. :cry:

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14 Mar 2025, 1:09 am

Heretic.

Two young women serving as Mormon missionaries are invited to the remote home of a middle aged man searching for the true faith. In reality, he's a madman bent on teaching these two his own demented version of the truth.

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14 Mar 2025, 10:24 pm

The Phantom of the Opera (1925, but technically the 1929 re-release)
watched a new Blu-Ray from a 4k restoration funded on Kickstarter.

As a restoration, it is quite good. The 1929 version was already in much better condition than the 1925 version. The two version vary both in image quality and the finish edit. The 1929 version was essentially edited together from scratch from alternate takes. If you watch the two side by side, they go out of sync pretty fast. Still, the restoration of the 1929 version is very good.

The "spoiler" is random stuff, possibly of no interest.

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15 Mar 2025, 6:48 pm

Electric State

The special effects were good but it was the same old story: small band of misfits taking on the evil madman. Then there's all the obligatory, gung-ho, backslapping bs that goes with it.
Makes me wonder why this theme has to be continually rehashed?
Hire some better writers?
Pleeeeeassseee!

P.S I did like seeing Giancarlo Esposito again.
I recognised him just from a shot of his chin at the start

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