I hate this.

#TwentyFiveYearsOfJerryLeeACelebration: Hour-long concert not great. Lewis has no spark from go, and even though he gets breaks, he comes back tired. Guests hit-or-miss. Johnny Cash just okay. Kris Kristofferson less than that. Dottie West lesser still. Oak Ridge Boys and Mickey Gilley win I guess?

HBO Guide ad reads: "There's a Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" when Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Mickey Gilley, the Oak Ridge Boys, Charlie Rich, Carl Perkins and Dottie West join Jerry Lee Lewis for a rousing concert celebrating "The Killer's" 25 years in show business. Musical highlights include: "Great Balls of Fire," "Blue Suede Shoes," "Folsom Prison Blues" and "Help Me Make It Through the Night."

#NowWatching
#25Y24F #2394

Walter C. Miller's
HBO STANDING ROOM ONLY:
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF JERRY LEE - A CELEBRATION [1982]

Original Watch: Circa April 1982* on Subscription Cable
Current Watch: 04/20/26 on YouTube

Super Password meets no one half way.

Lloyd Bacon's WINGS OF THE NAVY (1939).

I choose this not because of the film itself, but because it was the opening night film screened at Wilmington's Warner Theatre (02/08/1939).

Excerpts below are from my book, HISTORIC MOVIE THEATERS OF DELAWARE (The History Press, 2019).

#HMTOD

#TheOdessaFile: In 1960s, German journalist obsessed w/avenging death (by suic*de) of WWII camp survivor by locating SS Captain responsible for killing the survivor's wife and 80,000 other Jews.

Entertaining despite straining credulity ... right up until a VERY late twist that is absolute bullshit.

me meeting the Super Password challenge

Over the Top

poster for THE ODESSA FILE

#NowWatching
#25Y24F #2393

Ronald Neame's
THE ODESSA FILE [1974]

Original Watch: Circa August 1987 on VHS
Current Watch: 04/19/26 on Howdy

Title Card for LITTLE RURAL RIDING HOOD

Title Card for ONE CAB'S FAMILY

Title Card for THE CAT THAT HATED PEOPLE

Title Card for OUT-FOXED

#NowWatching
#25Y24F

From director Tex Avery

#2389 LITTLE RURAL RIDING HOOD (1949)
#2390 ONE CAB'S FAMILY (1952)
#2391 THE CAT THAT HATED PEOPLE (1948)
#2392 OUT-FOXED (1949)

Original Watch: 1970s-90s on UHF and VHS
Current Watch: 04/19/26 on Blu-ray and DVD

striking indeed

coming soon to an FBI Director near you ...

this is hypnotic

pope leo XIV mii dancing

aussie guy mii saying “His Holiness sounded really interested in excommunicating JD Vance when we talked.”

made a pope leo mii

#HollywoodViceSquad: So messy, you watch each part and try not to make sense of the whole.

(And don't expect something like STREETWALKIN'. The title here is grittier than the film itself.)

But the cast! Ronny Cox! Frank Gorshin! Leon Isaac Kennedy! Carrie Fisher! Robin Wright in her 1st feature!

poster for HOLLYWOOD VICE SQUAD

#NowWatching
#25Y24F #2388

Penelope Spheeris'
HOLLYWOOD VICE SQUAD [1986]

Original Watch: Circa August 1987 on Subscription Cable
Current Watch: 04/18/26 on Howdy

#OneCrazySummer: Director Holland and star Cusack try to find some of that BETTER OFF DEAD magic in this cookie-cutter '80s class warfare comedy.

They did not find that magic.

Random moments are funny, but the overall execution is tired, and can't be saved by Cusack's charm or the silly animation.

poster for ONE CRAZY SUMMER

#NowWatching
#25Y24F #2387

Savage Steve Holland's
ONE CRAZY SUMMER [1986]

Original Watch: Circa August 1987 on Subscription Cable
Current Watch: 04/18/26 on Howdy

The best way I can explain LLMs is: imagine you had a pencil that was also a car that was also a TARDIS that was also a junkyard full of needles

RCA Columbia VHS slip (full flaps) of THE EXOCUTIONER

Worldvision VHS clamshell for FRANCIS GARY POWERS: THE TRUE STORY OF THE U-2 SPY INCEDENT

Paramount VHS slip for HEARTBURN

Worldvision VHS clamshell for MOST WANTED

#25Y24F #VHS

Going to the movies this weekend? Check out my reviews of LEE CRONIN'S THE MUMMY, NORMAL, MILE END KICKS, THE CHRISTOPHERS, PANDA PLAN 2: THE MAGICAL TRIBE, ERUPCJA, and WASTEMAN.

Find them at AIsleSeat.com

The Naked Runner 1967 : Sidney J. Furie : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Runner

Doing this from my phone so not sure it’s the full thing but it might be at the Archive?

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oops …

as Ed Asner used to say, reading is fundamental

this is the way

We’ve had more failed ceasefires than Spinal Tap had drummers.

Title Card for HBO Short Takes

Title Card for 5 MINUTES FOR FIGHTING

Title Card for THE DUMMY

Title Card for SWEET CIDER

#NowWatching
#25Y24F

HBO SHORT TAKES

#2384 FIVE MINUTES FOR FIGHTING
(Ray Baker, 1982)

#2385 THE DUMMY
(Louis La Volpe, 1982)

#2386 SWEET CIDER
(Randel Cole, 1982)

Original Watches: 1970s-1980s on Subscription Cable
Current Watches: 04/18/26 via YouTube/Internet Archive

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Screengrab from The World, the Flesh and the Devil (Ranald MacDougall, 1959)

The earliest afrofuturist film that I know of is The World, the Flesh and the Devil (Ranald MacDougall, 1959) starring Harry Belafonte. It's an extremely unusual film about a nuclear apocalypse that also simultaneously attempts to address questions of racial politics post-integration.

very much worth a watch