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Harry Manfredini FTW

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Night Court Theme Fits All: Automan

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Night Court Theme Fits All: All Creatures Great and Small

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Read My Mind

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Fortress

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Charlie/Bowie: Changes

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Gonna Fly Now

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Don’t You Want Me (just Ella Eyre)

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Prologue: I Made a Promise on His Grave

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    Barbie (2023) D: Greta Gerwig. S: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, John Cena, Michael Cera. Director and co-writer Gerwig takes a doll Barbie (Robbie) into the real world to find her owner, whose sadness is spreading to Barbieland. Robbie's disappointed how feminism and equality are going, but Ken (Gosling) is geeked for patriarchy. Always fun, usually smart, beautifully executed, with some outstanding musical numbers. Good to excellent performances abound. It's a great time.

    The Commuter (2018) D: Jaume Collet-Serra. S: Liam Neeson, Patrick Wilson, Sam Neill, Florence Pugh, Jonathan Banks. Predictable smorgasbord of cop movie and thriller tropes has "regular" COMMUTER (and ex-cop) Neeson on a train, in a desperate situation, fighting unknown enemies and unable to trust anyone. Lots of familiar faces in the poorly written bit parts. Director Collet-Serra's tiresome CGI-Hitchcock bit always remains competent. Not enough to get the film successfully home, however.

    The Lighthouse (2019) D: Robert Eggers. S: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman, Kyla Nicolle, Shaun Clarke. Affected moody horror picture about nineteenth-century LIGHTHOUSE keepers Dafoe and Pattinson. Dafoe's the boss with a secret, Pattinson's the newbie with a secret. Some beautiful direction and precise performances, but director and co-writer Eggers uses those successes to avoid having to have an actual story. The disappointing ending's just one predictable trope after another, albeit competently executed.

    People Will Talk (1951) D: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. S: Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Finlay Currie, Hume Cronyn, Sidney Blackmer. Delightful, masterful romantic comedy (with drama) about beloved, compassionate doctor and professor Grant, who runs afoul of a jealous colleague (a singular Cronyn), just as he meets a damsel in real-life distress (Crain). And how does Grant's peculiar sidekick (Currie) figure in? Phenomenal comic and dramatic timing, great character development and depth, fascinating masculinity observations, too. Outstanding stuff.

    Singin' in the Rain (1952) D: Stanley Donen. S: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Rita Moreno, Jean Hagen. Beautifully choreographed, often transfixing musical about silent film star Kelly, who uses his stage background to transition to talkies. His onscreen partner Hagen doesn't have those talents; her story is just being super jealous of Kelly's interest in non-movie-star Reynolds. Some solid laughs, excellent filmmaking; Reynolds's fantastic. The narrative's finale fizzles after a great final musical number.

    Sleeping Dogs (1977) D: Roger Donaldson. S: Sam Neill, Warren Oates, Ian Mune, Roger Oakley, Bernard Kearns. As New Zealand descends into a fascist state (one so fascist they eventually need U.S. military aid), newly cuckolded Neill runs off to be left alone. Except now everyone's either fascist or freedom fighter. He can't stay out of it forever. Some good moments and Neill's not unsuccessful. Donaldson just doesn't hack it, directing-wise; story's too big.

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    Her Frankenstein (1986) OGN WA: Kawashima Norikazu. A Japanese man--lost following the death of his boss--starts seeing the ghost of a childhood friend. Thanks to therapy, he remembers how he and the friend used to bully and terrorize; he wore a FRANKENSTEIN monster mask, she ordered him who and when to attack. Iffy art and profoundly misogynistic. It does read pretty fast, at least.

    The Rocketeer: Thrills, Spills, and Chills (2026) TPB WA: Dave Stevens. Collection of the original ROCKETEER stories and the later ADVENTURES homage series shows how the series was really gaining steam when original creator Stevens ended it on a cliffhanger and how subsequent attempts rarely tap the potential. Some highlights in the twenty-four ADVENTURES strips, but mostly disappointments; modern creators lack interest in developing characters, instead just objectifying Betty.

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