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  The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie 2024

  ★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  NOT REALLY A REVIEW...

  saw THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP: A LOONEY TUNES MOVIE (2025)

  I enjoyed it - it seemed an all-right compromise between classic Looney Tunes (wacky characters, visual gags, slapstick) and modern animated film needs (musical number, not toooo crazy, characters discover something about themselves)

  BTW - the Daffy here is the friendly, screwy (woo! woohoo! woo!), short attention span, impulse driven Daffy (who I like) and not the narcissistic self-involved egoist (who I also like).…

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  Lovely, Dark, and Deep 2023

  ★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  PROMISES TO KEEP: a review of LOVELY, DARK & DEEP (2023)

  Lennon (Georgina Campbell) is a new park ranger at sprawling Arvores National Forest, helicoptered into her patrol location and quartered in a tiny, basic cabin. But, as we learn through podcast excerpts she listens to, Arvores is notorious for the amount of strange disappearances that occur there, of both public hikers and rangers, although this phenomena supposedly occurs in all national parks. And as it turns out, this lonely job…

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  Masking Threshold 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Aug 2023 2

  CHAOS OUT OF ORDER OUT OF CHAOS
  a review of MASKING THRESHOLD (2021)

  Our nameless protagonist (Ethan Haslam) narrates his attempts/experiments in alleviating his audio affliction, similar to tinnitus, where he is constantly aware of a low-level, insistent noise ever since he participated in an audio experiment in college. The sound fluctuates in relationship to certain objects/textures and materials, so he proceeds on a thorough, analytical experiment - but as it continues we soon realize he may be losing his…

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  Roadgames 1981

  ★★★ Rewatched 09 May 2019

  ROADGAMES (1981)

  I remembered ROADGAMES fondly from its seemingly endless programming on HBO back in the day. As it turned out, the movie was just as entertaining as I recalled, and slightly more interesting to these now-experienced eyes…

  Long haul “truckee” Quid (Stacy Keach) has to get a delivery of meat to Perth in a hurry, thanks to an ongoing strike by meat-packers, despite the fact that he’s already long overdue for a regulated break. But a peculiar incident (a…