tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152245202024-03-19T01:48:11.535-07:00Thmazing's ThutopiaTh.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.comBlogger2273125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-41195594726597953742024-03-18T20:24:00.000-07:002024-03-18T20:24:03.566-07:00Let's start with the untimely deaths<p>.</p><p>If you subtract the murdering and the heroing and the poeming, there's really not much left.<br /></p><p>.</p><p><b>022) <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780199537143"><i>The Life and Death of King John</i></a> by William Shakespeare, finished February 28</b> <br /></p><p>Another very strange play. I know I say this every time I read a new one. I'm starting to think Shakespeare might be a good writer. Although he deals with similar themes and milieus and motifs, each play is distinct.</p><p><i>King John</i> is arguably <a href="https://youtu.be/N-0FsTVY3Cs?si=mrkjsBXuanCBZTKL&t=210">the most forgotten of the plays</a> in 2024 (apparently this, too, is the Victorians fault) and I'll admit I'm a bit flummoxed as to what it's all about. John is supposed to be a terrible king and he is terrible. But the play doesn't really treat him as terrible. Even when he's ordering the death of a child, he doesn't seem like and he turns out much differently then, say, Macbeth or Richard III when they do the same. The role of the female characters is fascinating. They dominate the first half then they all die offstage in an instant. The appearance of Prince Henry is only the most perplexing of the sudden appearances. The early battle feels like the sort of battle that should appear at the end of any other play. The role of the bastard boggles. In short, very fun! Excited to read more about it and to talk about it with my classes!<br /></p><p><i>three days</i></p><p><br /></p><p><b>022) <i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250802125">Might Jack and the Goblin King</a></i> by Ben Hatke, finished February 29</b></p><p>More Hatke goodness!</p><p>I'm guessing this book is skewed older given some so-so language but intellectually we're in the same place.<br /></p><p><i>one sit</i></p><p><br /></p><p><b>023) <i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781400034710">Chronicle of a Death Foretold</a></i> by Gabriel García Márquez, finished March 4</b></p><p>Considering how short this book is, how did it take so long to read? I didn't feel like I dallied, but everything from rain to roadtrips got in the way.</p><p><i>Chronicle</i> reminds me of Wilder's <i><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/10/anchors-links-endstuff-morecode-too.html#114">The Bridge of San Luis Rey</a></i>: someone has died and someone else is doing research, putting together the story and trying to figure out what it all means. <i>Chronicle</i> was released fifty-four years later and although some very lazy searching doesn't suggest a connection, I can't help but to wonder if ol' Gabo's responding to Thornton Wilder's novel. The researcher is now an insider, rather than an outside. It focused on one person and their actual community network verses looking at several people and hoping to find metaphysical connections between them. I dunno. But it feels likely.</p><p>(Yes, even though <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronicle_of_a_Death_Foretold#Inspiration">it's based on a true story</a>. Bigshot award-winners must read each other, right?)<br /></p><p>Anyway, it starts "On the day they were going to kill him" (trans. Gregory Rabassa) and ends with his murder. Although the timeline is far from straightforward, shooting years into the past and future and all over the day in question, the basic setup of nonsuspense is clear from go. The book will end with the murder of Santiago Nasar. And what a gruesome murder it is.</p><p>The narrator seems to think Nasar's a solid fellow and the town generally seems to agree although, when it comes to the girl working at his house, he does seem to have the sort of wealth that leads to men saying when you're a star, you can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy, for instance.</p><p>But that's hardly the most alien element to me reading this story as a 2024 American. The matteroffactness of honor killing, for instance, is even more shocking. But it's this very simple-strangeness that I appreciate the most. I believe in this world he's created. And it has its marvels and charms. But hoo. I wouldn't want to live there.</p><p>But what a tragedy---for everyone in town to know you're about to be murdered. Everyone except for you.<br /></p><p><i>somehow like six weeks</i> <br /></p><p> </p><p><b>024) <i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780307592668">Millay</a></i> by Edna St. Vincent Millay, finished March 6</b></p><p>I recently read <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/16/how-fame-fed-on-edna-st-vincent-millay-diaries-rapture-melancholy">an article about Milly</a> and it made me realize that aside from the <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=14096">figs</a>, I didn't know much about her. So I picked a volume from the library and I read it.</p><p>And I really liked it! I did cotton to her earlier work more strongly, but I did find other favorites like "<a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/millay/april/sa-wraith.html">Wraith</a>," "<a href="https://poets.org/poem/burial-2">Burial</a>," "<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44724/lament-56d223eed5de0">Lament</a>" (which has an interesting echo in "<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53241/the-ballad-of-the-harp-weaver">The Ballad the Harp-Weaver</a>"), and "<a href="https://hellopoetry.com/poem/2165/exiled">Exiled</a>."</p><p>Also, I sent a research request to the Schulz <a href="https://schulzmuseum.org/explore/research-center">Research Center</a> because these lines from her 1919 play remind me of something from 1959:</p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">PIERROT</span> Don't stand so near me!<br /> I am become a socialist. I love<br /> Humanity; but I hate people. Columbine,<br /> Put on your mittens, child; your hands are cold.</p><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1959/11/12" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="272" data-original-width="1259" height="106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAyvmuN4JCRFCQEKSQCi1IefQTLJRA7OMnwZ-SI5_cTHKIq-SuW3APv9xTJj70H2COjPJ3zNfWWWK-LqeoLByxlsNAD7z6TeCqJGkn2DJrKHc-Y2sr6JPOjnmAcepraZXPV-OGtcho-kT5WroSUZWTtciLnqRSqbIk-3JRkjhKlMHIVD3OxOuAJQ/w491-h106/humanity%20v%20people.png" width="491" /></a></div><p></p><p> <br />We'll see what they say.</p><p>In the meantime, color me sad Millay isn't yet rediscovered by the women and youth of Gen Z. I think they'd really like her.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3uZ1VNN" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="327" data-original-width="230" height="327" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71veSUPNoLL._AC_UY327_FMwebp_QL65_.jpg" width="230" /></a></div><p><i>nine weeks but really only the weeks on either end of that span</i> <br /></p><p> </p><p><b>025, 026) <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780199537143"><i>The Life and Death of King John</i></a> by William Shakespeare, finished March 6, 8</b></p><p>Always interesting to see how classes will take to a play I've never taught before. In general, I fear the histories just because . . . just because. Even though <i>Richard III</i> is the only other one I've taught and I <i>love</i> teaching <i>Richard III</i>. Anyway, <i>King John</i> is an early play and Shakespeare's not quite Shakespeare yet, but it does have some great moments. The plot's a little hard to follow and a bunch of characters talk too dang much but, as always, we're latching on. There's more confusion that usual but I'm feeling positive it'll all work out before the test. We'll see!<br /></p><p><i>two weeks max</i><b> <br /></b></p><p><b> </b></p><p><b>027) <i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781524861162">Murder Book</a></i> by Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell, finished March 11</b></p><p>I found this book because I loved Campbell's essay in <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2024/02/a-few-of-my-favorite-things.html#018"><i>The Peanuts Papers</i></a> and was learning more about her. I also like <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/search?q=HILARY+FITZGERALD+CAMPBELL&sort=score+desc">her <i>New Yorker</i> comics</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.hilarysmurderbook.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQYYohq9TLyTONhwMYfsR_zPBhUuKyu3Cy69ibFtSH6-Y40GKYIXlNxO4_o2IaPsdf8FrtMyen6u_0c-jhsZHpJIG272sy9Opli1VJ_8mBJZQRZqkbxbdWYcs_XMdRUicB3LHkowmYtIcJjqehB-e-l6IbUpBVxjrhHKfrFeOjYek-biBkyDO5NQ/s320/murder_book_1080x1080.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p>The book is okay. I daresay it was a good learning experience for her. By the end of the book she's gotten better at panels and guiding the eye, etc. But it's a pretty long book about being obsessed with true crime. And while I enjoyed every page, I'm not sure it needed to be so many pages. The epiphanies she arrives at are pretty mundane. Plus, all her women have the same face. And there's some editing issues, eg, one character's skin keeps changing color. Or tone, I suppose, this being a black-and-white book. And, um, did we really need to see her on the toilet So Many Times?</p><p>Anyway, solid proof of concept. I think her next one will be better.<br /></p><p><i>maybe ten days</i><b> <br /></b></p><p><b> </b></p><p><b>028) <i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780553273816">A Canticle for Leibowitz</a></i> by Walter M. Miller, Jr. <br /></b></p><p>This classic Fifties work of science fiction is about a world after our world ends. A nuclear holocaust happened<span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">—my guess is sometime in the 1960s</span></span><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">—and the novel opens 700 years later. It's an almost medieval world. Our main characters are Catholic monks striving to maintain the shattered (and burnt) remnants of human knowledge so that someday, when people care again, that knowledge will still exist. They remind me of the monks in <i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780385418492">How the Irish Saved Civilization</a></i>. And rightly so.</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">But hold your hat! At the end of part one, we zoom forward another 700 years. And at the end of part two, another 700 years.</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">In other words, <i>Leibowitz</i> is like <i><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/07/and-monsters-make-fifty-whole-buncha.html#043">The Fifth Head of Cerberus</a></i> in that you have three novellas. I think each of these could stand on their own but each is so clearly informed be the one before, it's hard to say. You read them out of order and let me know.</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">In some senses, in terms of normal expectations for a novel, this can be a frustrating book. Main characters die and we don't know what happens until 700 years have passed. That sort of thing.</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">But of course those great distances allow for the examination of hefty questions like: what do we learn from the past and what is just being human? does booklearning actually make us any wiser? et cetera.</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">And the constantly present lens of Catholocism allows for a deliberately contemplative and multiplyingly provocative look at the many questions and issue the novel raises. Which isn't too say it isn't fun to read. It's crazy fun to read.</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">The reason I finally picked it up is because I finally had a group of AP Lit students choose it off the dystopia list for the group project. (Incidentally, though often described as dystopian, I'm not so sure it is. I'll be interested to see if they think it should stay on the list.) Since I wanted to have my own experience with the book, I've been hurrying to get it read before they do. I just beat them.</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">Anyway, I was worried in the early pages that they would be bored. But by page forty or so, I'd lost that worry. In fact, when I told them this and talked about the first few pages, they thought they sounded fascinating. And they've been devouring the book. I'm excited to see what they do with it.</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">Anyway, three times it's placed for <a href="https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2283">the Locus for best sf novel of all time</a>. Those votes weren't spaced 700 years apart, but still. Impressive.<br /></span></span></p><p><i>about two weeks</i></p><p> </p><p><b>029) <i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780060507770">The Last Hero</a></i> by Terry Pratchett and Paul Kidby, finished March 15<i> <br /></i></b></p><p>Something about fantasy books with realistic paintings throughout always turn me off. I think particularly so when the author is Terry Pratchett. I'm skeptical a painter can be appropriately funny. Or, more accurately, appropriately witty.<i></i></p><p>But you'll see I added Kidby's name to Pratchett's uptop and that's because he earned it. Not only is appropriately witty, he's also working in tandem with Pratchett to tell the story. By no means is this a comic, but, in the same manner, the text and the images are working together to tell the story. Neither stands on its own.</p><p>As a Pratchett novel, it's short. But it feels just as rich. And the art is spectacular. The image of our protagoists standing on the moon watching Discrise with the frame dominated by the enormous face of an elephant . . . breathtaking.<br /></p><p> <i>about five days</i></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://electronictiger.net/reviews/last_hero.htm" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="398" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2_J2b-QsJoMLEbFe4dNH37gXRdWOcjUQrJ5lzsmgRlgdOyVYUDyxCQqLHyPCiiBsqTny2bEouXx1uFEpTM7-vYCZLRPVBcKERdkfcyJiZWYgPd6qu5KETIfsavZUTqo-GvvEMB1ntcn75dpQIvO7mS07BD1zFfLk6C1ZOrg66eYKtZ46IsLBXug/s320/last_hero.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><br /><br /><p><b>030) <i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781338356144">Karen's Roller Skates</a></i> by Ann M. Martin and Katy Farina, finished March 18</b></p><p><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/08/reading-comics-under-old-oak-tree.html#079">It's still fine.</a><br /></p><p>one sit<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQYYohq9TLyTONhwMYfsR_zPBhUuKyu3Cy69ibFtSH6-Y40GKYIXlNxO4_o2IaPsdf8FrtMyen6u_0c-jhsZHpJIG272sy9Opli1VJ_8mBJZQRZqkbxbdWYcs_XMdRUicB3LHkowmYtIcJjqehB-e-l6IbUpBVxjrhHKfrFeOjYek-biBkyDO5NQ/s1080/murder_book_1080x1080.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">PREVIOUSLY THIS YEAR</span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2024/02/2024-10-bette-davis-being-bette-davis.html"> 2024 × 10 = Bette Davis being Bette Davis</a></b></p><p style="text-align: left;">001) <i><a href="http://amzn.to/2DV6j1p">Zita the Spacegirl</a></i> by Ben Hatke, finished January 1<br />
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002) <i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781606993750">The Complete Peanuts: 1977 – 1978</a></i> by Charles M. Schulz , finished January 6<br />003) <i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401291747">The Sandman: The Kindly Ones</a></i> by Neil Gaiman et al, finished January 10<br />004) <i><a href="http://amzn.to/2DV6j1p">Zita the Spacegirl</a></i> by Ben Hatke, finished January 17<br />
<a name="005"></a>005) <i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780802161840">Touched</a></i> by Walter Mosley, finished January 19<br />006) <i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780593540152">Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever</a></i> by Matt Singer, finished January 20<br />007) <i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781621065470">Evergreen Ape: The Story of Bigfoot</a></i> by David Norman Lewis, finished January 24<br />008) <i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781948814799">What Falls Away</a></i> by Karin Anderson, finished February 1<br />009) <i><a href="https://amzn.to/47YraND">Peanuts Jubilee: My Life and Art with Charlie Brown and Others</a></i> by Charles M. Schulz, finished February 3<br />010) <i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250180339">Legends of Zita the Spacegirl</a></i> by Ben Hatke, finished February 3<br /><br /><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2024/02/a-few-of-my-favorite-things.html"> A few of my favorite things</a></b></p><p>011) <i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781770464339">Roaming</a></i> by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki, finished February 3<br />012) <i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250180339">The Return of Zita the Spacegirl</a></i> by Ben Hatke, February 9<br />013) <i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250909541">Things in the Basement</a></i> by Ben Hatke, February 10<br />014) <i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781496814678">A Charlie Brown Religion: Exploring the Spiritual Life and Work of Charles M. Schulz</a></i> by Stephen J. Lind, finished February 10<br />015) <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0842500073?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_0&storeType=ebooks">1st Nephi: A Brief Theological Introduction</a></i> by Joseph M. Spencer, finished February 10<br />016) <i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781499615951">Dendo</a></i> by Brittany Long Olsen, finished February 11<br />017) <i><a href="https://www.whiting.org/writers/chapbooks">The Ten Winners of the 2023 Whiting Awards</a></i>, finished February 12<br />018) <i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781598536164">The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life</a></i> edited by Andrew Blaune, finished February 17 <br />019) <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3uNeICR">Do Not Disturb Any Further</a></i> by John Callahan, finished February 17<br />020) <i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250802125">Mighty Jack</a></i> by Ben Hatke, finished circa February 19<br />021) <i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780842500081">2nd Nephi: A Brief Theological Introduction</a></i> by Terryl Givens, February 24</p><p style="text-align: left;"> </p>Th.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-38765367889081862942024-03-01T16:29:00.000-08:002024-03-01T16:32:27.458-08:00Feature Filmbruary 2024<p>.<br /><br />After the (covid-fueled) <a href="https://thmazing.substack.com/p/a-new-year-of-mostly-not-new-films">bounty of January</a>, I suppose we can't be surprised that even a long February fails to meet that high-water mark. The good news is we run the gamut here from the classic to the overrated, from the good to the bad. We got it all. And if not for Leap Day, we woulda averaged one movie per two days.</p><p>Honestly, that does seem like it <i>should</i> be enough.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Groundhog Day</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048?thmazing">1993</a>)<br />
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It's been a while since we last watched <i>Groundhog Day</i> and I'm delighted to say we all enjoyed it. Although the 7yrold maybe missed some of the finer points.<br />
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It's earned its status as classic.<br />
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Incidentally, rewatching again so shortly after watching <i><a href="https://letterboxd.com/thmazing/film/palm-springs-2020">Palm Springs</a></i>, it really feels like <i>Palm Springs</i> is trying to answer all the questions people who've seen <i>Groundhog Day</i> a million time have unavoidably have come to. That's not to suggest the movie is full of holes or something, but that's what'll happen no matter <i>what</i> movie you watch a million times.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Hello, Dolly!</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064418/?thmazing">1969</a>)<br />
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This took four or five sittings over three or four months, but we finally made it through! The 7yrold found aspects of it very stressful and we had to stop, and we tended to pick it up again just before bedtimes. So it took a while. But she said it deserves "five, no ten" stars, largely for the singing.<br />
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It's interesting how both Barbra Streisand and Michael Crawford wiggles their jaws back and forth when they sing. And I get why Streisand became her generations great comedienne and why no one thought Crawford was a good choice for the Phantom.<br />
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Anyway, I don't buy the change in Horace Vandergelder, and I'm mystified by how looooong it is. This made good theatrical sense? Honestly, I needed the breaks as well. It kinda goes on and on and on.<br />
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I was surprised how many of the songs I knew (most of them); I was not surprised that the film is charming and lovely.<br />
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Now, time to show her <i>WALL-E</i>!<br />
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</tbody></table><b>In the Mood for Love</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118694?thmazing">2000</a>)<br />
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Probably should've watched the special features and read the essays before watching this one. It's a lovely film (Maggie Cheung's dresses alone!) but 90% of the subtext is lost on me, the American viewer. I can't tell there are multiple dialects of Chinese being spoken or that the dishes the cook is making are marking the changing of the seasons or what the years mean to those storied in Hong Kong history. So I get the basic story of two lonely, betrayed people finding a connection, but now I understand the whole thing's heavily allegorical and, yeah, missed all that.<br />
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What was most striking is how the camera and edits do all the can to keep up as far away from the characters as possible. We can do nothing for them. Not even understand them<br />
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Since it's generally agreed to be one of the greatest films, we'll have to give it another shot sometime.<br />
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One of my absolute favorite films, all time.<br />
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Few things bring me this much joy, reliably, time after time after time.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
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</tbody></table><b>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8589698?thmazing">2023</a>)<br />
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I think this is the first TMNT feature I've seen since the original. It's hard to believe I never saw the second, but I don't remember doing so if I did. Certainly I saw the first more than once, but still: we're talking over thirty years ago. Do no ask me to make comparisons.<br />
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What I will say is that I really liked this movie. It's playing with appearance like <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/01/feature-film-january-2019.html#spiderverse">the Spider-verse movies</a> and <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-peanuts-movie.html">the <i>Peanuts</i> movie</a> and I hope mainstream films keep playing in this way. The movie is a solid and intelligent entertainment. Nothing more, but why would it need to me?<br />
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Also, I just want to say that the thing I was most skeptical of was a teenaged April but I loved this version of April. And it's fun in the credits to discover that it's Ayo Edebiri whom I'd never heard of before a couple weeks ago when <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwPQn7i-6JQ&list=PLS_gQd8UB-hJS481FdtzbW009bPEsz0h3">she absolutely KILLED on <i>SNL</i></a>.<br />
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Glad it made money. I was so (plesantly) surprised by what they did with Bebop and Rocksteady I'm ready to see what they do with Shredder.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Poor Things</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14230458?thmazing">2023</a>)<br />
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One of the first things I remember reading about <i>Poor Things</i> was that <a href="https://twitter.com/EricDSnider/status/1698564060755763487">it's another version of <i>Barbie</i></a>, I assumed somewhat in plot and yesalot in theme. And I suppose that's a reasonable take. But <i>Barbie</i> is better at what <i>Barbie</i> does and what <i>Poor Things</i> is up to is just as complex but much less obvious. I mean—you can reduce either of those movies to a feminist catchphrase that can then me mocked on X (the appropriate use of X is when it is bad; Twitter is still the prefered usage for good and neutral usages).<br />
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I was glad that Lady Steed and I had a lot to talk about afterwards. Unfortunately we had to return home instead of to a nonkid location for continued dialogue, but it's certainly provocative in a dozen different ways. Plus, it's such a cool-looking movie. We just barely got to see it on the big screen and I'm glad we did. (Sorry, <i>American Fiction</i>. Sorry, <i>Lisa Frankenstein</i>.)<br />
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And while the male characters speak frequently of Bella Baxter's beauty, the film itself leans into how strange her face can be. But everything is strange here. Appropriate use of fisheyes and irises, for instance. The entire film leaves us offkilter. The chimeras turned out great, by the way.<br />
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In the end, I'm not sure how well the film communicates but it's satisfying as a story. It'll be interesting to see if we're still talking about it in twenty years.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2906216?thmazing">2023</a>)<br />
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So it was entertaining as promised although (as I expected) I didn't really get many of <a href="https://www.popcultureapricottree.com/post/honoramongthieves">the in-jokes</a>. Which is fine.<br />
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It's hard to imagine watching it again but I enjoyed the ride.<br /><br /><br />
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</tbody></table><b>The Rainmaker</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119978?thmazing">1997</a>)<br />
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Believe it or not, this is my first time watching <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Grisham#Feature_films">a Grisham adaptation</a>. This was has a great cast and is directed by Coppola but I mostly just sorta started it because I had to start something. And this is what I started.<br />
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The cast is terrific. Even small roles are filled well. Danny Glover eats up the judge role, and the well-filled roles get smaller than that.<br />
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I haven't read the book but I hope the secondary/romantic plot about the battered wife was filled out better there. In the film, a couple corners needed cutting.<br />
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But the courtroom scenes thrilled as needed and Jon Voigt makes for an excellent adversary. It's probably a little wrong but I watched it in three sitting so so what?<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Beyond the Valley of the Dolls</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065466?thmazing">1970</a>)<br />
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I'd heard of this, the only Roger Ebert-penned film, of course. I even skimmed the first twenty minutes once, a few years ago. But I always assumed the general opinion was that it was terrible. But then, reading <i><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2024/02/2024-10-bette-davis-being-bette-davis.html#006">Opposable Thumbs</a></i>, I learned that its terribleness was not a universal opinion. In fact, one critic called it the best movie of the Sixties. And it is very, very Sixties. It reminds me of <i><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064417?thmazing">Hello Down There</a></i>, a 1969 musical comedy that I saw exactly once c. 1991 and loved and can still sing a pair of songs from though they too I have never heard again. (It's a movie I don't want to rewatch because it seems certain a rewatch can only lower its value to me.) Only this movie is dirty.<br />
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I mean—of course it is. It's Russ Meyer. But it showed a lot more restraint, sexually, than I'd anticipated. And it's just . . . silly, really. There's usually one naked woman dancing per party, for instance. Just because.<br />
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Anyway, I would agree with the terrible camp. Almost every bit of the movie would work wonderfully out of context, but in context? Nope. The movie's dumb. The characters change but why or how is unclear. Maybe it made sense at the end of the Sixties but it just feels like nonsense now. Campy nonsense. Period nonsense. But nonsense.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Stardust</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486655?thmazing">2007</a>)<br />
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Lotta choices here that stick the film very firmly in 2007. It should've had a much lighter touch on the score but it when all <i>Pirates of the Caribbean</i>. It could've relaxed on the cg but it really wanted to show us what can be done with all this new technology. That's now almost twenty years old.<br />
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I can see why my wife went and saw it with her friends then didn't want to go back to watch it with me. It's pretty fun but it's not a movie you really need to watch twice. And certainly not in the same month.<br />
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I know I've been skeptical of Gaiman's adult prose novels, but the movie did make me want to give this one a shot. We'll see.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Barefoot in the Park</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061385?thmazing">1967</a>)<br />
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It started great, but our young couple got less interesting as the film proceeded. Or maybe they were always that uninteresting but they were attractive and horny enough we didn't notice until there was a much more interesting older couple around to eclipse them.<br />
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Hard to say.<br />
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Horny and attractive young people do tend to be distracting.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>The Last Repair Shop</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29118186?thmazing">2023</a>)<br />
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This is nominated for Best Documentary Short, but it's long enough to count as a feature here in Thville.<br />
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Anyway, it's less about the repair shop for musical instruments run for students by LAUSD and more about the people who do the repairs and it turns them into a metaphor for the students and the instruments into a metaphor for the repairers etc etc etc.<br />
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The structure's pretty simple and pretty obvious, but you know what?<br />
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This movie works. It's so good. I can't talk about it yet without my voice cracking.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Flamin' Hot</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8105234?thmazing">2023</a>)<br />
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I know that some of the details are . . . sus. But the movie's loose with fact and fantasy and in the end it doesn't bother me. It's part of the story. A bit meta maybe, but still.<br />
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The story is fun and moving at points. It's also a bit paint-by-numbers at times and some of the elements are a tad confused.<br />
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But in the end? A ride worth taking.<br />
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</tbody></table><p><b>Heavenly Creatures</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110005?thmazing">1994</a>)<br />
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Finally seen this early Peter Jackson film! It's the first of his movies I ever heard of and now I've seen it.<br />
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It does a great job capturing both what is wonderful and what is dangerous about adolescence. The passions and lacks of perspective that take you so high and so low.<br />
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I didn't know how fanciful part of the moviemaking would be. Overall, I liked the movie. Lady Steed did as well, but found the score frequently distracting.<br />
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My only real note was that the opening scene was such that I didn't realize that which mother would be murdered was kept from us through the first three quarters of the film. I misread it and I wish that had been handled slightly differently.<br />
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(1972) | Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019) | Woman of the Year (1942) | You've Got Mail (1998)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/02/paddle-to-sea-and-other-things-to-due.html" title="Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022) | Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2020) | Bringing Up Baby (1938) | Enchanted (2007) | History of the World: Part I (1981) | Les enfants du paradis (1945) | Kung Fu Hustle (2004) | Paddle to the Sea (1966) | The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) | Zardoz (1974)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/04/hup-two-three-film.html" title="An American Pickle (2020) | Ikiru (1952) | Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (2021) | Lost City (2022) | Lyle, Lyle Crocodile (2022) | The Making of Titus 2000) | Mary Poppins (1964) | Pom Poko (1994) | The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) | Rocky (1976) | Shin Godzilla (2016) | Titus (1999) | The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/04/april-ends-with-what-you-see-here.html" title="Annie (1982) | Easter Parade (1948) | Gates of Heaven (1978) | Last Days in the Desert (2015) | The Mermaid (2016) | Paint (2023) | Paprika (2006) | Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer (1990) | Renfield (2023) | Sullivan's Travels (1941) | V for Vendetta (2005) | Venus (2016) | Vernon, Florida (1981)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-movies-of-may.html" title="Bambi (1942) | | A Brief Record of My Father's Time at Sea (2021) | Bullet Train (2022) | Cabaret (1972) | Casablanca (1942) | Clueless (1995) | Cooley High (1975) | Hawaiian Punch (2013) | It's a Wonderful Life (1946) | A Journey to the Beginning of Time (1960) | The Lady Eve (1941) | The Maltese Falcon (1941) | Mystery Men (1999) | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | Please Vote for Me (2007) | Pom Poko (1994) | A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019) | Singin' in the Rain (1952) | Soul Food Junkie | Vertigo (1958) | You May Now Kill the Bride (2016)">may</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/06/juneriffic-filmorama.html" title="American Graffiti (1973) | Asteroid City (2023) | The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) | Blades of Glory (2006) | The Cameraman (1928) | Confess, Fletch (2022) | Elemental (2023) | Fire of Love (2022) | The Flash (2023) | Heathers (1988) | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) | Let There Be Light (1946) | The Menu (2022) | The Mexican (2001) | Nightmare Castle (1965) | Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942) | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) | Spite Marriage (1929) | Victor/Victoria (1982) | Winchester '73 (1950) | your name. (2016)">jun</a> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/08/barbenheimer-and-friends.html" title="Asteroid City (2023) | Barbie (2023) | Free and Easy (1930) | Go West (1925) | Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) | Invention for Destruction (1958) | Jim Gaffigan: Dark Pale (2023) | King Lavra (1950) | Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, Part One (2023) | News of the World (2020) | Oppenheimer (2023) | Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) | Sherlock Jr. (1924) | Singin' in the Rain (1952) | So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM (2004) | Teachers (1984)">jul</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/09/august-filmdom.html" title="Barbie (2023) | Haunted Mansion (2023) | Holiday (1938) | Hot Fuzz (2007) | The Trouble with Harry (1955) | The Truman Show (1998) | The World's End (2013)">aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/09/do-you-remember-films-that-we-watched.html" title="Blancanieves (2012) | Blue Beetle (2023) | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) | The Fugitive (1993) | Genius (2016) | The Making of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1970) | Slapstick of Another Kind (1982) | Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb (2022) | You Can't Take It with You (1938)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/10/octoboo.html" title="Barbie (2023) | The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) | Cymbeline (2014) | Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020) | A Haunting in Venice (2023) | Moroni for President (2018) | Oink (2022) | The Shining (1980) | This Magnificent Cake! (2018) | The Toxic Avenger (1984) | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/12/forgetting-november.html" title="Addams Family Values (1993) | Ballad of a Mountain Man: The Story of Bascom Lamar Lunsford (1989) | Evan Almighty (2007) | Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) | Lady and the Tramp (1955) | The Phantom Carriage (1921)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/12/2023-crashes-to-close-filmwise.html" title="8-Bit Christmas (2021) | Blithe Spirit (2020) | The Boy and the Heron (2023) | Die Hard (1988) | The Doll (1919) | Elf (2003) | Godzilla Minus One (2023) | The Marvels (2023) | Merry Little Batman (2023) | The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) | Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)">dec</a><br /></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2022</u><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-years-starts-slowly.html" title="21 Up (1977) | After Hours (1985) | Encanto (2021) | Harold and Maude (1971) | The Last Starfighter (1984) | Little Women (2019)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/02/februarys-over-already-it-was-yesterday.html" title="Ford v Ferrari (2019) | The Imposter (2012) | Modern Times (1936) | Private Benjamin (1980) | Sing Street (2016) | Snowball Express (1972) | The Voyeurs (2021)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/03/march-on-to-filmdonia.html" title="The Awful Truth (1937) | Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021) | The Batman (2022) | The Lady in the Van (2015)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/04/not-that-i-watched-any-ukrainian-films.html" title="28 Up (1984) | Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021) | Batman (1989) | Embrace the Panda: Making Turning Red (2022) | Free Guy (2021) | Gattaca (1997) | Henson's Place: The Man Behind the Muppets (1984) | Kong: Skull Island (2017) | The Mummy (1932) | Please Vote for Me (2007) | Professor Marston & the Wonder Women (2017) | Pulp Fiction (1994) | Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) | They Call Me Trinity (1970) | Turning Red (2022) | WW84 (2020)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/05/movie-may-i.html" title="35 Up (1991) | Bambi (1942) | The Bob's Burgers Movie (2022) | Chan Is Missing (1982) | Departures (2008) | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) | Eagle vs Shark (2007) | Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) | Finch (2021) | Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth (2020) | Learning to See: The World of Insects (2016) | The Liberators (2016) | Man on Fire (2018) | Mickey Mouse Monopoly (2002) | Moana (2016) | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) | The Northman (2022) | Porco Rosso (1992) | Psycho (1960) | Psychos (2014) | Putin: The New Tsar (2018) | Russian Ark (2002) | The Trolls (2015) | Two Million Minutes: A Global Examination (2008)">may</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/06/june-film-flybys.html" title="42 Up (1998) | 49 Up (2005) | 56 Up (2012) | All the President's Men (1976) | Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) | The General (1926) | The Green Knight (2021) | The Green Man (1956) | Jallikattu (2019) | Killer of Sheep (1978) | The Matrix (1999) | Monster on the Campus (1958) | Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) | The Post (2017) | Princess Mononoke (1997) | Soylent Green (1973)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-quality-july.html" title="The Bob Emergency (2019) | Elvis (2022) | The Fog of War (2003) | Heat (1995) | The Insufferable Groo (2018) | Last Night in Soho (2021) | The Lunchbox (2013) | Mad God (2022) | Masterminds (2016) | The Mummy (1999) | The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982) | Nope (2022) | Princess Protection Program (2009) | The Thing (1982) | Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) | Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made (2020) | WWJD (2022)">july</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/08/august-films-2022.html" title="Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) | Beaver Trilogy (2000) | Beaver Trilogy Part IV (2015) | Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022) | Cinderella 3: A Twist in Time (2007) | Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) | Encanto (2021) | The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021) | How to score 10 runs in the first inning and lose (2022) | Jules et Jim (1962) | Once (2007)">aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/09/ive-run-out-of-september-film-puns-2022.html" title="The Boyfriend School (1990) | Brave (2012) | Boss Baby (2017) | Bullitt (1968) | Dog City (1989) | Frances Ferguson (2019) | It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) | Jaws (1975) | Love and Saucers (2017) | Macbeth (2018) | M*A*S*H (1970) | Moana (2016) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | Storks (2016) | Teacher of the Year (2014) | Touch of Evil (1958/1998) | The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/10/octobrrrrr-films-were-just-not-chilly.html" title="Bell Book and Candle (1958) | A Bucket of Blood (1959) | Emma. (2020) | Old (2021) | Werewolf by Night (2022) | Much Ado About Nothing (1993) | Much Ado About Nothing (2012)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/11/novilmber.html" title="The Addams Family (1991) | La belle et la bête (1946) | Boss Baby: Family Business (2021) | CRYO (2022) | Dan in Real Life (2007) | Glass Onion (2022) | An Honest Liar (2014) | A Serious Man (2009) | Suburbicon (2017) | Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) | While You Were Sleeping (1995) | WWJD (2022)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/01/ending-year-in-cinematic-style.html" title="Barber Westchester (2022) | The Batman (2022) | Batman Returns (1992) | The Compleat Al (1985) | Elf (2003) | The Guardians of the Galaxy: Holiday Special (2022) | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) | The LEGO Movie (2014) | The Matrix (1999) | The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) | Midnight Run (1988) | Mirai (2018) | Moana (2016) | Patch Town (2014) | Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (1972) | The Shop Around the Corner (1940) | Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) | A Unicorn for Christmas (2021)">dec</a><br /></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2021</u><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/01/no-so-many-movies-this-january-im-afraid.html" title="Babette's Feast (1987) | Bashful (1917) | The Big Idea (1917) | By the Sad Sea Waves (1917) | A Cat in Paris (2010) | A Gasoline Wedding (1918) | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) | Lonesome Luke, Messenger (1917) | Look Pleasant, Please (1918) | The Princess and the Frog (2009) | The Shaggy D.A. (1976) | Shrek (2001) | Shrek 2 (2004) | Soul (2020) | Wings of Desire (1987)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/02/february-more-like-filmuary.html" title="A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) | The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) | Monuments Men (2014) | My Neighbor Totoro (1988) | The Player (1992) | The Princess Bride (1989) | Selma (2014) | Shrek Forever After (2010) | Shrek the Third (2007) | Spirited Away (2001) | La Strada (1954)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/03/march-movies-march.html" title="And Should We Die (1966) | Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020) | The Dirty Dozen (1967) | Downsizing (2017) | Hail, Caesar! (2016) | Inside Out (2015) | Jojo Rabbit (2019) | My Cousin Vinny (1992) | Rififi (1955)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/04/april-showers-do-not-exist-this-is.html" title="Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) | Belladonna of Sadness (1973) | Blast from the Past (1999) | Captain America: Civil War (2016) | The Floorwalker (1916) | Flora & Ulysses (2021) | Hypocrites (1915) | The Incredibles (2004) | Jojo Rabbit (2019) | The Last Unicorn (1982) | Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) | Moonrise Kingdom (2012) | Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976) | Paul Williams Still Alive (2011) | Phantom of the Paradise (1974) | Spontaneous (2020) | The Star Prince (1918)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/05/may-we-movie-yes-we-may.html" title="High Noon (1952) | Idiocracy (2006) | The Incredible Hulk (2008) | The Maltese Falcon (1941) | My Favorite Wife (1940) | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | Parasite (2019) | So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)">may</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/06/june-something-something-movie-pun.html" title="Billu (2009) | Ella Cinders (1926) | The Errand of Angels (2004) | Future War (1997) / MST3K: Future War (1999) | Luca (2021) | A Quiet Place (2018) | Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) | Sullivan's Travels (1941)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-films-of-july-such-as-they-were.html" title="The Caine Mutiny (1954) | The Cat from Outer Space (1978) | The Innocents (1961) | The Manchurian Candidate (1962) | A Mighty Wind (2003) | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | This Is Spinal Tap (1984) | Tron: Legacy (2010)">jul</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/09/augustus-filmius.html" title="Black Widow (2021) | Contact (1997) | The Giant Brine Shrimp (1973) | Phantom of the Megaplex (2000) | Scoob! (2020) | Sylvio (2017) | Three Men and a Baby (1987)">aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/09/remember-the-films-of-september.html" title="'Crocodile' Dundee (1986) | Discovering Treasure: The Story of the Treasure of the Sierra Madre (2003) | Emma. (2020) | The Jewel of the Nile (1985) | John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1989) | Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: The Flash (2018) | Romancing the Stone (1984) | Scotland, Pa. (2001) | Snoopy, Come Home (1972) | A Town Called Panic (2009) | A Town Called Panic: Double Fun (2016) | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/10/october-and-disturbing-paucity-of-scary.html" title="The Bat (1959) | The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Gentlemen Broncos (2009) | Hero (2002) | Macbeth (2015) | Mr. Boogedy (1986) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | Muppets Haunted Mansion (2021) | Scotland, Pa. (2001) | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-first-time.html" title="About a Boy (2002) | The Amazing Spider-man (2012) | As You Like It (1978) | Beetlejuice (1988) | Bottle Rocket (1996) | Eternals (2021) | Flora & Ulysses (2021) | An Honest Liar (2014) | Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) | Masaan (2015) | Out of Liberty (2019) | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) | Sisters (1972)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/12/and-twenty-twenty-one-comes-crashing-to.html" title="7 Plus Seven (1970) | Bedazzled (1967) | Die Hard (1988) | Elf (2003) | The History of the Seattle Mariners (2020) | The Holiday (2006) | Home Alone (1990) | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) | It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) | The Matrix (1999) | The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) | Ron's Gone Wrong (2021) | Seven Up! (1964) | Speed (1994) | Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) | ¡Three Amigos! (1986) | Toys (1992) | The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)">dec</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2020</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-first-month-of-2020-films-watched.html" title="1917 (2019) | The Aeronauts (2019) | After Hours (1985) | Amy (2015) | Barcelona (1994) | Cars (2006) | The Death of Stalin (2017) | A Fool There Was (1915) | How Rare a Possession: The Book of Mormon (1987) | The In-Laws (1979) | Joker (2019) | Knives Out (2019) | Long Shot (2019) | Parasite (2019) | Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) | Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) | Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) | Three Days of the Condor (1975) | Unbreakable (2000) | Wag the Dog (1997)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/02/leap-day-means-extra-day-for-movies-in.html" title="The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) | Arrival (2016) | Bolt (2008) | Contagion (2011) | Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) | Groundhog Day (1993) | Inception (2010) | Jean de Florette (1986) | Kung Fu Dunk (2008) | Manon des Sources (1986) | Muriel's Wedding (1994) | Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019) | Sylvio (2017) | Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914) | Troop Zero (2019) | Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013) | Young Adult (2011)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/03/march-brings-end-of-normality-and.html" title="The Avengers (2012) | Bambi (1942) | Bottle Rocket (1996) | Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) | Finding Nemo (2003) | Heart of Africa (2020) | It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) | A League of Their Own (1992) | Miniscule: Valley of the Lost Ants (2013) | The Avengers | Patema Inverted (2013) | Phase IV (1974) | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) | UHF (1989) | WALL·E (2008) | Whale Rider (2002)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-movies-intentions-corrupted-by.html" title="4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) | Ant-Man (2015) | Avengers: Endgame (2019) | Avengers: Infinity War (2018) | Black Panther (2018) | Brother Bear (2003) | Captain America: Civil War (2016) | Finding Dory (2016) | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) | Howl's Moving Castle (2004) | Iron Man 2 (2010) | Iron Man Three (2013) | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | My Life as a Zucchini (2016) | Once I Was a Beehive (2015) | Onward (2020) | Out of Liberty (2019) | Spirited Away (2001) | Thor: Ragnarok (2017) | West of Her (2016)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/05/may-we-movies.html" title="Bambi (1942) | Be Kind Rewind (2008) | Duck Soup (1933) | Fantastic Mr Fox (2009) | Fences (2016) | The Fighting Preacher (2019) | Fluke (1995) | Frankenstein (1931) | Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) | The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) | The Great Dinosaur Discovery (1976) | A Hard Day's Night (1964) | House of Frankenstein (1944) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Like Father, Like Son (2013) | Pride & Prejudice (2005) | Ratatouille (2007) | Rushmore (1998) | Shanghai Noon (2000) | Shoplifters (2018) | A Spaceman in King Arthur's Court (1979) | Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) | The Strongest Man in the World (1975)">may</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-movies-minimally-jejune.html" title="An Affair to Remember (1957) | Any Old Port in a Storm (1973) | Artemis Fowl (2020) | Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman (2003) | Blindspotting (2018) | Endless Night (1972) | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) | First Reformed (2017) | The Florida Project (2017) | The Great Muppet Caper (1981) | Holy Motors (2012) | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) | I Am Not Your Negro (2016) | Intolerable Cruelty (2003) | Ishtar (1987) | Late Night (2019) | Looper (2012) | Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) | My Dog, the Thief (1969) | Patch Town (2014) | Peter Pan (1953) | The Red Mill (1927) | The Seventh Seal (1957) | The Shiver of the Vampires (1971) | Snowpiercer (2013) | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) | Transperceneige: From the Blank Page to the Black Screen (2014) | Under the Silver Lake (2018) | West of Hot Dog (1924)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/07/blog-post.html" title="Beginners (2010) | Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019) | Fitzwilly (1967) | Galaxy Quest (1999) | A Ghost Story (2017) | The Hate U Give (2018) | A Hidden life (2019) | Hot Rod (2007) | House of Dracula (1945) | Jerry Maguire (1996) | Meet the Robinsons (2007) | New York Doll (2005) | The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) | Shaun of the Dead (2004) | Transylvania 6-5000 (1985) | The Zone (2011)">jul</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/08/film-so-august.html" title="Alice in Wonderland (1951) | Bug (1975) | Country Gentlemen (1936) | The Dead Don't Die (2019) | Eleanor's Secret (2009) | Firebird (1982) | Frozen II (2019) | Knives Out (2019) | Minority Report (2002) | Rango (2011) | Spirited Away (2001) | Table 19 (2016) | Tangled (2010)">aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/10/1917-aeronauts-after-hours-amy.html" title="A.C.O.D. (2013) | All Is True (2018) | Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020) | Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (2015) | Chicken Run (2000) | La Cigarette (1919) | Clueless (1995) | Fat City (1972) | The Smiling Madame Beudet (1923) | The Terminator (1984) | Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/11/oktoberfilm.html" title="Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) | Ghostbusters: Answer the Call (2016) | In Search of a Flat Earth (2020) | Intolerance (1916) | Jabberwocky (1977) | The Next Door (2016) | Over the Garden Wall (2014) | The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012) | The Sixth Sense (1999) | Three Ages (1923) | Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) | The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/11/thankful-for-movies.html" title="10 Things I Hate About You (1999) | 1917 (2019) | Arthur Christmas (2011) | Early Man (2018) | Extra Ordinary (2019) | Ford v Ferrari (2019) | I Am Not Your Negro (2016) | Jurassic Park (1993) | Just Mercy (2019) | Kung Fu Panda (2008) | The Last Man on Earth (1964) | Missing Link (2019) | Napoleon Dynamite (2004) | Samuel the Lamanite (2006) | The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956) | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/12/a-film-watch-together-with-youuuuuu.html" title="Babes in Toyland (1934) | BlacKkKlansman (2018) | The Court Jester (1955) | Edward Scissorhands (1990) | Elf (2003) | Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas (2014) | The Farewell (2019) | Get Out (2017) | Home Alone (1990) | Midsommar (2019) | Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) | Noelle (2020) | A Raisin in the Sun (2008) | The Sadist (1963) | A Simple Favor (2018) | Singin' in the Rain (1952) | Up (2009)">dec</a><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2019</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/01/feature-film-january-2019.html" title="The Boat (1921) | Cold Comfort Farm (1995) | The Great Dictator (1940) | Hearts Beat Loud (2018) | An Honest Liar (2014) | Imposter (2012) | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) | One Week (1920) | Shaolin Soccer (2001) | Spider-Man 3 (2007) | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) | Sylvio (2017) | The Thing from Another World (1951) | True Grit (2010)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/02/feature-film-february-2019.html" title="Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Don Verdean (2015) | Duelle (1976) | Edge of Tomorrow (2014) | The Favourite (2018) | Frankenstein (1931) | Hanna (2010) | The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) | Luck-Key (2016) | Mother (2009) | Pom Poko (1994) | Raising Arizona (1987) | Sylvio (2017) | The Tiger Hunter (2016) | Violet & Daisy (2011)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/03/feature-film-march-2019.html" title="Don Verdean (2015) | Eighth Grade (2018) | Fences (2016) | Frankenstein (1931) | Jane and Emma (2018) | Macbeth (1979) | Macbeth (2010) | Macbeth (2015) | The Silence of the Lambs (1991) | Superman (1978) | The Sword in the Stone (1963)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/04/feature-film-april-2019.html" title="Avengers: Infinity War (2018) | Captain Marvel (2019) | Cheatin’ (2013) | George of the Jungle (1997) | Hancock (2008) | An Honest Liar (2014) | King Lear (2018) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | Mulholland Dr. (2001) | Shazam! (2019) | Three Identical Strangers (2018) | Us (2019)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/05/feature-film-may-2019.html" title="Avengers: Endgame (2019) | Bambi (1942) | BASEketball (1998) | Casablanca (1942) | Cinema Paradiso (1988) | A Day at the Races (1937) | The Godfather (1972) | Good Time (2017) | A Goofy Movie (1995) | The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) | One Week & The Boat (1920 & 1921) | Play It Again, Sam (1972) | Psycho (1960) | Rushmore (1998) | Short Term 12 (2013) | Silence (2016) | Wolf Children (2012)">may</a><br />
<a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/06/feature-film-june-2019.html" title="The Big Store (1942) | Crazy Rich Asians (2018) | Deathtrap (1982) | Designing Woman (1957) | The Godfather: Part II (1974) | Louise en Hiver (2016) | Men in Black (1997) | Room 237 (2012) | Room Service (1938) | Sleepless in Seattle (1993) | Spirited Away (2001) | To Be or Not to Be (1942) | Toy Story (1995) | Toy Story 2 (2009) | Toy Story 3 (2010)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/07/feature-films-june-2019.html" title="I, Tonya (2017) | The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) | My Neighbors The Yamadas (1999) | Sorry to Bother You (2018) | Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) | Toy Story 3 (2010) | Toy Story 4 (2019) | The Tree of Life (2011) | Yesterday (2019)">jul</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/08/feature-films-august-2019.html" title="Beware! The Blob (1972) | The Blob (1958) | Bumblebee (2018)| The Dead Zone (1983) | Dealt (2017) | Marjorie Prime (2017) | The Meg (2018) | Matilda (1996) | The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) | Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019)">aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/09/feature-films-september-2019.html" title="Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (2016) | Blinded by the Light (2019) | Captain Marvel (2019) | Kings of Baxter (2017) | The Lady Eve (1941) | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) | The Martian (2015) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Sylvio (2017)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/10/feature-films-october-2019.html" title="Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) | The Addams Family (2019) | An American Werewolf in London (1981) | Gravity (2013) | An Honest Liar (2014) | The Kings of Summer (2013) | Little (2019) | Macbeth (2015) | Moana (2016) | mother! (2017) | Romeo + Juliet (1996) | Romeo Is Bleeding (2015) | Shazam! (2019) | Toy Story (1995) | WALL·E (2008)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/11/films-feature-length-2019-november.html" title="Aquaman (2018) | Blackbeard's Ghost (1968) | Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) | Clue (1985) | Frozen (2013) | Frozen II (2019) | I Lost My Body (2019) | Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) | Isle of Dogs (2018) | Kids + Money (2008) | The Light Bulb Conspiracy (2010) | The Night of the Hunter (1955) | The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | The Prodigal Son (1990) | The Satellite Girl and Milk Cow (2014) | Short Circuit (1986) | Short Circuit 2 (1988) | Space Is the Place (1974)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/12/december-2019-films-de-la-feature.html" title="About a Boy (2002) | The Animagic World of Rankin/Bass (2018) | Babe (1995) | Bagdad Cafe (1987) | The Best Two Years (2004) | Elf (2003) | Fast Color (2018) | Go (1999) | Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) | Gremlins (1984) | Hitler's Hollywood (2017) | Jack Frost (1979) | The _______ Report (2019) | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) | Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) | Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) | Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019) | Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) | Toy Story 4 (2019)">dec</a><br />
</div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2018</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-feature-films-of-january-2018.html" title="The Avengers (2012) | Believe (2013) | Cast Away (2000) | College (1927) | The Creature Walks Among Us (1956) | Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) | Faces Places (2017) | A Goofy Movie (1995) | Hot Rod (2007) | One Man's Treasure (2009) | Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) | Shane (1953) | The Wolfpack (2015)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/02/2018-february-feature-filmery.html" title="Black Panther (2018) | Chan Is Missing (1982) | The Edge of Seventeen (2016) | Help! (1965) | The Incredibles (2004) | Iron Man (2008) | Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002) | Lady Bird (2017) | Love & Friendship (2016) | Pom Poko (1994) | Sylvio (2017) | Toy Story (1995) | Wonderstruck (2017)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/03/march-2018s-feature-filmery.html" title="Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Chinatown (2006) | Colossal (2016) | Fences (2016) | Frankenstein (1931) | Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) | Inside Out (2015) | Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) | What We Do in the Shadows (2014)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/04/april-2018s-feature-filmery.html" title="Adam's Apples (2005) | Avengers: Infinity War (2018) | Cinderella (1950) | Coriolanus (2011) | Darkest Hour (2017) | Don't Think Twice (2016) | Moonstruck (1987) | Muppets from Space (1999) | Princess Mononoke (1997) | The Red Turtle (2016) | Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) | Tangled (2010) | Thor: The Dark World (2013) | 3:10 to Yuma (1957) | 3:10 to Yuma (2007)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/05/may-2018s-feature-filmery.html" title="The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) | The Andromeda Strain (1971) | The Beguiled (2017) | Boy and the World (2013) | Get Out (2017) | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) | Interstellar (2014) | The Iron Giant (1999) | The Little Mermaid (1989) | Mulan (1998) | My Dinner with Andre (1981) | Romeo Is Bleeding (2015) | Spirited Away (2001) | The Stepford Wives (1975) | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | WALL·E (2008) | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)">may</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/06/june-2018s-feature-filmery.html" title="Ant-Man (2015) | Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) | Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) | Incredibles 2 (2018) | Isle of Dogs (2018) | Ocean's 8 (2018) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977) | Rushmore (1998) | Thank You for Smoking (2005)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/08/20julyaugust18.html" title="The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) | Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1992) | The Disaster Artist (2017) | Dunkirk (2017) | Everybody Street (2013) | Finding Dory (2016) | Howl's Moving Castle (2004) | The Lego Batman Movie (2017) | Logan Lucky (2017) | Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) | My Neighbro Totoro (1988) | 9 to 5 (1980) | Porco Rosso (1992) | Son of Frankenstein (1939) | Sorry to Bother You (2018) | The Saratov Approach (2013) | Son of Flubber (1963) | The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) | Thor: Ragnarok (2017) | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018) | Your Name. (2016)">jul&aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/09/not-so-many-movies-in-september-2018.html" title="Art + Belief (2019) | A Boy and His Dog (1975) | The Little Hours (2017) | The Lost Express (1925) | Murder by Death (1976) | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | One Man's Treasure (2009)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-films-of-october-2018.html" title="Batman Begins (2005) | Children of the Corn (1984) | Frailty (2001) | Justice League (2017) | My Friend Dahmer (2017) | The Truman Show (1998) | When Marnie Was There (2014)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/11/moviember-2019.html" title="Baby Mama (2008) | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) | The 'Burbs (1989) | The Dark Knight (2008) | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) | Metropolis (1927) | Modern Times (1936) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | Okja (2017) | Paddington 2 (2017) | Singin' in the Rain (1952) | WarGames (1983)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/12/final-movies-post-of-2018.html" title="The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) | The Comedy of Errors (1983) | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) | It's a Wonderful Life (1946) | My Neighbor Totoro (1998) | North Avenue Irregulars (1979) | Spider-Man (2002) | Spider-Man 2 (2004) | Turbo Kid (2015)">dec</a><br />
</div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2017</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/03/2017-t-ms-part-one.html" title="Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993) | The General (1926) | Get Out (2017) | The Hidden Fortress (1958) | The Karate Kid (1984) | The LEGO Batman Movie (2017) | Mean Girls (2004) | Orc Wars (2013) | Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Room (2015) | Silence (2016) | Storks (2016)">qu1</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/06/2017-t-ms-part-two.html" title="All the President's Men (1976) | Back to the Future (1985) | The Boss Baby (2017) | Casablanca (1942) | Do the Right Thing (1989) | F for Fake (1973) | Fences (2016) | Forbidden Zone (1980) | Fun and Fancy Free (1947) | The Ghost Writer (2010) | Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) | Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 (2017) | Hail, Caesar! (2016) | The Handmaiden (2016) | Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Midnight Special (2016) | Noroît (1976) | Orson Welles: The One-Man Band (1995) | Pride & Prejudice (2005) | Psycho (1960) | The Puffy Chair (2005) | Romeo + Juliet (1996) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Rushmore (1998) | The Shawshank Redemption (1994) | Son of Kong (1933) | Spirited Away (2001) | Sully (2016) | A Town Called Panic (2009) | To Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters (2016) | Wonder Woman (2017)">qu2</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/09/2017-t-ms-part-three.html" title="Arrival (2016) | De Palma (2015) | Doctor Strange (2016) | Dunkirk (2017) | The Eagle Huntress (2016) | Elevator to the Gallows (1958) | Fences (2016) | The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966) | Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) | Ladyhawke (1985) | Logan (2017) | Magnolia (1999) | Moana (2016) | Napoleon Dynamite (2004) | Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) | Swiss Army Man (2016) | Trolls (2016) | Tyrus (2015) | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | Unfaithfully Yours (1948) | Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) | What We Do in the Shadows (2014)">qu3</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/12/end-o-2017.html" title="The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979) | Baby Driver (2017) | The Big Sick (2017) | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) | Boy and the World (2013) | Boy (2010) | Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) | Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017) | Cars 3 (2017) | Christmas in Connecticut (1945) | Clue (1985) | Coco (2017) | Coraline (2009) | Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) | Edward Scissorhands (1990) | Elf (2003) | Frankenstein (1931) | Free Fire (2016) | Home Alone (1990) | The Invisible Man (1935) | The Kid (1921) | A Knight's Tale (2001) | Kong: Skull Island (2017) | Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) | La La Land (2016) | The LEGO Movie (2014) | Lilo & Stitch (2002) | Ministry of Fear (1944) | Monster of Frankenstein (1981) | Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) | Murder on the Orient Express (2017) | Nacho Libre (2006) | The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) | Revenge of the Creature (1955) | A River Runs Through It (1992) | Silence (1992) | Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) | Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) | Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) | Surf's Up (2007) | 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) | Thor (2011) | Thor: Ragnarok (2017) | Train to Busan (2016) | WALL-E (2008) | The Wolf Man (1941) | Wonder Woman (2017) | Young Frankenstein (1974)">qu4</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2016</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/03/first-quarter-films.html" title="Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015 | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1998) | A Hard Day's Night (1964) | Help! (1965) | Inside Out (2015) | It Follows (2014) | Life Itself (2014) | The Magnificent Seven (1960) | Mystery Men (1999) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Romeo + Juliet (1996) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Seven Samurai (1954) | Spy (2015) | Stranger than Fiction (2006) | Wonder Boys (2000) | The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008) | Zootopia (2016)">qu1</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/06/2nd-quarter.html" title="Ant-Man (2015) | Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) | The Big Lebowski (1998) | Casablanca (1942) | Chi-Raq (2015) | Citizen Kane (1941) | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) | Do the Right Thing (1989) | Duck Soup (1933) | Ex Machina (2015) | Extract (2009) | Fargo (1996) | Finding Dory (2016) | Gone Girl (2014) | The Great Dictator (1940) | A Hard Day's Night (1964) | His Girl Friday (1940) | Horse Feathers (1932) | Howl's Moving Castle (2004) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Love & Friendship (2016) | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013) | Playtime (1967) | Rope (1948) | Rushmore (1998) | Spirited Away (2001) | The Station Agent (2003) | The Tree of Life (2011) | Vertigo (1958) | While We're Young (2014) | The World's End (2013) | Young Frankenstein (1974)">qu2</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/09/2016s-third-quarter-movies.html" title="Airplane! (1980) | Amélie (2001) | Anomalisa (2015) | The Avengers (2012) | Batman: The Killing Joke (2016) | Best in Show (2000) | Candleshoe (1977) | Field of Dreams (1989) | Forbidden Planet (1956) | The 400 Blows (1959) | Four Lions (2010) | Freaky Friday (1976) | Ghostbusters (2016) | The Girl from Nowhere (2012) | Goodfellas (1990) | Hot Fuzz (2007) | The Invisible Boy (1957) | Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) | The Lobster (2015) | Mad Max (1979) | Maverick (1994) | Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) | Mood Indigo (2013) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | The Passion of Martin (1991) | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) | Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015) | Stand by Me (1986) | The Sting (1973) | A Town Called Panic (2009) | Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) | Wild Tales (2014)">qu3</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/12/all-rest-of-movies-of-2016.html" title="Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) | The Abominable Bride (2016) | About a Boy (2002) | The Babadook (2014) | The Big Short (2015) | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) | The Blood of Jesus (1941) | The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Café Society (2016) | Captain America: Civil War (2016) | Crisis in Six Scenes (2016) | Doctor Strange (2016) | Elf (2003) | A Face in the Crowd (1957) | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | Fletch (1985) | Frankenstein (1931) | Ghost in the Shell (1995) | The Gleaners & I (2000) | Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956) | Gojira (1954) | Goodnight Mommy (2014) | Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) | Harold and Maude (1971) | I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story (2014) | Keanu (2016) | King Kong (1933) | Let the Right One In (2008) | Miracle on 34th Street (1947) | Mission: Impossible (1996) | Mr. Holmes (2015) | Pride & Prejudice (2005) | Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) | Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) | Rounders (1998) | Scrooged (1988) | Shaolin Soccer (2001) | Star Wars: Rogue One (2016) | Stranger than Fiction (2006) | Wishful Drinking (2010) | Young Frankenstein (1974)">qu4</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2015</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2015/04/first-batch-of-2015-feature-films-seen.html" title="The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967) | Annie (2014) | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) | Duck Soup (1933) | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | Finding Vivian Maier (2013) | Frank (2014) | The Gold Rush (1925) | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) | Her (2013) | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) | Jaws (1975) | Moneyball (2011) | The One I Love (2014) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) | The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015) | 21 Jump Street (2012) | What We Do in the Shadows (2014) | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)">qu1</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2015/07/feature-films-2015-second-quarter.html" title="The Adjustment Bureau | American Movie | Bambi | The Boxtrolls (2014) | Casablanca (1942) | Chef (2014) | Dazed and Confused (1993) | Edge of Tomorrow (2014) | Freetown (2015) | From Up on Poppy Hill (2011) | Godzilla (2014) | Groundhog Day (1993) | Inside Out (2015) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) | Jurassic Park (1993) | Jurassic World (2015) | Looking for Richard (1996) | Marwencol (2010) | Psycho (1960) | Romeo Is Bleeding (2015) | Spirited Away (2001) | THX 1138 (1971) | Tomorrowland (2015) | Under the Skin (2013) | V for Vendetta (2005) | Wadjda (2012)">qu2</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2015/10/feature-films-2015-third-quarter.html" title="Ant-Man (2015) | Boyhood (2014) | The Double (2011) | Frances Ha (2012) | Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) | Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) | My Man Godfrey (1936) | Once I Was a Beehive (2015) | Paddington (2014) | The Rocketeer (1991) | The Sandlot (1993) | Saving Mr. Banks (2013) | The Secret of Kells (2009) | The Secret of Roan Inish (1994) | Song of the Sea (2014) | St. Vincent (2014) | The Third Man (1949) | UHF (1989)">qu3</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2015/12/feature-films-2015-final-quarter.html" title="Back to the Future (1985) | Back to the Future Part II (1989) | Back to the Future Part III (1990) | The Bad Seed (1956) | Bernie (2011) | Big Eyes (2014) | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) | Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Die Hard (1998) | Elf (2003) | Enemy (2013) | Frankenweenie (2012) | The Good Dinosaur (2015) | Hamlet (1990) | Heavy Metal (1981) | It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) | The Mountain of the Lord (1993) | The Parent Trap (1961) | The Peanuts Movie (2015) | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) | Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | School of Rock (2003) | The Skeleton Twins (2014) | The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) | Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1997) | Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) | UHF (1989) | Wild (2014) | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)">qu4</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2014</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/04/feature-length-films-of-2014-quarter-one.html" title="Le Ballon Rouge (1956) | The Book of Mormon Movie, Volume 1: The Journey (2003) | Cedar Rapids (2011) | Chronicle (2012) | The Conversation (1974) | Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) | Knuckleball! (2012) | Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010) | The LEGO Movie (2014) | Mahlzeiten (1967) | Moon (2009) | The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) | Pitch Perfect (2012) | A Royal Affair (2012) | SlamNation (1998) | Source Code (2011) | Warm Bodies (2013) | The Wind Rises (2013)">qu1</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/07/single-paragraphs-on-flicks-flicked.html" title="Babe: Pig in the City (1998) | Casablanca (1942) | Citizen Kane (1941) | Damsels in Distress (2011) | Duck Soup (1933) | Eraserhead (1977) | Frankenweenie (2012) | The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) | Heathers (1988) | How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) | Idiocracy (2006) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Jurassic Park (1993) | The Last Unicorn (1982) | Moneyball (2011) | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | Muppets Most Wanted (2014) | The Muppet Movie (1979) | Rushmore (1998) | Spirited Away (2001) | The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) | Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977, 1997) | Super 8 (2011) | V for Vendetta (2005)">qu2</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/09/2014-third-quarter-movies.html" title="American Grindhouse (2010) | American Hustle (2013) | Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) | Better Off Dead… (1985) | Bottle Rocket (1996) | Brick (2005) | Ghostbusters (1984) | Ginger Snaps (2000) | The Green Mile (1999) | Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) | In a World… (2013) | Little Secrets (2001) | Napoleon Dynamite (2004) | The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) | Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) | Somebody Up There Likes Me (2012) | Up in the Air (2009)">qu3</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/12/2014-movies-of-final-quarter.html" title="About a Boy (2002) | Big Hero 6 (2014) | The Cabin in the Woods (2012) | Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) | [charlie chaplin series] (1914, 1916, 1916, 1917, 1917) | The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (2000) | Dans la Maison (2012) | Ernest & Celestine (2012) | The Fisher King (1991) | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2014) | Interstellar (2014) | The Invisible Man (1933) | Mary Poppins (1964) | Million Dollar Arm (2014) | The Night of the Hunter (1955) | Paprika (2006) | ParaNorman (2012) | The Pride of the Yankees (1942) | Safety Last! (1923) | The Shining (1980) | Step Brothers (2008) | Sullivan's Travels (1941) | Unicorn City (2012) | Why Worry? (1923) | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)">qu4</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2013</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-movies-of-2013-one-paragraph.html" title="Argo (2012) | The Adventures of Tintin (2011) | Chinatown (1974) | The Descendants (2011) | Field of Dreams (1989) | A Goofy Movie (1995) | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) | Inherit the Wind (1960) | Kung Fu Hustle (2004) | The Merchant of Venice (2004) | Moonrise Kingdom (2012) | The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) | The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Psycho (1960) | The Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | The White Shadow (1924) | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)">th1</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-movies-of-2013-one-paragraph.html" title="Amour (2012) | Bellflower (2011) | Cinderella (1950) | The Dark Knight Rises (2012) | The Empire Strikes Back (1980) | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | 50/50 (2011) | The Graduate (1967) | The Great Gatsby (2013) | The Happening (2008) | The Kids Are All Right (2010) | Looper (2012) | Monsters University (2013) | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | Mr. Baseball (1992) | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) | Pacific Rim (2013) | R.I.P.D. (2013) | Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) | Snatch (2000) | Star Wars (1977) | Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002) | Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) | Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1997) | Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983) | This Is 40 (2012) | This Is the End (2013) | White on Rice (2009)">th2</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-movies-of-2013-one-paragraph.html" title="The Amazing Adventure (1936) | Black Orpheus (1959) | A Bucket of Blood (1959) | The Cheat (1915) | A Christmas Story (1983) | Corianton (1931) | Elf (2003) | Ender's Game (2013) | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | Frozen (2013) | Gentlemen Broncos (2009) | Gravity (2013) | His Girl Friday (1940) | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) | The Indian in the Cupboard (1995) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | The Muppet Movie (1979) | A Night at the Opera (1935) | Now You See Me (2013) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Sleepwalk with Me (2012) | Swiss Family Robinson (1960) | Waitress (2007) | When Harry Met Sally… (1989)">th3</a></div>
Th.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-42900082274575130822024-02-28T20:43:00.000-08:002024-02-28T20:43:17.775-08:00Goodhart's Law in education and religion<p></p><p data-pm-slice="0 0 []">.</p><p>I just heard of Goodhart's Law this week <a href="https://xkcd.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">thanks to xkcd</a>. This xkcd required a bit more supplementary reading than usual. The comic itself is sufficient to get the joke but not to really <em>get</em> the joke, if you know what I mean.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Goodhart's Law</a>: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"</p><p>In short, some things we deeply care about cannot be measured. But since related things <em>can</em> be measured, we just measure those instead. But, sometimes, we then start to care about the thing we’re measuring more than the thing we care about.</p><p>Incidentally, the images in this post will all link back to where I took them from. Starting with these from something called <em>Jascha’s blog</em>:</p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://sohl-dickstein.github.io/2022/11/06/strong-Goodhart.html" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9a68849e-821e-4e89-8feb-7f15da8fb5de_2800x1435.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":746,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":385598,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":"https://sohl-dickstein.github.io/2022/11/06/strong-Goodhart.html","belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" height="300" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9a68849e-821e-4e89-8feb-7f15da8fb5de_2800x1435.png" width="586" /></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://sohl-dickstein.github.io/2022/11/06/strong-Goodhart.html" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a9278c84-d1a9-47f0-a29a-538669ff02fa_2800x1435.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":746,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":453217,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":"https://sohl-dickstein.github.io/2022/11/06/strong-Goodhart.html","belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" height="300" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa9278c84-d1a9-47f0-a29a-538669ff02fa_2800x1435.png" width="584" /></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://sohl-dickstein.github.io/2022/11/06/strong-Goodhart.html" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d8e2fd97-46f5-4873-b315-46317541c992_2800x1435.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":746,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":532470,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":"https://sohl-dickstein.github.io/2022/11/06/strong-Goodhart.html","belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" height="305" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8e2fd97-46f5-4873-b315-46317541c992_2800x1435.png" width="596" /></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Never have I seen something that so well explains so much of the crap happening in education. One example that’s been in the news lately is the way Princeton Review and U.S. News and World Report rank colleges.</p><ol><li><p>We care about what colleges are good.</p></li><li><p>No one knows what that means.</p></li><li><p>So we measure other things instead. Such as how many more people apply to a college than the college is able to accept.</p></li><li><p>Thus, the University of Chicago spends tons of money each year trying to get kids to apply whom they fully anticipate rejecting just to get their numbers up.</p></li></ol><p>But this also applies to a lot of the postgrads trying to study what makes teachers good at their job or the weird assessments schools and teachers give kids in order to see if they’re “learning.”</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaching_to_the_test" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Teaching to the test</a> is an example of Goodhart's Law. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">No Child Left Behind</a> is an example of Goodhart's Law. As is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_to_the_Top" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Race to the Top</a>. Some of those may be results of Goodhart's Law and some may be examples from birth but all of them result in looking at the wrong things rather than what we care about: happy, intelligent, well balanced, educated kids.</p><p>Education needs to “<a href="https://www.dreamendstate.com/2021/02/26/goodharts-law-and-the-tyranny-of-metrics" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">[end] the myth that standardized data is a perfect, neutral arbiter</a>.”</p><p>Then, as I was sitting in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_California_Temple" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">the temple</a> this afternoon, I realized a lot of the same crap is happening in religion too. Or, at least, <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">my own religion</a>.</p><p>Crap:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://www.dreamendstate.com/2021/02/26/goodharts-law-and-the-tyranny-of-metrics/" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/700b50b1-5472-43e0-94e3-9dfb2387b22a_1200x903.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":903,"width":1200,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":90575,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":"https://www.dreamendstate.com/2021/02/26/goodharts-law-and-the-tyranny-of-metrics/","belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" height="439" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F700b50b1-5472-43e0-94e3-9dfb2387b22a_1200x903.jpeg" width="584" /></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Take for instance <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2023/11/24/slap-face-lds-relief-society" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">the Church’s recent decision to remove women from the stand in Bay Area congregations</a>. This decision has caused a great deal of pain and upset. And why? Well. Goodhart's Law. That’s why. Here are three paragraphs from that article:</p><p><em>The practice was abruptly discontinued last month, according to church spokesperson Doug Andersen, at the order of the North America West Area president, whose jurisdiction includes California.</em></p><p><em>The Utah-based faith “has a long-established practice when it comes to worship services,” Andersen says. “The general pattern includes presiding authorities sitting on the stand along with other women, men, youth and children based on their invitation to participate in the service.”</em></p><p><em>Local leaders, Andersen says, “were recently reminded of this practice.”</em></p><p>This has to be the weakest reasoning for official action I’ve ever read. Certainly it’s the least Joseph Smithy reason I can fathom. But if you want to hear me complain more about the dumbness of it all, you got this:</p><div class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{"videoId":"AfSbzNd70rw","startTime":null,"endTime":null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" id="youtube2-AfSbzNd70rw"><div class="youtube-inner"></div></div><p>But here’s what I think happened. And thank you xkcd for helping me figure this out.</p><ol><li><p>We want to achieve Zion, to be of <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/pgp/moses/7?lang=eng#p17" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">one heart and one mind</a>.</p></li><li><p>No matter where you attend church across the world, the Saints are (more or less) studying the same lessons at the same time.</p></li><li><p>All surface things must be the same!</p></li><li><p>Oh no! Women on the stand in Lafayette? That’s not happening in St. George!</p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSUWNGRd7vM" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Shut it down.</a></p></li></ol><p>The Church’s unwillingness to kick women off the stand in writing. The fact that not only is this not a canonical doctrine—not even a policy!—just a “general pattern” or “practice.” These facts show that it’s not really defensible.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link is-viewable-img image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb656e1a2-6204-4300-976a-3a4edb4badb3_1921x1255.png" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b656e1a2-6204-4300-976a-3a4edb4badb3_1921x1255.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":951,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":204591,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" height="374" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb656e1a2-6204-4300-976a-3a4edb4badb3_1921x1255.png" width="572" /></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Having women on the stand led to area women feeling seen and appreciated. It helped us all come closer to the ideal of one heart and one mind.</p><p>And the inelegant way this was torn away from the women specifically and Zion generally threw hearts and minds into chaos and pain.</p><p>And that’s the danger described by Goodhart's Law.</p><p>Zion is, perhaps, an impossible thing to measure.</p><p>So better be careful what we do measure.</p><p>And we’d better be careful not to let that measurement turn into an idol.</p><p>Souls are on the line.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{"url":"%%share_url%%","text":"Share","action":null,"class":null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="%%share_url%%"><span><br /></span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{"url":"%%checkout_url%%","text":"Subscribe now","action":null,"class":null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" style="text-align: center;"><a class="button primary" href="%%checkout_url%%"><span>Subscribe to Thubstack.<br /></span></a></p><p><br /></p>Th.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-74658906618908959832024-02-25T13:03:00.000-08:002024-03-12T16:19:11.961-07:00A few of my favorite things<p>.</p><p>Clearly, I like comics and I like religion and I like the intersection of comics and religions.<br /></p><p>.</p>
<p><b>011) <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781770464339">Roaming</a> by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki, finished February 3</b></p><p>This is a very quiet book. I sat it down and it got covered by other books and I completely forgot it existed until I was looking at my library account and saw it was still checked out.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3uhkNr9" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="619" height="268" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/MEDIAX_849526-T1/images/I/81F563R3Q1L._SL1500_.jpg" width="207" /></a></div> <br />It's the story of three friends* (asterisk intentional) taking a five-day trip to New York City. Three college-age girls having good times and falling outs. Their unfinished personalities go in and out of sync like three cars wait at the light in a left-hand-turn lane.<p></p><p>It's a very real-feeling slice-of-life circa 2009 with occasional moments of real beauty.</p><p>And I'm not sure I'll remember reading it.<br /></p><p><i>over a month</i><br /></p><p><br /></p>
<p><b>012) <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250180339">The Return of Zita the Spacegirl</a> by Ben Hatke, February 9</b></p><p>Satisfying enough conclusion to the trilogy. The 7yrold is making plans for a Zita Halloween costume.<br /></p><p><i>one sit</i></p><p><br /></p><p><b>013) <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250909541">Things in the Basement</a> by Ben Hatke, February 10</b><br /></p><p>Lot less words in this one.</p><p>I've been making the 7yrold do her best to "read" these at least a couple times before I read them to her. We also have a rule that I only ever read a particular comic out loud but once.</p><p>Storywise, this is a lot like <i>Zita</i>: kid enters a strange new world makes strange new friends becomes a hero and returns home changed. Can't really go wrong with that story, I suppose. And the art is charming and guileless.</p><p>I can see why our daughter loves it.<br /></p><p><i>one sit</i><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>014) <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781496814678">A Charlie Brown Religion: Exploring the Spiritual Life and Work of Charles M. Schulz</a> by Stephen J. Lind, finished February 10</b></p><p>Look what I read!<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3SyNS9u" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="533" height="300" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/MEDIAX_849526-T1/images/I/810eTpnhJKL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p>(By the way, don't love the cover. I did at first, but as it continued to hang around the bedroom, I soured on it. It's pleasant to look like, but the font, while Schulzian, is much harder to read than his actual handlettering (especially at smaller sized at the top of each page). And what's with the kites? What to kites have to do with God? Let alone the entire Trinity. Also, the Trinity seems a tad too . . . theological for Schulz's own taste. I think what happened here was they were looking for something simple and they came up with one element of this concept and the more they thought about it the cleverer they thought they were and the cleverer they got until they ended up with this cover which is fine to look at but, the more you think about it, the dumber it gets.)</p><p>This is a deeply researched book. Lind has done so much reading and notetaking and organizing and networking and interviewing and and and and and, resulting in an important, well researched, and very readable book.</p><p>It's part biography, part literary analysis, with chapters covering some of the more obvious moments such as <i>A Charlie Brown Christmas</i>. The pacing is good and the depth is appropriate for a work of popular scholarship. I don't mean that as a knock. The book is solid work and covers a lot of ground and has a lot of depth. It is, in my opinion, the final word at this moment and will remain so indefinitely.</p><p>I found it helpful in organizing the information I already had. I've read all the strips and lots <i>about</i> <i>Peanuts</i>, and clearly Schulz had a strong religious feeling but it's not like its easy to nail the man down. He worked on the strip fifty years and no one remains static that long. And plenty has been written about him, as various factions in American religious discourse strove to claim him. Lind makes strong arguments (thank you, evidence!) to understand Schulz a certain way and until persuaded otherwise, so I shall.</p><p>I feel my own religiosity is developing along Schulzian lines, although I feel much more strongly about the importance of Church as community and aligning myself as I do with the Saints definitely puts air between us. In fact, one chapter is largely about his daughter Amy's conversion to Mormonism and his reasons for distaste as it comes to our tradition. But simultaneously, shared faith brought them closer together, even for all the differences. Lind quotes extensively from the letters Schulz sent Amy on her mission, for instance, and that's the kind of personal touch this book provides.</p><p>Incidentally, Lind switches between calling him Schulz and calling him Sparky even though they never met.</p><p>I kinda feel like all of us, once you spent enough time in the man's world, should get to call him Sparky. I call no foul.</p><p>The book, as mentioned, is deeply sourced. A couple interviews in particular I want to run down. The Gary Groth interview appears in a very cool-looking (but expensive) issue of <a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?kw=The%20Comics%20Journal%20No.%20200&toolid=20004"><i>The Comics Journal</i></a>; the other appeared in <i><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?kw=Penthouse%20Magazine%20October%201971&toolid=20004">Penthouse</a></i>, which, um. Luckily, <a href="https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/what-cartooning-really-is-the-major-interviews-with-charles-m-schulz">Fantagraphics</a> made the Groth interview easier to find (<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781683963820">bs</a>, <a href="https://amzn.to/3UBJuJv">am</a>). The other I found on the Internet Archive and I'm happy to say no naked ladies before <a href="https://archive.org/details/ph-1971-10/page/36/mode/2up?view=theater">the first page of the interview</a>. (Well. <a href="https://archive.org/details/ph-1971-10/page/18/mode/2up?view=theater">Almost.</a>)</p><p>The other source it made me hunt down <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2024/02/2024-10-bette-davis-being-bette-davis.html#009">I have already read</a>.<br /></p><p><i>two or three weeks</i><br /></p>
<p> </p><p><b>015) <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0842500073?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_0&storeType=ebooks">1st Nephi: A Brief Theological Introduction</a> by Joseph M. Spencer, finished February 10</b></p><p>So I have finally dived into reading these books and the first one was a delight. I have been coming around on Nephi and trying to like him more and Spencer provides strong insights into Nephi's rhetorical strategies and the choices he's appears to be making that make that an easier prospect. But it also doesn't paper over his flaws. Although brief (as promised) I especially appreciated the looks at the book's three main problems: the killing of Laban, the fraternal issues, and the visibility of women.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/42ss6ZD" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="312" height="292" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/MEDIAX_849526-T1/images/I/51ClgPxheuL.jpg" width="182" /></a></div> <br />For instance, in the latter one, Spencer notes a clear parallel structure between Sariah's complaining and the daughters of Ishmael's later complaining. In the first story, Sariah is rhetorically adept and the story ends with a reconciliation (I'm simplifying). In the latter, the women's complaints are turned into fodder for the men's ongoing argument. Spencer then convincingly ties that to Jacob's later teaching about Nephites and women and proposes that things were going wrong clearn back before they even got on the boat.<p></p><p>In his conclusion, Spencer namechecks Nibley's <a href="https://amzn.to/3utFaRU"><i>Lehi in the Desert</i></a>, which I have and have been wanting to read, but now's not the time. Onward into the Brief Introductions!<br /></p><p><i>seven days</i><br /></p><p><br /></p>
<p><b>016) <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781499615951">Dendo</a> by Brittany Long Olsen, finished February 11</b></p><p>It's been a while since <a href="https://motleyvision.org/2016/03/22/there-and-back-again-then-onward-ever-onwarda-chat-with-dendos-brittany-long-olsen/">I last finished <i>Dendo</i></a>; this time I read it Sundays with the 7yrold. Not every Sunday, so it took a long, long time. I mean—it's a daily comic covering eighteen months. So it took us longer than that to read it. I think we began it <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/07/books-finished-from-one-14-to-another.html#061">after finishing <i>Enid</i></a>, though it was certainly in response to the love she had for <i><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-first-five-four-books-of-2021.html#003">Serv</a><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/02/vii-viii-ix-x-xi-iii.html#010">ed</a></i>. I doubt she remembers reading them anymore. Back then, I was still referring to her as "the baby."</p><p><i>Dendo</i> didn't so long because she didn't like it (though early on, she didn't care for its blackandwhiteness) but because it was "the Sunday book" and not always did we get to bed early enough to read from the Sunday book. Often it was just a poem then bedtime. Or she wanted Mom to read to her. Anyway, it took a long time but she loved watching the sisters serve and it gave us lots of opportunities for worthwhile conversations.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/4bR0B03" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="649" height="419" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/MEDIAX_849526-T1/images/I/71FtJTVLfJL._SL1360_.jpg" width="340" /></a></div><p></p><p>I still hold that <i>Dendo</i> is a book every Latter-day Saint household should own. And I think I have proven the rightness of my stance once again.<br /></p><p><i>almost three years</i><br /></p><p><br /></p>
<p><b>017) <a href="https://www.whiting.org/writers/chapbooks">The Ten Winners of the 2023 Whiting Awards</a>, finished February 12</b></p><p>Everything in this slim volume is good. The writers features are <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/tommye-blount">Tommye Blount</a>, <a href="https://newdramatists.org/mia-chung">Mia Chung</a>, <a href="https://www.arts.gov/impact/literary-arts/creative-writing-fellows/ama-codjoe">Ama Codjoe</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_Douglas">Marcia Douglas</a>, <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Sidik-Fofana/169012981">Sidik Fofana</a>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/23/books/review/eat-the-mouth-that-feeds-you-carribean-fragoza.html">Carribean Fragoza</a>, <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/r-kikuo-johnson">R. Kikua Johnson</a>, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/author/linda-kinstler">Linda Kinstler</a>, <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/stephania-taladrid">Staphania Taladrid</a>, and <a href="https://brooklynrail.org/people/emma-wippermann/">Emma (in the book, Milo on the Whiting website Wippermann</a>. Each selection is brief, just enough to get a taste. The <a href="https://www.whiting.org">Whiting Awards</a> are for "emerging writers" but, as you can tell from the links I've provided, it's not clear exactly what they mean by that. I think, for most of the ten (and historically, glancing at <a href="https://www.whiting.org/writers/awards/search">their full list of recipients</a>), "emerging" means already successful but not famous yet.</p><p>That said, I hope the little guys do do good things with their fresh $50K.</p><p>There are a couple books I'll be looking for.<br /></p><p><i>a friday and a monday</i></p><p><br /></p>
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<p><b>018) <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781598536164">The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life</a> edited by Andrew Blaune, finished February 17</b> </p><p>This is a strange collection. Based on the copyright notices, it appears that most of the essays here were written for the collection. But at least a few more than listed were not. One is an adaptation from a <i>Complete Peanuts</i> introduction, for instance. And some necessarilies are included such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Eco">Umberto Eco</a>'s famous (and disappointing, though I guess it gets points for <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1985/06/13/on-krazy-kat-and-peanuts">being early</a>) essay. Yet even those written for the book don't always make sense. For instance, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine_Hong_Kingston">Maxine Hong Kingston</a>'s is only barely and tangentially related to the work of Charles M. Schulz. In one sequence, a trend breaks out among the high school kids she's teaching: they're all drawing the same image of a pregnant Lucy Van Pelt. The illiterate kid the essay is about doesn't get the joke. It was a good essay—one of my favorites in the book—but I'm not certain it belonged <i>in</i> the book. Space was limited. So let's limit ourselves to more relevant essays, mm?</p><p>If I get my <i>Peanuts</i> unit put together in time for my own high-school students, the only essay I'm hoping to track down and be able to include is the one by<span> <a href="http://www.cartoonsbyhilary.com">Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell</a>. That one is both entirely relevant, a perfect mix of analysis and the personal, and accessible. Trifecta, baby.</span></p><p><span>The thing that you can see over and over in the essays is people's absolute confidence that the <i>Peanuts</i> when they discovered it was the comics' peak. Sadly, after 1965 or 1975 or whenever, it got redundant and dumb. The jokes were all Woodstock falling of the doghouse or whatever. Only one of these writers showed a glimmer of self-awareness as they made this claim.</span></p><p><span>These claims (which generally praise the strips of the '60s and '70s) even got to me, who only read fresh <i>Peanuts</i> in the paper starting c. 1988, and although there were <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/03/booksomarch.html#019">favorites</a> I was looking forward to I was terrified I would agree with those old Boomer / early Xer viewpoints and find <i>my</i> Charlie Brown and Snoopy an inferior Charlie Brown and Snoopy. Happily, <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/11/note-review-on-most-recent-edition.html#058">I did not</a>. While people are free to argue that the World War I Flying Ace is simply superior to the Valley Forge Soldier, I do not agree. And in the final years, Sparky's sparkly innovations with Rerun alone should have earned him another decade or two of life.</span></p><p><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1999/12/19" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="760" data-original-width="1130" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgo-ovbfiAm4P3pZYi1Fxk3SLjCyg2tFVA9pLAmNGrCcWzb3I9CCQrWNK0SKz9K1QTS9TWK8b3wj8maZjv1KzhVjnrXgHd2MV0JTNU0kvymUh9JCFk9wFt3tUmwgtK2uqQMRkD_HTrTftC2u17wKtWxnyVxUKcQBAsZFfgMPg60BjoJQNn24esAg/w636-h426/Peanuts%2019%20December%201999.png" width="636" /></a></div><p></p><p><span>Now I grant my own bias here, and it's the next couple generations that'll really decide this, but we're poisoning the well against them. I need to write my own essays about the strengths of later <i>Peanuts</i> to even things out.</span></p><p><span>Anyway. I should admit I skimmed essays that had less to say or said it less well or were on less relevant topics. I mean—I liked the essay on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWnEj9YwKVY&list=PL5ZeSSMxi4LHAwUvHCkQ_91RgmWl1zfrS">Vince Guaraldi</a>, but it also probably belonged in another book. But as an amateur scholar of the field, I still count this book as a must read.<br /></span></p><p><i>a couple weeks or something</i><b> <br /></b></p>
<p><b> </b></p><p><b>019) <a href="https://amzn.to/3uNeICR">Do Not Disturb Any Further</a> by John Callahan, finished February 17</b></p><p>I don't think I've read him before (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Callahan_(cartoonist)">not sure I'd heard of him before the movie</a>) and he's just as shocking/funny as I'd been told. One of the blurbs says if you laugh and then say that's not funny, that's Callahan.</p><p>I get it.<br /></p><p><i>waiting for my kids in the car</i><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>020) <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250802125">Mighty Jack</a> by Ben Hatke, finished circa February 19</b></p><p>We have to read these because in volume three he has a crossover with Zita the Spacegirl!</p><p>It was more Ben Hatke and Ben Hatke is good at what he does. Another fun read.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/42U6oOz" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="570" height="409" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91ODtKyxGhL._SL1500_.jpg" width="291" /></a></div><p><i>one sit</i><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>021) <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780842500081">2nd Nephi: A Brief Theological Introduction</a> by Terryl Givens, February 24</b><br /></p><p>When students ask me the difference between AP Lang and AP Lit I sometimes explain it this way:</p><p>In an AP Lang essay, you gather in sources on your topic and assemble them. Breadth is the key. In an AP Lit essay, you only use the one source but you dig deeper and deeper and deeper until you have uncovered all there is to say.</p><p>The first two books in the Brief Introductions series reflect these two angles.</p><p>In <i>1st Nephi</i>, Spencer explicitly stated that the work of theology is to read a text very very very closely. And that's exactly what he does.</p><p>Givens however is magpieing sources from all over the Book of Mormon, other scriptures, ancient Christians, early Latter-day Saints, et cetera. This too is an insightful and eye-opening approach but it's quite a different approach. The two books are distinct, to say the least.</p><p>While Givens approach provides more Fun Facts, I do prefer Spencers—at least in terms of what I wanted from these volumes. However, arguably, Givens methodology does make a lot of sense for Second Nephi as magpieing is rather what the bulk of Second Nephi is, Nephi collecting and rearranging work from his father, brother, and scriptural heroes.</p><p>But this is the upside to the whole series, right? A whole lotta different perspectives.</p><p>Onward to <i>Jacob</i>!<br /></p><p><i>two weeks</i></p><p><i> </i></p><p><i>+ + + + + + + </i><i>+ + + + + + + </i><i>+ + + + + + + </i><i>+ + + + + + + </i><i>+ + + + + + + </i><i>+ + + + + + + </i><i> </i></p><p><i><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2024/02/2024-10-bette-davis-being-bette-davis.html">the first ten books of 2024<br /></a></i><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2024/02/2024-10-bette-davis-being-bette-davis.html"><i></i></a><i><a href="https://thmazing.substack.com/p/2024-10-bette-davis-being-bette-davis">the first ten books of 2024</a></i></p>Th.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-13144338682021940832024-02-24T11:31:00.000-08:002024-02-24T11:31:49.343-08:00Update to A Missionary Mystery (facts prove useful)<p> </p><p data-pm-slice="0 0 []">.</p><p>In the order in which they appeared, here’s the help my friends gave me:</p><p><b>= = = = = = =</b></p><p><em>from my friend since 2002, </em><a href="http://foxyj.blogspot.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"><em>Foxy J</em></a><em>:</em></p><p>Looks like it pertains to the earlier time period, based on the information here that talks about when the Missionary Home was at that address. The description of activities at the Missionary Home in the 1920s seems to fit.</p><p>However, I still wonder about the reference to the "Church Office Building" because that wasn't dedicated to the early 1970s, and I can't find another administrative building referred to by that name during earlier times.</p><p><a href="https://rsc.byu.edu/go-ye-all-world/called-serve" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://rsc.byu.edu/go-ye-all-world/called-serve</a></p><p><b>= = = = = = =</b></p><p><em>from Kent, the creator of one of my favorites, </em><a href="http://mormonbaseball.com/mlb/2012/11/joseph-smith-and-baseball-the-evidence" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"><em>Mormon Baseball</em></a><em>:</em></p><p>I'm fairly sure that the "Church Office Building" was what is now called the "Church Administration Building", built in 1917</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Administration_Building" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Administration_Building</a></p><p><b>= = = = = = =</b></p><p><em>from El, who has been </em><a href="https://didtheresearch.substack.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"><em>taking apart an erstwhile favorite of mine</em></a><em>, the clincher:</em></p><p>okay, here's my best guess </p><ul><li><p>The main title font is Coronet, which was created in 1937.</p></li><li><p>I'm less confident on the "MISSIONARY HOME" font, but my current best guess is Erbar, created in 1926 (It's such a small sample size that I can't be certain)</p></li><li><p>The font for the bulk of the text is, I believe, Dutch Mediaeval, created in 1912</p></li><li><p>The end of the YWMIA was hardest to find--I ended up looking at "sustainings of General authorities" from past conferences. October 1973 had the sustaining of the YWMIA general board. April 1974 has a solemn assembly (for Kimball), and it's the "Aaronic Priesthood MIA (YW)." (There's also an Ensign article from January 1973 about the MIA program that makes things a little less clear as well <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1973/01/news-of-the-church/first-presidency-announces-priesthood-mia-programs?lang=eng" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1973/01/news-of-the-church/first-presidency-announces-priesthood-mia-programs?lang=eng</a>)</p></li><li><p>Based on some comments in the Improvement Era, it does look like Kent's suggestion of the Church Administration Building being referred to as the "Church Office Building" is accurate (there's a reference in 1963 that definitely isn't referring to the newer building)</p></li><li><p>An IE article mentions the Lion House Cafeteria closing "for an indefinite period of time" in March of 1964 (April 1964 IE, p. 292)</p></li><li><p>Based on a chapter from Richard Cowan, the Missionary Home was used until March of 1962 (when it was moved into a hotel)</p></li><li><p>Smallpox vaccination requirements could have been as early as the 1800s (I haven't found a source specifying things for missionaries yet), while typhoid vaccination was required for the US Army in 1911</p></li><li><p>usage of "Temple Block" in the IE appears to taper off in the mid-1960s</p></li><li><p>The Bureau of information started in 1904</p></li><li><p>Commercial flights in SLC began in 1926, with major improvements to the airport in 1933 and 1950</p></li></ul><p>So, as of this point, it's between 1937 (Coronet's creation) and 1962. I'd guess it's from your grandma based on the age.</p>Th.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-85969386262228302612024-02-21T10:57:00.000-08:002024-02-21T10:57:43.158-08:00A Missionary Mystery: calling all archivists<p> </p><p data-pm-slice="0 0 []">My aunt recently found an old piece of paper in an old book and thought it might be an artifact from my father’s mission. My father said no, certainly not. The artifact—a schedule of events for missionaries undergoing training in Salt Lake City—did talk about missionaries leaving for the field on trains which was still true in 1970 (barely) but the training lasted a week and by the time he arrived, training had been trimmed to a mere three days. Here are the outside and inside of the program:</p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link is-viewable-img image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6602382f-226b-43cd-ae9c-cea390da3a6e_650x439.png" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6602382f-226b-43cd-ae9c-cea390da3a6e_650x439.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":439,"width":650,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":375113,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" height="439" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6602382f-226b-43cd-ae9c-cea390da3a6e_650x439.png" width="650" /></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link is-viewable-img image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3a80978f-1dd5-42a0-9638-55214a97b81c_650x438.png" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3a80978f-1dd5-42a0-9638-55214a97b81c_650x438.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":438,"width":650,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":391662,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" height="438" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3a80978f-1dd5-42a0-9638-55214a97b81c_650x438.png" width="650" /></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>(<a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16R0wm4WU1kZsdSHd9hb1XzhZcFSULRRT?usp=sharing" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">see them L A R G E</a>)</p><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{"url":"%%share_url%%","text":"Share"}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Share this post with someone who may want to help solve the mystery?</p></div></div><p>It seems likely that the program was collected by one of my grandparents at the beginning of their mission. I believe the North State address would have been the same address for both of them and for my father. Based on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionary_Training_Center#History_of_the_MTC" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">the slightly anemic and poorly sourced information on Wikipedia</a> (I added the complaint about the quality of citation last night), I believe this Mission Home was open from 1925 through 1971. My grandfather began his mission October 1928 and my grandmother sometime in 1939.</p><p>One remarkable thing about this program is how . . . timeless it is. There is really an absense of identifiable information.</p><p>The ink stands above the paper and is easy to feel with your fingertips with our knowledge we cannot determine whether it was letterpressed or offset or what.</p><p>Anyway. That’s about all we know. Can you help solve this mystery? Are we in 1928, 1939, or other?</p><br />Th.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-75266244150089884772024-02-09T14:40:00.000-08:002024-02-09T14:40:02.285-08:00Rejected Books: Mexican Gothic Why must I be wrong?<p>.</p><p>I mean---I'm <i>fine</i> being wrong. I know people love this book. I'd intended to love it too. It's deliberately following a trail laid down by <i>Wuthering Heights</i> and <i>Rebecca</i> and "The Yellow Wallpaper," and it's not short on interesting ideas and characters and places with potential, but egad it's sloppy. <a href="https://thmazing.substack.com/p/the-state-of-editing-in-america-is?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Feditors&utm_medium=reader2">Where are America's editors??</a> I feel the way the way I felt reading <i><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2008/11/21st-five-books-of-2008.html">Twilight</a></i>: like a writer with potential is not reaching her potential because no one is helping her grow. At least Silvia Moreno-Garcia hasn't blown up to such a size that everyone knows her name and most of them feel obliged to hate her. So maybe there's still hope.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3OCPiyI" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="531" height="420" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/MEDIAX_849526-T1/images/I/91tO-JfljLL._SL1500_.jpg" width="278" /></a></div> <p></p><p>This book takes place c. 1950 in Mexico City and (mostly) a house at the top of a mountain next to an abandoned silver mine. That house is inhabited by a pale and fallow English family and our protag is a wealthy young dark-skinned Mexican socialite who is visiting to check in on her once-vibrant cousin who has been wasting away following her marriage to this family's heir. Promising stuff.</p><p>Noemí is that main character and she's a checklist. In addition to being wealthy, a good dresser, beautiful, witty, a skilled flirt, etc; she is also a polymath who can rattle off precise facts in multiple fields and possessor of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Lantern#Powers_and_abilities">Green Lantern</a>-level of will. I don't mind this level of Mary Sueing, but somehow this pampered Daddy's girl also has the capacity to spend all day polishing silver and to do it well. She, though wealthy and privileged, has deep connections to and comfort with people at all levels of society, servants for instance, but also poor villagers whom she seems never to have seen before this trip. And they (at least the non-English ones) seem pretty accepting of her, too. Okay.</p><p>The old house has very little electricity and not enough lightbulbs so we are forced to use candles and oil lamps (#atmosphere) but at the end, when a tiny, barely visited pantry needs light, there's a functioning lightbulb hanging from the ceiling. Which pantry only exists because we walked down a back staircase, suddenly revealed when our characters suddenly need a previously hidden back staircase to exist.</p><p>And here we get to an embarrassing admission. I had such a hard time reading this book that the day of the faculty book club I'm still not halfway through so I skipped to the end and read the conclusion. I was hoping that the conclusion would inspire me to go back and read the rest (some people <i>always</i> read books this way which I, I just, I can't...), but no. The people still didn't talk like people. They talked like a parody of silent-film intertitles.</p><p>Other complaints include the abuse of what's pretending to be third-person limited, and the addition of details because probably the audience is too stupid to recognize, for instance, the effects of colonialism when they see them.</p><p>The book did not do well being read alongside my classes reading <i>Pride and Prejudice</i>. Austen famously wrote that she did "not write for such dull elves as have not a great deal of ingenuity themselves." And when you read Austen, yes, you feel respected. You feel like she expects you to be smart and if not, well, you can still enjoy the happy ending.</p><p><i>Mexican Gothic</i> felt very much like it was written to dull elves. You have terrific potential with your setting and characters, but then you write a book afraid your audience isn't bright enough to see what cool things you have. And so your book is like a series of Instagram posts---cool little bits, one after another, instead of a coherent novel filled with rich characters we care about who grow and develop and discover and earn their happy ending.</p><p>I'm so bummed.</p><p>But here's a maybe-a-bright-side:</p><p>Perhaps what we have here is evidence that some publishing houses are sticking with authors while they learn. The fact that this author's books sell makes me doubt that. But I hope it's not entirely untrue.</p><p>But what I think is more likely is that this is part of the YAification of adult fiction. I don't mean this as a slight against YA fiction, but it makes sense that fiction aimed at a YA audience would do more handholding. But there is so much YA fiction now, that it's possible to be an avid reader and yet make it to adulthood without ever exhausting your library's YA holdings. And so you never leave that corner, which, for all the good stuff on those shelves, let's not pretend isn't limiting.</p><p>One thing I appreciate about <i>Mexican Gothic</i> is the author wears her influences on her sleeves. It's such a love letter that some books (Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre) are even mentioned within the novel. So I hope that it takes readers to the Brontës and beyond, and that we start to see that reflected back in new novels.</p><p>Anyway. The point is I hope I'm wrong about this book and that you all vehemently disagree with me.<br /></p>Th.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-38291463486754850682024-02-03T20:34:00.000-08:002024-02-10T15:37:09.281-08:002024 × 10 = Bette Davis being Bette Davis<p>.</p><p>Nobody cares about this but me, so skip this paragraph unless you'ld like to hear me note that I've simplified the formatting of the books posts to ease their transfer from Thutopia to Thubstack. We'll see if it makes life easier / makes for a prettier newsletter. If you notice such things, let me know.</p><p>Lotta comics to start off the year, including kiddie space opera, <i>Sandman</i>, and <i>Peanuts</i> so you know it's definitely me writing this. We also have a fascinating work of Mormon lit from last year, a look at Siskel and Ebert, a terrible science-fiction novel by a beloved mystery author, and the best thing about Bigfoot I've ever read.<br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3vEEh0GF_C8" width="320" youtube-src-id="3vEEh0GF_C8"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p><b> <br />001) <a href="http://amzn.to/2DV6j1p">Zita the Spacegirl</a> by Ben Hatke, finished January 1</b><br /></p><p>I found a copy in a Little Free Library and <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/01/when-i-read-book-it-stays-read.html#008">remembered liking it</a> so I grabbed it for the youngun and then reread it myself. It charms but it is just a reshuffling of cliches. 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<b>002) <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781606993750">The Complete Peanuts: 1977 – 1978</a> by Charles M. Schulz , finished January 6</b><br /></p><p>I'm building a <i>Peanuts</i> book for us with my sophomores. So far its all essays, but I need to start collecting strips as well. The secret to that is to continually enjoy reading the classics, baby.<br /></p><p><i>a couple weeks or so</i></p><p> </p>
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<p><b>003) <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401291747">The Sandman: The Kindly Ones</a> by Neil Gaiman et al, finished January 10</b></p><p style="text-align: left;">This is the longest of the Sandman books but that's not why it took me the longest to read. I should never have read the introduction. It told me things I did not want to know. Which is a shame because a) the is <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/12/evil-smiley-face-et-al.html">the second time in this reread</a> that I've read a volume I've never read before, and b) I liked it a lot. It might have my favorite art so far, but the way they assigned credit for the artists makes it impossible for me to say who did what.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Anyway, this is the climax, I assume, of the whole run. Big things happen. Lotsa stuff comes together. I'd rather not say more.<br /></p><p><i>over a month</i><br /></p><p><br /></p>
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<p><b>004) <a href="http://amzn.to/2DV6j1p">Zita the Spacegirl</a> by Ben Hatke, finished January 17</b><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">The 7yrold's been carrying this around and "reading" it more or less constantly. So when she asked me to read-it read it to her, I felt I had to. She loved it.</p><p><i>two or three days</i><br /><br /><br /><br />
<a name="005"></a><b>005) <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780802161840">Touched</a> by Walter Mosley, finished January 19</b></p><p style="text-align: left;">I hated this novel. And I resent it especially because it's my first Walter Mosley novel and I've been wanting to read him for a long, long time.</p><p style="text-align: left;">It is my own fault, of course. I own a couple copies of <i>Devil in the Blue Dress</i> and my wife's cousin who's a huge fan just recommended <i>Gone Fishin'</i> but instead I picked a short science-fiction novel off the new shelf.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Always be cautious reading science fiction by someone who comes to it late in their career. Read what they're known for.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><i>Touched</i> starts of intriguingly enough but the novel is lost. It has no idea where it's going or what it's point is. The main character / pov character forgets his dream that is motivating the plot. Other characters "remember" but you get the sense the author has forgotten as thoroughly as his hero.</p><p style="text-align: left;">It's starts out as a dystopia but forgets that. Has some comic elements but can't figure out how to integrate them into the plot. By the end, I was just angry. Angry that a book like this got published. Angry that Mosley's editors did him dirt like this. Angry that he didn't pause when he realized he had no idea what he was doing. (I'm assuming a write of his caliber <i>did</i> realize.) Angry that I picked it up. Angry it was short enough I didn't feel like I could just stop reading.</p><p style="text-align: left;">It's a terrible book. If I had someone to sit down and debate with (see next book) I would happily get into more reasons why (let's talk about familiars! let's talk about vocabulary! let's talk about the use of sex and death!) but frankly it doesn't deserve it. If your daily paper needs a review, let me know. I'll be happy to pan it in more detail.<br /></p><p><i>a couple weeks but only because I got sick</i></p><p><br /></p>
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<p><b>006) <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780593540152">Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever</a> by Matt Singer, finished January 20</b></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left;">I love Siskel and Ebert too. I wish I'd seen them more often as a kid. After Siskel died in 1999 (at age 53!) I spent at least ten years, whenever an interesting or particularly promising movie was about to drop, wondering what he would've thought of it. I still wonder that every now and then, even though Ebert too is now a decade dead.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I knew Ebert better because his column was carried in the <i>Bakersfield Californian</i>, but I was always wishing I could stay up and watch their show. Singer talks about doing that will a little tv he had in his room from a much younger age than when I started really watching it (late high school).</p><p style="text-align: left;">It's a tragedy to me that none of their show's incarnations are easily available. Some crappy prints appear on YouTube and elsewhere, but I think there's a Bob Ross-like market for old episodes. Just no will to bring them to the public, no doubt because, the suits imagine, who cares about those movies anymore?</p><p style="text-align: left;">Anyway, I loved this book, too. I rushed through it. I found it compelling and fun and fascinating. I learned a lot I didn't know and found their journey a delight to join.</p><p style="text-align: left;">There is an appendix of <a href="https://letterboxd.com/thmazing/list/opposable-thumbs">twenty-five movies</a> that never really caught on but both of them liked. And here Singer quotes Siskel waaay more often than he does Ebert. Which I find fascinating. It suggests to me that ultimately he finds Siskel's opinions more persuasive. But it could also be that while he had a chance to work with Ebert, he never met Siskel. And so that hole may be what led him to make that (probably subconscious) editorial decision. I dunno. But it's interesting.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I was also persuaded by the broader impact Siskel and Ebert's shows had on the culture.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Anyway, it's a quick read and a fascinating look at the first quarter century of my life as lived by two of the most unlikely (but deserving) tv stars of the era. I wish you were here to debate this with me.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3SpGdLL" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="530" height="800" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91z2reRbBnL._SL1500_.jpg" width="530" /></a></div><p><i>three days</i><br /></p><p><br /></p>
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<p><b>007) <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781621065470">Evergreen Ape: The Story of Bigfoot</a> by David Norman Lewis, finished January 24</b></p><p>This book is short and intoxicating. Easily my new favorite in bigfoot media. It taught me a lot of history I didn't know and managed to get someone (me) so utterly sick of anything bigfoot to turn page after page after page. <br /></p><p>It's clear he's skeptical of bigfoot's existence, but he also admits the bits of evidence that are difficult to (honestly) explain away.</p><p>Even more compelling is his sharing of the history of actual wild men like John Tornow (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satsop_Hills#Fugitive_John_Tornow">the Wikipedia article is worthless</a>) who returned to the wild in a serious way. He also tells stories about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishi">Ishi</a> that I'd never heard before and which helped me understand the ones I had.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/books/11528" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="763" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMoeD7VeVK9oA2YzmbFvq01WQEpDPBqdF7h_Qo6sQQaVZIIn_khV9Bqq8g5EBFauIUUu6v_Dj3v9JCiFQUeT8SnakW_h5GixVUHbEeHV_flU4RMxlEwUP79IThXSt-oE4Id2cr8rOEDNuAm0qNIddwVV_0-MOksKZCG6GGT2I0HDBxgSmUIzui6w/s320/evergreen%20ape.jpg" width="236" /></a></div><p></p><p>In the end, his biggest thesis is that bigfoot tells us more about white America than anything else. In particular the Boomers.</p><p>If you have the least interest in the bigfoot phenomenon, this is the book. Plus, it ends with some wonderful sounding hikes where people like to see sasquatch. Although he does suggest once that an animal you can actually see in California's Humboldt County is the grizzly. I don't think so.</p><p>Other than that (and the fact that there is no bibliography) I found him a trustworthy host. Even if he does apparently <a href="https://www.drcleanproductions.com/about-us">dress like this</a>.<br /></p><p><i>one day</i><br /></p><p><br /></p>
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<p><b>008) <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781948814799">What Falls Away</a> by Karin Anderson, finished February 1</b><br /></p><p>I want to start by saying that I found the denouement of this novel absolutely beautiful, moving, wondrous. I want to say that because as I write about it I will make many complaints and I don't want those to take away from the novel's successes which are significant.</p><p>A couple years ago I read a funny and charming and happily Mormon and seemingly angst-free essay by Karin Anderson England and I wondered whatever happened to her, only to discover that she is the same person as Karin Anderson following a (I hear) rancorous divorce and a bitter falling out with the Church of her upbringing. I already knew Karin Anderson through <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781948814423">a book</a> she edited and I appeared in, and her manner of presenting herself was as the still-angry post-Mormon editor to balance out the faithful editor. (Her weirdly strident pride in heresy made a big impression on me.)</p><p>Wild that they are the same person.</p><p>But I wanted to read more of her writing and she had a new book. I successfully talked my local library into buying it and now I have read it. (It also started raining while I was reading outside and so I may end up paying for it anyway.)<br /></p><p>Our main character, Cassandra, grew up in a high-mountain Utah valley. A beautiful place. Idyllic. But it really sucks the way small towns in faraway places can really suck.</p><p>After decades away, Cassandra is forced home by circumstances (her estranged mother's decline) and I had a hard time telling whether our hero is an intentional self-caricature of a strident heretic or a realistic portrayal of a person who, um, plays like a caricature of a bitter, angry, hateful, damaged, unforgiving strident heretic. Every Mormon character was absurd—but was that because they were absurd or because we only see them filtered through Cassandra's bitter soul?</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3UrDPG0" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="525" height="334" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/MEDIAX_849526-T1/images/I/71Ffm-dDvLL._SL1500_.jpg" width="219" /></a></div>Generally, as a reader, I am skilled at divorcing my thoughts about an author from the narrator or the text. But I had a hard time doing that with <i>What Falls Away</i>.<p></p><p>Eventually we get flashbacks of the series of events that led to Cassandra's expulsion / fleeing from Eden, and they are suitably horrifying. And believable. I lived in a town much like this town until I was ten and I've always believed that was a good time to leave. The place is still "home" as much as any place can be, but I am glad that my coming of age happened somewhere else.</p><p>Still, I have a hard time believing in youths who do the sort of things that the youths in this book do at their various camps and such. I know that I would've been the last person to know, but still. A Boy Scout <a href="https://urbandictionary.store/products/mug?defid=161066#slide1">circlejerk</a>? Really?<br /></p><p>Anyway, the horrors of her past let us understand Cassandra a bit more. The basics of <i>what was</i> had long been clear, but walking through the experience with her made her soul more accessible.</p><p>There are still plenty of wild and unlikely characters to come. For instance, the main villain, whom we barely see, makes the villain from <i><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2011/01/book-8-of-2011-magdalene-by-moriah.html">Magdalene</a></i> seem like a pretty chill and stable bloke. An additional problem is that <i>Magdalene</i> is proudly overthetop genre while <i>What Falls Away</i> positions itself a something more staid and "literary." I mean—this dude's crimes are outrageous. And his justifications are more outrageous still. He is the novel's apex of religiosity and masculinity (two things regularly conflated), and even with his rare appearances, this colors all other forms of religiosity and masculinity.</p><p>(One could make an argument that Cassandra's father is the actual apex, but I'm not writing a dissertation here.) <br /></p><p>Which isn't to say there aren't other human options on display as options. But every intelligent woman's allegiance to the faith is self-admitted to be soft. And the kinder (less blowhardy) a man? Same.</p><p>One problem with the novel is it has a really, really hard time being sure how angry it is and about what exactly. This is like it's primary p-o-v, of course, as Cassandra's ability to cope with her family and with the Saints and with [etc] is limited by the damage she has undergone. She has regular moments where old trauma overwhelms the now. I do not mean to minimize what she's been through and it's an interesting artistic choice to have the narrative at large experience the same limitations. But it also makes it harder to see the larger themes of overcoming and forgiveness and redemption that I think (pretty sure) the book is ultimately about.</p><p>Perhaps we should consider it more honest that the moments of light are often short or interrupted or overtaken. The book ends with Cassandra's mother dying as Cassandra's own motherhood is restored. Shouldn't that basic structure make the point that the emotionally crippled main character and novel cannot?</p><p>But, as I said, the end—a funeral—crashes all these elements together. Some aspects of that final scene don't make sense (why did the children of <i>that</i> guy choose <i>this</i> funeral to appear at?) and Cassandra falls into another of her panic attacks, but it's also the first time she's with the whole family and the children will not let the adults fail to finish effecting her/their redemption. And it's lovely.</p><p>Cassandra's about twenty years older than me so I won't know pretend to know the truth of such things, but some of the horrors (the halfway house for instance), while within the realm of the believable are also just not believable. Again, is this because it's coming through Cassandra? Or is this Anderson's way of revealing a Dickensian horror I'm ignorant of?</p><p>But we run again into the earlier problem that the projected genre of the novel does not easily accept these over-the-top elements.</p><p>I liked the novel. Overall I can say I liked it a lot. But it had a hard time letting me believe in it for a hefty percentage of the pages.</p><p>But that very pushing-me-away is part of what makes the whole thing work. As much as I often found Cassandra unlikely, I just as often found her absolutely enthralling and attractive, as only the greatest fictional characters can be. Oh, how I wish to see her draw.<br /></p><p><i>about a month maybe</i><br /></p><p><br /></p>
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<p><b>009) <a href="https://amzn.to/47YraND">Peanuts Jubilee: My Life and Art with Charlie Brown and Others</a> by Charles M. Schulz, finished February 3</b></p><p>This book was published for the 25th anniversary of <i>Peanuts</i> and the last words in its final essay are "I hope very much that I will be allowed to do it for another twenty-five years."</p><p>He was. And we are glad.</p><p>Anyway, the book is three essays by Schulz, a bunch of Sunday strips (in color—and Frieda is blonde??), a timeline, and a bibliography of every book to that point that involved <i>Peanuts</i>, from collections of strips to books that only used, say, a panel for illustration. That last one is very cool. I've often wondered if even <a href="https://schulzmuseum.org/">the museum</a> knows <i>every</i> book out there. I still do, but it's nice to know they've been on top of it.</p><p>My favorite part is the essays. To read in Schulz's own words is great. The first essay was autobiographical; the second is a history and commentary/philosophy of the strip; the third is about production of the strip (mostly) and ancillary stuff.</p><p>He's a thoughtful and self-aware fellow (not surprising) and I'm glad I went through the hassle of finding this book. I'm surprised the essays haven't fallen across my path before.<br /></p><p><i>maybe a couple weeks</i></p><p> </p>
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<p><b>010) <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250180339">Legends of Zita the Spacegirl</a> by Ben Hatke, finished February 3</b></p><p>Having enjoyed one so much we went to the library for two. Next we'll head to the library for three.<br /></p><p>Anyway, this one introduces new characters and conflicts but it also feels more settled in. So it's a nice volume two.<br /></p><p><i>a few days</i><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/483muGt" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="564" height="323" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/MEDIAX_849526-T1/images/I/91qIRAuE33L._SL1500_.jpg" width="228" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/12/less-than-fifty-hours-left-in-year-so.html#more">see all the books since 2007<br />at last year's final books post<br />only on Thutopia</a><br /></p><p>
</p>Th.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-34912238970992330952024-01-31T21:23:00.000-08:002024-01-31T21:29:30.276-08:00A new year of mostly not-new films<p>.<br /><br />I needed a title before I knew what was coming this month. Including a lot of time in bed with nothing to do but movies and a lot of rule-bending in terms of letting nonfeatures on this list. So . . . depending on how you define "not new" this may or may not accurately describe what's below. I mean, there are 13 movies from the 2020s.....</p><p>That said, what a great month. So many good movies. And the kinds of movies watched are all over the place. I feel well-fed.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Wayne's World</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105793?thmazing">1992</a>)<br />
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This is my second time seeing <i>Wayne's World</i>; I'm not sure when the first time was—high school? post-high school? post-mission? Certainly I was still living at home. I don't remember being that impressed, but who knows. I think it was before I discovered "Dreamweaver" on my own and I got "Bohemian Rhapsody" through people younger then me playing it in their cars (assumably because of this movie?).<br />
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It's all . . . a long time ago now.<br />
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Anyway, Lady Steed's been wanting to show it to the boys and one of them took us up on it tonight and he laughed and laughed and said he thought it was too old for him to get half the jokes. We did explain a couple as they came up (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdulIKhCC3Y">eg</a>) but he certainly got his money's worth. He about died during <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjB6r-HDDI0">the product-placement scene</a>.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Mission: Impossible</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117060?thmazing">1996</a>)<br />
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Of course, not only is this the only M:I film I've se en multiple times, but I've seen it way more than a couple. So perhaps it's not fair to not really believe any of the others are better. But De Palma's style, man. Can it be bested?<br />
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We watched it because the 7yrold (?!?!) requested it. You can thank her first celebrity crush, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTvS9lvRxZ8">Mark Rober</a>. That video also brings up <i>Ocean's Eleven</i>, which I also love (do these two films have the best it's-way-harder-than-you-think heist planning sessions of all time?) and <i>Entrapment</i>, which I haven't seen in ages and cannot vouch for.<br />
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Anyway, much of the movie was too much for her, but she managed to see the scenes she needed to see and said she liked it. So there you go.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>A Man Called Otto</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7405458?thmazing">2022</a>)<br />
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We've checked this out from the library twice and kept it the full nine possible weeks plus overdraft each time and only today did anyone finally watch it. And it is so good.<br />
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The international wildness over <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781476738024">the novel</a> gave me the wrong impression, perhaps; I was expecting sentimental claptrap. And I suppose a cynic could say that about the second (ie American) adaptation but screw you, cynic. This is a beautiful film. I laughed loudly and regularly and wept almost throughout. Hard to say if it would have taken <a href="https://letterboxd.com/thmazing/list/2022-films-seen-in-2022">the top spot for 2022</a> had I seen it in time, but it would have been competitive. I absolutely loved this movie.<br />
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It's not exactly a new story but that's not why we consume story. It tells an old story with truth and feeling. Tom Hanks was great; Mariana Treviño was incredible. Mike Birbiglia is such an a-hole I didn't even recognize him for most of the movie.<br />
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Sometimes the cat is cg, and that always annoys me. In a couple scenes, Tom Hanks and Peter Lawson Jones are de-aged, but thankfully we only had to see that briefly.<br />
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There's a carcentric scene my father must see. I had no idea there was so much suicide content, which in an age of trigger warnings is astonishing.<br />
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Just me and the 7yrold watched it and we both thought it was great.<br />
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It's so good, you guys.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>The Death of Stalin</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4686844?thmazing">2017</a>)<br />
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A very funny movie. A very horrifying movie. Not at all a comforting movie.<br />
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Delighted to share it with (willing members of my) family this time. (<a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-first-month-of-2020-films-watched.html#deathofstalin">Last time.</a>)<br />
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</tbody></table><b>The Dark Truth of <i>Peanuts</i>, or One Must Imagine Charlie Brown Happy</b> (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8zBaAKS2fE?thmazing">2023</a>)<br />
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Although I had enjoyed what I'd watched, after the first hour yesterday, what I'd written of this review in my head was largely takedown. So much to disagree with and mock in the first hour even though it is well researched and well thought-out and well understood. But then the second hour deconstructs all the brilliant stupidity of the first hour and reveals is as a parody of stuff <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@FilmTheory/videos">like this</a> (which is often near self-parody anyway, delightful though it may be).<br />
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I've said many times that <i>Peanuts</i> will prove to be one of the most lasting artistic creations of the 20th century, and I stand by that, but while criticism is trickling out from university presses, most popular criticism is either too shallow or too look-at-me clever. The last hour of this video is a takedown of the nonsense, a heartfelt personal exigesis, and a genuinely helpful set of critical tools to use going forward.<br />
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Plus, it's really enjoyable. Even the first hour is filled with sterling insights, and the combination of great art and earnest consideration makes for a frequently emotional experience. And it's frequetly funny as well.<br />
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There's a reason our host buries the subtitle at the end of the film and in the shownotes below. It's because if we know that we're going somewhere real, we might not take the journey. We'ld rather have gotchas and fun facts and did-you-knows rather than real meaning. But real meaning is there. And he had an honest take on just what it might be.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>D.O.A.</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042369?thmazing">1949</a>)<br />
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Such a great idea for a movie. The main character has been poisoned and has at most a week to live. So he may just have time to solve his murder. Excellent.<br />
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Bits of it are a little silly, a little b-movie (that slide-whistle wolf whistle), but overall this is a taut thriller. Only 81 minutes and it does not feel rushed at all. Its pace is methodical. The mystery compounds and compounds and then—there it all is!<br />
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We laughed a lot at some of the choices (the science, for instance), but none of that got in the way of a fine entertainment. I'm curious if any of the remakes match its heights.<br />
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Also, I loved seeing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Cady">Frank Cady</a> in an early uncredited role, doing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=frank+cady+sam+drucker">what Frank Cady does best</a>.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Self Reliance</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26084002?thmazing">2023</a>)<br />
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It's about as much fun as the trailer promised, with the added wrinkle of is-he-or-isn't-he, crazywise. I'm not sure I loved that wrinkle, but I'm satisfied with how it was resolved.<br />
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Jake Johnson and Anna Kendrick are great leads and the supporting cast is just as strong. The danger (he is playing a game in which people are trying to murder him, remember) isn't nearly strong enough. A couple more rules about allowable weapons and so forth could have helped.<br />
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But all in all, a pleasant enough evening.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Cryptozoo</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13622118?thmazing">2021</a>)<br />
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You can tell by how short the end credits were how cheaply made this was. And so you see cost-saving manuevers like we all know from 60s tv animation and indie animation from a couple decades ago. The rotoscoping is very much of the film's genre, and the main cryptid fueling the plot is clearly inspired by <i>Fantastic Planet</i>.<br />
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The title doesn't show up for twelve minutes, but until that point we see a couple hippies walking in the woods, stripping, having sex, climbing a fence. Then one kids murdered by a unicorn and the other kills the unicorn in return.<br />
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The movie spends a lot of time screaming that it's an allegory but it's not at all clear just what it's an allegory for. Racism? Animal rights? Something less concrete?<br />
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Anyway, it was fine.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Mandibles</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10375106?thmazing">2020</a>)<br />
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One thing that's annoying about Kanopy is they frequently send the credits at a much lower resolution. I assume this is to save on bandwidth, but I hate it.<br />
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Anyway, imagine if <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumb_and_Dumber">Lloyd and Harry</a> were French criminals. Got it?<br />
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Now imagine they find a fly the size of a corgi. What happens next?<br />
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That's exactly right. That's exactly what happens next.<br />
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I watched this on my own but I highly recommend watching with people who enjoy laughing. I suspect you and they will find lots to laugh about. Solo, an hour seventeen felt much longer, even though it was pleasant enough all the way through.<br />
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I appreciated that the fly was a practical effect. There was only one point I though could have been digital, although I suppose some digital cleanup may have been used throughout. But it's just a puppet. A disgusting puppet.<br />
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And when you have a giant fly, there's always the chance that what you're watching will turn into a horror movie. I like how this movie played with that threat.<br />
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So I guess my advice is: find the right crowd and settle in.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Dr. Jack</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013075?thmazing">1922</a>)<br />
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<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013075/mediaviewer/rm252713729">According to the studio</a>, <i>Dr. Jack</i> is the greatest comedy ever made, providing not only "tidal waves of laughter" but "sound[ing] the depths of the human soul" as well "in the intensity of its pathos."<br />
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I don't know about <i>that</i>, but certainly it's a very funny movie.<br />
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Harold Lloyd plays a smalltown doctor who can't make money because he's too good a guy, spending more time curing souls than bodies (don't worry—the bodies are already healthy; we don't see a single sick person in the entire movie). His goodness leads him indirectly to the Sick-Little-Well-Girl whose father is paying a fortune to a quack who claims she is ill.<br />
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The good doctor had already met her once in a cafe so they had a quasi-romantic interest before he became her doctor, so I'm not sure what the ethical standards are here, but a faulty footstool will get him to cross the line clearly and thus get him fired. Only an extended comedy routine can save the day.<br />
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Silent comedy and cartoon comedy both understand that the inherent irreality of their medium is a feature. This film gets away with things that don't work once foley is part of the equation, for instance. But other aspects are just parts of film, fullstop, and modern comedy could be better at incorporating the frame and cuts etc.<br />
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Anyway, if you watch this on Tubi, be aware that the music was selected entirely and completely at random. But that's kinda cool because it forces you to realize how affected we are by music.<br />
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Also, there was one shot where I suspect one of the Black actors was replaced by someone in blackface? It's hard to be sure, but I wonder if they had to go back and reshoot that reaction shot and it was cheaper just to put one of the hands in her costume? Just a guess.<br />
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The two Black characters are as full as most of the other characters in the film, but I wonder if they're based on old stereotypes? I suspect so, though I don't know them well enough to say.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Palm Springs</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9484998?thmazing">2020</a>)<br />
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Took us long enough, but we've finally screened it and nope. Not shoing it to the kids. But we liked it.<br />
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As <a href="https://movieweb.com/movies-like-groundhog-day">time-loop movies</a> go, it's no <i>Groundhog Day</i> or <i>Edge of Tomorrow</i>, but it's solid enough and does new things I at least haven't seen before. I like the solution and I'm surprised it's new to me.<br />
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It's funny. The characters are strong and they are given interesting opportunities to grow.<br />
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Solid little movie. And with a $5 million-dollar budget, easy to justify. They should make more movies like this. Or, if they do, they should be better at marketing them to me.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Linoleum</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13483866?thmazing">2022</a>)<br />
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First, having seen it, I still have no idea why it's called <i>Linoleum</i>. It's a terrible title and someone should have talked him out of it. Absolutely unmarketable.<br />
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But it's not an easy movie to honestly market anyway. Spoilers from here on out, guys.<br />
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Over 95% of the film takes place in a mind adled by some form of age-onset dimensia. Nothing is as it is. His wife and his daughter are the same person, for instance.<br />
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And this is all being done with tools usually associated with short fiction (novels too, I guess) and the stage, but adapted to film with reasonable success. It's weird, and not in any of the ways I'd expected. I'm not surprised <a href="https://www.columbusmonthly.com/story/entertainment/movies/2022/04/25/colin-wests-filmmaking-dreams-come-life-new-movie-linoleum/7444062001">to read he loves Aronofsky</a>.<br />
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I think Lady Steed liked it more than I did. Anyway, she was more moved by it. (I suspect because she had done less figuring-out-of-what's-happening than I had. See, I had noticed Cameron never called his dad Dad and it made me wonder what Tony Shalhoub was on about.)<br />
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Also, if <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4422686/?thmazing">Barry Keoghan</a> ever needs someone to play his American litte sister, <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5393649/?thmazing">Katelyn Nacon</a>, folks.<br />
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But serious.<br />
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Why is it called <i>Linoleum</i>??<br />
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</tbody></table><b>The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16968450?thmazing">2023</a>)<br />
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So I loved it. Maybe if you don't already have <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/06/juneriffic-filmorama.html#asteroidcity">a deep appreciation</a> for Wes Anderson and a love for Dahl (<a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/07/from-prehumanity-to-eternal-destiny.html#084">and in partcularly "Henry Sugar"</a>) your mileage may vary, but by the end I was moved. I was a little bummed the makeup artist didn't get more play but it was clever how they fit in as much as they did. Both Lady Steed and I enjoyed the doubling by the actors. Of course, it helps that they are wonderful actors.<br />
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I also love this way of just making a film the book. A huge percentage of the actual text is simply recited and I love that.<br />
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Anyway. I've said "love" a lot and so, though I don't usually do write-ups of short films and the rest of this series falls short of my half-hour cutoff, but we may make an exception. Especially if they happen this month.<br />
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This is one of the most upsetting works of fiction I read as a child. And so part of my appreciates that this is the most hermetic, visually, of the four films. Must more is left to our imaginations. The two Watsons even do most of the show's actions of the bullies—when they are shown at all. Some of the changes are purely symbolic (changing to black clothes). On a first watch, this was the least affecting of the four films. (Second watched, fourth written about.)<br />
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But still the most upsetting.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>The Ratcatcher</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28912858?thmazing">2023</a>)<br />
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Although we watched this film third and I am writing about it third, I have seen all the movies as I write. And I think it's fair to say this is the most entertaining of the three. Ralph Fiennes is a terrifically weird ratcatcher. Rupert Friend is as charming and as watchable as he was in <i>Asteroid City</i>. The story has the most visual pizzazz, I would argue, with the animated rat, but even when they're just miming animals it's visceral stuff, "The Ratcatcher." I had thought, entering this watchfest, I had only read two of the stories, but I was wrong.<br />
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Even when the title and plot have fallen away, you do not forget a Dahl.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Poison</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28912885?thmazing">2023</a>)<br />
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Dev Patel might be the most successful of the narrators. Or perhaps it's just that by the fourth rendition, I realized that these films are showcasing storytelling. They are bringing the art of storytelling to cinema. Of course, all four of these pieces have been doing that. And it's nothing new: <a href="https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2019/12/20/a-grand-yuletide-theory-the-muppet-christmas-carol-is-the-best-adaptation-of-a-christmas-carol">Gonzo as Charles Dickens is a successful example.</a> As are many of Wes Anderson's own narrators. But narration is still not quite the same thing as storytelling, and these stories really rely on what <i>storytelling</i> is all about. A good storyteller is merely providing paints and a canvas for the audience to tell their <i>own</i> story in their own head. In <i>Henry Sugar</i> a few choices were made that I thought were mistakes. Because the visual representation did not match the narration. But these weren't mistakes. Because that was not narration. It was storytelling.<br />
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So again, I don't know if Dev was the best at this or I simply (finally) figured it out, but that's what these movies are about. They're about the child you get when you marry storytelling and cinema. Which is not the same thing as marrying theater and cinema, or journalism and cinema, or novelism and cinema, or poetry and cinema, or whatever. It is it's own thing. And we now have been blessed to see it done very well indeed.<br />
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(Incidentally, it's interesting having Dev Patel play this narrator as the other Englishman's racist rant at the end plays differently when his friend too is suchawun. It's been sad, of late, to learn more about Dahl's own racism. Particularly when so many of his stories know better.)<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3960412?thmazing">2016</a>)<br />
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I read an article a couple months ago about how well this movie's holding up.<br />
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Lady Steed thought maybe since we'd just watched a Lonely Island movie (<i>Palm Springs</i>), we should watch another.<br />
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We'd never watched it because we thought it would probably be gross.<br />
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It was.<br />
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But it was also hilarious.<br />
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And it's final moment got an enormous reaction out of me. I'm sick enough, I'm not sure I was ever going to breathe again.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Film</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060410?thmazing">1965</a>)<br />
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I don't usually write about short films here but I already made an exception for Wes Anderson and so I will now make an exception for Sam Beckett.<br />
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If you haven't heard, <i>Film</i> is Beckett's only film and it is one of Keaton's last films. Keaton <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/04/literarily-solving-for-x.html#032">wasn't sure</a> what the heck was going on and, frankly, neither was anyone else. And neither are we. The camera is a character and, at least to some, terrifying. In the end, it's Keaton. Whom we have not been able to see face-on this same time. Why? I don't know. To either question.<br />
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The film is intensely silent. I expected that, coming in. It is a silent film after all. And I was doubtful there would be music. But this is a world where humans <i>could</i> make sounds if they wanted. Early on, one says, Shhhh!, and that shh makes the rest of the film so much more quiet than it otherwise would be.<br />
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The film does do a few interesting things with silent vocabularly (if you will), but in the end it's only an exerise. It belongs more in some dark nook of an art museum than in a cinema.<br />
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If I were a student and had to, I could easily write something intelligent about <i>Film</i>. What's with his horror of eyes, for instance. What does it mean that in one photograph we can see the photographer. Why does his have a cataract.<br />
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There's really only one bit of Keatonian comedy, a bit with a kitten and a puppy. It's filmed to prevent it from being actually funny, but it does amuse.<br />
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One imagines that if Beckett had made this earlier in his career, instead of scratching an itch it would have made it all the itchier. And then we would've got some weird stuff!<br />
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Instead, I'm left trying to decide which character in <i>Godot</i> would be best when played by Buster Keaton....<br />
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(Beckett wanted him as Lucky in the play's American premiere, which is the obvious choice but I'm not convinced the best.)<br />
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Oh! One last thing. The modern media <i>Film</i> reminds me of most is videogames. You can switch p-o-v from behind the lead to first-person. You go to a room. You wander around, see what you can pick up. Can you close the drapes? Cool. What if we get rid of the kitten? What if we get rid of the puppy. Hang on. Oh, wait—you have to push the down arrow. Got it. Now what.....<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Quiz Lady</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13405810?thmazing">2023</a>)<br />
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If we hadn't picked this on impulse based on what was on the top page, I doubt we ever would have watched it. But I'm so glad we did. It's a terrific movie and it's working well on multiple levels.<br />
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It's a great sister/buddy film. Sandra Oh has apparently become Jennifer Coolidge and no one told me. Awkwafina is like in <i><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/12/a-film-watch-together-with-youuuuuu.html#thefw">The Farewell</a></i> but funnier. And their dynamic is excellent. I love them as sisters. And I love how this established relationship develops through new experiences and new understanding of old experiences. That's what films like this need to do.<br />
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I love the small roles from favorite actors doing just the right amount with what they're given, notably Will Ferrell, Tony Hale, and Jason Schwartzman (who always plays the same guy yet somehow is sometimes lovable and sometimes inspires absolute hatred; amazing). And props to Holland Taylor who finally has forced me to learn her name.<br />
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The film also has my now alltime favorite where-are-they-now sequence. It started in a too-expected fashion but I think that was the right choice given the beauties it gave us as it continued onward.<br />
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Anyway, it was awesome.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>This Beautiful Fantastic</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4560008?thmazing">2016</a>)<br />
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This is a beautiful and charming with with a terrific cast and . . . it's not totally confident that's true. What I mean is, it's not sure if it's something magical or wondrous like <i>Amélie</i> or <i>Paddington</i> or something kinda like that but ultimately a work of realism, like <i>About a Boy</i>. I mean—it knows what it's <i>trying</i> to be (magical) but it's not quite sure how to do it. Some of the relationships don't make even magical sense and our romantic lead is supposed to be quirky and cute and charming and twee . . . but is also kind of an ahole. The passage of time doesn't allow things to develop quite as they should and so we're just supposed to believe in it because the colors are saturated and our hero has a wonderful wardrobe. Which is okay and I did like the movie quite a lot but it never quite succeeded at what it was attempting.<br />
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I suspect this might be budget. They wanted flies buzzing so they threw in the sound but we saw no flies. At one point it's raining everywhere but just one bit of the screen. I think there wasn't money for enough shots and so the edit didn't quite work. Combine that with a not-quite-finished script and there you go.<br />
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But I'm a sucker for this kind of thing and if you loved it and wanted to watch it again, I'd watch it again. And I'd do so dearly hoping I was wrong.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Office Space</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804?thmazing">1999</a>)<br />
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We were flossing a couple weeks ago and I watched <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXrT2YLwoSg">a video about <i>Office Space</i></a> and all the boys gathered around, mesmerized.<br />
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Then we all got covid but today we all spent the evening in the same room again and watched it before son#1 heads back to Montana.<br />
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It was not what they expected, but they loved it. Watching it this big for the first time, I noticed some details that in 2024 would be listed in the credits, like a cover of <i>WIRED</i> and a <i>Cathy</i> comic. But not in 1999, apparently.<br />
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I still really want to know what alternated ending Mike Judge wanted but Fox wouldn't let him shoot. I wonder if he even remembers.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>A Night at the Roxbury</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120770?thmazing">1998</a>)<br />
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Um.<br />
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This is a pretty dumb movie.<br />
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It was fun to see 1998 Jennifer Coolidge.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
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</tbody></table><b>Ninety-five Senses</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11020596?thmazing">2023</a>)<br />
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Jared and Jerusha Hess directed this short animated movie which is now nominated for an Oscar. It took a while to understand what the movie was actually about and <a href="https://smallscreenings.org/mast/ninety-five-senses/tim-blake-nelson">it never shouts</a> even after we come to understand.<br />
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Incidentally, this has turned into a month of me writing about a lot of short films! I don't think I've watched more than usual, or at least not many more, but so many writeups. And it would be kind of wonderful if this and "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" win, bringing the Hesses and Wes Anderson their first Oscars in the same year. (Also, how upsetting <i>Asteroid City</i> received ZERO nominations. Ugh.) Note: I don't think the Hesses would get the Oscar. I believe the Oscar goes to the producers. But would be happy to be wrong.<br />
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Anyway, back to the movie. Tim Blake Nelson did an excellent job as the sole actor carrying the movie, and the young animators brought game to their segments.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>A Man Called Peter</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048337?thmazing">1955</a>)<br />
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In the span of a couple weeks, on disparate locations on the internet, I had this movie recommended to me as one of the greats not once not twice but three times.<br />
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It was a bit challenging to run down (at my chosen price point of zero), but I did, and, um, okay?<br />
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It's a nice little hagiography of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Marshall_%28Presbyterian_minister%29">a guy I'd never heard of</a> based on the biography written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Marshall">his wife</a>.<br />
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The actor playing the minister essentially does cover versions of what I assume are the man's greatest hits (sermons). The flow of time is confusing and the first act has gaping holes one assumes must've been covered in the book.<br />
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It's a pleasant enough journey but it's never clear exactly what the point is. It has a very 50s civic-religion vibe, but I'm not sure that's it. It has a lot of casual sexism, but I'm not sure it can see it. It tries to push some liberal ideas but it just says, it never argues. The character we see most affected by his words, a senator, appears not to be a real person.<br />
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So yeah. It was nice but I don't get it. Perhaps when it came out and the book was fresh in people's minds and his preaching still rung in folks' memories it worked, but here he almost seems to preach from a glass jar and other than more people showing up to see him it's not quite clear what difference he's making.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>The Personal History of David Copperfield</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6439020?thmazing">2019</a>)<br />
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Ever since I saw <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXh53I-Sdsk">the trailer</a> I've been anxious to see this film. Same writer/director as <i>Death of Stalin</i> above (though I don't think I'd seen that when I first saw the trailer) but my cheapness made this difficult. It wasn't in theaters. The library decided not to buy the dvd even after I filled out a polite request. It wasn't streaming anywhere we were paying for. And then, tada, here it is on Hulu after we go for the buck-a-month deal.<br />
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But Lady Steed wanted to wait until she'd finished reading <i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780063251922">Demon Copperhead</a></i>. Which seemed fair.<br />
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And now here we are. We've watched it.<br />
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Lady Steed enjoyed the filmmaking but felt it was just too rushed. For me, the joyous filmmaking made it okay that we were skirting over characters and maybe not coming to feel for them as much as we might otherwise. So that didn't bother me. I enjoyed the movie just as much as I expected.<br />
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And now I really want to read <i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780451530042">David Copperfield</a></i>. I had <a href="https://cdn0.rubylane.com/shops/colemanscollectibles/05095.1L.jpg">an abridged version</a> I read many times as a child, but it's time, I think, to read the real thing.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2023</u><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2024/01/a-new-year-of-mostly-not-new-films.html" title="Cryptozoo (2021) | D.O.A. (1949) | The Dark Truth of Peanuts, or One Must Imagine Charlie Brown Happy (2023) | The Death of Stalin (2017) | Dr. Jack (1922) | Film (1965) | Krampus (2015) | Linoleum (2022) | A Man Called Otto (2022) | A Man Called Peter (1955) | Mandibles (2020) | Mission: Impossible (1996) | A Night at the Roxbury (1998) | Ninety-five Senses (2023) | Office Space (1999) | Palm Springs (2020) | The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) | Poison (2023) | Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016) | Quiz Lady (2023) | The Ratcatcher (2023) | Self Reliance (2023) | The Swan (2023) | This Beautiful Fantastic (2016) | Wayne's World (1992) | The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)">jan</a><br /></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2023</u><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/01/2023-and-love-is-in-air-and-senseless.html" title="Babe (1995) | Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018) | Batman Ninja (2018) | Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) | Bicycle Thieves (1948) | Escape from It's a Wonderful Life (1996) | The Fabelmans (2022) | Joe (1970) | North by Northwest (1959) | Peter Pan Goes Wrong (2016) | Snoopy, Come Home (1972) | What's So Bad About Feeling Good? (1968) | What's Up, Doc? (1972) | Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019) | Woman of the Year (1942) | You've Got Mail (1998)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/02/paddle-to-sea-and-other-things-to-due.html" title="Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022) | Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2020) | Bringing Up Baby (1938) | Enchanted (2007) | History of the World: Part I (1981) | Les enfants du paradis (1945) | Kung Fu Hustle (2004) | Paddle to the Sea (1966) | The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) | Zardoz (1974)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/04/hup-two-three-film.html" title="An American Pickle (2020) | Ikiru (1952) | Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (2021) | Lost City (2022) | Lyle, Lyle Crocodile (2022) | The Making of Titus 2000) | Mary Poppins (1964) | Pom Poko (1994) | The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) | Rocky (1976) | Shin Godzilla (2016) | Titus (1999) | The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/04/april-ends-with-what-you-see-here.html" title="Annie (1982) | Easter Parade (1948) | Gates of Heaven (1978) | Last Days in the Desert (2015) | The Mermaid (2016) | Paint (2023) | Paprika (2006) | Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer (1990) | Renfield (2023) | Sullivan's Travels (1941) | V for Vendetta (2005) | Venus (2016) | Vernon, Florida (1981)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-movies-of-may.html" title="Bambi (1942) | | A Brief Record of My Father's Time at Sea (2021) | Bullet Train (2022) | Cabaret (1972) | Casablanca (1942) | Clueless (1995) | Cooley High (1975) | Hawaiian Punch (2013) | It's a Wonderful Life (1946) | A Journey to the Beginning of Time (1960) | The Lady Eve (1941) | The Maltese Falcon (1941) | Mystery Men (1999) | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | Please Vote for Me (2007) | Pom Poko (1994) | A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019) | Singin' in the Rain (1952) | Soul Food Junkie | Vertigo (1958) | You May Now Kill the Bride (2016)">may</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/06/juneriffic-filmorama.html" title="American Graffiti (1973) | Asteroid City (2023) | The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) | Blades of Glory (2006) | The Cameraman (1928) | Confess, Fletch (2022) | Elemental (2023) | Fire of Love (2022) | The Flash (2023) | Heathers (1988) | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) | Let There Be Light (1946) | The Menu (2022) | The Mexican (2001) | Nightmare Castle (1965) | Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942) | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) | Spite Marriage (1929) | Victor/Victoria (1982) | Winchester '73 (1950) | your name. (2016)">jun</a> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/08/barbenheimer-and-friends.html" title="Asteroid City (2023) | Barbie (2023) | Free and Easy (1930) | Go West (1925) | Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) | Invention for Destruction (1958) | Jim Gaffigan: Dark Pale (2023) | King Lavra (1950) | Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, Part One (2023) | News of the World (2020) | Oppenheimer (2023) | Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) | Sherlock Jr. (1924) | Singin' in the Rain (1952) | So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM (2004) | Teachers (1984)">jul</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/09/august-filmdom.html" title="Barbie (2023) | Haunted Mansion (2023) | Holiday (1938) | Hot Fuzz (2007) | The Trouble with Harry (1955) | The Truman Show (1998) | The World's End (2013)">aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/09/do-you-remember-films-that-we-watched.html" title="Blancanieves (2012) | Blue Beetle (2023) | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) | The Fugitive (1993) | Genius (2016) | The Making of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1970) | Slapstick of Another Kind (1982) | Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb (2022) | You Can't Take It with You (1938)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/10/octoboo.html" title="Barbie (2023) | The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) | Cymbeline (2014) | Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020) | A Haunting in Venice (2023) | Moroni for President (2018) | Oink (2022) | The Shining (1980) | This Magnificent Cake! (2018) | The Toxic Avenger (1984) | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/12/forgetting-november.html" title="Addams Family Values (1993) | Ballad of a Mountain Man: The Story of Bascom Lamar Lunsford (1989) | Evan Almighty (2007) | Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) | Lady and the Tramp (1955) | The Phantom Carriage (1921)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/12/2023-crashes-to-close-filmwise.html" title="8-Bit Christmas (2021) | Blithe Spirit (2020) | The Boy and the Heron (2023) | Die Hard (1988) | The Doll (1919) | Elf (2003) | Godzilla Minus One (2023) | The Marvels (2023) | Merry Little Batman (2023) | The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) | Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)">dec</a><br /></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2022</u><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-years-starts-slowly.html" title="21 Up (1977) | After Hours (1985) | Encanto (2021) | Harold and Maude (1971) | The Last Starfighter (1984) | Little Women (2019)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/02/februarys-over-already-it-was-yesterday.html" title="Ford v Ferrari (2019) | The Imposter (2012) | Modern Times (1936) | Private Benjamin (1980) | Sing Street (2016) | Snowball Express (1972) | The Voyeurs (2021)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/03/march-on-to-filmdonia.html" title="The Awful Truth (1937) | Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021) | The Batman (2022) | The Lady in the Van (2015)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/04/not-that-i-watched-any-ukrainian-films.html" title="28 Up (1984) | Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021) | Batman (1989) | Embrace the Panda: Making Turning Red (2022) | Free Guy (2021) | Gattaca (1997) | Henson's Place: The Man Behind the Muppets (1984) | Kong: Skull Island (2017) | The Mummy (1932) | Please Vote for Me (2007) | Professor Marston & the Wonder Women (2017) | Pulp Fiction (1994) | Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) | They Call Me Trinity (1970) | Turning Red (2022) | WW84 (2020)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/05/movie-may-i.html" title="35 Up (1991) | Bambi (1942) | The Bob's Burgers Movie (2022) | Chan Is Missing (1982) | Departures (2008) | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) | Eagle vs Shark (2007) | Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) | Finch (2021) | Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth (2020) | Learning to See: The World of Insects (2016) | The Liberators (2016) | Man on Fire (2018) | Mickey Mouse Monopoly (2002) | Moana (2016) | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) | The Northman (2022) | Porco Rosso (1992) | Psycho (1960) | Psychos (2014) | Putin: The New Tsar (2018) | Russian Ark (2002) | The Trolls (2015) | Two Million Minutes: A Global Examination (2008)">may</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/06/june-film-flybys.html" title="42 Up (1998) | 49 Up (2005) | 56 Up (2012) | All the President's Men (1976) | Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) | The General (1926) | The Green Knight (2021) | The Green Man (1956) | Jallikattu (2019) | Killer of Sheep (1978) | The Matrix (1999) | Monster on the Campus (1958) | Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) | The Post (2017) | Princess Mononoke (1997) | Soylent Green (1973)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-quality-july.html" title="The Bob Emergency (2019) | Elvis (2022) | The Fog of War (2003) | Heat (1995) | The Insufferable Groo (2018) | Last Night in Soho (2021) | The Lunchbox (2013) | Mad God (2022) | Masterminds (2016) | The Mummy (1999) | The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982) | Nope (2022) | Princess Protection Program (2009) | The Thing (1982) | Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) | Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made (2020) | WWJD (2022)">july</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/08/august-films-2022.html" title="Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) | Beaver Trilogy (2000) | Beaver Trilogy Part IV (2015) | Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022) | Cinderella 3: A Twist in Time (2007) | Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) | Encanto (2021) | The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021) | How to score 10 runs in the first inning and lose (2022) | Jules et Jim (1962) | Once (2007)">aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/09/ive-run-out-of-september-film-puns-2022.html" title="The Boyfriend School (1990) | Brave (2012) | Boss Baby (2017) | Bullitt (1968) | Dog City (1989) | Frances Ferguson (2019) | It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) | Jaws (1975) | Love and Saucers (2017) | Macbeth (2018) | M*A*S*H (1970) | Moana (2016) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | Storks (2016) | Teacher of the Year (2014) | Touch of Evil (1958/1998) | The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/10/octobrrrrr-films-were-just-not-chilly.html" title="Bell Book and Candle (1958) | A Bucket of Blood (1959) | Emma. (2020) | Old (2021) | Werewolf by Night (2022) | Much Ado About Nothing (1993) | Much Ado About Nothing (2012)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/11/novilmber.html" title="The Addams Family (1991) | La belle et la bête (1946) | Boss Baby: Family Business (2021) | CRYO (2022) | Dan in Real Life (2007) | Glass Onion (2022) | An Honest Liar (2014) | A Serious Man (2009) | Suburbicon (2017) | Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) | While You Were Sleeping (1995) | WWJD (2022)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/01/ending-year-in-cinematic-style.html" title="Barber Westchester (2022) | The Batman (2022) | Batman Returns (1992) | The Compleat Al (1985) | Elf (2003) | The Guardians of the Galaxy: Holiday Special (2022) | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) | The LEGO Movie (2014) | The Matrix (1999) | The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) | Midnight Run (1988) | Mirai (2018) | Moana (2016) | Patch Town (2014) | Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (1972) | The Shop Around the Corner (1940) | Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) | A Unicorn for Christmas (2021)">dec</a><br /></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2021</u><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/01/no-so-many-movies-this-january-im-afraid.html" title="Babette's Feast (1987) | Bashful (1917) | The Big Idea (1917) | By the Sad Sea Waves (1917) | A Cat in Paris (2010) | A Gasoline Wedding (1918) | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) | Lonesome Luke, Messenger (1917) | Look Pleasant, Please (1918) | The Princess and the Frog (2009) | The Shaggy D.A. (1976) | Shrek (2001) | Shrek 2 (2004) | Soul (2020) | Wings of Desire (1987)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/02/february-more-like-filmuary.html" title="A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) | The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) | Monuments Men (2014) | My Neighbor Totoro (1988) | The Player (1992) | The Princess Bride (1989) | Selma (2014) | Shrek Forever After (2010) | Shrek the Third (2007) | Spirited Away (2001) | La Strada (1954)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/03/march-movies-march.html" title="And Should We Die (1966) | Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020) | The Dirty Dozen (1967) | Downsizing (2017) | Hail, Caesar! (2016) | Inside Out (2015) | Jojo Rabbit (2019) | My Cousin Vinny (1992) | Rififi (1955)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/04/april-showers-do-not-exist-this-is.html" title="Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) | Belladonna of Sadness (1973) | Blast from the Past (1999) | Captain America: Civil War (2016) | The Floorwalker (1916) | Flora & Ulysses (2021) | Hypocrites (1915) | The Incredibles (2004) | Jojo Rabbit (2019) | The Last Unicorn (1982) | Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) | Moonrise Kingdom (2012) | Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976) | Paul Williams Still Alive (2011) | Phantom of the Paradise (1974) | Spontaneous (2020) | The Star Prince (1918)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/05/may-we-movie-yes-we-may.html" title="High Noon (1952) | Idiocracy (2006) | The Incredible Hulk (2008) | The Maltese Falcon (1941) | My Favorite Wife (1940) | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | Parasite (2019) | So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)">may</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/06/june-something-something-movie-pun.html" title="Billu (2009) | Ella Cinders (1926) | The Errand of Angels (2004) | Future War (1997) / MST3K: Future War (1999) | Luca (2021) | A Quiet Place (2018) | Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) | Sullivan's Travels (1941)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-films-of-july-such-as-they-were.html" title="The Caine Mutiny (1954) | The Cat from Outer Space (1978) | The Innocents (1961) | The Manchurian Candidate (1962) | A Mighty Wind (2003) | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | This Is Spinal Tap (1984) | Tron: Legacy (2010)">jul</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/09/augustus-filmius.html" title="Black Widow (2021) | Contact (1997) | The Giant Brine Shrimp (1973) | Phantom of the Megaplex (2000) | Scoob! (2020) | Sylvio (2017) | Three Men and a Baby (1987)">aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/09/remember-the-films-of-september.html" title="'Crocodile' Dundee (1986) | Discovering Treasure: The Story of the Treasure of the Sierra Madre (2003) | Emma. (2020) | The Jewel of the Nile (1985) | John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1989) | Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: The Flash (2018) | Romancing the Stone (1984) | Scotland, Pa. (2001) | Snoopy, Come Home (1972) | A Town Called Panic (2009) | A Town Called Panic: Double Fun (2016) | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/10/october-and-disturbing-paucity-of-scary.html" title="The Bat (1959) | The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Gentlemen Broncos (2009) | Hero (2002) | Macbeth (2015) | Mr. Boogedy (1986) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | Muppets Haunted Mansion (2021) | Scotland, Pa. (2001) | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-first-time.html" title="About a Boy (2002) | The Amazing Spider-man (2012) | As You Like It (1978) | Beetlejuice (1988) | Bottle Rocket (1996) | Eternals (2021) | Flora & Ulysses (2021) | An Honest Liar (2014) | Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) | Masaan (2015) | Out of Liberty (2019) | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) | Sisters (1972)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/12/and-twenty-twenty-one-comes-crashing-to.html" title="7 Plus Seven (1970) | Bedazzled (1967) | Die Hard (1988) | Elf (2003) | The History of the Seattle Mariners (2020) | The Holiday (2006) | Home Alone (1990) | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) | It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) | The Matrix (1999) | The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) | Ron's Gone Wrong (2021) | Seven Up! (1964) | Speed (1994) | Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) | ¡Three Amigos! (1986) | Toys (1992) | The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)">dec</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2020</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-first-month-of-2020-films-watched.html" title="1917 (2019) | The Aeronauts (2019) | After Hours (1985) | Amy (2015) | Barcelona (1994) | Cars (2006) | The Death of Stalin (2017) | A Fool There Was (1915) | How Rare a Possession: The Book of Mormon (1987) | The In-Laws (1979) | Joker (2019) | Knives Out (2019) | Long Shot (2019) | Parasite (2019) | Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) | Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) | Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) | Three Days of the Condor (1975) | Unbreakable (2000) | Wag the Dog (1997)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/02/leap-day-means-extra-day-for-movies-in.html" title="The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) | Arrival (2016) | Bolt (2008) | Contagion (2011) | Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) | Groundhog Day (1993) | Inception (2010) | Jean de Florette (1986) | Kung Fu Dunk (2008) | Manon des Sources (1986) | Muriel's Wedding (1994) | Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019) | Sylvio (2017) | Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914) | Troop Zero (2019) | Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013) | Young Adult (2011)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/03/march-brings-end-of-normality-and.html" title="The Avengers (2012) | Bambi (1942) | Bottle Rocket (1996) | Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) | Finding Nemo (2003) | Heart of Africa (2020) | It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) | A League of Their Own (1992) | Miniscule: Valley of the Lost Ants (2013) | The Avengers | Patema Inverted (2013) | Phase IV (1974) | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) | UHF (1989) | WALL·E (2008) | Whale Rider (2002)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-movies-intentions-corrupted-by.html" title="4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) | Ant-Man (2015) | Avengers: Endgame (2019) | Avengers: Infinity War (2018) | Black Panther (2018) | Brother Bear (2003) | Captain America: Civil War (2016) | Finding Dory (2016) | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) | Howl's Moving Castle (2004) | Iron Man 2 (2010) | Iron Man Three (2013) | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | My Life as a Zucchini (2016) | Once I Was a Beehive (2015) | Onward (2020) | Out of Liberty (2019) | Spirited Away (2001) | Thor: Ragnarok (2017) | West of Her (2016)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/05/may-we-movies.html" title="Bambi (1942) | Be Kind Rewind (2008) | Duck Soup (1933) | Fantastic Mr Fox (2009) | Fences (2016) | The Fighting Preacher (2019) | Fluke (1995) | Frankenstein (1931) | Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) | The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) | The Great Dinosaur Discovery (1976) | A Hard Day's Night (1964) | House of Frankenstein (1944) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Like Father, Like Son (2013) | Pride & Prejudice (2005) | Ratatouille (2007) | Rushmore (1998) | Shanghai Noon (2000) | Shoplifters (2018) | A Spaceman in King Arthur's Court (1979) | Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) | The Strongest Man in the World (1975)">may</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-movies-minimally-jejune.html" title="An Affair to Remember (1957) | Any Old Port in a Storm (1973) | Artemis Fowl (2020) | Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman (2003) | Blindspotting (2018) | Endless Night (1972) | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) | First Reformed (2017) | The Florida Project (2017) | The Great Muppet Caper (1981) | Holy Motors (2012) | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) | I Am Not Your Negro (2016) | Intolerable Cruelty (2003) | Ishtar (1987) | Late Night (2019) | Looper (2012) | Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) | My Dog, the Thief (1969) | Patch Town (2014) | Peter Pan (1953) | The Red Mill (1927) | The Seventh Seal (1957) | The Shiver of the Vampires (1971) | Snowpiercer (2013) | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) | Transperceneige: From the Blank Page to the Black Screen (2014) | Under the Silver Lake (2018) | West of Hot Dog (1924)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/07/blog-post.html" title="Beginners (2010) | Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019) | Fitzwilly (1967) | Galaxy Quest (1999) | A Ghost Story (2017) | The Hate U Give (2018) | A Hidden life (2019) | Hot Rod (2007) | House of Dracula (1945) | Jerry Maguire (1996) | Meet the Robinsons (2007) | New York Doll (2005) | The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) | Shaun of the Dead (2004) | Transylvania 6-5000 (1985) | The Zone (2011)">jul</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/08/film-so-august.html" title="Alice in Wonderland (1951) | Bug (1975) | Country Gentlemen (1936) | The Dead Don't Die (2019) | Eleanor's Secret (2009) | Firebird (1982) | Frozen II (2019) | Knives Out (2019) | Minority Report (2002) | Rango (2011) | Spirited Away (2001) | Table 19 (2016) | Tangled (2010)">aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/10/1917-aeronauts-after-hours-amy.html" title="A.C.O.D. (2013) | All Is True (2018) | Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020) | Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (2015) | Chicken Run (2000) | La Cigarette (1919) | Clueless (1995) | Fat City (1972) | The Smiling Madame Beudet (1923) | The Terminator (1984) | Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/11/oktoberfilm.html" title="Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) | Ghostbusters: Answer the Call (2016) | In Search of a Flat Earth (2020) | Intolerance (1916) | Jabberwocky (1977) | The Next Door (2016) | Over the Garden Wall (2014) | The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012) | The Sixth Sense (1999) | Three Ages (1923) | Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) | The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/11/thankful-for-movies.html" title="10 Things I Hate About You (1999) | 1917 (2019) | Arthur Christmas (2011) | Early Man (2018) | Extra Ordinary (2019) | Ford v Ferrari (2019) | I Am Not Your Negro (2016) | Jurassic Park (1993) | Just Mercy (2019) | Kung Fu Panda (2008) | The Last Man on Earth (1964) | Missing Link (2019) | Napoleon Dynamite (2004) | Samuel the Lamanite (2006) | The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956) | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/12/a-film-watch-together-with-youuuuuu.html" title="Babes in Toyland (1934) | BlacKkKlansman (2018) | The Court Jester (1955) | Edward Scissorhands (1990) | Elf (2003) | Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas (2014) | The Farewell (2019) | Get Out (2017) | Home Alone (1990) | Midsommar (2019) | Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) | Noelle (2020) | A Raisin in the Sun (2008) | The Sadist (1963) | A Simple Favor (2018) | Singin' in the Rain (1952) | Up (2009)">dec</a><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2019</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/01/feature-film-january-2019.html" title="The Boat (1921) | Cold Comfort Farm (1995) | The Great Dictator (1940) | Hearts Beat Loud (2018) | An Honest Liar (2014) | Imposter (2012) | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) | One Week (1920) | Shaolin Soccer (2001) | Spider-Man 3 (2007) | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) | Sylvio (2017) | The Thing from Another World (1951) | True Grit (2010)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/02/feature-film-february-2019.html" title="Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Don Verdean (2015) | Duelle (1976) | Edge of Tomorrow (2014) | The Favourite (2018) | Frankenstein (1931) | Hanna (2010) | The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) | Luck-Key (2016) | Mother (2009) | Pom Poko (1994) | Raising Arizona (1987) | Sylvio (2017) | The Tiger Hunter (2016) | Violet & Daisy (2011)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/03/feature-film-march-2019.html" title="Don Verdean (2015) | Eighth Grade (2018) | Fences (2016) | Frankenstein (1931) | Jane and Emma (2018) | Macbeth (1979) | Macbeth (2010) | Macbeth (2015) | The Silence of the Lambs (1991) | Superman (1978) | The Sword in the Stone (1963)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/04/feature-film-april-2019.html" title="Avengers: Infinity War (2018) | Captain Marvel (2019) | Cheatin’ (2013) | George of the Jungle (1997) | Hancock (2008) | An Honest Liar (2014) | King Lear (2018) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | Mulholland Dr. (2001) | Shazam! (2019) | Three Identical Strangers (2018) | Us (2019)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/05/feature-film-may-2019.html" title="Avengers: Endgame (2019) | Bambi (1942) | BASEketball (1998) | Casablanca (1942) | Cinema Paradiso (1988) | A Day at the Races (1937) | The Godfather (1972) | Good Time (2017) | A Goofy Movie (1995) | The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) | One Week & The Boat (1920 & 1921) | Play It Again, Sam (1972) | Psycho (1960) | Rushmore (1998) | Short Term 12 (2013) | Silence (2016) | Wolf Children (2012)">may</a><br />
<a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/06/feature-film-june-2019.html" title="The Big Store (1942) | Crazy Rich Asians (2018) | Deathtrap (1982) | Designing Woman (1957) | The Godfather: Part II (1974) | Louise en Hiver (2016) | Men in Black (1997) | Room 237 (2012) | Room Service (1938) | Sleepless in Seattle (1993) | Spirited Away (2001) | To Be or Not to Be (1942) | Toy Story (1995) | Toy Story 2 (2009) | Toy Story 3 (2010)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/07/feature-films-june-2019.html" title="I, Tonya (2017) | The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) | My Neighbors The Yamadas (1999) | Sorry to Bother You (2018) | Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) | Toy Story 3 (2010) | Toy Story 4 (2019) | The Tree of Life (2011) | Yesterday (2019)">jul</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/08/feature-films-august-2019.html" title="Beware! The Blob (1972) | The Blob (1958) | Bumblebee (2018)| The Dead Zone (1983) | Dealt (2017) | Marjorie Prime (2017) | The Meg (2018) | Matilda (1996) | The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) | Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019)">aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/09/feature-films-september-2019.html" title="Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (2016) | Blinded by the Light (2019) | Captain Marvel (2019) | Kings of Baxter (2017) | The Lady Eve (1941) | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) | The Martian (2015) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Sylvio (2017)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/10/feature-films-october-2019.html" title="Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) | The Addams Family (2019) | An American Werewolf in London (1981) | Gravity (2013) | An Honest Liar (2014) | The Kings of Summer (2013) | Little (2019) | Macbeth (2015) | Moana (2016) | mother! (2017) | Romeo + Juliet (1996) | Romeo Is Bleeding (2015) | Shazam! (2019) | Toy Story (1995) | WALL·E (2008)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/11/films-feature-length-2019-november.html" title="Aquaman (2018) | Blackbeard's Ghost (1968) | Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) | Clue (1985) | Frozen (2013) | Frozen II (2019) | I Lost My Body (2019) | Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) | Isle of Dogs (2018) | Kids + Money (2008) | The Light Bulb Conspiracy (2010) | The Night of the Hunter (1955) | The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | The Prodigal Son (1990) | The Satellite Girl and Milk Cow (2014) | Short Circuit (1986) | Short Circuit 2 (1988) | Space Is the Place (1974)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/12/december-2019-films-de-la-feature.html" title="About a Boy (2002) | The Animagic World of Rankin/Bass (2018) | Babe (1995) | Bagdad Cafe (1987) | The Best Two Years (2004) | Elf (2003) | Fast Color (2018) | Go (1999) | Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) | Gremlins (1984) | Hitler's Hollywood (2017) | Jack Frost (1979) | The _______ Report (2019) | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) | Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) | Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) | Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019) | Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) | Toy Story 4 (2019)">dec</a><br />
</div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2018</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-feature-films-of-january-2018.html" title="The Avengers (2012) | Believe (2013) | Cast Away (2000) | College (1927) | The Creature Walks Among Us (1956) | Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) | Faces Places (2017) | A Goofy Movie (1995) | Hot Rod (2007) | One Man's Treasure (2009) | Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) | Shane (1953) | The Wolfpack (2015)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/02/2018-february-feature-filmery.html" title="Black Panther (2018) | Chan Is Missing (1982) | The Edge of Seventeen (2016) | Help! (1965) | The Incredibles (2004) | Iron Man (2008) | Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002) | Lady Bird (2017) | Love & Friendship (2016) | Pom Poko (1994) | Sylvio (2017) | Toy Story (1995) | Wonderstruck (2017)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/03/march-2018s-feature-filmery.html" title="Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Chinatown (2006) | Colossal (2016) | Fences (2016) | Frankenstein (1931) | Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) | Inside Out (2015) | Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) | What We Do in the Shadows (2014)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/04/april-2018s-feature-filmery.html" title="Adam's Apples (2005) | Avengers: Infinity War (2018) | Cinderella (1950) | Coriolanus (2011) | Darkest Hour (2017) | Don't Think Twice (2016) | Moonstruck (1987) | Muppets from Space (1999) | Princess Mononoke (1997) | The Red Turtle (2016) | Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) | Tangled (2010) | Thor: The Dark World (2013) | 3:10 to Yuma (1957) | 3:10 to Yuma (2007)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/05/may-2018s-feature-filmery.html" title="The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) | The Andromeda Strain (1971) | The Beguiled (2017) | Boy and the World (2013) | Get Out (2017) | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) | Interstellar (2014) | The Iron Giant (1999) | The Little Mermaid (1989) | Mulan (1998) | My Dinner with Andre (1981) | Romeo Is Bleeding (2015) | Spirited Away (2001) | The Stepford Wives (1975) | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | WALL·E (2008) | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)">may</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/06/june-2018s-feature-filmery.html" title="Ant-Man (2015) | Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) | Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) | Incredibles 2 (2018) | Isle of Dogs (2018) | Ocean's 8 (2018) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977) | Rushmore (1998) | Thank You for Smoking (2005)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/08/20julyaugust18.html" title="The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) | Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1992) | The Disaster Artist (2017) | Dunkirk (2017) | Everybody Street (2013) | Finding Dory (2016) | Howl's Moving Castle (2004) | The Lego Batman Movie (2017) | Logan Lucky (2017) | Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) | My Neighbro Totoro (1988) | 9 to 5 (1980) | Porco Rosso (1992) | Son of Frankenstein (1939) | Sorry to Bother You (2018) | The Saratov Approach (2013) | Son of Flubber (1963) | The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) | Thor: Ragnarok (2017) | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018) | Your Name. (2016)">jul&aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/09/not-so-many-movies-in-september-2018.html" title="Art + Belief (2019) | A Boy and His Dog (1975) | The Little Hours (2017) | The Lost Express (1925) | Murder by Death (1976) | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | One Man's Treasure (2009)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-films-of-october-2018.html" title="Batman Begins (2005) | Children of the Corn (1984) | Frailty (2001) | Justice League (2017) | My Friend Dahmer (2017) | The Truman Show (1998) | When Marnie Was There (2014)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/11/moviember-2019.html" title="Baby Mama (2008) | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) | The 'Burbs (1989) | The Dark Knight (2008) | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) | Metropolis (1927) | Modern Times (1936) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | Okja (2017) | Paddington 2 (2017) | Singin' in the Rain (1952) | WarGames (1983)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/12/final-movies-post-of-2018.html" title="The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) | The Comedy of Errors (1983) | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) | It's a Wonderful Life (1946) | My Neighbor Totoro (1998) | North Avenue Irregulars (1979) | Spider-Man (2002) | Spider-Man 2 (2004) | Turbo Kid (2015)">dec</a><br />
</div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2017</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/03/2017-t-ms-part-one.html" title="Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993) | The General (1926) | Get Out (2017) | The Hidden Fortress (1958) | The Karate Kid (1984) | The LEGO Batman Movie (2017) | Mean Girls (2004) | Orc Wars (2013) | Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Room (2015) | Silence (2016) | Storks (2016)">qu1</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/06/2017-t-ms-part-two.html" title="All the President's Men (1976) | Back to the Future (1985) | The Boss Baby (2017) | Casablanca (1942) | Do the Right Thing (1989) | F for Fake (1973) | Fences (2016) | Forbidden Zone (1980) | Fun and Fancy Free (1947) | The Ghost Writer (2010) | Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) | Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 (2017) | Hail, Caesar! (2016) | The Handmaiden (2016) | Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Midnight Special (2016) | Noroît (1976) | Orson Welles: The One-Man Band (1995) | Pride & Prejudice (2005) | Psycho (1960) | The Puffy Chair (2005) | Romeo + Juliet (1996) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Rushmore (1998) | The Shawshank Redemption (1994) | Son of Kong (1933) | Spirited Away (2001) | Sully (2016) | A Town Called Panic (2009) | To Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters (2016) | Wonder Woman (2017)">qu2</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/09/2017-t-ms-part-three.html" title="Arrival (2016) | De Palma (2015) | Doctor Strange (2016) | Dunkirk (2017) | The Eagle Huntress (2016) | Elevator to the Gallows (1958) | Fences (2016) | The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966) | Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) | Ladyhawke (1985) | Logan (2017) | Magnolia (1999) | Moana (2016) | Napoleon Dynamite (2004) | Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) | Swiss Army Man (2016) | Trolls (2016) | Tyrus (2015) | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | Unfaithfully Yours (1948) | Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) | What We Do in the Shadows (2014)">qu3</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/12/end-o-2017.html" title="The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979) | Baby Driver (2017) | The Big Sick (2017) | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) | Boy and the World (2013) | Boy (2010) | Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) | Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017) | Cars 3 (2017) | Christmas in Connecticut (1945) | Clue (1985) | Coco (2017) | Coraline (2009) | Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) | Edward Scissorhands (1990) | Elf (2003) | Frankenstein (1931) | Free Fire (2016) | Home Alone (1990) | The Invisible Man (1935) | The Kid (1921) | A Knight's Tale (2001) | Kong: Skull Island (2017) | Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) | La La Land (2016) | The LEGO Movie (2014) | Lilo & Stitch (2002) | Ministry of Fear (1944) | Monster of Frankenstein (1981) | Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) | Murder on the Orient Express (2017) | Nacho Libre (2006) | The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) | Revenge of the Creature (1955) | A River Runs Through It (1992) | Silence (1992) | Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) | Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) | Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) | Surf's Up (2007) | 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) | Thor (2011) | Thor: Ragnarok (2017) | Train to Busan (2016) | WALL-E (2008) | The Wolf Man (1941) | Wonder Woman (2017) | Young Frankenstein (1974)">qu4</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2016</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/03/first-quarter-films.html" title="Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015 | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1998) | A Hard Day's Night (1964) | Help! (1965) | Inside Out (2015) | It Follows (2014) | Life Itself (2014) | The Magnificent Seven (1960) | Mystery Men (1999) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Romeo + Juliet (1996) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Seven Samurai (1954) | Spy (2015) | Stranger than Fiction (2006) | Wonder Boys (2000) | The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008) | Zootopia (2016)">qu1</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/06/2nd-quarter.html" title="Ant-Man (2015) | Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) | The Big Lebowski (1998) | Casablanca (1942) | Chi-Raq (2015) | Citizen Kane (1941) | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) | Do the Right Thing (1989) | Duck Soup (1933) | Ex Machina (2015) | Extract (2009) | Fargo (1996) | Finding Dory (2016) | Gone Girl (2014) | The Great Dictator (1940) | A Hard Day's Night (1964) | His Girl Friday (1940) | Horse Feathers (1932) | Howl's Moving Castle (2004) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Love & Friendship (2016) | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013) | Playtime (1967) | Rope (1948) | Rushmore (1998) | Spirited Away (2001) | The Station Agent (2003) | The Tree of Life (2011) | Vertigo (1958) | While We're Young (2014) | The World's End (2013) | Young Frankenstein (1974)">qu2</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/09/2016s-third-quarter-movies.html" title="Airplane! (1980) | Amélie (2001) | Anomalisa (2015) | The Avengers (2012) | Batman: The Killing Joke (2016) | Best in Show (2000) | Candleshoe (1977) | Field of Dreams (1989) | Forbidden Planet (1956) | The 400 Blows (1959) | Four Lions (2010) | Freaky Friday (1976) | Ghostbusters (2016) | The Girl from Nowhere (2012) | Goodfellas (1990) | Hot Fuzz (2007) | The Invisible Boy (1957) | Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) | The Lobster (2015) | Mad Max (1979) | Maverick (1994) | Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) | Mood Indigo (2013) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | The Passion of Martin (1991) | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) | Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015) | Stand by Me (1986) | The Sting (1973) | A Town Called Panic (2009) | Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) | Wild Tales (2014)">qu3</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/12/all-rest-of-movies-of-2016.html" title="Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) | The Abominable Bride (2016) | About a Boy (2002) | The Babadook (2014) | The Big Short (2015) | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) | The Blood of Jesus (1941) | The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Café Society (2016) | Captain America: Civil War (2016) | Crisis in Six Scenes (2016) | Doctor Strange (2016) | Elf (2003) | A Face in the Crowd (1957) | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | Fletch (1985) | Frankenstein (1931) | Ghost in the Shell (1995) | The Gleaners & I (2000) | Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956) | Gojira (1954) | Goodnight Mommy (2014) | Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) | Harold and Maude (1971) | I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story (2014) | Keanu (2016) | King Kong (1933) | Let the Right One In (2008) | Miracle on 34th Street (1947) | Mission: Impossible (1996) | Mr. Holmes (2015) | Pride & Prejudice (2005) | Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) | Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) | Rounders (1998) | Scrooged (1988) | Shaolin Soccer (2001) | Star Wars: Rogue One (2016) | Stranger than Fiction (2006) | Wishful Drinking (2010) | Young Frankenstein (1974)">qu4</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2015</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2015/04/first-batch-of-2015-feature-films-seen.html" title="The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967) | Annie (2014) | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) | Duck Soup (1933) | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | Finding Vivian Maier (2013) | Frank (2014) | The Gold Rush (1925) | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) | Her (2013) | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) | Jaws (1975) | Moneyball (2011) | The One I Love (2014) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) | The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015) | 21 Jump Street (2012) | What We Do in the Shadows (2014) | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)">qu1</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2015/07/feature-films-2015-second-quarter.html" title="The Adjustment Bureau | American Movie | Bambi | The Boxtrolls (2014) | Casablanca (1942) | Chef (2014) | Dazed and Confused (1993) | Edge of Tomorrow (2014) | Freetown (2015) | From Up on Poppy Hill (2011) | Godzilla (2014) | Groundhog Day (1993) | Inside Out (2015) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) | Jurassic Park (1993) | Jurassic World (2015) | Looking for Richard (1996) | Marwencol (2010) | Psycho (1960) | Romeo Is Bleeding (2015) | Spirited Away (2001) | THX 1138 (1971) | Tomorrowland (2015) | Under the Skin (2013) | V for Vendetta (2005) | Wadjda (2012)">qu2</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2015/10/feature-films-2015-third-quarter.html" title="Ant-Man (2015) | Boyhood (2014) | The Double (2011) | Frances Ha (2012) | Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) | Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) | My Man Godfrey (1936) | Once I Was a Beehive (2015) | Paddington (2014) | The Rocketeer (1991) | The Sandlot (1993) | Saving Mr. Banks (2013) | The Secret of Kells (2009) | The Secret of Roan Inish (1994) | Song of the Sea (2014) | St. Vincent (2014) | The Third Man (1949) | UHF (1989)">qu3</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2015/12/feature-films-2015-final-quarter.html" title="Back to the Future (1985) | Back to the Future Part II (1989) | Back to the Future Part III (1990) | The Bad Seed (1956) | Bernie (2011) | Big Eyes (2014) | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) | Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Die Hard (1998) | Elf (2003) | Enemy (2013) | Frankenweenie (2012) | The Good Dinosaur (2015) | Hamlet (1990) | Heavy Metal (1981) | It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) | The Mountain of the Lord (1993) | The Parent Trap (1961) | The Peanuts Movie (2015) | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) | Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | School of Rock (2003) | The Skeleton Twins (2014) | The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) | Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1997) | Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) | UHF (1989) | Wild (2014) | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)">qu4</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2014</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/04/feature-length-films-of-2014-quarter-one.html" title="Le Ballon Rouge (1956) | The Book of Mormon Movie, Volume 1: The Journey (2003) | Cedar Rapids (2011) | Chronicle (2012) | The Conversation (1974) | Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) | Knuckleball! (2012) | Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010) | The LEGO Movie (2014) | Mahlzeiten (1967) | Moon (2009) | The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) | Pitch Perfect (2012) | A Royal Affair (2012) | SlamNation (1998) | Source Code (2011) | Warm Bodies (2013) | The Wind Rises (2013)">qu1</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/07/single-paragraphs-on-flicks-flicked.html" title="Babe: Pig in the City (1998) | Casablanca (1942) | Citizen Kane (1941) | Damsels in Distress (2011) | Duck Soup (1933) | Eraserhead (1977) | Frankenweenie (2012) | The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) | Heathers (1988) | How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) | Idiocracy (2006) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Jurassic Park (1993) | The Last Unicorn (1982) | Moneyball (2011) | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | Muppets Most Wanted (2014) | The Muppet Movie (1979) | Rushmore (1998) | Spirited Away (2001) | The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) | Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977, 1997) | Super 8 (2011) | V for Vendetta (2005)">qu2</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/09/2014-third-quarter-movies.html" title="American Grindhouse (2010) | American Hustle (2013) | Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) | Better Off Dead… (1985) | Bottle Rocket (1996) | Brick (2005) | Ghostbusters (1984) | Ginger Snaps (2000) | The Green Mile (1999) | Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) | In a World… (2013) | Little Secrets (2001) | Napoleon Dynamite (2004) | The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) | Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) | Somebody Up There Likes Me (2012) | Up in the Air (2009)">qu3</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/12/2014-movies-of-final-quarter.html" title="About a Boy (2002) | Big Hero 6 (2014) | The Cabin in the Woods (2012) | Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) | [charlie chaplin series] (1914, 1916, 1916, 1917, 1917) | The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (2000) | Dans la Maison (2012) | Ernest & Celestine (2012) | The Fisher King (1991) | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2014) | Interstellar (2014) | The Invisible Man (1933) | Mary Poppins (1964) | Million Dollar Arm (2014) | The Night of the Hunter (1955) | Paprika (2006) | ParaNorman (2012) | The Pride of the Yankees (1942) | Safety Last! (1923) | The Shining (1980) | Step Brothers (2008) | Sullivan's Travels (1941) | Unicorn City (2012) | Why Worry? (1923) | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)">qu4</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2013</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-movies-of-2013-one-paragraph.html" title="Argo (2012) | The Adventures of Tintin (2011) | Chinatown (1974) | The Descendants (2011) | Field of Dreams (1989) | A Goofy Movie (1995) | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) | Inherit the Wind (1960) | Kung Fu Hustle (2004) | The Merchant of Venice (2004) | Moonrise Kingdom (2012) | The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) | The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Psycho (1960) | The Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | The White Shadow (1924) | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)">th1</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-movies-of-2013-one-paragraph.html" title="Amour (2012) | Bellflower (2011) | Cinderella (1950) | The Dark Knight Rises (2012) | The Empire Strikes Back (1980) | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | 50/50 (2011) | The Graduate (1967) | The Great Gatsby (2013) | The Happening (2008) | The Kids Are All Right (2010) | Looper (2012) | Monsters University (2013) | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | Mr. Baseball (1992) | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) | Pacific Rim (2013) | R.I.P.D. (2013) | Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) | Snatch (2000) | Star Wars (1977) | Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002) | Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) | Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1997) | Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983) | This Is 40 (2012) | This Is the End (2013) | White on Rice (2009)">th2</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-movies-of-2013-one-paragraph.html" title="The Amazing Adventure (1936) | Black Orpheus (1959) | A Bucket of Blood (1959) | The Cheat (1915) | A Christmas Story (1983) | Corianton (1931) | Elf (2003) | Ender's Game (2013) | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | Frozen (2013) | Gentlemen Broncos (2009) | Gravity (2013) | His Girl Friday (1940) | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) | The Indian in the Cupboard (1995) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | The Muppet Movie (1979) | A Night at the Opera (1935) | Now You See Me (2013) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Sleepwalk with Me (2012) | Swiss Family Robinson (1960) | Waitress (2007) | When Harry Met Sally… (1989)">th3</a></div>
Th.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-81739253082116545322023-12-31T23:45:00.000-08:002024-01-01T00:07:28.088-08:002023 crashes to a close, filmwise<p>.<br /></p><p>Special bonus writeup on the movies of 2023. Click the image to travel to Letterboxd.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://letterboxd.com/thmazing/list/2023-films-in-order-of-how-i-feel-about-them" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="826" data-original-width="1103" height="389" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK50wPVGWhKi5NYHdlN6drz_EH72B1cqTD5cjN2kQH5qzKJp6Eku2KzZp_06YQHAiqooIaKLIMV2FA1QHVk-U2NAgnLw5iKdWI814FSoT0jUhQvcqQ0EQA1Rj0iqJd8QWOamtjF_lgj9uD7RZ_7-9_z2SRzH8digN0mGL9l9RysqSCOBMPvrB7TQ/w518-h389/2023fs.png" width="518" /></a></div><p>.<br /><br /><a name="bs"></a>
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</tbody></table><b>Blithe Spirit</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10334148?thmazing">2020</a>)<br />
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When <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug9dTP4KlDg">the trailer</a> for this film dropped, I was utterly delighted by it. Then the film itself dropped off the face of the earth without a trace, it seemed like. So when tonight as I went to Kanopy to look for a film to watch by myself and this was on the front page as a new arrival I figured why not?<br />
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Well, the why not is that it's just not that good. Even with strong performances by a good cast it just never comes together. Noël Coward is supposed to be brilliant but this and <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038363?thmazing">the 1945 version</a> (which I saw at my grandparents as a child and don't really remember other than a couple images and a generaly vibe and a sense of not getting it*) are about all I know of him. Is the problem one of the screenplay (three credited writers)? Is it the direction? The editing? I don't know. It's an easy trailer to make with so many sparkling moments, but the film itself waters down those moments to a tasteless broth.<br />
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What a disappointment.<br />
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* One thing about having seen the film and remembering it (however vaguely) was it gave me the ability to get <a href="https://youtu.be/zcfmAJxE20U?si=5kGu7-oWDWnkYy68&t=689">a joke</a> on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcfmAJxE20U">my favorite episode</a> of <a href="https://archive.org/details/the-burns-and-allen-show-1934-09-26-2-leaving-for-america">my favorite radio comedy</a>. I was given it as a gift (as part of a radio-comedy collection on cassette) in high school and I've hanging out with oldtime radio ever since. And I at fourteen (ish) got a joke about a fifty-year old movie, big at the time but not thought of much anymore. Thank you, grandma's house!<br />
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I knew I was going silent last night because I wanted something that a) was short (this is an hour four) and b) wouldn't matter if I left my night filter running (is, black and white). Unfortunately, I was wrong about the latter as the film is heavily colored. <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0010600/mediaindex/?thmazing">Check it out.</a> That link will also let you see some elements of the film I was excited to talk about, including the sets, the drawings, terrific characters, twelve disembodied mouths, etc. Definitely click that link.<br />
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I put this on my Kanopy watchlist about a year ago after watching <i><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/01/ending-year-in-cinematic-style.html#shop">The Shop around the Corner</a></i>. I suppose it must have been some special features on the dvd that turned me onto <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Lubitsch">Lubitsch</a>'s German silents but I can't recall anymore what they'd led me to expect. What I got was something delightfully nutty. It starts with Lubitsch himself putting together a dollhouse, then the dolls come to life and the story begins. Which is about a man who marries a doll in order to trick his baron (and barren) uncle out of a 300,000-franc dowry. Because he <i>really</i> does not want to marry a woman. (There's a lot of queer-coded stuff in the movie but, spoiler alert, being married to a doll lets this guy get used to the idea of women.)<br />
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This the ad that leads him to a doll in the first place:<br />
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(Sorry it's cut off—Kanopy makes it difficult to capture the bottom of a screen during a screengrab.)<br />
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Of course, the gag is that the dollmaker's doll is based on his troublemaking daughter and, through a series of mishaps (involving <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ritterband">the very funny, fourthwall-breaking, Mickey Rooney-esque actor</a> who plays his apprentice), he inadvertently sells his daughter mugging as the doll rather than the doll itself.<br />
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Whoops.<br />
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The doll's played by the enormously popular <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossi_Oswalda">Ossi Oswalda</a> ("The German Mary Pickford") who has a goofy innocence. The games her face plays remind me of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristen_Schaal">Kirsten Schall</a>; her costume and dolly movements give her lots of peekaboos up her skirt, which I suppose are just as thrilling as they would've been in 1919. They're shot such as to make wonder if they're happy accidents, but <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0010600/mediaviewer/rm1047396864?thmazing">the poster I picked for Thutopia</a> shows the kinkiness inherent in keeping a biologically accurate doll in your bedroom was always a feature.<br />
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Anyway, I really liked it. Maybe I'll watch it again—in color—someday.<br />
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This movie only deserves its bad box office because a certain percentage of it is the Marvel bloat we're all sick of. But if you ignore that fat, the movie is absolutely delightful. The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuk77TjvfmE">teaser</a> was much more accurate than the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJG4cWmY3BI">trailer</a> as to its vibe, and it managed to put together interesting and compelling character motivations/arcs for the leads, even the villain. (Though why was sisterinlaw missing?) Yes, there was a lot of lazy scifi nonsense helping the plot along, but it's a freaking superhero movie. If you stop to think about any of it it'll all fall apart.<br />
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In short, good movie!<br />
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But not so great that I'm about to get sucked back into Marvel completism.<br />
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I had wanted to see this when it came out but the final trailer and the fact that none of the kids wanted to go with me meant it didn't happen. But our Kia was at the dealer's to become less theft-ready so I had time to kill. Glad I did.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>The Boy and the Heron</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6587046?thmazing">2023</a>)<br />
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Oh, hey. They still haven't finished the car. Could've waited an hour and then watched <i>Napoleon</i>. No regrets! This time, even though I expect to watch it again this week (maybe more than once), I picked Miyazaki over the new Trolls movie, <i>Wonka</i>, or <i>Thanksgiving</i>. No regrets.<br />
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Especially for this movie which I think will demand rewatching. What a strange, strange movie. It shares genes with lots of other Miyazaki movies but they're put together into entirely new forms. This is a work of art and I mean that in the it's-weird-as-heck sort of way. I'm sure it has all the keys needed to unlock it built in but viewing one does not prepare me to so unlock. I'm not sure I've been so bewildered by a movie since the first time I saw Miyazaki: <i>Princess Mononoke</i>, c. 2001.<br />
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The show starting as I stood there staring at my options was the dubbed version. It's quite possible that the subtitled version will offer some clarity. There is precedent for that, after all.<br />
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Can't wait to watch it again.<br />
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Hard to say just how good a movie this is on one viewing. It's pacing is so peculiar that on this initial watch, once the story-telling part ended, I had no idea where we were, in terms of plot or structure or runtime. Add that to the ending and it's no surprise this wasn't a great it.<br />
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But it is deeply interesting and visually rich and I love that it's doing things I've not seen done before. George Miller's special, I'll tell you that.<br />
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I'm very curious how I'll remember this a few weeks from now, as my brain pieces it into a narrative I tell myself about having seen the film.<br />
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A Damian Wayne more charming and cute than brooding and awful is left home alone Christmas Eve when a couple of Joker's cronies come to rob Wayne Manor of its Christmas presents. Naturally, by the end, Gotham is nearly destroyed.<br />
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The movie is funny and delightful, and it plays with the Batman mythos is some reasonably interesting ways without ever getting bogged down in lore or canon.<br />
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It's just over 90 minutes and it's fun Christmas whatever. We had fun.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Elf</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319343?thmazing">2003</a>)<br />
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I don't know why, but every few years, the third act of <i>Elf</i> just <i>works</i>. Most years, that final act is a slog. But some years it really, really works.<br />
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Art is so weird.<br />
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Really, the movie is mostly just connective material for Will Ferrell being hilarious and Zooey Deschanel being pretty and singing good. And that's enough, really.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>The Muppet Christmas Carol</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104940?thmazing">1992</a>)<br />
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How far I've come!<br />
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Since rediscovering it as an adult, this has become a beloved holiday treasure (<a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/12/a-film-watch-together-with-youuuuuu.html">2020</a>, <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/12/and-twenty-twenty-one-comes-crashing-to.html#mcc">2021</a>). Michael Caine's performance is excellent and Kermit's is so good it's hard to remember Jim Henson was dead.<br />
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Anyway. How often do you watch it, year by year?<br /><br />
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</tbody></table><b>Godzilla Minus One</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23289160?thmazing">2023</a>)<br />
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Wow.<br />
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Just—wow.<br />
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This may be my new favorite Godzilla film. Granted, there where a few moments in the middle where it dragged, but I suspect they won't on rewatch and, regardless, the payoff was absolutely worth it.<br />
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Like <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/04/hup-two-three-film.html#shin"><i>Shin Godzilla</i></a> (the most recent, previous Japanese live-action film), the monster is not the main character. The American films attempt to have human-centered storylines, but it's hard to care about any of the idiot getting dollyzoomed in those movies. These films take long breaks away from the monster, this one with even more patience as it tells us about the people at the center of its tale.<br />
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Even with the movie down to one screen in town, the theater was packed and the audience was INto it. We had an awesome time. And since Lady Steed didn't get to go, perhaps I'll get to see it big again.<br />
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I'm up for it.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>8-Bit Christmas</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11540284?thmazing">2021</a>)<br />
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Another winning performance by Winslow Fegley, <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-quality-july.html#failure">first praised here for <i>Timmy Failure</i></a>, and a hilarious, joyous Christmas movie. This, I can imagine, being added to the regular rotation. And not just because it's <i>A Christmas Story</i> for my generation. (<a href="https://www.earwolf.com/episode/a-christmas-story-re-release">I first heard about this on an <i>A Christmas Story</i>-themed podcast episode.</a>)<br />
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Anyway, all ages loved it and certain moments got huge reactions out of all of us. it's one of those movies that is a manic delight to watch the first time and, I expect, mellows into comforting joy on rewatches.<br />
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Highly recommended!<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Die Hard</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095016?thmazing">1988</a>)<br />
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<a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/12/and-twenty-twenty-one-comes-crashing-to.html#diehard">I'm not sure how</a>, but the kids seem to think this is a holiday tradition now. Okay.<br />
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As the credits rolled, they all expressed mystification that anyone could say it's not a Christmas movie. Subtract the violence and voila: you got a Hallmark movie.<br />
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Anyway, if you want a real review, click on that prior link. Or just skip ahead <a href="https://luisaperkins.medium.com/the-best-christmas-movie-ever-a62f2bfb059a">to Luisa's survey</a>.<br />
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(2020) | Old (2021) | Werewolf by Night (2022) | Much Ado About Nothing (1993) | Much Ado About Nothing (2012)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/11/novilmber.html" title="The Addams Family (1991) | La belle et la bête (1946) | Boss Baby: Family Business (2021) | CRYO (2022) | Dan in Real Life (2007) | Glass Onion (2022) | An Honest Liar (2014) | A Serious Man (2009) | Suburbicon (2017) | Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) | While You Were Sleeping (1995) | WWJD (2022)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/01/ending-year-in-cinematic-style.html" title="Barber Westchester (2022) | The Batman (2022) | Batman Returns (1992) | The Compleat Al (1985) | Elf (2003) | The Guardians of the Galaxy: Holiday Special (2022) | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) | The LEGO Movie (2014) | The Matrix (1999) | The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) | Midnight Run (1988) | Mirai (2018) | Moana (2016) | Patch Town (2014) | Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (1972) | The Shop Around the Corner (1940) | Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) | A Unicorn for Christmas (2021)">dec</a><br /></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2021</u><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/01/no-so-many-movies-this-january-im-afraid.html" title="Babette's Feast (1987) | Bashful (1917) | The Big Idea (1917) | By the Sad Sea Waves (1917) | A Cat in Paris (2010) | A Gasoline Wedding (1918) | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) | Lonesome Luke, Messenger (1917) | Look Pleasant, Please (1918) | The Princess and the Frog (2009) | The Shaggy D.A. (1976) | Shrek (2001) | Shrek 2 (2004) | Soul (2020) | Wings of Desire (1987)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/02/february-more-like-filmuary.html" title="A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) | The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) | Monuments Men (2014) | My Neighbor Totoro (1988) | The Player (1992) | The Princess Bride (1989) | Selma (2014) | Shrek Forever After (2010) | Shrek the Third (2007) | Spirited Away (2001) | La Strada (1954)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/03/march-movies-march.html" title="And Should We Die (1966) | Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020) | The Dirty Dozen (1967) | Downsizing (2017) | Hail, Caesar! (2016) | Inside Out (2015) | Jojo Rabbit (2019) | My Cousin Vinny (1992) | Rififi (1955)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/04/april-showers-do-not-exist-this-is.html" title="Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) | Belladonna of Sadness (1973) | Blast from the Past (1999) | Captain America: Civil War (2016) | The Floorwalker (1916) | Flora & Ulysses (2021) | Hypocrites (1915) | The Incredibles (2004) | Jojo Rabbit (2019) | The Last Unicorn (1982) | Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) | Moonrise Kingdom (2012) | Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976) | Paul Williams Still Alive (2011) | Phantom of the Paradise (1974) | Spontaneous (2020) | The Star Prince (1918)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/05/may-we-movie-yes-we-may.html" title="High Noon (1952) | Idiocracy (2006) | The Incredible Hulk (2008) | The Maltese Falcon (1941) | My Favorite Wife (1940) | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | Parasite (2019) | So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)">may</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/06/june-something-something-movie-pun.html" title="Billu (2009) | Ella Cinders (1926) | The Errand of Angels (2004) | Future War (1997) / MST3K: Future War (1999) | Luca (2021) | A Quiet Place (2018) | Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) | Sullivan's Travels (1941)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-films-of-july-such-as-they-were.html" title="The Caine Mutiny (1954) | The Cat from Outer Space (1978) | The Innocents (1961) | The Manchurian Candidate (1962) | A Mighty Wind (2003) | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | This Is Spinal Tap (1984) | Tron: Legacy (2010)">jul</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/09/augustus-filmius.html" title="Black Widow (2021) | Contact (1997) | The Giant Brine Shrimp (1973) | Phantom of the Megaplex (2000) | Scoob! (2020) | Sylvio (2017) | Three Men and a Baby (1987)">aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/09/remember-the-films-of-september.html" title="'Crocodile' Dundee (1986) | Discovering Treasure: The Story of the Treasure of the Sierra Madre (2003) | Emma. (2020) | The Jewel of the Nile (1985) | John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1989) | Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: The Flash (2018) | Romancing the Stone (1984) | Scotland, Pa. (2001) | Snoopy, Come Home (1972) | A Town Called Panic (2009) | A Town Called Panic: Double Fun (2016) | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/10/october-and-disturbing-paucity-of-scary.html" title="The Bat (1959) | The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Gentlemen Broncos (2009) | Hero (2002) | Macbeth (2015) | Mr. Boogedy (1986) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | Muppets Haunted Mansion (2021) | Scotland, Pa. (2001) | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-first-time.html" title="About a Boy (2002) | The Amazing Spider-man (2012) | As You Like It (1978) | Beetlejuice (1988) | Bottle Rocket (1996) | Eternals (2021) | Flora & Ulysses (2021) | An Honest Liar (2014) | Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) | Masaan (2015) | Out of Liberty (2019) | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) | Sisters (1972)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/12/and-twenty-twenty-one-comes-crashing-to.html" title="7 Plus Seven (1970) | Bedazzled (1967) | Die Hard (1988) | Elf (2003) | The History of the Seattle Mariners (2020) | The Holiday (2006) | Home Alone (1990) | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) | It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) | The Matrix (1999) | The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) | Ron's Gone Wrong (2021) | Seven Up! (1964) | Speed (1994) | Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) | ¡Three Amigos! (1986) | Toys (1992) | The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)">dec</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2020</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-first-month-of-2020-films-watched.html" title="1917 (2019) | The Aeronauts (2019) | After Hours (1985) | Amy (2015) | Barcelona (1994) | Cars (2006) | The Death of Stalin (2017) | A Fool There Was (1915) | How Rare a Possession: The Book of Mormon (1987) | The In-Laws (1979) | Joker (2019) | Knives Out (2019) | Long Shot (2019) | Parasite (2019) | Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) | Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) | Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) | Three Days of the Condor (1975) | Unbreakable (2000) | Wag the Dog (1997)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/02/leap-day-means-extra-day-for-movies-in.html" title="The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) | Arrival (2016) | Bolt (2008) | Contagion (2011) | Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) | Groundhog Day (1993) | Inception (2010) | Jean de Florette (1986) | Kung Fu Dunk (2008) | Manon des Sources (1986) | Muriel's Wedding (1994) | Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019) | Sylvio (2017) | Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914) | Troop Zero (2019) | Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013) | Young Adult (2011)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/03/march-brings-end-of-normality-and.html" title="The Avengers (2012) | Bambi (1942) | Bottle Rocket (1996) | Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) | Finding Nemo (2003) | Heart of Africa (2020) | It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) | A League of Their Own (1992) | Miniscule: Valley of the Lost Ants (2013) | The Avengers | Patema Inverted (2013) | Phase IV (1974) | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) | UHF (1989) | WALL·E (2008) | Whale Rider (2002)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-movies-intentions-corrupted-by.html" title="4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) | Ant-Man (2015) | Avengers: Endgame (2019) | Avengers: Infinity War (2018) | Black Panther (2018) | Brother Bear (2003) | Captain America: Civil War (2016) | Finding Dory (2016) | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) | Howl's Moving Castle (2004) | Iron Man 2 (2010) | Iron Man Three (2013) | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | My Life as a Zucchini (2016) | Once I Was a Beehive (2015) | Onward (2020) | Out of Liberty (2019) | Spirited Away (2001) | Thor: Ragnarok (2017) | West of Her (2016)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/05/may-we-movies.html" title="Bambi (1942) | Be Kind Rewind (2008) | Duck Soup (1933) | Fantastic Mr Fox (2009) | Fences (2016) | The Fighting Preacher (2019) | Fluke (1995) | Frankenstein (1931) | Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) | The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) | The Great Dinosaur Discovery (1976) | A Hard Day's Night (1964) | House of Frankenstein (1944) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Like Father, Like Son (2013) | Pride & Prejudice (2005) | Ratatouille (2007) | Rushmore (1998) | Shanghai Noon (2000) | Shoplifters (2018) | A Spaceman in King Arthur's Court (1979) | Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) | The Strongest Man in the World (1975)">may</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-movies-minimally-jejune.html" title="An Affair to Remember (1957) | Any Old Port in a Storm (1973) | Artemis Fowl (2020) | Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman (2003) | Blindspotting (2018) | Endless Night (1972) | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) | First Reformed (2017) | The Florida Project (2017) | The Great Muppet Caper (1981) | Holy Motors (2012) | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) | I Am Not Your Negro (2016) | Intolerable Cruelty (2003) | Ishtar (1987) | Late Night (2019) | Looper (2012) | Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) | My Dog, the Thief (1969) | Patch Town (2014) | Peter Pan (1953) | The Red Mill (1927) | The Seventh Seal (1957) | The Shiver of the Vampires (1971) | Snowpiercer (2013) | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) | Transperceneige: From the Blank Page to the Black Screen (2014) | Under the Silver Lake (2018) | West of Hot Dog (1924)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/07/blog-post.html" title="Beginners (2010) | Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019) | Fitzwilly (1967) | Galaxy Quest (1999) | A Ghost Story (2017) | The Hate U Give (2018) | A Hidden life (2019) | Hot Rod (2007) | House of Dracula (1945) | Jerry Maguire (1996) | Meet the Robinsons (2007) | New York Doll (2005) | The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) | Shaun of the Dead (2004) | Transylvania 6-5000 (1985) | The Zone (2011)">jul</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/08/film-so-august.html" title="Alice in Wonderland (1951) | Bug (1975) | Country Gentlemen (1936) | The Dead Don't Die (2019) | Eleanor's Secret (2009) | Firebird (1982) | Frozen II (2019) | Knives Out (2019) | Minority Report (2002) | Rango (2011) | Spirited Away (2001) | Table 19 (2016) | Tangled (2010)">aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/10/1917-aeronauts-after-hours-amy.html" title="A.C.O.D. (2013) | All Is True (2018) | Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020) | Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (2015) | Chicken Run (2000) | La Cigarette (1919) | Clueless (1995) | Fat City (1972) | The Smiling Madame Beudet (1923) | The Terminator (1984) | Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/11/oktoberfilm.html" title="Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) | Ghostbusters: Answer the Call (2016) | In Search of a Flat Earth (2020) | Intolerance (1916) | Jabberwocky (1977) | The Next Door (2016) | Over the Garden Wall (2014) | The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012) | The Sixth Sense (1999) | Three Ages (1923) | Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) | The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/11/thankful-for-movies.html" title="10 Things I Hate About You (1999) | 1917 (2019) | Arthur Christmas (2011) | Early Man (2018) | Extra Ordinary (2019) | Ford v Ferrari (2019) | I Am Not Your Negro (2016) | Jurassic Park (1993) | Just Mercy (2019) | Kung Fu Panda (2008) | The Last Man on Earth (1964) | Missing Link (2019) | Napoleon Dynamite (2004) | Samuel the Lamanite (2006) | The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956) | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/12/a-film-watch-together-with-youuuuuu.html" title="Babes in Toyland (1934) | BlacKkKlansman (2018) | The Court Jester (1955) | Edward Scissorhands (1990) | Elf (2003) | Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas (2014) | The Farewell (2019) | Get Out (2017) | Home Alone (1990) | Midsommar (2019) | Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) | Noelle (2020) | A Raisin in the Sun (2008) | The Sadist (1963) | A Simple Favor (2018) | Singin' in the Rain (1952) | Up (2009)">dec</a><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2019</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/01/feature-film-january-2019.html" title="The Boat (1921) | Cold Comfort Farm (1995) | The Great Dictator (1940) | Hearts Beat Loud (2018) | An Honest Liar (2014) | Imposter (2012) | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) | One Week (1920) | Shaolin Soccer (2001) | Spider-Man 3 (2007) | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) | Sylvio (2017) | The Thing from Another World (1951) | True Grit (2010)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/02/feature-film-february-2019.html" title="Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Don Verdean (2015) | Duelle (1976) | Edge of Tomorrow (2014) | The Favourite (2018) | Frankenstein (1931) | Hanna (2010) | The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) | Luck-Key (2016) | Mother (2009) | Pom Poko (1994) | Raising Arizona (1987) | Sylvio (2017) | The Tiger Hunter (2016) | Violet & Daisy (2011)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/03/feature-film-march-2019.html" title="Don Verdean (2015) | Eighth Grade (2018) | Fences (2016) | Frankenstein (1931) | Jane and Emma (2018) | Macbeth (1979) | Macbeth (2010) | Macbeth (2015) | The Silence of the Lambs (1991) | Superman (1978) | The Sword in the Stone (1963)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/04/feature-film-april-2019.html" title="Avengers: Infinity War (2018) | Captain Marvel (2019) | Cheatin’ (2013) | George of the Jungle (1997) | Hancock (2008) | An Honest Liar (2014) | King Lear (2018) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | Mulholland Dr. (2001) | Shazam! (2019) | Three Identical Strangers (2018) | Us (2019)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/05/feature-film-may-2019.html" title="Avengers: Endgame (2019) | Bambi (1942) | BASEketball (1998) | Casablanca (1942) | Cinema Paradiso (1988) | A Day at the Races (1937) | The Godfather (1972) | Good Time (2017) | A Goofy Movie (1995) | The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) | One Week & The Boat (1920 & 1921) | Play It Again, Sam (1972) | Psycho (1960) | Rushmore (1998) | Short Term 12 (2013) | Silence (2016) | Wolf Children (2012)">may</a><br />
<a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/06/feature-film-june-2019.html" title="The Big Store (1942) | Crazy Rich Asians (2018) | Deathtrap (1982) | Designing Woman (1957) | The Godfather: Part II (1974) | Louise en Hiver (2016) | Men in Black (1997) | Room 237 (2012) | Room Service (1938) | Sleepless in Seattle (1993) | Spirited Away (2001) | To Be or Not to Be (1942) | Toy Story (1995) | Toy Story 2 (2009) | Toy Story 3 (2010)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/07/feature-films-june-2019.html" title="I, Tonya (2017) | The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) | My Neighbors The Yamadas (1999) | Sorry to Bother You (2018) | Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) | Toy Story 3 (2010) | Toy Story 4 (2019) | The Tree of Life (2011) | Yesterday (2019)">jul</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/08/feature-films-august-2019.html" title="Beware! The Blob (1972) | The Blob (1958) | Bumblebee (2018)| The Dead Zone (1983) | Dealt (2017) | Marjorie Prime (2017) | The Meg (2018) | Matilda (1996) | The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) | Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019)">aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/09/feature-films-september-2019.html" title="Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (2016) | Blinded by the Light (2019) | Captain Marvel (2019) | Kings of Baxter (2017) | The Lady Eve (1941) | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) | The Martian (2015) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Sylvio (2017)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/10/feature-films-october-2019.html" title="Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) | The Addams Family (2019) | An American Werewolf in London (1981) | Gravity (2013) | An Honest Liar (2014) | The Kings of Summer (2013) | Little (2019) | Macbeth (2015) | Moana (2016) | mother! (2017) | Romeo + Juliet (1996) | Romeo Is Bleeding (2015) | Shazam! (2019) | Toy Story (1995) | WALL·E (2008)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/11/films-feature-length-2019-november.html" title="Aquaman (2018) | Blackbeard's Ghost (1968) | Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) | Clue (1985) | Frozen (2013) | Frozen II (2019) | I Lost My Body (2019) | Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) | Isle of Dogs (2018) | Kids + Money (2008) | The Light Bulb Conspiracy (2010) | The Night of the Hunter (1955) | The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | The Prodigal Son (1990) | The Satellite Girl and Milk Cow (2014) | Short Circuit (1986) | Short Circuit 2 (1988) | Space Is the Place (1974)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/12/december-2019-films-de-la-feature.html" title="About a Boy (2002) | The Animagic World of Rankin/Bass (2018) | Babe (1995) | Bagdad Cafe (1987) | The Best Two Years (2004) | Elf (2003) | Fast Color (2018) | Go (1999) | Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) | Gremlins (1984) | Hitler's Hollywood (2017) | Jack Frost (1979) | The _______ Report (2019) | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) | Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) | Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) | Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019) | Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) | Toy Story 4 (2019)">dec</a><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2018</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-feature-films-of-january-2018.html" title="The Avengers (2012) | Believe (2013) | Cast Away (2000) | College (1927) | The Creature Walks Among Us (1956) | Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) | Faces Places (2017) | A Goofy Movie (1995) | Hot Rod (2007) | One Man's Treasure (2009) | Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) | Shane (1953) | The Wolfpack (2015)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/02/2018-february-feature-filmery.html" title="Black Panther (2018) | Chan Is Missing (1982) | The Edge of Seventeen (2016) | Help! (1965) | The Incredibles (2004) | Iron Man (2008) | Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002) | Lady Bird (2017) | Love & Friendship (2016) | Pom Poko (1994) | Sylvio (2017) | Toy Story (1995) | Wonderstruck (2017)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/03/march-2018s-feature-filmery.html" title="Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Chinatown (2006) | Colossal (2016) | Fences (2016) | Frankenstein (1931) | Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) | Inside Out (2015) | Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) | What We Do in the Shadows (2014)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/04/april-2018s-feature-filmery.html" title="Adam's Apples (2005) | Avengers: Infinity War (2018) | Cinderella (1950) | Coriolanus (2011) | Darkest Hour (2017) | Don't Think Twice (2016) | Moonstruck (1987) | Muppets from Space (1999) | Princess Mononoke (1997) | The Red Turtle (2016) | Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) | Tangled (2010) | Thor: The Dark World (2013) | 3:10 to Yuma (1957) | 3:10 to Yuma (2007)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/05/may-2018s-feature-filmery.html" title="The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) | The Andromeda Strain (1971) | The Beguiled (2017) | Boy and the World (2013) | Get Out (2017) | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) | Interstellar (2014) | The Iron Giant (1999) | The Little Mermaid (1989) | Mulan (1998) | My Dinner with Andre (1981) | Romeo Is Bleeding (2015) | Spirited Away (2001) | The Stepford Wives (1975) | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | WALL·E (2008) | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)">may</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/06/june-2018s-feature-filmery.html" title="Ant-Man (2015) | Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) | Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) | Incredibles 2 (2018) | Isle of Dogs (2018) | Ocean's 8 (2018) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977) | Rushmore (1998) | Thank You for Smoking (2005)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/08/20julyaugust18.html" title="The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) | Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1992) | The Disaster Artist (2017) | Dunkirk (2017) | Everybody Street (2013) | Finding Dory (2016) | Howl's Moving Castle (2004) | The Lego Batman Movie (2017) | Logan Lucky (2017) | Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) | My Neighbro Totoro (1988) | 9 to 5 (1980) | Porco Rosso (1992) | Son of Frankenstein (1939) | Sorry to Bother You (2018) | The Saratov Approach (2013) | Son of Flubber (1963) | The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) | Thor: Ragnarok (2017) | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018) | Your Name. (2016)">jul&aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/09/not-so-many-movies-in-september-2018.html" title="Art + Belief (2019) | A Boy and His Dog (1975) | The Little Hours (2017) | The Lost Express (1925) | Murder by Death (1976) | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | One Man's Treasure (2009)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-films-of-october-2018.html" title="Batman Begins (2005) | Children of the Corn (1984) | Frailty (2001) | Justice League (2017) | My Friend Dahmer (2017) | The Truman Show (1998) | When Marnie Was There (2014)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/11/moviember-2019.html" title="Baby Mama (2008) | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) | The 'Burbs (1989) | The Dark Knight (2008) | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) | Metropolis (1927) | Modern Times (1936) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | Okja (2017) | Paddington 2 (2017) | Singin' in the Rain (1952) | WarGames (1983)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/12/final-movies-post-of-2018.html" title="The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) | The Comedy of Errors (1983) | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) | It's a Wonderful Life (1946) | My Neighbor Totoro (1998) | North Avenue Irregulars (1979) | Spider-Man (2002) | Spider-Man 2 (2004) | Turbo Kid (2015)">dec</a><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2017</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/03/2017-t-ms-part-one.html" title="Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993) | The General (1926) | Get Out (2017) | The Hidden Fortress (1958) | The Karate Kid (1984) | The LEGO Batman Movie (2017) | Mean Girls (2004) | Orc Wars (2013) | Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Room (2015) | Silence (2016) | Storks (2016)">qu1</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/06/2017-t-ms-part-two.html" title="All the President's Men (1976) | Back to the Future (1985) | The Boss Baby (2017) | Casablanca (1942) | Do the Right Thing (1989) | F for Fake (1973) | Fences (2016) | Forbidden Zone (1980) | Fun and Fancy Free (1947) | The Ghost Writer (2010) | Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) | Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 (2017) | Hail, Caesar! (2016) | The Handmaiden (2016) | Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Midnight Special (2016) | Noroît (1976) | Orson Welles: The One-Man Band (1995) | Pride & Prejudice (2005) | Psycho (1960) | The Puffy Chair (2005) | Romeo + Juliet (1996) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Rushmore (1998) | The Shawshank Redemption (1994) | Son of Kong (1933) | Spirited Away (2001) | Sully (2016) | A Town Called Panic (2009) | To Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters (2016) | Wonder Woman (2017)">qu2</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/09/2017-t-ms-part-three.html" title="Arrival (2016) | De Palma (2015) | Doctor Strange (2016) | Dunkirk (2017) | The Eagle Huntress (2016) | Elevator to the Gallows (1958) | Fences (2016) | The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966) | Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) | Ladyhawke (1985) | Logan (2017) | Magnolia (1999) | Moana (2016) | Napoleon Dynamite (2004) | Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) | Swiss Army Man (2016) | Trolls (2016) | Tyrus (2015) | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | Unfaithfully Yours (1948) | Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) | What We Do in the Shadows (2014)">qu3</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/12/end-o-2017.html" title="The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979) | Baby Driver (2017) | The Big Sick (2017) | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) | Boy and the World (2013) | Boy (2010) | Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) | Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017) | Cars 3 (2017) | Christmas in Connecticut (1945) | Clue (1985) | Coco (2017) | Coraline (2009) | Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) | Edward Scissorhands (1990) | Elf (2003) | Frankenstein (1931) | Free Fire (2016) | Home Alone (1990) | The Invisible Man (1935) | The Kid (1921) | A Knight's Tale (2001) | Kong: Skull Island (2017) | Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) | La La Land (2016) | The LEGO Movie (2014) | Lilo & Stitch (2002) | Ministry of Fear (1944) | Monster of Frankenstein (1981) | Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) | Murder on the Orient Express (2017) | Nacho Libre (2006) | The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) | Revenge of the Creature (1955) | A River Runs Through It (1992) | Silence (1992) | Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) | Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) | Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) | Surf's Up (2007) | 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) | Thor (2011) | Thor: Ragnarok (2017) | Train to Busan (2016) | WALL-E (2008) | The Wolf Man (1941) | Wonder Woman (2017) | Young Frankenstein (1974)">qu4</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2016</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/03/first-quarter-films.html" title="Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015 | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1998) | A Hard Day's Night (1964) | Help! (1965) | Inside Out (2015) | It Follows (2014) | Life Itself (2014) | The Magnificent Seven (1960) | Mystery Men (1999) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Romeo + Juliet (1996) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Seven Samurai (1954) | Spy (2015) | Stranger than Fiction (2006) | Wonder Boys (2000) | The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008) | Zootopia (2016)">qu1</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/06/2nd-quarter.html" title="Ant-Man (2015) | Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) | The Big Lebowski (1998) | Casablanca (1942) | Chi-Raq (2015) | Citizen Kane (1941) | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) | Do the Right Thing (1989) | Duck Soup (1933) | Ex Machina (2015) | Extract (2009) | Fargo (1996) | Finding Dory (2016) | Gone Girl (2014) | The Great Dictator (1940) | A Hard Day's Night (1964) | His Girl Friday (1940) | Horse Feathers (1932) | Howl's Moving Castle (2004) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Love & Friendship (2016) | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013) | Playtime (1967) | Rope (1948) | Rushmore (1998) | Spirited Away (2001) | The Station Agent (2003) | The Tree of Life (2011) | Vertigo (1958) | While We're Young (2014) | The World's End (2013) | Young Frankenstein (1974)">qu2</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/09/2016s-third-quarter-movies.html" title="Airplane! (1980) | Amélie (2001) | Anomalisa (2015) | The Avengers (2012) | Batman: The Killing Joke (2016) | Best in Show (2000) | Candleshoe (1977) | Field of Dreams (1989) | Forbidden Planet (1956) | The 400 Blows (1959) | Four Lions (2010) | Freaky Friday (1976) | Ghostbusters (2016) | The Girl from Nowhere (2012) | Goodfellas (1990) | Hot Fuzz (2007) | The Invisible Boy (1957) | Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) | The Lobster (2015) | Mad Max (1979) | Maverick (1994) | Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) | Mood Indigo (2013) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | The Passion of Martin (1991) | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) | Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015) | Stand by Me (1986) | The Sting (1973) | A Town Called Panic (2009) | Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) | Wild Tales (2014)">qu3</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/12/all-rest-of-movies-of-2016.html" title="Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) | The Abominable Bride (2016) | About a Boy (2002) | The Babadook (2014) | The Big Short (2015) | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) | The Blood of Jesus (1941) | The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Café Society (2016) | Captain America: Civil War (2016) | Crisis in Six Scenes (2016) | Doctor Strange (2016) | Elf (2003) | A Face in the Crowd (1957) | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | Fletch (1985) | Frankenstein (1931) | Ghost in the Shell (1995) | The Gleaners & I (2000) | Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956) | Gojira (1954) | Goodnight Mommy (2014) | Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) | Harold and Maude (1971) | I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story (2014) | Keanu (2016) | King Kong (1933) | Let the Right One In (2008) | Miracle on 34th Street (1947) | Mission: Impossible (1996) | Mr. Holmes (2015) | Pride & Prejudice (2005) | Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) | Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) | Rounders (1998) | Scrooged (1988) | Shaolin Soccer (2001) | Star Wars: Rogue One (2016) | Stranger than Fiction (2006) | Wishful Drinking (2010) | Young Frankenstein (1974)">qu4</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2015</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2015/04/first-batch-of-2015-feature-films-seen.html" title="The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967) | Annie (2014) | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) | Duck Soup (1933) | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | Finding Vivian Maier (2013) | Frank (2014) | The Gold Rush (1925) | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) | Her (2013) | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) | Jaws (1975) | Moneyball (2011) | The One I Love (2014) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) | The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015) | 21 Jump Street (2012) | What We Do in the Shadows (2014) | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)">qu1</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2015/07/feature-films-2015-second-quarter.html" title="The Adjustment Bureau | American Movie | Bambi | The Boxtrolls (2014) | Casablanca (1942) | Chef (2014) | Dazed and Confused (1993) | Edge of Tomorrow (2014) | Freetown (2015) | From Up on Poppy Hill (2011) | Godzilla (2014) | Groundhog Day (1993) | Inside Out (2015) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) | Jurassic Park (1993) | Jurassic World (2015) | Looking for Richard (1996) | Marwencol (2010) | Psycho (1960) | Romeo Is Bleeding (2015) | Spirited Away (2001) | THX 1138 (1971) | Tomorrowland (2015) | Under the Skin (2013) | V for Vendetta (2005) | Wadjda (2012)">qu2</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2015/10/feature-films-2015-third-quarter.html" title="Ant-Man (2015) | Boyhood (2014) | The Double (2011) | Frances Ha (2012) | Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) | Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) | My Man Godfrey (1936) | Once I Was a Beehive (2015) | Paddington (2014) | The Rocketeer (1991) | The Sandlot (1993) | Saving Mr. Banks (2013) | The Secret of Kells (2009) | The Secret of Roan Inish (1994) | Song of the Sea (2014) | St. Vincent (2014) | The Third Man (1949) | UHF (1989)">qu3</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2015/12/feature-films-2015-final-quarter.html" title="Back to the Future (1985) | Back to the Future Part II (1989) | Back to the Future Part III (1990) | The Bad Seed (1956) | Bernie (2011) | Big Eyes (2014) | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) | Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Die Hard (1998) | Elf (2003) | Enemy (2013) | Frankenweenie (2012) | The Good Dinosaur (2015) | Hamlet (1990) | Heavy Metal (1981) | It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) | The Mountain of the Lord (1993) | The Parent Trap (1961) | The Peanuts Movie (2015) | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) | Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | School of Rock (2003) | The Skeleton Twins (2014) | The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) | Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1997) | Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) | UHF (1989) | Wild (2014) | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)">qu4</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2014</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/04/feature-length-films-of-2014-quarter-one.html" title="Le Ballon Rouge (1956) | The Book of Mormon Movie, Volume 1: The Journey (2003) | Cedar Rapids (2011) | Chronicle (2012) | The Conversation (1974) | Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) | Knuckleball! (2012) | Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010) | The LEGO Movie (2014) | Mahlzeiten (1967) | Moon (2009) | The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) | Pitch Perfect (2012) | A Royal Affair (2012) | SlamNation (1998) | Source Code (2011) | Warm Bodies (2013) | The Wind Rises (2013)">qu1</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/07/single-paragraphs-on-flicks-flicked.html" title="Babe: Pig in the City (1998) | Casablanca (1942) | Citizen Kane (1941) | Damsels in Distress (2011) | Duck Soup (1933) | Eraserhead (1977) | Frankenweenie (2012) | The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) | Heathers (1988) | How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) | Idiocracy (2006) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Jurassic Park (1993) | The Last Unicorn (1982) | Moneyball (2011) | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | Muppets Most Wanted (2014) | The Muppet Movie (1979) | Rushmore (1998) | Spirited Away (2001) | The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) | Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977, 1997) | Super 8 (2011) | V for Vendetta (2005)">qu2</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/09/2014-third-quarter-movies.html" title="American Grindhouse (2010) | American Hustle (2013) | Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) | Better Off Dead… (1985) | Bottle Rocket (1996) | Brick (2005) | Ghostbusters (1984) | Ginger Snaps (2000) | The Green Mile (1999) | Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) | In a World… (2013) | Little Secrets (2001) | Napoleon Dynamite (2004) | The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) | Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) | Somebody Up There Likes Me (2012) | Up in the Air (2009)">qu3</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/12/2014-movies-of-final-quarter.html" title="About a Boy (2002) | Big Hero 6 (2014) | The Cabin in the Woods (2012) | Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) | [charlie chaplin series] (1914, 1916, 1916, 1917, 1917) | The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (2000) | Dans la Maison (2012) | Ernest & Celestine (2012) | The Fisher King (1991) | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2014) | Interstellar (2014) | The Invisible Man (1933) | Mary Poppins (1964) | Million Dollar Arm (2014) | The Night of the Hunter (1955) | Paprika (2006) | ParaNorman (2012) | The Pride of the Yankees (1942) | Safety Last! (1923) | The Shining (1980) | Step Brothers (2008) | Sullivan's Travels (1941) | Unicorn City (2012) | Why Worry? (1923) | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)">qu4</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2013</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-movies-of-2013-one-paragraph.html" title="Argo (2012) | The Adventures of Tintin (2011) | Chinatown (1974) | The Descendants (2011) | Field of Dreams (1989) | A Goofy Movie (1995) | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) | Inherit the Wind (1960) | Kung Fu Hustle (2004) | The Merchant of Venice (2004) | Moonrise Kingdom (2012) | The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) | The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Psycho (1960) | The Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | The White Shadow (1924) | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)">th1</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-movies-of-2013-one-paragraph.html" title="Amour (2012) | Bellflower (2011) | Cinderella (1950) | The Dark Knight Rises (2012) | The Empire Strikes Back (1980) | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | 50/50 (2011) | The Graduate (1967) | The Great Gatsby (2013) | The Happening (2008) | The Kids Are All Right (2010) | Looper (2012) | Monsters University (2013) | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | Mr. Baseball (1992) | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) | Pacific Rim (2013) | R.I.P.D. (2013) | Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) | Snatch (2000) | Star Wars (1977) | Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002) | Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) | Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1997) | Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983) | This Is 40 (2012) | This Is the End (2013) | White on Rice (2009)">th2</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-movies-of-2013-one-paragraph.html" title="The Amazing Adventure (1936) | Black Orpheus (1959) | A Bucket of Blood (1959) | The Cheat (1915) | A Christmas Story (1983) | Corianton (1931) | Elf (2003) | Ender's Game (2013) | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | Frozen (2013) | Gentlemen Broncos (2009) | Gravity (2013) | His Girl Friday (1940) | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) | The Indian in the Cupboard (1995) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | The Muppet Movie (1979) | A Night at the Opera (1935) | Now You See Me (2013) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Sleepwalk with Me (2012) | Swiss Family Robinson (1960) | Waitress (2007) | When Harry Met Sally… (1989)">th3</a></div>
Th.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-16338596679487613982023-12-29T00:52:00.000-08:002023-12-29T00:52:18.172-08:00Less than fifty hours left in the year so this could very well be it.<br>
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And by "it" I don't mean the end of all things, though with a couple exceptions, this is a pretty solid final grouping of books, and were I to perish tomorrow, at least I don't need to be embarrassed (except, perhaps, by the amount of cannibalism herein).<br>
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December has treated me well.<br>
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<b>130)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781945509803">Mr. Boop</a> by Alec Robbins, finished December 9
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://fantasticcomics.substack.com/p/preaching-moderation-and-long-term?thmazing">I read about this in the Fantastic Comics newsletter</a> and ended up reading <a href="http://mrboop.net">the whole thing</a>. I'm not totally convinced by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Boop#Reception">the praise</a>, but for as largely dumb as it is, it did end up being better than I expected most of the way through.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I'm also glad I read it online as it would've been sad to miss the videos.* Those might be my favorite part.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">* <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/24/23132622/mr-boop-alec-robbins-interview-webcomic-betty-boop">Although I may be wrong.</a><br /></p>
<small><i>before really starting my day</i></small><br />
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<b>131)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/41fSKUW">The Unseating of Dr. Smoot</a> by William Morris, finished December 10
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">It occurs to me as I sit to type this that, like it or not William and I are probably tied together for good. We're about the same age. Both Mormon writers. We've worked together on <a href="https://motleyvision.org/"><i>A Motley Vision</i></a>, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780982781241">multiple</a> <a href="https://amzn.to/41eCvHR">books</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_for_Mormon_Letters">AML</a>. We have similar interests and although I wouldn't call our aesthetics <i>that</i> similar, the categories in which our aesthetics are likely to be placed heavily overlap.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">This came to mind because this novella (and the two predecessor stories included) all star Mormon women. And I too am deeply interested in using fiction to understand women, as <a href="https://amzn.to/46SOQCz">my recent novel</a> attests.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/41fSKUW" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="525" height="286" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41ZykeM+W5L._SL1500_.jpg" width="188" /></a></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Anyway, Dr. Smoot (whose last name otherwise does not appear in the tale) spends a few days in Utah Valley, the novella beginning and ending on her plane ride from/to Madison, Wisconsin, where her tenure has just been delayed two years.</div><p></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">The time in Utah will allow her to reconnect with friends, observe the passage of time in her niece's adulthood, consume nostalgia and debate whether a diet of nothing but may be healthy, delight a BYU audience of a hundred or more and a UVU audience of one room of peers.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">One thing I find remarkable about this novella (perhaps especially since I was just at BYU a couple weeks ago) is how perfectly William (who is not an alumnus) has captured the ambivalence of loving BYU. Of feeling deeply attached and happily separate—the pull it has on you, and how that seduction is both deeply desirable and frankly terrifying, almost abhorrent.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">It's a very byucky feeling (<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781948218757">one might say</a>), and I grew up with a father who abhorred BYU and yet let me drive around Provo one middle-school summer when we really needed to return to California as I hunted for just the perfect BYU baseball cap.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">(Didn't find one. Ended up wearing a Yale cap from a Clovis mall.)</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">BYU doesn't have the religious significance of Mecca but it has a weirdly similar pull anyway. One might say the same of Utah. Now, I don't know that this is a universal fact about Latter-day Saints, but it is real and the gravity is captured better in <i>Unseating</i> than just about anything else I've read.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">The ending of the novella is must more short story than novel and I resented it a bit for that, but that will pass. It will be the sticky milieu that remains with me. Not the physical setting, nor the characters that inhabit it, nor the conversations which were lovely, but the feeling. A feeling I associate with a place and with a people and with language, but it is feeling first. And that is what <i>The Unseating of Dr. Smoot</i> delivers best of all.<br /></p>
<small><i>two days for the novella, a day off, two days to reread the two stories</i></small><br />
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<b>132)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780199296989">Agnes Grey</a> by Anne Brontë, finished December 13
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I loved this book. I didn't expect to end feeling that way as the first half was dreary. It's famously an example of every-first-novel-is-autobiographical and in the first half I wasn't sure the author was aware of her protagonist's failings. Agnes, in her first job as a governess, is simply no good. In fact, she is bad. And sure, much of that is due to external constraints, but still.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Don't get me wrong. I'm sympathetic. One reason so many teachers leave the profession early is because for all the lauded enthusiasm of young teachers, we do most everything wrong. Moving after my first year to a new school was a great relief, frankly.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">It's remarkable to me that early critics failed to see the cutting societal criticism in <i>Agnes Grey</i> even as they recognized the depth of accurate observation that informed the novel.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I had thought, perhaps because of <a href="http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=202">the stereotype of Anne</a>, perhaps because of its early trajectory and the protagonist's own expectations, that I knew what shape the novel would take.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I was wrong.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">But I wasn't sure I was wrong for a long, long time. And this caused me great worry.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">It doesn't help that Agnes is one of the most accurately anxious characters I've ever read.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">But Anne does something with a dog that I absolutely loved (and is so much better than the horrors inflicted on just about every other animal) and it allowed me to embrace the novel's new destination, which filled me with deep joy.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">AND the book's under two hundred pages. So there.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I read the <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/agnes-grey-anne-bronte/1100318271">Barnes & Noble Classic</a> version which was an excellent size and shape with readable typography etc etc. But many of the notes by Fred Schwarzbach were asinine. The one that went to the bottom of the page were fine but most of the ones that went to the back of the book, excepting those that noted parallels between the lives of Anne and Agnes, were notably stupid, such as explaining something that Agnes herself had just explained. C'mon, man. Your notes need to add value or why bother? I did enjoy the other added features, although reading <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/771/pg771-images.html">Charlotte's take on her sisters</a> it's hard not to feel that she didn't really <i>get</i> Anne's work even as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/06/anne-bronte-agnes-grey-jane-eyre-charlotte">she lifted from it wholesale</a>. (<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_Death_of_Anne_Bront%C3%AB">Which is not to say she did not love her.</a>) But skip Schwarzbach's "introduction" until you've finished the book. One of the pleasures of a classic most of us know so little about is getting to read a classic without knowing it's major turns or conclusion. Preserve that for yourself.</p>
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<br /><b>133)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/47gKO7d">Bill and Ted's Most Excellent Adventures (volume one)</a> by Evan Dorkin, et al.; finished December 18<br /><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">It starts with an adaptation if <i>Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey</i> and then continues the story from that point. I'm happy my 16yrold loved this (and the follow-up volume) but I found it exhausting. They're always yelling and the madness never stops.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">YMMV.<br /></p>
<small><i>a few weeks</i></small><br /><br />
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<b>134)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781982150921">Tender Is the Flesh</a> by Agustina Bazterrica (translated by Sarah Moses), finished December 23
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3TA5jbS" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="531" height="347" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/MEDIAX_792452-T1/images/I/715wm42WylL._SL1500_.jpg" width="230" /></a></div>I think what we have here is a literary emperor's-new-clothes. This books is so foul, so disgusting, so appalling, that people are somehow tricked into thinking it's saying something interesting. But that's a stretch.<p></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I was hesitant to add this to <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ydl20JuR8bpKdo_m0kfQx2u8yOsiSXYI8_GHL56JTfo/edit#gid=0">the list of dystopias</a> my students can choose from but I was talked into it by a student who had read it. And since then, three or four groups have used it for their project and found interesting things to say about the book and the world we live in. But that's because the readers are clever, not because the book is. It's like—and I mean this as pejoratively as possible—torture-porn YA.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">If you don't know, here's the set-up. A virus (which may be real or, more likely, was a government conspiracy) has led to all animal flesh being poisonous which led to a market for cannibalism which led to humans being raised for slaughter.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">About forty pages in, as I was hating the book's endless gruesome descriptions, I realized that my complaint could be made about the opening of <i>Brave New World</i> as well—characters explaining things to people who probably don't need it explained so we the readers can be impressed with / horrified by the worldbuilding. <i>Brave New World</i> goes on to do interesting and provocative things with those opening pages of exposition. <i>Tender Is the Flesh</i> gives us a not-rape-but-very-rapey blowjob in a butcher's shop as human blood drops onto our protagonist's penis.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">That was the scene where I decided that I was unlikely to find anything so excellent as to overcome my qualms about serving this special meat to high-school students.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">And nothing in the last half of the book made me think otherwise.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">So even though every student who has read the book has said, in more or less the same words, "if people can get over their disgust, they'll find lots of good stuff here to discuss," I'm cutting it.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781945492600">I already know what's taking it's place.</a> (Hopefully it doesn't disappoint me a few years from now.)<br /></p>
<small><i>a couple weeks, maybe three</i></small><br />
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<b>135)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780316334754">The Girl with All the Gifts</a> by M. R. Cary, finished December 28
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">First, I loved it. It's four hundred pages of nonstop fun. Plenty of intrigue and danger and mystery. It's been a while since I ran through a book this quickly and while there were some external reasons I wanted to finish this before the new year, it wasn't a hard ask. I just kept reading. Pages piled up the way they did when I was a kid.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Melanie is our primary protagonist. She's, ah, different from most kids. As becomes clear immediately, as she's locked in a chair and wheeled from her cell to her classroom and back, five days a week. That ain't normal. But why this is takes a while to resolve. I'm glad I didn't know any more about the book than when I started. Somehow. It's a bit amazing, considering the book's been on display at my local Barnes and Noble for a decade.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Anyway, I really liked it. And great cover! I'd picked it up so many times. I finally bought it a year ago. And now I've read it. I can't mind that it took so long.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">(And compared to the last book I read, this one <i>deserves</i> all the highfalutin blurbery on its cover.)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3O76aNV" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="533" height="471" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/MEDIAX_792452-T1/images/I/717oAPIXePL._SL1500_.jpg" width="313" /></a></div><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"></p>
<small><i>four days</i></small><br />
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<b>136)</b> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C07Am0POLaE/?img_index=1">Fragments of the Cross</a> by Scott Hales, finished December 29
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">While a little short to technically qualify for this list, it was too large an experience to be left out. Thirty-three short poems (frangments) with evocative illustrations and thoughtful pages of postscript. Scott's playing with things that approach and veer away from traditional forms, tossing in some internal rhyme and other fun things as he goes, but the poems themselves stop a mere delighted running on to the next poem. Several I needed to reread, sometimes more than once.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">A moving work of devotion.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Sadly, unavailalbe for purchase. Though many of the pieces appear in places <a href="https://www.instagram.com/scotthaleswriter">like this</a>.<br /></p>
<small><i>one unstoppable burst</i></small><br />
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<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><u>final posts in this series from</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2007/12/eighteenth-five-books-of-two-thousand.html">2007</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2008/12/25-final-few.html">2008</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2009/12/three-more-2009-books-from-jake-parker.html">2009</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2010/12/final-few-books-of-2010-and-note-on-why.html">2010</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2011/12/could-this-be-final-list-of-2011-books.html">2011</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-final-books-of-2012.html">2012</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/12/final-finished-books-of-2013.html">2013</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/12/nearing-end-destroyed-by-our-friends.html">2014</a> = <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/01/gah-one-more-book-for-2015.html">2015</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/12/some-book.html">2016</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-final-few.html">2017</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/12/final-books-post-of-2018.html">2018</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/12/and-orson-scott-card-makes-one-hundred.html">2019</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/12/two-more-books-with-two-hours-to-spare.html">2020</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/12/if-these-are-last-books-of-year-we-can.html">2021</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/12/no-more-books-in-2022-im-afraid.html">2022</a><br /></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Earlier in 2023</span></b></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/01/2023-is-80-comics.html">2023 is 80% comics</a></span></span></b></span></p></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span></b></span><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>001)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781534321182">The Dark Room</a> by Gerry Duggan & Scott Buoncristiano, finished January four<br /><b>002)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3JQdewY">The Only Harmless Great Thing</a> by Brooke Bolander, finished January 6<br /><b>003)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780545135436">Rose</a> by Jeff Smith and Charles Vess, finished January 10<br /><b>004)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781770464926">Acting Class</a> by <span class="a-size-medium">Nick Drnaso</span>, finished January 10<br /><b>005)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781338167085">Red Scare</a> by Liam Francis Walsh, finished January 11</span></span></p><p>
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</span></span></b></span><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/01/step-right-up-and-try-your-luck.html">Step right up and try your luck</a></span></span></span></b></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>006)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780143039464" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Short Reign of Pippin IV</a> by John Steinbeck, finished January 18</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></b><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>007)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3WBb0o0" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Filmish</a> by Edward Ross, finished circa January 20</span></span><b><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/02/blog-post.html">HOW many times?</a></span></span></b></span></p><p class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>008)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3kLeWoA">Maddy Kettle Book: The Adventure of the Thimblewitch</a> by Eric Orchard, finished January 24 <br />
<b>009)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3Xe80hp">Fantastic Frights: A Beginner's Guide to Scary Stories</a>, finished January 24
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>010)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780380709540">Ramona the Pest</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished February 2<br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>011)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780735220690">Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine</a> by Gail Honeyman, finished February 3<br /><b>012)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780679723257">The Postman Always Rings Twice</a> by James M. Cain, finished February 4
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>013)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3RIiVyT">Is that all there is?</a> by Joost Swarte, finished February 6
<br /><b>014)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780063030695">Edge Case</a> by YZ Chin, finished February 7</span></span></p></div><p>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/02/if-it-werent-for-friendly-sex-talk.html"><b><span>If it weren't for a friendly sex talk, everything here would be miserable</span></b></a></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>015)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780679723226">Double Indemnity</a> by James M. Cain, finished February 10<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>016)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780998605272">Sex Educated: Letters from a Latter-day Saint therapist to her younger self</a> by Bonnie Young, LMFT, finished February 13<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>017)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781637740422">Unmask Alice: LDS, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries</a> by Rick Emerson, finished February 20 </span></p><p>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/03/a-bookful-bounty-for-thee-and-thine.html"><b><span> A Bookful Bounty for thee and thine </span></b></a></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>018)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781982185824">I'm Glad My Mom Died</a> by Jeannette McCurdy, finished February 27<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>019–21)</b> <a href="https://karlkerschl.com/comic/episode-one/">The Abominable Charles Christopher</a> by Karl Kershl, finished March 6
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>022)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250193537">Displacement</a> by Kiku Hughes, finished March 6
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>023)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781684158058">The Many Deaths of Laila Starr</a> by Ram V and Filipe Andrade, finished March 6
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>024)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3ZSNFAj">The Homeland Directive</a> by Robert Venditti and Mike Huddleston, finished March 7
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>025)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781982156893">Titus Andronicus</a> by William Shakespeare, finished March 14
<br /><b>026)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781633451094">Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange</a> by Tess Taylor, finished March 15
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>027)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3nrXE1p">22 Young Mormon Writers</a> edited by Neal E. Lambert and Richard H. Cracroft, finished March 19
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>028 & 029)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781982156893">Titus Andronicus</a> by William Shakespeare, finished March 23 & March 27</span>
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<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/04/literarily-solving-for-x.html">Literarily solving for X</a></span></h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>030)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781101981870">X</a> by Sue Grafton, finished March 28<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>031)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061246470">Ramona the Brave</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished April 5<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>032)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781501134197">Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century</a> by Dana Stevens, finished April 5<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>033)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/43DvOja">Abe Lincoln in Illinois</a> by Robert E. Sherwood, finished April 8<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>034)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3L2qZbP">Theology of Play</a> by Jürgen Moltmann, finished April 12<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>035)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/43zqOMq">The Male Animal</a> by James Thurber and Elliott Nugent, finished April 12<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>036)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780763687069">Bluffton</a> by Matt Phelan, finished April 16<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>037)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250815293">Number One Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions</a> by Steve Martin and Harry Bliss, finished April 15</span></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/04/from-lolly-to-elias.html">From Lolly to Elias</a></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>038)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780486843483">Lolly Willowes</a> by Sylvia Townsend Warner, finished April 17</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>039)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781616964023">The Emperor's Soul</a> by Brandon Sanderson, finished April 19
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>040)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781534324527">Beware the Eye of Odin</a> by Wager/Odland/Madsen/Dukeshire, finished April 19
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>041)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://amzn.to/3UY8edd">The Complete Peanuts: 1965–1966</a> by Charles M. Schulz, finished April 20
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>042)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250262899">A Wealth of Pigeons</a> by Steve Martin and Harry Bliss, finished April 22
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>043)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780344135187">Elias: An Epic of the Ages</a> by Orson Ferguson Whitney, finished April 23</span></span></h3>
<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/05/old-hollywood-olden-times.html">Old Hollywood & Olden Times</a></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;"><span><b>044)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781493060405">Straight Lady: The Life and Times of Margaret Dumont, "The Fifth Marx Brother"</a> by Chris Enss and Howard Kazanjian, finished April 25</span><br /><span><b>045)</b><span> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780262543378">Voices from the Radium Age</a> edited by Joshua Glenn, finished April 26</span></span><br /><span><b>046)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/416Nod2">The Ballad of YFB</a> by Aaron Brassea, finished April 28</span><br /><span><b>047)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250857910">Reynaud's Tale</a> by Ben Hatke, finished May 3</span><br /><span><b>048)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3HLBYo4">Superman: Up in the Sky</a> by Tom King and Andy Kubert, finished May 5</span><br /><span><b>049)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061960901">Ramona and Her Father</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished May 5
<br /><b>050)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780345513991">Resurrection Row</a> by Anne Perry, finished May 6 </span></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/05/saying-good-bye-to-our-friend-kinsey.html">Saying good bye to our friend Kinsey</a></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;"><span><b>052)</b> <a href="https://archive.org/details/moregrosscartoon0000gros/">More Gross: Cartoons</a><span> by S. Gross, finished May 9</span><br /><b>053)</b> <a href="https://archive.org/details/iamblindmydogis00gros">I Am Blind and My Dog Is Dead</a><span> by S. Gross, finished May 9</span><br /></span>
<span><b>054)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779517067">Batgirls: One Way or Another</a><span> by Becky Cloonan / Michael W. Conrad / Jorge Corona / Sarah Stein, finished May 11</span><br /></span>
<span><b>055)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779520289">Batgirls: Bat Girl Summer</a><span> by Becky Cloonan / Michael W. Conrad / Neil Googe / Robbi Rodriguez / Rico Renzi, finished May 11</span><br /></span>
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>056)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780399185380">Y is for Yesterday</a><span> by Sue Grafton, finished May 12 </span></span>
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<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-tyranny-of-getting-stuff-in-right.html">The tyranny of getting stuff in the right order</a></span></h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>051)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780804190114">On Tyranny</a> by Timothy Snyder, finished May 8<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>057)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779504210">Superman Smashes the Klan</a> by Gene Luen Yang and Guruhiru, finished May 13
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>058)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781950774869">Four in Hand</a> by Alicia Mountain, finished May 17<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>059)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/42VBSm3">The Glob</a> by John O'Reilly and Walt Kelly, finished May 20
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>060)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781421437989">Why They <i>Can't</i> Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities</a> by John Warner, finished May 24<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>061)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780316316132">Less</a> by Andrew Sean Greer, finished May 25
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>062)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781506726809">Children of the Woods</a> by Ciano/Hixson/Stevens/Otsmane-Elhaou, finished May 27<br /></span> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>063)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780525655596">The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece</a> by Tom Hanks, finished May 29</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/06/anchors-links-endstuff-morecode-too.html">Such quality. Such excellence.</a></span></h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
<b>064)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3MYvwvL">Here</a> by Darlene Young, finished June 1<br />
<b>065)</b> <a href="https://www.carthageproject.com/product-page/theseus-vol-1-hardcover">Theseus Volume 1</a> by Jordan Holt, finished June 1<br />
<b>066)</b> <a href="https://www.carthageproject.com/product-page/theseus-vol-2-hardcover">Theseus Volume 2</a> by Jordan Holt, finished June 1<br />
<b>067)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/42q7rDG">Reviews for Non-Existent Movies</a> by Eric Goulden Kimball, finished June 5<br />
<b>068)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781935869504">The Scarlet Plague</a> by Jack London, finished June 6<br />
<b>069)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780316459778">Anne of West Philly</a> by Ivy Noelle Weir and Myisha Haynes, finished June 10<br />
<b>070)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061960901">Ramona and Her Mother</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished June 10</span></p>
<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/06/books-read-forensic-investigation.html">Books read: a forensic investigation</a></span></span></h3><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>073)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780063092792">These Precious Days</a> by Ann Patchett, finished c. June 17</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span>
<b>074)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781770463622">Grass</a> by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, finished c. June 19</span><br /><span>
<b>075)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781948218719">The Burning Book: A Jewish-Mormon Memoir</a> by Jason Olson and James Goldberg, finished c. June 21</span><br /><span>
<b>076)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780062671196">The Night Watchman</a> by Louise Erdrich, finished June 23</span></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/07/from-prehumanity-to-eternal-destiny.html"><span>From prehumanity to eternal destiny</span></a></b></span></div><p>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>077)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781888963755">Tuki: Fight for Fire</a> by Jeff Smith, finished June 28</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>078)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781888963779">Tuki: Fight for Family</a> by Jeff Smith, finished June 29</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>079)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781350160750">The Writer's Hustle</a> by Joey Franklin, finished July 8</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>080)</b> <a href="https://epluribusmormon.square.site/">Future Day Saints: The New Arrivals</a> by Matt Page, finished July 16</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>081)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780765385253">Binti</a> by Nnedi Okorafor, finished July 18</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>082)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061960901">Ramona Quimby, Age 8</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished July 19</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>083)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781613163757">Just One More</a> by Annette Lyon, finished July 20</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>084)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780141304700">The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More</a> by Roald Dahl, finished July 22</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>085)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781637740538">Somewhere Out There: My Animated Life</a> by Don Bluth, finished July 22</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/07/two-women-in-comics-form.html">Two women, in comics form</a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> <br /></b></span></h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>085)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781607061472">Beast</a> by Marian Churchland, finished July 24<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>086)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779515681">Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow</a> by King/Evely/Lopes, finished c. July 28</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-sex-and-metaphysics-venn-diagram.html">The sex-and-metaphysics Venn diagram</a></span></b></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>087)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781620105412">Banana Sunday</a> by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover, finished August 2<br /><b>088)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780394410715">Falconer</a> by John Cheever, finished August 3<br /><b>089)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780553348972">Still Life with Woodpecker</a> by Tom Robbins, finished August 3<br /><b>090)</b> <span><a href="https://www.shortbox.co.uk/product/homunculus-by-joe-sparrow-new-edition-pre-order-n">Homunculus</a> </span>by Joe Sparrow, finished August 5<br /><b>091)</b> <a href="https://www.shortbox.co.uk/product/cuckoo-by-joe-sparrow-pre-order">Cuckoo</a> by Joe Sparrow, finished August 9<br /><b>092)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780892555598">Fatal</a> by Kimberly Johnson, finished August 16<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>093)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781596434530">The Unsinkable Walker Bean</a> by Aaron Renier, finished August 17<br /><b>094)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3OFWIjS">The Infinite Future</a> by Tim Wirkus, finished August 22<br /><b>095)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780374607401">Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne</a> by Katherine Rundell, finished August 23 <br /></span></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/09/what-is-this-nothing-but-comics.html">What, is this nothing but comics?</a></span>
</h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>096)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3EADkAg">The Unsinkable Walker Bean and the Knights of the Waxing Moon</a> by Aaron Renier, finished August 24<b><br />097)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3OQq1QJ">Just Julie's Fine</a> by Theric Jepson, finished August 26<br /><b>098)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250776297">Bea Wolf</a> by Zach Weinersmith and Boulet, finished August 28<br /><b>099)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781684052714">Assassinistas</a> by Tini Howard / Gilbert Hernandez / et al., finished August 31<br /><b>100)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779521354">Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons</a> by Kelly Sue DeConnick / Phil Jimenez / Gene Ha / Nicola Scott, finished August 31<br /><b>101)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401284770">The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes</a> by Neil Gaiman et al., finished September 6<br /><b>102)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780385334235">Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!</a> by Kurt Vonnegut, finished September 11 </span></p><p class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/10/we-got-mysteries-we-got-apples-we-got.html">We got mysteries, we got apples, we got St. Paul. . . .</a></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>103)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401285067">The Sandman: The Doll's House</a> by Neil Gaiman et al., finished September 14<br /><b>104)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780062073952">Hallowe'en Party</a> by Agatha Christie, finished September 2023<b><br />105)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401285487">The Sandman: Dream Country</a> by Neil Gaiman et al, finished September 27<b><br />106)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250220271">Apples Never Fall</a> by Liane Moriarty, finished September 29<b><br />107)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780385522571">Paul Among the People: The Apostle Reinterpreted and Reimagined in His Own Time</a> by Sarah Ruden, finished October 1<br /><b>108)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780199536504">Cymbeline</a> by William Shakespeare, finished October 5<br /><b>109)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401285814">The Sandman: Season of Mists</a> by Neil Gaiman et al, finished October 5</span></p><p>
<b> </b><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/10/anchors-links-endstuff-morecode-too.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Coupla classics et al.</span></a><b> <br /></b></p><h1 style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>110)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781950774470">A Cluster of Noisy Planets</a> by Charles Rafferty, finished October 6</span><br /><b>111)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061960901">Ramona Forever</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished October 7</span><br /><b>112)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781524884949">The Mysteries</a> by Bill Watterson and Bill Kascht, finished October 10</span><br /><b>113)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401288075">The Sandman: A Game of You</a> by Neil Gaiman et al, finished October 12</span><br /><b>114)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780063114852">The Bridge of San Luis Rey</a> by Thornton Wilder, finished October 13</span><br /><b>115, 116)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780199536504">Cymbeline</a> by William Shakespeare, finished October 16, 17</span><br /><b>117)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781534324824">Kaya: Book One</a> by author, finished October 21</span><br /><b>118)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780140077025">White Noise</a> by Don DeLillo, finished October 23
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</p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/11/lots-of-unicorns-here.html">Lots of unicorns here</a></span></h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>119)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401288464">The Sandman: Fables & Reflections</a> by Neil Gaiman et al., finished October 27<br /><b>120)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780451450524">The Last Unicorn</a> by Peter S. Beagle, finished November 3<br /><b>121)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780140437508">Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)</a> by Jerome K. Jerome, finished November 3<br /><b>122)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/40PCkm4">The Last Unicorn: The Lost Journey</a> by Peter S. Beagle, finished November 5<br /><b>123)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/47rdZWc">Have Spacesuit–Will Travel</a> by Robert A. Heinlein, finished November 14<br /><b>124)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781982196202">Romney: A Reckoning</a> by McKay Coppins, finished November 16<br /><b>125)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401289089">The Sandman: Brief Lives</a> by Neil Gaiman et al., finished November 21
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/12/evil-smiley-face-et-al.html">Evil Smiley Face, et al.</a></span>
</h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>125)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401234027">The Sandman: Worlds' End</a> by Neil Gaiman et al, finished November 28<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>126)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780593316719">Boys Weekend</a> by Mattie Lubchansky, finished November 29<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>127)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781626720794">Dragon Hoops</a> by Gene Luen Yang, finished December 15<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>128)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061246487">Ramona's World</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished December 6<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>129)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780062393371">A Child's Anthology of Poetry</a> edited by Elizabeth Hauge Sword with Victoria Flourney McCarthy, finished December 7</span><br />
</p>Th.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-5275414723068408962023-12-07T20:58:00.000-08:002023-12-07T20:58:47.616-08:00Evil Smiley Face, et al..<p>You never know how things will fall down. I would not have guessed my new batch would be nothing but comics or books aimed at children, but so it is. And I have no regrets. Everything here is of good report and praiseworthy, and some of them I even liked! <br /></p><p>.</p><p>
<b>125)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401234027">The Sandman: Worlds' End</a> by Neil Gaiman et al, finished November 28
</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><b>This</b> is the one I thought maybe I hadn't read before. When <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Athmazing.blogspot.com%20%22mike%20allred%22#ip=1">I got into Mike Allred's stuff</a> I discovered that he'd done an issue of <i>Sandman</i> and I could not recall the weird smiley-face guy who came up in searches.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://majorspoilers.com/2013/08/11/retro-review-4/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1016" data-original-width="650" height="464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCd6yDd7cCsYE-H_q-wKRHFibLo7LkePXcc4bBkoXwLpcSrwDwixiG3KdpyGkotv1n_eVim_2eaY-VmbthNJQUjDppiBp_i1e5hNZq0xpHCD80k6Rb46Tj9jLvegQy1j_ZAVu0F45C3O6kKQfzQbBIYIAkrc5F9FNFOzdNYLchIQWLXT2AVgdyQw/w298-h464/Sandman549.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">And I was right. I have not read this volume.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">It's a <i>Decameron</i>y sort of book, travelers trapped by storms at the inn at the worlds' end come together and tell stories. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Talbot">Brian Talbot</a>'s muddy art bookends each issue, with another artist telling the story itself. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Allred">Allred</a>'s is based on a character <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prez_(character)">I had never heard of before</a>. My favorite story might have been that of the girl sailor drawn by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Zulli">Michael Zulli</a>, but Mike's art's my favorite art.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Incidentally, in Gaiman's afterward, he talks about picking Mike Allred for his art, his "clean and simple shapes." Which is crazy because the story digs into many of the theo/cosmological concepts I associate with Allred's later work. I would need to see exactly where this falls among all the Madman comics, but my gut tells me Gaiman's straight up predicted where his artist was headed with his own tales.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">(<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqKPCItvo0E">This'll back me up.</a>)<br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Anyway, just four more volumes to go! Wonder if I'll read any more for the first time.<br /></p>
<small><i>a week</i></small><br />
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<b>126)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780593316719">Boys Weekend</a> by Mattie Lubchansky, finished November 29
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/11/13/best-graphic-novels-clowes-bell-tamaki/">The <i>Washington Post</i> turned me on to this book</a> and luckily my library had it. I put it on hold and it came right away. And it was . . . fine.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I like many things about <i>Boys Weekend</i>: I liked the weird near-future setting, I liked the mundanity of trans experience, I liked the color palette, I liked the pacing, I liked the dumb jokes.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">But there were things I did not like as well. For instance, that near-future world was a bit confused. Is this <i>our</i> new future? The protag was born in 1999 and she's, what, thirty? Maybe thirty-five? So this is ten years from now? Not likely. So maybe it's some other world? Honestly, before I saw the birthday, I was assuming this was a hundred years out and my main complaint <i>then</i> would have been that <i>surely</i> the current awkwardnesses between trans folk and their cis friends would at least have evolved into something new. But it feels pretty 2023 to me.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">But Theric, you might say, this is a satire! So of course it's <i>really</i> about our current world.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Sure, but you see: near-future is my <i>jam</i>. I care very much about its execution. I can't help it.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">My other big complaint is the character design. I feel like this look, new so recently, is deeply overdone by now and I'm over it. I suppose this may be petty. But it's how I feel. Sorry.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://ew.com/books/mattie-lubchansky-boys-weekend-graphic-novel" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1888" data-original-width="1333" height="401" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdsXDk59EH7J_A0v1uqjhzfZVVu-boVRrK7AmrwOxjmoDHvSMS6OuQWKornku8x92Y1ZZ2Ck7lNjShRpi7oA46_7jg5SVhXfBVvsOIlRzKZDDta66ELgjD-qaQEiuYytbQvpdrfRj17H14cU2UvvAAnNV8Hh7b-m7vhsBXIIPPuFjyYu6Vlv9xjQ/w284-h401/Boys-Weekend-detail.jpg" width="284" /></a></div><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Anyway, someone whom I thought had begun transitioning perhaps a decade ago (revealed late in the book to actually be less than a year ago) is invited to Las Vegas on a floating island (everything's legal!) to be the best man at her college-era best friend's weeklong bachelor party. Self-discovery ensues as we pass through satires of tech, techbros, capitalism, morality, and more more more!</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Again: lot to like. I do believe lots of people really like this book. Alas that I am not one of them. (Insert sadface here.)</p><small><i>in bed one night</i></small><br />
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<b>127)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781626720794">Dragon Hoops</a> by Gene Luen Yang, finished December 15
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I've seen this book at the library before. it's hard to miss. It's a bright orange basketball of a book. And although I love Yang's work this is a long one. And it looks like a bright orange basketball.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">But I finally picked it up which I needed to stand next to the shelves it was on for an extended time and I started reading it and, no surprise, it's excellent.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">It's the true story of Bishop O'Dowd's 2015 run for the state championship / the end of Yang's teaching career / the history of basketball / dozens of other things small and large. The book is also about its own creation. But it takes the endnotes to really get behind the process of how the artist sculpted reality into a story. I recommend the endnotes.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">And I recommend the whole dang 446 pages. It doesn't take that long to read and you'll be glad you did. A lot of pages gives an artist of Yang's caliber the room to stretch his muscles, to create meaningful motifs and expound themes. Sometimes a longer book is the right choice.<br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">And maybe he'll even do to you what he did to himself—make you like basketball.<br /></p>
<small><i>since Friday</i></small><br />
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<b>128)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061246487">Ramona's World</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished December 6
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">We did it! The almost-eight-year-old and I read all the Ramona books! Behold:</p><p style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><i><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/12/nine-swell-books-most-in-good-sense.html#128">Ramona and Beezus<br /></a><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/02/blog-post.html#010">Ramona the Pest<br /></a><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/04/literarily-solving-for-x.html#031">Ramona the Brave<br /></a><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/05/old-hollywood-olden-times.html#049">Ramona and Her Father<br /></a><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/06/anchors-links-endstuff-morecode-too.html#070">Ramona and Her Mother<br /></a><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/07/from-prehumanity-to-eternal-destiny.html#082">Ramona Quimby, Age 8<br /></a><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/10/anchors-links-endstuff-morecode-too.html#111">Ramona Forever</a></i> (links to Blogger only as that's where I have anchors for better linking)<br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">And now <i>Ramona's World</i> in which, by reaching age zeroteen, she is a teenager.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Ramona continues to grow. She makes new kinds of friendships and desires new kinds of responsibilities. She becomes better capable of empathy but also is moving into an adolescent capacity for embarrassment. Not everything is resolved (her dad, for instance, still hasn't been able to get a job as a teacher) but in life, not everything is.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">This was the last novel Cleary published. It came out in her early 80s, and though she made it to juuust shy of 105, she never wrote another. Her skills are still strong in <i>Ramona's World</i> but, well, she'd earned her retirement.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Frankly, these eight books are a terrific accomplishment and we here enjoyed them very much. They're the real stuff.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Thank you, ma'am.<br /></p>
<small><i>perhaps two months</i></small><br />
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<b>129)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780062393371">A Child's Anthology of Poetry</a> edited by Elizabeth Hauge Sword with Victoria Flourney McCarthy, finished December 7<br /><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">This is anthology of poems that work for children. Not necessarily <i>for</i> children. There is some children-intended verse, sure, but there's also a lot of Blake and Frost and Dickinson and Yeats and the like.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">This was originally published in 1995 and I don't think a new book making a similar attempt would make some of the same choices. For example, it includes Countee Cullin's "<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42618/incident-56d2213a45f36">Incident</a>" and one might say rightly so. I forget when I first read it, but I was not an adult and that poem changed me. I think all my understanding of racism and its ugliness can be traced to reading "Incident" in my youth. But it's not going into a book for kids in 2023. And I'm sympathetic to why not. But I can't be sure it would be the right choice. Because changing you—may that not be a primary purpose of poetry?</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Of course, a, ah, "funny" thing about leaving incident out in our imaginary 2023 volume is that this is something the left and the right would agree on in almost identical language.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3GA6YGU" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="532" height="329" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81XiejlBOOL._SL1500_.jpg" width="219" /></a></div><p></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">The great thing about a book like this is that no matter how late it is, we still have time for a poem. Even if there's no time for a chapter of Ramona, there is time for a poem. And so reading a poem is now an expected certainty for the almost-eight-year-old.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/70039/all-good-slides-are-slippery">I know what we're reading next.</a><br /></p>
<small><i>let's guess a year and seven months but really that's just a guess</i></small><br />
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<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><u>final posts in this series from</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2007/12/eighteenth-five-books-of-two-thousand.html">2007</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2008/12/25-final-few.html">2008</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2009/12/three-more-2009-books-from-jake-parker.html">2009</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2010/12/final-few-books-of-2010-and-note-on-why.html">2010</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2011/12/could-this-be-final-list-of-2011-books.html">2011</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-final-books-of-2012.html">2012</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/12/final-finished-books-of-2013.html">2013</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/12/nearing-end-destroyed-by-our-friends.html">2014</a> = <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/01/gah-one-more-book-for-2015.html">2015</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/12/some-book.html">2016</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-final-few.html">2017</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/12/final-books-post-of-2018.html">2018</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/12/and-orson-scott-card-makes-one-hundred.html">2019</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/12/two-more-books-with-two-hours-to-spare.html">2020</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/12/if-these-are-last-books-of-year-we-can.html">2021</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/12/no-more-books-in-2022-im-afraid.html">2022</a><br /></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/01/2023-is-80-comics.html">2023 is 80% comics</a></span></span></b></span></p></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span></b></span><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>001)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781534321182">The Dark Room</a> by Gerry Duggan & Scott Buoncristiano, finished January four<br /><b>002)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3JQdewY">The Only Harmless Great Thing</a> by Brooke Bolander, finished January 6<br /><b>003)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780545135436">Rose</a> by Jeff Smith and Charles Vess, finished January 10<br /><b>004)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781770464926">Acting Class</a> by <span class="a-size-medium">Nick Drnaso</span>, finished January 10<br /><b>005)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781338167085">Red Scare</a> by Liam Francis Walsh, finished January 11</span></span></p><p>
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</span></span></b></span><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/01/step-right-up-and-try-your-luck.html">Step right up and try your luck</a></span></span></span></b></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>006)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780143039464" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Short Reign of Pippin IV</a> by John Steinbeck, finished January 18</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></b><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>007)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3WBb0o0" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Filmish</a> by Edward Ross, finished circa January 20</span></span><b><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/02/blog-post.html">HOW many times?</a></span></span></b></span></p><p class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>008)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3kLeWoA">Maddy Kettle Book: The Adventure of the Thimblewitch</a> by Eric Orchard, finished January 24 <br />
<b>009)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3Xe80hp">Fantastic Frights: A Beginner's Guide to Scary Stories</a>, finished January 24
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>010)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780380709540">Ramona the Pest</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished February 2<br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>011)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780735220690">Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine</a> by Gail Honeyman, finished February 3<br /><b>012)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780679723257">The Postman Always Rings Twice</a> by James M. Cain, finished February 4
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>013)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3RIiVyT">Is that all there is?</a> by Joost Swarte, finished February 6
<br /><b>014)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780063030695">Edge Case</a> by YZ Chin, finished February 7</span></span></p></div><p>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/02/if-it-werent-for-friendly-sex-talk.html"><b><span>If it weren't for a friendly sex talk, everything here would be miserable</span></b></a></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>015)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780679723226">Double Indemnity</a> by James M. Cain, finished February 10<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>016)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780998605272">Sex Educated: Letters from a Latter-day Saint therapist to her younger self</a> by Bonnie Young, LMFT, finished February 13<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>017)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781637740422">Unmask Alice: LDS, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries</a> by Rick Emerson, finished February 20 </span></p><p>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/03/a-bookful-bounty-for-thee-and-thine.html"><b><span> A Bookful Bounty for thee and thine </span></b></a></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>018)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781982185824">I'm Glad My Mom Died</a> by Jeannette McCurdy, finished February 27<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>019–21)</b> <a href="https://karlkerschl.com/comic/episode-one/">The Abominable Charles Christopher</a> by Karl Kershl, finished March 6
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>022)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250193537">Displacement</a> by Kiku Hughes, finished March 6
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>023)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781684158058">The Many Deaths of Laila Starr</a> by Ram V and Filipe Andrade, finished March 6
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>024)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3ZSNFAj">The Homeland Directive</a> by Robert Venditti and Mike Huddleston, finished March 7
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>025)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781982156893">Titus Andronicus</a> by William Shakespeare, finished March 14
<br /><b>026)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781633451094">Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange</a> by Tess Taylor, finished March 15
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>027)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3nrXE1p">22 Young Mormon Writers</a> edited by Neal E. Lambert and Richard H. Cracroft, finished March 19
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>028 & 029)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781982156893">Titus Andronicus</a> by William Shakespeare, finished March 23 & March 27</span>
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<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/04/literarily-solving-for-x.html">Literarily solving for X</a></span></h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>030)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781101981870">X</a> by Sue Grafton, finished March 28<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>031)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061246470">Ramona the Brave</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished April 5<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>032)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781501134197">Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century</a> by Dana Stevens, finished April 5<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>033)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/43DvOja">Abe Lincoln in Illinois</a> by Robert E. Sherwood, finished April 8<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>034)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3L2qZbP">Theology of Play</a> by Jürgen Moltmann, finished April 12<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>035)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/43zqOMq">The Male Animal</a> by James Thurber and Elliott Nugent, finished April 12<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>036)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780763687069">Bluffton</a> by Matt Phelan, finished April 16<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>037)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250815293">Number One Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions</a> by Steve Martin and Harry Bliss, finished April 15</span></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/04/from-lolly-to-elias.html">From Lolly to Elias</a></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>038)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780486843483">Lolly Willowes</a> by Sylvia Townsend Warner, finished April 17</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>039)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781616964023">The Emperor's Soul</a> by Brandon Sanderson, finished April 19
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>040)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781534324527">Beware the Eye of Odin</a> by Wager/Odland/Madsen/Dukeshire, finished April 19
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>041)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://amzn.to/3UY8edd">The Complete Peanuts: 1965–1966</a> by Charles M. Schulz, finished April 20
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>042)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250262899">A Wealth of Pigeons</a> by Steve Martin and Harry Bliss, finished April 22
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>043)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780344135187">Elias: An Epic of the Ages</a> by Orson Ferguson Whitney, finished April 23</span></span></h3>
<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/05/old-hollywood-olden-times.html">Old Hollywood & Olden Times</a></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;"><span><b>044)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781493060405">Straight Lady: The Life and Times of Margaret Dumont, "The Fifth Marx Brother"</a> by Chris Enss and Howard Kazanjian, finished April 25</span><br /><span><b>045)</b><span> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780262543378">Voices from the Radium Age</a> edited by Joshua Glenn, finished April 26</span></span><br /><span><b>046)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/416Nod2">The Ballad of YFB</a> by Aaron Brassea, finished April 28</span><br /><span><b>047)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250857910">Reynaud's Tale</a> by Ben Hatke, finished May 3</span><br /><span><b>048)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3HLBYo4">Superman: Up in the Sky</a> by Tom King and Andy Kubert, finished May 5</span><br /><span><b>049)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061960901">Ramona and Her Father</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished May 5
<br /><b>050)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780345513991">Resurrection Row</a> by Anne Perry, finished May 6 </span></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/05/saying-good-bye-to-our-friend-kinsey.html">Saying good bye to our friend Kinsey</a></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;"><span><b>052)</b> <a href="https://archive.org/details/moregrosscartoon0000gros/">More Gross: Cartoons</a><span> by S. Gross, finished May 9</span><br /><b>053)</b> <a href="https://archive.org/details/iamblindmydogis00gros">I Am Blind and My Dog Is Dead</a><span> by S. Gross, finished May 9</span><br /></span>
<span><b>054)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779517067">Batgirls: One Way or Another</a><span> by Becky Cloonan / Michael W. Conrad / Jorge Corona / Sarah Stein, finished May 11</span><br /></span>
<span><b>055)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779520289">Batgirls: Bat Girl Summer</a><span> by Becky Cloonan / Michael W. Conrad / Neil Googe / Robbi Rodriguez / Rico Renzi, finished May 11</span><br /></span>
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>056)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780399185380">Y is for Yesterday</a><span> by Sue Grafton, finished May 12 </span></span>
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<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-tyranny-of-getting-stuff-in-right.html">The tyranny of getting stuff in the right order</a></span></h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>051)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780804190114">On Tyranny</a> by Timothy Snyder, finished May 8<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>057)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779504210">Superman Smashes the Klan</a> by Gene Luen Yang and Guruhiru, finished May 13
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>058)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781950774869">Four in Hand</a> by Alicia Mountain, finished May 17<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>059)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/42VBSm3">The Glob</a> by John O'Reilly and Walt Kelly, finished May 20
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>060)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781421437989">Why They <i>Can't</i> Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities</a> by John Warner, finished May 24<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>061)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780316316132">Less</a> by Andrew Sean Greer, finished May 25
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>062)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781506726809">Children of the Woods</a> by Ciano/Hixson/Stevens/Otsmane-Elhaou, finished May 27<br /></span> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>063)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780525655596">The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece</a> by Tom Hanks, finished May 29</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/06/anchors-links-endstuff-morecode-too.html">Such quality. Such excellence.</a></span></h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
<b>064)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3MYvwvL">Here</a> by Darlene Young, finished June 1<br />
<b>065)</b> <a href="https://www.carthageproject.com/product-page/theseus-vol-1-hardcover">Theseus Volume 1</a> by Jordan Holt, finished June 1<br />
<b>066)</b> <a href="https://www.carthageproject.com/product-page/theseus-vol-2-hardcover">Theseus Volume 2</a> by Jordan Holt, finished June 1<br />
<b>067)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/42q7rDG">Reviews for Non-Existent Movies</a> by Eric Goulden Kimball, finished June 5<br />
<b>068)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781935869504">The Scarlet Plague</a> by Jack London, finished June 6<br />
<b>069)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780316459778">Anne of West Philly</a> by Ivy Noelle Weir and Myisha Haynes, finished June 10<br />
<b>070)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061960901">Ramona and Her Mother</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished June 10</span></p>
<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/06/books-read-forensic-investigation.html">Books read: a forensic investigation</a></span></span></h3><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>073)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780063092792">These Precious Days</a> by Ann Patchett, finished c. June 17</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span>
<b>074)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781770463622">Grass</a> by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, finished c. June 19</span><br /><span>
<b>075)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781948218719">The Burning Book: A Jewish-Mormon Memoir</a> by Jason Olson and James Goldberg, finished c. June 21</span><br /><span>
<b>076)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780062671196">The Night Watchman</a> by Louise Erdrich, finished June 23</span></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/07/from-prehumanity-to-eternal-destiny.html"><span>From prehumanity to eternal destiny</span></a></b></span></div><p>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>077)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781888963755">Tuki: Fight for Fire</a> by Jeff Smith, finished June 28</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>078)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781888963779">Tuki: Fight for Family</a> by Jeff Smith, finished June 29</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>079)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781350160750">The Writer's Hustle</a> by Joey Franklin, finished July 8</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>080)</b> <a href="https://epluribusmormon.square.site/">Future Day Saints: The New Arrivals</a> by Matt Page, finished July 16</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>081)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780765385253">Binti</a> by Nnedi Okorafor, finished July 18</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>082)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061960901">Ramona Quimby, Age 8</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished July 19</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>083)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781613163757">Just One More</a> by Annette Lyon, finished July 20</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>084)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780141304700">The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More</a> by Roald Dahl, finished July 22</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>085)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781637740538">Somewhere Out There: My Animated Life</a> by Don Bluth, finished July 22</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/07/two-women-in-comics-form.html">Two women, in comics form</a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> <br /></b></span></h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>085)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781607061472">Beast</a> by Marian Churchland, finished July 24<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>086)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779515681">Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow</a> by King/Evely/Lopes, finished c. July 28</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-sex-and-metaphysics-venn-diagram.html">The sex-and-metaphysics Venn diagram</a></span></b></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>087)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781620105412">Banana Sunday</a> by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover, finished August 2<br /><b>088)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780394410715">Falconer</a> by John Cheever, finished August 3<br /><b>089)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780553348972">Still Life with Woodpecker</a> by Tom Robbins, finished August 3<br /><b>090)</b> <span><a href="https://www.shortbox.co.uk/product/homunculus-by-joe-sparrow-new-edition-pre-order-n">Homunculus</a> </span>by Joe Sparrow, finished August 5<br /><b>091)</b> <a href="https://www.shortbox.co.uk/product/cuckoo-by-joe-sparrow-pre-order">Cuckoo</a> by Joe Sparrow, finished August 9<br /><b>092)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780892555598">Fatal</a> by Kimberly Johnson, finished August 16<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>093)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781596434530">The Unsinkable Walker Bean</a> by Aaron Renier, finished August 17<br /><b>094)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3OFWIjS">The Infinite Future</a> by Tim Wirkus, finished August 22<br /><b>095)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780374607401">Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne</a> by Katherine Rundell, finished August 23 <br /></span></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/09/what-is-this-nothing-but-comics.html">What, is this nothing but comics?</a></span>
</h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>096)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3EADkAg">The Unsinkable Walker Bean and the Knights of the Waxing Moon</a> by Aaron Renier, finished August 24<b><br />097)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3OQq1QJ">Just Julie's Fine</a> by Theric Jepson, finished August 26<br /><b>098)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250776297">Bea Wolf</a> by Zach Weinersmith and Boulet, finished August 28<br /><b>099)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781684052714">Assassinistas</a> by Tini Howard / Gilbert Hernandez / et al., finished August 31<br /><b>100)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779521354">Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons</a> by Kelly Sue DeConnick / Phil Jimenez / Gene Ha / Nicola Scott, finished August 31<br /><b>101)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401284770">The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes</a> by Neil Gaiman et al., finished September 6<br /><b>102)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780385334235">Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!</a> by Kurt Vonnegut, finished September 11 </span></p><p class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/10/we-got-mysteries-we-got-apples-we-got.html">We got mysteries, we got apples, we got St. Paul. . . .</a></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>103)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401285067">The Sandman: The Doll's House</a> by Neil Gaiman et al., finished September 14<br /><b>104)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780062073952">Hallowe'en Party</a> by Agatha Christie, finished September 2023<b><br />105)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401285487">The Sandman: Dream Country</a> by Neil Gaiman et al, finished September 27<b><br />106)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250220271">Apples Never Fall</a> by Liane Moriarty, finished September 29<b><br />107)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780385522571">Paul Among the People: The Apostle Reinterpreted and Reimagined in His Own Time</a> by Sarah Ruden, finished October 1<br /><b>108)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780199536504">Cymbeline</a> by William Shakespeare, finished October 5<br /><b>109)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401285814">The Sandman: Season of Mists</a> by Neil Gaiman et al, finished October 5</span></p><p>
<b> </b><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/10/anchors-links-endstuff-morecode-too.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Coupla classics et al.</span></a><b> <br /></b></p><h1 style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>110)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781950774470">A Cluster of Noisy Planets</a> by Charles Rafferty, finished October 6</span><br /><b>111)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061960901">Ramona Forever</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished October 7</span><br /><b>112)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781524884949">The Mysteries</a> by Bill Watterson and Bill Kascht, finished October 10</span><br /><b>113)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401288075">The Sandman: A Game of You</a> by Neil Gaiman et al, finished October 12</span><br /><b>114)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780063114852">The Bridge of San Luis Rey</a> by Thornton Wilder, finished October 13</span><br /><b>115, 116)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780199536504">Cymbeline</a> by William Shakespeare, finished October 16, 17</span><br /><b>117)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781534324824">Kaya: Book One</a> by author, finished October 21</span><br /><b>118)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780140077025">White Noise</a> by Don DeLillo, finished October 23
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</p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/11/lots-of-unicorns-here.html">Lots of unicorns here</a></span></h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>119)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401288464">The Sandman: Fables & Reflections</a> by Neil Gaiman et al., finished October 27<br /><b>120)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780451450524">The Last Unicorn</a> by Peter S. Beagle, finished November 3<br /><b>121)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780140437508">Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)</a> by Jerome K. Jerome, finished November 3<br /><b>122)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/40PCkm4">The Last Unicorn: The Lost Journey</a> by Peter S. Beagle, finished November 5<br /><b>123)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/47rdZWc">Have Spacesuit–Will Travel</a> by Robert A. Heinlein, finished November 14<br /><b>124)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781982196202">Romney: A Reckoning</a> by McKay Coppins, finished November 16<br /><b>125)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401289089">The Sandman: Brief Lives</a> by Neil Gaiman et al., finished November 21
</span></p>Th.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-2495065399974444252023-12-04T08:52:00.000-08:002023-12-04T08:55:08.690-08:00Forgetting November<p>.<br /><br />I'm late posting this because November has 30 days.</p><p>That's not true. I sat down on November 30th to post this and somehow . . . just did other things instead.</p><p>The internet is a wonderful, awful thing.</p><p>Anyway, I started the month by cramming in the Halloween movie I'd most wanted to see (it didn't come off that Halloweeny) and then watched very few other movies besides.</p><p>Perhaps it is late because I have simply forgotten movies exist?<br />
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</tbody></table><b>The Phantom Carriage</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0012364?thmazing">1921</a>)<br />
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Not what I expected. When what I know is that the laster person to die on New Year's Eve becomes the grim reaper for the next calendar year, I expect some more cosmology. What it like to put on those robes? What's it like to reap souls? There's a bit of that upfront in some of the movie's coolest scenes, but most of the film is a very 1920s morality tale that plays out more like <i>A Christmas Carol</i> than <i>Bogus Journey</i>.<br />
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So that was kind of a bummer, but it was a good movie. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzOk7hkDUew">What seems to be the Criterion version is currently on YouTube as public domain.</a> Don't know if that's legit or not. The dvd also has another soundtrack that's waaay creepier that might have given the film a more horror-movie vibe. As it is, I would not call this horror at all. Even though there are some great visuals of the reaper carting off the dead.<br />
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It is certainly a better movie than <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/10/octoboo.html#theshitting"><i>The Shining</i></a> though, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bbHa09hrwE">which quotes it</a>.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Lady and the Tramp</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048280?thmazing">1955</a>)<br />
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Movies like <i>Lady and the Tramp</i> are remarkable to me, with their quick pacing and barely bothering to spend time with characters, yet by the end we are fully invested and moved. I suspect that animation is just better for this sort of thing. The universailty of cartoon drawings let us in.<br />
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The Siamese cats truly have aged terribly. Egad. Not as bad as <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-movies-minimally-jejune.html#peterpan"><i>Peter Pan</i>'s Indians</a>, but they ain't great. Shame they got the best song in the movie. Or, rather, the catchiest. "Bella Notte" would be the best song.<br />
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And, I remember last watching it circa . . . 2010? and discovering (not for the for the first time, nor for the last) that Peggy Lee's voice is, ah, very sultry.<br />
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In all, it's a great example of what Disney once did in very little space (76 minutes). It's a lost skill.<br />
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Here we are in a hotel looking for a movie that ends at nine and so we watch the last half of <i>Evan Almighty</i>. I've never been that interested even though it was a nobody called Steve Carroll who blew me away when I saw <i>Bruce Almighty</i> all those years ago.<br />
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Anyway, the last half was a fun watch for the family! No idea if the whole thing holds together. I can see it going either way.<br />
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Incidentally, <a href="https://irreantum.associationmormonletters.org/_20_3_the-double-snatcher">great Noah story in the latest issue of <i>Irreantum</i></a>.<br />
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</tbody></table><p><b>Ballad of a Mountain Man: The Story of Bascom Lamar Lunsford</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1406190?thmazing">1989</a>)<br />
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It's remarkable how one person can make a huge difference then be forgotten by practically everyone but specialists. Lunsford brought Appalachian-style music to the masses, started the clogging craze, made things like <i>O Brother</i> possible, and yet according to IMDb, <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12124642/?thmazing">he's only ever been on ten soundtracks</a>.</p><p>And this the guy who wrote <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix-3qcf-hO4">the song Mountain Dew is named after</a>!<br />
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I suspect, based on what I saw, that his legacy was more important to him than it being attached to him. So he certainly succeeded. But maybe take an hour and learn a tad more.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Addams Family Values</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106220?thmazing">1993</a>)<br />
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I didn't see this when it came out. I'm not sure why not. Perhaps the reviews in my local paper were negative. Perhaps I was feeling burnts from other terrible followups to beloved movies (the awfulness of <i>Sister Act 2</i> still stings, and <i>Home Alone 2</i> was not much better) (and yes, <i>Sister Act 2</i> came out twenty-one days before <i>Addams Family Values</i>, but when a movie is that painful and appalling, I see no reasons it cannot send ripples backwards through time) (I suppose it's more likely I missed <i>AFV</i> in theaters and <i>SA2</i> just assured I'd never borrow it on VHS).<br />
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Anyway, it keeps showing up on Great Sequels! lists and Great Thanksgiving Movies! lists and so it felt like the time had come to give it a shot. Especially having recently <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/11/novilmber.html#addams">watched its precursor</a> (<a href="https://thmazing.substack.com/p/initial-thoughts-on">and <i>Wednesday</i></a>) with the kids.<br />
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So we did. And while I'm not sure it quite holds up to #1 (or quite counts as a Thanksgiving movie), it was fun.<br />
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My biggest problem was Joan Cusack. Not because she didn't do a great job, but because I don't want a sexy Joan Cusack going all femme fatale on my screen. To me, and I'm sorry but I can't really get over this, it's like she's my friend or big sister. And since I didn't want to look at her breasts, the role did not quite work as intended.<br />
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It's wild how many people on the cusp of stardom are in this film in bit roles (Tony Shalhoub [sailor at bar], David Hyde Pierce [bemasked obstetrician], Nathan Lane [weary police clerk]) or as a child (David Krumholtz).<br />
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What surprised me most as I was watching it was how all the various versions of the Addams clan are started to meld togeher in my mind. One party scene I had a flashback to, was that from the first movie in this series? <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/10/feature-films-october-2019.html#addams">the first in the recent animated series of films</a>? But somehow they all fit together nicely in my brain.<br />
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And that's what family means.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Killers of the Flower Moon</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5537002?thmazing">2023</a>)<br />
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Usually, Lady Steed and I have roughly the same reactions to movies. And when we disagree, it's usually because I liked it more. Not today.<br />
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Lady Steed was riveted throughout. The movie did not feel long at all. It was consistently engaging emotionally. And, ultimately, a powerful experience.<br />
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I thought the movie was frequently powerful and when engaging emotionally very much so. But I also thought it was too damn long and all that extra space prevented the powerful moments from really coming together. Also (spoiler alert) while I love watching recreations of oldtime radio, the final radio sequence was a strange choice. And having Scorses himself give the final lines was . . . peculiar. Not sure what to make of that.<br />
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Other than that one choice, no qualms about the cast. Uniform excellence. Though I'd like to make a special shoutout to Everett Waller who had some of the longer lines that could easily been rote and soulless, but they were not. not at all.<br />
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The film was beautiful and good. Only the question of how good is still under debate.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2022</u><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-years-starts-slowly.html" title="21 Up (1977) | After Hours (1985) | Encanto (2021) | Harold and Maude (1971) | The Last Starfighter (1984) | Little Women (2019)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/02/februarys-over-already-it-was-yesterday.html" title="Ford v Ferrari (2019) | The Imposter (2012) | Modern Times (1936) | Private Benjamin (1980) | Sing Street (2016) | Snowball Express (1972) | The Voyeurs (2021)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/03/march-on-to-filmdonia.html" title="The Awful Truth (1937) | Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021) | The Batman (2022) | The Lady in the Van (2015)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/04/not-that-i-watched-any-ukrainian-films.html" title="28 Up (1984) | Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021) | Batman (1989) | Embrace the Panda: Making Turning Red (2022) | Free Guy (2021) | Gattaca (1997) | Henson's Place: The Man Behind the Muppets (1984) | Kong: Skull Island (2017) | The Mummy (1932) | Please Vote for Me (2007) | Professor Marston & the Wonder Women (2017) | Pulp Fiction (1994) | Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) | They Call Me Trinity (1970) | Turning Red (2022) | WW84 (2020)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/05/movie-may-i.html" title="35 Up (1991) | Bambi (1942) | The Bob's Burgers Movie (2022) | Chan Is Missing (1982) | Departures (2008) | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) | Eagle vs Shark (2007) | Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) | Finch (2021) | Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth (2020) | Learning to See: The World of Insects (2016) | The Liberators (2016) | Man on Fire (2018) | Mickey Mouse Monopoly (2002) | Moana (2016) | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) | The Northman (2022) | Porco Rosso (1992) | Psycho (1960) | Psychos (2014) | Putin: The New Tsar (2018) | Russian Ark (2002) | The Trolls (2015) | Two Million Minutes: A Global Examination (2008)">may</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/06/june-film-flybys.html" title="42 Up (1998) | 49 Up (2005) | 56 Up (2012) | All the President's Men (1976) | Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) | The General (1926) | The Green Knight (2021) | The Green Man (1956) | Jallikattu (2019) | Killer of Sheep (1978) | The Matrix (1999) | Monster on the Campus (1958) | Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) | The Post (2017) | Princess Mononoke (1997) | Soylent Green (1973)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-quality-july.html" title="The Bob Emergency (2019) | Elvis (2022) | The Fog of War (2003) | Heat (1995) | The Insufferable Groo (2018) | Last Night in Soho (2021) | The Lunchbox (2013) | Mad God (2022) | Masterminds (2016) | The Mummy (1999) | The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982) | Nope (2022) | Princess Protection Program (2009) | The Thing (1982) | Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) | Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made (2020) | WWJD (2022)">july</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/08/august-films-2022.html" title="Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) | Beaver Trilogy (2000) | Beaver Trilogy Part IV (2015) | Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022) | Cinderella 3: A Twist in Time (2007) | Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) | Encanto (2021) | The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021) | How to score 10 runs in the first inning and lose (2022) | Jules et Jim (1962) | Once (2007)">aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/09/ive-run-out-of-september-film-puns-2022.html" title="The Boyfriend School (1990) | Brave (2012) | Boss Baby (2017) | Bullitt (1968) | Dog City (1989) | Frances Ferguson (2019) | It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) | Jaws (1975) | Love and Saucers (2017) | Macbeth (2018) | M*A*S*H (1970) | Moana (2016) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | Storks (2016) | Teacher of the Year (2014) | Touch of Evil (1958/1998) | The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/10/octobrrrrr-films-were-just-not-chilly.html" title="Bell Book and Candle (1958) | A Bucket of Blood (1959) | Emma. (2020) | Old (2021) | Werewolf by Night (2022) | Much Ado About Nothing (1993) | Much Ado About Nothing (2012)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/11/novilmber.html" title="The Addams Family (1991) | La belle et la bête (1946) | Boss Baby: Family Business (2021) | CRYO (2022) | Dan in Real Life (2007) | Glass Onion (2022) | An Honest Liar (2014) | A Serious Man (2009) | Suburbicon (2017) | Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) | While You Were Sleeping (1995) | WWJD (2022)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/01/ending-year-in-cinematic-style.html" title="Barber Westchester (2022) | The Batman (2022) | Batman Returns (1992) | The Compleat Al (1985) | Elf (2003) | The Guardians of the Galaxy: Holiday Special (2022) | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) | The LEGO Movie (2014) | The Matrix (1999) | The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) | Midnight Run (1988) | Mirai (2018) | Moana (2016) | Patch Town (2014) | Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (1972) | The Shop Around the Corner (1940) | Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) | A Unicorn for Christmas (2021)">dec</a><br /></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2021</u><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/01/no-so-many-movies-this-january-im-afraid.html" title="Babette's Feast (1987) | Bashful (1917) | The Big Idea (1917) | By the Sad Sea Waves (1917) | A Cat in Paris (2010) | A Gasoline Wedding (1918) | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) | Lonesome Luke, Messenger (1917) | Look Pleasant, Please (1918) | The Princess and the Frog (2009) | The Shaggy D.A. (1976) | Shrek (2001) | Shrek 2 (2004) | Soul (2020) | Wings of Desire (1987)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/02/february-more-like-filmuary.html" title="A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) | The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) | Monuments Men (2014) | My Neighbor Totoro (1988) | The Player (1992) | The Princess Bride (1989) | Selma (2014) | Shrek Forever After (2010) | Shrek the Third (2007) | Spirited Away (2001) | La Strada (1954)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/03/march-movies-march.html" title="And Should We Die (1966) | Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020) | The Dirty Dozen (1967) | Downsizing (2017) | Hail, Caesar! (2016) | Inside Out (2015) | Jojo Rabbit (2019) | My Cousin Vinny (1992) | Rififi (1955)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/04/april-showers-do-not-exist-this-is.html" title="Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) | Belladonna of Sadness (1973) | Blast from the Past (1999) | Captain America: Civil War (2016) | The Floorwalker (1916) | Flora & Ulysses (2021) | Hypocrites (1915) | The Incredibles (2004) | Jojo Rabbit (2019) | The Last Unicorn (1982) | Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) | Moonrise Kingdom (2012) | Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976) | Paul Williams Still Alive (2011) | Phantom of the Paradise (1974) | Spontaneous (2020) | The Star Prince (1918)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/05/may-we-movie-yes-we-may.html" title="High Noon (1952) | Idiocracy (2006) | The Incredible Hulk (2008) | The Maltese Falcon (1941) | My Favorite Wife (1940) | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | Parasite (2019) | So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)">may</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/06/june-something-something-movie-pun.html" title="Billu (2009) | Ella Cinders (1926) | The Errand of Angels (2004) | Future War (1997) / MST3K: Future War (1999) | Luca (2021) | A Quiet Place (2018) | Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) | Sullivan's Travels (1941)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-films-of-july-such-as-they-were.html" title="The Caine Mutiny (1954) | The Cat from Outer Space (1978) | The Innocents (1961) | The Manchurian Candidate (1962) | A Mighty Wind (2003) | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | This Is Spinal Tap (1984) | Tron: Legacy (2010)">jul</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/09/augustus-filmius.html" title="Black Widow (2021) | Contact (1997) | The Giant Brine Shrimp (1973) | Phantom of the Megaplex (2000) | Scoob! (2020) | Sylvio (2017) | Three Men and a Baby (1987)">aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/09/remember-the-films-of-september.html" title="'Crocodile' Dundee (1986) | Discovering Treasure: The Story of the Treasure of the Sierra Madre (2003) | Emma. (2020) | The Jewel of the Nile (1985) | John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1989) | Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: The Flash (2018) | Romancing the Stone (1984) | Scotland, Pa. (2001) | Snoopy, Come Home (1972) | A Town Called Panic (2009) | A Town Called Panic: Double Fun (2016) | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/10/october-and-disturbing-paucity-of-scary.html" title="The Bat (1959) | The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Gentlemen Broncos (2009) | Hero (2002) | Macbeth (2015) | Mr. Boogedy (1986) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | Muppets Haunted Mansion (2021) | Scotland, Pa. (2001) | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-first-time.html" title="About a Boy (2002) | The Amazing Spider-man (2012) | As You Like It (1978) | Beetlejuice (1988) | Bottle Rocket (1996) | Eternals (2021) | Flora & Ulysses (2021) | An Honest Liar (2014) | Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) | Masaan (2015) | Out of Liberty (2019) | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) | Sisters (1972)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/12/and-twenty-twenty-one-comes-crashing-to.html" title="7 Plus Seven (1970) | Bedazzled (1967) | Die Hard (1988) | Elf (2003) | The History of the Seattle Mariners (2020) | The Holiday (2006) | Home Alone (1990) | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) | It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) | The Matrix (1999) | The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) | Ron's Gone Wrong (2021) | Seven Up! (1964) | Speed (1994) | Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) | ¡Three Amigos! (1986) | Toys (1992) | The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)">dec</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2020</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-first-month-of-2020-films-watched.html" title="1917 (2019) | The Aeronauts (2019) | After Hours (1985) | Amy (2015) | Barcelona (1994) | Cars (2006) | The Death of Stalin (2017) | A Fool There Was (1915) | How Rare a Possession: The Book of Mormon (1987) | The In-Laws (1979) | Joker (2019) | Knives Out (2019) | Long Shot (2019) | Parasite (2019) | Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) | Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) | Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) | Three Days of the Condor (1975) | Unbreakable (2000) | Wag the Dog (1997)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/02/leap-day-means-extra-day-for-movies-in.html" title="The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) | Arrival (2016) | Bolt (2008) | Contagion (2011) | Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) | Groundhog Day (1993) | Inception (2010) | Jean de Florette (1986) | Kung Fu Dunk (2008) | Manon des Sources (1986) | Muriel's Wedding (1994) | Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019) | Sylvio (2017) | Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914) | Troop Zero (2019) | Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013) | Young Adult (2011)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/03/march-brings-end-of-normality-and.html" title="The Avengers (2012) | Bambi (1942) | Bottle Rocket (1996) | Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) | Finding Nemo (2003) | Heart of Africa (2020) | It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) | A League of Their Own (1992) | Miniscule: Valley of the Lost Ants (2013) | The Avengers | Patema Inverted (2013) | Phase IV (1974) | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) | UHF (1989) | WALL·E (2008) | Whale Rider (2002)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-movies-intentions-corrupted-by.html" title="4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) | Ant-Man (2015) | Avengers: Endgame (2019) | Avengers: Infinity War (2018) | Black Panther (2018) | Brother Bear (2003) | Captain America: Civil War (2016) | Finding Dory (2016) | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) | Howl's Moving Castle (2004) | Iron Man 2 (2010) | Iron Man Three (2013) | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | My Life as a Zucchini (2016) | Once I Was a Beehive (2015) | Onward (2020) | Out of Liberty (2019) | Spirited Away (2001) | Thor: Ragnarok (2017) | West of Her (2016)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/05/may-we-movies.html" title="Bambi (1942) | Be Kind Rewind (2008) | Duck Soup (1933) | Fantastic Mr Fox (2009) | Fences (2016) | The Fighting Preacher (2019) | Fluke (1995) | Frankenstein (1931) | Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) | The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) | The Great Dinosaur Discovery (1976) | A Hard Day's Night (1964) | House of Frankenstein (1944) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Like Father, Like Son (2013) | Pride & Prejudice (2005) | Ratatouille (2007) | Rushmore (1998) | Shanghai Noon (2000) | Shoplifters (2018) | A Spaceman in King Arthur's Court (1979) | Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) | The Strongest Man in the World (1975)">may</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-movies-minimally-jejune.html" title="An Affair to Remember (1957) | Any Old Port in a Storm (1973) | Artemis Fowl (2020) | Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman (2003) | Blindspotting (2018) | Endless Night (1972) | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) | First Reformed (2017) | The Florida Project (2017) | The Great Muppet Caper (1981) | Holy Motors (2012) | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) | I Am Not Your Negro (2016) | Intolerable Cruelty (2003) | Ishtar (1987) | Late Night (2019) | Looper (2012) | Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) | My Dog, the Thief (1969) | Patch Town (2014) | Peter Pan (1953) | The Red Mill (1927) | The Seventh Seal (1957) | The Shiver of the Vampires (1971) | Snowpiercer (2013) | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) | Transperceneige: From the Blank Page to the Black Screen (2014) | Under the Silver Lake (2018) | West of Hot Dog (1924)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/07/blog-post.html" title="Beginners (2010) | Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019) | Fitzwilly (1967) | Galaxy Quest (1999) | A Ghost Story (2017) | The Hate U Give (2018) | A Hidden life (2019) | Hot Rod (2007) | House of Dracula (1945) | Jerry Maguire (1996) | Meet the Robinsons (2007) | New York Doll (2005) | The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) | Shaun of the Dead (2004) | Transylvania 6-5000 (1985) | The Zone (2011)">jul</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/08/film-so-august.html" title="Alice in Wonderland (1951) | Bug (1975) | Country Gentlemen (1936) | The Dead Don't Die (2019) | Eleanor's Secret (2009) | Firebird (1982) | Frozen II (2019) | Knives Out (2019) | Minority Report (2002) | Rango (2011) | Spirited Away (2001) | Table 19 (2016) | Tangled (2010)">aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/10/1917-aeronauts-after-hours-amy.html" title="A.C.O.D. (2013) | All Is True (2018) | Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020) | Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (2015) | Chicken Run (2000) | La Cigarette (1919) | Clueless (1995) | Fat City (1972) | The Smiling Madame Beudet (1923) | The Terminator (1984) | Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/11/oktoberfilm.html" title="Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) | Ghostbusters: Answer the Call (2016) | In Search of a Flat Earth (2020) | Intolerance (1916) | Jabberwocky (1977) | The Next Door (2016) | Over the Garden Wall (2014) | The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012) | The Sixth Sense (1999) | Three Ages (1923) | Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) | The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/11/thankful-for-movies.html" title="10 Things I Hate About You (1999) | 1917 (2019) | Arthur Christmas (2011) | Early Man (2018) | Extra Ordinary (2019) | Ford v Ferrari (2019) | I Am Not Your Negro (2016) | Jurassic Park (1993) | Just Mercy (2019) | Kung Fu Panda (2008) | The Last Man on Earth (1964) | Missing Link (2019) | Napoleon Dynamite (2004) | Samuel the Lamanite (2006) | The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956) | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/12/a-film-watch-together-with-youuuuuu.html" title="Babes in Toyland (1934) | BlacKkKlansman (2018) | The Court Jester (1955) | Edward Scissorhands (1990) | Elf (2003) | Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas (2014) | The Farewell (2019) | Get Out (2017) | Home Alone (1990) | Midsommar (2019) | Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) | Noelle (2020) | A Raisin in the Sun (2008) | The Sadist (1963) | A Simple Favor (2018) | Singin' in the Rain (1952) | Up (2009)">dec</a><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2019</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/01/feature-film-january-2019.html" title="The Boat (1921) | Cold Comfort Farm (1995) | The Great Dictator (1940) | Hearts Beat Loud (2018) | An Honest Liar (2014) | Imposter (2012) | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) | One Week (1920) | Shaolin Soccer (2001) | Spider-Man 3 (2007) | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) | Sylvio (2017) | The Thing from Another World (1951) | True Grit (2010)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/02/feature-film-february-2019.html" title="Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Don Verdean (2015) | Duelle (1976) | Edge of Tomorrow (2014) | The Favourite (2018) | Frankenstein (1931) | Hanna (2010) | The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) | Luck-Key (2016) | Mother (2009) | Pom Poko (1994) | Raising Arizona (1987) | Sylvio (2017) | The Tiger Hunter (2016) | Violet & Daisy (2011)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/03/feature-film-march-2019.html" title="Don Verdean (2015) | Eighth Grade (2018) | Fences (2016) | Frankenstein (1931) | Jane and Emma (2018) | Macbeth (1979) | Macbeth (2010) | Macbeth (2015) | The Silence of the Lambs (1991) | Superman (1978) | The Sword in the Stone (1963)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/04/feature-film-april-2019.html" title="Avengers: Infinity War (2018) | Captain Marvel (2019) | Cheatin’ (2013) | George of the Jungle (1997) | Hancock (2008) | An Honest Liar (2014) | King Lear (2018) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | Mulholland Dr. (2001) | Shazam! (2019) | Three Identical Strangers (2018) | Us (2019)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/05/feature-film-may-2019.html" title="Avengers: Endgame (2019) | Bambi (1942) | BASEketball (1998) | Casablanca (1942) | Cinema Paradiso (1988) | A Day at the Races (1937) | The Godfather (1972) | Good Time (2017) | A Goofy Movie (1995) | The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) | One Week & The Boat (1920 & 1921) | Play It Again, Sam (1972) | Psycho (1960) | Rushmore (1998) | Short Term 12 (2013) | Silence (2016) | Wolf Children (2012)">may</a><br />
<a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/06/feature-film-june-2019.html" title="The Big Store (1942) | Crazy Rich Asians (2018) | Deathtrap (1982) | Designing Woman (1957) | The Godfather: Part II (1974) | Louise en Hiver (2016) | Men in Black (1997) | Room 237 (2012) | Room Service (1938) | Sleepless in Seattle (1993) | Spirited Away (2001) | To Be or Not to Be (1942) | Toy Story (1995) | Toy Story 2 (2009) | Toy Story 3 (2010)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/07/feature-films-june-2019.html" title="I, Tonya (2017) | The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) | My Neighbors The Yamadas (1999) | Sorry to Bother You (2018) | Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) | Toy Story 3 (2010) | Toy Story 4 (2019) | The Tree of Life (2011) | Yesterday (2019)">jul</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/08/feature-films-august-2019.html" title="Beware! The Blob (1972) | The Blob (1958) | Bumblebee (2018)| The Dead Zone (1983) | Dealt (2017) | Marjorie Prime (2017) | The Meg (2018) | Matilda (1996) | The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) | Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019)">aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/09/feature-films-september-2019.html" title="Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (2016) | Blinded by the Light (2019) | Captain Marvel (2019) | Kings of Baxter (2017) | The Lady Eve (1941) | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) | The Martian (2015) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Sylvio (2017)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/10/feature-films-october-2019.html" title="Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) | The Addams Family (2019) | An American Werewolf in London (1981) | Gravity (2013) | An Honest Liar (2014) | The Kings of Summer (2013) | Little (2019) | Macbeth (2015) | Moana (2016) | mother! (2017) | Romeo + Juliet (1996) | Romeo Is Bleeding (2015) | Shazam! (2019) | Toy Story (1995) | WALL·E (2008)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/11/films-feature-length-2019-november.html" title="Aquaman (2018) | Blackbeard's Ghost (1968) | Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) | Clue (1985) | Frozen (2013) | Frozen II (2019) | I Lost My Body (2019) | Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) | Isle of Dogs (2018) | Kids + Money (2008) | The Light Bulb Conspiracy (2010) | The Night of the Hunter (1955) | The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | The Prodigal Son (1990) | The Satellite Girl and Milk Cow (2014) | Short Circuit (1986) | Short Circuit 2 (1988) | Space Is the Place (1974)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/12/december-2019-films-de-la-feature.html" title="About a Boy (2002) | The Animagic World of Rankin/Bass (2018) | Babe (1995) | Bagdad Cafe (1987) | The Best Two Years (2004) | Elf (2003) | Fast Color (2018) | Go (1999) | Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) | Gremlins (1984) | Hitler's Hollywood (2017) | Jack Frost (1979) | The _______ Report (2019) | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) | Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) | Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) | Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019) | Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) | Toy Story 4 (2019)">dec</a><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2018</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-feature-films-of-january-2018.html" title="The Avengers (2012) | Believe (2013) | Cast Away (2000) | College (1927) | The Creature Walks Among Us (1956) | Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) | Faces Places (2017) | A Goofy Movie (1995) | Hot Rod (2007) | One Man's Treasure (2009) | Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) | Shane (1953) | The Wolfpack (2015)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/02/2018-february-feature-filmery.html" title="Black Panther (2018) | Chan Is Missing (1982) | The Edge of Seventeen (2016) | Help! (1965) | The Incredibles (2004) | Iron Man (2008) | Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002) | Lady Bird (2017) | Love & Friendship (2016) | Pom Poko (1994) | Sylvio (2017) | Toy Story (1995) | Wonderstruck (2017)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/03/march-2018s-feature-filmery.html" title="Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Chinatown (2006) | Colossal (2016) | Fences (2016) | Frankenstein (1931) | Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) | Inside Out (2015) | Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) | What We Do in the Shadows (2014)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/04/april-2018s-feature-filmery.html" title="Adam's Apples (2005) | Avengers: Infinity War (2018) | Cinderella (1950) | Coriolanus (2011) | Darkest Hour (2017) | Don't Think Twice (2016) | Moonstruck (1987) | Muppets from Space (1999) | Princess Mononoke (1997) | The Red Turtle (2016) | Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) | Tangled (2010) | Thor: The Dark World (2013) | 3:10 to Yuma (1957) | 3:10 to Yuma (2007)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/05/may-2018s-feature-filmery.html" title="The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) | The Andromeda Strain (1971) | The Beguiled (2017) | Boy and the World (2013) | Get Out (2017) | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) | Interstellar (2014) | The Iron Giant (1999) | The Little Mermaid (1989) | Mulan (1998) | My Dinner with Andre (1981) | Romeo Is Bleeding (2015) | Spirited Away (2001) | The Stepford Wives (1975) | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | WALL·E (2008) | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)">may</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/06/june-2018s-feature-filmery.html" title="Ant-Man (2015) | Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) | Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) | Incredibles 2 (2018) | Isle of Dogs (2018) | Ocean's 8 (2018) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977) | Rushmore (1998) | Thank You for Smoking (2005)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/08/20julyaugust18.html" title="The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) | Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1992) | The Disaster Artist (2017) | Dunkirk (2017) | Everybody Street (2013) | Finding Dory (2016) | Howl's Moving Castle (2004) | The Lego Batman Movie (2017) | Logan Lucky (2017) | Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) | My Neighbro Totoro (1988) | 9 to 5 (1980) | Porco Rosso (1992) | Son of Frankenstein (1939) | Sorry to Bother You (2018) | The Saratov Approach (2013) | Son of Flubber (1963) | The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) | Thor: Ragnarok (2017) | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018) | Your Name. (2016)">jul&aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/09/not-so-many-movies-in-september-2018.html" title="Art + Belief (2019) | A Boy and His Dog (1975) | The Little Hours (2017) | The Lost Express (1925) | Murder by Death (1976) | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | One Man's Treasure (2009)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-films-of-october-2018.html" title="Batman Begins (2005) | Children of the Corn (1984) | Frailty (2001) | Justice League (2017) | My Friend Dahmer (2017) | The Truman Show (1998) | When Marnie Was There (2014)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/11/moviember-2019.html" title="Baby Mama (2008) | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) | The 'Burbs (1989) | The Dark Knight (2008) | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) | Metropolis (1927) | Modern Times (1936) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | Okja (2017) | Paddington 2 (2017) | Singin' in the Rain (1952) | WarGames (1983)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/12/final-movies-post-of-2018.html" title="The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) | The Comedy of Errors (1983) | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) | It's a Wonderful Life (1946) | My Neighbor Totoro (1998) | North Avenue Irregulars (1979) | Spider-Man (2002) | Spider-Man 2 (2004) | Turbo Kid (2015)">dec</a><br />
</div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2017</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/03/2017-t-ms-part-one.html" title="Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993) | The General (1926) | Get Out (2017) | The Hidden Fortress (1958) | The Karate Kid (1984) | The LEGO Batman Movie (2017) | Mean Girls (2004) | Orc Wars (2013) | Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Room (2015) | Silence (2016) | Storks (2016)">qu1</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/06/2017-t-ms-part-two.html" title="All the President's Men (1976) | Back to the Future (1985) | The Boss Baby (2017) | Casablanca (1942) | Do the Right Thing (1989) | F for Fake (1973) | Fences (2016) | Forbidden Zone (1980) | Fun and Fancy Free (1947) | The Ghost Writer (2010) | Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) | Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 (2017) | Hail, Caesar! (2016) | The Handmaiden (2016) | Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Midnight Special (2016) | Noroît (1976) | Orson Welles: The One-Man Band (1995) | Pride & Prejudice (2005) | Psycho (1960) | The Puffy Chair (2005) | Romeo + Juliet (1996) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Rushmore (1998) | The Shawshank Redemption (1994) | Son of Kong (1933) | Spirited Away (2001) | Sully (2016) | A Town Called Panic (2009) | To Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters (2016) | Wonder Woman (2017)">qu2</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/09/2017-t-ms-part-three.html" title="Arrival (2016) | De Palma (2015) | Doctor Strange (2016) | Dunkirk (2017) | The Eagle Huntress (2016) | Elevator to the Gallows (1958) | Fences (2016) | The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966) | Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) | Ladyhawke (1985) | Logan (2017) | Magnolia (1999) | Moana (2016) | Napoleon Dynamite (2004) | Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) | Swiss Army Man (2016) | Trolls (2016) | Tyrus (2015) | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | Unfaithfully Yours (1948) | Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) | What We Do in the Shadows (2014)">qu3</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/12/end-o-2017.html" title="The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979) | Baby Driver (2017) | The Big Sick (2017) | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) | Boy and the World (2013) | Boy (2010) | Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) | Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017) | Cars 3 (2017) | Christmas in Connecticut (1945) | Clue (1985) | Coco (2017) | Coraline (2009) | Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) | Edward Scissorhands (1990) | Elf (2003) | Frankenstein (1931) | Free Fire (2016) | Home Alone (1990) | The Invisible Man (1935) | The Kid (1921) | A Knight's Tale (2001) | Kong: Skull Island (2017) | Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) | La La Land (2016) | The LEGO Movie (2014) | Lilo & Stitch (2002) | Ministry of Fear (1944) | Monster of Frankenstein (1981) | Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) | Murder on the Orient Express (2017) | Nacho Libre (2006) | The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) | Revenge of the Creature (1955) | A River Runs Through It (1992) | Silence (1992) | Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) | Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) | Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) | Surf's Up (2007) | 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) | Thor (2011) | Thor: Ragnarok (2017) | Train to Busan (2016) | WALL-E (2008) | The Wolf Man (1941) | Wonder Woman (2017) | Young Frankenstein (1974)">qu4</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2016</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/03/first-quarter-films.html" title="Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015 | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1998) | A Hard Day's Night (1964) | Help! (1965) | Inside Out (2015) | It Follows (2014) | Life Itself (2014) | The Magnificent Seven (1960) | Mystery Men (1999) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Romeo + Juliet (1996) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Seven Samurai (1954) | Spy (2015) | Stranger than Fiction (2006) | Wonder Boys (2000) | The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008) | Zootopia (2016)">qu1</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/06/2nd-quarter.html" title="Ant-Man (2015) | Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) | The Big Lebowski (1998) | Casablanca (1942) | Chi-Raq (2015) | Citizen Kane (1941) | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) | Do the Right Thing (1989) | Duck Soup (1933) | Ex Machina (2015) | Extract (2009) | Fargo (1996) | Finding Dory (2016) | Gone Girl (2014) | The Great Dictator (1940) | A Hard Day's Night (1964) | His Girl Friday (1940) | Horse Feathers (1932) | Howl's Moving Castle (2004) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Love & Friendship (2016) | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013) | Playtime (1967) | Rope (1948) | Rushmore (1998) | Spirited Away (2001) | The Station Agent (2003) | The Tree of Life (2011) | Vertigo (1958) | While We're Young (2014) | The World's End (2013) | Young Frankenstein (1974)">qu2</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/09/2016s-third-quarter-movies.html" title="Airplane! (1980) | Amélie (2001) | Anomalisa (2015) | The Avengers (2012) | Batman: The Killing Joke (2016) | Best in Show (2000) | Candleshoe (1977) | Field of Dreams (1989) | Forbidden Planet (1956) | The 400 Blows (1959) | Four Lions (2010) | Freaky Friday (1976) | Ghostbusters (2016) | The Girl from Nowhere (2012) | Goodfellas (1990) | Hot Fuzz (2007) | The Invisible Boy (1957) | Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) | The Lobster (2015) | Mad Max (1979) | Maverick (1994) | Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) | Mood Indigo (2013) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | The Passion of Martin (1991) | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) | Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015) | Stand by Me (1986) | The Sting (1973) | A Town Called Panic (2009) | Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) | Wild Tales (2014)">qu3</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/12/all-rest-of-movies-of-2016.html" title="Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) | The Abominable Bride (2016) | About a Boy (2002) | The Babadook (2014) | The Big Short (2015) | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) | The Blood of Jesus (1941) | The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Café Society (2016) | Captain America: Civil War (2016) | Crisis in Six Scenes (2016) | Doctor Strange (2016) | Elf (2003) | A Face in the Crowd (1957) | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | Fletch (1985) | Frankenstein (1931) | Ghost in the Shell (1995) | The Gleaners & I (2000) | Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956) | Gojira (1954) | Goodnight Mommy (2014) | Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) | Harold and Maude (1971) | I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story (2014) | Keanu (2016) | King Kong (1933) | Let the Right One In (2008) | Miracle on 34th Street (1947) | Mission: Impossible (1996) | Mr. Holmes (2015) | Pride & Prejudice (2005) | Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) | Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) | Rounders (1998) | Scrooged (1988) | Shaolin Soccer (2001) | Star Wars: Rogue One (2016) | Stranger than Fiction (2006) | Wishful Drinking (2010) | Young Frankenstein (1974)">qu4</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2015</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2015/04/first-batch-of-2015-feature-films-seen.html" title="The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967) | Annie (2014) | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) | Duck Soup (1933) | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | Finding Vivian Maier (2013) | Frank (2014) | The Gold Rush (1925) | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) | Her (2013) | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) | Jaws (1975) | Moneyball (2011) | The One I Love (2014) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) | The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015) | 21 Jump Street (2012) | What We Do in the Shadows (2014) | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)">qu1</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2015/07/feature-films-2015-second-quarter.html" title="The Adjustment Bureau | American Movie | Bambi | The Boxtrolls (2014) | Casablanca (1942) | Chef (2014) | Dazed and Confused (1993) | Edge of Tomorrow (2014) | Freetown (2015) | From Up on Poppy Hill (2011) | Godzilla (2014) | Groundhog Day (1993) | Inside Out (2015) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) | Jurassic Park (1993) | Jurassic World (2015) | Looking for Richard (1996) | Marwencol (2010) | Psycho (1960) | Romeo Is Bleeding (2015) | Spirited Away (2001) | THX 1138 (1971) | Tomorrowland (2015) | Under the Skin (2013) | V for Vendetta (2005) | Wadjda (2012)">qu2</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2015/10/feature-films-2015-third-quarter.html" title="Ant-Man (2015) | Boyhood (2014) | The Double (2011) | Frances Ha (2012) | Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) | Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) | My Man Godfrey (1936) | Once I Was a Beehive (2015) | Paddington (2014) | The Rocketeer (1991) | The Sandlot (1993) | Saving Mr. Banks (2013) | The Secret of Kells (2009) | The Secret of Roan Inish (1994) | Song of the Sea (2014) | St. Vincent (2014) | The Third Man (1949) | UHF (1989)">qu3</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2015/12/feature-films-2015-final-quarter.html" title="Back to the Future (1985) | Back to the Future Part II (1989) | Back to the Future Part III (1990) | The Bad Seed (1956) | Bernie (2011) | Big Eyes (2014) | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) | Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Die Hard (1998) | Elf (2003) | Enemy (2013) | Frankenweenie (2012) | The Good Dinosaur (2015) | Hamlet (1990) | Heavy Metal (1981) | It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) | The Mountain of the Lord (1993) | The Parent Trap (1961) | The Peanuts Movie (2015) | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) | Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | School of Rock (2003) | The Skeleton Twins (2014) | The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) | Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1997) | Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) | UHF (1989) | Wild (2014) | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)">qu4</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2014</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/04/feature-length-films-of-2014-quarter-one.html" title="Le Ballon Rouge (1956) | The Book of Mormon Movie, Volume 1: The Journey (2003) | Cedar Rapids (2011) | Chronicle (2012) | The Conversation (1974) | Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) | Knuckleball! (2012) | Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010) | The LEGO Movie (2014) | Mahlzeiten (1967) | Moon (2009) | The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) | Pitch Perfect (2012) | A Royal Affair (2012) | SlamNation (1998) | Source Code (2011) | Warm Bodies (2013) | The Wind Rises (2013)">qu1</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/07/single-paragraphs-on-flicks-flicked.html" title="Babe: Pig in the City (1998) | Casablanca (1942) | Citizen Kane (1941) | Damsels in Distress (2011) | Duck Soup (1933) | Eraserhead (1977) | Frankenweenie (2012) | The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) | Heathers (1988) | How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) | Idiocracy (2006) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Jurassic Park (1993) | The Last Unicorn (1982) | Moneyball (2011) | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | Muppets Most Wanted (2014) | The Muppet Movie (1979) | Rushmore (1998) | Spirited Away (2001) | The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) | Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977, 1997) | Super 8 (2011) | V for Vendetta (2005)">qu2</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/09/2014-third-quarter-movies.html" title="American Grindhouse (2010) | American Hustle (2013) | Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) | Better Off Dead… (1985) | Bottle Rocket (1996) | Brick (2005) | Ghostbusters (1984) | Ginger Snaps (2000) | The Green Mile (1999) | Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) | In a World… (2013) | Little Secrets (2001) | Napoleon Dynamite (2004) | The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) | Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) | Somebody Up There Likes Me (2012) | Up in the Air (2009)">qu3</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/12/2014-movies-of-final-quarter.html" title="About a Boy (2002) | Big Hero 6 (2014) | The Cabin in the Woods (2012) | Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) | [charlie chaplin series] (1914, 1916, 1916, 1917, 1917) | The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (2000) | Dans la Maison (2012) | Ernest & Celestine (2012) | The Fisher King (1991) | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2014) | Interstellar (2014) | The Invisible Man (1933) | Mary Poppins (1964) | Million Dollar Arm (2014) | The Night of the Hunter (1955) | Paprika (2006) | ParaNorman (2012) | The Pride of the Yankees (1942) | Safety Last! (1923) | The Shining (1980) | Step Brothers (2008) | Sullivan's Travels (1941) | Unicorn City (2012) | Why Worry? (1923) | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)">qu4</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2013</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-movies-of-2013-one-paragraph.html" title="Argo (2012) | The Adventures of Tintin (2011) | Chinatown (1974) | The Descendants (2011) | Field of Dreams (1989) | A Goofy Movie (1995) | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) | Inherit the Wind (1960) | Kung Fu Hustle (2004) | The Merchant of Venice (2004) | Moonrise Kingdom (2012) | The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) | The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Psycho (1960) | The Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | The White Shadow (1924) | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)">th1</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-movies-of-2013-one-paragraph.html" title="Amour (2012) | Bellflower (2011) | Cinderella (1950) | The Dark Knight Rises (2012) | The Empire Strikes Back (1980) | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | 50/50 (2011) | The Graduate (1967) | The Great Gatsby (2013) | The Happening (2008) | The Kids Are All Right (2010) | Looper (2012) | Monsters University (2013) | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | Mr. Baseball (1992) | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) | Pacific Rim (2013) | R.I.P.D. (2013) | Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) | Snatch (2000) | Star Wars (1977) | Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002) | Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) | Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1997) | Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983) | This Is 40 (2012) | This Is the End (2013) | White on Rice (2009)">th2</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-movies-of-2013-one-paragraph.html" title="The Amazing Adventure (1936) | Black Orpheus (1959) | A Bucket of Blood (1959) | The Cheat (1915) | A Christmas Story (1983) | Corianton (1931) | Elf (2003) | Ender's Game (2013) | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | Frozen (2013) | Gentlemen Broncos (2009) | Gravity (2013) | His Girl Friday (1940) | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) | The Indian in the Cupboard (1995) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | The Muppet Movie (1979) | A Night at the Opera (1935) | Now You See Me (2013) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Sleepwalk with Me (2012) | Swiss Family Robinson (1960) | Waitress (2007) | When Harry Met Sally… (1989)">th3</a></div>
Th.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-29515655463837808272023-11-23T11:26:00.000-08:002023-11-23T11:26:07.141-08:00Lots of unicorns here<p>.</p><p>Unicorns can be fun. Unicorns can be lonely. Unicorns may live through the wrong time. Or just the right time. Or unrecognized until much later. Or only by the prophets who preceded them.</p><p>And some things are not unicorns at all.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CpGdisySOpX" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="678" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZv-O2symHh7q3yQcvhGovn9RsKY5OtSfzLOKxBulsb03_6k_T61XTGoIbAvCVH5fq7BHrm1hVDl7NrEhVXf0plnPDl1p2TQJtzr7G93J1wUmPUBgAZn3HeLhAlAcF2Qad2XTh2u_o83TO_XWlJ49BKJ_9yrHDOuYShr1R8vCMkLADrg9vD0XHeg/s320/by%20greg%20caldwell.png" width="255" /></a></div><p><b>119)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401288464">The Sandman: Fables & Reflections</a> by Neil Gaiman et al., finished October 27
</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Another great short-story collection including the Emperor Norton story and probably the most nudity so far. Sometimes I wish I'd been buying these as a kid but maybe not.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Anyway, I do wonder if these will retain their classic status another fifty years. Neil Gaiman helped create new possibilities in fiction but sometimes the first thing through the door is not the one that becomes immortal.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I probably won't live long enough to know the answer to this question.<br /></p>
<small><i>almost two weeks</i></small><br />
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<b>120)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780451450524">The Last Unicorn</a> by Peter S. Beagle, finished November 3
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I know the story as a movie that more scared me as a child and <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/04/april-showers-do-not-exist-this-is.html#thelu">more annoyed me as an adult</a>. That said, the book is its own thing and it is beloved and every once in a while I consider reading it and now I finally have.<br />
<br />
It is such a different road for fantasy than all the Tolkein/Sanderson stuff. Which is not to knock those styles, but the light touch here allows for a different form of beauty and meaning and I love that.<br />
<br />
The novel makes for a delightful companion. It is both small and vast and I wish I didn't have the movie's imagery holding it back. I'm sure next it'll be a ten-hour streaming event and that will be too realistic and maybe even gritty. It'll happen and it should happen but it won't change the simple fact that some books are best as books.<br />
<br />
No wonder everyone loves it.</p>
<small><i>weeks</i></small><br />
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<b>121)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780140437508">Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)</a> by Jerome K. Jerome, finished November 3
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I believe this is my third time reading this book. I discovered it <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780553575385">thanks to Connie Willis</a> and first read it was hilarious. It still made me laugh out loud numerous times but the bits didn't really combine into a driving read. I don't know if my tastes have changed or it's a one-and-done sorta thing.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">This version was published by TOR which seems odd for something decidedly NOT science fiction and thus I wonder if it was in response to Willis's novel. This might also be why they added <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1993/pg1993.html"><i>Told After Supper</i></a> to the end, a very silly sequence of ghost stories. But, weirdly, there is NO suggestion of an additional text tacked on anywhere on the book's outside or pre-text pages. Even the tops of the pages still say THREE MEN IN A BOAT after you switch books.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Plus, TOR's version has a smattering of typos, hardly appropriate for a book that's been out 112 years at the time of publication.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Anyway, if you're unfamiliar of it, three uppermiddleclass British fellas (and a dog) take a fortnight's trip up the Thames. Laughs ensue.<br /></p>
<small><i>months</i></small><br />
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<b>122)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/40PCkm4">The Last Unicorn: The Lost Journey</a> by Peter S. Beagle, finished November 5
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">This is his original draft, written years before the version that became a massive hit and remains beloved. Bits of the original remain here—some lines, some images—but this unicorn leaves her forest to discover our world and meets and then travels with a demon rather than a magician and a Molly.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">The tone is right. The beauty of the sentences is right. But placing it in the modern era is wrong. It makes it feel like it's trying very hard to say something specific (ala <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/10/anchors-links-endstuff-morecode-too.html#118"><i>White Noise</i></a>) while in fact saying nothing in particular. By being more openly about whatever you want it to be about, the published version of <i>The Last Unicorn</i> becomes all the more meaningful. As Beagle says in the afterward, he was trying to be a satirist and it wasn't working.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">That said, even though it's a bit glum without purpose and although it ends before it figures out its point, it was another great read.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Clearly, I'm now a person who will pick up Peter S. Beagle books.<br /></p>
<small><i>two or three days</i></small><br />
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<b>123)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/47rdZWc">Have Spacesuit–Will Travel</a> by Robert A. Heinlein, finished November 14
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I listened to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_of_the_Galaxy"><i>Citizen of the Galaxy</i></a> during my commute back in 2006 and, while parts of it irritated me, I did enjoy its bounty of imagination.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">This is my second Heinlein book and I'm reading as part of a trio, starting with <i>Three Men in a Boat</i> (see above) and ending with <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Say_Nothing_of_the_Dog">To Say Nothing of the Dog</a></i> (which I read c. 2000 and still think of as one of my favorite books). Connie Willis, thanks Heinlein for introducing her to <i>Three Men</i> in <i>To Say Nothing</i>'s dedication, so all I'm doing it arranging them in chronological order.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i>Have Spacesuit</i> is not as tightly connected to Jerome's novel and Willis's; the protagonist's father is just reading it in the opening scene (for, like, the 500th time). But it does come off as a real recommendation.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I'd always imagined this novel would be about a professional adventurer, but in fact it's about a teenager who wins a spacesuit in a soap company's contest then gets kidnapped by aliens and so on and so on. It's a very 1950s YA sort of read but it's also great fun. It is funny to see Heinlein striving to imagine the future and attempting something like feminism and just falling grossly short of where the world would be just years after he's writing.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Anyway, it was fun and a light lift.<br /></p>
<small><i>coupla weeks</i></small><br />
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<b>124)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781982196202">Romney: A Reckoning</a> by McKay Coppins, finished November 16
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I don't know when I first became aware of Mitt Romney, but certainly living in Utah when he saved the 2002 Olympics put him on my good side. When he was on the ballot in 2012, I didn't vote for him, but even with some of the embarrassing things he said, I still thought of him as a reasonably decent human being.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">The biography filled in blanks in his story and it's excellent at letting us dig deeper into one man's mind and thoughts. And, since he has been around at a number of significant historical events, his own witness and insight opens new windows of understanding.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/40FMFRu" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="530" height="416" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71zsFtGCAKL._SL1500_.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><p></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">The biggest indictment (imo) the book offers is of our democracy's bad motivators—we have created a system where our leaders are worried more about reelection than doing good or right.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">McKay's writing is easy on the eyes; the pages just fly by. For a book that was done as quickly as possible, it holds together as a piece of writing and there are relatively few errors (only one seemed significant, writing 2002 instead of 2022). Of course, the occasional missing word makes you wonder about errors of content, but the lengthy notes provide a sense of confidence in that respect. Not to mention McKay's <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/author/mckay-coppins/">longstanding respectable reporting</a>.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">This is not a full biography, though it does cover every portion of his life. The early years fly by and then the text slows down to examine more closely events that seem most important during the last decade—and I don't just mean events events, but these are often thematically motivated editorial choices. I don't disagree with these decisions (it's the right book for this moment) but there is still room for future biographical attention.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">But me, I'm satisfied.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">(If you were hoping for a better review from me while I have a cold, sorry, <a href="https://www.wayfaremagazine.org/p/romney-our-own-reckoning">try this instead</a>.)<br /></p>
<small><i>about three weeks</i></small><br />
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<b>125)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401289089">The Sandman: Brief Lives</a> by Neil Gaiman et al., finished November 21
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">This is the only one we own (Lady Steed brought it into the marriage) and in many respects I think it deserves that honor, though Ishtar's dance means it cannot be left at reaching level (the description of a man ejaculating over and over until he was ejaculating blood stuck with me a long time; maybe it will again).</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">What Gaiman is best at is concepts and that's why it's his shorter works (comics, short stories, children's novels...) that tend to be his best. And <i>Brief Lives</i> has just strong concepts throughout, with a just-strong-enough plot to contain them all.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Maybe I should say that his shorter AND his episodic works that work best. Because <i>Sandman</i>, as a whole, is not particularly "short" and it works as both an entire and in its bits.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Anyway, I liked it.<br /></p>
<small><i>three weeks (with a two-week gap in the middle)</i></small><br />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: left;"><b><u><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Previously. . . . :<span></span></span></u></b></p><a name="more"></a><p></p>
<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><u>final posts in this series from</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2007/12/eighteenth-five-books-of-two-thousand.html">2007</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2008/12/25-final-few.html">2008</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2009/12/three-more-2009-books-from-jake-parker.html">2009</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2010/12/final-few-books-of-2010-and-note-on-why.html">2010</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2011/12/could-this-be-final-list-of-2011-books.html">2011</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-final-books-of-2012.html">2012</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/12/final-finished-books-of-2013.html">2013</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/12/nearing-end-destroyed-by-our-friends.html">2014</a> = <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/01/gah-one-more-book-for-2015.html">2015</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/12/some-book.html">2016</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-final-few.html">2017</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/12/final-books-post-of-2018.html">2018</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/12/and-orson-scott-card-makes-one-hundred.html">2019</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/12/two-more-books-with-two-hours-to-spare.html">2020</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/12/if-these-are-last-books-of-year-we-can.html">2021</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/12/no-more-books-in-2022-im-afraid.html">2022</a><br /></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Earlier in 2023</span></b></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/01/2023-is-80-comics.html">2023 is 80% comics</a></span></span></b></span></p></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span></b></span><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>001)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781534321182">The Dark Room</a> by Gerry Duggan & Scott Buoncristiano, finished January four<br /><b>002)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3JQdewY">The Only Harmless Great Thing</a> by Brooke Bolander, finished January 6<br /><b>003)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780545135436">Rose</a> by Jeff Smith and Charles Vess, finished January 10<br /><b>004)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781770464926">Acting Class</a> by <span class="a-size-medium">Nick Drnaso</span>, finished January 10<br /><b>005)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781338167085">Red Scare</a> by Liam Francis Walsh, finished January 11</span></span></p><p>
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</span></span></b></span><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/01/step-right-up-and-try-your-luck.html">Step right up and try your luck</a></span></span></span></b></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>006)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780143039464" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Short Reign of Pippin IV</a> by John Steinbeck, finished January 18</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></b><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>007)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3WBb0o0" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Filmish</a> by Edward Ross, finished circa January 20</span></span><b><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/02/blog-post.html">HOW many times?</a></span></span></b></span></p><p class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>008)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3kLeWoA">Maddy Kettle Book: The Adventure of the Thimblewitch</a> by Eric Orchard, finished January 24 <br />
<b>009)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3Xe80hp">Fantastic Frights: A Beginner's Guide to Scary Stories</a>, finished January 24
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>010)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780380709540">Ramona the Pest</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished February 2<br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>011)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780735220690">Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine</a> by Gail Honeyman, finished February 3<br /><b>012)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780679723257">The Postman Always Rings Twice</a> by James M. Cain, finished February 4
</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>013)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3RIiVyT">Is that all there is?</a> by Joost Swarte, finished February 6
<br /><b>014)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780063030695">Edge Case</a> by YZ Chin, finished February 7</span></span></p></div><p>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/02/if-it-werent-for-friendly-sex-talk.html"><b><span>If it weren't for a friendly sex talk, everything here would be miserable</span></b></a></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>015)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780679723226">Double Indemnity</a> by James M. Cain, finished February 10<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>016)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780998605272">Sex Educated: Letters from a Latter-day Saint therapist to her younger self</a> by Bonnie Young, LMFT, finished February 13<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>017)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781637740422">Unmask Alice: LDS, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries</a> by Rick Emerson, finished February 20 </span></p><p>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/03/a-bookful-bounty-for-thee-and-thine.html"><b><span> A Bookful Bounty for thee and thine </span></b></a></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>018)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781982185824">I'm Glad My Mom Died</a> by Jeannette McCurdy, finished February 27<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>019–21)</b> <a href="https://karlkerschl.com/comic/episode-one/">The Abominable Charles Christopher</a> by Karl Kershl, finished March 6
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>022)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250193537">Displacement</a> by Kiku Hughes, finished March 6
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>023)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781684158058">The Many Deaths of Laila Starr</a> by Ram V and Filipe Andrade, finished March 6
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>024)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3ZSNFAj">The Homeland Directive</a> by Robert Venditti and Mike Huddleston, finished March 7
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>025)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781982156893">Titus Andronicus</a> by William Shakespeare, finished March 14
<br /><b>026)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781633451094">Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange</a> by Tess Taylor, finished March 15
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>027)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3nrXE1p">22 Young Mormon Writers</a> edited by Neal E. Lambert and Richard H. Cracroft, finished March 19
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>028 & 029)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781982156893">Titus Andronicus</a> by William Shakespeare, finished March 23 & March 27</span>
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<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/04/literarily-solving-for-x.html">Literarily solving for X</a></span></h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>030)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781101981870">X</a> by Sue Grafton, finished March 28<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>031)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061246470">Ramona the Brave</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished April 5<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>032)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781501134197">Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century</a> by Dana Stevens, finished April 5<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>033)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/43DvOja">Abe Lincoln in Illinois</a> by Robert E. Sherwood, finished April 8<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>034)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3L2qZbP">Theology of Play</a> by Jürgen Moltmann, finished April 12<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>035)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/43zqOMq">The Male Animal</a> by James Thurber and Elliott Nugent, finished April 12<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>036)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780763687069">Bluffton</a> by Matt Phelan, finished April 16<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>037)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250815293">Number One Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions</a> by Steve Martin and Harry Bliss, finished April 15</span></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/04/from-lolly-to-elias.html">From Lolly to Elias</a></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>038)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780486843483">Lolly Willowes</a> by Sylvia Townsend Warner, finished April 17</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>039)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781616964023">The Emperor's Soul</a> by Brandon Sanderson, finished April 19
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>040)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781534324527">Beware the Eye of Odin</a> by Wager/Odland/Madsen/Dukeshire, finished April 19
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>041)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://amzn.to/3UY8edd">The Complete Peanuts: 1965–1966</a> by Charles M. Schulz, finished April 20
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>042)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250262899">A Wealth of Pigeons</a> by Steve Martin and Harry Bliss, finished April 22
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>043)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780344135187">Elias: An Epic of the Ages</a> by Orson Ferguson Whitney, finished April 23</span></span></h3>
<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/05/old-hollywood-olden-times.html">Old Hollywood & Olden Times</a></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;"><span><b>044)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781493060405">Straight Lady: The Life and Times of Margaret Dumont, "The Fifth Marx Brother"</a> by Chris Enss and Howard Kazanjian, finished April 25</span><br /><span><b>045)</b><span> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780262543378">Voices from the Radium Age</a> edited by Joshua Glenn, finished April 26</span></span><br /><span><b>046)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/416Nod2">The Ballad of YFB</a> by Aaron Brassea, finished April 28</span><br /><span><b>047)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250857910">Reynaud's Tale</a> by Ben Hatke, finished May 3</span><br /><span><b>048)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3HLBYo4">Superman: Up in the Sky</a> by Tom King and Andy Kubert, finished May 5</span><br /><span><b>049)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061960901">Ramona and Her Father</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished May 5
<br /><b>050)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780345513991">Resurrection Row</a> by Anne Perry, finished May 6 </span></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/05/saying-good-bye-to-our-friend-kinsey.html">Saying good bye to our friend Kinsey</a></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;"><span><b>052)</b> <a href="https://archive.org/details/moregrosscartoon0000gros/">More Gross: Cartoons</a><span> by S. Gross, finished May 9</span><br /><b>053)</b> <a href="https://archive.org/details/iamblindmydogis00gros">I Am Blind and My Dog Is Dead</a><span> by S. Gross, finished May 9</span><br /></span>
<span><b>054)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779517067">Batgirls: One Way or Another</a><span> by Becky Cloonan / Michael W. Conrad / Jorge Corona / Sarah Stein, finished May 11</span><br /></span>
<span><b>055)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779520289">Batgirls: Bat Girl Summer</a><span> by Becky Cloonan / Michael W. Conrad / Neil Googe / Robbi Rodriguez / Rico Renzi, finished May 11</span><br /></span>
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>056)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780399185380">Y is for Yesterday</a><span> by Sue Grafton, finished May 12 </span></span>
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<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-tyranny-of-getting-stuff-in-right.html">The tyranny of getting stuff in the right order</a></span></h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>051)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780804190114">On Tyranny</a> by Timothy Snyder, finished May 8<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>057)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779504210">Superman Smashes the Klan</a> by Gene Luen Yang and Guruhiru, finished May 13
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>058)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781950774869">Four in Hand</a> by Alicia Mountain, finished May 17<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>059)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/42VBSm3">The Glob</a> by John O'Reilly and Walt Kelly, finished May 20
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>060)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781421437989">Why They <i>Can't</i> Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities</a> by John Warner, finished May 24<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>061)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780316316132">Less</a> by Andrew Sean Greer, finished May 25
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>062)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781506726809">Children of the Woods</a> by Ciano/Hixson/Stevens/Otsmane-Elhaou, finished May 27<br /></span> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>063)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780525655596">The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece</a> by Tom Hanks, finished May 29</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/06/anchors-links-endstuff-morecode-too.html">Such quality. Such excellence.</a></span></h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
<b>064)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3MYvwvL">Here</a> by Darlene Young, finished June 1<br />
<b>065)</b> <a href="https://www.carthageproject.com/product-page/theseus-vol-1-hardcover">Theseus Volume 1</a> by Jordan Holt, finished June 1<br />
<b>066)</b> <a href="https://www.carthageproject.com/product-page/theseus-vol-2-hardcover">Theseus Volume 2</a> by Jordan Holt, finished June 1<br />
<b>067)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/42q7rDG">Reviews for Non-Existent Movies</a> by Eric Goulden Kimball, finished June 5<br />
<b>068)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781935869504">The Scarlet Plague</a> by Jack London, finished June 6<br />
<b>069)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780316459778">Anne of West Philly</a> by Ivy Noelle Weir and Myisha Haynes, finished June 10<br />
<b>070)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061960901">Ramona and Her Mother</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished June 10</span></p>
<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/06/books-read-forensic-investigation.html">Books read: a forensic investigation</a></span></span></h3><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>073)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780063092792">These Precious Days</a> by Ann Patchett, finished c. June 17</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span>
<b>074)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781770463622">Grass</a> by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, finished c. June 19</span><br /><span>
<b>075)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781948218719">The Burning Book: A Jewish-Mormon Memoir</a> by Jason Olson and James Goldberg, finished c. June 21</span><br /><span>
<b>076)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780062671196">The Night Watchman</a> by Louise Erdrich, finished June 23</span></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/07/from-prehumanity-to-eternal-destiny.html"><span>From prehumanity to eternal destiny</span></a></b></span></div><p>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>077)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781888963755">Tuki: Fight for Fire</a> by Jeff Smith, finished June 28</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>078)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781888963779">Tuki: Fight for Family</a> by Jeff Smith, finished June 29</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>079)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781350160750">The Writer's Hustle</a> by Joey Franklin, finished July 8</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>080)</b> <a href="https://epluribusmormon.square.site/">Future Day Saints: The New Arrivals</a> by Matt Page, finished July 16</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>081)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780765385253">Binti</a> by Nnedi Okorafor, finished July 18</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>082)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061960901">Ramona Quimby, Age 8</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished July 19</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>083)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781613163757">Just One More</a> by Annette Lyon, finished July 20</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>084)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780141304700">The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More</a> by Roald Dahl, finished July 22</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>085)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781637740538">Somewhere Out There: My Animated Life</a> by Don Bluth, finished July 22</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/07/two-women-in-comics-form.html">Two women, in comics form</a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> <br /></b></span></h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>085)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781607061472">Beast</a> by Marian Churchland, finished July 24<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>086)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779515681">Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow</a> by King/Evely/Lopes, finished c. July 28</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-sex-and-metaphysics-venn-diagram.html">The sex-and-metaphysics Venn diagram</a></span></b></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>087)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781620105412">Banana Sunday</a> by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover, finished August 2<br /><b>088)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780394410715">Falconer</a> by John Cheever, finished August 3<br /><b>089)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780553348972">Still Life with Woodpecker</a> by Tom Robbins, finished August 3<br /><b>090)</b> <span><a href="https://www.shortbox.co.uk/product/homunculus-by-joe-sparrow-new-edition-pre-order-n">Homunculus</a> </span>by Joe Sparrow, finished August 5<br /><b>091)</b> <a href="https://www.shortbox.co.uk/product/cuckoo-by-joe-sparrow-pre-order">Cuckoo</a> by Joe Sparrow, finished August 9<br /><b>092)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780892555598">Fatal</a> by Kimberly Johnson, finished August 16<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>093)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781596434530">The Unsinkable Walker Bean</a> by Aaron Renier, finished August 17<br /><b>094)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3OFWIjS">The Infinite Future</a> by Tim Wirkus, finished August 22<br /><b>095)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780374607401">Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne</a> by Katherine Rundell, finished August 23 <br /></span></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/09/what-is-this-nothing-but-comics.html">What, is this nothing but comics?</a></span>
</h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>096)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3EADkAg">The Unsinkable Walker Bean and the Knights of the Waxing Moon</a> by Aaron Renier, finished August 24<b><br />097)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3OQq1QJ">Just Julie's Fine</a> by Theric Jepson, finished August 26<br /><b>098)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250776297">Bea Wolf</a> by Zach Weinersmith and Boulet, finished August 28<br /><b>099)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781684052714">Assassinistas</a> by Tini Howard / Gilbert Hernandez / et al., finished August 31<br /><b>100)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779521354">Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons</a> by Kelly Sue DeConnick / Phil Jimenez / Gene Ha / Nicola Scott, finished August 31<br /><b>101)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401284770">The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes</a> by Neil Gaiman et al., finished September 6<br /><b>102)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780385334235">Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!</a> by Kurt Vonnegut, finished September 11 </span></p><p class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/10/we-got-mysteries-we-got-apples-we-got.html">We got mysteries, we got apples, we got St. Paul. . . .</a></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>103)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401285067">The Sandman: The Doll's House</a> by Neil Gaiman et al., finished September 14<br /><b>104)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780062073952">Hallowe'en Party</a> by Agatha Christie, finished September 2023<b><br />105)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401285487">The Sandman: Dream Country</a> by Neil Gaiman et al, finished September 27<b><br />106)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250220271">Apples Never Fall</a> by Liane Moriarty, finished September 29<b><br />107)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780385522571">Paul Among the People: The Apostle Reinterpreted and Reimagined in His Own Time</a> by Sarah Ruden, finished October 1<br /><b>108)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780199536504">Cymbeline</a> by William Shakespeare, finished October 5<br /><b>109)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401285814">The Sandman: Season of Mists</a> by Neil Gaiman et al, finished October 5</span></p><p>
<b> </b><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/10/anchors-links-endstuff-morecode-too.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Coupla classics et al.</span></a><b> <br /></b></p><h1 style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>110)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781950774470">A Cluster of Noisy Planets</a> by Charles Rafferty, finished October 6<br /><b>111)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061960901">Ramona Forever</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished October 7<br /><b>112)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781524884949">The Mysteries</a> by Bill Watterson and Bill Kascht, finished October 10<br /><b>113)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401288075">The Sandman: A Game of You</a> by Neil Gaiman et al, finished October 12<br /><b>114)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780063114852">The Bridge of San Luis Rey</a> by Thornton Wilder, finished October 13<br /><b>115, 116)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780199536504">Cymbeline</a> by William Shakespeare, finished October 16, 17<br /><b>117)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781534324824">Kaya: Book One</a> by author, finished October 21<br /><b>118)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780140077025">White Noise</a> by Don DeLillo, finished October 23
</span></h1>Th.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-86900222081863378622023-10-31T21:53:00.001-07:002023-10-31T21:56:25.342-07:00Octoboo<p>.<br /><br />All I want to do in October is watch scary movies!</p><p>I am generally disappointed in how many I cram in.</p><p>I thought at least I would get to watch The Phantom Carriage Halloween night but . . . that's just not how Halloween goes.</p><p></p><p>Oh, lah, my life is hard.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i><b>THEATER<br /><small>Century 16 Hilltop</small></b></i></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>A Haunting in Venice</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22687790?thmazing">2023</a>)<br />
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Okay. This is not a great work of art or anything but it was marvelously entertaining and shot beautifully and, so long as you can turn off your ability to make small complaints (the poor writing for and direction of Tina Fey, a photo that should not have been in color, a couple overexpository moments, some modern terminology dropped to make sure we feel our fragile sensibilities are respected), it is really quite wonderful.<br />
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That said, do you mind if I just dive into spoilers and discuss the rare similarities between the movie and <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/10/we-got-mysteries-we-got-apples-we-got.html#104">its source material</a>? Thanks. Because they have so little in common that what they <i>do</i> share is fascinating.<br />
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As I said, spoilers. For both book and movie.<br />
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First, I was so happy Tina Fey's character was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariadne_Oliver">Ariadne Oliver</a> whom I quite liked in the book and who thus, I hoped, would become a series regular, appearing in every two or three films. But they were never able to let us really believe that she and Poirot were actually friends and the movie ends such that I doubt we'll see her again. Also, her whole plan made her rather dumb. Disappointing all around. As much as she loves Tina Fey (we'll be seeing her and Amy Pohler live in Oakland in a few months), Lady Steed felt that her casting was the weakest part of the film. Me, I blame more the writing and the direction (decide whether you want Tina Fey to be Tina Fey or not!).<br />
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The initial murder happens for a similar reason, but in the book it's a girl in a bobbing-for-apples bowl. The eventual apples twist shook me more than anyone else in the audience <i>because</i> it was book-adjacent but not book.<br />
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The boy Leopold in the movie is entirely different from the book and I was thinking it was just a shared name but then, in what I found the most satisfying twist in the movie, they shared a key action. But not at all for the same reason. I like the movie Leopold much better. He's an actual character for one thing, and interesting to boot.<br />
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I suppose you could argue both book and movie give Poirot a local retired police officer friend, but that seems a bit stretched.<br />
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A couple other characters shared names and this and that, but the major stuff I've already covered. Pretty much everything else is different, though I'm happy to enjoy both on their individual merits.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312004?thmazing">2005</a>)<br />
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What an absolutely WONDERFUL movie this is to watch with an audience. Which, yes, I did back in 2005, but that was a long time ago. And yes I've seen the movie at home more than once since then. But apparently <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-movies-of-2013-one-paragraph.html">not since 2013</a>.<br />
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Anyway, theaters are the natural home of movies. Yes, I would've enjoyed watching on my laptop as I lay in bed, but with a room full of adults and children laughing at different things? Exactly what movies are for.<br />
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We're at risk of losing this experience. Don't let that happen! GO TO the movies!!!<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Oink</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16445248?thmazing">2022</a>)<br />
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Given how many awards the film racked up in its native Nederlands I suppose it must have been better in Dutch. The English dub, however, is terrible. No character escapes bad line readings and I'm not sure the protagonist got a single good one. As far as I can tell, the same actors did both recordings (?) so that could explain it.<br />
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I appreciate this was someone's labor of love and, again, maybe it's better in Dutch, but the script is dumb through and through. It's fine in animation to throw away bits of realism (that's not how sausage makers work, but whatever), but how can you decide to tell us the pig's getting fat when the pig looks exactly as he always has? And none of the character development (or lack thereof) makes any sense. The jokes are dumb with an overreliance on the (also not funny) scatalogical).<br />
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I think it wants to have the sort of yay-vegetarian effect allegedly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stall_%28Poker_Face%29#Plot"><i>Okja</i> has had on people</a> (though <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/11/moviember-2019.html#okja">I was underwhelmed by that film</a> as well), but it's so lazy in it's storytelling its convictions fall flat.<br />
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In short, it's a bad movie. Sorry, Holland.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Barbie</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1517268?thmazing">2023</a>)<br />
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This is my third viewing and I still love it. I weep off and on throughout the final half, I laugh regularly, I see layers I've missed before. Since my last viewing (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTXCaFZLoL0&t=3s">and my recording</a>) I've listened to <a href="https://www.popcultureapricottree.com/post/barbie">a couple</a> <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2023/08/09/mormon-land-is-barbie-an-allegory/">podcasts</a> (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXGJyo_V0rg">or at least parts</a>) and while I found much to agree with and much to disagree with, watching it this time I realize the movie is generous and rich enough for all sincere readings to be correct. The movie has honest and earned depth. All the things I heard that I thought were wrong I realize are also right. And frankly, isn't that what good literature does?<br />
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I love <i>Barbie</i>. Movie of the year.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>This Magnificent Cake!</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7925798?thmazing">2018</a>)<br />
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Holy moly. I mean—I read about this film when it came out and I knew that it was serious (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xKHA3pNoRI">I've seen their stuff before</a>) (incidentally, why is it now distributed by GKIDS??), and maybe it's just because five years have passed, but I was not prepared for this quiet, quiet, quiet yet hella distressing look at colonialism. Even just starting with King Leopold in Belgium, you know it'll be awful. And it is. In the most horrifying banal ways imaginable. This is what happens when a bunch of suburbanites decide they deserve your land.<br />
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Anyway, I don't teach <i>Heart of Darkness</i>, but if I did, I would most certainly show this film. It would upset the kids in all the right ways.<br />
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It'll upset you too.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Cymbeline</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3093522/?thmazing">2014</a>)<br />
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Modernize Shakespeare! This team did <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171359/?thmazing">a very silly <i>Hamlet</i></a> (I mean---I like it okay, but still, you know?) and now they're tackling a play people don't already know. I'm not sure you will by the end.<br />
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The budget led to some peculiar choices (battles off screen) and nonchoices (missing foley). But other stuff is less explicable. For instance, they reduced the dream scene to just one ghost, and the ghost still delivered a physical message, but no one ever reads it. That's strange.<br />
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Other choices I found more interesting. I love when they move lines around to make a movie work. For instance, some lines from scene one are put into new mouths about three-quarters through to share information. That's problemsolving!<br />
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The acting was mostly good, but with about 70% of the dialogue gone and the modern setting, some things are just bizarre. Why did the kid cut off Cloten's head, for instance? Why do he and his brother want to go fight in a gang war? What is that all about?<br />
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The actor's mostly did well. Nice to have John Leguizamo and Vondie Curtis-Hall back from Baz's <i>Romeo + Juliet</i>. The big stars held their own, generally. I thought Ethan's Hawke interpretation of Iachomo as a man motivated entirely by fear was an instructive choice. And Delroy Lindo was an unexpected standout with a severely truncated character. Looking at <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005148/?thmazing">his IMDb page</a>, I can see my thinking of him has been based on a teeny subset of his career. I need to move <i><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9777644?thmazing">Da 5 Bloods</a></i> up my to-watch list.<br />
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Anyway, some great moments. But not a big winner with my teen audience.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>The Bridge on the River Kwai</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050212?thmazing">1957</a>)<br />
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Like <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/09/feature-films-september-2019.html#orans">my last wait-for-the-theater David Lean experience</a>, this is an amazingly large and epic movie. Huge. Enormous. Deserving of the largest screen you can find. But the film isn't about hugeness alone. It's about complicated and fascinating characters, their relationships and motivations. The way they change over time. The way heroism may not be. The way we can lose our way, how we can find it, what that even may mean.<br />
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The cast is terrific. The film occasionally seems like a two-hander, with old pros <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-movies-of-2013-one-paragraph.html#thecheat">Sessue Hayakawa</a> and Alec Guiness, but the top-billed actor is William Holden and he does snarkily comic American well but still lets us believe the man has an actual life beyond that surface and will have an actual death at the end he must protect against. Characters with medium- and small-sized roles also do well. Some don't even have speaking roles.<br />
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Also, this movie in one sense ages better than the younger <i>Lawrence of Arabia</i>—in that film, Alec Guiness wore brownface; this film has no yellowface.<br />
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I'm most surprised how little I knew about it. Given how much imagery was in my head and that I could give you the film's logline, I expected that it would unfold as expected—even though I didn't have particular expectations.<br />
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But it was great and the 16yrold dug it as well.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Dick Johnson Is Dead</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11394180?thmazing">2020</a>)<br />
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First, watch this movie.<br />
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Go for <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/0715515267915">the Criterion edition</a> because you will learn some amazing things from the special features. For instance, the heaven sequences, which to me seem pivotal, were a last-minute decision to spend the remaining budget on. And Dick Johnson is so vital in those scenes, it's shocking they were the last things filmed.<br />
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If you don't know the concept of this documentary, filmmaker Kirsten Johnson's father has dementia and she is making a film about it, including fictionalized sequences, such as variations on his own death.<br />
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This is creative and moving filmmaking. We are manipulated at every turn but always in search of truer truths about dementia, love, family, loss.<br />
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It is a beautiful and heartbreaking film.<br />
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And, as a sidenote, I learned I've been saying Seventh Day Adventist wrong all these years. The accent is on AD, not VENT. Good to know.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>The Shining</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505?thmazing">1980</a>)<br />
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Lady Steed has never seen it and it would be fair to complain that <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-shining.html">my first viewing</a> did not give the film a fair shot and here it is in theaters so let's go see it!<br />
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Yeah, it's not good. I did keep myself from from scoffing out loud because of the other people in the theater, but come on. Jack doesn't fall; he always sucks. The camera work is cool but the music is a joke. The death of Dick is stupid. The hauntings make no sense. The pacing is wrong. The ending is dumb. The relationships are absurd. In short, I agree with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_%28film%29#Initial_reviews">the critics of the time</a>.<br />
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The final chase does occasionally build tension but that's entirely because of Shelley Duvall's performance. Watching Jack Nicholson in <i>The Shining</i> is to feel like <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/04/not-that-i-watched-any-ukrainian-films.html#batman">the Joker</a> is the only role he should ever be allowed to play.<br />
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Lady Steed's theory is he was at the hotel in a previous life which makes sense mostly but if he's always been the caretaker, why is he the focal point of that dumb photo. (And the photo is just a dumb gimmick, is my opinion. Let Kurick think he's clever's my opinion. The man's dead.)<br />
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Ugh.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>The Toxic Avenger</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090190?thmazing">1984</a>)<br />
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I first remember hearing about this movie from tshirts about ten years after its release. I honestly never had an interest. But then I saw <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1633359/mediaindex/?thmazing">some still from the upcoming reboot</a> and, well, suddenly I was.<br />
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The movie had much more budget than I expected. I mean---they had tanks! They had the sort of carchase where a bunch of 1970s sedans get flipped over! The appearance and acting wasn't far removed from a pre-1980 Disney comedy, just with grotesque (and ridiculous) violence and some absurd '80s tanlines on breasts.<br />
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The movie was pretty bad but also weirdly charming, in a Mel Brooks-offensive sorta way. I was tempted to take the suggestion to start the second movie. But I refained. And I'm sure I'll get over it.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Moroni for President</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6143626?thmazing">2018</a>)<br />
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The tale of a gay Mormon Navajo running for president of the Navajo nation. Although his plan does seem doomed from the beginning, he's inspiring to watch.<br />
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Maybe these trees will bear fruit in a few more years.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2022</u><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-years-starts-slowly.html" title="21 Up (1977) | After Hours (1985) | Encanto (2021) | Harold and Maude (1971) | The Last Starfighter (1984) | Little Women (2019)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/02/februarys-over-already-it-was-yesterday.html" title="Ford v Ferrari (2019) | The Imposter (2012) | Modern Times (1936) | Private Benjamin (1980) | Sing Street (2016) | Snowball Express (1972) | The Voyeurs (2021)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/03/march-on-to-filmdonia.html" title="The Awful Truth (1937) | Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021) | The Batman (2022) | The Lady in the Van (2015)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/04/not-that-i-watched-any-ukrainian-films.html" title="28 Up (1984) | Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021) | Batman (1989) | Embrace the Panda: Making Turning Red (2022) | Free Guy (2021) | Gattaca (1997) | Henson's Place: The Man Behind the Muppets (1984) | Kong: Skull Island (2017) | The Mummy (1932) | Please Vote for Me (2007) | Professor Marston & the Wonder Women (2017) | Pulp Fiction (1994) | Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) | They Call Me Trinity (1970) | Turning Red (2022) | WW84 (2020)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/05/movie-may-i.html" title="35 Up (1991) | Bambi (1942) | The Bob's Burgers Movie (2022) | Chan Is Missing (1982) | Departures (2008) | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) | Eagle vs Shark (2007) | Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) | Finch (2021) | Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth (2020) | Learning to See: The World of Insects (2016) | The Liberators (2016) | Man on Fire (2018) | Mickey Mouse Monopoly (2002) | Moana (2016) | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) | The Northman (2022) | Porco Rosso (1992) | Psycho (1960) | Psychos (2014) | Putin: The New Tsar (2018) | Russian Ark (2002) | The Trolls (2015) | Two Million Minutes: A Global Examination (2008)">may</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/06/june-film-flybys.html" title="42 Up (1998) | 49 Up (2005) | 56 Up (2012) | All the President's Men (1976) | Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) | The General (1926) | The Green Knight (2021) | The Green Man (1956) | Jallikattu (2019) | Killer of Sheep (1978) | The Matrix (1999) | Monster on the Campus (1958) | Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) | The Post (2017) | Princess Mononoke (1997) | Soylent Green (1973)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-quality-july.html" title="The Bob Emergency (2019) | Elvis (2022) | The Fog of War (2003) | Heat (1995) | The Insufferable Groo (2018) | Last Night in Soho (2021) | The Lunchbox (2013) | Mad God (2022) | Masterminds (2016) | The Mummy (1999) | The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982) | Nope (2022) | Princess Protection Program (2009) | The Thing (1982) | Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) | Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made (2020) | WWJD (2022)">july</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/08/august-films-2022.html" title="Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) | Beaver Trilogy (2000) | Beaver Trilogy Part IV (2015) | Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022) | Cinderella 3: A Twist in Time (2007) | Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) | Encanto (2021) | The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021) | How to score 10 runs in the first inning and lose (2022) | Jules et Jim (1962) | Once (2007)">aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/09/ive-run-out-of-september-film-puns-2022.html" title="The Boyfriend School (1990) | Brave (2012) | Boss Baby (2017) | Bullitt (1968) | Dog City (1989) | Frances Ferguson (2019) | It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) | Jaws (1975) | Love and Saucers (2017) | Macbeth (2018) | M*A*S*H (1970) | Moana (2016) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | Storks (2016) | Teacher of the Year (2014) | Touch of Evil (1958/1998) | The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/10/octobrrrrr-films-were-just-not-chilly.html" title="Bell Book and Candle (1958) | A Bucket of Blood (1959) | Emma. (2020) | Old (2021) | Werewolf by Night (2022) | Much Ado About Nothing (1993) | Much Ado About Nothing (2012)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/11/novilmber.html" title="The Addams Family (1991) | La belle et la bête (1946) | Boss Baby: Family Business (2021) | CRYO (2022) | Dan in Real Life (2007) | Glass Onion (2022) | An Honest Liar (2014) | A Serious Man (2009) | Suburbicon (2017) | Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) | While You Were Sleeping (1995) | WWJD (2022)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/01/ending-year-in-cinematic-style.html" title="Barber Westchester (2022) | The Batman (2022) | Batman Returns (1992) | The Compleat Al (1985) | Elf (2003) | The Guardians of the Galaxy: Holiday Special (2022) | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) | The LEGO Movie (2014) | The Matrix (1999) | The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) | Midnight Run (1988) | Mirai (2018) | Moana (2016) | Patch Town (2014) | Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (1972) | The Shop Around the Corner (1940) | Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) | A Unicorn for Christmas (2021)">dec</a><br /></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2021</u><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/01/no-so-many-movies-this-january-im-afraid.html" title="Babette's Feast (1987) | Bashful (1917) | The Big Idea (1917) | By the Sad Sea Waves (1917) | A Cat in Paris (2010) | A Gasoline Wedding (1918) | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) | Lonesome Luke, Messenger (1917) | Look Pleasant, Please (1918) | The Princess and the Frog (2009) | The Shaggy D.A. (1976) | Shrek (2001) | Shrek 2 (2004) | Soul (2020) | Wings of Desire (1987)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/02/february-more-like-filmuary.html" title="A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) | The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) | Monuments Men (2014) | My Neighbor Totoro (1988) | The Player (1992) | The Princess Bride (1989) | Selma (2014) | Shrek Forever After (2010) | Shrek the Third (2007) | Spirited Away (2001) | La Strada (1954)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/03/march-movies-march.html" title="And Should We Die (1966) | Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020) | The Dirty Dozen (1967) | Downsizing (2017) | Hail, Caesar! (2016) | Inside Out (2015) | Jojo Rabbit (2019) | My Cousin Vinny (1992) | Rififi (1955)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/04/april-showers-do-not-exist-this-is.html" title="Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) | Belladonna of Sadness (1973) | Blast from the Past (1999) | Captain America: Civil War (2016) | The Floorwalker (1916) | Flora & Ulysses (2021) | Hypocrites (1915) | The Incredibles (2004) | Jojo Rabbit (2019) | The Last Unicorn (1982) | Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) | Moonrise Kingdom (2012) | Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976) | Paul Williams Still Alive (2011) | Phantom of the Paradise (1974) | Spontaneous (2020) | The Star Prince (1918)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/05/may-we-movie-yes-we-may.html" title="High Noon (1952) | Idiocracy (2006) | The Incredible Hulk (2008) | The Maltese Falcon (1941) | My Favorite Wife (1940) | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | Parasite (2019) | So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)">may</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/06/june-something-something-movie-pun.html" title="Billu (2009) | Ella Cinders (1926) | The Errand of Angels (2004) | Future War (1997) / MST3K: Future War (1999) | Luca (2021) | A Quiet Place (2018) | Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) | Sullivan's Travels (1941)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-films-of-july-such-as-they-were.html" title="The Caine Mutiny (1954) | The Cat from Outer Space (1978) | The Innocents (1961) | The Manchurian Candidate (1962) | A Mighty Wind (2003) | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | This Is Spinal Tap (1984) | Tron: Legacy (2010)">jul</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/09/augustus-filmius.html" title="Black Widow (2021) | Contact (1997) | The Giant Brine Shrimp (1973) | Phantom of the Megaplex (2000) | Scoob! (2020) | Sylvio (2017) | Three Men and a Baby (1987)">aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/09/remember-the-films-of-september.html" title="'Crocodile' Dundee (1986) | Discovering Treasure: The Story of the Treasure of the Sierra Madre (2003) | Emma. (2020) | The Jewel of the Nile (1985) | John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1989) | Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: The Flash (2018) | Romancing the Stone (1984) | Scotland, Pa. (2001) | Snoopy, Come Home (1972) | A Town Called Panic (2009) | A Town Called Panic: Double Fun (2016) | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/10/october-and-disturbing-paucity-of-scary.html" title="The Bat (1959) | The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Gentlemen Broncos (2009) | Hero (2002) | Macbeth (2015) | Mr. Boogedy (1986) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | Muppets Haunted Mansion (2021) | Scotland, Pa. (2001) | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-first-time.html" title="About a Boy (2002) | The Amazing Spider-man (2012) | As You Like It (1978) | Beetlejuice (1988) | Bottle Rocket (1996) | Eternals (2021) | Flora & Ulysses (2021) | An Honest Liar (2014) | Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) | Masaan (2015) | Out of Liberty (2019) | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) | Sisters (1972)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/12/and-twenty-twenty-one-comes-crashing-to.html" title="7 Plus Seven (1970) | Bedazzled (1967) | Die Hard (1988) | Elf (2003) | The History of the Seattle Mariners (2020) | The Holiday (2006) | Home Alone (1990) | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) | It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) | The Matrix (1999) | The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) | Ron's Gone Wrong (2021) | Seven Up! (1964) | Speed (1994) | Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) | ¡Three Amigos! (1986) | Toys (1992) | The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)">dec</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2020</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-first-month-of-2020-films-watched.html" title="1917 (2019) | The Aeronauts (2019) | After Hours (1985) | Amy (2015) | Barcelona (1994) | Cars (2006) | The Death of Stalin (2017) | A Fool There Was (1915) | How Rare a Possession: The Book of Mormon (1987) | The In-Laws (1979) | Joker (2019) | Knives Out (2019) | Long Shot (2019) | Parasite (2019) | Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) | Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) | Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) | Three Days of the Condor (1975) | Unbreakable (2000) | Wag the Dog (1997)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/02/leap-day-means-extra-day-for-movies-in.html" title="The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) | Arrival (2016) | Bolt (2008) | Contagion (2011) | Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) | Groundhog Day (1993) | Inception (2010) | Jean de Florette (1986) | Kung Fu Dunk (2008) | Manon des Sources (1986) | Muriel's Wedding (1994) | Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019) | Sylvio (2017) | Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914) | Troop Zero (2019) | Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013) | Young Adult (2011)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/03/march-brings-end-of-normality-and.html" title="The Avengers (2012) | Bambi (1942) | Bottle Rocket (1996) | Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) | Finding Nemo (2003) | Heart of Africa (2020) | It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) | A League of Their Own (1992) | Miniscule: Valley of the Lost Ants (2013) | The Avengers | Patema Inverted (2013) | Phase IV (1974) | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) | UHF (1989) | WALL·E (2008) | Whale Rider (2002)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-movies-intentions-corrupted-by.html" title="4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) | Ant-Man (2015) | Avengers: Endgame (2019) | Avengers: Infinity War (2018) | Black Panther (2018) | Brother Bear (2003) | Captain America: Civil War (2016) | Finding Dory (2016) | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) | Howl's Moving Castle (2004) | Iron Man 2 (2010) | Iron Man Three (2013) | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | My Life as a Zucchini (2016) | Once I Was a Beehive (2015) | Onward (2020) | Out of Liberty (2019) | Spirited Away (2001) | Thor: Ragnarok (2017) | West of Her (2016)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/05/may-we-movies.html" title="Bambi (1942) | Be Kind Rewind (2008) | Duck Soup (1933) | Fantastic Mr Fox (2009) | Fences (2016) | The Fighting Preacher (2019) | Fluke (1995) | Frankenstein (1931) | Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) | The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) | The Great Dinosaur Discovery (1976) | A Hard Day's Night (1964) | House of Frankenstein (1944) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Like Father, Like Son (2013) | Pride & Prejudice (2005) | Ratatouille (2007) | Rushmore (1998) | Shanghai Noon (2000) | Shoplifters (2018) | A Spaceman in King Arthur's Court (1979) | Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) | The Strongest Man in the World (1975)">may</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-movies-minimally-jejune.html" title="An Affair to Remember (1957) | Any Old Port in a Storm (1973) | Artemis Fowl (2020) | Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman (2003) | Blindspotting (2018) | Endless Night (1972) | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) | First Reformed (2017) | The Florida Project (2017) | The Great Muppet Caper (1981) | Holy Motors (2012) | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) | I Am Not Your Negro (2016) | Intolerable Cruelty (2003) | Ishtar (1987) | Late Night (2019) | Looper (2012) | Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) | My Dog, the Thief (1969) | Patch Town (2014) | Peter Pan (1953) | The Red Mill (1927) | The Seventh Seal (1957) | The Shiver of the Vampires (1971) | Snowpiercer (2013) | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) | Transperceneige: From the Blank Page to the Black Screen (2014) | Under the Silver Lake (2018) | West of Hot Dog (1924)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/07/blog-post.html" title="Beginners (2010) | Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019) | Fitzwilly (1967) | Galaxy Quest (1999) | A Ghost Story (2017) | The Hate U Give (2018) | A Hidden life (2019) | Hot Rod (2007) | House of Dracula (1945) | Jerry Maguire (1996) | Meet the Robinsons (2007) | New York Doll (2005) | The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) | Shaun of the Dead (2004) | Transylvania 6-5000 (1985) | The Zone (2011)">jul</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/08/film-so-august.html" title="Alice in Wonderland (1951) | Bug (1975) | Country Gentlemen (1936) | The Dead Don't Die (2019) | Eleanor's Secret (2009) | Firebird (1982) | Frozen II (2019) | Knives Out (2019) | Minority Report (2002) | Rango (2011) | Spirited Away (2001) | Table 19 (2016) | Tangled (2010)">aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/10/1917-aeronauts-after-hours-amy.html" title="A.C.O.D. (2013) | All Is True (2018) | Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020) | Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (2015) | Chicken Run (2000) | La Cigarette (1919) | Clueless (1995) | Fat City (1972) | The Smiling Madame Beudet (1923) | The Terminator (1984) | Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/11/oktoberfilm.html" title="Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) | Ghostbusters: Answer the Call (2016) | In Search of a Flat Earth (2020) | Intolerance (1916) | Jabberwocky (1977) | The Next Door (2016) | Over the Garden Wall (2014) | The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012) | The Sixth Sense (1999) | Three Ages (1923) | Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) | The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/11/thankful-for-movies.html" title="10 Things I Hate About You (1999) | 1917 (2019) | Arthur Christmas (2011) | Early Man (2018) | Extra Ordinary (2019) | Ford v Ferrari (2019) | I Am Not Your Negro (2016) | Jurassic Park (1993) | Just Mercy (2019) | Kung Fu Panda (2008) | The Last Man on Earth (1964) | Missing Link (2019) | Napoleon Dynamite (2004) | Samuel the Lamanite (2006) | The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956) | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/12/a-film-watch-together-with-youuuuuu.html" title="Babes in Toyland (1934) | BlacKkKlansman (2018) | The Court Jester (1955) | Edward Scissorhands (1990) | Elf (2003) | Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas (2014) | The Farewell (2019) | Get Out (2017) | Home Alone (1990) | Midsommar (2019) | Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) | Noelle (2020) | A Raisin in the Sun (2008) | The Sadist (1963) | A Simple Favor (2018) | Singin' in the Rain (1952) | Up (2009)">dec</a><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2019</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/01/feature-film-january-2019.html" title="The Boat (1921) | Cold Comfort Farm (1995) | The Great Dictator (1940) | Hearts Beat Loud (2018) | An Honest Liar (2014) | Imposter (2012) | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) | One Week (1920) | Shaolin Soccer (2001) | Spider-Man 3 (2007) | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) | Sylvio (2017) | The Thing from Another World (1951) | True Grit (2010)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/02/feature-film-february-2019.html" title="Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Don Verdean (2015) | Duelle (1976) | Edge of Tomorrow (2014) | The Favourite (2018) | Frankenstein (1931) | Hanna (2010) | The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) | Luck-Key (2016) | Mother (2009) | Pom Poko (1994) | Raising Arizona (1987) | Sylvio (2017) | The Tiger Hunter (2016) | Violet & Daisy (2011)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/03/feature-film-march-2019.html" title="Don Verdean (2015) | Eighth Grade (2018) | Fences (2016) | Frankenstein (1931) | Jane and Emma (2018) | Macbeth (1979) | Macbeth (2010) | Macbeth (2015) | The Silence of the Lambs (1991) | Superman (1978) | The Sword in the Stone (1963)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/04/feature-film-april-2019.html" title="Avengers: Infinity War (2018) | Captain Marvel (2019) | Cheatin’ (2013) | George of the Jungle (1997) | Hancock (2008) | An Honest Liar (2014) | King Lear (2018) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | Mulholland Dr. (2001) | Shazam! (2019) | Three Identical Strangers (2018) | Us (2019)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/05/feature-film-may-2019.html" title="Avengers: Endgame (2019) | Bambi (1942) | BASEketball (1998) | Casablanca (1942) | Cinema Paradiso (1988) | A Day at the Races (1937) | The Godfather (1972) | Good Time (2017) | A Goofy Movie (1995) | The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) | One Week & The Boat (1920 & 1921) | Play It Again, Sam (1972) | Psycho (1960) | Rushmore (1998) | Short Term 12 (2013) | Silence (2016) | Wolf Children (2012)">may</a><br />
<a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/06/feature-film-june-2019.html" title="The Big Store (1942) | Crazy Rich Asians (2018) | Deathtrap (1982) | Designing Woman (1957) | The Godfather: Part II (1974) | Louise en Hiver (2016) | Men in Black (1997) | Room 237 (2012) | Room Service (1938) | Sleepless in Seattle (1993) | Spirited Away (2001) | To Be or Not to Be (1942) | Toy Story (1995) | Toy Story 2 (2009) | Toy Story 3 (2010)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/07/feature-films-june-2019.html" title="I, Tonya (2017) | The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) | My Neighbors The Yamadas (1999) | Sorry to Bother You (2018) | Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) | Toy Story 3 (2010) | Toy Story 4 (2019) | The Tree of Life (2011) | Yesterday (2019)">jul</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/08/feature-films-august-2019.html" title="Beware! The Blob (1972) | The Blob (1958) | Bumblebee (2018)| The Dead Zone (1983) | Dealt (2017) | Marjorie Prime (2017) | The Meg (2018) | Matilda (1996) | The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) | Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019)">aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/09/feature-films-september-2019.html" title="Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (2016) | Blinded by the Light (2019) | Captain Marvel (2019) | Kings of Baxter (2017) | The Lady Eve (1941) | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) | The Martian (2015) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Sylvio (2017)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/10/feature-films-october-2019.html" title="Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) | The Addams Family (2019) | An American Werewolf in London (1981) | Gravity (2013) | An Honest Liar (2014) | The Kings of Summer (2013) | Little (2019) | Macbeth (2015) | Moana (2016) | mother! (2017) | Romeo + Juliet (1996) | Romeo Is Bleeding (2015) | Shazam! (2019) | Toy Story (1995) | WALL·E (2008)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/11/films-feature-length-2019-november.html" title="Aquaman (2018) | Blackbeard's Ghost (1968) | Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) | Clue (1985) | Frozen (2013) | Frozen II (2019) | I Lost My Body (2019) | Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) | Isle of Dogs (2018) | Kids + Money (2008) | The Light Bulb Conspiracy (2010) | The Night of the Hunter (1955) | The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | The Prodigal Son (1990) | The Satellite Girl and Milk Cow (2014) | Short Circuit (1986) | Short Circuit 2 (1988) | Space Is the Place (1974)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/12/december-2019-films-de-la-feature.html" title="About a Boy (2002) | The Animagic World of Rankin/Bass (2018) | Babe (1995) | Bagdad Cafe (1987) | The Best Two Years (2004) | Elf (2003) | Fast Color (2018) | Go (1999) | Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) | Gremlins (1984) | Hitler's Hollywood (2017) | Jack Frost (1979) | The _______ Report (2019) | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) | Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) | Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) | Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019) | Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) | Toy Story 4 (2019)">dec</a><br />
</div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2018</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-feature-films-of-january-2018.html" title="The Avengers (2012) | Believe (2013) | Cast Away (2000) | College (1927) | The Creature Walks Among Us (1956) | Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) | Faces Places (2017) | A Goofy Movie (1995) | Hot Rod (2007) | One Man's Treasure (2009) | Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) | Shane (1953) | The Wolfpack (2015)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/02/2018-february-feature-filmery.html" title="Black Panther (2018) | Chan Is Missing (1982) | The Edge of Seventeen (2016) | Help! (1965) | The Incredibles (2004) | Iron Man (2008) | Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002) | Lady Bird (2017) | Love & Friendship (2016) | Pom Poko (1994) | Sylvio (2017) | Toy Story (1995) | Wonderstruck (2017)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/03/march-2018s-feature-filmery.html" title="Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Chinatown (2006) | Colossal (2016) | Fences (2016) | Frankenstein (1931) | Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) | Inside Out (2015) | Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) | What We Do in the Shadows (2014)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/04/april-2018s-feature-filmery.html" title="Adam's Apples (2005) | Avengers: Infinity War (2018) | Cinderella (1950) | Coriolanus (2011) | Darkest Hour (2017) | Don't Think Twice (2016) | Moonstruck (1987) | Muppets from Space (1999) | Princess Mononoke (1997) | The Red Turtle (2016) | Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) | Tangled (2010) | Thor: The Dark World (2013) | 3:10 to Yuma (1957) | 3:10 to Yuma (2007)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/05/may-2018s-feature-filmery.html" title="The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) | The Andromeda Strain (1971) | The Beguiled (2017) | Boy and the World (2013) | Get Out (2017) | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) | Interstellar (2014) | The Iron Giant (1999) | The Little Mermaid (1989) | Mulan (1998) | My Dinner with Andre (1981) | Romeo Is Bleeding (2015) | Spirited Away (2001) | The Stepford Wives (1975) | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | WALL·E (2008) | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)">may</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/06/june-2018s-feature-filmery.html" title="Ant-Man (2015) | Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) | Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) | Incredibles 2 (2018) | Isle of Dogs (2018) | Ocean's 8 (2018) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977) | Rushmore (1998) | Thank You for Smoking (2005)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/08/20julyaugust18.html" title="The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) | Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1992) | The Disaster Artist (2017) | Dunkirk (2017) | Everybody Street (2013) | Finding Dory (2016) | Howl's Moving Castle (2004) | The Lego Batman Movie (2017) | Logan Lucky (2017) | Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) | My Neighbro Totoro (1988) | 9 to 5 (1980) | Porco Rosso (1992) | Son of Frankenstein (1939) | Sorry to Bother You (2018) | The Saratov Approach (2013) | Son of Flubber (1963) | The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) | Thor: Ragnarok (2017) | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018) | Your Name. (2016)">jul&aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/09/not-so-many-movies-in-september-2018.html" title="Art + Belief (2019) | A Boy and His Dog (1975) | The Little Hours (2017) | The Lost Express (1925) | Murder by Death (1976) | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | One Man's Treasure (2009)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-films-of-october-2018.html" title="Batman Begins (2005) | Children of the Corn (1984) | Frailty (2001) | Justice League (2017) | My Friend Dahmer (2017) | The Truman Show (1998) | When Marnie Was There (2014)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/11/moviember-2019.html" title="Baby Mama (2008) | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) | The 'Burbs (1989) | The Dark Knight (2008) | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) | Metropolis (1927) | Modern Times (1936) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | Okja (2017) | Paddington 2 (2017) | Singin' in the Rain (1952) | WarGames (1983)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/12/final-movies-post-of-2018.html" title="The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) | The Comedy of Errors (1983) | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) | It's a Wonderful Life (1946) | My Neighbor Totoro (1998) | North Avenue Irregulars (1979) | Spider-Man (2002) | Spider-Man 2 (2004) | Turbo Kid (2015)">dec</a><br />
</div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2017</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/03/2017-t-ms-part-one.html" title="Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993) | The General (1926) | Get Out (2017) | The Hidden Fortress (1958) | The Karate Kid (1984) | The LEGO Batman Movie (2017) | Mean Girls (2004) | Orc Wars (2013) | Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Room (2015) | Silence (2016) | Storks (2016)">qu1</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/06/2017-t-ms-part-two.html" title="All the President's Men (1976) | Back to the Future (1985) | The Boss Baby (2017) | Casablanca (1942) | Do the Right Thing (1989) | F for Fake (1973) | Fences (2016) | Forbidden Zone (1980) | Fun and Fancy Free (1947) | The Ghost Writer (2010) | Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) | Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 (2017) | Hail, Caesar! (2016) | The Handmaiden (2016) | Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Midnight Special (2016) | Noroît (1976) | Orson Welles: The One-Man Band (1995) | Pride & Prejudice (2005) | Psycho (1960) | The Puffy Chair (2005) | Romeo + Juliet (1996) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Rushmore (1998) | The Shawshank Redemption (1994) | Son of Kong (1933) | Spirited Away (2001) | Sully (2016) | A Town Called Panic (2009) | To Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters (2016) | Wonder Woman (2017)">qu2</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/09/2017-t-ms-part-three.html" title="Arrival (2016) | De Palma (2015) | Doctor Strange (2016) | Dunkirk (2017) | The Eagle Huntress (2016) | Elevator to the Gallows (1958) | Fences (2016) | The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966) | Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) | Ladyhawke (1985) | Logan (2017) | Magnolia (1999) | Moana (2016) | Napoleon Dynamite (2004) | Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) | Swiss Army Man (2016) | Trolls (2016) | Tyrus (2015) | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | Unfaithfully Yours (1948) | Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) | What We Do in the Shadows (2014)">qu3</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/12/end-o-2017.html" title="The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979) | Baby Driver (2017) | The Big Sick (2017) | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) | Boy and the World (2013) | Boy (2010) | Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) | Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017) | Cars 3 (2017) | Christmas in Connecticut (1945) | Clue (1985) | Coco (2017) | Coraline (2009) | Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) | Edward Scissorhands (1990) | Elf (2003) | Frankenstein (1931) | Free Fire (2016) | Home Alone (1990) | The Invisible Man (1935) | The Kid (1921) | A Knight's Tale (2001) | Kong: Skull Island (2017) | Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) | La La Land (2016) | The LEGO Movie (2014) | Lilo & Stitch (2002) | Ministry of Fear (1944) | Monster of Frankenstein (1981) | Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) | Murder on the Orient Express (2017) | Nacho Libre (2006) | The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) | Revenge of the Creature (1955) | A River Runs Through It (1992) | Silence (1992) | Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) | Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) | Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) | Surf's Up (2007) | 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) | Thor (2011) | Thor: Ragnarok (2017) | Train to Busan (2016) | WALL-E (2008) | The Wolf Man (1941) | Wonder Woman (2017) | Young Frankenstein (1974)">qu4</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2016</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/03/first-quarter-films.html" title="Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015 | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1998) | A Hard Day's Night (1964) | Help! (1965) | Inside Out (2015) | It Follows (2014) | Life Itself (2014) | The Magnificent Seven (1960) | Mystery Men (1999) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Romeo + Juliet (1996) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Seven Samurai (1954) | Spy (2015) | Stranger than Fiction (2006) | Wonder Boys (2000) | The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008) | Zootopia (2016)">qu1</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/06/2nd-quarter.html" title="Ant-Man (2015) | Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) | The Big Lebowski (1998) | Casablanca (1942) | Chi-Raq (2015) | Citizen Kane (1941) | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) | Do the Right Thing (1989) | Duck Soup (1933) | Ex Machina (2015) | Extract (2009) | Fargo (1996) | Finding Dory (2016) | Gone Girl (2014) | The Great Dictator (1940) | A Hard Day's Night (1964) | His Girl Friday (1940) | Horse Feathers (1932) | Howl's Moving Castle (2004) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Love & Friendship (2016) | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013) | Playtime (1967) | Rope (1948) | Rushmore (1998) | Spirited Away (2001) | The Station Agent (2003) | The Tree of Life (2011) | Vertigo (1958) | While We're Young (2014) | The World's End (2013) | Young Frankenstein (1974)">qu2</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/09/2016s-third-quarter-movies.html" title="Airplane! (1980) | Amélie (2001) | Anomalisa (2015) | The Avengers (2012) | Batman: The Killing Joke (2016) | Best in Show (2000) | Candleshoe (1977) | Field of Dreams (1989) | Forbidden Planet (1956) | The 400 Blows (1959) | Four Lions (2010) | Freaky Friday (1976) | Ghostbusters (2016) | The Girl from Nowhere (2012) | Goodfellas (1990) | Hot Fuzz (2007) | The Invisible Boy (1957) | Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) | The Lobster (2015) | Mad Max (1979) | Maverick (1994) | Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) | Mood Indigo (2013) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | The Passion of Martin (1991) | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) | Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015) | Stand by Me (1986) | The Sting (1973) | A Town Called Panic (2009) | Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) | Wild Tales (2014)">qu3</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/12/all-rest-of-movies-of-2016.html" title="Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) | The Abominable Bride (2016) | About a Boy (2002) | The Babadook (2014) | The Big Short (2015) | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) | The Blood of Jesus (1941) | The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Café Society (2016) | Captain America: Civil War (2016) | Crisis in Six Scenes (2016) | Doctor Strange (2016) | Elf (2003) | A Face in the Crowd (1957) | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | Fletch (1985) | Frankenstein (1931) | Ghost in the Shell (1995) | The Gleaners & I (2000) | Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956) | Gojira (1954) | Goodnight Mommy (2014) | Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) | Harold and Maude (1971) | I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story (2014) | Keanu (2016) | King Kong (1933) | Let the Right One In (2008) | Miracle on 34th Street (1947) | Mission: Impossible (1996) | Mr. Holmes (2015) | Pride & Prejudice (2005) | Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) | Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) | Rounders (1998) | Scrooged (1988) | Shaolin Soccer (2001) | Star Wars: Rogue One (2016) | Stranger than Fiction (2006) | Wishful Drinking (2010) | Young Frankenstein (1974)">qu4</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2015</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2015/04/first-batch-of-2015-feature-films-seen.html" title="The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967) | Annie (2014) | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) | Duck Soup (1933) | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | Finding Vivian Maier (2013) | Frank (2014) | The Gold Rush (1925) | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) | Her (2013) | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) | Jaws (1975) | Moneyball (2011) | The One I Love (2014) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) | The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015) | 21 Jump Street (2012) | What We Do in the Shadows (2014) | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)">qu1</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2015/07/feature-films-2015-second-quarter.html" title="The Adjustment Bureau | American Movie | Bambi | The Boxtrolls (2014) | Casablanca (1942) | Chef (2014) | Dazed and Confused (1993) | Edge of Tomorrow (2014) | Freetown (2015) | From Up on Poppy Hill (2011) | Godzilla (2014) | Groundhog Day (1993) | Inside Out (2015) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) | Jurassic Park (1993) | Jurassic World (2015) | Looking for Richard (1996) | Marwencol (2010) | Psycho (1960) | Romeo Is Bleeding (2015) | Spirited Away (2001) | THX 1138 (1971) | Tomorrowland (2015) | Under the Skin (2013) | V for Vendetta (2005) | Wadjda (2012)">qu2</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2015/10/feature-films-2015-third-quarter.html" title="Ant-Man (2015) | Boyhood (2014) | The Double (2011) | Frances Ha (2012) | Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) | Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) | My Man Godfrey (1936) | Once I Was a Beehive (2015) | Paddington (2014) | The Rocketeer (1991) | The Sandlot (1993) | Saving Mr. Banks (2013) | The Secret of Kells (2009) | The Secret of Roan Inish (1994) | Song of the Sea (2014) | St. Vincent (2014) | The Third Man (1949) | UHF (1989)">qu3</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2015/12/feature-films-2015-final-quarter.html" title="Back to the Future (1985) | Back to the Future Part II (1989) | Back to the Future Part III (1990) | The Bad Seed (1956) | Bernie (2011) | Big Eyes (2014) | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) | Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Die Hard (1998) | Elf (2003) | Enemy (2013) | Frankenweenie (2012) | The Good Dinosaur (2015) | Hamlet (1990) | Heavy Metal (1981) | It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) | The Mountain of the Lord (1993) | The Parent Trap (1961) | The Peanuts Movie (2015) | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) | Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | School of Rock (2003) | The Skeleton Twins (2014) | The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) | Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1997) | Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) | UHF (1989) | Wild (2014) | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)">qu4</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2014</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/04/feature-length-films-of-2014-quarter-one.html" title="Le Ballon Rouge (1956) | The Book of Mormon Movie, Volume 1: The Journey (2003) | Cedar Rapids (2011) | Chronicle (2012) | The Conversation (1974) | Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) | Knuckleball! (2012) | Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010) | The LEGO Movie (2014) | Mahlzeiten (1967) | Moon (2009) | The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) | Pitch Perfect (2012) | A Royal Affair (2012) | SlamNation (1998) | Source Code (2011) | Warm Bodies (2013) | The Wind Rises (2013)">qu1</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/07/single-paragraphs-on-flicks-flicked.html" title="Babe: Pig in the City (1998) | Casablanca (1942) | Citizen Kane (1941) | Damsels in Distress (2011) | Duck Soup (1933) | Eraserhead (1977) | Frankenweenie (2012) | The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) | Heathers (1988) | How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) | Idiocracy (2006) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Jurassic Park (1993) | The Last Unicorn (1982) | Moneyball (2011) | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | Muppets Most Wanted (2014) | The Muppet Movie (1979) | Rushmore (1998) | Spirited Away (2001) | The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) | Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977, 1997) | Super 8 (2011) | V for Vendetta (2005)">qu2</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/09/2014-third-quarter-movies.html" title="American Grindhouse (2010) | American Hustle (2013) | Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) | Better Off Dead… (1985) | Bottle Rocket (1996) | Brick (2005) | Ghostbusters (1984) | Ginger Snaps (2000) | The Green Mile (1999) | Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) | In a World… (2013) | Little Secrets (2001) | Napoleon Dynamite (2004) | The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) | Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) | Somebody Up There Likes Me (2012) | Up in the Air (2009)">qu3</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/12/2014-movies-of-final-quarter.html" title="About a Boy (2002) | Big Hero 6 (2014) | The Cabin in the Woods (2012) | Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) | [charlie chaplin series] (1914, 1916, 1916, 1917, 1917) | The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (2000) | Dans la Maison (2012) | Ernest & Celestine (2012) | The Fisher King (1991) | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2014) | Interstellar (2014) | The Invisible Man (1933) | Mary Poppins (1964) | Million Dollar Arm (2014) | The Night of the Hunter (1955) | Paprika (2006) | ParaNorman (2012) | The Pride of the Yankees (1942) | Safety Last! (1923) | The Shining (1980) | Step Brothers (2008) | Sullivan's Travels (1941) | Unicorn City (2012) | Why Worry? (1923) | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)">qu4</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2013</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-movies-of-2013-one-paragraph.html" title="Argo (2012) | The Adventures of Tintin (2011) | Chinatown (1974) | The Descendants (2011) | Field of Dreams (1989) | A Goofy Movie (1995) | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) | Inherit the Wind (1960) | Kung Fu Hustle (2004) | The Merchant of Venice (2004) | Moonrise Kingdom (2012) | The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) | The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Psycho (1960) | The Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | The White Shadow (1924) | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)">th1</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-movies-of-2013-one-paragraph.html" title="Amour (2012) | Bellflower (2011) | Cinderella (1950) | The Dark Knight Rises (2012) | The Empire Strikes Back (1980) | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | 50/50 (2011) | The Graduate (1967) | The Great Gatsby (2013) | The Happening (2008) | The Kids Are All Right (2010) | Looper (2012) | Monsters University (2013) | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | Mr. Baseball (1992) | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) | Pacific Rim (2013) | R.I.P.D. (2013) | Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) | Snatch (2000) | Star Wars (1977) | Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002) | Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) | Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1997) | Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983) | This Is 40 (2012) | This Is the End (2013) | White on Rice (2009)">th2</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-movies-of-2013-one-paragraph.html" title="The Amazing Adventure (1936) | Black Orpheus (1959) | A Bucket of Blood (1959) | The Cheat (1915) | A Christmas Story (1983) | Corianton (1931) | Elf (2003) | Ender's Game (2013) | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | Frozen (2013) | Gentlemen Broncos (2009) | Gravity (2013) | His Girl Friday (1940) | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) | The Indian in the Cupboard (1995) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | The Muppet Movie (1979) | A Night at the Opera (1935) | Now You See Me (2013) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Sleepwalk with Me (2012) | Swiss Family Robinson (1960) | Waitress (2007) | When Harry Met Sally… (1989)">th3</a></div>
Th.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-38145970019294521882023-10-30T21:42:00.001-07:002023-10-30T21:42:20.815-07:00Holy (creative) envy<p> .</p><p data-pm-slice="0 0 []"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0Zrfpw2ko_U" width="320" youtube-src-id="0Zrfpw2ko_U"></iframe></div><p></p><div class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{"videoId":"0Zrfpw2ko_U","startTime":null,"endTime":null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" id="youtube2-0Zrfpw2ko_U"><div class="youtube-inner"></div></div><p><a href="https://amzn.to/49j79Dm" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Buy buy buy.</a></p><p>—</p><p>Incidentally, it’s not officially announced yet, but <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CM442WP6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3R6HIHLLT3PZL&keywords=just+julie%27s+fine&qid=1698727167&rnid=2941120011&s=books&sprefix=just+julie%27s+fine%2Caps%2C145&sr=1-1" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">look what’s on Amazon</a>. (And it’s dang cheap at the moment.)</p>Th.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-40041281400528674902023-10-23T09:58:00.026-07:002023-11-05T22:38:33.835-08:00Coupla classics et al..<p>Not all classics are created equal is surely true but what's even more true is that no classic is for every person. One here was for me. One was not. Which is a theme of the poetry collection as well. And other stuff.</p><p>I'm fairly skilled at picking things I like and I've given myself permission not to finish what I don't, so the bias of liked is no surprise, but is it okay? Should I read more that I do not like? And if so, which dislikes should I engage?</p><p>Anyway, here's some stuff, most of which I liked:<br /></p><p>.<br /><a name="110"></a>
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<b>110)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781950774470">A Cluster of Noisy Planets</a> by Charles Rafferty, finished October 6
</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">This is a pretty great collection of prose poems. One small paragraph per page. Lots of wonderful lines and juxtapositions. But sometimes an excellent one would be spoiled by a prosaic final sentence. Or a prosaic one would shock with a brilliant close. A couple would have been better served by being poem poems rather than prose poems. Sometimes an interesting rhythmic choice was murdered, intentionally or not, who can say?</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Anyway. It's what he likes to write. And I liked reading them. That sees like enough.<br /></p>
<small><i>a week</i></small><br />
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<b>111)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061960901">Ramona Forever</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished October 7
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I love these books. The baby's getting impatient with my needing to pause to compose myself, but this volume had a funeral and a marriage and a baby. Tears are gonna flow!</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">The ones were reading have fresh 2020 illustrations which is good and all but these are definitely period pieces. I mean---the baby goes home from the hospital on Mom's lap! That feels criminal in a 2020 illustration!</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Anyway. Beverly Cleary did a terrific job. These are certainly kids books but reading them as an adult you can sense the adult wisdom carried by the adults and the narrator, even though we're in Ramona's p-o-v. But Ramona does a lot of growing up in each book—and gets a whole barrelful of growing-up epiphanies in the final pages—and I imagine a child reading these books feels the seepings of wisdom as well.<br /></p>
<small><i>like ten weeks</i></small><br />
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<b>112)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781524884949">The Mysteries</a> by Bill Watterson and Bill Kascht, finished October 10
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">What a delightful surprise to discover on my portch, months after ordering it then forgetting all about the glorious fact that Bill Watterson had a new book.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">The book is strange and wonderful. And it's not about what, partway through, it seems to be about.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">In the end: it <i>is</i> about mysteries.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/46mmcu8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="797" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61vQx5ucO1L._SL1405_.jpg" width="428" /></a></div>
<small><i>a sit</i></small><br />
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<b>113)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401288075">The Sandman: A Game of You</a> by Neil Gaiman et al, finished October 12
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">A returning character from <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/10/we-got-mysteries-we-got-apples-we-got.html"><i>A Doll's House</i></a> stars in this story, another strong one. I do wonder how Gen Z responds to the trans woman in this story. I'm reminded of <i>Just Julie's Fine</i> because I would not be surprised by some Gen Z blowback, but what can I say except that is what 2005 was like? You can say something similar here. This is what the late 80s / early 90s were like. People did what they could.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I don't know, but I can't help but wonder if this was the first trans character I ever read. It's very possible.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">The story is set up much like many of my favorite <i>X-Files</i> episodes where Mulder and Scully are minor characters. Thus it is here, for Dream.<br /></p>
<small><i>a week</i></small><br />
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<b>114)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780063114852">The Bridge of San Luis Rey</a> by Thornton Wilder, finished October 13
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I picked up this copy some time ago. I don't recall if I was aware of the book's reputation or just the author's (whom I know as a playwright, having read <i>Our Town</i> in high school and <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/05/would-you-rather-sleep-on-stage-with.html#066"><i>The Skin of our Teeth</i></a> in 2017; incidentally, that review makes me believe I was on the lookout for the book when it finally turned up).</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Anyway, I finally decided to read it when the great Margaret Blair Young blurbed <a href="https://amzn.to/3rSaecJ">the upcoming <i>Just Julie's Fine</i></a> like so:</p><p style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;">Reading this lovely novel had me chuckling, nodding, and periodically gasping. Though BYU student Julie is the center (or at least an important context) of most of the action, we get to know the quirks and endearing phrasings of several others connected to her in some way. The book reminded me of Wilder’s <i>Bridge to San Luis Rey</i>, wherein we get glimpses of several lives about to end (the bridge will collapse as they cross it), and of the events that led them to the bridge. <i>Just Julie’s Fine</i> does not end with everyone’s death, but with the compelling initiation of the title character into a new life—not the one she had always imagined. [<i>Th: I could stop here, but let's keep going!</i>] Julie, who is perpetually pursued by young Mormon men in search of a beautiful and {parenthetically} good wife, realizes that she wants to be an engineer, even though she will lose many of her accumulated university credits. This may seem like a simple thing, but it is a true rite of passage, a change of trajectory, and emblematic of the cultural changes happening around all of the characters.<br /><br /><i>Just Julie’s Fine</i> is also a fascinating time capsule in which we see BYU students grappling with the standard coming-of-age issues, but also with feminism, sexuality, faith, and duty. <br /><br />I found every character to be likeable—except [<i>one character who, alas, it based on a real experience I, Theric, had at BYU</i>], who seemed vacuous. The clever dialogue felt real and inviting. The writing itself flowed beautifully.<br /><br />This is a fun novel, and I think Jepson enjoyed writing it [<i>I did</i>]. The energy of FUN comes through in every page. It is not a comical novel, but the dialogue is often so witty that the reader will certainly smile. It’s not a sad novel either. It’s a slice-of-life novel wherein the reader gets introduced to a variety of fascinating characters who reflect their age and their time perfectly.<br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Since this is appearing in the front pages, I felt I ought to've actually read <i>Bridge</i> in case anyone asked me about it.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">The basic structure of <i>Bridge</i> is that a bridge fell and five people died and three chapters reveal these now-dead to us. They sometimes share connections (they do, after all, all live in Lima) or even know each other, and now they are dead.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">But I knew that much coming into it. So far I see where Maggie's coming from.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">As I read the novel (which I <i>loved</i> and kept wanting to return to even though I had library books) I tended to think the comparison to <i>Julie</i> made less and less sense. And then it ended and <i>Bridge</i> struck me as much more a mini <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/10/i-finally-finished-middlemarch-also.html#085"><i>Middlemarch</i></a> than anything else.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">And that's certainly true, but as I sit with Wilder's writing and accomplishment I'm starting, more and more, to see Sister Young's point. And she's right. And I am deeply, deeply flattered.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Anyway, it's a tiny masterpiece. You should knock this one out.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://onlinereadfreenovel.com/thornton-wilder/42605-the_bridge_of_san_luis_rey_read.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="This is exactly my copy, down to the printing."><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisIcFtR3z_5RFiMatfOvgFXvs7aL3MMQ3RhSbHQPOMgEYc-rBc_xEf59kKQA_83qOzi0dqAzjKp5CHz2Jm1YvpCT8sw1p-lH9ZPKCfvbi4ataOUBgVTb9S6Z5IR1NmJYKmEy7KVL523saSOe2eTXGg3mbf4UYtII9X-KO-VIPl3krJTO_0v4V3RQ/s320/the_bridge_of_san_luis_rey.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>
<small><i>perhaps a month</i></small><br />
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<b>115, 116)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780199536504">Cymbeline</a> by William Shakespeare, finished October 16, 17
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Fine to do with a class, but not as delightful as the most fun plays (<i>Hamlet</i>, <i>Romeo & Juliet</i>, <i>Merchant of Venice</i>, <i>Richard III</i>, <i>Measure for Measure</i>, <i>Coriolanus</i>, <i>Julius Caesar</i>, <i>Macbeth</i>, <i>Titus Andronicus</i>....)</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">What a weird one, too. Complicated and strange. Shame the Victorians decided it was no good and thus we've mostly forgotten it. Maybe then we would have enough dialogue to convince <i>me</i>.<br /></p>
<small><i>over a week</i></small><br />
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<b>117)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781534324824">Kaya: Book One</a> by author, finished October 21
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">This is a fabulous new fantasy world people by simply drawn (metaphorically) characters that still have real depth and personality. Their adventures and situations are exciting. And, at least so far, it's all-ages, so share away!<br /></p>
<small><i>two short bursts broken up by a couple weeks</i></small><br />
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<b>118)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780140077025">White Noise</a> by Don DeLillo, finished October 23
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Don DeLillo is one of the midcentury male American authors I've never had any interest in reading, perhaps simply because I cannot distinguish among them (DeLillo, Roth, Mailer...).</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">But then <a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=575820655&q=White+Noise+(2022+film)&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLUz9U3MDEoNjdR4tVP1zc0zCswLzQsyEvTkshOttIvSM0vyEkFUkXF-XlWufllmanFi1jFwzMyS1IV_PIzi1MVNIwMjIwU0jJzcjV3sDICANWiZfNTAAAA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwik1NPGwoyCAxWjGTQIHUARAykQgOQBegQILBAI&biw=1093&bih=557&dpr=1.5">Noah Baumach made a movie</a> and I ended up reading quite a bit about it and the novel it's based on. <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/01/white-noise-book-movie-adaptation-don-delillo/672233">This is the article</a> that talked me into reading the book. And now I have. And I get all the praise and whatever but I didn't like it. I found it screamingly difficult to continue caring about page after page after page after page. Part of the problem is that the book is "funny," but the narrator is funny in the same way each funny character is funny. It's the same joke page after page after page. And while there are a couple transcendent moment, egad, it just goes on and on and on and one. It's only three hundred pages but I suspect I'll remember it as much, much longer.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">That said, I think it will make an excellent Noah Baumbach / Greta Gerwig movie. I'm looking forward to watching it.<br /></p><small><i>months</i></small><br />
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<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><u>final posts in this series from</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2007/12/eighteenth-five-books-of-two-thousand.html">2007</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2008/12/25-final-few.html">2008</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2009/12/three-more-2009-books-from-jake-parker.html">2009</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2010/12/final-few-books-of-2010-and-note-on-why.html">2010</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2011/12/could-this-be-final-list-of-2011-books.html">2011</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-final-books-of-2012.html">2012</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/12/final-finished-books-of-2013.html">2013</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/12/nearing-end-destroyed-by-our-friends.html">2014</a> = <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/01/gah-one-more-book-for-2015.html">2015</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/12/some-book.html">2016</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-final-few.html">2017</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/12/final-books-post-of-2018.html">2018</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/12/and-orson-scott-card-makes-one-hundred.html">2019</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/12/two-more-books-with-two-hours-to-spare.html">2020</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/12/if-these-are-last-books-of-year-we-can.html">2021</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/12/no-more-books-in-2022-im-afraid.html">2022</a><br /></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/01/2023-is-80-comics.html">2023 is 80% comics</a></span></span></b></span></p></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span></b></span><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>001)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781534321182">The Dark Room</a> by Gerry Duggan & Scott Buoncristiano, finished January four<br /><b>002)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3JQdewY">The Only Harmless Great Thing</a> by Brooke Bolander, finished January 6<br /><b>003)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780545135436">Rose</a> by Jeff Smith and Charles Vess, finished January 10<br /><b>004)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781770464926">Acting Class</a> by <span class="a-size-medium">Nick Drnaso</span>, finished January 10<br /><b>005)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781338167085">Red Scare</a> by Liam Francis Walsh, finished January 11</span></span></p><p>
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</span></span></b></span><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/01/step-right-up-and-try-your-luck.html">Step right up and try your luck</a></span></span></span></b></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>006)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780143039464" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Short Reign of Pippin IV</a> by John Steinbeck, finished January 18</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></b><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>007)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3WBb0o0" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Filmish</a> by Edward Ross, finished circa January 20</span></span><b><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/02/blog-post.html">HOW many times?</a></span></span></b></span></p><p class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>008)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3kLeWoA">Maddy Kettle Book: The Adventure of the Thimblewitch</a> by Eric Orchard, finished January 24 <br />
<b>009)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3Xe80hp">Fantastic Frights: A Beginner's Guide to Scary Stories</a>, finished January 24
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>010)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780380709540">Ramona the Pest</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished February 2<br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>011)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780735220690">Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine</a> by Gail Honeyman, finished February 3<br /><b>012)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780679723257">The Postman Always Rings Twice</a> by James M. Cain, finished February 4
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>013)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3RIiVyT">Is that all there is?</a> by Joost Swarte, finished February 6
<br /><b>014)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780063030695">Edge Case</a> by YZ Chin, finished February 7</span></span></p></div><p>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/02/if-it-werent-for-friendly-sex-talk.html"><b><span>If it weren't for a friendly sex talk, everything here would be miserable</span></b></a></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>015)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780679723226">Double Indemnity</a> by James M. Cain, finished February 10<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>016)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780998605272">Sex Educated: Letters from a Latter-day Saint therapist to her younger self</a> by Bonnie Young, LMFT, finished February 13<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>017)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781637740422">Unmask Alice: LDS, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries</a> by Rick Emerson, finished February 20 </span></p><p>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/03/a-bookful-bounty-for-thee-and-thine.html"><b><span> A Bookful Bounty for thee and thine </span></b></a></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>018)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781982185824">I'm Glad My Mom Died</a> by Jeannette McCurdy, finished February 27<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>019–21)</b> <a href="https://karlkerschl.com/comic/episode-one/">The Abominable Charles Christopher</a> by Karl Kershl, finished March 6
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>022)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250193537">Displacement</a> by Kiku Hughes, finished March 6
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>023)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781684158058">The Many Deaths of Laila Starr</a> by Ram V and Filipe Andrade, finished March 6
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>024)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3ZSNFAj">The Homeland Directive</a> by Robert Venditti and Mike Huddleston, finished March 7
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>025)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781982156893">Titus Andronicus</a> by William Shakespeare, finished March 14
<br /><b>026)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781633451094">Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange</a> by Tess Taylor, finished March 15
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>027)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3nrXE1p">22 Young Mormon Writers</a> edited by Neal E. Lambert and Richard H. Cracroft, finished March 19
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>028 & 029)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781982156893">Titus Andronicus</a> by William Shakespeare, finished March 23 & March 27</span>
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<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/04/literarily-solving-for-x.html">Literarily solving for X</a></span></h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>030)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781101981870">X</a> by Sue Grafton, finished March 28<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>031)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061246470">Ramona the Brave</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished April 5<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>032)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781501134197">Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century</a> by Dana Stevens, finished April 5<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>033)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/43DvOja">Abe Lincoln in Illinois</a> by Robert E. Sherwood, finished April 8<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>034)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3L2qZbP">Theology of Play</a> by Jürgen Moltmann, finished April 12<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>035)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/43zqOMq">The Male Animal</a> by James Thurber and Elliott Nugent, finished April 12<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>036)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780763687069">Bluffton</a> by Matt Phelan, finished April 16<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>037)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250815293">Number One Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions</a> by Steve Martin and Harry Bliss, finished April 15</span></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/04/from-lolly-to-elias.html">From Lolly to Elias</a></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>038)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780486843483">Lolly Willowes</a> by Sylvia Townsend Warner, finished April 17</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>039)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781616964023">The Emperor's Soul</a> by Brandon Sanderson, finished April 19
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>040)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781534324527">Beware the Eye of Odin</a> by Wager/Odland/Madsen/Dukeshire, finished April 19
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>041)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://amzn.to/3UY8edd">The Complete Peanuts: 1965–1966</a> by Charles M. Schulz, finished April 20
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>042)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250262899">A Wealth of Pigeons</a> by Steve Martin and Harry Bliss, finished April 22
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>043)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780344135187">Elias: An Epic of the Ages</a> by Orson Ferguson Whitney, finished April 23</span></span></h3>
<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/05/old-hollywood-olden-times.html">Old Hollywood & Olden Times</a></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;"><span><b>044)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781493060405">Straight Lady: The Life and Times of Margaret Dumont, "The Fifth Marx Brother"</a> by Chris Enss and Howard Kazanjian, finished April 25</span><br /><span><b>045)</b><span> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780262543378">Voices from the Radium Age</a> edited by Joshua Glenn, finished April 26</span></span><br /><span><b>046)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/416Nod2">The Ballad of YFB</a> by Aaron Brassea, finished April 28</span><br /><span><b>047)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250857910">Reynaud's Tale</a> by Ben Hatke, finished May 3</span><br /><span><b>048)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3HLBYo4">Superman: Up in the Sky</a> by Tom King and Andy Kubert, finished May 5</span><br /><span><b>049)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061960901">Ramona and Her Father</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished May 5
<br /><b>050)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780345513991">Resurrection Row</a> by Anne Perry, finished May 6 </span></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/05/saying-good-bye-to-our-friend-kinsey.html">Saying good bye to our friend Kinsey</a></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;"><span><b>052)</b> <a href="https://archive.org/details/moregrosscartoon0000gros/">More Gross: Cartoons</a><span> by S. Gross, finished May 9</span><br /><b>053)</b> <a href="https://archive.org/details/iamblindmydogis00gros">I Am Blind and My Dog Is Dead</a><span> by S. Gross, finished May 9</span><br /></span>
<span><b>054)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779517067">Batgirls: One Way or Another</a><span> by Becky Cloonan / Michael W. Conrad / Jorge Corona / Sarah Stein, finished May 11</span><br /></span>
<span><b>055)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779520289">Batgirls: Bat Girl Summer</a><span> by Becky Cloonan / Michael W. Conrad / Neil Googe / Robbi Rodriguez / Rico Renzi, finished May 11</span><br /></span>
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>056)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780399185380">Y is for Yesterday</a><span> by Sue Grafton, finished May 12 </span></span>
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<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-tyranny-of-getting-stuff-in-right.html">The tyranny of getting stuff in the right order</a></span></h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>051)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780804190114">On Tyranny</a> by Timothy Snyder, finished May 8<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>057)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779504210">Superman Smashes the Klan</a> by Gene Luen Yang and Guruhiru, finished May 13
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>058)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781950774869">Four in Hand</a> by Alicia Mountain, finished May 17<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>059)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/42VBSm3">The Glob</a> by John O'Reilly and Walt Kelly, finished May 20
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>060)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781421437989">Why They <i>Can't</i> Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities</a> by John Warner, finished May 24<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>061)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780316316132">Less</a> by Andrew Sean Greer, finished May 25
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>062)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781506726809">Children of the Woods</a> by Ciano/Hixson/Stevens/Otsmane-Elhaou, finished May 27<br /></span> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>063)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780525655596">The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece</a> by Tom Hanks, finished May 29</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/06/anchors-links-endstuff-morecode-too.html">Such quality. Such excellence.</a></span></h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
<b>064)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3MYvwvL">Here</a> by Darlene Young, finished June 1<br />
<b>065)</b> <a href="https://www.carthageproject.com/product-page/theseus-vol-1-hardcover">Theseus Volume 1</a> by Jordan Holt, finished June 1<br />
<b>066)</b> <a href="https://www.carthageproject.com/product-page/theseus-vol-2-hardcover">Theseus Volume 2</a> by Jordan Holt, finished June 1<br />
<b>067)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/42q7rDG">Reviews for Non-Existent Movies</a> by Eric Goulden Kimball, finished June 5<br />
<b>068)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781935869504">The Scarlet Plague</a> by Jack London, finished June 6<br />
<b>069)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780316459778">Anne of West Philly</a> by Ivy Noelle Weir and Myisha Haynes, finished June 10<br />
<b>070)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061960901">Ramona and Her Mother</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished June 10</span></p>
<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/06/books-read-forensic-investigation.html">Books read: a forensic investigation</a></span></span></h3><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>073)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780063092792">These Precious Days</a> by Ann Patchett, finished c. June 17</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span>
<b>074)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781770463622">Grass</a> by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, finished c. June 19</span><br /><span>
<b>075)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781948218719">The Burning Book: A Jewish-Mormon Memoir</a> by Jason Olson and James Goldberg, finished c. June 21</span><br /><span>
<b>076)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780062671196">The Night Watchman</a> by Louise Erdrich, finished June 23</span></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/07/from-prehumanity-to-eternal-destiny.html"><span>From prehumanity to eternal destiny</span></a></b></span></div><p>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>077)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781888963755">Tuki: Fight for Fire</a> by Jeff Smith, finished June 28</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>078)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781888963779">Tuki: Fight for Family</a> by Jeff Smith, finished June 29</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>079)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781350160750">The Writer's Hustle</a> by Joey Franklin, finished July 8</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>080)</b> <a href="https://epluribusmormon.square.site/">Future Day Saints: The New Arrivals</a> by Matt Page, finished July 16</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>081)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780765385253">Binti</a> by Nnedi Okorafor, finished July 18</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>082)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061960901">Ramona Quimby, Age 8</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished July 19</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>083)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781613163757">Just One More</a> by Annette Lyon, finished July 20</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>084)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780141304700">The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More</a> by Roald Dahl, finished July 22</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>085)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781637740538">Somewhere Out There: My Animated Life</a> by Don Bluth, finished July 22</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/07/two-women-in-comics-form.html">Two women, in comics form</a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> <br /></b></span></h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>085)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781607061472">Beast</a> by Marian Churchland, finished July 24<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>086)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779515681">Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow</a> by King/Evely/Lopes, finished c. July 28</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-sex-and-metaphysics-venn-diagram.html">The sex-and-metaphysics Venn diagram</a></span></b></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>087)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781620105412">Banana Sunday</a> by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover, finished August 2<br /><b>088)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780394410715">Falconer</a> by John Cheever, finished August 3<br /><b>089)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780553348972">Still Life with Woodpecker</a> by Tom Robbins, finished August 3<br /><b>090)</b> <span><a href="https://www.shortbox.co.uk/product/homunculus-by-joe-sparrow-new-edition-pre-order-n">Homunculus</a> </span>by Joe Sparrow, finished August 5<br /><b>091)</b> <a href="https://www.shortbox.co.uk/product/cuckoo-by-joe-sparrow-pre-order">Cuckoo</a> by Joe Sparrow, finished August 9<br /><b>092)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780892555598">Fatal</a> by Kimberly Johnson, finished August 16<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>093)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781596434530">The Unsinkable Walker Bean</a> by Aaron Renier, finished August 17<br /><b>094)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3OFWIjS">The Infinite Future</a> by Tim Wirkus, finished August 22<br /><b>095)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780374607401">Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne</a> by Katherine Rundell, finished August 23 <br /></span></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/09/what-is-this-nothing-but-comics.html">What, is this nothing but comics?</a></span>
</h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>096)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3EADkAg">The Unsinkable Walker Bean and the Knights of the Waxing Moon</a> by Aaron Renier, finished August 24<b><br />097)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3OQq1QJ">Just Julie's Fine</a> by Theric Jepson, finished August 26<br /><b>098)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250776297">Bea Wolf</a> by Zach Weinersmith and Boulet, finished August 28<br /><b>099)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781684052714">Assassinistas</a> by Tini Howard / Gilbert Hernandez / et al., finished August 31<br /><b>100)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779521354">Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons</a> by Kelly Sue DeConnick / Phil Jimenez / Gene Ha / Nicola Scott, finished August 31<br /><b>101)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401284770">The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes</a> by Neil Gaiman et al., finished September 6<br /><b>102)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780385334235">Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!</a> by Kurt Vonnegut, finished September 11 </span></p><p class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/10/we-got-mysteries-we-got-apples-we-got.html">We got mysteries, we got apples, we got St. Paul. . . .</a></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>103)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401285067">The Sandman: The Doll's House</a> by Neil Gaiman et al., finished September 14<br /><b>104)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780062073952">Hallowe'en Party</a> by Agatha Christie, finished September 2023<b><br />105)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401285487">The Sandman: Dream Country</a> by Neil Gaiman et al, finished September 27<b><br />106)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250220271">Apples Never Fall</a> by Liane Moriarty, finished September 29<b><br />107)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780385522571">Paul Among the People: The Apostle Reinterpreted and Reimagined in His Own Time</a> by Sarah Ruden, finished October 1<br /><b>108)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780199536504">Cymbeline</a> by William Shakespeare, finished October 5<br /><b>109)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401285814">The Sandman: Season of Mists</a> by Neil Gaiman et al, finished October 5</span></p>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><i><br /></i></span><p style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"></p>Th.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-88448962855516211042023-10-16T21:53:00.001-07:002023-10-16T21:53:49.588-07:00Unfinished Books: Dead seals write vows! (and other fun facts)<p>.</p>I've been getting a lot of nonfiction from the library lately—too much to read it all all through. But I have been reading it—more than half the pages but less than half the words, generally. But that's what <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/search/label/Unfinished%20Books">Unfinished Books</a> is for. Because these books too deserve attention.<br /><p> </p><p></p><p><b>Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals</b> (<a href="https://amzn.to/3RTdAXH">a</a>,<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781849353977">b</a>)<b><br /></b></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Not finishing this book goes right against its very principles. Among other things, it's about slowing down and listening. All things that would lead to finishing this slim volume.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Alexis Pauline Gumbs clearly has a fascination with marine mammals, but she also clearly had a page count to fill and so spent some time on Wikipedia looking for additional metaphors. But find them she did! Even just reading a healthy percentage of this book I learned a) a lot about marine mammals I did not already know and b) a lot about how those mammals' lives can apply to how we choose to live our own.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">This is a terrific little volume and while it does have some annoying bits (like the final chapter, which is a bunch of activities that smell like your least favorite professional-development meeting), largely those were because I was in a rush to learn about some dolphin species I'd never heard of instead of sitting with the previous mammal and learning from it's dermal traits or whatever. Blame me.<br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1000 Places to See After You Die</b> (<a href="https://amzn.to/3RXCoO1">a</a>,<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781501131585">b</a>)</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"> Ken Jennings takes us to 1000 afterlives, which is a fun gimmick and good way to survey religions and literature and teevee and whatnot, but it's also kind of a lot. If I owned this book it would take me six years to read, never leaving my nightstand.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">But I don't own it. And nine weeks isn't enough time to want to return to it that many times. So I largely read the ones I already had familiarity with or a yearning for familiarity with.<br /></p><p><b> </b></p><p><b>Letters to a Young Writer</b> (<a href="https://amzn.to/3QcWxhY">a</a>,<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780399590801">b</a>)</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">These short chapters each have an epigraph and the epigraphs are frequently brilliant. They sometimes say more than the three pages McCann wrote to accompany them.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Which sounds like a slam on McCann and it's true, maybe. Some of the chapters are more poetic exercises than helpful advice and some of the advice is sometimes as elitist as <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/07/from-prehumanity-to-eternal-destiny.html#079">Joey Franklin</a> was sometimes pro-amateurism.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">But on the other hand, the book was also frequently beautiful and useful. And although Colum McCann may be overly persuaded by the world's measures of success, he is generally right. But one imagines he can be a little smug in person.<br /></p><p><b> </b></p><p><b>How to Be Married (to Melissa)</b> (<a href="https://amzn.to/3QcWxhY">a</a>,<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781400231614">b</a>)</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Some real laugh-out-loud moments in this marriage guide on how to be married to his wife (generalizations to your marriage not guaranteed) by stand-up Dustin Nickerson. I didn't think I had any familiarity with him until a page near the end where I read a version of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dWnagZGA5UM">a bit</a> Lady Steed has shown me before because she feels it very deeply. (I find it very upsetting. This is not a point we agree on.)</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Although (of course) this is a deliberate work of creation, it also feels like a deep honesty runs through it. There's great stuff about sex and kids, and he gets into issues of faith, which one doesn't often bump into (or at least I don't, unless I'm looking). Some chapters interested me more than others (honestly, most comedians' books should be skimmed rather than read) but the parts I read most thoroughly I most enjoyed. Perhaps because I selected well; perhaps because I selected at all. I can't say.<br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS5_ieW1h7rMzo45eORGp1WgpH2vi4OtfJ5KJOhqamoIGI3BW9io6t1PX1o9ZeBf6OP86GzZWLBtp5oJ8yD3LvFbtaajI_p3TRaOLPBhciIeKk8jzIKdUJFFiXpRIJRegRas-LHHwTEeGrVl7PC8ySzMfOsCuTkTGjoZCn8drJucv5zb_gzTG6oA/s512/Dead_seals_write_vows_1426898149.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS5_ieW1h7rMzo45eORGp1WgpH2vi4OtfJ5KJOhqamoIGI3BW9io6t1PX1o9ZeBf6OP86GzZWLBtp5oJ8yD3LvFbtaajI_p3TRaOLPBhciIeKk8jzIKdUJFFiXpRIJRegRas-LHHwTEeGrVl7PC8ySzMfOsCuTkTGjoZCn8drJucv5zb_gzTG6oA/s320/Dead_seals_write_vows_1426898149.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dead Seals Write Vows (according to Deliberate 2)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p>Th.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-70786473477408151382023-10-12T08:45:00.000-07:002023-10-12T08:45:21.018-07:00The Path and the Gate fast approaching<p>.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781560854678" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2500" data-original-width="1250" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg47Rmm0KXAoHeEByfbN__WNTXJvbRc0qDPc9O0r99zwm8smcc0mR8LDHh6Jx3IxWUJHCoUkLmNFtpck6oSHi7QsLhvvylkIfxxEFy8PAOfELC0omuePGQhdgYZdi44OPpaF8HXT6DUe73e7v_fjz4F8XZdUiTwi-D4NnVbCne6lpQ0uxRDPGLYsw/s320/path&gate_wallpaper.jpg" width="160" /></a></div>This is probably <i>the</i> short-fiction collection of a (MoLit) generation and it's coming out next week, so it you want to preorder and be the first cool kid on your block, now's the time (<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781560854678">Bookshop</a>, <a href="https://amzn.to/3rRR7Q3">Amazon</a>).<p></p><p>(Incidentally, speaking of being cool, that image is FoRmatTed FOr PhONes; make it your background.)</p><p>If you want merch with that cool image (and honestly, it is a good image; I don't have my copy yet so I can't shout out the designer, but wow), <a href="https://gofund.me/58c4cac6">getcher mugs, getcher tshirts (pay the writers)</a>.</p><p>The podcast blitz has begun and will be ongoing. I'll be appearing with Danny and Steve on the <i>Dialogue Book Report</i> in the near future, but already we have:</p><p><a href="https://www.centerforlatterdaysaintarts.org/podcast/2023/10/6/the-path-and-the-gate-mormon-short-fiction-editors-panel">Robert, Andrew, and Jenn</a> on <i>The Center's Studio Podcast<br /></i><a href="https://www.centerforlatterdaysaintarts.org/podcast/2023/9/25/the-path-and-the-gate-mormon-short-fiction-authors-panel">Todd, Ryan, and Heidi</a> on <i>The Center's Studio Podcast</i> and<br /><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-path-and-the-gate-a-look-at-contemporary-mormon-fiction/id1609884314?i=1000630817746">Robert and Andrew</a> on the <i>Signature Books Podcast</i></p><p>I have really mixed feelings about the story I sent in, but hopefully once I have my copy and have read my copy I'll feel better about it. We'll see. It's just weird to---well. I'll wait till people have had a chance to think it over for themselves.<br /></p>Th.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-6183706846524677332023-10-06T20:40:00.004-07:002023-10-06T20:40:58.118-07:00Joseph was born in the global south<p>. <br /></p><p>First, I probably failed to promote a recent short story of mine published by <em>Wayfare</em>, so let me do that real fast:<br /><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.wayfaremagazine.org/p/the-bishops-chapbook" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1152" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjosNTI_XUJN9gEkiaJthxHBFXHveH1A9YjqefFoPx9ouDBs7yYS_ib9D2oxE6XYW5yGEwiq4387da-n2niRY6HDfN-XsyC6ZhfDeis2PJ_f2TLpfrtHsCaiWO_ZzBS0MRyj-krw9g0Ry3-Y3IWagRexnV8Vb3kdJNVt14kbz-5pdSUcA1SxNuXOg/s320/bishopschbk.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <br />But what I <em>want</em> to talk about is Gabriel’s new story:<br /><br /><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.wayfaremagazine.org/p/documents-for-the-north-america-article" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="747" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0-GwY1qv3t6vYYQrI-LF2xGd2i7ROlEFgZQb2O0fRKew-b2UqZjENsKdXxlajrVeGvUkCfdqS0fclmLEqib4qMmLhrysDl-FIXvv0ByVhFbEtJU66_y1WPtPOJ_H80ZmXbCIA4QwXl9kpizebL76LpRPc9zIhwyNLJIefVprqMO_xzuLmz780cQ/s320/ggn_docs.png" width="320" /></a></div> <p></p><p>This is not his first time telling an alternative founding of the LDS faith (<a href="https://lit.mormonartist.net/2019/04/documentary-appendix-1-by-gabriel-gonzalez-nunez" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">I think this is the same universe</a>), but I think it deserves shouting out because it’s different from, say, <a href="https://amzn.to/46gPD0A" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Anneke’s story about the Church being formed in Africa</a> or <a href="https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V50N03_34.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">mine in California</a>—this one’s written by someone from the culture where the alternate Restoration begins rather than the culture where the actual Restoration begins.</p><p>Now, the genesis doesn’t change the inherent value in the experiment, but it necessarily results in slightly different questions and thus suggests different answers. And those differences matter.</p><p>They matter to me, sure, but I think they must matter even more to the new culture where the Restoration has been moved to. And I think <a href="https://youtu.be/aFSicnZ3B3k?si=QdhQnvj_oNwK3lpA&t=2651" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">beginning the universalization of Mormon history and Mormon experience matters in the same way every culture on Earth already paints Jesus to look like themselves</a> in his appearance, his clothing, his geography.</p><p>Anyway, I’m not planning on drawing grand conclusions or attempting a fancy theory or anything. I just wanted you to see the story. And to think about the story.</p><p>(And to check out <a href="https://twitter.com/JWhitebread1/status/1709238108884267110" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">this cool tweet</a> that appeared after I wrote this but before I posted it.)</p>Th.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-79717747382841263732023-10-05T21:11:00.000-07:002023-10-05T21:11:08.877-07:00We got mysteries, we got apples, we got St. Paul. . . .<p>.</p><p>If you stick with me to the end, we'll together take a trip to hell. En route, I am afraid we will see murders and imagined murders and ancient battles of the sexes. Are you strapped in?<br /></p><p> .<br /><a name="103"></a>
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<b>103)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401285067">The Sandman: The Doll's House</a> by Neil Gaiman et al., finished September 14
</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">This collection is a deliberate single story and it's a great example of what Gaiman is good at and what <i>Sandman</i> is good at. It has sex and violence, beauty and horror. It has fine lines and opportunity for the artists to play around. Fascinating characters both lovely and despicable, both knowable and inscrutable. It shows people and places that can otherwise be so easy to never see. Deliberately, accidentally, it hardly matters—we simply do not see. The pacing speeds up and down. Major characters take their place in both fore- and background. Minor characters as well. Meaning is suggested and then swayed away from.<br />
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He's found his rhythm.</p>
<small><i>almost a week</i></small><br />
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<b>104)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780062073952">Hallowe'en Party</a> by Agatha Christie, finished September 2023
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">The new librarian is attempting a book club with the teachers. I'm game. And the first book is this Hercule Poirot mystery, the movie of which I may have watched last weekend had I not begun the book instead.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I must say the trailer confounds me:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="515" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yEddsSwweyE" width="620" youtube-src-id="yEddsSwweyE"></iframe></div><br /><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Wikipedia says the movie "transpose[s]" the action from the novel's bucolic village to Venice, but other than some water, a girl, and a friend of Poirot's who happens to be female, what to they have in common? The novel has no seance, no psychics, no locked-room aspect, no supernatural element of any sort, basically nothing that appears in the trailer whatsoever.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.paper-dragon.com/fistsand45s/halloween-party" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="This very nearly matches the copy I purchased. In mine, her name is red and the title purple and they travel the same distance across the cover. It is a different Fontana logo and, at the bottom, we see'First time in paperback!'"><img border="0" data-original-height="1526" data-original-width="900" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQVLmEtiPew456N705en9NCUOnAMO1wq-W9p8HZgpDw6-fAk8URCmdUgX8G2Jdbl_toUYT24GbCNlNtxjnH7Bj1N71ydLQ-tzgP9lyIBrZNhEsCtQt-SqFfRUMXn-MtJkfaT4UUOzJ-TCh19mztjfncaJvMOMtCTf2jTNwi8_0sJpyu3sLYwQqtg/s320/agatha-christie-halloweenparty1.jpg" width="189" /></a></div>Some English townfolk in the '60s are preparing a Hallowe'en party for a couple dozen local kids. One of the kids is murdered at the party. Poirot is invited by his friend to investigate. He does. He wanders around the lovely countryside having conversations.<p></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I still want to see the movie but I haven't much worry that reading the novel will spoil anything for me.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">The structure of the novel was fascinating. It's a very slow burn. It really is just Poirot walking around talking to people. The last couple chapters add some suspense and propulsion but otherwise the entire runtime is cozy in the extreme.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Nothing like the trailer whatsoever.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Can't wait to see it.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I hope I enjoy it as much as the book.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">But, if I do, I anticipate an entirely separate sort of enjoyment. <br /></p>
<small><i>just over a week</i></small><br />
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105<b>)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401285487">The Sandman: Dream Country</a> by Neil Gaiman et al, finished September 27
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Short stories this time, including a couple of my favorites about an abused Muse and Shakespeare performing for actual fairies.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I will certain know if I hit an unread volume because they all come back to me as I read, even though it's been twenty years.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">They're not all equally good but they are all good. Onward we go.<br /></p>
<small><i>under than two weeks</i></small><br />
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<b>106)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250220271">Apples Never Fall</a> by Liane Moriarty, finished September 29
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I know the names of Lianne Moriarty's novels from prestige television adaptations and for some reason (petty snobbery?) I find that a turnoff so I never would have read this book were it not for the great pleasure it gave my beloved when her book group read it. I mean---she was having <i>fun</i>, people. So even though it's almost 500 pages, I picked it up as soon as she was done.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">And folks, this is a solid piece of entertainment. Well structured, littered with terrific characters, plain but nonagressive points roiling beneath the service---enough to trigger all your layered pleasure centers.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">For instance, it has a lot to say about what we inherit from our parents (like it or not) and sometimes it was frustrating how clearly we could see things the characters could not---but, well, that's exactly how people are. It did not make me believe in the characters any less.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">As for the structure, <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/07/from-prehumanity-to-eternal-destiny.html#083">I was just complaining about a book that attempted something similar</a>; this one has perfect execution. There's no diminishment of suspense. I mean---I was convinced at one point of [redacted] only to discover [redacted] when I picked the novel back up the next day. What a delightful reading experience!</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">The opposing emotions this novel forces upon you prevents a simplistic reading of humanity. People are complicated. Yet Moriarty loves humans. You can tell. Even the clearest villain of the novel is treated with grace. Yet part of the reason for this is which character consists of the emotional and ethical core of the story. She's not a saint or anything but her presence---even in her failings and errors---makes everyone else better.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i>My mother plays tennis.</i><br /></p>
<small><i>monthish but I think less</i></small><br />
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<b>107)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780385522571">Paul Among the People: The Apostle Reinterpreted and Reimagined in His Own Time</a> by Sarah Ruden, finished October 1
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">One of our Sunday School teachers brought some of the ideas in this text collected from printed interviews and podcast appearances. I went ahead and hunted down a copy because I was intrigued by some of the details about women wearing veils and such (all cut out of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY3dfCT2PJE">this episode</a>) and I've been reading it on Sundays since.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">First, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Ruden">Sarah Ruden</a> is an excellent writer. Her company is very welcome as we take this journey, trying to understand ol' problematic Paul as his contemporaries would have understood him.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">In short, almost all the things that drive us crazy about Paul in 2023 <small>AD</small> are because we don't know what the world was like 55 <small>AD</small>. The woman-in-veils thing, for instance. At the time, you weren't allowed to wear a veil unless you were wealthy or married. And not wearing a veil meant you were sexually available to men who felt like so availing. But when a woman comes to church? It doesn't matter who you are in the outside. In church, you can all wear veils. We are all the same here.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">She similarly brings us into other aspects of Roman culture, revealing how our default assumptions don't really apply to Paul's acolytes' realities. He was not talking about anything like our world when he came out against gay people or seemed upsettingly ambivalent about slavery. We don't even understand what he meant by words like "father" or "child" or "love" or "faith." Two thousand years of domestication has resulted in doctrines that make us think <i>this</i> is a wolf:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachshund" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="395" data-original-width="604" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqKsNpeAWRnN_LQiklE49yoZ-R4ApVoL39cLQTD9FRKKk6be5XDW01ux3xIVVP7iz4m4qTDm2ZzpYhHrcfBPiuMPBkVpc5VCZPMx3duESs1w4CsjvwUHm-LaaCkd1oGiDcKUvO7Qx7jfULZfNmgWIZ8Ls3ijyfh20KWHT3EWr2Cfb3RBpOnC4dtw/s320/Short_haired_dachshund_in_race.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I really can't recommend this book highly enough to any layperson who has been frustrated by Paul and wants to understand how this grumpypuss managed to craft the Christianity we still celebrate today.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Ruden's expertise in, as she puts it, "the literature of food, clothes, sex, family squabbles, petty commerce, local politics, and staying out of the rain," allows her to bring in her own translations from a world so different from hers that you will never read more shocking, upsetting, horrifying stuff in a book I read almost entirely over a series of sabbaths.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">His world was not our world.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Understanding that helps clarify just what Paul was getting at.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">And how devastatingly radical it was.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Ultimately destroying the Greco-Roman world and building one where such concepts as freedom and equality, the Enlightenment, democracy—our entire modern ideal—could take seed and grow.<br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Paul showed us the ideals we are upset he doesn't meet, like self-righteous teenagers discovering morality and holding it up to the adults we know.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">It's an old story.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Hey—we all still think as a child and see through glass darkly. So perhaps we need to read Paul because we are more like him than we think.<br /></p>
<small><i>three weeks</i></small><br />
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<b>108)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780199536504">Cymbeline</a> by William Shakespeare, finished October 5
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">What a weird one this is. It's like it takes all the things I find strangest about Shakespeare's plot and characters, sticks them all together, then renders them even more absurd. Innogen is a reasonably likeable character but all the other leads are absurd caricatures. This poor woman having to live in a world filled with so many knuckleheads.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://sfshakes.org/performance/free-shakes/cymbeline/">I saw a <i>Cymbeline</i> recently</a>, a stripped-down version that leaned into the queer readings without actually making them clearer and played pretty much everything for laughs. (Who knew a headless corpse could be so funny!) A couple of the performances were excellent (<a href="https://nathanielandalis.wixsite.com/actor">Nathaniel Andalis</a> in particular was a revelation) but the play mostly wanted to be easy to like. And it was. Perhaps Jupiter should always play the electric guitar.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I've also read long essays about <i>Cymbeline</i> by <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780199536504">Stanley Wells</a> and <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781573227513">Harold Bloom</a> who have very different takes on the play. I largely accept both their readings (which should upset them both) in part because the play is so strange it's easy to accept all sorts of possibilities.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Of the other strange plays (the problems, the romances, the whatevers), this is my least favorite. But I hope someday to see a production that makes me feel about it as Wells does. Prior to the Victorians, this was one of the more beloved plays. Maybe it can be again.<br /></p>
<small><i>over a week</i></small><br />
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<b>109)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401285814">The Sandman: Season of Mists</a> by Neil Gaiman et al, finished October 5
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">This is the one (if you'll recall) where Morpheus finds himself in possession of hell. Hijinks, naturally, ensue.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">It's a good one.<br /></p>
<small><i>about a week</i></small><br />
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<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><u>final posts in this series from</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2007/12/eighteenth-five-books-of-two-thousand.html">2007</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2008/12/25-final-few.html">2008</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2009/12/three-more-2009-books-from-jake-parker.html">2009</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2010/12/final-few-books-of-2010-and-note-on-why.html">2010</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2011/12/could-this-be-final-list-of-2011-books.html">2011</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-final-books-of-2012.html">2012</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/12/final-finished-books-of-2013.html">2013</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/12/nearing-end-destroyed-by-our-friends.html">2014</a> = <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/01/gah-one-more-book-for-2015.html">2015</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/12/some-book.html">2016</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-final-few.html">2017</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/12/final-books-post-of-2018.html">2018</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/12/and-orson-scott-card-makes-one-hundred.html">2019</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/12/two-more-books-with-two-hours-to-spare.html">2020</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/12/if-these-are-last-books-of-year-we-can.html">2021</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/12/no-more-books-in-2022-im-afraid.html">2022</a><br /></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><p><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/01/2023-is-80-comics.html">2023 is 80% comics</a></span></span></b></p></div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span></b><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>001)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781534321182">The Dark Room</a> by Gerry Duggan & Scott Buoncristiano, finished January four<br /><b>002)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3JQdewY">The Only Harmless Great Thing</a> by Brooke Bolander, finished January 6<br /><b>003)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780545135436">Rose</a> by Jeff Smith and Charles Vess, finished January 10<br /><b>004)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781770464926">Acting Class</a> by <span class="a-size-medium">Nick Drnaso</span>, finished January 10<br /><b>005)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781338167085">Red Scare</a> by Liam Francis Walsh, finished January 11</span></span></p><p>
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</span></span></b><div style="text-align: left;"><p><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/01/step-right-up-and-try-your-luck.html">Step right up and try your luck</a></span></span></span></b></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>006)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780143039464" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Short Reign of Pippin IV</a> by John Steinbeck, finished January 18</span></span><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>007)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3WBb0o0" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Filmish</a> by Edward Ross, finished circa January 20</span></span><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;">
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/02/blog-post.html">HOW many times?</a></span></span></b></p><p class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>008)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3kLeWoA">Maddy Kettle Book: The Adventure of the Thimblewitch</a> by Eric Orchard, finished January 24 <br />
<b>009)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3Xe80hp">Fantastic Frights: A Beginner's Guide to Scary Stories</a>, finished January 24
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>010)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780380709540">Ramona the Pest</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished February 2<br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>011)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780735220690">Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine</a> by Gail Honeyman, finished February 3<br /><b>012)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780679723257">The Postman Always Rings Twice</a> by James M. Cain, finished February 4
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>013)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3RIiVyT">Is that all there is?</a> by Joost Swarte, finished February 6
<br /><b>014)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780063030695">Edge Case</a> by YZ Chin, finished February 7</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"></p></div><p>
<a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/02/if-it-werent-for-friendly-sex-talk.html"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">If it weren't for a friendly sex talk, everything here would be miserable</span></b></a></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>015)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780679723226">Double Indemnity</a> by James M. Cain, finished February 10<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>016)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780998605272">Sex Educated: Letters from a Latter-day Saint therapist to her younger self</a> by Bonnie Young, LMFT, finished February 13<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>017)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781637740422">Unmask Alice: LDS, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries</a> by Rick Emerson, finished February 20 </span></p><p>
<a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/03/a-bookful-bounty-for-thee-and-thine.html"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> A Bookful Bounty for thee and thine </span></b></a></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>018)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781982185824">I'm Glad My Mom Died</a> by Jeannette McCurdy, finished February 27<br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>019–21)</b> <a href="https://karlkerschl.com/comic/episode-one/">The Abominable Charles Christopher</a> by Karl Kershl, finished March 6
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>022)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250193537">Displacement</a> by Kiku Hughes, finished March 6
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a name="023"></a></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>023)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781684158058">The Many Deaths of Laila Starr</a> by Ram V and Filipe Andrade, finished March 6
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>024)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3ZSNFAj">The Homeland Directive</a> by Robert Venditti and Mike Huddleston, finished March 7
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>025)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781982156893">Titus Andronicus</a> by William Shakespeare, finished March 14
<br /><b>026)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781633451094">Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange</a> by Tess Taylor, finished March 15
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a name="027"></a></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>027)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3nrXE1p">22 Young Mormon Writers</a> edited by Neal E. Lambert and Richard H. Cracroft, finished March 19
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>028 & 029)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781982156893">Titus Andronicus</a> by William Shakespeare, finished March 23 & March 27</span>
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<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/04/literarily-solving-for-x.html">Literarily solving for X</a></span></h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>030)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781101981870">X</a> by Sue Grafton, finished March 28<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>031)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061246470">Ramona the Brave</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished April 5<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>032)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781501134197">Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century</a> by Dana Stevens, finished April 5<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>033)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/43DvOja">Abe Lincoln in Illinois</a> by Robert E. Sherwood, finished April 8<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>034)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3L2qZbP">Theology of Play</a> by Jürgen Moltmann, finished April 12<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>035)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/43zqOMq">The Male Animal</a> by James Thurber and Elliott Nugent, finished April 12<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>036)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780763687069">Bluffton</a> by Matt Phelan, finished April 16<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>037)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250815293">Number One Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions</a> by Steve Martin and Harry Bliss, finished April 15</span></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/04/from-lolly-to-elias.html">From Lolly to Elias</a></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>038)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780486843483">Lolly Willowes</a> by Sylvia Townsend Warner, finished April 17</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a name="039"></a></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>039)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781616964023">The Emperor's Soul</a> by Brandon Sanderson, finished April 19
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>040)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781534324527">Beware the Eye of Odin</a> by Wager/Odland/Madsen/Dukeshire, finished April 19
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>041)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://amzn.to/3UY8edd">The Complete Peanuts: 1965–1966</a> by Charles M. Schulz, finished April 20
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>042)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250262899">A Wealth of Pigeons</a> by Steve Martin and Harry Bliss, finished April 22
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>043)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780344135187">Elias: An Epic of the Ages</a> by Orson Ferguson Whitney, finished April 23</span></span></h3>
<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/05/old-hollywood-olden-times.html">Old Hollywood & Olden Times</a></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>044)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781493060405">Straight Lady: The Life and Times of Margaret Dumont, "The Fifth Marx Brother"</a> by Chris Enss and Howard Kazanjian, finished April 25</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>045)</b><span> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780262543378">Voices from the Radium Age</a> edited by Joshua Glenn, finished April 26</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>046)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/416Nod2">The Ballad of YFB</a> by Aaron Brassea, finished April 28</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>047)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250857910">Reynaud's Tale</a> by Ben Hatke, finished May 3</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>048)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3HLBYo4">Superman: Up in the Sky</a> by Tom King and Andy Kubert, finished May 5</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>049)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061960901">Ramona and Her Father</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished May 5
<br /><b>050)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780345513991">Resurrection Row</a> by Anne Perry, finished May 6 </span></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/05/saying-good-bye-to-our-friend-kinsey.html">Saying good bye to our friend Kinsey</a></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>052)</b> <a href="https://archive.org/details/moregrosscartoon0000gros/">More Gross: Cartoons</a><span> by S. Gross, finished May 9</span><br /><b>053)</b> <a href="https://archive.org/details/iamblindmydogis00gros">I Am Blind and My Dog Is Dead</a><span> by S. Gross, finished May 9</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>054)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779517067">Batgirls: One Way or Another</a><span> by Becky Cloonan / Michael W. Conrad / Jorge Corona / Sarah Stein, finished May 11</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>055)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779520289">Batgirls: Bat Girl Summer</a><span> by Becky Cloonan / Michael W. Conrad / Neil Googe / Robbi Rodriguez / Rico Renzi, finished May 11</span><br /></span>
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>056)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780399185380">Y is for Yesterday</a><span> by Sue Grafton, finished May 12 </span></span>
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<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-tyranny-of-getting-stuff-in-right.html">The tyranny of getting stuff in the right order</a></span></h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>051)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780804190114">On Tyranny</a> by Timothy Snyder, finished May 8<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>057)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779504210">Superman Smashes the Klan</a> by Gene Luen Yang and Guruhiru, finished May 13
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>058)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781950774869">Four in Hand</a> by Alicia Mountain, finished May 17<br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>059)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/42VBSm3">The Glob</a> by John O'Reilly and Walt Kelly, finished May 20
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a name="060"></a></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>060)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781421437989">Why They <i>Can't</i> Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities</a> by John Warner, finished May 24<br /><a name="061"></a></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>061)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780316316132">Less</a> by Andrew Sean Greer, finished May 25
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>062)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781506726809">Children of the Woods</a> by Ciano/Hixson/Stevens/Otsmane-Elhaou, finished May 27<br /></span> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>063)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780525655596">The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece</a> by Tom Hanks, finished May 29</span>
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<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/06/anchors-links-endstuff-morecode-too.html">Such quality. Such excellence.</a></span></h3><p></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
<b>064)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3MYvwvL">Here</a> by Darlene Young, finished June 1<br />
<b>065)</b> <a href="https://www.carthageproject.com/product-page/theseus-vol-1-hardcover">Theseus Volume 1</a> by Jordan Holt, finished June 1<br />
<b>066)</b> <a href="https://www.carthageproject.com/product-page/theseus-vol-2-hardcover">Theseus Volume 2</a> by Jordan Holt, finished June 1<br />
<b>067)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/42q7rDG">Reviews for Non-Existent Movies</a> by Eric Goulden Kimball, finished June 5<br />
<b>068)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781935869504">The Scarlet Plague</a> by Jack London, finished June 6<br />
<b>069)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780316459778">Anne of West Philly</a> by Ivy Noelle Weir and Myisha Haynes, finished June 10<br />
<b>070)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061960901">Ramona and Her Mother</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished June 10</span></p>
<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/06/books-read-forensic-investigation.html">Books read: a forensic investigation</a></span></h3><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>073)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780063092792">These Precious Days</a> by Ann Patchett, finished c. June 17</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">
<b>074)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781770463622">Grass</a> by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, finished c. June 19</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">
<b>075)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781948218719">The Burning Book: A Jewish-Mormon Memoir</a> by Jason Olson and James Goldberg, finished c. June 21</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">
<b>076)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780062671196">The Night Watchman</a> by Louise Erdrich, finished June 23</span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"></p><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/07/from-prehumanity-to-eternal-destiny.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">From prehumanity to eternal destiny</span></a></b></div><p>
</p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>077)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781888963755">Tuki: Fight for Fire</a> by Jeff Smith, finished June 28</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>078)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781888963779">Tuki: Fight for Family</a> by Jeff Smith, finished June 29</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>079)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781350160750">The Writer's Hustle</a> by Joey Franklin, finished July 8</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>080)</b> <a href="https://epluribusmormon.square.site/">Future Day Saints: The New Arrivals</a> by Matt Page, finished July 16</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>081)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780765385253">Binti</a> by Nnedi Okorafor, finished July 18</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>082)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061960901">Ramona Quimby, Age 8</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished July 19</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>083)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781613163757">Just One More</a> by Annette Lyon, finished July 20</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>084)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780141304700">The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More</a> by Roald Dahl, finished July 22</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>085)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781637740538">Somewhere Out There: My Animated Life</a> by Don Bluth, finished July 22</span><br />
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</p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/07/two-women-in-comics-form.html">Two women, in comics form</a></span><b> <br /></b></h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>085)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781607061472">Beast</a> by Marian Churchland, finished July 24<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>086)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779515681">Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow</a> by King/Evely/Lopes, finished c. July 28</span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-sex-and-metaphysics-venn-diagram.html">The sex-and-metaphysics Venn diagram</a></span></b></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>087)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781620105412">Banana Sunday</a> by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover, finished August 2<br /><b>088)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780394410715">Falconer</a> by John Cheever, finished August 3<br /><b>089)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780553348972">Still Life with Woodpecker</a> by Tom Robbins, finished August 3<br /><b>090)</b> <span><a href="https://www.shortbox.co.uk/product/homunculus-by-joe-sparrow-new-edition-pre-order-n">Homunculus</a> </span>by Joe Sparrow, finished August 5<br /><b>091)</b> <a href="https://www.shortbox.co.uk/product/cuckoo-by-joe-sparrow-pre-order">Cuckoo</a> by Joe Sparrow, finished August 9<br /><b>092)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780892555598">Fatal</a> by Kimberly Johnson, finished August 16<br /><a name="093"></a></span>
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>093)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781596434530">The Unsinkable Walker Bean</a> by Aaron Renier, finished August 17<br /><b>094)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3OFWIjS">The Infinite Future</a> by Tim Wirkus, finished August 22<br /><b>095)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780374607401">Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne</a> by Katherine Rundell, finished August 23 <br /></span></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/09/what-is-this-nothing-but-comics.html">What, is this nothing but comics?</a></span>
</h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>096)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3EADkAg">The Unsinkable Walker Bean and the Knights of the Waxing Moon</a> by Aaron Renier, finished August 24<b><br />097)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3OQq1QJ">Just Julie's Fine</a> by Theric Jepson, finished August 26<br /><b>098)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250776297">Bea Wolf</a> by Zach Weinersmith and Boulet, finished August 28<br /><b>099)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781684052714">Assassinistas</a> by Tini Howard / Gilbert Hernandez / et al., finished August 31<br /><b>100)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779521354">Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons</a> by Kelly Sue DeConnick / Phil Jimenez / Gene Ha / Nicola Scott, finished August 31<br /><b>101)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401284770">The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes</a> by Neil Gaiman et al., finished September 6<br /><b>102)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780385334235">Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!</a> by Kurt Vonnegut, finished September 11
</span></p><p style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span> </span></span></p>
Th.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-15542859224830692232023-10-04T07:53:00.003-07:002023-10-04T07:53:54.700-07:00Theric seems to think you're interested in his sex thoughts (for old married folks only)<p> .</p><p><span>The </span><em>New York Times</em><span> just published an article titled “</span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/well/family/relationships-intimacy-bristle-reaction-sex.html" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">Watch Out for This Common Intimacy Killer</a><span>”—which is about as clickbaity as you can get. Here are the first two paragraphs:</span></p><blockquote><p><span>A few years ago, </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/well/family/sex-talk-couples.html" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">Vanessa Marin</a><span>,
a sex therapist in Santa Barbara, Calif., noticed an interesting
pattern among her clients in long-term relationships: They would
complain that their partners only touched them to initiate sex. The
gesture, a back rub or a playful grab, would make them flinch.</span></p><p>This
was so prevalent that Marin, author of “Sex Talks: The Five
Conversations That Will Transform Your Love Life,” started calling it
the “bristle reaction.” It’s what happens when your partner’s touch
makes your entire body tense, “because you know it can mean just one
thing,” she said.</p></blockquote><p>In other words, many people who
have been together a long time get to the point where the only time they
touch is when looking for sex and that one-reason-only version of
touching becomes repellent and triggers a ”a defensive response” from
the touched.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/514395588659859151/" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/17324e32-8169-4002-9954-8004910ac2df_536x225.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":225,"width":536,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":109893,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":"https://www.pinterest.com/pin/514395588659859151/","belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null}" height="225" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17324e32-8169-4002-9954-8004910ac2df_536x225.png" width="536" /></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I
can’t remember where, but more than once when I was young I read that
when couples are headed for divorce, their last remaining interaction,
after losing talking and kissing and so forth, was sexual intercourse.
It didn’t make sense to me.</p><p><span>Honestly, I only sorta understand it now, but the </span><em>Times</em><span>’ so-called bristle reaction makes more sense. Crazy we are a species where both things are true.</span></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{"url":"https://thmazing.substack.com/p/theric-seems-to-think-youre-interested?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo2NjE4NzM5LCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxMzc1NTg5ODEsImlhdCI6MTY5NjQzMTE5OSwiZXhwIjoxNjk5MDIzMTk5LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMzQxMzcyIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.orm7F0_YezkRVUS2RDJBozAxI-oNes6yLIV2bL0xmZ0","text":"Share","action":null,"class":null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://thmazing.substack.com/p/theric-seems-to-think-youre-interested?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo2NjE4NzM5LCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxMzc1NTg5ODEsImlhdCI6MTY5NjQzMTE5OSwiZXhwIjoxNjk5MDIzMTk5LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMzQxMzcyIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.orm7F0_YezkRVUS2RDJBozAxI-oNes6yLIV2bL0xmZ0" rel="nofollow ugc noopener"><span>Share</span></a></p><p><span>Anyway,
once upon a time long long ago in a book I read either just before or
just after Lady Steed and I got married (depending on whether it was in </span><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780310211778" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">the book that was a supplemental text for a BYU class</a><span> or </span><a href="https://amzn.to/46v35he" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">the one that certainly was not</a><span>)
I read that, in a heterosexual pairing, the woman will be more open to
sexually-intended touch if that day had already included twelve
decidedly nonsexual touchings.</span></p><p>There’s a paradox built into
this intelligence, of course, in that twelve nonsexual touches intended
as prologue to sexual touching is, I guess, foreforeplay? and, it would
seem, therefore sexual.</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/love-languages-are-hugely-popular-but-theres-very-little-evidence-they-exist-at-all-198065" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">Love languages are less disproved</a><span> </span><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1558822/Professor-pans-learning-style-teaching-method.html" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">than learning styles</a><span>,
but they still seem to be nonsense, scientifically speaking. But it’s
still no great controversy to say a couple may differ in just how much,
say, touch each desires.</span></p><p><span>I think Lady Steed and I are not one of the couple written about in the </span><em>Times</em><span>
in part because there is plenty of casual touch between us. Perhaps
treating twelve-times as an unofficial motto of my early husbandhood
(without ever—and I think this is important—ever counting) put us into
something like healthy habits.</span></p><p>Yet the bristle response does sometimes occur, whether the touch is sexually intended or not.</p><p><span>I
doubt I have a point here, but let me tack on that longterm
relationships have their own value. And the article’s purpose is to
suggest fixes. So, </span><em>y’know</em><span>, if this sounds like you, check it out? If you’re not ready for </span><a href="https://www.gottman.com/blog/weekend-homework-assignment-six-seconds-to-happy-couplehood/" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">the six-second kiss</a><span>, there are easier steps available.</span></p><p>I wish you much good touching and many unstressful touches.</p><p> </p>Th.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-77074053984397501842023-09-30T20:26:00.002-07:002023-09-30T20:30:37.967-07:00Do you remember? The films that we watched this September?<p>.<br /><br />What a strange month. I can't believe the first things on this list happened the same month as when I am typing these words. And the last movie I saw was the 14th. Which means not a single movie for half this month.</p><p></p><p>How awful.</p><p></p><p>I must needs repent.</p><p>[insert sad face here]</p><p></p><p>Anyway, some good times were had; they were just long, long ago.<br /><br>
(I suspect this is an error. I'm pretty sure I watched at least <i>Slapstick</i> and <i>Genius</i> after <i>You Can't Take It With You</i>, but would my record lie??)
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</tbody></table><b>Blue Beetle</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9362930?thmazing">2023</a>)<br />
<br />
This movie could have been a lot better. But part of it is just bad timing. If they'd made the movie <a href="https://thmazing.substack.com/p/blue-beetle">when I'd first suggested it</a>, the parts that seemed like knockoffs of the MCU's versions of Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Thor, would have seemed much less so. Also, they could've just tried harder not to feel ripoffy. The technobabble was stupid even for a superhero movie. And while <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/06/juneriffic-filmorama.html#flash">not as egregious as <i>The Flash</i></a>, what was with the cgi? Why not just make the water in a cup have real waves? Why not let your actor actually jump off something? Why not let a real candle set real carpet on fire? Why all the crappy cgi?<br />
<br />
(Note: I don't blame the cg artists. Although I do think they should be cutting deals with the writers and actors and getting on the picket lines with them.)<br />
<br />
That said, the movie was pretty fun and Jaime's family was far and away the best part of the movie. Special shoutout to Damián Alcázar who was mainly given the opportunity to smile and say generic pro-family optimistic things yet gave the role real life and power.<br />
<br />
When the movie was over, my kids agreed that the movie they want next is about Nana's backstory. It's a pretty good suggestion.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>The Fugitive</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106977?thmazing">1993</a>)<br />
<br />
It holds up.<br />
<br />
And not just for us then-teenagers, but for now-teenagers as well.<br />
<br />
The both liked it. A lot. And they especially liked the cerebral element, that it was a mystery. More of those please, the now-teenagers said.<br />
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Any recommendations?<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14071694?thmazing">2022</a>)<br />
<br />
I've been wanting to watch this for quite a while and I loved it as much as I expected.<br />
<br />
Earlier this week I got to work with Elizabeth Garcia, poem editor at <i>Dialogue</i>, and even though our back and forth didn't last that long, oh what a joy to work with an editor! That's what I need as a writer to continue to grow but American editing feels like it's at a nadir. Certainly it's not accessible to more people. Although I can speak of a few exceptions, most of my editing experience is <i>as</i> the editor, not the writer. I try to provide value but karma's hard to come by.<br />
<br />
Sigh.<br />
<br />
Anyway. Almost thou persuadest me to read 5000 pages about Lyndon Johnson.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Blancanieves</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1854513?thmazing">2012</a>)<br />
<br />
This is a silent film set in the 1920s about Snow White. It was made in Spain a decade ago. And it is excellent. There were, I'll grant you, a couple moments that didn't reach their full potential and a couple tricks that were overused, but as a whole it was an excellent revisiting of silent film and solid entertainment on its own.<br />
<br />
Man, Snow White has it rough.<br />
<br />
I appreciate how the film IS a fairy tale and IS the modern world with modern rules and how it uses that tension to both engage us and keep us far enough away we cannot know what happens next. Just really well done.<br />
<br />
And the actors were great too. They stepped into silence without becoming awful hams which must be a temptation. I suspect everyone who worked on this movie was fully immersed in the greats of the era.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064115?thmazing">1969</a>)<br />
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Don't know if I've ever seen this through before. I saw the ending as a kid at my aunt's house, so maybe? It's famous enough there are definitely scenes I knew well (though I never realized that <a href="https://youtu.be/jLjeYcwYHsA?si=xQeOTIHjolSXg6jR&t=129">Kermit</a> was parodying <i><a href="https://youtu.be/8_JPDEHU1ok?si=LyT0EojxkoyAYpq0&t=67">this</a></i> bicycle scene) but I really had no idea what the plot was about.<br />
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The first cut they tested on audience was deemed too funny. Apparently the audience could not stop laughing. It has funny bits but it's hard to imagine just what that earlier but was like. I sure wish it still existed.<br /><br />The shape of the film is weird. It really makes 1969 feel like a long, long time ago. (According to the making-of, Butch's sister was still alive when they made the film. The wild west still isn't ancient history now, fifty years later.)<br />
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Anyway, I liked the film well enough. I wasn't blown away. I get why people like it but I'm not sure it's retain top-100-style classic status into another generation.* But that's a question for another fifty years.<br />
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* In other words <a href="Butch_Cassidy_and_the_Sundance_Kid">I seem to agree with contemporaneous reviews</a>.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>The Making of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066043?thmazing">1970</a>)<br />
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This was an interesting artifact. None of the talking heas are talking heads; they're all disembodies voices. And I'm not sure where this played. It was completed before the film was released but gives away way too much stuff to have come out then. George Roy Hill donated it to Yale and Yale owns the copyright. But it won a Primetime Emmy. But Hill drops at least four f-bombs, so how? Where did it play?<br />
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But there's more strange than that. Hill talks about how they made the mule fall using techniques illegal in the U.S. because it could break the animal's neck. He mentions that they didn't protect one Mexican extra well enough and he broke his pelvis. Stuff like that.<br />
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Great look at moviemaking of the era, though. I felt educated after watching!<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Slapstick of Another Kind</b> (<a href="?thmazing">1982</a>)<br />
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Wow.<br />
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<a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/09/what-is-this-nothing-but-comics.html#102">I didn't care for the book</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slapstick_of_Another_Kind#Reception">Siskel and Ebert warned me about the movie</a>, but it's still astonishing just how terrible it would be. It's one of the movies where you could take any five seconds out of context and know they were from a terrible movie. I think there was one good line and one good visual image, and that's really only in comparison to the rest of this awful, awful movie.<br />
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It's so bad, guys.<br />
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Do not watch this. <br />
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As if it's failure to capture even 10% of the book (or that bit accurately) was insufficient, it then goes on to rip off recent movies (most noticibly <i>Close Encounters</i>) as if that would help.<br />
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E<i>gad</i>.<br />
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And if the book's racial humor failed, the movie's attempts are straight-up racist. I'm so so sorry, Pat Morita. I don't know how it can seem possible to you know, but in three years you'll get <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzVMzJ5ktLs">an Oscar nomination</a>. I promise.<br />
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And when you're abusing the book <i>this</i> badly, why throw in little bits that'll only make sense to people who know the book? Why?<br />
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The only way I made it through was to watch it sped up. Even then, unfunny timefilling scenes seemed to last forever. How you take people like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=madeline+kahn">Madeline Kahn</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=marty+feldman">Marty Feldman</a> and make them this unfunny takes a special lack of filmmaking ability.<br />
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Anyway. It's bad. I'll stop now.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Genius</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1703957?thmazing">2016</a>)<br />
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This is a terrific film. The story of <i>the</i> Lost Generation editor and one of his writers and a few of the people who surround them. Basically a two-hander starring Colin Firth and Jude Law, but they are surrounded by a sterling supporting cast. Everyone hits perfect.<br />
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Everyone, that is, except the children. This is not a knock on the actors. This is an issue of direction. Years pass yet the children do not age. They are given a couple notes to hit. One is given a third note out of nowhere that isn't justified by anything come before, and it does not work. I do not blame the kid. I suspect the filmmaker's team simply has never met any children? Like, ever? That seems the most likely case.<br />
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But anyone outside of the spotlight (by which I mean the six actors who made the bottom of the poster, the leads, their ladies, the other writers) is at risk of unreality. A writer's mother gets a real moment. Zelda does. But not the black characters. There's a maid who gets a credit at films' end but more than once the camera moved to hide her behind a pillar. What?<br />
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But the focus of the movie is brilliantly executed and that makes it, as a whole, a very good film. Focus on what they want you to watch and ignore the edges and you'll have an excellent time.<br />
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At the risk of continuing to turn you off a movie I liked, this film's also a great example of movies about Americans without many Americans. The actors are uniformly excellent but there's an irony in hearing a British voice call this film about quintessential Americana when they cast as their four leads and two major supports British, British, Australian, American, English/Australian, English. Lol.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>You Can't Take It with You</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030993?thmazing">1938</a>)<br />
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I loved this movie so much. It has aspects that are silly and melodramatic but they are seasoning, not overwhelming. The emotional core and the complicated threads of plot come together to build a mini-epic of love of family and love of mate and love of community. A moment at the end made me melt into tears just as a bright joy illuminated my heart.<br />
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It's a Frank Capra film and its based on a popular stage play. Neither of those will surprise as you watch. Like <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-movies-of-may.html#itswon">his most famous film</a>, it stars (among others) James Stewart and Lionel Barrymore. Jimmy's younger and less world-worn here. A first-act Jimmy, shall we say. But if you (like me) really only know Lionel as Mr Potter then this film is a revelation. Ends up one of the great actors of his age could play more than curmudgeons. He's brilliant here as the eccentric grandfather motivated by his love for others and noted for his astonishing capacity to disbelieve in capitalism.<br />
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Jean Arthur reminds me of Gracie Allen. Sort of a less gonzo Gracie. I suspect this is not a common opinion.<br />
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Anyway, for a movie that fits in so many little genre tropes, it finds excellence by treating them all true and really really meaning everything it does. It's an honest movie. Absurd and hilarious and deeply sincere. I loved it.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2022</u><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-years-starts-slowly.html" title="21 Up (1977) | After Hours (1985) | Encanto (2021) | Harold and Maude (1971) | The Last Starfighter (1984) | Little Women (2019)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/02/februarys-over-already-it-was-yesterday.html" title="Ford v Ferrari (2019) | The Imposter (2012) | Modern Times (1936) | Private Benjamin (1980) | Sing Street (2016) | Snowball Express (1972) | The Voyeurs (2021)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/03/march-on-to-filmdonia.html" title="The Awful Truth (1937) | Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021) | The Batman (2022) | The Lady in the Van (2015)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/04/not-that-i-watched-any-ukrainian-films.html" title="28 Up (1984) | Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021) | Batman (1989) | Embrace the Panda: Making Turning Red (2022) | Free Guy (2021) | Gattaca (1997) | Henson's Place: The Man Behind the Muppets (1984) | Kong: Skull Island (2017) | The Mummy (1932) | Please Vote for Me (2007) | Professor Marston & the Wonder Women (2017) | Pulp Fiction (1994) | Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) | They Call Me Trinity (1970) | Turning Red (2022) | WW84 (2020)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/05/movie-may-i.html" title="35 Up (1991) | Bambi (1942) | The Bob's Burgers Movie (2022) | Chan Is Missing (1982) | Departures (2008) | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) | Eagle vs Shark (2007) | Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) | Finch (2021) | Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth (2020) | Learning to See: The World of Insects (2016) | The Liberators (2016) | Man on Fire (2018) | Mickey Mouse Monopoly (2002) | Moana (2016) | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) | The Northman (2022) | Porco Rosso (1992) | Psycho (1960) | Psychos (2014) | Putin: The New Tsar (2018) | Russian Ark (2002) | The Trolls (2015) | Two Million Minutes: A Global Examination (2008)">may</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/06/june-film-flybys.html" title="42 Up (1998) | 49 Up (2005) | 56 Up (2012) | All the President's Men (1976) | Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) | The General (1926) | The Green Knight (2021) | The Green Man (1956) | Jallikattu (2019) | Killer of Sheep (1978) | The Matrix (1999) | Monster on the Campus (1958) | Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) | The Post (2017) | Princess Mononoke (1997) | Soylent Green (1973)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-quality-july.html" title="The Bob Emergency (2019) | Elvis (2022) | The Fog of War (2003) | Heat (1995) | The Insufferable Groo (2018) | Last Night in Soho (2021) | The Lunchbox (2013) | Mad God (2022) | Masterminds (2016) | The Mummy (1999) | The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982) | Nope (2022) | Princess Protection Program (2009) | The Thing (1982) | Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) | Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made (2020) | WWJD (2022)">july</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/08/august-films-2022.html" title="Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) | Beaver Trilogy (2000) | Beaver Trilogy Part IV (2015) | Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022) | Cinderella 3: A Twist in Time (2007) | Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) | Encanto (2021) | The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021) | How to score 10 runs in the first inning and lose (2022) | Jules et Jim (1962) | Once (2007)">aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/09/ive-run-out-of-september-film-puns-2022.html" title="The Boyfriend School (1990) | Brave (2012) | Boss Baby (2017) | Bullitt (1968) | Dog City (1989) | Frances Ferguson (2019) | It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) | Jaws (1975) | Love and Saucers (2017) | Macbeth (2018) | M*A*S*H (1970) | Moana (2016) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | Storks (2016) | Teacher of the Year (2014) | Touch of Evil (1958/1998) | The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/10/octobrrrrr-films-were-just-not-chilly.html" title="Bell Book and Candle (1958) | A Bucket of Blood (1959) | Emma. (2020) | Old (2021) | Werewolf by Night (2022) | Much Ado About Nothing (1993) | Much Ado About Nothing (2012)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/11/novilmber.html" title="The Addams Family (1991) | La belle et la bête (1946) | Boss Baby: Family Business (2021) | CRYO (2022) | Dan in Real Life (2007) | Glass Onion (2022) | An Honest Liar (2014) | A Serious Man (2009) | Suburbicon (2017) | Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) | While You Were Sleeping (1995) | WWJD (2022)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/01/ending-year-in-cinematic-style.html" title="Barber Westchester (2022) | The Batman (2022) | Batman Returns (1992) | The Compleat Al (1985) | Elf (2003) | The Guardians of the Galaxy: Holiday Special (2022) | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) | The LEGO Movie (2014) | The Matrix (1999) | The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) | Midnight Run (1988) | Mirai (2018) | Moana (2016) | Patch Town (2014) | Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (1972) | The Shop Around the Corner (1940) | Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) | A Unicorn for Christmas (2021)">dec</a><br /></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2021</u><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/01/no-so-many-movies-this-january-im-afraid.html" title="Babette's Feast (1987) | Bashful (1917) | The Big Idea (1917) | By the Sad Sea Waves (1917) | A Cat in Paris (2010) | A Gasoline Wedding (1918) | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) | Lonesome Luke, Messenger (1917) | Look Pleasant, Please (1918) | The Princess and the Frog (2009) | The Shaggy D.A. (1976) | Shrek (2001) | Shrek 2 (2004) | Soul (2020) | Wings of Desire (1987)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/02/february-more-like-filmuary.html" title="A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) | The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) | Monuments Men (2014) | My Neighbor Totoro (1988) | The Player (1992) | The Princess Bride (1989) | Selma (2014) | Shrek Forever After (2010) | Shrek the Third (2007) | Spirited Away (2001) | La Strada (1954)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/03/march-movies-march.html" title="And Should We Die (1966) | Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020) | The Dirty Dozen (1967) | Downsizing (2017) | Hail, Caesar! (2016) | Inside Out (2015) | Jojo Rabbit (2019) | My Cousin Vinny (1992) | Rififi (1955)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/04/april-showers-do-not-exist-this-is.html" title="Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) | Belladonna of Sadness (1973) | Blast from the Past (1999) | Captain America: Civil War (2016) | The Floorwalker (1916) | Flora & Ulysses (2021) | Hypocrites (1915) | The Incredibles (2004) | Jojo Rabbit (2019) | The Last Unicorn (1982) | Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) | Moonrise Kingdom (2012) | Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976) | Paul Williams Still Alive (2011) | Phantom of the Paradise (1974) | Spontaneous (2020) | The Star Prince (1918)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/05/may-we-movie-yes-we-may.html" title="High Noon (1952) | Idiocracy (2006) | The Incredible Hulk (2008) | The Maltese Falcon (1941) | My Favorite Wife (1940) | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | Parasite (2019) | So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)">may</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/06/june-something-something-movie-pun.html" title="Billu (2009) | Ella Cinders (1926) | The Errand of Angels (2004) | Future War (1997) / MST3K: Future War (1999) | Luca (2021) | A Quiet Place (2018) | Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) | Sullivan's Travels (1941)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-films-of-july-such-as-they-were.html" title="The Caine Mutiny (1954) | The Cat from Outer Space (1978) | The Innocents (1961) | The Manchurian Candidate (1962) | A Mighty Wind (2003) | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | This Is Spinal Tap (1984) | Tron: Legacy (2010)">jul</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/09/augustus-filmius.html" title="Black Widow (2021) | Contact (1997) | The Giant Brine Shrimp (1973) | Phantom of the Megaplex (2000) | Scoob! (2020) | Sylvio (2017) | Three Men and a Baby (1987)">aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/09/remember-the-films-of-september.html" title="'Crocodile' Dundee (1986) | Discovering Treasure: The Story of the Treasure of the Sierra Madre (2003) | Emma. (2020) | The Jewel of the Nile (1985) | John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1989) | Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: The Flash (2018) | Romancing the Stone (1984) | Scotland, Pa. (2001) | Snoopy, Come Home (1972) | A Town Called Panic (2009) | A Town Called Panic: Double Fun (2016) | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/10/october-and-disturbing-paucity-of-scary.html" title="The Bat (1959) | The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Gentlemen Broncos (2009) | Hero (2002) | Macbeth (2015) | Mr. Boogedy (1986) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | Muppets Haunted Mansion (2021) | Scotland, Pa. (2001) | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-first-time.html" title="About a Boy (2002) | The Amazing Spider-man (2012) | As You Like It (1978) | Beetlejuice (1988) | Bottle Rocket (1996) | Eternals (2021) | Flora & Ulysses (2021) | An Honest Liar (2014) | Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) | Masaan (2015) | Out of Liberty (2019) | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) | Sisters (1972)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/12/and-twenty-twenty-one-comes-crashing-to.html" title="7 Plus Seven (1970) | Bedazzled (1967) | Die Hard (1988) | Elf (2003) | The History of the Seattle Mariners (2020) | The Holiday (2006) | Home Alone (1990) | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) | It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) | The Matrix (1999) | The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) | Ron's Gone Wrong (2021) | Seven Up! (1964) | Speed (1994) | Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) | ¡Three Amigos! (1986) | Toys (1992) | The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)">dec</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2020</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-first-month-of-2020-films-watched.html" title="1917 (2019) | The Aeronauts (2019) | After Hours (1985) | Amy (2015) | Barcelona (1994) | Cars (2006) | The Death of Stalin (2017) | A Fool There Was (1915) | How Rare a Possession: The Book of Mormon (1987) | The In-Laws (1979) | Joker (2019) | Knives Out (2019) | Long Shot (2019) | Parasite (2019) | Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) | Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) | Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) | Three Days of the Condor (1975) | Unbreakable (2000) | Wag the Dog (1997)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/02/leap-day-means-extra-day-for-movies-in.html" title="The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) | Arrival (2016) | Bolt (2008) | Contagion (2011) | Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) | Groundhog Day (1993) | Inception (2010) | Jean de Florette (1986) | Kung Fu Dunk (2008) | Manon des Sources (1986) | Muriel's Wedding (1994) | Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019) | Sylvio (2017) | Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914) | Troop Zero (2019) | Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013) | Young Adult (2011)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/03/march-brings-end-of-normality-and.html" title="The Avengers (2012) | Bambi (1942) | Bottle Rocket (1996) | Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) | Finding Nemo (2003) | Heart of Africa (2020) | It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) | A League of Their Own (1992) | Miniscule: Valley of the Lost Ants (2013) | The Avengers | Patema Inverted (2013) | Phase IV (1974) | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) | UHF (1989) | WALL·E (2008) | Whale Rider (2002)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-movies-intentions-corrupted-by.html" title="4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) | Ant-Man (2015) | Avengers: Endgame (2019) | Avengers: Infinity War (2018) | Black Panther (2018) | Brother Bear (2003) | Captain America: Civil War (2016) | Finding Dory (2016) | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) | Howl's Moving Castle (2004) | Iron Man 2 (2010) | Iron Man Three (2013) | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | My Life as a Zucchini (2016) | Once I Was a Beehive (2015) | Onward (2020) | Out of Liberty (2019) | Spirited Away (2001) | Thor: Ragnarok (2017) | West of Her (2016)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/05/may-we-movies.html" title="Bambi (1942) | Be Kind Rewind (2008) | Duck Soup (1933) | Fantastic Mr Fox (2009) | Fences (2016) | The Fighting Preacher (2019) | Fluke (1995) | Frankenstein (1931) | Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) | The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) | The Great Dinosaur Discovery (1976) | A Hard Day's Night (1964) | House of Frankenstein (1944) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Like Father, Like Son (2013) | Pride & Prejudice (2005) | Ratatouille (2007) | Rushmore (1998) | Shanghai Noon (2000) | Shoplifters (2018) | A Spaceman in King Arthur's Court (1979) | Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) | The Strongest Man in the World (1975)">may</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-movies-minimally-jejune.html" title="An Affair to Remember (1957) | Any Old Port in a Storm (1973) | Artemis Fowl (2020) | Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman (2003) | Blindspotting (2018) | Endless Night (1972) | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) | First Reformed (2017) | The Florida Project (2017) | The Great Muppet Caper (1981) | Holy Motors (2012) | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) | I Am Not Your Negro (2016) | Intolerable Cruelty (2003) | Ishtar (1987) | Late Night (2019) | Looper (2012) | Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) | My Dog, the Thief (1969) | Patch Town (2014) | Peter Pan (1953) | The Red Mill (1927) | The Seventh Seal (1957) | The Shiver of the Vampires (1971) | Snowpiercer (2013) | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) | Transperceneige: From the Blank Page to the Black Screen (2014) | Under the Silver Lake (2018) | West of Hot Dog (1924)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/07/blog-post.html" title="Beginners (2010) | Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019) | Fitzwilly (1967) | Galaxy Quest (1999) | A Ghost Story (2017) | The Hate U Give (2018) | A Hidden life (2019) | Hot Rod (2007) | House of Dracula (1945) | Jerry Maguire (1996) | Meet the Robinsons (2007) | New York Doll (2005) | The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) | Shaun of the Dead (2004) | Transylvania 6-5000 (1985) | The Zone (2011)">jul</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/08/film-so-august.html" title="Alice in Wonderland (1951) | Bug (1975) | Country Gentlemen (1936) | The Dead Don't Die (2019) | Eleanor's Secret (2009) | Firebird (1982) | Frozen II (2019) | Knives Out (2019) | Minority Report (2002) | Rango (2011) | Spirited Away (2001) | Table 19 (2016) | Tangled (2010)">aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/10/1917-aeronauts-after-hours-amy.html" title="A.C.O.D. (2013) | All Is True (2018) | Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020) | Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (2015) | Chicken Run (2000) | La Cigarette (1919) | Clueless (1995) | Fat City (1972) | The Smiling Madame Beudet (1923) | The Terminator (1984) | Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/11/oktoberfilm.html" title="Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) | Ghostbusters: Answer the Call (2016) | In Search of a Flat Earth (2020) | Intolerance (1916) | Jabberwocky (1977) | The Next Door (2016) | Over the Garden Wall (2014) | The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012) | The Sixth Sense (1999) | Three Ages (1923) | Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) | The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/11/thankful-for-movies.html" title="10 Things I Hate About You (1999) | 1917 (2019) | Arthur Christmas (2011) | Early Man (2018) | Extra Ordinary (2019) | Ford v Ferrari (2019) | I Am Not Your Negro (2016) | Jurassic Park (1993) | Just Mercy (2019) | Kung Fu Panda (2008) | The Last Man on Earth (1964) | Missing Link (2019) | Napoleon Dynamite (2004) | Samuel the Lamanite (2006) | The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956) | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/12/a-film-watch-together-with-youuuuuu.html" title="Babes in Toyland (1934) | BlacKkKlansman (2018) | The Court Jester (1955) | Edward Scissorhands (1990) | Elf (2003) | Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas (2014) | The Farewell (2019) | Get Out (2017) | Home Alone (1990) | Midsommar (2019) | Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) | Noelle (2020) | A Raisin in the Sun (2008) | The Sadist (1963) | A Simple Favor (2018) | Singin' in the Rain (1952) | Up (2009)">dec</a><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2019</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/01/feature-film-january-2019.html" title="The Boat (1921) | Cold Comfort Farm (1995) | The Great Dictator (1940) | Hearts Beat Loud (2018) | An Honest Liar (2014) | Imposter (2012) | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) | One Week (1920) | Shaolin Soccer (2001) | Spider-Man 3 (2007) | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) | Sylvio (2017) | The Thing from Another World (1951) | True Grit (2010)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/02/feature-film-february-2019.html" title="Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Don Verdean (2015) | Duelle (1976) | Edge of Tomorrow (2014) | The Favourite (2018) | Frankenstein (1931) | Hanna (2010) | The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) | Luck-Key (2016) | Mother (2009) | Pom Poko (1994) | Raising Arizona (1987) | Sylvio (2017) | The Tiger Hunter (2016) | Violet & Daisy (2011)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/03/feature-film-march-2019.html" title="Don Verdean (2015) | Eighth Grade (2018) | Fences (2016) | Frankenstein (1931) | Jane and Emma (2018) | Macbeth (1979) | Macbeth (2010) | Macbeth (2015) | The Silence of the Lambs (1991) | Superman (1978) | The Sword in the Stone (1963)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/04/feature-film-april-2019.html" title="Avengers: Infinity War (2018) | Captain Marvel (2019) | Cheatin’ (2013) | George of the Jungle (1997) | Hancock (2008) | An Honest Liar (2014) | King Lear (2018) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | Mulholland Dr. (2001) | Shazam! (2019) | Three Identical Strangers (2018) | Us (2019)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/05/feature-film-may-2019.html" title="Avengers: Endgame (2019) | Bambi (1942) | BASEketball (1998) | Casablanca (1942) | Cinema Paradiso (1988) | A Day at the Races (1937) | The Godfather (1972) | Good Time (2017) | A Goofy Movie (1995) | The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) | One Week & The Boat (1920 & 1921) | Play It Again, Sam (1972) | Psycho (1960) | Rushmore (1998) | Short Term 12 (2013) | Silence (2016) | Wolf Children (2012)">may</a><br />
<a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/06/feature-film-june-2019.html" title="The Big Store (1942) | Crazy Rich Asians (2018) | Deathtrap (1982) | Designing Woman (1957) | The Godfather: Part II (1974) | Louise en Hiver (2016) | Men in Black (1997) | Room 237 (2012) | Room Service (1938) | Sleepless in Seattle (1993) | Spirited Away (2001) | To Be or Not to Be (1942) | Toy Story (1995) | Toy Story 2 (2009) | Toy Story 3 (2010)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/07/feature-films-june-2019.html" title="I, Tonya (2017) | The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) | My Neighbors The Yamadas (1999) | Sorry to Bother You (2018) | Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) | Toy Story 3 (2010) | Toy Story 4 (2019) | The Tree of Life (2011) | Yesterday (2019)">jul</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/08/feature-films-august-2019.html" title="Beware! The Blob (1972) | The Blob (1958) | Bumblebee (2018)| The Dead Zone (1983) | Dealt (2017) | Marjorie Prime (2017) | The Meg (2018) | Matilda (1996) | The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) | Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019)">aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/09/feature-films-september-2019.html" title="Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (2016) | Blinded by the Light (2019) | Captain Marvel (2019) | Kings of Baxter (2017) | The Lady Eve (1941) | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) | The Martian (2015) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Sylvio (2017)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/10/feature-films-october-2019.html" title="Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) | The Addams Family (2019) | An American Werewolf in London (1981) | Gravity (2013) | An Honest Liar (2014) | The Kings of Summer (2013) | Little (2019) | Macbeth (2015) | Moana (2016) | mother! (2017) | Romeo + Juliet (1996) | Romeo Is Bleeding (2015) | Shazam! (2019) | Toy Story (1995) | WALL·E (2008)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/11/films-feature-length-2019-november.html" title="Aquaman (2018) | Blackbeard's Ghost (1968) | Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) | Clue (1985) | Frozen (2013) | Frozen II (2019) | I Lost My Body (2019) | Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) | Isle of Dogs (2018) | Kids + Money (2008) | The Light Bulb Conspiracy (2010) | The Night of the Hunter (1955) | The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | The Prodigal Son (1990) | The Satellite Girl and Milk Cow (2014) | Short Circuit (1986) | Short Circuit 2 (1988) | Space Is the Place (1974)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/12/december-2019-films-de-la-feature.html" title="About a Boy (2002) | The Animagic World of Rankin/Bass (2018) | Babe (1995) | Bagdad Cafe (1987) | The Best Two Years (2004) | Elf (2003) | Fast Color (2018) | Go (1999) | Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) | Gremlins (1984) | Hitler's Hollywood (2017) | Jack Frost (1979) | The _______ Report (2019) | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) | Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) | Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) | Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019) | Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) | Toy Story 4 (2019)">dec</a><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2018</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-feature-films-of-january-2018.html" title="The Avengers (2012) | Believe (2013) | Cast Away (2000) | College (1927) | The Creature Walks Among Us (1956) | Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) | Faces Places (2017) | A Goofy Movie (1995) | Hot Rod (2007) | One Man's Treasure (2009) | Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) | Shane (1953) | The Wolfpack (2015)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/02/2018-february-feature-filmery.html" title="Black Panther (2018) | Chan Is Missing (1982) | The Edge of Seventeen (2016) | Help! (1965) | The Incredibles (2004) | Iron Man (2008) | Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002) | Lady Bird (2017) | Love & Friendship (2016) | Pom Poko (1994) | Sylvio (2017) | Toy Story (1995) | Wonderstruck (2017)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/03/march-2018s-feature-filmery.html" title="Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Chinatown (2006) | Colossal (2016) | Fences (2016) | Frankenstein (1931) | Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) | Inside Out (2015) | Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) | What We Do in the Shadows (2014)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/04/april-2018s-feature-filmery.html" title="Adam's Apples (2005) | Avengers: Infinity War (2018) | Cinderella (1950) | Coriolanus (2011) | Darkest Hour (2017) | Don't Think Twice (2016) | Moonstruck (1987) | Muppets from Space (1999) | Princess Mononoke (1997) | The Red Turtle (2016) | Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) | Tangled (2010) | Thor: The Dark World (2013) | 3:10 to Yuma (1957) | 3:10 to Yuma (2007)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/05/may-2018s-feature-filmery.html" title="The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) | The Andromeda Strain (1971) | The Beguiled (2017) | Boy and the World (2013) | Get Out (2017) | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) | Interstellar (2014) | The Iron Giant (1999) | The Little Mermaid (1989) | Mulan (1998) | My Dinner with Andre (1981) | Romeo Is Bleeding (2015) | Spirited Away (2001) | The Stepford Wives (1975) | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | WALL·E (2008) | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)">may</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/06/june-2018s-feature-filmery.html" title="Ant-Man (2015) | Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) | Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) | Incredibles 2 (2018) | Isle of Dogs (2018) | Ocean's 8 (2018) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977) | Rushmore (1998) | Thank You for Smoking (2005)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/08/20julyaugust18.html" title="The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) | Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1992) | The Disaster Artist (2017) | Dunkirk (2017) | Everybody Street (2013) | Finding Dory (2016) | Howl's Moving Castle (2004) | The Lego Batman Movie (2017) | Logan Lucky (2017) | Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) | My Neighbro Totoro (1988) | 9 to 5 (1980) | Porco Rosso (1992) | Son of Frankenstein (1939) | Sorry to Bother You (2018) | The Saratov Approach (2013) | Son of Flubber (1963) | The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) | Thor: Ragnarok (2017) | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018) | Your Name. (2016)">jul&aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/09/not-so-many-movies-in-september-2018.html" title="Art + Belief (2019) | A Boy and His Dog (1975) | The Little Hours (2017) | The Lost Express (1925) | Murder by Death (1976) | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | One Man's Treasure (2009)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-films-of-october-2018.html" title="Batman Begins (2005) | Children of the Corn (1984) | Frailty (2001) | Justice League (2017) | My Friend Dahmer (2017) | The Truman Show (1998) | When Marnie Was There (2014)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/11/moviember-2019.html" title="Baby Mama (2008) | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) | The 'Burbs (1989) | The Dark Knight (2008) | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) | Metropolis (1927) | Modern Times (1936) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | Okja (2017) | Paddington 2 (2017) | Singin' in the Rain (1952) | WarGames (1983)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/12/final-movies-post-of-2018.html" title="The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) | The Comedy of Errors (1983) | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) | It's a Wonderful Life (1946) | My Neighbor Totoro (1998) | North Avenue Irregulars (1979) | Spider-Man (2002) | Spider-Man 2 (2004) | Turbo Kid (2015)">dec</a><br />
</div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2017</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/03/2017-t-ms-part-one.html" title="Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993) | The General (1926) | Get Out (2017) | The Hidden Fortress (1958) | The Karate Kid (1984) | The LEGO Batman Movie (2017) | Mean Girls (2004) | Orc Wars (2013) | Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Room (2015) | Silence (2016) | Storks (2016)">qu1</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/06/2017-t-ms-part-two.html" title="All the President's Men (1976) | Back to the Future (1985) | The Boss Baby (2017) | Casablanca (1942) | Do the Right Thing (1989) | F for Fake (1973) | Fences (2016) | Forbidden Zone (1980) | Fun and Fancy Free (1947) | The Ghost Writer (2010) | Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) | Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 (2017) | Hail, Caesar! (2016) | The Handmaiden (2016) | Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Midnight Special (2016) | Noroît (1976) | Orson Welles: The One-Man Band (1995) | Pride & Prejudice (2005) | Psycho (1960) | The Puffy Chair (2005) | Romeo + Juliet (1996) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Rushmore (1998) | The Shawshank Redemption (1994) | Son of Kong (1933) | Spirited Away (2001) | Sully (2016) | A Town Called Panic (2009) | To Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters (2016) | Wonder Woman (2017)">qu2</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/09/2017-t-ms-part-three.html" title="Arrival (2016) | De Palma (2015) | Doctor Strange (2016) | Dunkirk (2017) | The Eagle Huntress (2016) | Elevator to the Gallows (1958) | Fences (2016) | The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966) | Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) | Ladyhawke (1985) | Logan (2017) | Magnolia (1999) | Moana (2016) | Napoleon Dynamite (2004) | Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) | Swiss Army Man (2016) | Trolls (2016) | Tyrus (2015) | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | Unfaithfully Yours (1948) | Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) | What We Do in the Shadows (2014)">qu3</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/12/end-o-2017.html" title="The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979) | Baby Driver (2017) | The Big Sick (2017) | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) | Boy and the World (2013) | Boy (2010) | Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) | Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017) | Cars 3 (2017) | Christmas in Connecticut (1945) | Clue (1985) | Coco (2017) | Coraline (2009) | Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) | Edward Scissorhands (1990) | Elf (2003) | Frankenstein (1931) | Free Fire (2016) | Home Alone (1990) | The Invisible Man (1935) | The Kid (1921) | A Knight's Tale (2001) | Kong: Skull Island (2017) | Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) | La La Land (2016) | The LEGO Movie (2014) | Lilo & Stitch (2002) | Ministry of Fear (1944) | Monster of Frankenstein (1981) | Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) | Murder on the Orient Express (2017) | Nacho Libre (2006) | The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) | Revenge of the Creature (1955) | A River Runs Through It (1992) | Silence (1992) | Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) | Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) | Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) | Surf's Up (2007) | 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) | Thor (2011) | Thor: Ragnarok (2017) | Train to Busan (2016) | WALL-E (2008) | The Wolf Man (1941) | Wonder Woman (2017) | Young Frankenstein (1974)">qu4</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2016</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/03/first-quarter-films.html" title="Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015 | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1998) | A Hard Day's Night (1964) | Help! (1965) | Inside Out (2015) | It Follows (2014) | Life Itself (2014) | The Magnificent Seven (1960) | Mystery Men (1999) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Romeo + Juliet (1996) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Seven Samurai (1954) | Spy (2015) | Stranger than Fiction (2006) | Wonder Boys (2000) | The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008) | Zootopia (2016)">qu1</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/06/2nd-quarter.html" title="Ant-Man (2015) | Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) | The Big Lebowski (1998) | Casablanca (1942) | Chi-Raq (2015) | Citizen Kane (1941) | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) | Do the Right Thing (1989) | Duck Soup (1933) | Ex Machina (2015) | Extract (2009) | Fargo (1996) | Finding Dory (2016) | Gone Girl (2014) | The Great Dictator (1940) | A Hard Day's Night (1964) | His Girl Friday (1940) | Horse Feathers (1932) | Howl's Moving Castle (2004) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Love & Friendship (2016) | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013) | Playtime (1967) | Rope (1948) | Rushmore (1998) | Spirited Away (2001) | The Station Agent (2003) | The Tree of Life (2011) | Vertigo (1958) | While We're Young (2014) | The World's End (2013) | Young Frankenstein (1974)">qu2</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/09/2016s-third-quarter-movies.html" title="Airplane! (1980) | Amélie (2001) | Anomalisa (2015) | The Avengers (2012) | Batman: The Killing Joke (2016) | Best in Show (2000) | Candleshoe (1977) | Field of Dreams (1989) | Forbidden Planet (1956) | The 400 Blows (1959) | Four Lions (2010) | Freaky Friday (1976) | Ghostbusters (2016) | The Girl from Nowhere (2012) | Goodfellas (1990) | Hot Fuzz (2007) | The Invisible Boy (1957) | Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) | The Lobster (2015) | Mad Max (1979) | Maverick (1994) | Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) | Mood Indigo (2013) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | The Passion of Martin (1991) | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) | Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015) | Stand by Me (1986) | The Sting (1973) | A Town Called Panic (2009) | Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) | Wild Tales (2014)">qu3</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/12/all-rest-of-movies-of-2016.html" title="Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) | The Abominable Bride (2016) | About a Boy (2002) | The Babadook (2014) | The Big Short (2015) | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) | The Blood of Jesus (1941) | The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Café Society (2016) | Captain America: Civil War (2016) | Crisis in Six Scenes (2016) | Doctor Strange (2016) | Elf (2003) | A Face in the Crowd (1957) | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | Fletch (1985) | Frankenstein (1931) | Ghost in the Shell (1995) | The Gleaners & I (2000) | Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956) | Gojira (1954) | Goodnight Mommy (2014) | Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) | Harold and Maude (1971) | I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story (2014) | Keanu (2016) | King Kong (1933) | Let the Right One In (2008) | Miracle on 34th Street (1947) | Mission: Impossible (1996) | Mr. Holmes (2015) | Pride & Prejudice (2005) | Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) | Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) | Rounders (1998) | Scrooged (1988) | Shaolin Soccer (2001) | Star Wars: Rogue One (2016) | Stranger than Fiction (2006) | Wishful Drinking (2010) | Young Frankenstein (1974)">qu4</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2015</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2015/04/first-batch-of-2015-feature-films-seen.html" title="The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967) | Annie (2014) | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) | Duck Soup (1933) | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | Finding Vivian Maier (2013) | Frank (2014) | The Gold Rush (1925) | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) | Her (2013) | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) | Jaws (1975) | Moneyball (2011) | The One I Love (2014) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) | The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015) | 21 Jump Street (2012) | What We Do in the Shadows (2014) | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)">qu1</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2015/07/feature-films-2015-second-quarter.html" title="The Adjustment Bureau | American Movie | Bambi | The Boxtrolls (2014) | Casablanca (1942) | Chef (2014) | Dazed and Confused (1993) | Edge of Tomorrow (2014) | Freetown (2015) | From Up on Poppy Hill (2011) | Godzilla (2014) | Groundhog Day (1993) | Inside Out (2015) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) | Jurassic Park (1993) | Jurassic World (2015) | Looking for Richard (1996) | Marwencol (2010) | Psycho (1960) | Romeo Is Bleeding (2015) | Spirited Away (2001) | THX 1138 (1971) | Tomorrowland (2015) | Under the Skin (2013) | V for Vendetta (2005) | Wadjda (2012)">qu2</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2015/10/feature-films-2015-third-quarter.html" title="Ant-Man (2015) | Boyhood (2014) | The Double (2011) | Frances Ha (2012) | Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) | Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) | My Man Godfrey (1936) | Once I Was a Beehive (2015) | Paddington (2014) | The Rocketeer (1991) | The Sandlot (1993) | Saving Mr. Banks (2013) | The Secret of Kells (2009) | The Secret of Roan Inish (1994) | Song of the Sea (2014) | St. Vincent (2014) | The Third Man (1949) | UHF (1989)">qu3</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2015/12/feature-films-2015-final-quarter.html" title="Back to the Future (1985) | Back to the Future Part II (1989) | Back to the Future Part III (1990) | The Bad Seed (1956) | Bernie (2011) | Big Eyes (2014) | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) | Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Die Hard (1998) | Elf (2003) | Enemy (2013) | Frankenweenie (2012) | The Good Dinosaur (2015) | Hamlet (1990) | Heavy Metal (1981) | It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) | The Mountain of the Lord (1993) | The Parent Trap (1961) | The Peanuts Movie (2015) | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) | Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | School of Rock (2003) | The Skeleton Twins (2014) | The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) | Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1997) | Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) | UHF (1989) | Wild (2014) | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)">qu4</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2014</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/04/feature-length-films-of-2014-quarter-one.html" title="Le Ballon Rouge (1956) | The Book of Mormon Movie, Volume 1: The Journey (2003) | Cedar Rapids (2011) | Chronicle (2012) | The Conversation (1974) | Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) | Knuckleball! (2012) | Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010) | The LEGO Movie (2014) | Mahlzeiten (1967) | Moon (2009) | The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) | Pitch Perfect (2012) | A Royal Affair (2012) | SlamNation (1998) | Source Code (2011) | Warm Bodies (2013) | The Wind Rises (2013)">qu1</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/07/single-paragraphs-on-flicks-flicked.html" title="Babe: Pig in the City (1998) | Casablanca (1942) | Citizen Kane (1941) | Damsels in Distress (2011) | Duck Soup (1933) | Eraserhead (1977) | Frankenweenie (2012) | The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) | Heathers (1988) | How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) | Idiocracy (2006) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Jurassic Park (1993) | The Last Unicorn (1982) | Moneyball (2011) | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | Muppets Most Wanted (2014) | The Muppet Movie (1979) | Rushmore (1998) | Spirited Away (2001) | The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) | Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977, 1997) | Super 8 (2011) | V for Vendetta (2005)">qu2</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/09/2014-third-quarter-movies.html" title="American Grindhouse (2010) | American Hustle (2013) | Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) | Better Off Dead… (1985) | Bottle Rocket (1996) | Brick (2005) | Ghostbusters (1984) | Ginger Snaps (2000) | The Green Mile (1999) | Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) | In a World… (2013) | Little Secrets (2001) | Napoleon Dynamite (2004) | The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) | Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) | Somebody Up There Likes Me (2012) | Up in the Air (2009)">qu3</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/12/2014-movies-of-final-quarter.html" title="About a Boy (2002) | Big Hero 6 (2014) | The Cabin in the Woods (2012) | Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) | [charlie chaplin series] (1914, 1916, 1916, 1917, 1917) | The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (2000) | Dans la Maison (2012) | Ernest & Celestine (2012) | The Fisher King (1991) | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2014) | Interstellar (2014) | The Invisible Man (1933) | Mary Poppins (1964) | Million Dollar Arm (2014) | The Night of the Hunter (1955) | Paprika (2006) | ParaNorman (2012) | The Pride of the Yankees (1942) | Safety Last! (1923) | The Shining (1980) | Step Brothers (2008) | Sullivan's Travels (1941) | Unicorn City (2012) | Why Worry? (1923) | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)">qu4</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2013</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-movies-of-2013-one-paragraph.html" title="Argo (2012) | The Adventures of Tintin (2011) | Chinatown (1974) | The Descendants (2011) | Field of Dreams (1989) | A Goofy Movie (1995) | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) | Inherit the Wind (1960) | Kung Fu Hustle (2004) | The Merchant of Venice (2004) | Moonrise Kingdom (2012) | The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) | The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Psycho (1960) | The Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | The White Shadow (1924) | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)">th1</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-movies-of-2013-one-paragraph.html" title="Amour (2012) | Bellflower (2011) | Cinderella (1950) | The Dark Knight Rises (2012) | The Empire Strikes Back (1980) | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | 50/50 (2011) | The Graduate (1967) | The Great Gatsby (2013) | The Happening (2008) | The Kids Are All Right (2010) | Looper (2012) | Monsters University (2013) | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | Mr. Baseball (1992) | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) | Pacific Rim (2013) | R.I.P.D. (2013) | Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) | Snatch (2000) | Star Wars (1977) | Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002) | Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) | Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1997) | Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983) | This Is 40 (2012) | This Is the End (2013) | White on Rice (2009)">th2</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-movies-of-2013-one-paragraph.html" title="The Amazing Adventure (1936) | Black Orpheus (1959) | A Bucket of Blood (1959) | The Cheat (1915) | A Christmas Story (1983) | Corianton (1931) | Elf (2003) | Ender's Game (2013) | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | Frozen (2013) | Gentlemen Broncos (2009) | Gravity (2013) | His Girl Friday (1940) | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) | The Indian in the Cupboard (1995) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | The Muppet Movie (1979) | A Night at the Opera (1935) | Now You See Me (2013) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Sleepwalk with Me (2012) | Swiss Family Robinson (1960) | Waitress (2007) | When Harry Met Sally… (1989)">th3</a></div>
Th.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-31347001366131364182023-09-11T19:41:00.004-07:002023-09-11T19:41:34.565-07:00What, is this nothing but comics?<p><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></p><p>The short answer is no. But don't blink or you'll miss the evidence.<span style="background-color: white;"><br />.</span><br /><a name="096"></a>
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<b>096)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3EADkAg">The Unsinkable Walker Bean and the Knights of the Waxing Moon</a> by Aaron Renier, finished August 24
</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">This books is so bananas. It's so strange, so weird. And although I don't understand it, it makes sense. I know it knows and I trust it.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-sex-and-metaphysics-venn-diagram.html#093">I liked the first one</a> but this volume is even more ambitious (and insane). We have animals made out of stars and doppelgangers and magic alloys and granddaughters of Neptune and ghosts rising from folktales and a floating city and visions and evil kings and all that just makes this book sound borderline ordinary. Believe me when I tell you it is not.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">It is something else.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3KVfpz5" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="376" height="309" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/P/1596435054.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_SX500_.jpg" width="232" /></a></div>
<small><i>one marathon sitting</i></small><br />
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<b>097)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3OQq1QJ">Just Julie's Fine</a> by Theric Jepson, finished August 26
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">This was my last chance to do any edits prior to publication. I couldn't imagine there was anything left to catch but I ended up reading the entire novel anyway. I found about a dozen tiny errors still extant. Which means there's probably a dozen more I missed.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Sigh.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Editing is hard.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">But I can announce that this book's pretty good. I don't know what <i>you</i>'ll think but hoo. I enjoyed it.<br /></p>
<small><i>today</i></small><br />
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<b>098)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250776297">Bea Wolf</a> by Zach Weinersmith and Boulet, finished August 28
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I loved this. I knew it was based on <i>Beowulf</i> and I know <a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/">Weinersmith</a> and I expected something more dumb than anything else.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">That's not what I got.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">He's taken the story of Beowulf and transposed it to the world of suburban childhood, bringing fantasies child me had to life but in the glories of Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Last year <a href="https://irreantum.associationmormonletters.org/the-deacon-and-the-dragon-by-theric-jepson/">I had a work published that fits that same description</a> and I can tell you that there is something intensely natural (which is not to say easy) about embracing the pre-Norman forms of English poetry. To embrace alliteration and kenning and just <i>go</i> for it. And that's what Weinersmith does here. And it is glorious. And you can tell he respects kids. Why else throw out words like <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thole">thole</a>?</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">And Boulet's art is manic and heroic and absurd. It ties into classic looks of Grendel while staying true to <i>Bea Wolf</i>'s own unique conceits.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">And then the short essay at the end about <i>Beowolf</i> and the poetry and the process is likewise intelligent and carries a high opinion of child readers and is funny and insightful and, honestly, I suspect this book will make some writers. And baby am I excited to see their work appear twenty years from now.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">A total success.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">And I am delighted to tell you that just the other day Lady Steed saw someone on her free group looking for a large stuffed bear that could be gutted because her daughter is planning her Bea Halloween costume.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">This is as it should be.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3YRVXZK" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="173" height="218" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91R7oSwPo3L._AC_UY218_.jpg" width="173" /></a></div>
<small><i>an evening</i></small><br />
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<b>099)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781684052714">Assassinistas</a> by Tini Howard / Gilbert Hernandez / et al., finished August 31
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I guess you could call this a fun little satirical look at the American violent-story tradition. It did have some cool elements but it just didn't come together for me.<br /></p>
<small><i>a week or more</i></small><br />
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<b>100)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779521354">Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons</a> by Kelly Sue DeConnick / Phil Jimenez / Gene Ha / Nicola Scott, finished August 31
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">This is one of the most astonishing comics I've read in some time. It amazes on practically every page.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">There are a few reasons for this. Let's start that it feels real. By which I mean these spins on ancient Greek myth carry genuine mythic weight and seem true in a deep and meaningful way. These are stories you can believe in. And they explode the Amazon-based mythos of the Wonder Woman universe in awesome ways. The characters birthed here I reckon will be with us a long long time.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">The art has depth and rigor. I'm grateful for the brief notes in the back because there I discovered how little I was even seeing. Read this book with good lighting and perhaps a magnifying glass. There is much to find here.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/47Za03G" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="391" height="249" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/P/B09KMGZPRB.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_SX500_.jpg" width="195" /></a></div><br />In short it is beautiful and moving and deadly dangerous. This book is not here to play games.<p></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Astonishing stuff.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">You don't have to care half a whit about superheros to love this story.<br /></p>
<small><i>two days, possibly not back-to-back</i></small><br />
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<b>101)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781401284770">The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes</a> by Neil Gaiman et al., finished September 6
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I read the original <i>Sandman</i> run in the early Oughts, but I didn't read them in order and I frankly don't know if I read them all. I've always intended to start over at the beginning, but just have not.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">But I have a son I thought would like them so I got the first two from the library. Dad's suggestion didn't take but, hey, the first two volumes of <i>Sandman</i>!</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">You know what? I think the time has come.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">The first volume does read like the team figuring out what they're doing, but the gist is right and I'm excited to rediscover where it goes from here.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Onward!<br /></p>
<small><i>four days</i></small><br />
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<br /><b>102)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780385334235">Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!</a> by Kurt Vonnegut, finished September 11
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Now that I'm back to teaching Vonnegut, I'm hopping back on my novel-a-summer routine. I don't have many left to firsttime as you can see:<br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs-XXhJaHQbtWgCjs-02VgX235cRfmsjiHuTf57ll6O67Arq5x4hB8B0880ybuQWqozjp8hou1KGBT96uZ_1pBkBhP7nnt7xuLyJ3XROq4_WGJzM58U8I3zw6QuL_k3GBBiHxK6zY9Vvs36YCLqXZpf1LD-oQyxFGmTe96m483saIKZbDaD3yncw/s841/vonn%20as%20of%20sept23.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="365" data-original-width="841" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs-XXhJaHQbtWgCjs-02VgX235cRfmsjiHuTf57ll6O67Arq5x4hB8B0880ybuQWqozjp8hou1KGBT96uZ_1pBkBhP7nnt7xuLyJ3XROq4_WGJzM58U8I3zw6QuL_k3GBBiHxK6zY9Vvs36YCLqXZpf1LD-oQyxFGmTe96m483saIKZbDaD3yncw/w628-h273/vonn%20as%20of%20sept23.png" width="628" /></a></div><p></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"> This is not one of the better ones.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Honestly, it feels like something that should have been published posthumously. It has a lot of great Vonnegut spark and plenty of (half-developed) ideas, but it never congeals into a novel and it ends in such a way that makes me feel like he just lost interest in it.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Plus, there is some racial stuff that is satirical, sure, but for every bit that is arguably antiracist, there are ten that just feel racist here in 2023. I would be shocked if that were his intention, but, well, you can't always control how your stuff will be read.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Plus, this is the 2019 Vintage edition and I don't know if it was just the process of changing the punctuation to be more British, but there are several punctuation and other typesetting errors. It's hard to believe that this could happen at a major house to a major author's 47yrold book. How? How? How?</p><p>
<small><i>a couple months or even more even though it's quite short</i></small><br />
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<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><u>final posts in this series from</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2007/12/eighteenth-five-books-of-two-thousand.html">2007</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2008/12/25-final-few.html">2008</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2009/12/three-more-2009-books-from-jake-parker.html">2009</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2010/12/final-few-books-of-2010-and-note-on-why.html">2010</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2011/12/could-this-be-final-list-of-2011-books.html">2011</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-final-books-of-2012.html">2012</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/12/final-finished-books-of-2013.html">2013</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/12/nearing-end-destroyed-by-our-friends.html">2014</a> = <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/01/gah-one-more-book-for-2015.html">2015</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/12/some-book.html">2016</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-final-few.html">2017</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/12/final-books-post-of-2018.html">2018</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/12/and-orson-scott-card-makes-one-hundred.html">2019</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/12/two-more-books-with-two-hours-to-spare.html">2020</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/12/if-these-are-last-books-of-year-we-can.html">2021</a> = <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/12/no-more-books-in-2022-im-afraid.html">2022</a><br /></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><p><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/01/2023-is-80-comics.html">2023 is 80% comics</a></span></span></b></p></div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span></b><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>001)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781534321182">The Dark Room</a> by Gerry Duggan & Scott Buoncristiano, finished January four<br /><b>002)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3JQdewY">The Only Harmless Great Thing</a> by Brooke Bolander, finished January 6<br /><b>003)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780545135436">Rose</a> by Jeff Smith and Charles Vess, finished January 10<br /><b>004)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781770464926">Acting Class</a> by <span class="a-size-medium">Nick Drnaso</span>, finished January 10<br /><b>005)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781338167085">Red Scare</a> by Liam Francis Walsh, finished January 11</span></span></p><p>
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</span></span></b><div style="text-align: left;"><p><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/01/step-right-up-and-try-your-luck.html">Step right up and try your luck</a></span></span></span></b></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>006)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780143039464" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Short Reign of Pippin IV</a> by John Steinbeck, finished January 18</span></span><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>007)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3WBb0o0" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Filmish</a> by Edward Ross, finished circa January 20</span></span><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;">
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/02/blog-post.html">HOW many times?</a></span></span></b></p><p class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>008)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3kLeWoA">Maddy Kettle Book: The Adventure of the Thimblewitch</a> by Eric Orchard, finished January 24 <br />
<b>009)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3Xe80hp">Fantastic Frights: A Beginner's Guide to Scary Stories</a>, finished January 24
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>010)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780380709540">Ramona the Pest</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished February 2<br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>011)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780735220690">Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine</a> by Gail Honeyman, finished February 3<br /><b>012)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780679723257">The Postman Always Rings Twice</a> by James M. Cain, finished February 4
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>013)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3RIiVyT">Is that all there is?</a> by Joost Swarte, finished February 6
<br /><b>014)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780063030695">Edge Case</a> by YZ Chin, finished February 7</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"></p></div><p>
<a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/02/if-it-werent-for-friendly-sex-talk.html"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">If it weren't for a friendly sex talk, everything here would be miserable</span></b></a></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>015)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780679723226">Double Indemnity</a> by James M. Cain, finished February 10<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>016)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780998605272">Sex Educated: Letters from a Latter-day Saint therapist to her younger self</a> by Bonnie Young, LMFT, finished February 13<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>017)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781637740422">Unmask Alice: LDS, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries</a> by Rick Emerson, finished February 20 </span></p><p>
<a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/03/a-bookful-bounty-for-thee-and-thine.html"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> A Bookful Bounty for thee and thine </span></b></a></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>018)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781982185824">I'm Glad My Mom Died</a> by Jeannette McCurdy, finished February 27<br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>019–21)</b> <a href="https://karlkerschl.com/comic/episode-one/">The Abominable Charles Christopher</a> by Karl Kershl, finished March 6
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>022)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250193537">Displacement</a> by Kiku Hughes, finished March 6
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a name="023"></a></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>023)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781684158058">The Many Deaths of Laila Starr</a> by Ram V and Filipe Andrade, finished March 6
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>024)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3ZSNFAj">The Homeland Directive</a> by Robert Venditti and Mike Huddleston, finished March 7
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>025)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781982156893">Titus Andronicus</a> by William Shakespeare, finished March 14
<br /><b>026)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781633451094">Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange</a> by Tess Taylor, finished March 15
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a name="027"></a></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>027)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3nrXE1p">22 Young Mormon Writers</a> edited by Neal E. Lambert and Richard H. Cracroft, finished March 19
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>028 & 029)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781982156893">Titus Andronicus</a> by William Shakespeare, finished March 23 & March 27</span>
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<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/04/literarily-solving-for-x.html">Literarily solving for X</a></span></h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>030)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781101981870">X</a> by Sue Grafton, finished March 28<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>031)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061246470">Ramona the Brave</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished April 5<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>032)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781501134197">Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century</a> by Dana Stevens, finished April 5<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>033)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/43DvOja">Abe Lincoln in Illinois</a> by Robert E. Sherwood, finished April 8<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>034)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3L2qZbP">Theology of Play</a> by Jürgen Moltmann, finished April 12<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>035)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/43zqOMq">The Male Animal</a> by James Thurber and Elliott Nugent, finished April 12<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>036)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780763687069">Bluffton</a> by Matt Phelan, finished April 16<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>037)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250815293">Number One Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions</a> by Steve Martin and Harry Bliss, finished April 15</span></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/04/from-lolly-to-elias.html">From Lolly to Elias</a></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>038)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780486843483">Lolly Willowes</a> by Sylvia Townsend Warner, finished April 17</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a name="039"></a></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>039)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781616964023">The Emperor's Soul</a> by Brandon Sanderson, finished April 19
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>040)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781534324527">Beware the Eye of Odin</a> by Wager/Odland/Madsen/Dukeshire, finished April 19
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>041)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://amzn.to/3UY8edd">The Complete Peanuts: 1965–1966</a> by Charles M. Schulz, finished April 20
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>042)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250262899">A Wealth of Pigeons</a> by Steve Martin and Harry Bliss, finished April 22
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>043)</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780344135187">Elias: An Epic of the Ages</a> by Orson Ferguson Whitney, finished April 23</span></span></h3>
<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/05/old-hollywood-olden-times.html">Old Hollywood & Olden Times</a></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>044)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781493060405">Straight Lady: The Life and Times of Margaret Dumont, "The Fifth Marx Brother"</a> by Chris Enss and Howard Kazanjian, finished April 25</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>045)</b><span> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780262543378">Voices from the Radium Age</a> edited by Joshua Glenn, finished April 26</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>046)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/416Nod2">The Ballad of YFB</a> by Aaron Brassea, finished April 28</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>047)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781250857910">Reynaud's Tale</a> by Ben Hatke, finished May 3</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>048)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3HLBYo4">Superman: Up in the Sky</a> by Tom King and Andy Kubert, finished May 5</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>049)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061960901">Ramona and Her Father</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished May 5
<br /><b>050)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780345513991">Resurrection Row</a> by Anne Perry, finished May 6 </span></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/05/saying-good-bye-to-our-friend-kinsey.html">Saying good bye to our friend Kinsey</a></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>052)</b> <a href="https://archive.org/details/moregrosscartoon0000gros/">More Gross: Cartoons</a><span> by S. Gross, finished May 9</span><br /><b>053)</b> <a href="https://archive.org/details/iamblindmydogis00gros">I Am Blind and My Dog Is Dead</a><span> by S. Gross, finished May 9</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>054)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779517067">Batgirls: One Way or Another</a><span> by Becky Cloonan / Michael W. Conrad / Jorge Corona / Sarah Stein, finished May 11</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>055)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779520289">Batgirls: Bat Girl Summer</a><span> by Becky Cloonan / Michael W. Conrad / Neil Googe / Robbi Rodriguez / Rico Renzi, finished May 11</span><br /></span>
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>056)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780399185380">Y is for Yesterday</a><span> by Sue Grafton, finished May 12 </span></span>
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<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-tyranny-of-getting-stuff-in-right.html">The tyranny of getting stuff in the right order</a></span></h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>051)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780804190114">On Tyranny</a> by Timothy Snyder, finished May 8<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>057)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779504210">Superman Smashes the Klan</a> by Gene Luen Yang and Guruhiru, finished May 13
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>058)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781950774869">Four in Hand</a> by Alicia Mountain, finished May 17<br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>059)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/42VBSm3">The Glob</a> by John O'Reilly and Walt Kelly, finished May 20
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>060)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781421437989">Why They <i>Can't</i> Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities</a> by John Warner, finished May 24<br /><a name="061"></a></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>061)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780316316132">Less</a> by Andrew Sean Greer, finished May 25
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>062)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781506726809">Children of the Woods</a> by Ciano/Hixson/Stevens/Otsmane-Elhaou, finished May 27<br /></span> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>063)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780525655596">The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece</a> by Tom Hanks, finished May 29</span>
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<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/06/anchors-links-endstuff-morecode-too.html">Such quality. Such excellence.</a></span></h3><p></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
<b>064)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3MYvwvL">Here</a> by Darlene Young, finished June 1<br />
<b>065)</b> <a href="https://www.carthageproject.com/product-page/theseus-vol-1-hardcover">Theseus Volume 1</a> by Jordan Holt, finished June 1<br />
<b>066)</b> <a href="https://www.carthageproject.com/product-page/theseus-vol-2-hardcover">Theseus Volume 2</a> by Jordan Holt, finished June 1<br />
<b>067)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/42q7rDG">Reviews for Non-Existent Movies</a> by Eric Goulden Kimball, finished June 5<br />
<b>068)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781935869504">The Scarlet Plague</a> by Jack London, finished June 6<br />
<b>069)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780316459778">Anne of West Philly</a> by Ivy Noelle Weir and Myisha Haynes, finished June 10<br />
<b>070)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061960901">Ramona and Her Mother</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished June 10</span></p>
<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/06/books-read-forensic-investigation.html">Books read: a forensic investigation</a></span></h3><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>073)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780063092792">These Precious Days</a> by Ann Patchett, finished c. June 17</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">
<b>074)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781770463622">Grass</a> by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, finished c. June 19</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">
<b>075)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781948218719">The Burning Book: A Jewish-Mormon Memoir</a> by Jason Olson and James Goldberg, finished c. June 21</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">
<b>076)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780062671196">The Night Watchman</a> by Louise Erdrich, finished June 23</span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"></p><br /><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/07/from-prehumanity-to-eternal-destiny.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">From prehumanity to eternal destiny</span></a></b></div><p>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>077)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781888963755">Tuki: Fight for Fire</a> by Jeff Smith, finished June 28</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>078)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781888963779">Tuki: Fight for Family</a> by Jeff Smith, finished June 29</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>079)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781350160750">The Writer's Hustle</a> by Joey Franklin, finished July 8</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>080)</b> <a href="https://epluribusmormon.square.site/">Future Day Saints: The New Arrivals</a> by Matt Page, finished July 16</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>081)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780765385253">Binti</a> by Nnedi Okorafor, finished July 18</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>082)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780061960901">Ramona Quimby, Age 8</a> by Beverly Cleary, finished July 19</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>083)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781613163757">Just One More</a> by Annette Lyon, finished July 20</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>084)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780141304700">The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More</a> by Roald Dahl, finished July 22</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>085)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781637740538">Somewhere Out There: My Animated Life</a> by Don Bluth, finished July 22</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/07/two-women-in-comics-form.html">Two women, in comics form</a></span><b> <br /></b></h3><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>085)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781607061472">Beast</a> by Marian Churchland, finished July 24<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>086)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781779515681">Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow</a> by King/Evely/Lopes, finished c. July 28</span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-sex-and-metaphysics-venn-diagram.html">The sex-and-metaphysics Venn diagram</a></span></b></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>087)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781620105412">Banana Sunday</a> by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover, finished August 2<br /><b>088)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780394410715">Falconer</a> by John Cheever, finished August 3<br /><b>089)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780553348972">Still Life with Woodpecker</a> by Tom Robbins, finished August 3<br /><b>090)</b> <span><a href="https://www.shortbox.co.uk/product/homunculus-by-joe-sparrow-new-edition-pre-order-n">Homunculus</a> </span>by Joe Sparrow, finished August 5<br /><b>091)</b> <a href="https://www.shortbox.co.uk/product/cuckoo-by-joe-sparrow-pre-order">Cuckoo</a> by Joe Sparrow, finished August 9<br /><b>092)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780892555598">Fatal</a> by Kimberly Johnson, finished August 16<br /><a name="093"></a></span>
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>093)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9781596434530">The Unsinkable Walker Bean</a> by Aaron Renier, finished August 17<br /><b>094)</b> <a href="https://amzn.to/3OFWIjS">The Infinite Future</a> by Tim Wirkus, finished August 22<br /><b>095)</b> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/8076/9780374607401">Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne</a> by Katherine Rundell, finished August 23
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</p>Th.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-22781998986505696372023-09-01T21:20:00.004-07:002023-09-02T00:00:39.248-07:00August filmdom.<br><br>
Not a lot this month, which is kinda disappointing for August, but if quality still counts for something, we got a couple Edgar Wright movies, some Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn, a return to Barbieland, and a disappointing Disney property ah crap. So much for the sweep.<br>
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</tbody></table><b>Haunted Mansion</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1695843?thmazing">2023</a>)<br>
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What a perfectly adequate movie! What a lovely work of committee-based creativity! Look, it's not really much better or worse than Disney's last attempt (<a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2021/10/october-and-disturbing-paucity-of-scary.html#mhm">Muppet</a>, not Eddie—I've never seen the 2003 movie) but it was a pleasant enough way to spend a couple hours in a theater.<br>
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It's interesting to contrast this movie with <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/08/barbenheimer-and-friends.html#barbie">Barbie</a>. That too is a a corporate cash-grab created by incredibly talented artisans. The difference is <i>Barbie</i> has Greta Gerwig and the helm, a single visionary making everything fit together. <i>Haunted Mansion</i> feels like they were still workshopping the script a month into filming. When your lead is LaKeith Stanfield and you surround him with such talent, it'll still be watchable. But it was painful, watching the editors attempt to put together some of the dialogue-heavy scenes with the footage they had.<br>
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Also, if I may say so, actors are right to be battling against digital replacement. It's already happened to animals. It feels like we can't make it through an animal performance anymore without it being 90% cg. How's the animal-trainer's union doing (<a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-quality-july.html#nope">datapoint</a>)?<br>
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Remember <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2022/06/june-film-flybys.html#pirates1">the first Pirates movie</a>? Somehow it was more than just its source material. This movie has some ideas (not all of which worked together) about how to do the same but it just didn't work. Where was the controlling genius?<br>
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</tbody></table><b>Holiday</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030241/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1?thmazing">1938</a>)<br>
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This was so refreshig after the movies we've been watching. All the music is diegetic, the dialogue is nonstop and delightful. The pacing is unpredictable. The leads don't get together until the final shot and it's hardly clear just how that will happen until just prior.<br>
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This is Cukor directing Grant and Hepburn a couple years before <i>Philadephia Story</i>, and you know what? I think I like this one better. (Although apparently it's bee over ten years since I've seen that so . . . I'd perhaps best hold judgment.)<br>
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</tbody></table><b>Barbie</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1517268?thmazing">2023</a>)<br>
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I think I love it even more this time. Margot Robbie is brilliant. I get Ryan Gosling's performance better this time. New wrinkles are evident in everyone from Michael Cera to Will Ferrell to Simu Liu. Rhea Perlman was perfectly cast and delivered in a big way. The movie's pacing is so deliberate and measured and willing to pause simply to breathe in moments yet it still comes in under two hours. The music is smart and well crafted. The imagery is stellar. I love that so much is done in camera.<br>
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It's perhaps the most innteresting movie spiritually I've see in a while too. This deserves even more conversation.<br>
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I short, it's a deserving blockbuster and I expect it to be with us for years to come. I love it. My favorite movie of the year.<br>
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</tbody></table><b>The Trouble with Harry</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048750?thmazing">1955</a>)<br>
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It's maybe been over twenty years since I've seen this and in those decades I've refered to it as one of my favorite Hitchcocks. And it remains delightful. He should've done straight comedy more often. (The only other one I can think of is Mr and Mrs Smith [final shot:sexiest bit of footsie I've ever seen] which I also haven't seen in over twenty years. That and the lost silent film, but why count that?)<br>
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The New England autumn is beautiful. The tightness of action is great. The characters charm. The whole thing's constantly just funny enough. The long gaps between scenes are curious. And the whole thing is just good, not great. But how wonderful to watch it with an audience!<br>
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</tbody></table><b>Hot Fuzz</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425112?thmazing">2007</a>)<br>
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Can't remember why I suddenly decided it was time to share this with the boys but I'm happy to say I'm (almost) ecstatic as <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/09/2016s-third-quarter-movies.html#400b">last time</a>. 2016 was a long time ago, wasn't it? Before seeing Olivia Colman was reason enough for me to watch a movie. Back when "Make Sandford Great Again" was amusingly ahead of its time rather than traumatically so.<br>
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I guess we oughtta bring the whole <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Flavours_Cornetto">Cornetto Trilogy</a> home, eh?<br>
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</tbody></table><b>The Truman Show</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120382?thmazing">1998</a>)<br>
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A few months ago, for reasons I can't explain, I read several long articles about <i>The Truman Show</i> (including <a href="https://www.looper.com/892985/the-untold-truth-of-the-truman-show/">one</a> <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2023/06/the-truman-show-25-years-later/674456/">two</a> <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/06/truman-show-anniversary-jim-carrey-peter-weir-laura-linney">three</a>). For the last maybe three years, the now16yrold's bee askig to watch it.<br>
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I watched it a few years back <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-films-of-october-2018.html#truman%20show">with the high school's film club</a> and at that point my opinion of it skyrocketes. I thik the film is more true now than it was in 1998. Or perhaps I am only older.<br>
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</tbody></table><b>The World's End</b> (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1213663?thmazing">2013</a>)<br>
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<a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/06/2nd-quarter.html#else">When we first saw this in 2016</a> we knew nothing other than it being an epic pubcrawl. I still think that's the best way to come into this movie. What an incredible experience this must have been with a theater audience in 2013 when it first dropped. Hoy, I'm jealous of those of you who managed that.<br>
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Just utter brilliance and utterly not-just-predictable-but-unimaginable.<br>
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(2012) | The Sixth Sense (1999) | Three Ages (1923) | Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) | The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/11/thankful-for-movies.html" title="10 Things I Hate About You (1999) | 1917 (2019) | Arthur Christmas (2011) | Early Man (2018) | Extra Ordinary (2019) | Ford v Ferrari (2019) | I Am Not Your Negro (2016) | Jurassic Park (1993) | Just Mercy (2019) | Kung Fu Panda (2008) | The Last Man on Earth (1964) | Missing Link (2019) | Napoleon Dynamite (2004) | Samuel the Lamanite (2006) | The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956) | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2020/12/a-film-watch-together-with-youuuuuu.html" title="Babes in Toyland (1934) | BlacKkKlansman (2018) | The Court Jester (1955) | Edward Scissorhands (1990) | Elf (2003) | Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas (2014) | The Farewell (2019) | Get Out (2017) | Home Alone (1990) | Midsommar (2019) | Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) | Noelle (2020) | A Raisin in the Sun (2008) | The Sadist (1963) | A Simple Favor (2018) | Singin' in the Rain (1952) | Up (2009)">dec</a><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2019</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/01/feature-film-january-2019.html" title="The Boat (1921) | Cold Comfort Farm (1995) | The Great Dictator (1940) | Hearts Beat Loud (2018) | An Honest Liar (2014) | Imposter (2012) | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) | One Week (1920) | Shaolin Soccer (2001) | Spider-Man 3 (2007) | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) | Sylvio (2017) | The Thing from Another World (1951) | True Grit (2010)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/02/feature-film-february-2019.html" title="Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Don Verdean (2015) | Duelle (1976) | Edge of Tomorrow (2014) | The Favourite (2018) | Frankenstein (1931) | Hanna (2010) | The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) | Luck-Key (2016) | Mother (2009) | Pom Poko (1994) | Raising Arizona (1987) | Sylvio (2017) | The Tiger Hunter (2016) | Violet & Daisy (2011)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/03/feature-film-march-2019.html" title="Don Verdean (2015) | Eighth Grade (2018) | Fences (2016) | Frankenstein (1931) | Jane and Emma (2018) | Macbeth (1979) | Macbeth (2010) | Macbeth (2015) | The Silence of the Lambs (1991) | Superman (1978) | The Sword in the Stone (1963)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/04/feature-film-april-2019.html" title="Avengers: Infinity War (2018) | Captain Marvel (2019) | Cheatin’ (2013) | George of the Jungle (1997) | Hancock (2008) | An Honest Liar (2014) | King Lear (2018) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | Mulholland Dr. (2001) | Shazam! (2019) | Three Identical Strangers (2018) | Us (2019)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/05/feature-film-may-2019.html" title="Avengers: Endgame (2019) | Bambi (1942) | BASEketball (1998) | Casablanca (1942) | Cinema Paradiso (1988) | A Day at the Races (1937) | The Godfather (1972) | Good Time (2017) | A Goofy Movie (1995) | The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) | One Week & The Boat (1920 & 1921) | Play It Again, Sam (1972) | Psycho (1960) | Rushmore (1998) | Short Term 12 (2013) | Silence (2016) | Wolf Children (2012)">may</a><br />
<a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/06/feature-film-june-2019.html" title="The Big Store (1942) | Crazy Rich Asians (2018) | Deathtrap (1982) | Designing Woman (1957) | The Godfather: Part II (1974) | Louise en Hiver (2016) | Men in Black (1997) | Room 237 (2012) | Room Service (1938) | Sleepless in Seattle (1993) | Spirited Away (2001) | To Be or Not to Be (1942) | Toy Story (1995) | Toy Story 2 (2009) | Toy Story 3 (2010)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/07/feature-films-june-2019.html" title="I, Tonya (2017) | The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) | My Neighbors The Yamadas (1999) | Sorry to Bother You (2018) | Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) | Toy Story 3 (2010) | Toy Story 4 (2019) | The Tree of Life (2011) | Yesterday (2019)">jul</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/08/feature-films-august-2019.html" title="Beware! The Blob (1972) | The Blob (1958) | Bumblebee (2018)| The Dead Zone (1983) | Dealt (2017) | Marjorie Prime (2017) | The Meg (2018) | Matilda (1996) | The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) | Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019)">aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/09/feature-films-september-2019.html" title="Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (2016) | Blinded by the Light (2019) | Captain Marvel (2019) | Kings of Baxter (2017) | The Lady Eve (1941) | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) | The Martian (2015) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Sylvio (2017)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/10/feature-films-october-2019.html" title="Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) | The Addams Family (2019) | An American Werewolf in London (1981) | Gravity (2013) | An Honest Liar (2014) | The Kings of Summer (2013) | Little (2019) | Macbeth (2015) | Moana (2016) | mother! (2017) | Romeo + Juliet (1996) | Romeo Is Bleeding (2015) | Shazam! (2019) | Toy Story (1995) | WALL·E (2008)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/11/films-feature-length-2019-november.html" title="Aquaman (2018) | Blackbeard's Ghost (1968) | Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) | Clue (1985) | Frozen (2013) | Frozen II (2019) | I Lost My Body (2019) | Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) | Isle of Dogs (2018) | Kids + Money (2008) | The Light Bulb Conspiracy (2010) | The Night of the Hunter (1955) | The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | The Prodigal Son (1990) | The Satellite Girl and Milk Cow (2014) | Short Circuit (1986) | Short Circuit 2 (1988) | Space Is the Place (1974)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2019/12/december-2019-films-de-la-feature.html" title="About a Boy (2002) | The Animagic World of Rankin/Bass (2018) | Babe (1995) | Bagdad Cafe (1987) | The Best Two Years (2004) | Elf (2003) | Fast Color (2018) | Go (1999) | Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) | Gremlins (1984) | Hitler's Hollywood (2017) | Jack Frost (1979) | The _______ Report (2019) | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) | Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) | Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) | Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019) | Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) | Toy Story 4 (2019)">dec</a><br />
</div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2018</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-feature-films-of-january-2018.html" title="The Avengers (2012) | Believe (2013) | Cast Away (2000) | College (1927) | The Creature Walks Among Us (1956) | Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) | Faces Places (2017) | A Goofy Movie (1995) | Hot Rod (2007) | One Man's Treasure (2009) | Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) | Shane (1953) | The Wolfpack (2015)">jan</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/02/2018-february-feature-filmery.html" title="Black Panther (2018) | Chan Is Missing (1982) | The Edge of Seventeen (2016) | Help! (1965) | The Incredibles (2004) | Iron Man (2008) | Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002) | Lady Bird (2017) | Love & Friendship (2016) | Pom Poko (1994) | Sylvio (2017) | Toy Story (1995) | Wonderstruck (2017)">feb</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/03/march-2018s-feature-filmery.html" title="Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Chinatown (2006) | Colossal (2016) | Fences (2016) | Frankenstein (1931) | Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) | Inside Out (2015) | Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) | What We Do in the Shadows (2014)">mar</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/04/april-2018s-feature-filmery.html" title="Adam's Apples (2005) | Avengers: Infinity War (2018) | Cinderella (1950) | Coriolanus (2011 | Darkest Hour (2017) | Don't Think Twice (2016) | Moonstruck (1987) | Muppets from Space (1999) | Princess Mononoke (1997) | The Red Turtle (2016) | Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) | Tangled (2010) | Thor: The Dark World (2013) | 3:10 to Yuma (1957) | 3:10 to Yuma (2007)">apr</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/05/may-2018s-feature-filmery.html" title="The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) | The Andromeda Strain (1971) | The Beguiled (2017) | Boy and the World (2013) | Get Out (2017) | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) | Interstellar (2014) | The Iron Giant (1999) | The Little Mermaid (1989) | Mulan (1998) | My Dinner with Andre (1981) | Romeo Is Bleeding (2015) | Spirited Away (2001) | The Stepford Wives (1975) | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | WALL·E (2008) | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)">may</a><br /><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/06/june-2018s-feature-filmery.html" title="Ant-Man (2015) | Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) | Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) | Incredibles 2 (2018) | Isle of Dogs (2018) | Ocean's 8 (2018) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977) | Rushmore (1998) | Thank You for Smoking (2005)">jun</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/08/20julyaugust18.html" title="The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) | Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1992) | The Disaster Artist (2017) | Dunkirk (2017) | Everybody Street (2013) | Finding Dory (2016) | Howl's Moving Castle (2004) | The Lego Batman Movie (2017) | Logan Lucky (2017) | Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) | My Neighbro Totoro (1988) | 9 to 5 (1980) | Porco Rosso (1992) | Son of Frankenstein (1939) | Sorry to Bother You (2018) | The Saratov Approach (2013) | Son of Flubber (1963) | The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) | Thor: Ragnarok (2017) | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018) | Your Name. (2016)">jul&aug</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/09/not-so-many-movies-in-september-2018.html" title="Art + Belief (2019) | A Boy and His Dog (1975) | The Little Hours (2017) | The Lost Express (1925) | Murder by Death (1976) | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | One Man's Treasure (2009)">sep</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-films-of-october-2018.html" title="Batman Begins (2005) | Children of the Corn (1984) | Frailty (2001) | Justice League (2017) | My Friend Dahmer (2017) | The Truman Show (1998) | When Marnie Was There (2014)">oct</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/11/moviember-2019.html" title="Baby Mama (2008) | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) | The 'Burbs (1989) | The Dark Knight (2008) | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) | Metropolis (1927) | Modern Times (1936) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | Okja (2017) | Paddington 2 (2017) | Singin' in the Rain (1952) | WarGames (1983)">nov</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2018/12/final-movies-post-of-2018.html" title="The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) | The Comedy of Errors (1983) | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) | It's a Wonderful Life (1946) | My Neighbor Totoro (1998) | North Avenue Irregulars (1979) | Spider-Man (2002) | Spider-Man 2 (2004) | Turbo Kid (2015)">dec</a><br />
</div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2017</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/03/2017-t-ms-part-one.html" title="Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993) | The General (1926) | Get Out (2017) | The Hidden Fortress (1958) | The Karate Kid (1984) | The LEGO Batman Movie (2017) | Mean Girls (2004) | Orc Wars (2013) | Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Room (2015) | Silence (2016) | Storks (2016)">qu1</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/06/2017-t-ms-part-two.html" title="All the President's Men (1976) | Back to the Future (1985) | The Boss Baby (2017) | Casablanca (1942) | Do the Right Thing (1989) | F for Fake (1973) | Fences (2016) | Forbidden Zone (1980) | Fun and Fancy Free (1947) | The Ghost Writer (2010) | Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) | Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 (2017) | Hail, Caesar! (2016) | The Handmaiden (2016) | Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Midnight Special (2016) | Noroît (1976) | Orson Welles: The One-Man Band (1995) | Pride & Prejudice (2005) | Psycho (1960) | The Puffy Chair (2005) | Romeo + Juliet (1996) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Rushmore (1998) | The Shawshank Redemption (1994) | Son of Kong (1933) | Spirited Away (2001) | Sully (2016) | A Town Called Panic (2009) | To Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters (2016) | Wonder Woman (2017)">qu2</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/09/2017-t-ms-part-three.html" title="Arrival (2016) | De Palma (2015) | Doctor Strange (2016) | Dunkirk (2017) | The Eagle Huntress (2016) | Elevator to the Gallows (1958) | Fences (2016) | The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966) | Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) | Ladyhawke (1985) | Logan (2017) | Magnolia (1999) | Moana (2016) | Napoleon Dynamite (2004) | Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) | Swiss Army Man (2016) | Trolls (2016) | Tyrus (2015) | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | Unfaithfully Yours (1948) | Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) | What We Do in the Shadows (2014)">qu3</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2017/12/end-o-2017.html" title="The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979) | Baby Driver (2017) | The Big Sick (2017) | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) | Boy and the World (2013) | Boy (2010) | Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) | Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017) | Cars 3 (2017) | Christmas in Connecticut (1945) | Clue (1985) | Coco (2017) | Coraline (2009) | Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) | Edward Scissorhands (1990) | Elf (2003) | Frankenstein (1931) | Free Fire (2016) | Home Alone (1990) | The Invisible Man (1935) | The Kid (1921) | A Knight's Tale (2001) | Kong: Skull Island (2017) | Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) | La La Land (2016) | The LEGO Movie (2014) | Lilo & Stitch (2002) | Ministry of Fear (1944) | Monster of Frankenstein (1981) | Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) | Murder on the Orient Express (2017) | Nacho Libre (2006) | The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) | Revenge of the Creature (1955) | A River Runs Through It (1992) | Silence (1992) | Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) | Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) | Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) | Surf's Up (2007) | 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) | Thor (2011) | Thor: Ragnarok (2017) | Train to Busan (2016) | WALL-E (2008) | The Wolf Man (1941) | Wonder Woman (2017) | Young Frankenstein (1974)">qu4</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2016</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/03/first-quarter-films.html" title="Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015 | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1998) | A Hard Day's Night (1964) | Help! (1965) | Inside Out (2015) | It Follows (2014) | Life Itself (2014) | The Magnificent Seven (1960) | Mystery Men (1999) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Romeo + Juliet (1996) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Seven Samurai (1954) | Spy (2015) | Stranger than Fiction (2006) | Wonder Boys (2000) | The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008) | Zootopia (2016)">qu1</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/06/2nd-quarter.html" title="Ant-Man (2015) | Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) | The Big Lebowski (1998) | Casablanca (1942) | Chi-Raq (2015) | Citizen Kane (1941) | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) | Do the Right Thing (1989) | Duck Soup (1933) | Ex Machina (2015) | Extract (2009) | Fargo (1996) | Finding Dory (2016) | Gone Girl (2014) | The Great Dictator (1940) | A Hard Day's Night (1964) | His Girl Friday (1940) | Horse Feathers (1932) | Howl's Moving Castle (2004) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Love & Friendship (2016) | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013) | Playtime (1967) | Rope (1948) | Rushmore (1998) | Spirited Away (2001) | The Station Agent (2003) | The Tree of Life (2011) | Vertigo (1958) | While We're Young (2014) | The World's End (2013) | Young Frankenstein (1974)">qu2</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/09/2016s-third-quarter-movies.html" title="Airplane! (1980) | Amélie (2001) | Anomalisa (2015) | The Avengers (2012) | Batman: The Killing Joke (2016) | Best in Show (2000) | Candleshoe (1977) | Field of Dreams (1989) | Forbidden Planet (1956) | The 400 Blows (1959) | Four Lions (2010) | Freaky Friday (1976) | Ghostbusters (2016) | The Girl from Nowhere (2012) | Goodfellas (1990) | Hot Fuzz (2007) | The Invisible Boy (1957) | Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) | The Lobster (2015) | Mad Max (1979) | Maverick (1994) | Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) | Mood Indigo (2013) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | The Passion of Martin (1991) | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) | Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015) | Stand by Me (1986) | The Sting (1973) | A Town Called Panic (2009) | Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) | Wild Tales (2014)">qu3</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2016/12/all-rest-of-movies-of-2016.html" title="Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) | The Abominable Bride (2016) | About a Boy (2002) | The Babadook (2014) | The Big Short (2015) | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) | The Blood of Jesus (1941) | The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Café Society (2016) | Captain America: Civil War (2016) | Crisis in Six Scenes (2016) | Doctor Strange (2016) | Elf (2003) | A Face in the Crowd (1957) | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | Fletch (1985) | Frankenstein (1931) | Ghost in the Shell (1995) | The Gleaners & I (2000) | Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956) | Gojira (1954) | Goodnight Mommy (2014) | Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) | Harold and Maude (1971) | I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story (2014) | Keanu (2016) | King Kong (1933) | Let the Right One In (2008) | Miracle on 34th Street (1947) | Mission: Impossible (1996) | Mr. Holmes (2015) | Pride & Prejudice (2005) | Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) | Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) | Rounders (1998) | Scrooged (1988) | Shaolin Soccer (2001) | Star Wars: Rogue One (2016) | Stranger than Fiction (2006) | Wishful Drinking (2010) | Young Frankenstein (1974)">qu4</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2015</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2015/04/first-batch-of-2015-feature-films-seen.html" title="The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967) | Annie (2014) | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) | Duck Soup (1933) | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | Finding Vivian Maier (2013) | Frank (2014) | The Gold Rush (1925) | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) | Her (2013) | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) | Jaws (1975) | Moneyball (2011) | The One I Love (2014) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) | The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015) | 21 Jump Street (2012) | What We Do in the Shadows (2014) | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)">qu1</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2015/07/feature-films-2015-second-quarter.html" title="The Adjustment Bureau | American Movie | Bambi | The Boxtrolls (2014) | Casablanca (1942) | Chef (2014) | Dazed and Confused (1993) | Edge of Tomorrow (2014) | Freetown (2015) | From Up on Poppy Hill (2011) | Godzilla (2014) | Groundhog Day (1993) | Inside Out (2015) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) | Jurassic Park (1993) | Jurassic World (2015) | Looking for Richard (1996) | Marwencol (2010) | Psycho (1960) | Romeo Is Bleeding (2015) | Spirited Away (2001) | THX 1138 (1971) | Tomorrowland (2015) | Under the Skin (2013) | V for Vendetta (2005) | Wadjda (2012)">qu2</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2015/10/feature-films-2015-third-quarter.html" title="Ant-Man (2015) | Boyhood (2014) | The Double (2011) | Frances Ha (2012) | Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) | Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) | My Man Godfrey (1936) | Once I Was a Beehive (2015) | Paddington (2014) | The Rocketeer (1991) | The Sandlot (1993) | Saving Mr. Banks (2013) | The Secret of Kells (2009) | The Secret of Roan Inish (1994) | Song of the Sea (2014) | St. Vincent (2014) | The Third Man (1949) | UHF (1989)">qu3</a> <a href="https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2015/12/feature-films-2015-final-quarter.html" title="Back to the Future (1985) | Back to the Future Part II (1989) | Back to the Future Part III (1990) | The Bad Seed (1956) | Bernie (2011) | Big Eyes (2014) | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) | Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Die Hard (1998) | Elf (2003) | Enemy (2013) | Frankenweenie (2012) | The Good Dinosaur (2015) | Hamlet (1990) | Heavy Metal (1981) | It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) | The Mountain of the Lord (1993) | The Parent Trap (1961) | The Peanuts Movie (2015) | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) | Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | School of Rock (2003) | The Skeleton Twins (2014) | The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) | Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1997) | Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) | UHF (1989) | Wild (2014) | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)">qu4</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2014</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/04/feature-length-films-of-2014-quarter-one.html" title="Le Ballon Rouge (1956) | The Book of Mormon Movie, Volume 1: The Journey (2003) | Cedar Rapids (2011) | Chronicle (2012) | The Conversation (1974) | Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) | Knuckleball! (2012) | Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010) | The LEGO Movie (2014) | Mahlzeiten (1967) | Moon (2009) | The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) | Pitch Perfect (2012) | A Royal Affair (2012) | SlamNation (1998) | Source Code (2011) | Warm Bodies (2013) | The Wind Rises (2013)">qu1</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/07/single-paragraphs-on-flicks-flicked.html" title="Babe: Pig in the City (1998) | Casablanca (1942) | Citizen Kane (1941) | Damsels in Distress (2011) | Duck Soup (1933) | Eraserhead (1977) | Frankenweenie (2012) | The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) | Heathers (1988) | How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) | Idiocracy (2006) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Jurassic Park (1993) | The Last Unicorn (1982) | Moneyball (2011) | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | Muppets Most Wanted (2014) | The Muppet Movie (1979) | Rushmore (1998) | Spirited Away (2001) | The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) | Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977, 1997) | Super 8 (2011) | V for Vendetta (2005)">qu2</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/09/2014-third-quarter-movies.html" title="American Grindhouse (2010) | American Hustle (2013) | Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) | Better Off Dead… (1985) | Bottle Rocket (1996) | Brick (2005) | Ghostbusters (1984) | Ginger Snaps (2000) | The Green Mile (1999) | Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) | In a World… (2013) | Little Secrets (2001) | Napoleon Dynamite (2004) | The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) | Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) | Somebody Up There Likes Me (2012) | Up in the Air (2009)">qu3</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2014/12/2014-movies-of-final-quarter.html" title="About a Boy (2002) | Big Hero 6 (2014) | The Cabin in the Woods (2012) | Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) | [charlie chaplin series] (1914, 1916, 1916, 1917, 1917) | The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (2000) | Dans la Maison (2012) | Ernest & Celestine (2012) | The Fisher King (1991) | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2014) | Interstellar (2014) | The Invisible Man (1933) | Mary Poppins (1964) | Million Dollar Arm (2014) | The Night of the Hunter (1955) | Paprika (2006) | ParaNorman (2012) | The Pride of the Yankees (1942) | Safety Last! (1923) | The Shining (1980) | Step Brothers (2008) | Sullivan's Travels (1941) | Unicorn City (2012) | Why Worry? (1923) | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)">qu4</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><u>2013</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-movies-of-2013-one-paragraph.html" title="Argo (2012) | The Adventures of Tintin (2011) | Chinatown (1974) | The Descendants (2011) | Field of Dreams (1989) | A Goofy Movie (1995) | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) | Inherit the Wind (1960) | Kung Fu Hustle (2004) | The Merchant of Venice (2004) | Moonrise Kingdom (2012) | The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) | The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Psycho (1960) | The Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | The White Shadow (1924) | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)">th1</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-movies-of-2013-one-paragraph.html" title="Amour (2012) | Bellflower (2011) | Cinderella (1950) | The Dark Knight Rises (2012) | The Empire Strikes Back (1980) | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | 50/50 (2011) | The Graduate (1967) | The Great Gatsby (2013) | The Happening (2008) | The Kids Are All Right (2010) | Looper (2012) | Monsters University (2013) | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | Mr. Baseball (1992) | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) | Pacific Rim (2013) | R.I.P.D. (2013) | Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) | Snatch (2000) | Star Wars (1977) | Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002) | Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) | Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1997) | Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983) | This Is 40 (2012) | This Is the End (2013) | White on Rice (2009)">th2</a> <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-movies-of-2013-one-paragraph.html" title="The Amazing Adventure (1936) | Black Orpheus (1959) | A Bucket of Blood (1959) | The Cheat (1915) | A Christmas Story (1983) | Corianton (1931) | Elf (2003) | Ender's Game (2013) | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | Frozen (2013) | Gentlemen Broncos (2009) | Gravity (2013) | His Girl Friday (1940) | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) | The Indian in the Cupboard (1995) | The Iron Giant (1999) | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | The Muppet Movie (1979) | A Night at the Opera (1935) | Now You See Me (2013) | The Princess Bride (1987) | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | Sleepwalk with Me (2012) | Swiss Family Robinson (1960) | Waitress (2007) | When Harry Met Sally… (1989)">th3</a></div>
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