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- Not only did they make a Haunted Mansion movie, it's the SECOND Haunted Mansion movie, after the 2003 Eddie Murphy version. I'll watch it on D+ around Halloween for the cast and director (Justin Simien, of Dear White People), but how/why did they spend $150 million on it?!

- Ooo, did not know Liam Neesons Speed was a Nimrod Antal joint. Vacancy was a decent horror movie.

- I've seen the trailer for The Miracle Club before the last three movies at my local arthouse, and boy, does it look like a movie designed for polite applause from a crowd of seniors at a matinee.

- Jumping back, a movie from the May 8th poster roundup, Will-O-The-Wisp, popped up on the Criterion Channel. If you want a Portuguese class satire in the vein of all the recent class satire movies, but it's also hardcore gay erotica with money shots, and also kind of a musical, and it's 67 minutes long, I highly recommend it.

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Will-o'-the Wisp is described on IMDb: "2069, an erotic year if ever there was one, but a fateful year for a king without a crown." Oh yes daddy! Rent on Prime $4.99.

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On the TMNT poster I believe it says CONSEQUENCES on the sword, not SEQUENCES.

I watched the CORNER OFFICE trailer last night and something about it seemed vaguely familiar, so I looked it up and it turns out it was based on a novella called THE ROOM by Swedish author Jonas Karlsson, which I read several years ago (so way before SEVERANCE). It was a very odd little story. Personally I would always rather see Suave Jon Hamm (like in FLETCH) than Trying To Look Ugly Jon Hamm.

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Sinus infections are on the shitty side of the street. Go get some antibiotics before it's a brain infection, Vince. You get that, and you'll be reduced to lum lum jokes.

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Dont think that the “R” rating escaped my astigmatism on Nolan’s Oppenheimer poster so let’s hope that while Nolan famously hates CGI he doesnt skip the DGI (dongs going in) on the IMAX big screen. I mean Cillian f—king that bomb amiright

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Danny Pudi has been crushing it on Mythic Quest. It's a great show on Apple TV.

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Happiness for Beginners: A person close to one of these 2 people died, so the person who LOST someone went hiking with a friend and FOUND something special. Just guessing but love after loss blah, blah, blah.

Oppenheimer: Fedoras repel nuclear fallout?

The Creator: A take on Da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man" drawing. Glad I was an Art History major (and took minor in chemistry so I'm useful to society).

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Oddly, fedoras do apparently protect against nuclear weapons: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/atomic-age--185280972145370174/

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Danny Pudi has been in Mythic Quest on Apple TV. You need to check that out!

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Until that, the only thing I'd seen him in after Community was:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76HijAoXi6k

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So GQ is having you do Josh Kurp work?

Is that comparison needlessly cruel? Yes! I'm a dickhead!

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"Yes, Disney is making a movie out of the Haunted Mansion ride. I would decry this as a new low, but they already did this with Pirates of the Caribbean and it worked out pretty well for them."

Forget Pirates of the Caribbean, they already did that with *Haunted Mansion*.

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I made the Happiness for Beginners poster, sorry. Only took me 3 minutes.

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I believe the bald guy in the Gray Matter poster is Garret Dillahunt, so that’s promising. But I’m always reminded of the baffling decision to have him play a different character in season 2 of Deadwood than the one he played in season 1.

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in a late stage capitalist world” is the new “during the twilight of the American Dream.”

Why do you hate money and Eddie Murphy?

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Hoo boy. Lots of lazy looking posters again. The more I look at the actress on the right side of August at 22 the more she looks like the "mosh/not" guy mascot for Anthrax. The League is visually great. Maggie Q is visually generic and has the most annoying stage name.

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