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My dear brother Spencer Anderson and his younger son, Theodore, went with me to St. Louis for MSS this March. One of the unexpected benefits was that there was a theater inside the hotel! We saw Project Hail Mary and then this and finally Hoppers for a movie a day!

#movies The period feel was pretty good. On the other hand, I usually lean into plot, but this started fraying the further it tried to pin down plot. Much better was just exploring the world, unexplained, with the worry about getting lost and not having anything to eat or drink.

A very dear Park Junha, vice president of the department students and all-around good student and supportive guy, took me out on Faculty Appreciation Day to see Devil Wears Prada 2. He gave me a ride to the theater and we enjoyed it a lot. I liked it a lot more than the first one.

I had no interest in seeing Michael until I found out it was directed by the incredible Antoine Fuqua and then I was all-in. The movie was a toe-tapping good time and did a nice job of entertaining with music while setting up the weirder scandals to come.

Golden calf?

#movies This was a lot of fun. Jason Statham reluctantly helps save a young girl and ends ups running around the UK trying to track down his old boss, Bill Nighy, and lots of action ensues. Nothing unique or particularly novel, just some good solid action fun. Jason Statham even gets to dive!

#movies There was a theater in the actual hotel when my brother and nephew Theodore and I went to St. Louis for Midwest Sociological Society 2026. They played Raiders of the Lost Ark, but we missed it and this was our first movie. I was really tired and nodded off and had to be pushed to stay awake.

I am concerned that the lead figure coming out of the sky looks like some sort of Lovecraftian human elder god hybrid.

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#movies My ticket to Inside Out 2 from when I saw it in the theater in Bucheon.

#movies Our last vacation movie one week before classes started. The real star is 신세경/Shin Sekyung, who we know from 세작, 매혹된 자들 (Captivating the King), and 신입사관 구해령 (Rookie Historian Goo Haeryung), which we are currently watching. It was well worth our time.

Almost a year ago I got up early and to Incheon CGV on a Saturday morning for a fun Soderberg spy film, a short lunch break (I think I brought my own sandwich) and then a long afternoon time with The Brutalist.

#movies Our Valentine's Day activity was a morning showing of Mercy (No Mercy: 90 Minutes is the Korean title). We both had low expectations for what we thought was going to be B movie, but we had a great time and it significantly exceeded expectations.

#movies This is our ticket from last May when we made it to the theater for the final Mission Impossible movie, Final Reckoning. Incongruently, it was simultaneously a disappointment (relative to its predecessor), a relief in ending the series well), and a good (not great) Mission Impossible movie.

#movies This is from a year and a half ago when we got to see The Fall Guy at Incheon CGV in IMAX, which felt like exactly the right way to see it because it was big and flashy and exciting and really fun. I wish everyone could have seen this in IMAX because it was a great experience.

This was from a little more than a year ago when I went to rewatch Alex Garland's Civil War, a meandering war photography film provocatively set in the US with scenes drawn that show parallels with war-torn societies that had seemed stable until they suddenly fell apart. It has been a long year.

#movies It has been a little over a year since we went to one of our last movies (Nosferatu) at the now-gone Yeonsu Station CGV. I remember the station platform being so cold while we waited for our train back home and talked about the movie. I miss the Yeonsu Station CGV.

#movies A flash to the past as I organize old movie tickets. This is from when we saw Dogman about two years ago not knowing anything more about it than that it was directed by Luc Besson. It turned out to be a good time and Caleb Landry Jones did some of the best acting I have ever seen from him.

#movies We went to see Sam Raimi's new Send Help at Square One. I liked Rachel McAdams doing a great job of playing not exactly the most appealing character. Hyunsook did not like the character and felt that distanced her from the movie. Go if you like Sam Raimi and/or admire McAdams's acting.

My first BIFAN 2025 Awarded Screening. I voted 5/5 when I saw it earlier in the festival so I was delighted. I had the worry it would not be as good the second time, but it was better! I was tired enough I wanted to nod off but I was so gripped it steeled me to stay awake and focused throughout.

Mom is a Christmas baby and here she is celebrating her birthday by making and bringing in a beautiful cake to share at church.

Here are our tickets from 2012.12.11 on a Tuesday afternoon when we went to see Dredd in the theater. I liked this enough to buy three volumes of the first issues of the Judge Dredd comics and I am still hoping for a sequel.

Here is another blast from the past: here are our tickets to John Carter, Warlord of Mars from 2012. I had fun, but was sorely disappointed by the movie departing from the novels, partly just to set up sequels that would have been more likely had the movie just focused on the task in front of it.

#movies Aziz Ansari directs, writes, and stars (with Keanu Reeves) in Good Fortune, a fun movie about a minor angel getting into trouble trying to bite off more than he is capable of and experiencing the US economy that is great for passive investors and a struggle for workers just trying to get by.

#movies My 24th overall and last of the day at BIFAN 2025 was Latency, a horror movie about tech and the boundaries of reality. This was my last BIFAN 2025 movie at CGV Sopoong in the New Core Department Store building.

#movies The Life of Chuck arrived about six months later in Korea than in the US so we saw it in the CGV Incheon Art Theater on New Year's Day in the morning, in reclining seats no less, so that was how we got to see in the new year. It was a meaningful movie and very entertaining.