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Ice Dancer and the Dirt Farmer

 Sunday: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)

        This is a German film. Inspector Lohman investigates several crimes that lead back to a mental institution. He learns about a patient, Dr. Mabuse. Mabuse was a criminal mastermind who one day became almost comatose. He would just sit in his bed. Then he started to make writing gestures. They gave him paper and a pencil. Scribbles became words. Those words started to make some sense. Lohman realizes that somehow Mabuse is behind these crimes. He believes hypnotism might be involved somehow. Lohman has to figure out how this insane man is getting people do commit crimes from his locked room. I thought this movie was alright.

Tuesday: The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939)

       Larry and his friend Eddie are ice dancing performers. After meeting Mary, Larry brings her into the act to sing and skate. They are not a success. Mary and Larry are madly in love and decide to get married. After a while Mary thinks she is holding Larry back because his show doesn't work with her in it. So she decides to be an actress and gets picked up by a studio. Her career takes off. Larry struggles with feeling like a failure and barely seeing Mary. So he decides to leave and make his dream of ice follies a reality. When it's a success then they can be together again.They try to make it work. This movie was alright.

Friday: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022)

        Dr. Robotnik returns back to Earth with another hedgehog like Sonic. His name is Knuckles. He knows of an emerald that has the power to make one's will reality. He believes Sonic knows where it is. Sonic meets yet another hedgehog (fox?) who has come to Earth named Tails. They works together to get the emerald first. This movie was ok bordering on bad. I don't know what more I can say other than it wasn't very good. All the jokes fell flat and it was super cheesy.

Saturday: Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

      Phoebe, her single mother Callie, and her brother Trevor get evicted from their apartment. The only place they have to go is her grandpa's rundown farm in a small town. He had left  it to Callie after he died. Once there Phoebe learns about the strange things going on in the town. Like earthquakes almost every day. She also learns more about her grandfather. He was a ghostbuster.  He had come to the town chasing a ghost.  Phoebe and her new friend Podcast investigate and learn more about what happened. I thought this was a good movie. Better than I thought it was going to be. It felt true to the original movies. Probably due to Dan Aykroyd's involvement. 

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