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Sunshine Girl and the Fountain

 Saturday: Weathering with You (2019)

      Hodaka is a young teenage boy who runs away from home to Tokyo. Tokyo is experiencing extremely heavy rain for months on end. Hodaka struggles to get by because no one will hire a teenager with no ID. Eventually he finds work with a man he met on the ferry to Tokyo, Suga. Suga has a magazine that prints articles about local legends, alien sightings, and things like that. Hodaka learns about sunshine girls. Girls who have the ability to control the weather and bring out the sun. He realizes he has already met one, Hina. An orphan living alone with her little brother. Due to the current weather her ability is in high demand. They start a business where people can hire her to bring out the sun. For sports games, farmer's markets, weddings, and so on. It goes well for a while. There is more to her power than they now. I thought this movie was good. It's by the same guy who did Suzume.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday: Fountain of Youth (2025)

       Luke and Charlotte are the children of a treasure hunter. As adults they are not in contact. Charlotte works at a museum and Luke is still treasure hunting. One day he gets in contact with her, needing help for his latest hunt. Luke and his team have been hired by a wealthy man to find the Fountain of Youth. They have a way to find it. But they need Charlotte's knowledge of art. She reluctantly agrees. They go searching for the Fountain. Being chased by Interpol and a secret group that protects the fountain. This movie was good. Maybe not the best but still fun. A mix of Indiana Jones and National Treasure. 

Sunday: The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

        Scientists were testing atomic bombs in the Arctic. They accidentally awaken a dinosaur that was trapped in the ice. Tom, one of the scientists, saw the dinosaur after it got out. He was the only one to see it that got out alive. No one believed him and thought he was crazy. While recovering at home in NYC, he hear reports of a giant sea serpent wrecking havoc in Canada. With the help of a paleontologist and his assistant Tom confirms it was a dinosaur that he saw. It's what the people in Canada saw too. The dinosaur makes it's way to NYC and starts terrorizing the city. They have to find a way to stop it. I thought this movie was alright. Defiantly a B horror film. The dinosaur is stop motion which was fun to see.

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