OH NO! I'm only two episodes into Season 2 of The Lost World! I guess I'll have to fix that! Tonight's episodes are "Tourist Season" and "Devine Right!" Into the jungle we go! youtu.be/EnLouG6KNeE?...

Best film adaptation of The Odyssey. Wrong answers only.

The Sheep Detectives ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 "This is a film that is a pretty exemplary example of how witty and fun one can make a family film, full of zest and funny business. The mystery at the center sometimes takes a backseat to the screwball antics, but the twists and turns do keep one invested."

Mortal Kombat II ⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Clumsy but satisfying. The plotting of the film is choppy and fractured, but it manages to achieve a danger level of "anything goes and everyone can die" that previous movies didn't accomplish."

For those who are curious, I am aware of the Gizmoplex shutting down and I am taking steps to log the last few livestreams I never covered on my blog before they disappear. I actually have work done on each of them, but now I am combing them to figure out what I need to do to finish them off.

PREVIOUSLY ON THE LOST WORLD: Escape from the plateau goes awry and all the male characters fall off a cliff. Will this show continue with only Marguerite and Veronica? One can only hope! Season 2 starts with "All or Nothing" and "Amazons!" Let's go! youtu.be/EnLouG6KNeE?...

Brief side note: I did briefly flirt with the idea of switching to Mortal Kombat: Conquest (starring Future War's Daniel Bernhardt) since the new MK movie is out this weekend, but I don't remember if it's as purely entertaining as goofy as Lost World, so I decided to stick with what works

You thought we were done? We aren't done until I say we're done. TONIGHT, season 2 begins.

RIP freud. you would’ve loved whatever this is.

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May the Prada be with you! Nothing says Star Wars Day like movies about fashion, pigs, sharks, and Irish spooks. This week's Cinema Playground Journal takes a look at The Devil Wears Prada 2, Animal Farm, Deep Water, and Hokum! mst3krifftrax.blogspot.com/2026/05/cine...

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Deep Water ⭐️⭐️1/2 "A fucking shark took down an airborn helicopter without leaving the water! That's the most Renny Harlin thing I've ever seen!"

Hokum ⭐️⭐️⭐️ "The thing that strikes me about McCarthy's work in the genre is how he weilds shadow like a paintbrush, constructing suspense sequences that can startle even by showing nothing. Hokum devotes its entire second act to weaving horror out of blankets of darkness."

Animal Farm ⭐️ "I'm impressed. It's not every day where I see a movie where every creative decision made is the wrong one, managing to turn one of the most important stories ever told into a complete oddity that leaves the original text for dead in a ditch."

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only Mystery Science Theater 3000 The Simpsons Get Smart The Twilight Zone Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Star Trek: Enterprise Star Trek: Strange New Worlds I Love Lucy Titus Sliders The Critic Batman (TAS) Daredevil Futurama

Monarch finale thoughts: Pretty fun. Last thirty seconds:

The Devil Wears Prada 2 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ "If the first movie was about the cost of success, the second is about the cost of preventing failure. The movie is more panicked, as characters are trying to keep things sturdy in the face of sudden change. It's solid plot progression for a sequel that is this belated."

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It's been several weeks and 22 episodes but I have finally burned through the entire first season of The Lost World. It's time for the season finale, "Barbarians at the Gate!" There better be more than one barbarian and a gate or I'll be sorely disappointed. Let's go! youtu.be/bbE5JnsZVVs?...

I think I've done it. I've figured out this social media thing. What people want is for me to post my journey through The Lost World a 1999 TV series that people watched because boobs and dinosaurs. This is the best thing on BlueSky. Today's episode is "The Chosen One!" youtu.be/bbE5JnsZVVs?...

WOW! They remade the movie Michael, that John Travolta movie where he's an angel. Why they turned him into an 80's pop star, I don't know. This week's Cinema Playground Journal watches that, Mother Mary, Over Your Dead Body, and Desert Warrior. mst3krifftrax.blogspot.com/2026/04/cine...

Fantastic Four 2015 I had made it a habit to watch this movie every year just to quash that last notion of "it wasn't that bad, was it?" that was in the back of my head. What I learns was "yikes."

Michael ⭐️⭐️ "Sometimes the elephant in the room is so large that there is no room left for anything else, so you move to the room next to it and hope nobody asks "What smells like elephant shit?""

Mother Mary ⭐️⭐️1/2 "The movie breaks itself in its second half, as it tries to get overtly metaphorical while being completely oblivious to how goofy it has gotten."

Over Your Dead Body ⭐️⭐️1/2 "Weaving and Seigel are great in this movie, but they are playing with a script that only gives them fleeting moments to shine and direction that fails to find a proper vibe for the movie."

Desert Warrior ⭐️⭐️1/2 "It's a frentic action thriller that's trying to pretend it's an epic, almost as if The Scorpion King put in a conscious effort in trying to fool people into thinking it was Sparticus. There's enough here for some pulp charm, but I'm unlikely to remember it by tomorrow."

Welcome back, #MutantFam! Taking a break from my live watches of the prestige television classic The Lost World to celebrate #Walpurgisnacht with the best community on social media! Ready for tonight's special #TheLastDriveIn presentation with @therealjoebob123.bsky.social!

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It's my favorite night of the week, where I get to watch, not one, but TWO episodes of prestige television. It's a brand new Lost World double feature, as we near completion of the first season! Tonight's episodes are "Resurrection" and "Prophecy." Let's go! youtu.be/bbE5JnsZVVs?...

Not gonna lie, Coyote vs. Acme looks like it could possibly be the best Looney Tunes movie ever made. It's a low bar to clear, but the trailer just has a vibe that the Tunes haven't had in a while

Look, I know what you're thinking...this show has peaked. How could they possibly top this perfection? BlueSky will try to censor it, but I know what they did. And you know what they did too. Another Lost World episode this morning! Let's dive into "Birthright!" youtu.be/bbE5JnsZVVs?...

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WE DID IT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! IT TOOK SEVENTEEN EPISODES, BUT WE FINALLY GOT THERE! I PRESENT TO YOU: MARGUERITE AND VERONICA MUD WRESTLING! This one twenty second segment is the entire reason this show exists.

Look, the world is on fire so I'm going to return to the one thing bringing me joy in this life: a bad syndicated show that only I remember. That's right, folks! It's Lost World time! Today's episode is "Prodigal Father!" Let's go get daddy issues! youtu.be/bbE5JnsZVVs?...

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WHAT IF a killer mummy wasn't an all-powerful supervillain but rather a little girl named Katie? Cinema Playground Journal watches the movie that dares ask that question with Lee Cronin's The Mummy, and also looks at Normal and Busboys. mst3krifftrax.blogspot.com/2026/04/cine...

It's like they took Raul Julia's performance in the 1994 movie, chopped it up, snorted it, and then went ahead and did this

I did it, I created Lost World Bingo

The last Lost World double feature I did was thoroughly broken from start to finish. I refuse to let this show win. Tonight is ANOTHER double feature, and this time I'm ready to rumble! Tonight's episodes are "Unnatural Selection" and "Time After Time!" Let's go! youtu.be/bbE5JnsZVVs?...

Busboys ⭐️ "Busboys looks and feels like a movie made by people who long for the heyday of Happy Madison productions. But when you go out of your way to make an off-brand Adam Sandler movie, don't be surprised that your homage to mediocrity ends up being sub-mediocre."

The Mummy ⭐️⭐️1/2 "The movie can be unwieldy, because this conceptual reimagination is so complicated that it requires a lot of setup and it also jumps through hoops in explaining is own mystery. It's easy to get impatient with it, but its core is nominally effective."

My screening of Lee Cronin's The Mummy doesn't have the Evil Dead Burn trailer and I've never been so furious at an advertisement section in my life

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Normal ⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Despite attempting its own vibe of comedic chaos, comparisons to a beloved Edgar Wright classic are likely inevitable, and while Normal is charming and fun in its own way, it lives underneath a mighty shadow. But redundancies have rarely actually hurt the action/comedy genre."