Next Club Meeting: September 20, 2025, at the Fountaindale Public Library in Bolingbrook from 11:00 am - 5:00 pm

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Showing posts with label humor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humor. Show all posts

Thursday, September 11, 2025

Stay Outraged My Friends...


The Most Karen Woman in the World
(Dos Equis AI Ad)

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Our Favorite Space Girls are in Trouble Again!...

MILKY☆SUBWAY THE GALACTIC LIMITED EXPRESS
Episode 01 "All Aboard!"
Freshly arrested, Chiharu and Makina are sentenced to scrub the Milky☆Subway.
It was supposed to be simple. Spoiler: it’s not.
Arrested for reckless space driving, super human Chiharu and cyborg Makina are sentenced to clean the Milky☆Subway—an old interplanetary train. Easy enough, right? Wrong. When the train suddenly takes off, they are thrown into a high-speed space-train spectacle packed with chaos, no plans, and zero strategy. Just pure momentum!

Monday, May 12, 2025

This is why I was sent to Detention...

Bob's Burgers - "My Butt Has a Fever" Full Song
Song From The Bob's Burgers Movie Short Film "My Butt Has a Fever"

Monday, April 7, 2025

Liam Neeson is Lt. Frank Drebin Jr...

THE NAKED GUN
The single most important Naked Gun movie since the other Naked Gun movies.
Only one man has the particular set of skills...
to lead Police Squad and save the world!

Lt. Frank Drebin Jr. (Liam Neeson) follows in his father's footsteps in THE NAKED GUN, directed by Akiva Schaffer (Saturday Night Live, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping) and from producer Seth MacFarlane (Ted, Family Guy). Joining the case are cast Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, CCH Pounder, Kevin Durand, Cody Rhodes, Liza Koshy, Eddie Yu, with Danny Huston.
Only in theaters August 1st

Monday, January 13, 2025

"No More Killing, Or Else..."

SAKAMOTO DAYS
In Sakamoto Days, an ex-hitman turned shopkeeper, 
juggles dad duties while dodging bullets like a pro.
Once the greatest hitman of all, Taro Sakamoto retired in the name of love. But when his past catches up, he must fight to protect his beloved family.

Thursday, December 26, 2024

To the Rescue!

HORS PISTE
Two mountain rescuers try to save a skier. But it all goes horribly wrong.
Hors piste, also called off-piste skiing or backcountry skiing, is skiing in the backcountry on ungroomed and unmarked slopes or pistes, including skiing in unmarked or unpatrolled areas either inside or outside of a ski resort's boundaries, sometimes in the woods. Unlike groomed cross-country and alpine skiing, the land and the snowpack are not monitored, patrolled, or maintained.

Thursday, October 3, 2024

"Grandpa, what's with that cat?"

GHOST CAT ANZU
Precocious tween Karin finds herself abandoned by her father in rural Japan. Living in a temple with her grandfather, she meets Anzu, a giant “ghost cat” and notorious layabout tasked with looking after her. Distrustful of her new guardian, Karin sabotages Anzu’s odd jobs for the townsfolk and befriends the eccentric local forest spirits. In an effort to win Karin over, Anzu accidentally makes a deal with the devil, and all Hell breaks loose. GHOST CAT ANZU is co-directed by renowned artist Yoko Kuno, who makes her feature directorial debut, and Nobuhiro Yamashita, the acclaimed director of Linda Linda Linda. Co-produced by Shin-Ei Animation and Miyu Productions with music by legendary musician Keiichi Suzuki (EarthBound), Ghost Cat Anzu is a wildly funny ride in the countryside.

Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Evangelion is Finally Live-Action...

Neon Genesis Evangelion In 5 Minutes
The complete anime series NEON GENESIS EVANGELION is told in stunning live action for the first time. Homemade (sweded) for Maximum Instrumentality. Giant monsters known as "ANGELS" have invaded TOKYO-3. Teenage pilots must use bio-mechanical mecha known as EVANGELION to combat them. This is the story of Shinji, a pilot caught up in the final battle, for both the world we know and the soul within...
Watch in 4K where possible.

Friday, August 23, 2024

Disney's Woke Snow White Don't Need No Man...


New Snow White Movie in 1 Minute
The Evil Queen consults her Magic Mirror only to
discover who is truly the fairest of them all...

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Cameos, cameos, and more cameos...!

Step inside the Pitch Meeting that led to Deadpool & Wolverine!
Deadpool & Wolverine definitely raises some questions. Like how well does that Anchor Being concept actually hold up? Is this movie 90% cameos? How many fights are there where nobody is capable of getting hurt? To answer all these questions, check out the pitch meeting that led to Deadpool & Wolverine.

Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Saturday, December 23, 2023

Everyone's Kung Fu Fighting, Fast as Lightning...

KUNG FU PANDA 4
After three death-defying adventures defeating world-class villains with his unmatched courage and mad martial arts skills, Po, the Dragon Warrior (Golden Globe nominee Jack Black), is called upon by destiny to … give it a rest already. More specifically, he’s tapped to become the Spiritual Leader of the Valley of Peace. That poses a couple of obvious problems. First, Po knows as much about spiritual leadership as he does about the paleo diet, and second, he needs to quickly find and train a new Dragon Warrior before he can assume his new lofty position. Even worse, there’s been a recent sighting of a wicked, powerful sorceress, Chameleon (Oscar winner Viola Davis), a tiny lizard who can shapeshift into any creature, large or small. And Chameleon has her greedy, beady little eyes on Po’s Staff of Wisdom, which would give her the power to re-summon all the master villains whom Po has vanquished to the spirit realm. So, Po’s going to need some help. He finds it (kinda?) in the form of crafty, quick-witted thief Zhen (Golden Globe winner Awkwafina), a corsac fox who really gets under Po’s fur but whose skills will prove invaluable. In their quest to protect the Valley of Peace from Chameleon’s reptilian claws, this comedic odd-couple duo will have to work together. In the process, Po will discover that heroes can be found in the most unexpected places. Kung Fu Panda 4 is directed by Mike Mitchell (DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls, Shrek Forever After) and produced by Rebecca Huntley (DreamWorks Animation’s The Bad Guys). The film’s co-director is Stephanie Ma Stine (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power). 
Kung Fu Panda 4 opens in theaters on March 8, 2024.

Monday, December 18, 2023

Your last attempt at salvation starts here...

Hazbin Hotel - Season 1
GET READY FOR An R-rated, animated musical comedy set in Hell.
Yes, you read that right!! Created by Vivienne Medrano, Hazbin Hotel follows Charlie Morningstar, the princess of Hell, as she pursues her seemingly impossible goal of rehabilitating demons to peacefully reduce overpopulation in her kingdom. Starring Erika Henningsen, Stephanie Beatriz, Alex Brightman, Keith David, Kimiko Glenn, Blake Roman, Amir Talai, Christian Borle, and Joel Perez. Guest starring Broadway veterans Darren Criss, Jeremy Jordan), Daphne Rubin-Vega, Patina Miller, and Jessica Vosk. With original music and lyrics from platinum-certified artist Sam Haft and Emmy-nominated Andrew Underberg.

Saturday, August 26, 2023

What happens when you meet an Undead Hero?

UNDEAD UNLUCK
The anime adaptation of Undead Unluck by Yoshifumi Totsuka, the popular manga currently serialized in the Weekly Shonen Jump (SHUEISHA), is here! Debuting in 2020, it placed #1 in the comics category of the "Next Coming Manga Award" the same year! Experience the battles between those with special abilities called "Negators" in this epic tale of pure chaos. An unlucky girl meets an undead guy! When the duo negated by the world meet, a new adventure begins. The adaptation of the unpredictable battle manga, is coming in 2023!!

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

The Comic That Refuses to Die...

SCOTT PILGRIM the ANIME
Here’s a first look at the Scott Pilgrim Anime coming to
Netflix November 17th. Add it to your list today.
As bass guitarist for a garage-rock band, Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) has never had trouble getting a girlfriend; usually, the problem is getting rid of them. But when Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) skates into his heart, he finds she has the most troublesome baggage of all: an army of ex-boyfriends who will stop at nothing to eliminate him from her list of suitors.

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

A funny thing happened on the way to the Ball...

Little Red Riding Hood
Meets a Corpse on Her Journey
Translation: Director Yuichi Fukuda makes a popular novel into a movie! A comedy mystery where Little Red Riding Hood solves difficult cases in the world of classic fairy tales as a detective! Netflix movie "Little Red Riding Hood meets a corpse on her journey. ] Global exclusive distribution starts on Thursday, September 14, 2023! Little Red Riding Hood (Kanna Hashimoto), a girl wearing a red hood, meets Cinderella (Yuko Araki), a girl covered in ash, on her journey. After having the wizard change them into a nice dress, the two head to the ball, but they run over a man in a pumpkin carriage. Hiding the corpse quickly so as not to find out, the two of them go to the castle ball. Shortly after Cinderella and the prince (Takanori Iwata) fall in love, a dead body is found and the ball is interrupted. The shadow of the true culprit appears among the peculiar people who appear one after another in front of the two who are in desperate need... Little Red Riding Hood confronts the case with her innate insight and impudence—! What is the truth behind the tragedy that happened in a country where "beauty is everything"?
"What big TEETH you have!"
For people wondering, this is not a Japanese take on Disney (even though the Japanese are crazy for Disney) or even the original tales for the Red Riding Hood or Cinderella. This is the film adaptation of a Japanese book series by Aito Aoyagi, that brings some irony, dark humor and Sherlock Holmes's wit to traditional European fairy-tales, so it's pretty much a Japanese product. The titles of the series are pretty hilarious, like "Red Riding Hood meets Pinocchio, and then finds a dead body".

Monday, August 7, 2023

At the Edge of the Universe...

LOWER DECKS - Season 4
Boimler (Jack Quaid), Mariner (Tawny Newsome), Rutherford (Eugene Cordero), Tendi (Noël Wells) and the rest of the U.S.S. Cerritos crew prove they are more than just lower deckers in the official Season 4 trailer!
"Star Trek: Lower Decks" focuses on the support crew serving on one of Starfleet's least important ships, the USS Cerritos, in 2380. Ensigns Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford and Tendi must keep up with their duties and their social lives, often while the ship is being rocked by a multitude of sci-fi anomalies. The ship's bridge crew includes Captain Carol Freeman, Commander Jack Ransom, Lieutenant Shaxs and Doctor T'Ana. This is the second animated spin-off in the franchise after 1973-74's "Star Trek: The Animated Series," but has a decidedly more adult tone and humor.
Premieres September 7, 2023

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

This Summer, meet the residents of Element City...

ELEMENTAL
Watch Disney and Pixar’s “Elemental,” an all-new original feature film that transports moviegoers to an extraordinary place called Element City, where a host of elements live and work. The trailer showcases each element—air, earth, water and fire—and what sets them apart according to Ember, a quick-witted and fiery woman who’s always stayed close to home in Firetown. In “Elemental,” which opens in theaters on June 16, she finally ventures out of her comfort zone to explore this spectacular world born from the imaginations of Pixar’s filmmakers and specifically crafted for the big-screen experience. Element City is inspired by big cities around the globe and embraces theorized contributions from each elemental community—from giant pine-tree-like buildings and waterfall skyscrapers to a tornado-shaped arena called Cyclone Stadium.

Joining the previously announced voice cast including Leah Lewis and Mamoudou Athie as Ember and Wade, respectively, are Ronnie del Carmen as Ember’s soon-to-be retired dad, Bernie; Shila Ommi as Ember’s love-seeking mom, Cinder; Wendi McLendon-Covey as Wade’s stormy and Air-Ball-loving boss, Gale; Catherine O’Hara as Wade’s welcoming mom, Brook; Mason Wertheimer as Ember’s admiring earth neighbor, Clod; and Joe Pera as an overgrown city bureaucrat, Fern.

Directed by Peter Sohn, produced by Denise Ream, p.g.a., and executive produced by Pete Docter, “Elemental” features a screenplay by John Hoberg & Kat Likkel and Brenda Hsueh with story by Sohn, Hoberg & Likkel and Hsueh. The film’s original score was composed and conducted by Thomas Newman.

See the movie in 3D, only in theaters June 16!