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Wil McMillen

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Spent years in the video store trenches. Now I use my wisdom for trivia night. Minnesota by way of DC by way of Wichita Kansas Current Events: Future writer of “Dirty Harry Chokes On A Bagel” Currently watching thru every Looney Tunes release

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Wil McMillen @wilmcmillen.bsky.social · Sep 13

New article from me on the @trylon.org Perisphere blog. How Bob Clark’s 1974 film Dead Of Night reflects a culture that keeps repeating itself. Give it a read!

www.perisphere.org/2025/09/12/g...

God Bless This Mess: Vietnam, The Monkey’s Paw, and Dead of Night – Perisphere

| Wil McMillen | Dead of Night aka. Deathdream plays at the Trylon Cinema Wednesday, September 24th. For tickets, showtimes, and other series information, visit trylon.org. “My brother came home yeste...

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Wil McMillen @wilmcmillen.bsky.social · 23h

Know what’s awesome?
You can just do a thing just because you like to, and you don't have to be the best at it.

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Wil McMillen @wilmcmillen.bsky.social · 1d

Thus begins a tale of revenge so ingenious I was grinning ear to ear. A fantastic find!

Can be streamed here: youtu.be/uWiNLwxDnO4

Address Unknown (1944) - Free Movie

YouTube video by Cinema Coded

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Wil McMillen @wilmcmillen.bsky.social · 1d

Noirvember 2025
Film #1: Address Unknown
***** out of five

What a start to the month of shadows!! During the rise of Nazism in Germany, the daughter of a Jewish art dealer who lives in San Francisco is refused help escaping Nazi Germany by his German supplier.

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Wil McMillen @wilmcmillen.bsky.social · 2d

Let’s go for it, why the heck not

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Anonymous messages!

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Wil McMillen @wilmcmillen.bsky.social · 2d

LMAO acting like they won a bowl game instead of just barely beating a 3-5 team at home.

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 2d

DRAKE LINDSEY
The stiff arm and the TD to win in OT

Wil McMillen @wilmcmillen.bsky.social · 2d

Note, I’m not from here either, admittedly, but I at least grew up in Kansas and then moved to DC. I’m at least from the Midwest originally.
A lot of this is said with a slight grin and twinkle but there is one thing that remains true in all of it: FREY SUCKS

Wil McMillen @wilmcmillen.bsky.social · 2d

I hope Frey gets demolished. He’s not even from here. He grew up in Oakton VA and it shows. Those people are just only slightly less bad than McLean VA people. That’s like electing someone from…(shudder) Edina.

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Gentleman Doofus @gentledoofus.bsky.social · 2d

Free screen name for someone who loves both Hong Kong cinema and Arkansas sports: John Woo Pig Tsui Hark

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Wil McMillen @wilmcmillen.bsky.social · 2d

The only loss of a half star is the last segment goes on way too long beyond where we kind of know what’s going to happen, and because the Joan Collin’s/Santa story was done better on the tv series. Beyond that, a total party.

Wil McMillen @wilmcmillen.bsky.social · 2d

31 Days Of Horror Movies 2025:
#20: Tales From The Crypt(Francis, 1972)
**** 1/2 out of five

Wonderful fun anthology film based on the EC Comics from the 1950’s.

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Wil McMillen @wilmcmillen.bsky.social · 2d

Also with seaside horror I think I know one of them you’re going to see is one I saw.

Wil McMillen @wilmcmillen.bsky.social · 2d

Nice! We got four. I had never seen any of them but one of them was an all time classic. I’m glad my first time was on the big screen. So great!

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Wil McMillen @wilmcmillen.bsky.social · 3d

That’s a great list!! (Lake Mungo is an all timer)

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Wil McMillen @wilmcmillen.bsky.social · 3d

My 15 year old was going to go as Buster Bluth from Arrested Development, had the hook hand and everything, then chickened out when she realized that zero of her friends would know who she was and would have to explain it all night long.

Wil McMillen @wilmcmillen.bsky.social · 3d

Can’t wait to hear what your series was. I went to mine on Saturday!

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Wil McMillen @wilmcmillen.bsky.social · 3d

The first time I heard it said the other way I thought the person was joking, like when people pronounce Target as “Tar-zhay” and chuckled and then quickly realized they weren’t joking and just said “Oh”

Wil McMillen @wilmcmillen.bsky.social · 3d

This punchable nerd holding our country hostage.

Mike Johnson with the most punchable face on the planet.

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Wil McMillen @wilmcmillen.bsky.social · 3d

(That last part is meant to be funny. If it brings you into my space to yell at me, it’s an instant block.)

Wil McMillen @wilmcmillen.bsky.social · 3d

Sure, I’ll make a list of monster based Looney Tunes to play on the projector in my front yard to attract trick or treaters and OF COURSE IT’LL RAIN ALL DAY LONG SO IM NOT PUTTING MY PROJECTOR AND SCREEN OUT IN IT.
I just wanted A LITTLE BIT OF HAPPY IN MY LIFE. THANKS TRUMP

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Wil McMillen @wilmcmillen.bsky.social · 3d

Revolutionary times painting depicting George Washington trying to get into his house. The people on the steps have “Trick or Treat” above them and George Washington has “get off my porch, raisins for the lot of you” next to him.

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Wil McMillen @wilmcmillen.bsky.social · 3d

What’s my costume? Embarrassment from INSIDE OUT 2, or Hi Jr from RAISING ARIZONA?

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Wil McMillen @wilmcmillen.bsky.social · 3d

Answer this dumbass question every time LIKE THIS

KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 3d

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

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Wil McMillen @wilmcmillen.bsky.social · 4d

Exactly. The compression starts at Rubber Soul and Revolver which are both talked about and moved on from in 25 minutes. (I know because that's how long I was on the elliptical the other morning, haha)

Wil McMillen @wilmcmillen.bsky.social · 4d

Going through Beatles Anthology again and it still shocks me that Compleat tells so much more of the story in two hours than Anthology does in ten.
Anthology is like “Montage The Movie”

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 4d

Obscure YT of the day: For Halloween, 1977s faithful, well-reviewed TERROR OF FRANKENSTEIN!
Starring Kubrick buddy Leon Vitali, Per Oscarsson, & Stacy Dorning! From the director of IN SEARCH OF DRACULA!

youtu.be/7iv2NcsESYw?...

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