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Michael Nazarewycz 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 ✍🏻📼 🤙🏻 @heymichaelnaz.bsky.social · Sep 29

Six years ago today I started “25 Years at 24 Frames" ( #25Y24F ), a project to reconstruct the approximate chronological movie-watching timeline of the first 25 years of my life (1968-1993), relive those films through re-watches, and reflect on how those experiences shaped me. 1/

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Michael Nazarewycz 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 ✍🏻📼 🤙🏻 @heymichaelnaz.bsky.social · 4h

What's the best one-liner in movie history?🎥

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Michael Nazarewycz 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 ✍🏻📼 🤙🏻 @heymichaelnaz.bsky.social · 11h

#TheTroubleWith2B: Chem prof at middle school concocts potions that create chaos for colleagues and fun for kids.

Multi-part UK series sewn together for single feature. I'm guessing it plays better in parts b/c 90 minutes of such repetitive foolishness is just too much.

Michael Nazarewycz 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 ✍🏻📼 🤙🏻 @heymichaelnaz.bsky.social · 13h

#NowWatching
#25Y24F #2132

Peter Smith's
THE TROUBLE WITH 2B
(aka PROFESSOR POTTER'S MAGIC POTIONS)
[1971]

Original Watch: Circa July 1984* on Subscription Cable
Current Watch: 10/14/25 via YouTube

This is the title card for THE TROUBLE WITH 2B, and it's written in large, but bland, white lettering, enclosed in a white box.

Michael Nazarewycz 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 ✍🏻📼 🤙🏻 @heymichaelnaz.bsky.social · 13h

#NowWatching
#25Y24F #2132

Peter Smith's
THE TROUBLE WITH 2B
(aka PROFESSOR POTTER'S MAGIC POTIONS)
[1971]

Original Watch: Circa July 1984* on Subscription Cable
Current Watch: 10/14/25 via YouTube

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👻 ThoMassacre of the Morticiani 🎃 @notthewhostommy.bsky.social · 22h

While his work on Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future and The Thing are going to be his most indelible works, I always loved when Drew Struzan provided that same style to very silly comedies. He knew every film was worthy of artistic representation. RIP

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Michael Nazarewycz 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 ✍🏻📼 🤙🏻 @heymichaelnaz.bsky.social · 22h

Awful news.

Trey Lawson @tlawson.bsky.social · 22h

We’ve lost Drew Struzan.
Truly one of the best poster/cover artists of all time.

drewstruzanart on Instagram: "It is with a heavy heart that I must tell you that Drew Struzan has moved on from this world as of yesterday, October 13th. I feel …"

It is with a heavy heart that I must tell you that Drew Struzan has moved on from this world as of yesterday, October 13th. I feel it is important that you all know how many times he expressed to me the joy he felt knowing how much you appreciated his art. - Greg

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James Sanford @jamessanford.bsky.social · 1d

I interviewed Patty Duke years ago and she said those TV movies were lots of fun to do: “We used to joke about ‘What’s the disease this week?’ But they really did help some people.” Fascinating lady!

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Michael Nazarewycz 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 ✍🏻📼 🤙🏻 @heymichaelnaz.bsky.social · 1d

#IfTomorrowComes: Soon before Pearl Harbor, two youngs - white girl/Japanese boy - fall in love, secretly marry. Complications follow.

This ABC MoTW can't pull off navigating the challenges of its premise. Resorts to stereotypes & melodrama, incl nod to Romeo and Juliet.

Patty Duke is great tho.

Michael Nazarewycz 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 ✍🏻📼 🤙🏻 @heymichaelnaz.bsky.social · 1d

#NowWatching
#25Y24F #2131

George McCowan's
IF TOMORROW COMES [1971]

Original Watch: 07/26/81* on Network
Current Watch: 10/13/25 via YouTube

Patty Duke and Mako in a title still for IF TOMORROW COMES

Michael Nazarewycz 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 ✍🏻📼 🤙🏻 @heymichaelnaz.bsky.social · 1d

#NowWatching
#25Y24F #2131

George McCowan's
IF TOMORROW COMES [1971]

Original Watch: 07/26/81* on Network
Current Watch: 10/13/25 via YouTube

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Michael Nazarewycz 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 ✍🏻📼 🤙🏻 @heymichaelnaz.bsky.social · 1d

nine days later ... bsky.app/profile/heym...

TresTiffany 🎃 @trestiffany.bsky.social · 1d

This is inherently unserious and completely shameless

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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · 1d

Attention historians of the US:

Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · 1d

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Michael Nazarewycz 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 ✍🏻📼 🤙🏻 @heymichaelnaz.bsky.social · 2d

#NowPlaying

Michael Nazarewycz 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 ✍🏻📼 🤙🏻 @heymichaelnaz.bsky.social · 2d

Helluva find. Wish I had the gear to screen it.

16mm Film TV Out of the Blue (1966) Unsold Pilot Shirley Jones + Flying Saucer! | eBay

Later on, the aliens are smitten with a hefty Earth lady they deem the picture of beauty. Here's your chance!

ebay.us

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Michael Nazarewycz 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 ✍🏻📼 🤙🏻 @heymichaelnaz.bsky.social · 2d

#SammyTheWayOutSeal: Over summer vaca, two brothers nurse injured seal to health. When they sneak him home: hijinks.

Originally two-parter on "The Magical World of Disney," this is delightful, w/right balance of earnestness+slapstick.

Last onscreen perf by Jack Carson. Stars young Ann Jillian too.

Michael Nazarewycz 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 ✍🏻📼 🤙🏻 @heymichaelnaz.bsky.social · 2d

#NowWatching
#25Y24F #2130

Norman Tokar's
SAMMY, THE WAY-OUT SEAL [1962]

Original Watch: 06/08/81*
Current Watch: 10/12/25 on VHS

Michael Nazarewycz 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 ✍🏻📼 🤙🏻 @heymichaelnaz.bsky.social · 2d

#NowWatching
#25Y24F #2130

Norman Tokar's
SAMMY, THE WAY-OUT SEAL [1962]

Original Watch: 06/08/81*
Current Watch: 10/12/25 on VHS

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 3d

LA: Guardians of Pedophiles projected on a wall. Time has come to Release the Epstein Files!

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 3d

It’s actually really exciting what a human brain can do compared to a large language model with rigid rules

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Michael Nazarewycz 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 ✍🏻📼 🤙🏻 @heymichaelnaz.bsky.social · 3d

#25Y24F #VHS

VHS slip for HOT ICE (aka MR.INSIDE / MR. OUTSIDE)

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Heather Wylie @unxpctdisvry.bsky.social · 3d

Today is the last day of my sale!

Heather Wylie @unxpctdisvry.bsky.social · 6d

I'm having a sale on all of my physical paintings. You can find them by clicking the link below. I don't usually have sales, so this is a great opportunity to click the link and check out some original artwork.

www.hwylieart.com/store/c2/Ava...

Available Art

Art by Texas Artist Heather Wylie

www.hwylieart.com

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3d

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Michael Nazarewycz 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 ✍🏻📼 🤙🏻 @heymichaelnaz.bsky.social · 3d

#TheBestOfTimes: Man haunted by dropped pass in high school football game arranges to replay the game to redeem himself.

Watching this reminded me why I never watched it a second time in the '80s. I hate it. It's one-dimensional, everyone is cruel, and no one learns anything. (And it isn't funny.)

Michael Nazarewycz 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 ✍🏻📼 🤙🏻 @heymichaelnaz.bsky.social · 3d

#NowWatching
#25Y24F #2129

Roger Spottiswoode's
THE BEST OF TIMES [1986]

Original Watch: Circa February 1987
Current Watch: 10/11/25 on Prime

Poster includes photos of grown Kurt Russell and Robin Williams, but presented in a yearbook format.

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Michael Nazarewycz 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 ✍🏻📼 🤙🏻 @heymichaelnaz.bsky.social · 3d

#NowWatching
#25Y24F #2129

Roger Spottiswoode's
THE BEST OF TIMES [1986]

Original Watch: Circa February 1987
Current Watch: 10/11/25 on Prime

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Belinda Carlisle @belindacarlisle.bsky.social · 3d

I cant! 💔💔💔 Diane Keaton was such a talent and a BIG part of my career. She directed two videos of mine - "Heaven Is A Place on Earth" and the video for "I Get Weak."
She was kind and eccentric and I was blessed to know her. This is such a big loss. 💔💔💔 RIP Diane, you will be missed.

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 3d

Someone had clearly brought in a whole collection because I found some incredible stuff

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Michael Nazarewycz 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 ✍🏻📼 🤙🏻 @heymichaelnaz.bsky.social · 3d

HOLY SHIT

Michael Nazarewycz 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 ✍🏻📼 🤙🏻 @heymichaelnaz.bsky.social · 3d

GREAT pickup (esp at that price)

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