Given all these film festivals that seem to last ten days, AFI Fest was neat and tidy and fast – in with Wildwood on the 21st, and out with Being Heumann on the 25th, with a pit stop past Josephine and Behemoth! and a few others in between. Like The Mosquito Bowl, the description of which on Wikipedia was written by someone who did not trust our reading comprehension: "It is based on the 2022 Buzz Bissinger book The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II, about the Mosquito Bowl game played during World War II." NO KIDDING. Why is it called The Mosquito Bowl? I DO NOT KNOW, because no matter how far I drilled down in Wikipedia, nobody actually says. I am forced to conclude it's because there were lots of mosquitos that night. The Mosquito Bowl took place on Guadalcanal, between a bunch of marines, many of whom were football prospects who went on to play in the pros. However, I did not expect this: "The author Buzz Bissinger believes that he first came across the story while working with Caitlyn Jenner on a memoir about her father, who was part of the troops for the Normandy landings and the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp." From what I can tell, that memoir is I Am Cait, a memoir of Jenner herself that reflects on her relationship with her father. When I started typing this, it seemed unlikely this post would circle back around to the Jenner/Kardashian family, but the content gods work in mysterious ways.
Also, bleating sports idiot Pat McAfee has a guest role in this movie, but I refuse to pay for a photo of that buffoon, so he's not in here. This post has thus been marked safe from Pat McAfee. I also just realized that the invasive ad we had on this site for a long time, which PLAGUED US ALL and WOULD NOT GO AWAY, shares his name. In the words of Lisa Simpson:
