“Republican, but I want to smoke pot." 

I find most people in the US who describe themselves as “libertarian” basically mean “Republican, but not willing to admit it” 

Martin Short is a goddamn Canadian National Treasure

There was a girl I was absolutely in love with who was obsessed with going to see art house movies at the Music Box in Chicago and we must have saw this movie a dozen times there one summer. She was not a keeper because she always wanted to go the Music Box, she only wanted to watch “art” films there and would shoot…

LaGuardia has been completely rebuilt and is much better now. Newark is still pretty dumpy. The reason why JFK gets a bit higher marks in my book is the Saarinen designed Terminal building which is cool looking and is now a retro looking hotel now that’s one of the coolest places to have a drink and hangout before…

I had an acquaintance who, after his third DUI, was given a simple choice by the judge: Quit drinking or quit driving. He relinquished his license on the spot. Being self-aware counts for something, I guess.

“Hi, I’m Bad Kuchi Kopi, and I’m an autoholic. I’m six months car free, though”

I will never be able to figure out why wealthy celebrities get regularly busted for DUI/DWI. This isn’t Joe Normalguy who gets blitzed but still needs to get his car home somehow to get to his day job. It’s a terrible idea, but you can put the dots together on the (drunk)decision-making process that leads to some…

I recently rewatched it, and it certainly struck me that if the movie was made today, you’d have a bunch of people raised on CinemaSins whining about how the “rules” are never explained. But it truly just never crosses your mind when you’re actually watching the thing, and you just accept its existence as a one of a…

Whenever I see a story like this I’m just so grateful I managed to quit driving. 

The main reason to dislike the Bourne sequels is, of course, that hack Palsy Greengrass directing them.

The movie also provides a nice little snap shot in time of post-unification Berlin when it was still in its Bohemian stage. 

Run Lola Run is one of the few German films to briefly capture American pop culutre’s attention back then so much that even The Simpsons and a few other shows did parodies of it.

Love this film so much. Bummed that its current 25th anniversary theatrical release never came to a theater near me, I imagine this would be so fun to watch on the big screen with an audience. I will note that Run Lola Run’s concept was quite heavily influenced by Kieslowski’s Blind Chance (1987). 

I was introduced to the film when I was in high school, taking german class, and it was a mind-blowing introduction to modern European cinema and way more interesting than the stupid TV show designed for learners we also had to watch. A couple of years later in University it was one of the first movies I acquired in a…

Artists don’t have anything in their wallets.

Tubi has literally thousands more movies than Pluto including a lot of really obscure underground stuff that’s nearly impossible to find elsewhere. Pluto’s live channels are a lot better though.

It’s simple. Techbros think they're infallible, and cannot stand someone proving they're not. 

if the Golden Girls aired today you’d call it identity-obsessed woke trash. rue mclanahan would mention her sexual agency and you’d start bleeding from your eyes

The point is, watch Golden Girls.