Wrestle: Documentary about high school wrestlers at a school about to be closed for lack of funding in Huntsville, Alabama. Wonderful for how much it gets into the four lead students’ lives. Features two unnecessary arrests (for trace amounts of marijuana in a car and public urination) that the filmmaker said were…
They’ve started filming (or at least have had a table read and costume fitting, the actors are there and they’re just about to). W. Earl Brown’s instagram feed is the place for news.
Yes. Either the opening or closing credit is about the study of Kenpo, and it is mentioned a lot. I’d never heard of it, but apparently learning it will suck the paint off your house and give your family a permanent orange afro.
Videodrome: Had the energy of young Cronenberg, but one thing I didn’t expect: all the highfalutin dialogue about the insidious meaning and nature of TV, mostly by Professor O’Blivian, which reminded me of scientist dialogue in a 50's B-movie. It didn’t hurt but it did date it, sort of. I mean, TV was a very normal…
I imagine Frederick Wiseman’s documentaries will be more riveting when we’re all dead. Not because we’re dead, but because how humans live will have changed enough to make every mundane detail odd. I still enjoyed the last one I saw of his, about the NYC library, though it certainly was mostly filmed presentations and…
The sad truth: Early in the first novel Jon says to her,
Net Pom-Poms Summ Rom-Com Sum
The movie around the relationship isn’t good.
Wilford Brimley was innocent. They were all suffering from seasonal affective disorder.
That’s true. He was excellent.
there’s that movie, but there’s also “the early 2000's superhero template” others deride that it’s encased in. I definitely had fun, and loved both Hardy’s and William’s performances.
Psychological projection: there’s just the thinnest “Well, okay” to the nation’s lukewarm embrace of Venom. Like we know it’s bad, and we knew it was going to be bad, but we still went. One would like to pretend it’s not because we have little choice over mass-produced culture, but a temporary lowering of standards…
More than important than his death is what he does with his life. He developed a sense of responsibility and then entered the netherworld of writing unmoored from the careful arcs of GRRM’s first three books. Namely. he drinks and he advises Dany badly. Hopefully his unseen conversation with Cersei and his look of…
K-mart has a product placement deal.
The only lead in googling I could find was Hayes was a descendant of Revolutionary War veterans, but I found no mention if they were, you know, Quasi-War vets. But relating to land apportionment and the French via the Louisiana Purchase, Hayes was involved in the settlement of border lines between Argentina and…
These were zipless fucks.
The Prowler: Watched this because it was recommended as a 80's slasher with good kills in the Red Letter Media review of the Psycho sequels. It was, it certainly had well thought out and orchestrated gore effects by Tom Savini, and it was more thoughtful about its setup and killing then most films like it: there was a…
To me it was always an inherent conflict in the show, in that he and Dwight were broad torturers of more realistically drawn people with familiar grievances. The cause of those grievances, unlike in real life wage slavery, was always fun clowning. This was apparent to me at the time, because I was obviously a time…
listens to “Jedi Rocks” on headphones
Venom: Saw this with a large and happy preview crowd who laughed throughout. I support Hardy and Williams and thought they came off well, playing it as comedy, while the movie around them was, as many have said, a throwback to older, dumber comic book pictures, but at least it didn’t make you question your sanity, a…
