I know a lot of people consider Bug to be Friedkin’s return to form, but for me it was The Hunted. Though Bug is definitely still the best out of everything post To Live & Die in LA.

why do his nostrils terminate a quarter-inch in?? How does he breathe??

Sidetrack on No Country, what was amazing about that movie was you had seen Moss be extremely resourceful and made the assumption he would find a way through.  Next thing you know he’s dead, and not even at the hands of Chiguhr.  The latter has been set up as an unstoppable force but ends up potentially undone by…

I actually think Adam Driver is doing a 14th century version of Affleck’s character from Mallrats in this movie. Affleck doing some kind of libertine royal deal

I’ve always been aware of this film, and it’s one of those “How the hell did I never get around to watching this?” movies for me. I had no idea about that line. I aint even mad it’s spoiled on me. I’ve never used Pluto, but I don’t mind some ads. Will be checking this out this weekend in a state of mild to active…

NO MA’AM.

Rises was worth it for the Bane from the Harley Quinn cartoon.

I love the scene of him sticking his head out the cop car window after he blows up the police station and escapes. 

And let’s not forget the gorgeous end credits that complete the story.

Paul Dooley’s alcoholic dad definitely needed more time

It’s crack...it gets you really high.

Agreed, I was really hoping from the teaser that he would be a regular guy without a secret past. Still, I guess most regular guys would get laid out about 15 minutes into their “confront the baddies” plan. The movie would have to lampshade that a la Blue Ruin.

Well, it’s a valid concept that you cannot have everything cranked to eleven the whole time in real life as in a story that should be able to at least relate to something of our real life.

Man we should have just had more Steppenwolf.

Steppenwolf managing his army, Steppenwolf ordering lunch, Steppenwolf chewing out a general, Steppenwolf teaching a small child how to throw a baseball, Steppenwolf killing some amazons Steppenwolf taking a shit, Steppenwolf eating dinner

Where’s the Steppenwolf cut…

I posted about that movie before seeing that post. It’s my favorite blaxpoitation movie by far. Great dialogue, characters (with some good antagonists for once), and cast, stylish direction, lots of wild and surprising moments, not many scenes that felt like cliches or tropes.

Apologies, master, I was on mute.

Those Zoom meetings hit different now brah, Snyder is just really plugged into the human experience these days

Zine culture is alive and thriving in the Bay Area. Before the pandemic, San Jose had at last 3 big zine festivals a year.  It’d be just as exciting for teens to find old zines as when we were teens and found our parents vinyl collections. And maybe this won’t be true in the future, but esoteric artifacts will always…

Dear God, that movie makes no sense at all. Yet I still will the next Richard Kelly movie. If there is one.

My favorite is when Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis) asks the audience “Everybody got that?” after Colonel Sandurz explains the bad guys’ plan in Spaceballs, but this is definitely an all-timer.