Little Shop of Horrors was a Roger Corman movie before it was adapted into a musical. It’s in the public domain, so you can watch it for free online, although I didn’t get all the way through it back when Hulu had a freemium option simply because I found the broad humor annoying.

Personal Shopper is perhaps the most overrated movie I’ve ever seen, but I thought she was decent in Clouds of Sils Maria.

Undertow was a good movie. Stewart was barely in it.

It’s not exactly one of Nathan Rabin’s “Forgotbusters”, but it’s adjacent.

The AV Club excluded all documentaries from this feature.

Lots of movies get adapted into Broadway musicals, I wouldn’t think it that odd that some of them are American indies. Isn’t there some showtune about how you should never write an original musical but instead always adapt something existing?

I think that’s too experimental for their criteria.

Mad Max held the record for highest profit ratio prior to The Blair Witch Project, but don’t be misled by the awful American dub: it’s an Australian film.

The series contains some entertaining things, but it’s made by somebody who plainly doesn’t understand the film (just see his repeatedly stated ignorance of the Mike Yanagita scene) and wants to be Tarantino. There are a few Coen films I haven’t seen, but they would never write anything as dumb as much of that show.

Varga was an atrocious character. That season had the opportunity to make something like the Coens’ Fargo via the feuding brothers, but Hawley is too addicted to the exact sort of Hollywood BS that the Coens were avoiding in Fargo.

They included Bujalski for mumblecore, even though Funny Ha Ha has zero redeeming qualities. Support the Girls is good though.

I like Predestination a good deal, but even with the hard to understand dialogue, Primer is still a great film. You can watch it with subtitles and notice that a lot of the jargon you weren’t hearing correctly didn’t matter.

If nothing else, the events of the last three months have amply demonstrated who is actually “ruining” the economy

I read somewhere that most readers of YA nowadays are in their 30s or older, so insert your joke about the immaturity of Millenials here. This has been given as an explanation for why there’s such crazy infighting over perceived political infractions, which actual children wouldn’t care as much about.

I expected Maika Monroe to be a much bigger deal after starring in both It Follows and The Guest. Instead Anya Taylor-Joy has been the big horror breakout.

Not as much as Dawes.

Quick bite?

I’m pretty sure we saw him solve a homicide early on. Later he acts on a larger scale to transform the area by forcing slumlords to sell their properties, although the “heroism” of helping the Koch administration push through their redevelopment strategy is more cynical. That bit also ties in with trying to suppress…

I like the term “mirror movies” for when films with very similar premises come out around the same time.

I’ve been looking forward to it due to Cory Finley, since Thoroughbreds is one of my favorite recent movies. Makowsky’s script for “I Think We’re Alone Now” wasn’t very good, but I’m hoping being constrained by reality will prevent him from pulling something like the third act there.