Please please tell me you have seen Poor Things!!!
We watched it on the stream a little over a week ago.
It doesn’t really have anything new to say about the Travails of An Infantilized Woman In A Man’s World, but it’s gorgeous, well-performed, funny, and entertainingly written.… Read the rest “Please please tell me you have seen Poor Things!!!”
not to be needy or demanding or anything, but i’m still super curious about more of your thoughts on musicals! you said you had at least 10 more and it’s pretty much all i’ve been thinking about the past two days!… Read the rest “not to be needy or demanding or anything, but i’m still super curious about…”
Someone get ready to comfort the MAGA fucks: turns out Rankin/Bass’s The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974) was —and I believe this is the technical term— woke as fuck.
I mean, they made a Christmas movie where Santa is a narcisstic, entitled old white man whose petty self-indulgence wreaks havoc on a world toward which he is alternately indifferent and resentful.… Read the rest “”
You didn’t enjoy Paddington 2?! Re: Hugh grant reference, of not enjoying any performances beyond Four Weddings.
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I spent a few minutes with IMDB, and turns out, Hugh Grant was in three movies that I hold in some esteem:
That last one had everything: a cocaine-era RDJ, Sam Neil being alternatively mischievous and malevolent, David Thewlis being intense and kinda awkward, Polly Walker being hot, Meg Ryan being… present.… Read the rest “You didn’t enjoy Paddington 2?! Re: Hugh grant reference, of not enjoying any performances…”
Have you ever watched the movie, or better yet, read the book Call Me By Your Name? I think I saw that you like romance movies, I couldn’t recommend it more.
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I have not, despite all the positive buzz around the movie.… Read the rest “Have you ever watched the movie, or better yet, read the book Call Me…”
Why do you like Woody Allen?
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As one of the most significant filmmakers of 20th century film? Before you asked, I actually thought I liked him more than I do. I checked my ordered list of 1,300+ movies, and the first Allen flick doesn’t make my list until #105: Crimes & Misdemeanors.… Read the rest “Why do you like Woody Allen?”
There is probably no one working in mainstream media today whose artistic sensibilities are closer to mine than Neil LaBute. I’ve got some Lynch-y tendencies that he lacks, and LaBute’s only interest in laughter is making it uncomfortable, but still… nothing he does surprises me —because I share the same writerly impulses— and yet all of it satisfies me, because he pursues his impulses perfectly.… Read the rest “”
Have you watched either X or Pearl yet?
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I was intrigued by X because of Brittany Snow, who is not the person I expected to see playing “aging porn star”. But I’m not a rough-hewn horror guy and I’m unfamiliar with Ti West, so it wasn’t much more than a trailer to be watched.… Read the rest “Have you watched either X or Pearl yet?”
I can’t name a single porn star of recent vintage, but I instantly recognized this scene with Aurora Snow and Gauge from… I dunno? 2003?
I think it was the first A2M/A2V shoot I saw, and I remember thinking, “So there are no more uncrossable lines.… Read the rest “I can’t name a single porn star of recent vintage, but I instantly recognized…”
… Read the rest “”I watched Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith for the first time this week.
That was… not as bad as I’d been led to believe. Not good, mind you, but both are dramatically better than The Phantom Menace, which I dozed through in a theater back in ‘99, and couldn’t bear to rewatch via Disney+.
