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To celebrate a year of this series, I…post another article about movie that no one else has seen. A comedy about family, outsiders, and a metaphorical parakeet. Streaming in Australia, Canada, United States and maybe other places. Approximately 95 minutes. Natsuki … Continue reading WTF ASIA 53: Hospitalité (2010)
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Please restrict all discussions of Avengers: Endgame to this thread. Don’t post specifically, even teasingly, about it in the OT if you’ve seen it, spoilers covered or not. Thanks! Continue reading Avengers: Endgame Spoilers Thread
Avengers: Endgame is coming out this week, and everyone’s got people with superhuman strength and fancy, brandable tights on their mind (Avengers novelty baseball jerseys now available at Box Lunch!)… so let’s talk about another superhero movie featuring Josh Brolin … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (4/23)
Welcome to my weekly discussion of the animated films of the Walt Disney Studio. Since we have covered the animated films, we have moved on to the live-action and partially animated films. The title comes from a quote from Walt, … Continue reading Building Entertainment: The Animated Films of the Walt Disney Studio. Live-action Edition. The Absent-Minded Professor.
A lot of straight male reviewers look at Leaving Metropolis and have a real problem with it because they say there is no way that a straight man would ever fall in love with a gay man. But having been … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Seducing Straight Men
Welcome, my Avocados, to the fourth installment of Bagel Over the White House, my ongoing series focused on American politics on film and behind the scenes. Today, I finally get to the movie whose name inspired the title of this … Continue reading Gabriel (and Bagel) Over the White House (1933)
Sorry I’ve been away from the wheel for a while when it comes to reviewing films. It’s not that I haven’t been watching films in theaters, it’s just that I couldn’t be arsed. However, we here at The Avocado were … Continue reading Movie Reviews: 79 Parts (2019)
The folks at WB/New Line are handling their horror line well as a part of a larger Conjuring vibe but not working the same story over and over to death, instead, coming up with properties within it that find its own … Continue reading Box Office: April 19-21
Billa, had it reached the right audience at the right time, could have been immortalized as a cult hit in the vein of Kung Pow: Enter The Fist. It is badly written, badly acted, badly budgeted, bad to look at, … Continue reading WTF Asia: Billa (2009)
Welcome to the Weekly Movie Thread! Today’s prompt: What is your favorite movie opening? There are plenty of iconic ones. There’s the prologue from various James Bond movies, which stretch from the gunsight where you the viewer gets out-shot by … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (4/16)
Welcome to my weekly discussion of the animated films of the Walt Disney Studio. I’m proceeding mostly chronologically. Since we did all the animated films, we’re moving on the the live-action films. The title comes from a quote from Walt, … Continue reading Building Entertainment: The Animated Films of the Walt Disney Studio. Live-action Edition. Darby O’Gill and the Little People
Robert Mapplethorpe was a groundbreaking photographer who rose to fame in the 1970’s and 80’s. When he was diagnosed with AIDS he increased his artistic output and his market value rose. He would achieve a new level of infamy after … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Mapplethorpe (2018)
Title: Captain Marvel Director: Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck Writer(s): Boden and Fleck, with Geneva Robertson-Dworet Characters created by: by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Gene Colan, Roy Thomas, Peter David, Gary Frank, Roger Stern, John Romita Jr., Mark Gruenwald, Greg … Continue reading Marvel Cinematic Universe. Phase Three Rewatch: Captain Marvel
April is really set to be a light month for film in general as a lot of projects have avoided the month in anticipation of what Avengers: Endgame will do in terms of wide-releasing projects. This weekend saw a few new … Continue reading Box Office: April 12-14
Welcome to Public Domain Theater, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and are free for everyone to see! Today we present to you, the 1953 … Continue reading Public Domain Theater: The Hitch-Hiker (& “Scrap Happy Daffy”)
The Star Wars Celebration is coming, a new title will soon be announced, and the Star Wars brand is at a weird place right now. The past two years have seen a decline in the toy sales, and Solo “only” … Continue reading Star Wars Chit-Chat: Calm Before the Storm
Sure, it’s another step in Disney’s quest for world domination, but did you see they got Alan Tudyk back as K-2SO? See all the announcements in one place here. Continue reading Disney+ Launch Announcement Discussion Thread
In Which it Feels Good to Feel Again The influence of The Matrix is monumental. Nearly every action movie released in the last 20 years is in conversation with it in some way. Either aping its stylistic techniques directly or … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 14: Equilibrium
As the seasons change, so do sometimes my plans for this feature. I hadn’t originally planned on writing this review. I was going to do at least a straight month of nothing but European cinema, encouraged as I was of … Continue reading Made Overseas: Supercop (1992)
