For the discussion of film
One type of Chinese film that I feel gets overlooked in the West is the small village dark comedy. They are like a Coen Brothers dark comedy, but with less of that pesky extra-textual stuff. They feature sniveling cowards and … Continue reading WTF ASIA 17: Cock & Bull (2016)
Hey you’se! Wanna learn about a huge Naruto nerd who moved from China to Japan to become one of the best parts of the Boruto sequel show that no one’s watching? No? FUCK YOU TOO BAD! Wait! Please! Don’t close … Continue reading Animator Spotlight: Cheng Xi Huang
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After habitually posting this feature either a night or a full week late, we’re throwing a curveball an posting a day early because we’ll be driving across Pennsylvania tomorrow and after that, who knows. In what might be a sign … Continue reading 1969 Snubby Awards: The Voting
Turner Classic Movies is in the midst of their annual August Summer Under the Stars “festival,” where various stars get an entire day of programming dedicated to them. Next Monday, 8/20, is Stewart Granger Day! A whole day dedicated to … Continue reading Movie Discussion 8/14/2018
Welcome to my weekly discussion of the animated films of the Walt Disney Studio. I’m proceeding mostly chronologically. The title comes from a quote from Walt, “I never called my work an ‘art’ It’s part of show business, the business … Continue reading Building Entertainment: The Animated Films of the Walt Disney Studio. Pixar Edition. Cars.
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (From Box Office Mojo): The Meg Mission: Impossible – Fallout Christopher Robin Slender Man BlacKkKlansman Turns out the people still love shark movies, as The Meg beat expectations to collect $40M this weekend. With an outsize-for-August budget of … Continue reading Box Office: August 10-12, 2018
I want to start by saying I’m not really a ‘movie’ kind of cat. I don’t have a streaming service, I don’t see a lot of movies in the theater. But those movies that I do see, I tend to … Continue reading Movie Reviews: BlacKkKlansman
It’s time for another round of Muppet Casting, where we take a famous movie and ask, if Jim Henson’s Muppets made their own version of it (in the vein of The Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island), which Muppets … Continue reading Muppet Casting: Blazing Saddles
There may not be quite as many action stars any more, but it’s clear that they haven’t gone away completely. The big three of current action stars have all put out their recent titles with Dwayne Johnson offering up the … Continue reading Movie Reviews: The Meg (2018)
Ever thought about putting your house up for and AirBnB? If so, did you ever give a thought to the judgment potential renters might give you from your DVD collection? You don’t know how it got there. Maybe it was … Continue reading BnB Shame #4: Robin Hood: Men In Tights
Welcome to my weekly discussion of the animated films of the Walt Disney Studio. I’m proceeding mostly chronologically. The title comes from a quote from Walt, “I never called my work an ‘art’ It’s part of show business, the business … Continue reading Building Entertainment: The Animated Films of the Walt Disney Studio. Thursday Special Edition. The Wild
We reach the beginning of the Auteur Decade and near the end of the Snubbies (until the 2018 edition is forced to deal with the Best Popular Movie idiocy). While Catch-22 dominated the nomination round, it was upset in a few … Continue reading Snubby Awards: 1970 Results/1969 Nominations
