For the discussion of film
This time Art reviews Pearl Off the top I’ll just say this is not a very scary movie in the sense that if you watched the first movie in the eventual trilogy you kinda know everything that’s going to happen. … Continue reading Art Reviews Something
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… Nicolas Roeg. Highly recommended: Performance (partially … Continue reading Director Profile: Nicolas Roeg
Celebrate the creepiest time of the year with a look back at the oldest feature-length superhero movie ever made: a sci-fi “horror” yarn in which the Man of Steel faces mysterious creatures loosed from the depths of the Earth! Continue reading The Discount Spinner Rack Halloween Special: SUPERMAN AND THE MOLE MEN (1951)
Movieacados! It is still spooky season so I am running with the month of Octob-Horror and looking at aspects of horror movies that are cool and fun and awesome. Last week was an in depth dive into props which at … Continue reading The Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (10/21)
Colin Firth plays the neurotic owner of a cinema in Buenos Aires. He takes in a handsome American flat mate (Hart Bochner) and quickly becomes obsessed. The men begin a dangerous game. Martin Donovan co-wrote and directed Apartment Zero. The … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Apartment Zero (1988)
And there’s no good fortune for Good Fortune. Continue reading Audiences Don’t Hang Up on Black Phone 2 — Weekend Box Office Report for October 17th-October 19th, 2025
This time Art reviews Lights Out Two great scary premises put together. You got fear of the dark in my childhood trauma! You got parental abuse in my ghost story! Wow, they taste great together! Kiddos, this is the type of movie … Continue reading Art Reviews Something
“Eat? That’s ridiculous, mothers don’t eat… daughters.” Continue reading The Avocado Movie Club #34: Coraline (2009)
This time Art reviews Longlegs Cage and Monroe’s performances lift a fairly pedestrian spook show. I also thought there were some nice musical touches. Now let’s get to what I really liked. The costumes and cinematography were top notch I … Continue reading Art Reviews Something
It’s the Terrifier series Continue reading Art Reviews Something
This month is Black History month in the UK. We’re talking Dancehall, Reggae, & racism in the police, via the lense of Steve McQueen’s excellent historical drama Small Axe: Mangrove.
It was also Indigenous People’s Day on Monday. Continue reading The CotL celebrates
“Rest assured that I was on the internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world.” Continue reading Second Look: The Simpsons Movie
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… Mike Nichols. Highly recommended: Who’s Afraid … Continue reading Director Profile: Mike Nichols
Movieacados! Last weeks prompt about horror movie recommendations really got me thinking, mostly due to that silver floaty Phantasm Murder Ball. I have been thinking about the iconography in horror movies and since they often do not have money to … Continue reading The Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (10/14)
An activist (Diego Luna) and a window dresser (Tonatiuh) share a prison cell during Argentina’s military dictatorship. The dresser, Molina, copes by recounting the plot of her favorite film: Kiss of the Spider Woman. A musical fantasy starring a glamorous … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025)
And Channing Tatum doesn’t raise the roof. Continue reading End of Line — Weekend Box Office Report for October 10th-October 12th, 2025
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… Atom Egoyan. Highly recommended: Exotica, The … Continue reading Director Profile: Atom Egoyan
Well, it is that time of year again. October might actually be my favourite time for movie watching because I usually shift gears for the month and focus on Horror/Thriller/Horror adjacent genre mash-ups, that’s right, it is now Octob-Horror! Usually … Continue reading The Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (10/07)
Jane Alice Peters, better known as Carole Lombard, was born on this day in 1908. She was an actor, best known for her work in comedies like My Man Godfrey, Nothing Sacred and To Be or Not to Be. Lombard … Continue reading The 10/6 Day Thread of Carole Lombard
I’ve been “reviewing” Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas approximately for seven years which is another way of saying that I make unhealthy decisions. This year, I’ll be away during the airing of the first film of the season, and I won’t … Continue reading The Hallmark Countdown to Christmas 2025 Lineup
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