For the discussion of film
With a couple of new films in the mix that didn’t exactly scream box office winners, the final full weekend of August at the box office has its estimates in with what did and didn’t perform. On the new side … Continue reading Box Office: August 24-26
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: Mad Max (Fury Road)
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 #5: 2012
So it’s come to this, the penultimate Snubbies. Only two Best Snubbed Supporting Actress nominees, plus @Jeremy Phillips’ labrynthine explanation of which year Night of the Living Dead was released (short answer: ’68 and ’69), and the approaching (from the other … Continue reading Snubby Awards: 1969 Results/1968 Voting
In Part 2 of the completely unintentional Bird Trilogy, humanity is for the birds. Free on Netflix. Approximately 116 minutes. Maya is a teenager who lives with her father, grandmother, and dog in a remote house by the forest. Her … Continue reading WTF ASIA 18: Birdshot (2016)
Here’s a curiosity that’s currently streaming on Amazon Prime (although according to some sources, it’ll expire at the end of August): Chinese Box is an unexceptional film filmed under exceptional circumstances. It stars Jeremy Irons and Gong Li; its plot … Continue reading Movie Discussion 8/21/2018
Meet the Robinsons Building Entertainment: The Animated Films of the Walt Disney Studio. Meet the Robinsons 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 … Continue reading Building Entertainment: The Animated Films of the Walt Disney Studio. Meet the Robinsons
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (From Box Office Mojo): Crazy Rich Asians The Meg Mile 22 Mission: Impossible – Fallout Alpha Crazy Rich Asians became the latest minority-led film to ‘over-perform’ (at this point we should probably instead frame it as … Continue reading Box Office: August 17-19
“I’ve never met a man who experienced a change from homosexual to heterosexual.” ~ John Smid, former Executive Director of Love in Action. In 1973 the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from their list of mental disorders. In response anti-gay … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Conversion Camps
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: Breaking Bad
Back in the Long Long Ago Times, I reviewed Stephen Chow’s The Mermaid. It was, at the time, was the highest grossing Chinese movie ever. Considering the director, this was no surprise. Why you could make a movie about cooking … Continue reading Made Overseas: Devil and Angel (2015)
For several years on the mothership, the highlight of many of our weeks was Zack Handlen’s classic Star Trek reviews. Beginning with the original series and continuing on with The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, trekkies had a space … Continue reading This Week in Trek: Pine out, Picard In!
This age of increased representation has been an unequivocal great thing for film and while there is certainly an argument to be made that there has been little progress in most fields, there’s one area that often gets overlooked more … Continue reading Movie Reviews: Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
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
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
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