For the discussion of film
Very simple premise for this thread: What movie(s) will you stop everything to watch if you come across it while flipping channels on the old television? No matter if it’s in the middle of the film or there’s like 20 … Continue reading If It’s On, You Watch It
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. Big Hero 6
We just had our first biopic of the season, so it feels only appropriate to head into yet another. Coincidentally, or perhaps not since as we established last time, writers love writing about writers, we have another film centered around … Continue reading Movie Reviews: Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
The Thanksgiving holiday is always a fun one as you can look at the box office in a couple of ways. The bulk of reporting tends to look at the numbers more at the three-day totals of the traditional weekend … Continue reading Box Office: November 23-25
Yes they will Kormit because i’m telling them all about you guys See this as a filler episode I guess where I talk about about a internet series I like in a more freeform slighty shorter form. It’s also not … Continue reading Animation Spotlight: Tiny Fuppets
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: Romeo & Juliet
Philadelphia has a special kind of attachment to the Rocky series. For the sixth largest city in the US, its cinema history isn’t nearly as extensive as its size would indicate. Yet, the 1976 original would go on to be both a … Continue reading Movie Reviews: Creed II (2018)
Welcome to film seven of Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas 2018: Christmas in Evergreen: Letters to Santa. I think this is part of a series about the quaint Vermont town of Evergreen. I only know this because when researching Hallmark movies, … Continue reading Hallmark Christmas: Christmas in Evergreen: Letters to Santa Recap/Review
Inspired by a subthread in this week’s very entertaining Rename a Movie thread. Take a movie quote and change it to reference upvotes. That’s it! Continue reading ‘Upvote’ a Movie Quote
This Thanksgiving, consider turkey ramen. Or just ramen. Available on Google Play, iTunes, Vudu, and Youtube. Approximately 115 minutes. Uh…warning…a few animals may have been harmed in the making of this movie. It is a rainy night as Goro and Gun drive … Continue reading WTF ASIA 31: Tampopo (1985)
As steaming services play a bigger and bigger role in the film and television industry, a lot of attention is going to their original content–but mainly streaming television shows. What about streaming movies? What hidden gems or washed up flops … Continue reading The Night Comes For Us (Netflix, 2018)
It’s taken longer than expected, but we’ve finally ventured into the biopic portion of Oscar Season. Our first subject is as quite favored by Hollywood, a writer, since there’s nothing writers love more than writing about their profession. Marie Colvin … Continue reading Movie Reviews: A Private War (2018)
So how about that Frozen 2 trailer? As for the film itself, is it as good as the original? Does it avoid existing purely for self-promotional purposes? Why is Taraji P. Henson’s character named ‘Yesss’ when her name should clearly … Continue reading Spoil Sports: Ralph Breaks the Internet
Thanksgiving is upon us, and with it comes our first rush of high-profile holiday-season movies. What are you looking forward to the most? Any Thanksgiving movie traditions? Anything you’re really trying to catch before 2018’s over? Continue reading Movie Discussion 11/20/2018
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. Frozen
Christmas at Graceland is the sixth film in Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas. While many of the films take place in “small towns,” many don’t really take place in the South which is kind of an odd oversight. So if you’re … Continue reading Hallmark Christmas: Christmas at Graceland
“Friendships between gay and straight guys can be healing and uniquely satisfying for all involved.” ~ Michael C. LaSala Ph.D., LCSW. Psychology Today. Gay men have befriended women in media for decades. Today I’m looking at films focused on … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Gay / Straight Male Friendships
The busy period for films is pretty much getting underway at this point, though a lot of the “Oscar Bait” films will be in limited release and many of us won’t be able to see them until the new year. … Continue reading Box Office: November 16-18
Watergate remains the defining political scandal in American history, endlessly milked for books, movies, cartoon caricatures and political analogies while Teapot Dome and Iran-Contra gather dust in the minds of history buffs. It’s easy to see why: the bizarre cast, … Continue reading Review: Watergate, Or How We Learned to Stop an Out of Control President (2018, Charles Ferguson)
Steve McQueen first broke out a decade ago with the great Irish-British prison film Hunger before following it up with the spectacularly misguided Shame. He rebounded however in making the well-made 12 Years a Slave which would go to win him … Continue reading Movie Reviews: Widows (2018)
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