For the discussion of film
Movieacados! A while back I was having discussions with co-workers that were uncharacteristically pleasant. And one such topic turned to national animals, which is to say we discussed animals not transmogrified ourselves into them, and I relayed the fact that … Continue reading The Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (03/03)
Thank you to every who participated in nominations for the 2025 Avocado Snubby Awards, honoring the best filmwork not nominated at this year’s Oscars. Now we get to vote among the nominees to choose our Snubby Winners! Notes Below in … Continue reading 2025 Avocado Snubby Awards: The Voting
“I will see the country that I love as myself, which I’ve never done.” Continue reading The Avocado Movie Club #43: Will & Harper
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… Vittorio De Sica. Highly recommended: Shoeshine, … Continue reading Director Profile: Vittorio De Sica
Actor Marjorie Main was born on this day in 1890. She achieved success on the stage in the 1930s, appearing on Broadway in Dead End and The Women, and she recreated those roles in the subsequent film versions. In 1947 … Continue reading The Feb. 24 Day Thread of Marjorie Main
Okay Movieacadoes, two pet threads down and while people did not exactly go ape for them I have still decided that I am not quite tired of monkeying around quite yet. And it being a movie slow season it is … Continue reading The Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (02/24)
He’s a psycho AND a killer? What is he? Some kind of PSYCHO KILLER??!!! Continue reading GOAT is GOAT-ed (Well, This Week Anyway) — Weekend Box Office Report for February 20th-February 22nd, 2026
Kink, consent, and queer self-acceptance create a complicated portrait of the relationship between a biker dom and a timid sub in Harry Lighton’s confident, accomplished feature debut Pillion. Taking place over one year, Lighton deftly brings us into the world … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Pillion (2025)
The legal saga of Steamboat Willie gets a new wrinkle. Continue reading Ad Space – Not Approved By Disney
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… Sofia Coppola. Highly recommended: Lost in … Continue reading Director Profile: Sofia Coppola
Movieacatos! After last week I was feline it was the purrfect time to celebrate the other side of movie animals, no reason just beclaws. I mean there are a furmidable amount of cats in movie hiss-tory so it should not … Continue reading The Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (02/17)
A timid scientist (Robert Pollock) is obsessed with the end of the world. He’s courted by a charismatic thief (Iain Rea) who lives in the here and now. Queer cinema was in a dark place in the 1980’s. The AIDS … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Beyond Gravity (1989)
“The world’s a hospital and you’re either a patient or a nurse.“
Continue reading The Avocado Movie Club #42: Monster in a Box (1992)
Hello everyone, Lamb here continuing our annual tradition of the Snubby Awards. As always, credit to the original organizer of these awards, the legendary Cookie Monster. To recap the point of the Snubbies, it’s an award show for the best … Continue reading Avocado’s 2025 Snubby Awards: The Snubmissions
This year’s top vote getters: 1. Casablanca 19 mentions 2. Mulholland Drive 17 mentions 3. Mad Max: Fury Road 16 mentions 4. The Thing 13 mentions 5. The Empire Strikes Back 12 mentions 5. Everything Everywhere All at Once 12 … Continue reading Avocado Sight & Sound Year X results
Movieacados! Life can get a little ruff sometimes and and when your dogs are barking it can seem impawsible to get these prompts going. Furtunately life threw me a bone this week with some pupspiration. Okay terrible puns aside (terrible, … Continue reading The Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (02/10)
Yeah, I’m late, but y’all were too busy watching football to read this anyway. Continue reading No One Talks to Strangers — Weekend Box Office Report for February 6th-February 8th, 2026
Before Heated Rivalry we had 1925’s Battling Bruisers. A pair of boxers flirt in the middle of a match. Their fans and attendants are gay “nance” stereotypes who support the romance. The film both enforces and subverts the trope. Pansies … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Battling Bruisers (1925)
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Two hilarious, Silent Era slapstick farces from that master of the form, Buster Keaton! Continue reading Public Domain Theater: The Cameraman (& “The High Sign”)
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