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We have had a bit of an upset. Apparently, you love your Greek Lesbian Poets more than your Muppets, because Sapphos took Doc Hopper’s recipe for fried frog legs to use on Kermit by just 3 votes. In fact Sappho … Continue reading Favorite Mononymous Famous Person – The Finals
With last weekend being one of the worst weekends since September, this weekend isn’t changing things around. Next weekend with Spider-Man: No Way Home will definitely help to bring the year out in a good way, but this weekend just couldn’t … Continue reading West Side Story Danes To A Box Office Win With The December 10th – 12th Weekend Results
We don’t talk about plot holes… … in a standard review so I’ve created a spoiler space to share my thoughts on Encanto. Disney’s 60th animated feature follows Mirabel, an empathic teen, and her magical family. The opening scenes quickly … Continue reading Encanto: Spoiler Space
Otherwise known as the lounging samurai. Available in Canada, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and perhaps a few other countries. Approximately 96 minutes. This movie wastes little time setting up the premise. At a shrine, nine samurai sit … Continue reading WTF ASIA 190: Sanjuro (1962)
Editor’s Note: Feel free to post as big or as small of a list as you would like below but please keep your lists contained to these posts and do not make your own post or fill up the OT … Continue reading The Pits: Best In Film 2021
NOTE: The Pits Best of Film 2021 goes up at 12 pm ET. Prepare your lists! Welcome to the Weekly Movie Thread, your place on the Avocado to discuss films with your fellow commenters. Want to make a recommendation? Looking … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (12/7)
Nope, no close calls here. Unlike Cher and Sade Battle Royale, these were all pretty much blowouts, and Cher this time couldn’t turn back time. She was almost halved by Bjork, 29 – 16. Kermit did the same thing to … Continue reading Favorite Mononymous Famous Person – The Final Four
Michael Urie drags his roommate, Philemon Chambers, from L.A. to New Hampshire for the holidays. Urie’s insufferable family wants them coupled. They will play dirty tricks to ensure it. Single All the Way shows the limits of shoehorning LGBTQ+ folks … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Single All the Way (2021)
The post-Thanksgiving weekend isn’t one expected to have a lot going on as there wasn’t anything new that was going big and wide. What we get is largely a repeat of before with Encanto in the top spot followed by Ghosbusters: Afterlife making … Continue reading Encanto Wins Another Box Office With The December 3rd – 5th Weekend Results
Welcome to Public Domain Theater, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and are free for everyone to see! This time around, we have for you … Continue reading Public Domain Theater: The Fast and the Furious (& “Taxi Turvy”)
The idea for the discussion is simple, once a week a volunteer (or volunteers) will do a write up on an older piece of media that they are digesting for the very first time. So here’s the link to signup … Continue reading Late to the Part 2022 Part 1
Well, that took some work! In a run off that was supposed to last until last night (but someone was still tired from flying and Thanksgiving and getting home past midnight and having an 8 AM meeting and maybe a … Continue reading Favorite Mononymous Famous Person – The Elite Eight
Are you ready for some FOOTBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAetc Available in Canada, the United States, and perhaps a few other countries. Approximately 94 minutes. In the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh is Bir, a village for Tibetans in exile along … Continue reading WTF ASIA 189: The Cup (1998)
It’s been 11 days, but we still have a TIE!!! Cher and Sade are both tied at 35 votes. So now, for a limited time, we spotlight the two of them to see who moves ahead. Is it: Sade or … Continue reading Favorite Mononymous Famous Person – THE RUNOFF
Welcome to the Weekly Movie Thread, your place on the Avocado to discuss films with your fellow commenters. Want to make a recommendation? Looking for recommendations? Want to share your opinions of movies, both new and classic? The survival genre … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (11/30)
“He taught me to use my eyes to see.” The Power of the Dog is the eighth feature film from New Zealand writer/director Jane Campion, and her first since 2009’s Bright Star. An adaptation of Thomas Savage’s 1967 novel, she … Continue reading Movie Review: The Power of the Dog (2021)
Haley (Laur Allen) is a San Francisco power broker. Kate (Amanda Righetti) is a Nashville cowgirl. Can they overcome their differences to save Meemaw’s ranch? Christmas at the Ranch joins a growing list of holiday romcoms with queer protagonists. Writers … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Christmas at the Ranch (2021)
You are now entering Ad Space, a realm of commercials, brought before us so we might examine how they work, and discuss why we both love and hate them so. So it is written … The Product:A 2011 romantic comedy film … Continue reading Ad Space – Untitled Segel/Adams Project
The thanksgiving weekend results have come in, though the box office chart as supplied focuses just on the three-day aspect of it and not what came before. The month of November itself draws to a close with this chart and … Continue reading Encanto Lights Up The Box Office With The November 26th – 28th Weekend Results
I know what you are thinking. And, no, this movie has nothing to do with the 2007 song “Stand by Me” by The Brilliant Green. Instead, just in time for Thanksgiving in the USA, this is about how to deal … Continue reading WTF ASIA 188: Stand By Me (2018)
