A weekly thread devoted to the discussion of movies
Welcome to the Weekly Movie Thread! Today’s prompt: What is your favorite movie opening? There are plenty of iconic ones. There’s the prologue from various James Bond movies, which stretch from the gunsight where you the viewer gets out-shot by … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (4/16)
Lately, I’ve been thinking about MTV. Remember when they played music videos? Did you ever think that some of those directors would go on to bigger and better things in the late 90’s and 2000’s? MTV created a generation of … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (4/9)
This week, no one wants to be buried in the Pet Sematary. The latest Stephen King adaptation makes it to the big screen this weekend. It’s not fair to judge it harshly against the original just yet, though. Sometimes retreads … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (4/2)
Before the intermission for A Star Is Born (1954), there’s a movie within a movie. Vicki Lester (Judy Garland) and Norman Maine (James Mason) go to the premiere of what is sure to be Vicki’s catapult into stardom. We get … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (3/26)
Us is coming out this week, which is a good time to take a look at another movie about murderers who wear masks. Only in this case… it’s a mask that opens your pores and moisturizes. Mary Harron did not … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (3/19)
“Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did… but backwards in high heels.” The phase has been embraced by a lot of women, namely politicians. Hillary Clinton did a proof of concept once by dancing with her husband onstage. President Barack … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (3/12)
It’s been a quiet year so far. The top movie of 2019 domestically according to Box Office Mojo is Glass, the Unbreakable sequel set in the M. Night-verse. January and February have typically been very quiet, though the latter hasn’t … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (3/5)
For the second week of this column’s celebration of Black History Month, I considered two topics. The first would be in honor of yesterday’s President’s Day and honor all the Black actors who have been called on to play that … Continue reading The Weekly Movie Thread Honors the Black Academy Award Nominees
My apologies for a delayed start to using this column to celebrate Black History Month as I am eternally playing catch up and last week was busy trying to finish up with the reviews I was behind on. With Valentine’s Day … Continue reading The Weekly Movie Thread Celebrates Black Romance in Film
Last week I started to play catch up with a bunch of reviews I missed (no new reviews as I was sick and it was cold as hell outside) and though I promised to keep them short, I still found … Continue reading The Weekly Movie Thread Finishes Playing Catch up with Missed Reviews
Sorry everyone for the lack of reviews the past couple weeks. I was busy two weeks ago and last week the only film I saw in theaters already had a review. I mentioned in my review for If Beale Street Could … Continue reading The Weekly Movie Thread Starts Playing Catch up with Missed Reviews
Today’s the day Academy Award nominations are released so I bet you all still have that at the top of your minds, but we’re going to avoid talking about who did (or didn’t) get nominated since there’s already a thread … Continue reading The Weekly Movie Thread Reflects on the Legacy of the Academy Awards
Like my local movie theater, the weekly movie thread is under new management. While I have no clue as of yet what changes that new ownership will bring (or when it will reopen and frankly, I’m shocked anyone would want … Continue reading Weekly Movie Thread is Under New Management – 1/15/2019
Penny Marshall appreciation post! She passed yesterday at the age of 75. She directed a host of movies, of which she was probably best known for Big and A League of Their Own. (You may also remember her as Laverne … Continue reading Movie Discussion 12/18/2018
After every review said to catch this one on the big screen if you can, Netflix is expanding Roma to 600 theaters this weekend. Want to talk more about Netflix in the movie business? Meet me in the comments! Continue reading Movie Discussion 12/11/2018
Happy 15th anniversary this week to Elf! Happy 30th anniversary to, uh, Ernest Saves Christmas! Continue reading Movie Discussion 12/4/2018
Movie happenings: Bernardo Bertolucci, director of Last Tango in Paris, died. The Triplets of Belleville was released in the US 15 years ago yesterday. Twilight was released ten years ago this week. Anna Kendrick forgot she was in it: https://twitter.com/annakendrick47/status/1067110126123794432?s=21 … Continue reading Movie Discussion 11/27/2018
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
Why is there another Grinch movie? Who asked for this? Why do I love Angela Lansbury so much only for her to try my patience so? Continue reading Movie Discussion 11/13/2018
Happy Halloween Eve! What are y’all watching to get in the spirit? Continue reading Movie Discussion 10/30
Happy 25th anniversary to The Nightmare Before Christmas, which was released this week in 1993. On TCM today: We’re celebrating Rita Hayworth’s 100th birthday every Tuesday this month. (Her actual birthday would have been October 17th.) It looks like they … Continue reading Movie Discussion 10/23/2018
