Welcome to the Weekly Movie Thread, where we chat about film. What have you seen lately? Today’s bonus prompt: What is your favorite comedy horror film? There are a lot of great ones out there: Cabin In The Woods, Evil Dead … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (10/22)

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the movie that introduced us to the man who would make his name on Twilight Zone-style twists: M. Night Shyamalan. Everyone had expected The Sixth Sense to be a fairly low key summer … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (10/15)

Welcome to the Weekly Movie Thread! Talk about movies you’ve seen lately, new releases, great classics, not-so great classics, etc. Today’s bonus prompt: What is your favorite use of stop-motion in film? Coraline, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, was … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (10/8)

This year marks the 35th anniversary of Beverly Hills Cop. The surprise hit would be the highest grossing R-rated film of all time until it was dethroned in 2003 by The Matrix Reloaded. (Adjusted for inflation, though, it is the … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (10/1)

Welcome to the Weekly Movie Thread! Talk about movies you’ve seen lately. Today’s bonus prompt: What is your favorite movie of 1999? 1999 was supposed to be the year of Star Wars. It still was: the release of The Phantom … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (9/24)

Welcome to the Weekly Movie Thread! Come here to talk about movies! Today’s bonus prompt (care of PSF): what is your favorite movie to put on to fall asleep to? My wife’s answer would easily have been the original King … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (9/17)

Welcome to the Weekly Movie Thread, where we discuss film. What have you watched recently? What movies are you excited for? Today’s bonus prompt: What movie effects would you describe as “magical”? This week celebrates the 90th anniversary of The … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (9/10)

Welcome to the Weekly Movie Thread, where we talk about movies we’ve watched! This week’s prompt (h/t AlanWilder): The first time you realized movies could be bad. Making this particularly challenging is that AlanWilder specifically mentioned that there was a … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (9/3)

Welcome to the Weekly Movie Thread, where we talk about the fine art of cinema. This week’s bonus prompt: What is your favorite movie montage? Because, as Team America: World Police once pointed out, even Rocky had montage! It’s hard … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (8/27)

This week we celebrate the 80th anniversary of that movie that’s somewhere over the rainbow, The Wizard of Oz! I really don’t have to tell you anything about this movie, do I? The movie gave us a lovely performance by Judy … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (8/20)

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the American theatrical release of the movie that’s in the Top Ten of a lot of Best Of movie lists, Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. Personally speaking… this movie is easily on my All … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (8/13)

In July of 1999 three actors went in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a film that looked like documentary. A year later their footage inspired a bunch of low-budget filmmakers. This year we celebrate the 20th anniversary of … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (8/6)

Ah, 1989. I remember being a wide-eyed teenager who didn’t really have friends and sought comfort at the local library. As a wannabe bon vivant, I would regularly check out the New Yorker. I’d flip past all the boring short … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (7/30)

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood comes out in theaters this week (which, hauntingly, is close to the 50th anniversary of the Tate murders).  Pulp Fiction is celebrating its 25th and Ingluorious Basterds is celebrating its tenth. So yes, Avocado, it’s time … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (7/23)

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a movie I’m going to have to revisit someday. The movie stars Tim Roth and Gary Oldman as the title characters, who ruminate about their existence while a Shakespearean play happens all around them. … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (7/16)

1969 was an interesting year for movies.  The hippie movement was in full swing. Woodstock would attract an audience of 400,000 in August.  Old genres like the big production Hollywood musical were falling out of favor, with Hello, Dolly! underperforming … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (7/9)

This week, Forrest Gump celebrates its 25th anniversary. Now I have heard all the criticisms. How it’s nostalgic Boomer porn. How it punishes Robin Wright for her promiscuity. How it’s not Pulp Fiction. (Don’t worry, fans. I have a Quentin … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (7/2)

This year is the 75th anniversary of one of the earliest (and quite possibly the first ever) noir films: Double Indemnity, starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, and Edward G. Robinson. This movie won our Film Noir tournament (beating out amazing … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (6/25)

Thirty years ago, Michael Keaton first reared his immovable neck and plummy lips in Tim Burton’s Batman movie. It would launch the genre that we are still living through to today: turning kid’s properties into cool and edgy things for … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (6/18)

Today’s prompt: What’s your favorite spoof/parody? The newest Shaft movie comes out this weekend (bringing in Sam Jackson and Richard Roundtree one more time), which brings to mind the greatest tribute to the blaxsplotation genre ever. Black Dynamite was directed … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (6/11)

So in Gone With the Wind (80 years old this year), there’s a scene where Scarlett O’Hara embraces her long time friend Ashley.  Ashley’s sister happen to walk in on them. She really, really hates Scarlett (she thinks of her … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (6/4)