Weekend Watchlist: Blonde, Smile and Bros
[Izon by Trent Walton fades in, plays alone, fades out]
MIA Hi! Welcome to Weekend Watchlist, a look at what’s screening and streaming brought to you by The Letterboxd Show. I’m Mia, they’re Slim...
SLIM Hello!
MIA And together we’ll dig through what’s dropping this weekend, last weekend recent trends on Letterboxd and we’ll also take a peek at our own watchlists—all under 30 minutes or your money back.
SLIM Mia, we had Don’t Worry Darling last week and now we have Blonde this week. What could go wrong, Mia?
MIA Oh... oh, Slim...
SLIM What could go wrong?
MIA What could go wrong? Haha! [Mia & Slim laugh]
SLIM In this episode we’ll also talk about the new horror movie Smile that is having the most viral marketing sensation right now. Bros starring Billy Eichner and maybe hear from Luke MacFarlane? We’ll also hear from Gemma at Fantastic Fest, your community reviews that are tagged ‘Weekend Watchlist’ and of course, we’ll talk about our own shuffled watchlists later in the show.
MIA But first, we got to talk Blonde...
SLIM It’s time.
MIA It’s time! It’s time for Blonde talk.
SLIM The world is waiting.
MIA I know, everyone is waiting to hear what we’re gonna say about Blonde on Weekend Watchlist. [Slim laughs] Which is unfortunate because neither of us have been able to see it, so... [Mia laughs]
SLIM Neither of us have seen it. I think it’s out on Netflix right now, right?
MIA Yes!
SLIM Even as we’re recording, it’s live.
MIA We could be watching it right now as we record if we wanted to, but we’re professionals, so. Blonde, directed by Andrew Dominik. It is on 75,000 watchlists—not too shabby at all. And as we just said, it’s out on Netflix right here, right now. Here’s the synopsis: “From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe blurs the lines of fact and fiction to explore the widening split between her public and private selves.”
SLIM Wow. Where do we even start, Mia?
MIA Where do we begin? So the thing about the synopsis is that it does sound up my alley, I’m really interested in explorations of the blurring of the line between reality and fiction. But the Andrew Dominik press tour has put me off a little bit to be honest, Slim, I can’t lie to you.
SLIM It’s not going well, right now, the press tour. I’ve heard of this movie for what feels like years.
MIA Yes.
SLIM I hearing about this movie, maybe pre-pandemic and there’s like clickbaity stuff that, “It’s NC-17! What’s Netflix going to do? It’s so scary!” But there’s also at the same time a discussion about Marilyn and its portrayal of her, so it definitely feels like a movie where it makes sense to do some reading ahead of time maybe to potentially educate yourself on the production of the movie and the book that this is based on.
MIA The big 600-page tome.
SLIM My god.
MIA By Joyce Carol Oates.
SLIM That’s like The Lord of the Rings.
MIA Yeah, it’s a big one.
SLIM I think all books combined equal 600 pages for The Lord of the Rings.
MIA Yes. If you put every—[Mia & Slim laugh]
SLIM This is The Lord of the Rings of Marilyn Monroe’s life.
MIA Yeah, if Marilyn Monroed... [Mia laughs] I can’t. [Slim laughs]
SLIM You can’t even finish the joke!
MIA I can’t even finish the joke, I won’t do it. I can’t. [Mia laughs]
SLIM I mean, the reviews are all over the place. The ratings, you can see a one-star from a friend, you can see a five-star from a friend for Blonde.
MIA You have no idea. The histograph on Letterboxd is out of control.
SLIM Marya E. Gates wrote a review—so we’ll spotlight hers and then maybe we’ll see one of the opposite on the spectrum. “Watching Ana De Armas marooned in this terrible film, and especially in the scenes where she’s asked to recreate some of Marilyn’s more iconic performances, left me desperately hoping people would at the very least be inspired to watch the work Marilyn left behind. In watching Monroe’s films, you can see an intelligence, a bravery, and a spark that Dominik’s script and direction never allows De Armas’s performance to even come close to approaching.”
MIA Excellent Marya performance, Slim. I will be portraying Brian Formo, our colleague.
SLIM Our own dear Brian.
MIA Our dear Brian. Okay, here we go: “Heaven help me...” [Slim laughs] Should I do it in his ASMR voice? [Mia laughs] No, no, no.
SLIM He’s probably eye-rolling right now listening on his podcast app.
MIA No, no, I’ll do it normal. Okay. “Heaven help me... Andrew Dominik’s Blonde is a powder keg of a movie; it is beautiful, mesmerizing, contemptuous, distressing, and extremely volatile. A glass box of walls closing in, with Hollywood as a fiery hellscape of commodification. Perhaps most importantly, Blonde is not a biopic of Marilyn Monroe but a faithful adaptation of author Joyce Carol Oates’ fictionalization of Monroe’s life as Norma Jeane.” Also titled Lord of the Rings... [Slim laughs]
SLIM Fellowship of Norma Jeane...
MIA Yeah, Fellowship of Norma Jeane... [Slim & Mia laugh]
SLIM So, if you have a spare three hours in your schedule, maybe it’s time to fire up Blonde on Netflix—you do the math.
MIA Maybe it’s time.
SLIM Smile directed by Parker Finn, 21,000 watchlists. This is in theaters. “After witnessing a bizarre traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can’t explain. As an overwhelming terror begins taking over her life, Rose must confront her troubling past in order to survive and escape her horrifying new reality.”
MIA Ooooh!
SLIM What a synopsis! I’m scared just reading that thing.
MIA Aaah!
SLIM Now, what did you think about the viral marketing so far of Smile?
MIA So they have people smiling at sports games... Is that what it is?
SLIM Which never happens. [Slim laughs]
MIA Which never happens.
SLIM I can hear the contempt in your voice already just from describing it. [Slim & Mia laugh] Your PR team is not here that was with you last week. They’ve left the room. Yeah, they’re like behind home-plate.
MIA Yes.
SLIM They were in like the background of Good Morning America or something. And I’m into that because it reminds me of like old-school horror, maybe like The Ring—I mean, it’s not old, but you know what I mean.
MIA Thank you for bringing up The Ring, it is so near and dear to my heart. And this movie actually uses The Ring rules. You’re familiar with The Ring rules...
SLIM Love The Ring rules.
MIA Where you see something scary and then you’re cursed and then you have seven days to like, it on to somebody else. So that’s what this is, that’s what Smile is, which was kind of fun for me because I love The Ring, so I’ll do—I will watch anything with that little... I guess it’s not a trope. Device? Curse device? [Mia laughs]
SLIM I guess you can say It Follows has something similar too.
MIA Mm-hmm. A lot of them do it. I love that timed-curse thing.
SLIM I did see the trailer for this and I’ll be honest, I’m all-in on the trailer for this. I loved it. I turned to my wife and I was like, “I love you. Let’s see this movie, ASAP.”
MIA Aw!
SLIM As soon as we saw the trailer for Smile. [Slim laughs]
MIA That’s modern romance!
SLIM I put my hand on her hand and I said, “Baby, let’s see Smile when that comes out.”
MIA That’s what every woman is dreaming of! Wow!
SLIM My one worry is that I’ve been fooled before... you know, you get these horror trailers, “Exorcist whatever”, trailer looks great. Maybe the movie is not great. But we’ll see. Maybe we’ll check some ratings next week. Joe left a review: “Here’s the good news, Smile is so much better than the trailers painted it to be. Similar to It Follows, but replace the stress-inducing atmosphere with jump scares galore.” So there’s an It Follows comparison for you from Joe.
MIA Yeah, there are a lot of jump scares, a lot, a lot. So watch out, if you’re sensitive to those...
SLIM Stay at home and watch Blonde.
MIA Yes. [Mia & Slim laugh] I don’t know, there could be some jump scares in that one!
SLIM Could be even worse!
MIA Okay, let’s lighten the mood a little bit, okay?
SLIM Please!
MIA Let’s go somewhere nice! Let’s go see Bros, huh? Bros directed by Nicholas Stoller. It is on 18,000 watchlists. Let’s bump that up a little bit, you guys.
SLIM Bump it up.
MIA It’s fun! So it’s coming out in theaters and very simple logline: “Two men with commitment problems attempt a relationship.” Simple as that.
SLIM You said this was fun? Talk to me. You saw this?
MIA Yes! I saw it and I loved it. I was laughing, laughing, laughing like the whole time. Billy Eichner is just—he’s so sharp and funny and the script is so well structured and written. He knows how to cleverly make pop-culture references that aren’t just kind of pointing at stuff that we recognize and saying what that thing is, which is what I feel a lot of meta-comedy has been doing lately. But his are just so witty and again kind of catering to gayer audiences so I’m getting all the jokes. [Mia & Slim laugh] It also made me cry! It’s also really sweet, it has a very, very sweet message. And it has a lot of important and interesting things to say that I haven’t really seen in rom-coms before.
SLIM Okay!
MIA Yeah, I really ired it. This is how much I ired it, Slim... I almost fought a vocal homophobe outside the theater afterwards.
SLIM Excuse me.
MIA Yeah, I was pissed!
SLIM What were they doing? Were they just coming out of Bros? [Slim laughs]
MIA Yes! So we saw Bros, we were walking out, my friend and I were walking out of Bros and this old man behind us says, “That movie is teaching kids to be sexual deviants!”
SLIM My god.
MIA And he was like muttering about how mad he was, it’s like, you stayed for the whole thing... So I was just like—he was loudly giving his opinion, so I loudly was saying, “I really loved that movie! I thought it was very smart and empathetic!” [Slim laughs]
SLIM Did he cower into the corner, back into the shadows?
MIA I sure hope so. [Slim laughs] I could take that guy. I could take him! If he’s listening, I’ll getcha.
SLIM He was probably like, “I should’ve stayed home and watched Blonde!” [Slim & Mia laugh]
MIA That’s probably more up his alley. That one won’t teach our kids to sexual deviants.
SLIM No, no. No deviants located in that movie.
MIA No deviants in Blonde...
SLIM We should talk a few reviews. Alex left a review: “Luke Macfarlane hold me.”
MIA Yes...
SLIM Luke. What a hunk! What a great actor! We actually have a clip—do we have the clip? Can we roll the clip? Brian spoke with Luke. They got on the phone together and Brian asked about Luke’s potential four faves. [Mia gasps] Let’s hear what Luke had to say.
LUKE MACFARLANE Annie Hall is brilliant. I still revisit that movie and I’m struck by how brilliant it is. I’m gonna give Annie Hall, I’m going to give Pretty Woman.
MIA Okay, looking up.
LUKE MACFARLANE Gonna give a shout out to something a little more contemporary. I loved The Big Sick, I thought that was a fantastic movie. I’m trying to think of something sort of a little bit older, that is or isn’t particularly...
SLIM RoboCop.
LUKE MACFARLANE Well this is actually Billy’s answer, but I’m gonna steal it because it was part of my sort of education for the movie and that was Broadcast News.
SLIM Oh, Broadcast News, The Big Sick and Pretty Woman. Some heavy hitters.
MIA Started off a little weak and then we got stronger as he kept going.
SLIM What a time, Brian chatting on the phone with Luke. What a time to be alive right now.
MIA Oh my god. We have one more review of Bros. Can I read this review of Bros? From the delightful Jocey, she says: “Came in without much hope. Honestly delightful. Saw it in a full-ish theater and everyone was laughing. Exemplary modern rom-com. Billy Eichner is making a case to be the contemporary David Sedaris and i think we should let him see it through.” I do too, Jocey, I do too.
SLIM The only—this is a safe space, we’ve talked about this the safe space the internet, this podcast, this feed.
MIA It is.
SLIM The only thing I really know Billy from is from those ‘man on street’ videos where he talks really loud—
MIA Billy on the Street. His name is Billy and he’s on the street.
SLIM Oh I didn’t actually know that was the name of it.
MIA Yes.
SLIM Billy on the Street. And I think he was on The Office for a bit...
MIA Parks and Recreation.
SLIM Oh, Parks and Rec. God, what a new noob I am.
MIA You’ve got to come into the world of Billy Eichner. I’ve been living in there. I’ve watched Billy on the Street religiously. It’s fun. I really like him! I’m happy that he got to make this movie and that he’s making more movies. So I’m rooting for him.
SLIM The first gay romantic comedy for major studio featuring an entirely LGBTQ principal cast. I just read that.
MIA Yes! Can you believe it’s taken us this effing long?
SLIM 2022. I need everyone to wake up. Speaking of taking too long, Spirit Halloween: The Movie, finally coming out on video-on-demand... [Slim laughs]
MIA Finally!
SLIM I can’t even say with a straight face. Step aside, Hocus Pocus 2, which is also dropping this week on Disney+. I watched—I mean I’m a huge Hallowe’en nut. My wife and I go to Spirit Halloween all the time to see what we cannot afford it buy any way. And there’s actually a Hocus Pocus 2 section now in Spirit Halloween. So both of these movies somehow connected, believe it or not. The synopsis for [Spirit Halloween: The Movie]: “A group of middle schoolers discover a Spirit Halloween store is haunted and must survive the night.” I mean, what more do you need?
MIA Ooooh! Scaaaary!
SLIM Or you can watch Hocus Pocus 2 on Disney+.
MIA Hocus Pocus 2, starring Sarah Jessica Parker. [Slim laughs] Let’s go to Austin, Texas. You been to Austin, Texas, Slim?
SLIM I have been there once before, I had some steak or something. I don’t know, some kind of meat thing.
MIA Let’s get some more meat at Fantastic Fest shall we? [Slim laughs]
SLIM Movie meat at Fantastic Fest.
MIA Let’s get some movie meat! Oh yeah, so we’re gonna spotlight you know the goings-on at movie festivals. We put boots on the ground to share what it’s like there—the sights, the sounds. And we got none other than Letterboxd editor-in-chief Gemma Gracewood checking-in with a report for the show. Let’s hear what she has to say about Fantastic Fest.
SLIM Wow.
GEMMA Hello Weekend Watchlist friends. I’m at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas. It is day 457 or something Fantastic Fest 2022. And in the past few days, I have seen banshees, wolves, pigs, vampires, kids on bikes, a hairdressing murder-mystery, one of the founders of Fantastic Fest in a wrestling match, the other founder smashing out a perfect karaoke version of ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’, and Martin McDonagh in an Ezra Furman tee. And I ate barbecue with writer and producer C. Robert Cargill. He talks about how just as Slim’s BFF Tom Cruise has saved the multiplex, it is young female horror fans who will save indie cinema.
SLIM Oh!
GEMMA Speaking of which, Letterboxd was there on opening night for the world premiere of Smile, directed by Letterboxd member Parker Finn—letterboxd.jeux1001.com/pjfinn. The verdict is in: Sosie Bacon is a new horror queen, confirmed. Smile does come with a CW—that’s a ‘cat warning’ for my fantastic feline friends. There was no discourse at Fantastic Fest, just love. And the best thing of all is that if you’re in the US and you have a spare week up your sleeve, you can see most of the Fantastic Fest films by jumping online and buying a to Fantastic Fest at Home, which runs from September 29 to October 4. Can I have a little nap now?
MIA Gemma!
SLIM Nap has been approved. Gemma.
MIA Sweetie. Yes, nap approved and thank you for calling out the cat death in Smile. I wish I had that warning before I went in to see it.
SLIM Gemma finally on Weekend Watchlist. Is this officially our biggest show ever now?
MIA It has to be officially! We got her! That’s our biggest get yet!
SLIM Legal forced my hand. She’s been asking to be on the show and legal put their foot down, finally, and made it happen.
MIA Finally! [Slim laughs] Phew.
SLIM Let’s look back at last week. We had a bunch of movies come out. Don’t Worry Darling sitting in a 3.2 average. Tosh left a review: “Mostly a good movie, but so many of the sounds (score, sync, foley) are painfully distracting. Cut a couple montages this could be a tight picture.” Don’t Worry Darling. I saw so many reviews coming in from my friends. My god, Thursday, it was going nuts.
MIA Oh yeah. I finally saw it last night. It was killing me that I had to wait that long. [Mia laughs]
SLIM I saw a 2.5-star rating. You don’t have to elaborate if you don’t want to. But I saw a 2.5-star rating from you.
MIA It’s true. It’s 2.5. And you know what? That’s not too bad.
SLIM That’s not too shabby.
MIA I have rated things one star, I rated things one-and-a-half star. So there are worse movies out there. That’s what I’ll say.
SLIM Leave it at that. I saw a Pearl, real quick, I finally saw Pearl after the dust had settled. We’re actually, as or recording, we’re going to be talking with Ti West later today. So I had to squeak in viewing. I liked it a lot. Mia is a force of nature in that movie.
MIA Thank you Slim!
SLIM My god.
MIA Thank you.
SLIM You were right. You’re always right, Mia. A lot of people talking about that monologue scene, but I loved the ending. I won’t elaborate, but like, you know the stuff you see on the on the credits? That is probably my favorite of the whole movie.
MIA Yes.
SLIM What do you want to spotlight this week?
MIA So I had mentioned that Daisies had been re-released on a previous episode, but I gotta go see it in beautiful 4K. Daisies, 1966 feminist staple of the Czech New Wave. I believe it’s coming out to some more theaters. It’s expanding. So please check out this 4K restoration. It is so, so, so gorgeous. And I know that you’re talking about TÁR next week with Mitchell, so I won’t really get into it...
SLIM Mitchell’s big return to Weekend Watchlist next week.
MIA Big return! So I’ll let them talk about it. But I did see TÁR and it is incredible. Cate Blanchett is coming for that third Oscar. Oh man.
SLIM I can’t wait.
MIA Yeah, that’s all I’ll say. But TÁR goes hard.
SLIM Cannot wait. TÁR goes hard!
MIA TÁR goes hard!
SLIM Athena also came out last week, that’s sitting in a 3.5 average rating after release. Robin left a review: “I can’t stress enough how important this movie feels. The incredible opening hooks you in and doesn’t let you go for the rest of the runtime.” Yeah, I need to see that movie.
MIA Oh yeah. Now let’s check in on the Letterboxd Top 50 of 2022 list and see what’s at the top of the list for movies released this year. Slim, your beloved Pearl, she’s jumping right up from number 47 to number 36. And Jack says it’s rare for horror movies to go up they usually just either go down or best case scenario, stay put. So, congrats Pearl!
SLIM Pearl, we did it. [Slim & Mia laugh]
MIA Oh okay, we also have a trans-skater Netflix doc, Stay on Board: The Leo Baker Story entering at number 29. It’s bumping out After Yang, but we will allow it.
SLIM We’ll allow it.
MIA We’re allowing it.
SLIM We will officially allow it.
MIA It’s a noble film to bump it out. So, that’s okay.
SLIM Absolutely.
MIA Oh and lastly, we’ve updated—not we, Jack, to be specific, all credit where credit is due, Jack has also updated the Women Directors Top 250 this week. Aftersun! Aftersun is coming in hot—it is at number eighteen.
SLIM Cripes alive.
MIA Very high up. Very, very high up. We also have The Woman King at number 61. We’ve got... oh, Lullaby at number 24. Cool. So we got some ones in there. Oh, Turning Red! My beloved Turning Red number 183. So yeah, check out that list. It’s incredible.
SLIM We’ll have a link in the episode notes. Love Turning Red.
MIA Me too! I watched it a couple times.
SLIM Now it’s time to drift back to the most popular section of the episode, our own watchlists. Every week we shuffle our watchlists together and the first one that shuffled at the front of the list, we have to watch before we record the next week. And I’m sad to say I’m on a losing streak again. My winning streak lasted one week.
MIA Aw...
SLIM I mean, I watched a dud. Evilspeak starring Clint Howard. I still can’t get over the description for this movie. It’s a horror movie, it’s on Shudder. And even though I call these duds, they’re still, you know, fun to experience. It’s not like a giant waste of time or anything like that. But the logline for this movie: “Bullied by classmates, a pudgy military-school student fights back by computer with the devil.” And I still can’t get over this ‘pudgy’, can we just eliminate this word from the English language?
MIA Yes please.
SLIM Clint Howard, I want it gone. So I compared this to like Catholic Carrie in a military school. It looks like a military Catholic school. I don’t know what the heck was going on. They had a priest, they had like a church underground. And he does use a computer with the help of the devil to defeat his bullies. So if you’re into that, it’s on Shudder right now. [Slim & Mia laugh] You mean you’ve never heard of that before in movies?
MIA Of course!
SLIM I thought that was common.
MIA Oh man.
SLIM What did you watch? What did you shuffle and get?
MIA Oh, okay. I got May, 2002, directed by Lucky McKee. And maybe I should be a little worried that so many people have recommended this movie to me... It’s about a lonely surgery-obsessed girl who becomes infatuated with a guy because of his perfect hands... [Slim & Mia laugh]
SLIM Coming from the person who knows the height of your favorite actors by heart. [Slim & Mia laugh]
MIA So yeah, it has been recommended to me so many times over the years and I had been putting it off because I know a cat dies in it but I was brave and I watched it and I effing loved it!
SLIM Whoa.
MIA Oh my god. It made my movies that made me say “this is the greatest movie ever made” list. I said that a couple times during it. And I also said previously that Between the Lines was my favorite Weekend Watchlist shuffle, but May has claimed the crown.
SLIM Excuse me.
MIA Yeah, I really connected with it. Unfortunately... she’s weird! But they’re like—it’s set in LA. She’s being goth in LA. She has a crush on this guy who’s like, “I’m gonna go see an Argento at the New Beverly if you want to come.”
SLIM Oh my god.
MIA I’m like, ‘Shut up! Are you kidding me? This is my life!’ [Slim & Mia laugh]
SLIM So how good looking are his hands? Would you agree that these are very good looking hands?
MIA So he’s played by one of the Clueless guys, Jeremy Sisto. He’s in Clueless. He did have pretty hands. I don’t know... [Slim laughs] I’m not a hand expert but he did have beautiful hands. Wow, I’m not gonna spoil it or anything but it gets into some pretty creepy territory that I really, really enjoy. He he he he!
SLIM Okay, alright.
MIA He he he! Good for Hallowe’en. Good for October. Yes, May.
SLIM What a pick. Let’s see. Let’s go through some community reviews, folks that tagged their reviews Weekend Watchlist. Kate Rose watched Do Revenge which you brought up last week, I think. “This movie was made to target women of a certain age to let us think teen movies are still for us. It pulls from every movie of my youth that defined my entire personality, and even uses many of the same songs and exact scenes. I obviously really enjoyed it.” So that’s from Kate.
MIA Oh, good. We have a Confess, Fletch review. Thank god.
SLIM Back again.
MIA Fletch is back, baby! Kweekwegg says: “I had fun—but can’t we just have hilarious Jon Hamm in a movie with more substance than just Jon Hamm? we’re seriously wasting one of this generations great stars—these days he’s either the whole movie or fbi agent #3” Wow, justice for Jon Hamm it seems.
SLIM Justice for Hamm.
MIA Justice for Hamm. We need to get him—because he’s successful in TV, obviously, Mad Men. But the jump into movies...
SLIM Yeah, the only time I only ever see Jon Hamm is also at like at St. Louis Blues hockey games. I think he’s like a St. Louis guy. And it’s like, ‘Jon Hamm is at this hockey game! Look out!’
MIA Top Gun: Maverick also, I suppose.
SLIM Oh, yeah, that’s right.
MIA Lest we forget.
SLIM Matty J left a review for Jurassic World: Dominion: “Could you imagine if we got one of these but it was good?! Also, if I never see that Chris Pratt hand thing again it’ll be too soon.” I agree. If I see that hand thing one more frickin time... My god.
MIA I’m so, so, so blessed and happy that I don’t know what that means. [Slim laughs] God...
SLIM So you’re gonna watch the Jurassic World movies probably five years from now and be like—
MIA I don’t know though!
SLIM “Hey, let’s finally check it out, guys! We’ll have a fun time. We’ll get tattoos!”
MIA Oh yeah. I can’t wait to get matching Jurassic World tattoos with all my friends.
SLIM Just get Chris Pratt’s face tattooed on your hand so when you do the hand thing, it’s his face on your hand.
MIA Now those are perfect hands. [Slim laughs]
SLIM That makes the list. Alright, let’s go to our watchlists. Let’s filter by stream-only. We’re going to shuffle one more time. If you want to us, by all means, do it. And I am going to... I’m going to sort by Shuffle and the first movie I get, I have to watch. And that movie is... [shuffle sound plays] Messiah of Evil, 1973. “Terror you won’t want to in a film you won’t be able to forget.” Streaming on Shudder and Prime and Pluto and Hoopla and Paramount+. My god, it’s all over the place. [Slim laughs]
MIA Wasn’t your last movie have ‘Evil’ in the title?
SLIM It was Evilspeak, and now I have Messiah of Evil. I don’t see the word ‘pudgy’ in the description so we’re already doing better with this movie. [Slim laughs] What did you get? What did you get?
MIA Let’s see. What am I gonna get? Okay, click My Services. Click Shuffle. [shuffle sound plays] Oh! Okay! Okay, this one’s fun. This looks fun. Slim, this looks fun. It’s Re-Animator, 1985.
SLIM Ohhhhh my gosh!
MIA So you agree, it does sound fun, huh?
SLIM This is a big one.
MIA I presume you’ve seen?
SLIM I have seen Re-Animator. This is like one of those cult-classic horror movies. Wow, I’m excited to hear what you think about his.
MIA I’ve seen this poster like a billion times everywhere. I can’t believe I’ve never seen it because this seems like something I would have definitely watched on a sleepover in middle school.
SLIM This is perfect October viewing.
MIA Yeah. Ohhhh my god I’m excited for this one. Re-Animator, 1985, directed by Stuart Gordon.
SLIM Sheesh. Watch along with Mia.
MIA Please!
SLIM Fire up Re-Animator on Shudder or Arrow or Kanopy.
MIA It’s on Kanopy and Tubi—oh, our beloved Tubi...
SLIM Speaking of which, I tried to rent Creepshow on Kanopy or Hoopla, and it said that my library doesn’t offer this rated content. I almost threw up on my phone. [Mia laughs]
[Izon by Trent Walton fades in, plays alone, fades out]
SLIM Thanks so much for listening to Weekend Watchlist brought to you by The Letterboxd Show. You can follow Mia, Slim—that’s me—and our HQ page on Letterboxd using the links in our episode notes and if you had a good time alongside us, maybe consider rating the podcast on Spotify or leaving a rating and a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps spread the word about the show.
MIA Thanks to our crew and thanks to Letterboxd member Trent Walton for the theme music ‘Izon’. Thanks to Jack for the facts and Sophie Shin for the episode transcript and to you, for listening. Weekend Watchlist is a Tapedeck production.
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