I have lived my entire life on a small island which has buried more dead than I wish to imagine; I have always been within easy walking distance of the shore. Granted, it gets a little crowded and noisy—1.6 million residents will do that—but sometimes, for example in the financial district over the weekend, when the markets are closed, it can almost approximate something quiet. I’m thinking of a time like that now, although it’s more than three decades past.…
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According to my 1999 journal, my entire reaction to Magnolia—my 376th theatrical screening of the year—was: “Great fucking film. Three fucking hours. Not actually sure why it’s called Magnolia.”
I didn’t know it at the time, but the film had its hooks in me. Just over two weeks later, as 1999 rolled over into 2000 and the digital plague of the prophesied Y2K disaster suddenly and spectacularly failed to cover the lands in darkness, I was watching Magnolia for the…
Was curious to see if my reaction to Rogue One had changed (see previously and previously for more substantive thoughts), but other than increased sympathy for Felicity Jones (who’s trying to play two, maybe three different drafts of the same character simultaneously) not much changed for me this time.
This was my obligatory post-Andor rewatch, and I was immediately reminded why I was so skeptical of an Andor show to begin with: Rogue One is unable to escape the gravity…
Just a random variety-show TV episode from the 50s, but worth it if you've never seen the planned anarchy of Costello's fourth-wall breaks interacting with a live audience. His gleefully malevolent toddler energy as the slapstick hits a little bit harder than you might expect is wild and a little unnerving.
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2004–2005
Billy Mitchell:
“The worst thing that could happen would be to give somebody the credibility of a score that doesn’t deserve it. But even far worse than that would be to deny somebody the credibility when they deserved it.”
Steve Wiebe:
“It’s just, I mean, I know to win is like, so important. But to blatantly do things that are against the rules, and know in your heart that you didn’t do it correctly, and get credit for it…what…
You know, I don’t consider myself a bad-movie buff, but occasionally I’ll realize that it’s pushing six in the morning on a Tuesday, and that I’ve just finished watching the German DVD I imported of a universally panned made-for-cable movie credited to Alan Smithee from nearly a quarter century ago, and I’ll think: normal people don’t do this, do they?
As unnecessary sequels to iconic horror properties directed by Rick Rosenthal go, this ain’t Halloween II. Hell, it ain’t even…
