Dazed and Confused is one of those movies that I always assumed was just kind of stupid. It seemed like a pointless high school comedy like—I don’t know—American Pie or Superbad… neither of which I’ve seen, but both of which I assume are pretty stupid. Anyway, point is, I assumed the same thing about Dazed…
Even for a studio that made huge box office returns out of space raccoons and Ant-Man, Doctor Strange feels like a bit of a gamble. The adventures of the good doctor have always been among some of Marvel’s most esoteric, and the free-form psychedelic odysseys packed to the rafters with pseudo-Lovecraftian names make them hard material to…
This past summer I watched all four Lethal Weapon movies in as many days and I learned a lot—about myself, about movies, about hair in the 80s, about life in general—but possibly the most important thing I learned, something that most of us have forgotten since about 2004, is how immensely likable Mel Gibson used…
Green Room (2015) The Plot: After playing a last-minute gig at a sketchy club in Middle of Nowhere Oregon, a punk band finds themselves in a difficult situation when the lead singer, Pat (Anton Yelchin), accidentally witnesses a murder. Now trapped in the club with a gang of skinheads—led by the calmly unsettling Darcy (Patrick…
For one of John Carpenter’s most financially successful films of his mythic 80s run of films, Prince of Darkness sure feels like a lost film. Sandwiched unfavorably in between the release of Carpenter favorites Big Trouble in Little China and They Live and picked apart by critics upon its initial release, Prince of Darkness rarely gets discussed with the same frequency…
Look, I don’t watch a ton of TV[1]. It takes a lot to get me invested in a TV show, because it is a considerable time commitment, and if I plan on devoting that many hours of my life to watching something, it had better be good[2]. So far this decade, I have only watched…
Baddie: Curiosity killed the florist. Lesson: Never trust a talking plant. I was sorely tempted to watch some better known Corman classics for my second Octoberween movie, but ultimately I couldn’t resist the temptations of Little Shop of Horrors. One of my favorite musical movies (see this list), directed by one of my favorite directors, with Jack…Nicholson? This…
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