Dinner in America

2020

★★★★½ Liked Watched

“You can’t smoke in here. My dad’s allergic.”
“Fuck your dad.”

Saw this with a packed crowd and it was a blast. The post screening Q&A with Emily Skeggs, Kyle Gallner, Adam Rehmeier, and one of the producers was even better. 

The movie itself is funny as fuck and surprisingly heartwarming. Gallner and Skeggs bring such life to their characters.

Twin Peaks

1989

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

“Diane, 11:30 AM, February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks, five miles south of the Canadian border, twelve miles west of the state line. I've never seen so many trees in my life. As W. C. Fields would say, I'd rather be here than Philadelphia.”

Hearing that David Lynch died hit me like a ton of bricks. Twin Peaks is one of my favorite shows and introduced me to him. The mix of genres and style was exactly what…

Dark Star

1974

★★ Watched

“Don't give me any of that intelligent life stuff, just give me something I can blow up.”

It has a cool song, some funny moments, and it’s only 83 minutes but the rest is rough.

Hardcore

1979

★★★½ Liked Watched

2025 Cult Movie Challenge Week 2: Reb Brown Week

“No, Felice, I’m not a cop. As a matter of fact, right now I have less respect for the police than you do.”

Sleazy as fuck but entertaining. George C. Scott sure can scream like no one else and goes all out multiple times throughout Hardcore.

Serial Mom

1994

★★★★★ Liked Watched

The Criterion Challenge 2025 Week 2: Watch a film from the year you were born

“Wear! Your! Seatbelt! It’s the law!”

It’s so good I went and bought a Blu-ray copy right after it ended.

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

2007

★★★★ Liked Watched

“If Elvis and Buddy Holly are the Cain and Abel of rock and roll, Bruce Springsteen is Zachariah, Iggy Pop is Methuselah, and, of course, Neil Young is the wise prophet Ezekiel, then what does that make Dewey Cox?”

Someone needs to make another movie like this again so we can stop the current parade of cookie cutter musical biopics.

Paprika

2006

★★★★½ Liked Watched

2025 Cult Movie Challenge Week 1: Anime Week

“REM sleep that occurs later during the sleep cycle is longer and easier to analyze. If earlier cycles are, say, artsy film shorts, later cycles are like feature-length blockbuster movies.”

A fascinating story told in such a creative way. It straps you in from the first scene and takes you on a wild ride through vibrant dreams and dark nightmares. The score is fantastic, too. What a movie to start 2025 with!

The Holdovers

2023

★★★★½ Liked Rewatched

“You got kicked out of Harvard for hitting a guy with a car?”
“By accident.”

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2003

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

“Now come the days of the King, may they be blessed.”

There’s nothing like going through this journey with your best friends. What a time. What a tradition.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

2002

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

“They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard.“

So much fun to watch with people who haven’t seen it before.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2001

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

“I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.”
“So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring. In which case, you were also meant to…

Carry-On

2024

★★★ Watched

“Tell me there isn’t something horrible in that bag?”
“No.”

At its best when Jason Bateman is on screen instead of a voice on the phone. Nothing earth shattering but it was never a dull time.