This was one of the most exciting and satisfying viewing experiences of my life. Loved every minute of it and can’t believe I waited so long to dive in. Maybe the most visually stunning and thought provoking piece of art I’ve ever seen? If not it’s way up there.

The whole time I was completely enamored with what Frost and Lynch decided was essential to port over from the original run + FWWM. It was commissioned and made right at…

My copy of Grosse Pointe Blank is in a two-pack with this movie and while that does make sense (a true “from the guys that brought you” double header if there ever was one), I throw on Grosse Pointe about once a year but haven’t wanted to rewatch this one since my mid 20s.

I popped this on SO MANY TIMES as a teenager/twenties guy and probably never again after that. I have never seen Rob Gordon on screen when…

This might be cilantro cinema but despite a couple of clunky patches I can safely say I did not taste soap leaving the theater. 

Certainly a way weirder movie than I was expecting and some longer dialogue heavy scenes left me squirming a little but the highs are so high it hardly matters.

Two full dance numbers that are absolute showstoppers. Some A+ kid acting which almost never happens. Mark Hamill as the Jewish grandpa I never knew I needed.…

Scream came out when I was 13 and it, along with The Craft, Mallrats and Empire Records was a staple of boy/girl party basement/living room watches. Not a cell phone in sight, just vibes.*

I probably saw it 5 or 6 times before 2000 alone, but for some insane reason I have not seen ANY of the sequels. Makes no sense but it’s true. So, I’m making up for lost time in the spookiest month of the year: June. It’s…

In college I took a playwriting class and my final project was a piece called Fighting. It was a collection of three scenes in which pairs of people are, yes, fighting. One was a violent physical altercation between two guys going at it after a botched robbery, one was a farce where two British men quibble about something (I genuinely forget), and one was, regretfully, a breakup scene between a couple who just can’t make it work because if memory serves…

What if I told you that a studio comedy comes out this week with a terrible trailer, no word of mouth/buzz, seemingly no marketing budget/campaign to speak of, and it’s actually quite good??*

I don’t understand what happened. This movie is just extremely solid throughout.  Hamm does a phenomenal job of embodying the character mostly because his funniest moments are smaller than you might be used to with Comedy Hamm. He’s kind of doing something closer to those moments where…