This one loses me in the backhalf, as Grant's villain changes from "the worst atheist you've argued with online" to a straight up psycho killer with a basement full of woman in cages; there's some fun cleverness, but the opening section is so strong and so tense that I was hoping for more. There's a lot of pleasurable tension in watching someone you agree with be an asshole about it, but that tension evaporates once the cages come in--there's no…

Can't the first time I saw this--I think I might have owned it on VHS at some point? I definitely had the DVD. Snagged the Criterion 4K release yesterday, and holy hell is it gorgeous.

I appreciated Blue Velvet the first time I watched it, but in that semi-mystified way that I appreciated all of Lynch's stuff before Mulholland Drive. I knew _something_ was happening, and I ired how uncomfortable it made me, but I don't know that it…

A few years ago, I moved to Portland to live with my best friend--we'd known each other since high school, and he was back in Maine for the first time in years, and I desperately wanted to get out of Lewiston. And it was a good time. I don't do groups well, and I have a hard time meeting people, but for a while, me and my best friend would just hang out and watch movies and sometimes there'd be…