I’ve been listening to the delightful Lonely Island and Seth Myers podcast. The episodes are generally focused on the SNL digital shorts. They also dedicated two episodes to the making of Hot Rod. I cannot even begin to remember the last time I saw this.
I laughed so goddamn hard at everything in this. Every joke works so well. It’s one of the all time great comedy movies.
Blind purchased Arrow's deluxe packaged version of this movie before remembering Stallone is a piece of shit these days. 🤦 I am a sucker for these premium box sets.
Anyways this movie is a hoot. The satire holds up and there's a lot of funny moments. I love the running gag about fines for cursing. You can faintly hear that alarm go off in nearly every scene.
Interesting to see Sandra Bullock play an earnestly naive and bubbly character. This…
The Ringmaster is easily one of the best documentaries about documentaries ever made. What starts off as a surface level story that is destined for Food Network reruns ends up being a meditation on the relationship between documentarian and subject. It's a thorny issue as the viewpoint of the film shifts from a small town simple chef to a filmmaker with a big vision and bigger asperations.
This is one of those "perfect" movies in my opinion because it contains…
The new 4k from Criterion rocked my socks off.
I mean it's like film school 101 to praise this movie. On the other hand this movie rules so hard. It's so great. Probably my favorite Akira Kurosawa movie? Toshiro Mifune is the coolest actor to ever have lived. Absolutely magnetism on celluloid.
I am noticing that 4:3 ratio black and white movies really capture my attention these days. Something about it really makes me focus up and lock in to the movie.
