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I didn't put The Gong Show Movie as a Favorite Film to be ironic. I'm good like that.

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Demolition University 1997

★★½ Rewatched 09 Mar 2025

So, in the same way Sean Connery returned to James Bond in 1983 for Never Say Never Again, Corey Haim revisits his role as Lenny Slater, last seen in Demolition High a year earlier. (It's his second sequel, having given us another adventure as Dinger in Dream A Little Dream 2 in 1995, which was about, like, sunglasses that could tell the future or whatever.) It probably won't surprise you to learn he is again caught up in a bit…
Demolition High 1996

★★ Watched 07 Mar 2025

Jim Wynorski makes the most "Die Hard On A--" movie in the genre. Essentially the makers of this saw the 1988 Bruce Willis classic and possibly a news story about a high school shooting and "peanut buttered into chocolated" it into this admittedly non-classic.
Corey Haim, in his "direct-to-video action movie dibble dabble" era, at age 25, plays Lenny Slater, a new kid in town who we learn...um, nothing about. Oh, fellow Canadian cut-up and partially responsible for Kirk Cameron…

The Bonfire of the Vanities 1990

★★★½ Rewatched 15 Jan 2025

Hollywood debacles are interesting. Some movies that are colossal bombs (critically and commercially) manage to escape that as what defines them. Heaven's Gate (1980) was THE bomb (and is still referenced as a defining film of the type) but would later go on to be reappraised as a classic (even making it to the hallowed halls of the Criterion Collection). This film, however, has had no further evaluation. It is barely ever mentioned, except as a low point in all…
Flow 2024

★★★★★ Watched 17 Feb 2025

This Latvian animated movie is nominated in both the Best Animated and International Feature Oscars for 2024. This is a very captivating movie--it's very simple in its storytelling but there's a lot going on to ponder. There's no dialogue (other than various animal vocalizations) and we're dropped right into this world where things happen that we are never really given an explanation to (I have my thoughts). It follows a cat as it (kinda) makes friends with other surviving animals…