Totally brilliant. The first section accomplishes something so smart, so discomforting, and so hilarious in under 30 minutes. It somehow always makes me want to take a creative writing course even though it’s presented here as a nightmare. (Marcus’ reading and the reactions to it — “It’s kinda like Faulkner, but East Coast . . . and disabled”; “Updike had scoliosis” — are so damn funny.) When Vi’s “true” story is torn to shreds by her peers and deemed unrealistic,…
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This Is the Tom Green Documentary 2025
Loved this, mostly bc I love Tom. Watching this both brought back so many memories and also allows me to reframe my understanding of what he was doing with the perspective of having seen all the comedy stuff that came along after. He was crazy influential. The og jackass, the og Eric Andre, the og Tim Heidecker, the og podcaster, etc.
Awesome to see Glen, Phil, and Tom’s parents again. Crazy to see the clips from the testicular cancer episode and instantly remember watching that live. Ditto the Bub Bum Song and TRL.
Fav sketch = the “Undercutters” pizza delivery stunt
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Christine 1987
As others on here have said, Christine ought to be viewed less as social realism than as a bold formal experiment. A pretty fascinating one even if the film itself leaves you cold. Clarke has stripped away narrative almost entirely, directing our focus toward figures moving through spaces and performing repetitive, ritualized behaviors — walking, opening things, removing and applying belts, shooting up, sitting down, etc. The banality of it all. The subject matter is obviously grim and dares the…
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