If you kidnapped the obnoxious wife of the scummiest creep in LA, would you be able to get the money and get away? Would be tough even if the guy actually wanted her back, let alone if he’s hoping you kill her. From the comedy team behind Airplane and the Naked Gun series, Ruthless People is a game of Snakes and Ladders gone berserk. This film takes endless twists as characters double-cross each other, knowingly or otherwise. As motivations and…
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The Thing from Another World 1951
The Thing From Another World is a brief 87 minutes, but 14 minutes are exterior airplane shots, and another 8 minutes are people pouring coffee. There’s so much damn coffee discussed and shown in this movie, you’d think it was sponsored by Maxwell House. A monstrous coffee mug isn’t actually a bad idea though- it might help you stay awake during this supernatural snoozefest.
Perhaps the shadow of Carpenter’s shocking remake is looming too large for me to appreciate this…
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Canadian Bacon 1995
Despite feeling freshly relevant given current US-Canada tensions, Canadian Bacon is truly a time capsule. It’s a peek into a world after the end of the Cold War before the Global War on Terror truly consumed us. A strange point in time we refer to as “the 90s”. The USSR traded their strategic bombers for Pepsi and McDonalds. The US won the Cold War and now had a Peace Dividend problem- what happens to the war machine when you run…
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Heretic 2024
Growing up in a religious household has the side effect of building interest in religious-themed horror. And Catholicism provides a massive subgenre to explore, from demonic possession and exorcisms to relying on faith to combat evil forces. Although the misfortunate missionaries in Heretic are Mormon, this film approaches from the perspective of why we believe what we believe rather than simply proving or disproving a thesis. That is the fundamental basis of faith, and the bedrock upon which this film…
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