And finally, we’ve gotten to my pick for our Best Picture Showcase month for 2025’s Movie Club! Honestly struggled choosing between such a wide array of movies, but this time last year I got to watch Some Like It Hot for the first time, and after falling in love with that movie and Jack Lemmon’s performance, I knew The Apartment had to happen.
Like Some Like It Hot, I went into this as blind as possible aside from knowing Lemmon was the star…
Haven’t seen this since it came out, but we’re still in the midst of our Best Picture Showcase for Movie Club… and alas, it was picked.
All in all, it’s a Argo remains a really good historical drama/thriller. When it’s going, it’s going! The lacing’s good, performances are all solid, and the real-life story is interesting enough to warrant being turned into a movie. Big fan of Scoot McNairy’s mustache and Ben Affleck’s whole vibe in this.
Also.
Severe lack…
David Zaslav will rue the day, man. I just… I do not understand how that man’s brain works with what he has decided to scrap and shelve. Regardless, shoutout to Ketchup for getting the rights and saving this from gathering dust.
AND YES! I had a blast with this.
Daffy Duck gets cancelled probably 10 minutes into this, after we’ve already been introduced to the most wholesome character in cinema history, Farmer Jim, and I think that’s delightful. I had…
Despite all the discourse about this movie being one of “many The Menu lookalikes” I still went in with optimism with the ensemble looking noice and the premise sounding fun enough to warrant a watch. And yeah… it’s fine, but it should be great! In reality, it’s got some tense bits (and one genuinely unsettling sequence, aka the Puppet Show), but as a whole, I just couldn’t get behind this as much as I wanted to.
Opus just never feels nearly as…
