This took me days to watch for various reasons but I really wanted to see it because my go-to “Interesting Movie to Show the Normies” is Down With Love, which is basically a pastiche of this style of filmmaking, to the point where when Tony Randall was shown the script for Down With Love he was like, “But this is Pillow Talk … Oh, I get it! This is Pillow Talk!” And I think that’s funny.
This film was pretty…
"Hey quipro, several of the latest Oscar films are available on streaming services to which you have access. Do you want to take a few hours out of your nights after the kids are asleep to watch them?"
Ehhh …
"Hey quipro, John Mulaney just dropped a special centered around the thing in his life you’re only second-most interested in hearing about!"
[drops everything and opens Netflix for the first time in weeks]
P.S. I’m basic enough to look up…
Film School Dropouts Challenge 2018 -- Week Twenty-Seven (2017 Revision): Robert Altman
My List | Disgustipated's Syllabus
I don't like to be a reviewer who evaluates a film solely on its problematic elements. I acknowledge them where I can, and sometimes they do bother me and impede my enjoyment of a film, but I don't think a movie being regressive on one element or even several means it's necessarily totally devoid of merit. Also, I think a big problem with…
Hoop to the Sixth Power: My Hooptober 2019 Watchlist
In deciding what to watch for my first movie for my first Hooptober I asked myself what film would be the most embarrassing to say I never ended up watching if I failed and … it was absolutely this one.
I tried to make a point about a decade ago to watch the first film in every major slasher franchise, but I’d never gotten around to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. (This…
