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This is just purely based on vibes and not on the ages of the actors or even characters, but The Big Chill feels like it’s thoroughly a Boomer movie and anything Brat Pack or Hughes feels like it’s bridging the Boomer/Gen X divide.

He even does the devil’s horns gesture. There’s definitely some Shadows in its DNA, but it’s way more of a gory action comedy than a vampire parody so they’re not really comparable. I think its biggest weakness (besides some of the casting) is it can’t decide if it’s a comedy about Dracula running a toxic workplace or if its John Wick with Monsters, and since it can’t commit to one idea both aspects don’t totally click. But (and I can’t stress this enough) if one of your issues with the Wick fight scenes is that not enough human bodies explode, then this is the movie for you.

I watched Renfield last night. It was fun; the biggest issue is that Awkafina is miscast, although she does an admirable job. Nicolas Hoult mostly makes their scenes together work. Cage is wonderful. He could’ve easily gone funnier or more menacing, but he deftly calibrated his performance to the material. I watched it yesterday and I’m still thinking about how Cage’s final line of dialogue is exactly the same as in Longlegs.

I’m picturing Pete Seeger putting on the Iron Monger suit to cut the power during Dylan’s electric set at Newport.

As a Dylan fanatic, I think that looks fine. I know that’s the most commercial version of his story they can sell to a wide audience, but it’s the least interesting portion of his career to me. If you’re curious about the early days up to the motorcycle crash/retreat from the public, Scorsese’s No Direction Home doc is perfect. Like Log said, they’ll never do a better narrative feature about him than I’m Not There.

@Dolfan in NYC One thing to think about is what kind of insurance payments you want to be making on top of the car payments. Dealerships typically require full coverage to lease or for an extended warranty, so if you’re looking to save money by just getting liability those options would be out.

Imagining a screening where someone is kicked out for shouting that the movie is a ripoff of The Batman.

They had it at one of my local AMCs. I didn’t even realize that was the version I was seeing until I was handed the program booklet at the box office. It’s the suburbs, not a major market, so I don’t know how it ended up there or how many prints were circulating the country.

@Curt McGirt I was talking with the people I saw Longlegs with about a follow-up, and the obvious answer to me is

I haven’t revisited The Fall in a long time, but it’s gorgeous and the framing device of the story is brilliant. It’s almost a certainty that there will never be a movie that shoots in that many real exotic locations ever again, even outside of a studio system, so it is something special.

Longlegs is a well-crafted love letter to 90s thrillers. Of the period pieces made about the decade so far, it‘s the most personally evocative to me of how the 90s felt. Cage lives up to the William Castle-esque promotion around his performance, but Maika Monroe is undeniably the standout. It’s a very specific performance that’s incredibly endearing. The screenplay needed some tinkering; it reminded me of Peele’s Us in the sense that it simultaneously provides too much exposition about what’s happening while not actually giving us enough information. It should’ve either been a bit more grounded or gone full Lynchian nightmare. Certainly worth a watch for the performances and the atmosphere, and it’s a blast in a packed theater.

They hate gender affirming care because they think it’s child abuse, but committing elder abuse and senior fraud? Oh hell yeah.

It’s Phillips and Phoenix trying to entertain themselves while taking career-best salaries they couldn’t turn down. I think they figured worst case scenario is it bombs and no one bothers them about doing another sequel.

Some may laugh, but if every one of the people he believes streamed Rebel Moon existed and donated a dollar…

WB making a billions dollars by doing Sucker Punch with the Joker is going to be so funny for a variety of reasons.