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  1. The Rule of Jenny Pen:

    I’ve seen this aptly described as a gender-swapped hagsploitation movie.
    If we’re getting Bill and Ted doing Waiting for Godot on stage, surely Broadway has room for John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush in Whatever Happened to Baby John?

    Anyway, Lithgow at 80 is still fucking terrifying, and his character here enters the pantheon of creeps and psychos he’s portrayed during his career. It’s a bit longer than necessary, but it manages to be both a gripping character study about end of life care while also being a creepy potboiler about a violent battle of wills between a principled misanthrope and a human monster he can’t quite comprehend. 

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  2. That’s great, but didn’t Zaslav already get a write-off for shelving it? I have no idea how that works. It makes me think of when Rick Rude couldn’t come out of retirement because he cashed in his Lloyd’s of London policy and he would have had to pay them back to wrestle again. 

  3. Vin Diesel’s Kojak could team up with Mark Wahlberg’s Spencer for Hire, throw in The Equalizer with Denzel (okay who are we kidding, Queen Latifah.) Fuck it, Michael Strahan is also in it as Hunter. Let’s do it, let’s go to Hell. 

  4. 14 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

    Has anybody seen City of Industry? It's sitting here on my DVR and even though Ebert himself gave it 1 1/2 stars I'm thinking of watching it just because I want to see a bad crime flick with Harvey Keitel in it. 

    I watched it on HBO twenty years ago. From what I remember, it’s a perfectly fine middle of the road post-Tarantino 90s neo-noir. It’s also probably worth it if  you’ve ever had a Famke Janssen crush (and who hasn’t.) 

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  5. The last time I gave Scream a rewatch I realized that every single scene has reached some level of iconic stature in horror and even just general pop culture. It’s kind of a marvel. Scream 2 is really only a step behind.

    It’s remarkable Wes made two of his best movies within the span of like a year-and-a-half, and they were so successful that he finally had a blank check to make his passion project: a Meryl Streep/Gloria Estefan inner city school musical drama? Sure Wes, do your thing, you’ve earned it. 

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  6. Was La Parka a secondary luchadore? No real programs or title runs, but he still managed to have memorable moments.

    El Dandy has to be up there if we’re counting their work outside of WCW (same with Park.)

    I always thought Damien 666 looked cool, but I can’t remember any specific WCW matches. 

  7. It should have never become seriously recognized as a sport. It’s a freak show. The people who manage it and participate in it are freaks. They shouldn’t steer culture or politics. If for some reason we need experts on committing spousal abuse then we can give them a call. 

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  8. The people who watch that standup comic have more in common with things I’ve picked up on my shoe than with me. I’m quite comfortable saying they’re bad. That doesn’t make me “good.” After all, I’ve spent much of my life trying to intellectualize and artistically defend professional wrestling, which is a trashy pastime that attracts the lowest common denominator. 

  9. My favorite little thing in Longlegs is the mirror shots of Blair Underwood. We keep seeing a portrait of Bill Clinton over his shoulder in his office and then towards the end a static shot of Longlegs on the TV is framed over his shoulder the same way. 

  10. I guess I always thought Nicolas Roeg was Australian because of Walkabout. Although he also directed Performance, perhaps the most British mod movie I’ve ever seen. I’m not mad about Don’t Look Now at number one, but that’s because I’m a yankee and it’s in my all time top ten. 

  11. 1 hour ago, Log said:

    There was a time when I would've been intrigued to see what Scorsese could do with The Rock. Now, I think we've got a big enough sample size to see that he's really not that great an actor, and I'm not optimistic about this movie.

    I’m willing to wait and see how that MMA movie from one of the Safdie’s turns out. I think he was on his way to being an interesting character actor before he pivoted to kids movies and then action blockbusters. 

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