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When Tony signed him, he knew This Fire Burns.

I would at least read a Wikipedia plot summary just because Afterlife introduces a lot of new characters that carry over into Frozen Empire.

I liked Frozen Empire. My biggest issue was it felt a bit unfocused since it’s practically an Altmanesque large ensemble piece. On the other hand, I wasn’t crazy about spending the entire film with the sitcom family dynamic set up early on, so I’m glad they opened the world up. It felt like the script needed another pass, but the last act is a hoot. Cool creature design, fun support from Nanjiami, Oswalt, and the legacy actors, plus it’s a tent pole movie clocking in at a merciful two hours.

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Tenebrae and Opera are my favorites. The theme song to Tenebrae goes so hard.

He played John Goodman’s father in a few episodes of Righteous Gemstones, and when he first popped up I felt like I’d seen a ghost.

I always think of Out of the Blue as the American analog to Christiane F. They’re both very heavy adolescent dramas, but they also explore youth culture from the era in groundbreaking ways. With Out of the Blue, it feels like one of the last moments where Hopper felt truly dangerous as a performer before he started embracing his counterculture cred for nostalgia or playing straightforward creeps and villains.

It’s annoying when celebrities peddle bullshit to excuse doing paycheck movies, but Murray’s, “I thought it was written by one of the Coen brothers” for Garfield is way better than the typical, “I did it for my kids.”

I’m higher on Valley Girl than almost any of the movies mentioned so far. Years and years ago I got to go to a screening of it at Lincoln Center that had a Q&A with director Martha Coolidge and the Valley Girl herself, Deborah Foreman, hosted by Kevin Smith. It’s fascinating how fully formed Nic Cage already was as a performer; he brings his whole dog and pony show to a teen romantic comedy and elevates it with new wave bizarreness. It’s also really fun to see a young Michael Bowen as a preppy douche and a scorching hot E.G. Daily. Plus, Frederic Forrest and Colleen Camp are one of the first examples of hippie burnout parents in 80s media, almost a prototype for the parents on Family Ties.

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It basically goes American Grafitti ->Fast Times->Clueless->Mean Girls as the generation-defining high school movies (maybe with some room for a Hughes film in there somewhere) but I think after that youth culture became too atomized for there to be a clear successor. Is there any high school movie from the past decade with that kind of reach?

That’s going to be a huge date night movie for couples who inhale keyboard cleaner together.

I don’t know if it’s legal to call a movie a contemporary western if it doesn’t have Tommy Lee Jones or Jeff Bridges among the cast.

Thinking of taglines is almost certainly more fun than watching that. “He’s not an arctic wolf, but he plays in the snow.”

Lest we not forget the Zoolander soundtrack. Also the part in Body Double that turns into a Relax music video is great.

You can’t spell apartment without Apter, so I’m convinced.

When I hear Aja’s Jungle Emperor theme I feel like I could kick a door down.

Owen was kind of the perfect middle ground; he was a family man whose only road vice was deviously elaborate pranks. No prankster who also parties hard on the road is going to have the discipline or energy to fill their boss’s office with livestock.

One of the tragic things about this is the guy he killed was featured on Dateline because he did twenty years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit after he was coerced into confessing. He was freed and eventually exonerated because the mother of the victim of all people didn’t believe he was guilty and fought for years to help him, and he got something like $11 million dollars from his home state in a settlement. He only spent a handful of years of his adult life free before he was murdered.

Off the top of my head, that was 2009 because I remember them doing that when Ledger won supporting for The Dark Knight. That was a long ceremony.

At some point I watched and enjoyed Minnie and Moskowitz. I was going to go on a Cassavettes kick after that, but I started with Husbands, and it was so interminably dull and self indulgent that I gave up.

Haven’t watched it yet, but I’m looking forward to it. The Daryl show isn’t very good, but it’s significantly better than Dead City, mostly because it’s shot on real locations in France. Its biggest problem is that it’s another Lone Wolf and Cub knockoff. Everyone needs to leave that poor dead horse alone and come up with a new idea, especially if it’s for a post apocalyptic zombie series. We made it almost all the way through Fear the Walking Dead and tapped out a few episodes from the finale because it truly seemed to be scripted by Chatgpt.

You either don’t care enough about wrestling and aren’t there for the right reasons or you're a mark who’s too into wrestling and doesn’t treat it like a business.

Especially considering Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher were just in a similar situation and nearly tanked their careers.

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