Tag: Podcast

North Country

2/3 greatness + 1/3 pablum = North Country, which succeeds when focused on how our heroine survives the indignities of living inside the belly of working-class patriarchy. –November 30, 2024

Some Kind of Wonderful

Some Kind of Wonderful presents cheerful 20-somethings as high school seniors, andit rests on whether a tomboy is good company. –November 30, 2024

Paradise Now

I’m not used to rooting for suicide-bombers, which is why Paradise Now is essential viewing. –October 31, 2024

30 Days of Night

I like vampire stories, and 30 Days of Night centers on blood sprayed across snow. –October 31, 2024

Bad News Bears

Bad News Bears has moments, but it’s no Matthau masterpiece. –October 31, 2024 VERSUS

Carnal Knowledge

Carnal Knowledge combines bonkers profanity with blunt male privilege. Painful, embarrassing, and brilliant. –September 30, 2024

Superman II

Superman II made eight-year-old me very happy. 50+ me thinks it’s terrible. –September 30, 2024

Tank Girl

Weird and unsteady, Tank Girl shows how style can’t overcome poor narrative thinking. –September 30, 2024

Fury

Squad movies matter when good acting meets a tough situation. Enter Fury, as unsentimental a depiction of war as Hollywood can imagine. –August 31, 2024

Duck, You Sucker!

I expected little but receiving a lot. Duck, You Sucker! is a Sergio Leone expansion of American-style Westerns that delivers wonderful entertainment. –August, 2024

The Beguiled

A template from the Golden Age of Porn: Clint Eastwood wakes up in a Civil War-era girls’ boarding school where every female character wants to have sex with him.  –August 31, 2024

Punishment Park

Unbelievably prescient, Punishment Park connects unchecked state power with intra-generational conflict as the basis of reality TV. All in 1971. And no one paid attention. –July 31, 2024

The Decameron

Filthy and uplifting but dentally horrifying, The Decameron is a magazine-style Pasolini wonderment. –July 31, 2024

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

A dumb, dirty man plus a fallen woman = McCabe & Mrs. Miller, a brilliant Western with three anachronistic Leonard Cohen songs and a smalltown set as prototype for Deadwood. –June 30, 2024

The Devils

The Devils imagines a libertine priest accused of harassing a convent. It includes lots of nudity and desecration of Catholic symbols, but it’s Oliver Reed’s voice that truly seduces. –June 30, 2024

Targets

Place Boris Karloff as some version of himself inside a story about sniper violence and you get Target, a tour-de-force in low-cost, high-impact storytelling.  –June 30, 2024

Bananas

Bananas is a set of sketches in which Woody Allen’s wackiness sometimes lands. –May 31, 2024

Klute

Klute explores how a kinky rich man hunts Jane Fonda. A frightening ’70s time capsule. –May 31, 2024

Rumble Fish

Francis Ford Coppola’s Rumble Fish is an experimental mashup shot in black and white (mostly) with a bevy of future stars. It refuses to entertain, and I like it. –May 31, 202

Lebanon

Lebanon is restricted to the turret of a four-man Israeli tank during the Lebanese Civil War. Anti-war, pro-human, jarring, and brilliant. –May 31, 2024

Mom and Dad

Want to see graphic video of venereal disease? Attach that spectacle to a teen girl’s pregnancy, and you’ve got Mom and Dad, WWII-era greatness. Straight. No chaser. –April 30, 2024

The Andromeda Strain

Procedural nerd-work as a Cold War thriller, The Andromeda Strain shows how gain of function research will lead to unintended consequences. You know, like COVID. –April 30, 2024

She Done Him Wrong

Mae West is a silver screen queen from the 1930s, and She Done Him Wrong startles, today, because she so bluntly controls men by the groin. Look for Cary Grant, too! –March 31, 2023

A Man Escaped

Take 1: Robert Bresson set the stage for all prison break movies in A Man Escaped, a master class in plot development under Nazi occupation. Take 2: From “The Hi-Lo Bro Show” podcast: This is the one where Richard refers to Martin Heidegger’s “The Origin of the Work of Art” and praises transgressive art, while Garrett… Continue reading A Man Escaped

Cleopatra

Cleopatra is 4-hours of hubba-hubba between Richard Burton’s Mark Antony and Elizabeth Taylor’s titular queen. –February 29, 2024

An Officer and a Gentleman

At age nine, I was told An Officer and a Gentleman was porno for adults only. At age 50, I learned it’s a really a class-conscious, character study floating “Up Where We Belong”. –February 29, 2024

Airport

Airport is not a good movie, but it enjoyably sets the table for ensemble mediocrities that attract moviegoers tired of youth-oriented entertainment. –February 29, 2024

The Big Doll House

Take 1: The Big Doll House sits atop the convergence of breasts, blood, and nonsense. Long live the grindhouse! Take 2: From “The Hi-Lo Bro Show” podcast: This is the one where Richard refers to Martin Heidegger’s “The Origin of the Work of Art” and praises transgressive art, while Garrett remembers being a teen boy drawn… Continue reading The Big Doll House

Walk the Line

In Walk the Line Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon cosplay Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. The great first hour leads to biopic milestones that gradually feel unsatisfying. –January 31, 2024

Doctor Zhivago

Although it’s near the top of the all-time box office hits list, Doctor Zhivago is now only appropriate for people who want to justify serial infidelity. –January 31, 2024

Sound of Freedom

Sound of Freedom ends with a tween rape victim banging on a drum under the eye of a modern Rambo. No, says I. –December 31, 2023

The Mule

The Mule: Eastwood gets away with it. Again. –November 30, 2023

Beau Travail

Great movies lists often include Beau Travail. It’s not as great as some argue, although it’s worth seeing what the fuss is about. –October 31, 2023

Turn Me On, Goddammit!

Turn Me On, Goddammit! explores teen ennui from a girl’s point-of-view. Outstanding. –October 31, 2023

Shoah

Shoah means “catastrophe”, and Claude Lanzmann’s nine-hour documentary demonstrates what this means through first-hand, heart-breaking testimony. –September 30, 2023

Prisoners

Intense. Well-performed. Morally Ambiguous. Reactions brought to you from the makers of Prisoners. –August 31, 2023

CODA

Heartwarming and sensitive, CODA is the kind of movie that once drew adults to theaters. Now it lures us to Apple TV as campaign fodder for an Oscar, which it won. –August 31, 2023

No Country for Old Men

A little regional dialogue goes a long way in No Country for Old Men, which follows a sheriff who misses older times that are gone forever. Stupendous and properly Oscar-winning. –July 31, 2023

Her

Spike Jonze’s Her is a masterpiece about alienation and addiction, and how a man learns to love himself and other people. –June 30, 2023

The Piano

In The Piano, Holly Hunter is traded between men, and she beguiles them with a gift for tickling the ivories. I cry whenever I hear “The Heart Asks Pleasure First” by Michael Nyman. –May 31, 2023

Perspolis

Take 1: I re-watch it every few years, and Persepolis is always a treat. Why? It’s an animated documentary that treats a girl’s transition into womanhood as something worth celebrating, warts, war, cubist people, and all. Take 2: Again, Persepolis pleases me, this time for the benefit of my second daughter. Wow. –July 31, 2023

Parasite

Trump dismissed it, creating a stir, but I missed it in first release. Catching up now that a few years have passed, Parasite is extraordinary, but I’m unsure if it’s great. –May 31, 2023

Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Summer of Soul is a slice of cultural history made interesting through vivid music. Peak for Sly and the Family Stone, the Staples Singers, and The 5th Dimension, and feel free to cry when you watch people watch themselves in images from 50 years in the past. –May 31, 2023

Upgrade

Many movies wrestle with AI. Upgrade adds to the mix a vengeful, luddite mechanic inside a dystopian future that moves away from Blade Runner and toward Apple’s genius bar, if Elon Musk managed daily operation. –May 31, 2023

Pulgasari

Pulgasari is an on-the-nose North Korean Kaiju movie-turned-metaphor about commoners battling a king. –April 30, 2023

2000 Mules

2000 Mules is not about animal husbandry. –April 30, 2023

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Equal to the original movie and a landmark VFX spectacle on its own, Terminator 2: Judgment Day gives truth to the fiction, “I’ll be back”. –April 30, 2023

The Seventh Seal

Ingmar Bergman’s masterpiece The Seventh Seal confronts faithlessness during the Bubonic Plague years and hits home with a knight’s sacrifice to save a family. –March 31, 2023

Midnight Cowboy

Of ways to unpack the only X-rated Best Picture Academy Award winner in history, the most interesting may be Midnight Cowboy’s value as an experimental movie that gave birth to the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1970s. –March 31, 2023

Bamboozled

Spike Lee is a genius, and Bamboozled is one of his easily overlooked masterworks. –March 31, 2023

The Last Temptation of Christ

I wanted to love The Last Temptation of Christ, but I don’t even like it, although it is impressive to watch the Big JC, in a dream sequence, become “just” a man. –March 31, 2023

North by Northwest

Hitchcock appears at the end of the North by Northwest credit sequence. Then Cary Grant goes on one of the great rides of moviedom. Look for Martin Landau cruising James Mason.  –March 31, 2023

Rashomon

Kurosawa’s Rashomon explores four separate stories describing a single event as the excuse for three strangers to spin tales during a storm. Pioneering and brilliant. –February 28, 2023

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

I didn’t understand the mythos of Monroe until I saw Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.  –February 28, 2023

Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS

Shower after watching Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS. It’s so far away from being good that it becomes a meditation on taste and tolerance. Don’t forget the soap. –January 31, 2023

Last Tango in Paris

It’s the showcase for one of Brando’s greatest performances, and Last Tango in Paris is the literal and figurative expression of various sexual assaults. In other words, Bertolucci 1972. –January 31, 2023

A Dangerous Method

Kira Knightley’s sexual behavior forces Carl Jung to seek Sigmund Freud and explore A Dangerous Method. Among Cronenberg’s best as a non-body horror biopic. –December 31, 2022

Dragged Across Concrete

In one of Mel Gibson’s bids for atonement after various upsetting kerfuffles, he plays a white supremacist cop who robs bank robbers in Dragged Across Concrete, a showcase for conversation, and the violence works well, too. –December 31, 2022

Sideways

Paul Giammati has a wonderful voice and no shoulders. In Sideways, he’s a middle-aged schlub with a drinking problem, and he’s terrific, as are all other players and moving parts of this story about failure and starting over. –December 31, 2022

Friday Night Lights

Friday Night Lights describes the cult of sporting manhood that I desired to be part of what but never was.  –December 31, 2022

Re-Animator

The severed head of an undead man gives head to a restrained naked woman. Re-Animator: awesomely bad-good with a side of viscera. –November 30, 2022

Shaun of the Dead

Shaun of the Dead is man-love satire with a second helping of mayhem. –November 30, 2022

The Passion of the Christ

Mel Gibson, the filmmaker, is a pornographer. Just look at all the sprayed fluids in The Passion of the Christand notice how every pious message gets lost in so much agony. –November 30, 2022

Obsession

Sometimes I wonder how Brian De Palma got to be a great director when so many of his movies disappoint me. Example: Obsession. –November 30, 2022

Team America: World Police

Trey Parker and Matt Stone know the limits of taste and deliberately violate them. Team America: World Police is the one where puppets hump and no one leaves unoffended. –November 30, 2022

Shrek 2

A casting call for Shrek 2: “Green monsters needed to supervise donkey-dragon romance and hoplophilic cat.” –November 30, 2022

Million Dollar Baby

Million Dollar Baby is two movies folded into one, although the May-December friendship is far better than the boxing story that works Rocky-like to get folks in the door. –October 31, 2022

The Bad News Bears

The Bad News Bears shows awful adults making terrible children play little league baseball, circa 1976, after the fall of Saigon when our team loses, and we don’t know how to react. –October 31, 2022

House of Flying Daggers

As a narrative, House of Flying Daggers is nonsense. As ballet, though, using arrows, swords, and flying daggers, it choreographs athletic excellence and offers pure bliss. –October 31, 2022

Fahrenheit 9/11

Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 suggests that George W. Bush destroyed America through the War on Terror. You may hate the film, but you’ll remember Lila Lipscomb and the found footage of American troopers in combat.  –October 31, 2022

The Sea Inside

Javier Bardem is a wonderful actor. The Sea Inside lets him shine as a quadriplegic seeking the legal right to suicide. And he succeeds. And it’s marvelous. –October 31, 2022

The Enforcer

Beautiful Clint Eastwood promotes the ERA with Tyne Daly in The Enforcer, a take-down of hippie progressives at the barrel of a .44 magnum. –October 31, 2022

Super Size Me

“A Pizza Hut! A Pizza Hut! Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut!” –September 30, 2022

Crash

Take 1: “Moving at the speed of life, we are bound to collide with each other.” Take 2: My reaction has shifted in time. Michael Peña’s storyline aside, I think Crash may be the most overrated Academy Award winner of the 21st century. –November 30, 2023

Henry and June

If you think Henry & June is porn, it’s really a tedious and polyamorous travelogue through bohemian Paris in the 1920s, and it’s our first NC-17 movie.  –September 30, 2022 er=’true’]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind spins around romantic messiness to deliver an often-touching, non-chronological, head scratcher starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet. –September 30, 2022

Rocky

Forget the franchise build around it and remember: Rocky is about everyday people trying to be just a little bit better than they were when we first meet them. –September 30, 2022

The Bourne Supremacy

The Bourne Supremacy pushes Matt Damon into ethical sophistication because his titular assassin decides not to kill again right after he first kills. –September 30, 2022

I, Robot

I, Robot presents a risible Christian metaphor, although it’s really The Matrix warmed over on the way to I Am Legend. –August 31, 2022

Harakiri

Take 1: A Japanese masterwork of narrative twists, Harakiri teaches the importance of learning an opponent’s backstory before demanding ritual suicide. Take 2: From “The Hi-Lo Bro Show” podcast: “This is the one where Richard blazons the samurai katana, wakizashi, and the tanto, and Garrett remembers thinking that a photorealist depiction of gang violence might be the… Continue reading Harakiri

The Flamingo Kid

The Flamingo Kid, the first PG-13 ever, isn’t rough trade, although you may re-think the statutory rape premise of Dirty Dancing. –August 31, 2022

A Very Long Engagement

When Audrey Tautou’s fiancé doesn’t come back from WWI, she extends A Very Long Engagement to find him. Excellent work, most of all as we watch her collect testimony about her lover’s experiences that give her life meaning. –August 31, 2022

Gandhi

His weapon was his humanity. –June 30, 2022

Going My Way

“The smiles you’ll gather / Will look well on you / Oh, I hope you’re Going My Way too.” –July 31, 2022

The Split

How to make The Split: Jim Brown + Diahann Carroll = bug-eyed Ernest Borgnine hulking out with sharpshooter Donald Sutherland, safe cracker Warren Oates, and limo driver Jack Klugman. And Gene Hackman is a bad copy before he was Popeye. –July 31, 2022

Greetings

Greetings is early DeNiro + early DePalma = a Vietnam War era Manhattan walkabout with three draft dodgers making mischief. –June 30, 2022

Censor

Take 1: Making gross entertainment can be difficult. Censor shows us why as we follow along one censor who becomes a monster. Take 2: Part homage to 1980s slasher films, Censor soars when our heroine can’t discern reality from fantasy or memory. –September 30, 2024

Caligula

“Although I have taken the form of Gaius Caligula, I am all men as I am no man and therefore I am a God.” –May 31, 2022

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Burton and Taylor execrate their marriage through Edward Albee’s love language of verbal contest. See Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for star power, but reflect on how unpleasantness is a great wellspring of art. –May 31, 2022

Dolemite Is My Name

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa celebrate Eddie Murphy, a stand-up genius, playing Rudy Ray Moore, another stand-up genius, who invented Dolemite, a Hip Hop God. –April 30, 2022

Joker

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa catch up to the zeitgeisty hit of 2019 and reel-in a real whopper. –April 30, 2022

God’s Not Dead

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa get Churched?  –March 31, 2022

Minari

Take 1: Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa lament overdone spectacle in movies versus the too-rare peculiarity of wonderfully humane stories.  Take 2: Minari is a magical, small-scale story of resilience, and it makes me cry. –February 29, 2024

Pig

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa get a grip on porcine friendship, the influence of Bruce Springsteen, and the odd brilliance of Nicolas Cage. –February 28, 2022

Red Rocket

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa reflect on the male member. –February 28, 2022

Hobo with a Shotgun

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa agree that bad can mean good, and good can mean good, but sometimes bad means bad and not good. –January 31, 2022

The Last Duel

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa think about Ridley Scott’s Late Middle Ages story about a woman seeking justice after surviving rape. –January 31, 2022

Colors

Take 1: “There’s two bulls standing on top of a mountain,” says Bobby Duvall to Sean Penn in Colors: the proto ’hood film with great supporting actors and Ice-T’s titular song that explains, “I am a nightmare walking, psychopath talking / King of my jungle, just a gangster stalking.” Take 2: From “The Hi-Lo Bro Show”… Continue reading Colors

A Clockwork Orange

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray said, “It was gorgeousness,” and Ed Rosa replied, “And gorgeousity made flesh.” –December 31, 2021

Titanic

“She hits the berg on the starboard side, right? She kind of bumps along, punching holes like Morse code, dit dit dit, along the side, below the water line. Then the forward compartments start to flood.” –December 31, 2021

The Castle of Cagliostro

Take 1: I’m a completist, so The Castle of Cagliostro was my last unseen Miyazaki, and I put it off for years, assuming the master’s first feature would be his worst. Happily, it isn’t. You should see it. Take 2: Eurocentric settings meet oddly eclectic design in The Castle of Cagliostro, the first of Hayao Miyazaki’s feature films… Continue reading The Castle of Cagliostro

The Thing

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa found a movement: Make Antarctica Great Again! –November 30, 2021

The Thing from Another World

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa eat their vegetables while interpreting a Cold War classic. –October 31, 2021

The Iron Lady

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Sheila Chaffin reflect on Peak Streep, or a mother/son study of womanhood. –September 30, 2021

Nomadland

Take 1: Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa interpret the 2020 Academy Award winner. Take 2: Frances McDormand craps into a plastic bucket in Nomadland. She also pees in a field and skinny dips in a mountain river. But you’ll probably remember her best for playing against the prickly type she’s mastered over the last 20 years.… Continue reading Nomadland

Straw Dogs

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa wonder if Bloody Sam Peckinpah is a closeted feminist. –September 30, 2021

Promising Young Woman

Take 1: Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa discuss the limits of an Oscar-winning screenplay.  Take 2: In a second look, I realized that Promising Young Woman is even more far-fetched (as a premise), less likeable (as a narrative), and less satisfying (as entertainment) than its several big ideas (female autonomy and sexual vengeance) deserve as art in… Continue reading Promising Young Woman

The Rescuers

Not as good as you might remember. –September 30, 2021

Ready Player One

Take 1: I wanted to like it, but I didn’t. I decided halfway through I would hate it, but I couldn’t. Finally, I was impressed with what Ready Player One looks like and how it sounds. Yet I can’t remember much about it, save the stack of trailers where the hero lives above a stripper. Take 2:… Continue reading Ready Player One

Horror of Dracula

Take 1: Hammer Films exploits sex, monsters, and violence with a pinch of fine acting. See Horror of Dracula for Christopher Lee’s titular villain and enjoy Peter Cushing’s Van Helsing. Take 2: From “The Hi-Lo Bro Show” podcast: “This is the one where Richard pines for a Sears catalog and Garrett discovers phallic imagery.” –July 31, 2021

Shadow of the Vampire

Take 1: Nosferatu is a big deal. Malkovich and Dafoe are big deals, too. Roll them together in a behind-the-curtain story of how movies get made, and Shadow of the Vampire describes the necessary sacrifices of making great art. Take 2: From “The Hi-Lo Bro Show” podcast: “This is the one where Richard pines for a Sears catalog… Continue reading Shadow of the Vampire

In the Heights

In the Heights hits hard when Jimmy Smits conceals professional setbacks because he wants his daughter to succeed at Stanford. –July 31, 2022

Army of the Dead

“What if, just once, we did something for us?” –May 31, 2021 ue’]

Under the Skin

Take 1: Scar Jo has legions of fans because she is Black Widow. In 2013 she went indie with Under the Skin to play an alien who uses her body to seduce and hunt men. It’s not erotically charged, it’s super creepy, and it’s “good,” if you know what I mean. Take 2: From “The Hi-Lo Bro… Continue reading Under the Skin

Ms. 45

Take 1: Ms. 45 is not the biography of Melania before she met the former POTUS. Take 2: From “The Hi-Lo Bro Show” podcast: “This is the one where Richard falls in love with a book, Garrett trips over teenage memories, and the HiLo Bros consider vigilantes. –May 30, 2021

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Take 1: “I always heard there were three kinds of suns in Kansas: sunshine, sunflowers, and sons-of-bitches.” Take 2: The Outlaw Josey Wales presents a bicentennial celebration as secessionist apology. Take 3: From “The Hi-Lo Bro Show” podcast: “This is the one where Richard recalls Bleeding Kansas, Garrett professes man-love for Clint, and revisionism is… Continue reading The Outlaw Josey Wales

Blade Runner 2049

Take 1: Blade Runner 2049: Start it to see Drax fight Sebastian; finish it to see Indy become a Dad. This time he’s really a replicant. Take 2: From “The Hi-Lo Bro Show” podcast: “This is the one where replicants inspire Richard to go full Milton while Garrett obsesses over AI coupling.” –January 31, 2021

Stalker

Take 1: Three dudes wander a post-alien-invasion Soviet hinterland in search of a wish fulfillment room. They suffer and argue and achieve little. Stalker: Mission accomplished. Take 2: From “The Hi-Lo Bro Show” podcast: “This is the one where three men galivant through Estonia, and Heston plays the Lamb of God. Richard remembers the early 1980s,… Continue reading Stalker

The Omega Man

Take 1: When mixing this potent, early ’70s brew, add Blaxploition, pulpy sci-fi, miscegenation and Civil Rights, a slurry of post-Manson cultism, zombies, plague, and a pinch of LA riots, and you’ve got Charlton Heston as The Omega Man. Take 2: From “The Hi-Lo Bro Show” podcast: “This is the one where three men galivant through… Continue reading The Omega Man

Cries and Whispers

Take 1: Take four women, one of them dying, and reminisce in close-up with destabilizing fade outs to red. It’s Cries and Whispers, among Bergman’s greats, but beware broken glass. Take 2: From “The Hi-Lo Bro Show” podcast: “This is the one where John Locke enjoys Bach and Chopin. Garrett thinks 19th century Swedes are cold… Continue reading Cries and Whispers

The Stepfather

Take 1: Terry O’Quinn once had hair, and it made him a killer in The Stepfather, which is the story of a man who tries out new families before he murders them when laundry day becomes too intense. Take 2: From “The Hi-Lo Bro Show” podcast: “This is the one where John Locke enjoys Bach and… Continue reading The Stepfather

The Hunt

Take 1: The Hunt is enjoyable art-trash in the mold of The Most Dangerous Game. I laughed out loud. You should, too.  Take 2: The Hunt satirizes woke elites unable to understand a vet with PTSD. Pop the champagne! –October 31, 2024

Desert Hearts

It’s a Boston Marriage. In the 1950s. In Nevada. See Jane Rule’s novel turned wish fulfillment: Desert Hearts. –December 31, 2019

Blade Runner: The Final Cut

Take 1: “The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very, very brightly.” –October 31, 2019 Take 2: From “The Hi-Lo Bro Show” Podcast: “This is the one where replicants inspire Richard to go full Milton while Garrett obsesses over AI coupling.” –January 31, 2021

Platoon

“I love this place at night, the stars. There’s no right or wrong in them. They’re just there.” –September 30, 2019

Slap Shot

“You do that, you go to the box, you know. Two minutes, by yourself, you know and you feel shame, you know. And then you get free.” –September 30, 2019

Yentl

“Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?” –September 30, 2019

Bohemian Rhapsody

“The human condition requires a bit of anesthesia.” –June 20, 2019

Black Hawk Down

“Tonight, tuck my children in bed warmly. Tell them I love them. Then hug them for me, and give them both a kiss goodnight for daddy.” –May 31, 2019

Moulin Rouge!

“And then, one not-so-very special day, I went to my typewriter, I sat down, and I wrote our story. A story about a time, a story about a place, a story about the people. But above all things, a story about love. A love that will live forever.” –April 30, 2019

Memento

Memento is the Swiss roll of narrative filmmaking: one rolled sponge cake filled with rich cream and fruity jam, but also sprinkled with a layer of crunchy nuts that you can’t see at first glance. –March 31, 2019

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

“It is clear that I must find my other half. But is it a he or a she? What does this person look like? Identical to me? Or somehow complementary? Does my other half have what I don’t?” –February 28, 2019

Trainspotting

“Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin?” –December 31, 2018

Boyz N the Hood

“Can’t afford to be afraid of our own people anymore, man.” –October 31, 2018

Lone Star

“It’s always heartwarming to see a prejudice defeated by a deeper prejudice.” –October 31, 2018

Moonlight

“At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you gonna be. Can’t let nobody make that decision for you.” –October 31, 2018

Pulp Fiction

“The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.” –October 31, 2018

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