I recommend watching Edward Scissorhands.

It’s the weird, dreamy, goth fairy tale Burton honed to perfection, basically. And perhaps the only time that approach worked in real, emotionally resonant ways.

But Ed Wood is his best film.

panic: the untold story of the 2008 financial crisis



not superthrilling (spoilers: we all know the end, lol) but eye-opening for sure

Continuing on my path of becoming 'cultured':

Is this a "detour" scribbled on your map? :D

IDK, I feel like I should work on being more rounded. And while I may be all pretentious about my music taste (I'm the only person at my school who knew about '34 Ghosts IV' before 'Old Town Road'), I still love grossout humour.

I thanked my dad for never being that guy. Also laughed at the 1999 broadcast porn.

Just checking. I remember having to "sneak watch" the first American Pie back when it came out and the hype around it. I was like 16 or so and like any good parents, they didn't really approve of it at the time.

Haha, what does that say about my parents then?

That they're a lot more liberal, 20 years later?

Probably accurate TBH

today’s criterion double feature

albert brooks’ “mother” (1996)


slightly weird comedy that feels like it belongs in a more mainstream channel with very 80s music and production values except it’s about a middle aged man who after his second divorce tries to solve his women problems by moving back with his mom. which is hilarious and creepy at times. but mostly funny. yeah.

for the main course the forever glorious TAMPOPO (Juzo Itami, 1985).




i fucking love this movie and always go back to it every few years whenever possible. it’s all about eating, and at the core of it there’s a kung-fu western about ramen. but around it there are all sorts of vignettes about life, death, sex, love, fetishes, crime, power, and so forth, all centered around food.

as food movies go this one beats babette’s feast or big night, in my book. i love all three of them, and it’s hard to pick favorites, but this one manages to be at once ridiculous and sublime, hilarious and a tearjerker, and in that it covers the greater ground.

it’s just incredible, for my taste. no pun. but you must love food to empathize with the whole premise, otherwise it might not work for you.

if you don’t love food, start with babette’s feast, then big night, then tampopo for the apotheosis.

Celebrating Halloween in May.

here's a food movie I watched earlier this week





or at least tried to watch it, thinking/hoping it would be a child-friendly animation movie like Shrek. Well, it isn't really like that :D

so I aborted mission about halfway, the stupid jokes were getting too annoying. In essence, the story line is cool though

hahahahaaaaa

looks like american men and women hating each other

At least, the first two-thirds of it. Why is Mr Greenwood getting us to watch this? It's meant to be part of Australian stories, but what the hell? Couldn't we have watched The Castle or something?

been watching bits of this trash for lunchbreaks



hilariously bad but... nostalgia or something lol

wow, bunk moreland was an fbi agent before investigating murders in bawlmor

all the people here are old now haaahaaahaaa

hey, it’s tony soprano’s therapist!

Layer Cake, pretty good. Movies like this and early Guy Ritchie movies are a lot of fun, it sucks they don't really make these type of movies anymore.

They don't because Tarantino did it already ten years before Ritchie.....and far better.

Are there similarities? Sure, but I would hardly dismiss Matthew Vaughen and Guy Ritchie as simply Tarantino knock offs. Those two have a English sense of humor that Tarantino just doesn't have, being not English.

Good movie. I feel like its super artsy sequences sometimes detract from the coherence of the film as a whole, but there’s a goddamn awesome movie in there, and Hardy can act his ass off.

Very Kubrick-esque at some times.
Hilarious and terrifying and weird as all hell, too.

Probably my second favorite of Refn’s films (behind Drive, obviously)

ah shit, i missed neon demon last halloween season.

went looking for bronson but it’s not free on netflix or amazon. i might rent.

valhalla rising and drive were fucking great.