Viewing: George Abbott and Stanley Donen's The Pajama Game. Lumpy. Best elements are the Fosse choreography and some supporting cast; score feels copy-paste from other hit musicals; bits are cleverly directed and energetic, but just as often indifferent.
The most incredibly okay movie of 2025!
Viewing: Allan Moyle's Empire Records. A soundtrack album in search of a movie.
Bodycum. It knows what scares you.
I love Marshall's first four films with great fervour.
Rewatch: Neil Marshall's Dog Soldiers. "Have you tried licking your own balls yet?"
I prefer my own review of The Doors, thanks.
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Rewatch. Vasilisa, eternal flame.
Rewatch: Joseph L Mankiewicz's Cleopatra.
"Jealousy or politics, which?"
"Both! And damn you for not understanding either!"
Thus reaping the benefits of bullying anyone who needs anything from him into self-censoring.
No, you're not.
...Vale Country Joe McDonald. Here's his most iconic moment, in the eddies of history timely again. Give me an F!
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Rewatch: Jonathan English's Ironclad. As subtle as a mace in the face but does the job like ... a mace in the face. Also, somewhat guiltily, it has my favourite Paul Giamatti performance.
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
Rewatch: Michael Curtiz's The Sea Hawk. One of my eternal favourites - classical swashbuckler evolving into anti-totalitarian thriller. Frame by frame one of the best-made films of its era; any era.
I have a dark, powerful image of this conflict ending with Trump trying to strangle Hegseth like Michael Keaton and his boss in Mr Mom.
A film that will never mellow. It marches up to the gates of proper lunacy and, unlike so many, strides on through.
Rewatch: Ken Russell's The Devils. "Every time there is a so-called nationalist revival, it means one thing - somebody is trying to seize control of the entire country!"
Rewatch: Douglas Hickox's Zulu Dawn. Speaking of ill-advised military adventures. Easy to see why this isn't as well-known as Zulu, because it's a very different animal dramatically and emotionally, but it's really good in its own right, with an incredible climax.
Rewatch: Matt Reeves' The Batman. It's a pity this is definitely too long, because it's such a damn good film otherwise - intense, surprisingly complex, infused with neo-noir trash poetry in its look and feel, and a palpable sense of its characters.
Booker T Washington and that guy, huh.
Watching this was ironically the sanest I've felt all day.
Rewatch: Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes. "Baby's fat. You fat. Fat and juicy!"
Watching The Curse of the Aztec Mummy. Ah, this one had off-brand El Santo in it to save the day!
Rewatch on blu ray:
Oooh, boy, that's a frickin' movie.
Rewatch: Michael Mann's Manhunter. "Would you like to leave me your home phone number?"
2/2 ...representing the Allied landings squeeze the toe. I mention this because I'm constantly reminded of it when noting the arc the US right's relationship with the Epstein scandal has taken.
There's a great WW2 political cartoon I just can't find anywhere online but saw once in a book that depicted, in one panel, Hitler wearing Italy as a jackboot as he marches into war, and in the next desperately trying to pull his foot out whilst a giant pair of pliers...1/2
Viewing: Rafael Portillo's The Aztec Mummy. A movie I've been wanting to watch since forever. It's interesting and enjoyable, with some modestly effective creepiness and fun serial-like touches, if also pretty slapdash in pacing and story.
