Very fond memories of trying to get into this R rated movie on a PA Day with nearly a dozen of my high school friends and acquaintances, all of us years away from being 18. The Cineplex employee wouldn’t let us in, so we had to brainstorm. Our genius plan? Tell that same employee that we had had a near instantaneous change of heart, and we were actually planning on seeing Zoolander 2. That somehow didn’t work. We must have…

Okay, I get the hype. Like many musicals from this era, its strengths lie in its choreography and technicolor visual prowess, but I think the reason I really love Kelly's choreography is the same reason I can't get enough of watching sports, or Hong Kong action — the display of pure athleticism. I will never not be in awe of what people are physically capable of. When O'Connor did the double backflip I wanted to jump up in the theatre…

Larry Cohen, I was not familiar with your game. Up there with Hi, Mom! as one of the most transgressive films on race relations that I've seen from a white director. It’s messy and provocative and brutally honest in the way you'd expect from a grindhouse film (they don't make 'em like this anymore, etc. etc.). Cohen also strikes a bizarre tone that’s shocking and funny in equal measure. Our 35mm print was missing the (imo) essential final minute, which…