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  • Phantom of the Paradise
  • Crash
  • Dead Set
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  • Marty, Life Is Short

    ★★★★

  • Harold and Maude

    ★★★★★

  • 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

    ★★★★★

  • 28 Years Later

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Marty, Life Is Short
★★★★ Liked Watched

I’m biased, because I think SCTV Network is the pinnacle of sketch comedy on television. The syndicated series is awesome, but their two-year run on NBC late-nights after The Tonight Show (Carson!) was 100% perfection. Their channeling of TV variety shows is so surreally brilliant, & my theory is that they were liberated by not feeling the need to be politically topical, strangely enough. SCTV begat The Kids in the Hall, Mr. Show, Tim & Eric’s Awesome Show…, Portlandia, I Think You Should…

Harold and Maude
★★★★★ Liked Watched

Bud Cort’s death last month, age 77, revived all sorts of reflections & inspired new deep dives into this oddball Black Comedy.

• Hal Ashby had quite a decade, in the 1970s. Perhaps the greatest run of any New Hollywood auteur at the actual time? (H&M, The Landlord, Shampoo, The Last Detail, Coming Home, Bound for Glory, AND Being There?!? just wow…). His drug-addiction did him in, perhaps one of the most tragic industry cocaine trainwrecks of them all, that I…

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Bob Roberts
★★★★★ Liked Watched

Trump gets shot at by someone who seems like his follower.

Jack Black, who debuted in this film as a proto-MAGA Bob Roberts cultist, just this week sold his longtime partner from Tenacious D, Kyle Gass, down the river for saying — punk-rock gallows humor — what a lot of folks have clearly been thinking. (Bad timing Kyle, but Jaybles, your progressive bonafides are likewise taking a hit these past several months!)

This film anticipates those sorts of headlines.


Tim…

Strange Behavior
★★★½ Watched

What a buried gem. I’d never even heard of this film before it showed up in the Criterion Channel’s 80s Horror collection. 

About 30 minutes into this US / New Zealand joint production, a pastiche of 1950s “teens-in-peril” sci-fi and late-1970s body-count slasher films, Strange Behavior (aka Dead Kids) just seizes the drive-in-theater mantle of the former and stages a jaw-droppingly entertaining, highly-choreographed dance number at a 1960s Hit-TV-themed costume party. Set to Lou Christie’s classic Wall of Sound-type hit,…