* I made a video version of this review: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Feo6cr4vyY *

I had no idea today would be the day I would cry multiple times over a rubber T-Rex puppet Christmas (This element in particular appeared out of nowhere in fact I don't even like Christmas) movie but well here we are and Jurassic Park is now dead to me.

This is one of those films that is so much better than it had any need to be from what…

Like if Tim & Eric directed Evil Dead II in 1970s Japan. I would love to see this in a theater but even on my phone with glitched subtitles 'House' was a great watch. This is the sort of film where you can feel a unique voice in the work, not something that has been workshopped to death by business types. Watching it for the first time in 2022 House still feels like an aggressive onslaught against formulaic mainstream film, I've…

Finally got around to watching this film so many people love and I found it surprisingly hard to put into a box. Absolutely murders in its goal of responding to John Hughes’ parade of idealized American adolescence movies feeling like a bigger budget troma spit in the face of amblin sensibilities. I feel like Fast Times and Ridgemont-High deserves to be in that conversation as well as a more realistic or even keeled exploration. Somehow this film simultaneously is a…

Bear with me cinema freaks I’m gonna start this one off with a lengthy quote from Rick Roderick who is my kinda philosophy teacher. In the early 1990s (90-93) he did three lecture series for the teaching company. All are good, one is on Nietzsche, another is on human values throughout the western philosophical tradition in which the final lecture “Philosophy and Post Modern Culture” is one of the most poignant things ever recorded to magnetic tape, and another is…

The US government is currently murdering US citizens on camera in broad daylight and everyone knows it. ICE is breaking into peoples homes and workplaces without warrants and beating up and killing anyone that gets in their way. Police kill four times a day en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_States,_January_2026 and ICE has been involved in 30 shootings en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shootings_by_U.S._immigration_agents_in_the_second_Trump_administration since Epstein's "Best friend" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_of_Donald_Trump_and_Jeffrey_Epstein took office with sadly a similar number dead in detention. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deaths_in_ICE_detention

The American government has always been pretty fascist ever since…

*Most of this is a bunch of personal bullshit about myself and my own relation to myself so skip to the last 2 paragraphs if you just want to see my thoughts on the film.

I think I Saw The TV Glow lends itself to self reflection to say the least. In the 1990s as a child I used television as an escape watching several of the shows visually referenced in this film (primarily Are You Afraid of The Dark?…