Happy Dia de Muertos!
Author: Dan Stalcup
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
As I started watching this time, I tried counting how many quotes I’ve referenced, or had referenced to me, in actual conversations before.
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Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 (2020)
The second Zombies movie sadly discards the original’s relentless worship of its color palette by bringing in werewolves
It’s tough for me to articulate how important this movie was for me:
(Note: There’s an updated and expanded review for this film. Read it here.)
Zombies (stylized Z-O-M-B-I-E-S like a pep cheer) is an utterly bizarre, big-budget (for TV) romantic musical about humans and zombies co-mingling, set in a garish, pastel-colored parody of high school.
Believe it or not, last year was the first time I ever watched Nightmare from start to finish, and I was completely smitten.
Oct 2022 update: I wrote an expanded review of this, which you’ll find here.
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Toy Story 2 (1999)
One of my foundational cinematic beliefs that all three movies in the “Andy Trilogy” are 5-star, Tour De Good masterpieces.
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Spontaneous (2020)
Spontaneous is a movie that flits in and out of greatness as quickly as its characters pop like balloons.
Edit: I wrote an expanded review for this following my 2022 rewatch.
Quick overview for the uninitiated (like I was last year): A bunch of interconnected shorts adding up to feature length telling the story of brothers Wirt and Greg wandering some sort of fantastical woods in late autumn.