The Goods: Film Reviews
(Note: This review was written before my Teen Beach Movie enlightenment… I plan to rewrite this review at some point.)
Teen Beach Movie was such a hit last weekend with my daughters that we turned on the sequel for this week’s movie night. The result is, perhaps unsurprisngly, a mixed bag.
Mighty Joe Young is Ray Harryhausen’s first proper movie, and goddamn does the stop motion animation look amazing. Big ol’ Joe the gorilla is expressive and nimble, interacting with props and sets and actors through lots of impressive camera trickery.
Today, I conclude my journey revisiting the “Andy trilogy.”
More than forty years later, Star Wars still puts most popcorn cinema since to shame.
While I am not exactly the target audience for this movie, I still dug the hell out of it. John Cameron Mitchell is mind-blowingly incandescent as Hedwig in all her petulance but also strength and beauty.
I watched this early silent on my phone while waiting in the Sunoco lobby for my car inspection and service to finish.
I must confess I spent a significant portion of this movie’s runtime bewildered.
Happy Dia de Muertos!
As I started watching this time, I tried counting how many quotes I’ve referenced, or had referenced to me, in actual conversations before.
The second Zombies movie sadly discards the original’s relentless worship of its color palette by bringing in werewolves