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From the opening narration by George Sanders, a dazzlingly loquacious bit of verbiage in which he, ironically, makes fun of the character on screen for being long-winded, it’s clear that Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s All About Eve is going to be...
As of the writing of this review, I have not watched the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode in which they mock Arch Hall Sr.’s 1962 teensploitation mess Eegah, even though it’s available as a special feature on the new, limited...
Not unlike the struggling family at the center of another one of the year’s best films, Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite, Midnight Family‘s Ochoa clan are not bad people. Perhaps they’re a little desensitized, with 17-year-old Juan casually describing dead bodies while...
Throughout The Disappearance of My Mother, Benedetta Barzini is seen living in a cluttered apartment, brazenly refusing to shower for days on end and constantly taking pulls from an e-cigarette. You almost wouldn’t guess that she was once one of...
‘Tis the season to be jolly…and for Alonso Duralde to return to I Do Movies Badly! The author of Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas makes his annual appearance on the podcast to talk about all things Christmas from the whys and whats of...
Among the many strange and dark delights offered by Peter Strickland’s In Fabric, perhaps the most memorable are the sales clerks. Nearly identical, like the women in Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love” video or Cloud Atlas‘s cafe slaves, but more...
The opening sequence of Tom Harper’s The Aeronauts is just a ton of fun. Felicity Jones, in clothes and make-up so garish as to approach clowndom, tears through London in a carriage, arriving not a moment too late for a...
On this week’s Patreon episode, Tyler and David discuss the TV shows they’ve been watching lately, including Channel Zero, The Imagineering Story, and Modern Family. This episode is available to Patreon subscribers only. Tiers start as low as $2 per...
Title: Raging Bull Year: 1980 Director: Martin Scorsese Cast: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Theresa Saldana, Frank Vincent Synopsis: The career and life of boxer Jake LaMotta is chronicled over two decades; if his mercurial temper isn’t dictating...
