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I’m holding a 24 hour movie marathon on Zoom from Dec 26-27 if anyone’s interested. It’s called “The Holiday Hangover”. I’ll post the page below (just do a c&p because the link I initially posted wasn’t working), I started announcing titles today..

fb://event/?id=3701854396532216

 

what

 

Yeah I don't understand that I'm too old

 

Hillbilly Elegy has a scene where the hillbilly is looking at silverware and is so freaked out by formal dinnerware and bread on a separate plate that he gets up and storms off.

 

Two confounding posts

 

For the past two months or so, people on TikTok have been making up songs/routines for an imagined Ratatouille: The Musical. So now they're doing some sort of benefit event based on that, I guess.

 

Hopefully Dan isn't involved

 

Hell yeah

 

exactly

 

Can we get a Spencer-focused spinoff instead please? He was the only consistently funny character to me

 

Surprised jeneatte mccurdy isn't doing it. Doesn't seem like she's done anything interesting since that show ended.

 

i dont know who any of those people are except the girl from School of Rock

 

she struggled with ED while she was filming and then her mom got sick and passed so I think she's not really itching to relive those days unfortunately

 

If you have a second, turn on this trainwreck Grinch musical on NBC

 

Tierra Whack commercial tho!

 

That sounds like a thing 30 Rock NBC would do

 

It is truly awful

 

I watched Ngozi Onwurah’s Welcome II the Terrordome tonight and it got me pretty down. It’s a bold, angry genre film and is filled with an auteur’s venom that feels impossible in today’s mainstream western film landscape. I feel like Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther couldn’t exist without this Welcome II the Terrordome, but while Coogler is endlessly talented and tackles many of the same ideas, that overwhelming anger just can’t inherently exist in a Disney/Marvel film, so I wonder where bold and political sci-fi cinema like this could exist going forward and it’s hard to see how it’s possible. At least, bold and political sci-fi dealing so explicitly dealing with race like this. I don’t think I’ve seen a comparable film.

It’s not just this, either. Verhoeven’s 80s and 90s genre work was so brilliant but I feel like nothing of that level exists anymore, especially with the Disney monopoly on big budget genre movies.

 

I've been seeing commercials for the Grinch thing and every commercial looks like a parody.