Posts Tagged ‘Alicia Silverstone’
Film Review – Reptile
On paper, Reptile (2023) checks off all the boxes of your classic murder mystery: a twisty, convoluted plot with plenty of wrong turns and dead ends, a detective doggedly pursuing the case just as the rest of his life is on the brink of collapse, a mounting…
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Film Review – Perpetrator
Writer/director Jennifer Reeder juggles several themes throughout Perpetrator (2023). Although the final result is messy and disjointed, I found myself wrapped up in the story if only to see where it all goes. This is a slow burn horror flick with a lot on its mind – from female…
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Episode 76 – Space Jam: A New Legacy
For this episode of the podcast, we review the long-awaited Looney Tunes sequel, Space Jam: A New Legacy, starring LeBron James. We also debate the quality of comedy sequels over horror film sequels. For our streaming homework, we review the 2017 surrealist thriller, The Killing…
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Film Review – The Lodge
The Lodge (2020) is the kind of horror film that isn’t interested in jumping out at you and yelling, “Boo!” Instead, its terror is a slow, methodical, building dread that seeps into your bones and lives within you, like a bad memory you can’t forget.…
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Film Review – Vamps
My friend Violet loves teenage sex comedies. Which would be completely unremarkable except for the fact that she is 60. But whatever: different strokes for different folks, etc. One of her favorite movies is Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and if you get her just…
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Film Review – Butter
Butter (2012) is a satire of Midwestern American culture centered on a subject matter I know nothing about. I’ve seen plenty of woodcarving and ice carving in my day, but never butter carving. I have to admit, my mind was blown by some of the…
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Bird Watching – Amy Heckerling’s “Clueless”
In last week’s Top 5, Ben and John discussed their favorite teen comedies, which served as the inspiration for the film I want to discuss this week: the brilliant and hilarious Clueless, from writer/director Amy Heckerling. An earlier film directed by Heckerling, the Cameron Crowe-written…
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