The worst one yet. Fatty Arbuckle goes to a hospital because his alcoholism is destroying the lives of his loved ones and he plans to break out so he can keep drinking.
Fatty Arbuckle would be a first-out on Drag Race with his cheap shake-and-go wigs.
Not even Buster Keaton saves this though he has a few fine gags.
Watched on the Criterion Channel.
This isn’t Mel Brooks’s best work, and I think I was more lukewarm to this because, unlike so many of my contemporaries and peers, I didn’t see this as a kid growing up. It strikes me as one of those films like Kung Pow!: Enter the Fist that i voraciously consumed on repeat as a kid only to never want to go back and see it as an adult for fear that the charm will be lost and the jokes not…
A mysterious alien seductress preys on the men of Scotland. Third time seeing this film and it's definitely my favorite of 2014. This film is breathtaking in every regard. It's definitely one of the greatest films of the new millennium if not the greatest not made by Wong, Lynch, or Weerasethakul. This is what the mad glory of cinema is all about.
A documentary about the "endless summer" - where, if one has enough time and money, he can travel the world following summer year-round finding the perfect wave. This is, simply put, a remarkable film. Pure cinematic escapism at its finest. This struck a real chord with me for some reason; it could be the grey, cold, dingy day outside or it could be something more, but this film is just incredible. The gorgeous, on-location photography is beyond words. What most…
