If you're lucky, there's this magical time in your life, and you don't recognize when you're in it. Your friends are always around and that feels normal. Even if there's somewhere else you need to be, it won't be the end of the world if you don't show up.
Crashing on couches. Inside jokes. Making something silly, like a rubber band gun, the most important thing in the world.
That's how this movie feels, like I'm twenty years old again,…
Had no idea how much I'd enjoy watching Spider-Man murder people. His favorite place to murder people is in the shower, but he'll murder people on the beach or in a cave. The location is secondary to the actual murdering, you understand. He gets creative with it too, like a giallo villain. You can tell he's really passionate about his murdering.
Jane, you can leave me on it, because I love this crazy thing. The clothes and sets and nightclubs…
This is one of those times where the behind-the-scenes drama might be more interesting than the movie. Crawlspace is okay, but Please Kill Mr. Kinski is eight minutes and fifty seconds of awesome.
Klaus Kinski crawls around the ducts of an apartment building, spying on women and murdering their dates. When he's done spying on them, he kidnaps and tortures them to have someone to talk to. And just so you know this guy's no good, he's also a closet Nazi.
This one is totally wild. I’m not sure how good it was, but it’s the kind of weird that’s highly engaging.
The behind-the-scenes drama with the legendary Kinski inspired the short documentary Please Kill Mr. Kinski, which is worth watching on its own. But if you watch Crawlspace, you definitely want to see it.
Hoop-tober is Grinch Night (Hoop-tober 4.0).
I watched a mall die; not all at once, but over the course of decades. When I was young, it had everything: department stores, a pet store, a food court, an arcade, even a comic book shop. After the newer mall opened, everything left, until it had only a discount arcade (“Every game’s a nickel!”), and they really only opened the front doors so senior citizens could walk there. I saw my favorite performance…
“I don’t do polka, baby.”
My last college roommate was pretty cool. He introduced me to Ingmar Bergman, and I shared the glory that is The Adventures of Pete & Pete. I’d argue that’s a petty fair trade. He also loved this crazy post-apocalyptic action musical comedy, and we had a great time once we finally found a copy.
Six-String Samurai should’ve been the beginning of something great for the director Lance Mungia and its star Jeffrey Falcon. It created a…
