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It’s the last of the latter of our split themed month dedicated to “Catching Up” and “Strange Love”. It’s got some “Strange Love” in it alright. In fact, this is definitely the strangest movie we’ve discussed yet and we’ve already broken the seal into Cronenberg and Lynch. It’s weird as hell in a way that only Spike Lee can make it weird in one of his most deep cut films. We’re talking “She Hate M...

This month we’re catching up on some buzzworthy movies from 2022, and we pretty much hit on all the ones we wanted with the exception of a few and this week we get to Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical tale with “The Fablemans”. Bob called this “Meet the Fablemans” for 8 months before he realized it was just called “The Fablemans” and by-golly we got a bonafide Spielberg charmer and, admitte...

((SPOILER LEVEL: MILD))   Barbiemania has swept the world and we’re not above hopping in that pink convertible, then the boat, then the tandem bike, then the rocket, then we camp for a night until we finally roller blade onto this bandwagon. No movie will probably make as much money this summer. SAG goes on strike right after we’ve been saturated with Barbie anticipation. Yeah, we’re talking Greta...

We’re hitting up some “Strange Love” themed movies this month and we got the second of our double dose of Nicolas Cage this week and it’s also kind of an Elvis week because Sailor (Uncle Nic) just got out of jail and he and his girl Lula (Laura Dean) are in for a wild ride unless Lula’s mother has her way. Yep, we’re talking about David Lynch’s adaptation of the Barry Gifford Neo noir novel “Wild...

One of our themes this month is “Strange Love” and we’re getting a double dose of Uncle Nicky this week and why not sit down with the whole family and watch a movie where Nicholas Cage drinks himself to death while Elizabeth Shue watches? Yeah, we’re talking about the Mike Figgis movie “Leaving Las Vegas” from 1995. It also stars French Stewart, Aunt Jackie from “Roseanne”, Mister Ernst from “Hey...

This month we’ve been catching up on some hyped up movies we missed from last year and we finally got around to Baz Luhrmann’s big bright biopic “Elvis” starring a pretty damn great Austin Butler and Tom Hanks in a rare psychopathic performance as Colonel Tom Parker. Baz brings his extra into it and it’s quite the spectacle. How’s the drama? Does it goof? Bob wants this movie to goof real bad. Hea...

The heavy hitters roll on this month as we touch upon our theme of “Strange Romance” and we get to a Paul Thomas Anderson movie that seemed to come quietly at it’s time and now we revisit Reynolds Woodcock (lol), dressmaker for House Woodcock (lol) who has fallen in love with a pretty waitress, Alma, who practically crashes into his life in a way he can’t let go. It’s a story of two people who are...

This month, one of our themes is “Catching Up” and we’re watching some of the acclaimed movies we missed last year and HOLY SHIT 2022 WAS POPPING OFF! This will probably end up being our most heavy hitter choices this month. Hell, this week is all bangers. We watched Charlotte Wells heart rendering debut feature film “Aftersun” starring Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio and Bob cried like a baby at th...

Todd Field’s “Tár”, starring Kate Blanchett, is considered one of the best movies of last year and probably one of the more controversial. Though people in the US barely saw it in the theater, it’s grown a creeping buzz around it. Now it’s on Prime Video and more people will watch it and I recommend they do and tell us about it. Mondays are our “Catching Up” movies for the month and, so far, 2022...

This month we’re discussing movies about strange love as well as catching up on buzz worthy movies from last year and this film covers both. Our very first Cronenberg movie for the show and it’s the most recent and theres wound fucking in it so what more do you need to know? We’re talking about David Cronenberg’s CRIMES OF THE FUTURE starring Viggo Mortensen, Lea Seydoux & Kristen Stewart. When yo...

Every month or so we generate a movie completely at random to watch and discuss and we happened to land on our very first 007 movie , 1978’s “Live and Let Die” directed by Guy Hamilton and starring Roger Moore in his first role as James Bond. Angela grew up watching James Bond, Bob saw Goldeneye at the movies once 28 years ago and barely remembers it. How do we handle a fresh viewing of this adapt...

We’re starting off July HOT with a double theme and we’re reserving Mondays for movies from last year that had buzz that we have yet to see. We’ve been seeing some goods stuff lately and I don’t think July is gonna let up because we’re starting it off with S.S. Rajamouli’s new classic Telugu Indian epic “RRR” and holy shit it this something to see. Two Indian revolutionaries reimagined as great ri...

It’s time to say goodbye to this month’s theme, MOVIES ARE GAY, but we won’t be so cold about it like a department store purging all of it’s rainbow displays a day after the percieved profiteering window. We all know, deep in our hearts, that movies will always be gay. At least a little bit. We send off our theme with a movie that has an abundance of what so many modern movies lack, charm and char...

WARNING: THIS MOVIE AND DISCUSSION REFERENCE CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE Folks, we’re in the final week of MOVIES ARE GAY and if you thought we were gonna settle on Rainer Werner Fassbinder for our sad boy fix then you were very much mistaken. Joseph Gordon-Levitt (JoGoLe as his closest movie reviewer friends call him.) really went hard in the 2000s, and this movie he starred in alongside Brady Corbet...

As you probably know by now, MOVIES ARE GAY. While this movie doesn’t necessarily have a lot of gay subtext, it does star Rock Hudson The hunky Hollywood star who lived a closeted Hollywood life and sadly passed away of AIDS in the mid 80s. We reflect upon the late movie star and analyze his first hit film with close friend and on-screen partner Doris Day in Michael Gordon’s 1959 romantic comedy “...

We keep on going down the yellow brick road because this month MOVIES ARE GAY and  today we dive into a bleak and brutal selection from the prolific gay German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A young working class gay man, Fox, wins the lottery and becomes targeted by a couple of upper class gay cons into falling in love and spending off all of his winnings. Twisted emotions, brutal relationshi...

Time to get to the movie theater once again for a superhero movie that is being dragged in the media for making a mere 130 MILLION DOLLAR OPENING WEEKEND. Yeah, it cost around 200 million but it seems like more people are just willing to wait for streaming and who can blame them? Yes, we watched “THE FLASH” by Andy Muschietti and starring the controversial Ezra Miller alongside some classic and co...

The more we look back on early Hollywood, the more certain we are in declaring that MOVIES ARE GAY. Movies Are Gay not just in June but 24 seven, 352 days a year. Cultural repression of adult sexuality is a terrible thing but sometimes we can look back with modernity on our side and realize what many likely missed when they first watched Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester in James Wale’s 1935 seque...

Don’t think just because Sean Baker did some shit with three iPhone 5s and Final Cut that you can just whip out your phone and make something this good because you can’t. Maybe some of you could, but most of you? No way.  MOVIES ARE GAY this month and we keep on truckin’ with a crafty and clever tale of two transgender sex workers on the streets of West Los Angeles. Hilarious and human, movies don...

It’s time for our MOVIE ROULETTE REVIEW and last time we hit on an offbeat romance category and, from there, randomly selected David O. Russell”s 2012 romantic comedy “Silver Linings Playbook” starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro & Jacki Weaver. This also happens to be our very first movie discussion of a flick that was produced by The Weinstein Company (we think) and boy wil...

It’s time to get historical up in this piece because MOVIES ARE GAY this month and we got some early lesbian erotica on film and it comes from 1930s Germany of all places. It also features our earliest feature film discussion directed by a woman. We’re talking about Leontine Sagan’s German film about love in a girls school and the authoritarian forces that loom over it. No wonder the Nazi’s banned...

We keep things going for this month’s MOVIES ARE GAY theme with a film that was a turning point in the popularity of modern queer cinema. We’re talking about Gus Van Sant’s 1991 classic “My Own Private Idaho” starring the late great River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves in one of his earliest acclaimed roles playing street hustlers. Mikey (River Phoenix) is desperately coping with the intense loss he has...

Movies are Gay all month long and today’s selection features a squad of lesbian vampires who recruit our transgender protagonist with the goal of obtaining power that they reserve only for the ladies. No vampirism for the dudes out there scaring the hoes. Nuh uh. Who suck the blood from the world? GIRLS! An…interesting flick but muddled in lore with an overarching theme you could come up with afte...

Finally, it’s time. This month…MOVIES ARE GAY! The layered world of queer cinema and its influences are the topic and we will start off with a classic. Alfred Hitchcock (That old, alleged, queen) made a film based on a play that was loosely based upon the Leopold and Loeb true crime case. The film, “Rope” was considered a “failed experiment” by the director but upon it’s re-release decades later,...

This month is gonna get really gay but first, let’s hit the surf and sands and check out what’s in store for the movie scene this summer with our very first 2023 SUMMER PREVIEW TRAILERHUMP! Bob Sham and Angela tour beaches all over the world and watch 11 movie trailers (only three are original properties) and decide which few we will actually watch. It’s fun in the sun and the summer movie theater...