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Mon, 18 Nov 2024 20:21:51 -0500

Movie Curiosities: Anora Sean Baker has flown under my radar for way too long. While I’ve certainly heard of The Florida Project, Tangerine, and Red Rocket, I somehow n […]

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Sun, 17 Nov 2024 07:49:13 -0500

Movie Curiosities: A Real Pain A Real Pain comes to us from producer Jesse Eisenberg, here making his writing/directing feature debut, courtesy of fellow producer Emma Stone. […]

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Tue, 12 Nov 2024 07:06:52 -0500

Movie Curiosities: Heretic Heretic comes to us from the writing/directing team of Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. Probably for the best that this movie isn’t getting p […]

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Tue, 12 Nov 2024 02:10:09 -0500

Movie Curiosities: Small Things Like These Buckle up, everyone. If you’re in a bad place right now because of the recent election, this one might hit pretty close to home. Small T […]

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Sun, 10 Nov 2024 23:35:02 -0500

Movie Curiosities: Conclave I am kicking myself because I couldn’t get to this sooner. A political thriller set against the backdrop of selecting a new pope, famously one o […]

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Thu, 07 Nov 2024 22:40:21 -0500

Movie Curiosities: Here What the hell is Robert Zemeckis still doing here? I’ve more than said my piece about Robert Zemeckis by this point. With all due respect t […]

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Mon, 04 Nov 2024 06:53:15 -0500

Movie Curiosities: We Live in Time We Live in Time is a romantic drama starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh. If your ticket isn’t already sold, I don’t know what else to tel […]

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Sun, 27 Oct 2024 21:47:45 -0400

Movie Curiosities — Venom: The Last Dance Before I get started, there’s something I want perfectly clear: I am flat fucking DONE with this shit. If you or anyone else on this g […]

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Tue, 22 Oct 2024 05:15:02 -0400

Movie Curiosities: Exhibiting Forgiveness Wow, I take a weekend off and my local multiplex is suddenly deluged with new indie films that nobody’s heard of. Including one that a […]

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Mon, 21 Oct 2024 17:35:41 -0400

Totally fair.

In reply to - Curiosity Inc. wrote a new post Movie Curiosities: Saturday Night It would be a drastic understatement to say that the world is a markedly different place because of “Saturday Night Live”. I have neither the […]

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Mon, 21 Oct 2024 04:53:23 -0400

Movie Curiosities: Smile 2 Smile was everything we’ve come to expect from a modern horror film. A tight and intimate picture with a relatively small budget, a brilliant p […]

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Tue, 15 Oct 2024 04:54:54 -0400

Movie Curiosities: Saturday Night It would be a drastic understatement to say that the world is a markedly different place because of “Saturday Night Live”. I have neither the […]

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Tue, 08 Oct 2024 04:17:47 -0400

Movie Curiosities — Joker: Folie a Deux It’s depressing how many times I’ve had to say it this year, but this movie should not exist. The Joker was not made to be an antihero. Tod […]

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Sun, 06 Oct 2024 07:20:27 -0400

Movie Curiosities: The Wild Robot I was not looking forward to this one. A year ago — almost to the day — news came down that Dreamworks Animation would be hollowed out, and […]

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Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:05:41 -0400

Movie Curiosities: My Old Ass / The Substance I’m so far behind on my backlog, I need an excuse for a double feature. What’s that? We’ve got two movies about women communicating betwe […]

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Sun, 29 Sep 2024 05:57:32 -0400

Movie Curiosities: Megalopolis The Godfather. The Godfather Part II. The Conversation. Apocalypse Now. If Francis Ford Coppola had only made those four movies, he would be […]

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Fri, 27 Sep 2024 05:08:35 -0400

Movie Curiosities: Azrael I’d like to propose a new horror subgenre: “Fool’s prestige”. It refers to films that are made and marketed in clear imitation of prestig […]

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Sun, 22 Sep 2024 23:16:08 -0400

Movie Curiosities: Transformers One Back in the early 1970s, the Japanese toy company Takara purchased a license from Hasbro to produce G.I. Joe toys in the Far East. This proved […]

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Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:42:34 -0400

Movie Curiosities: The Killer's Game The Killer’s Game has apparently been circling around development hell for some time, passing through various studios and filmmakers since R […]

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Sun, 08 Sep 2024 05:33:36 -0400

Movie Curiosities: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Tim Burton is washed up. Sorry, it’s nothing personal. But seriously, look back through Burton’s recent filmography and tell me the last tim […]

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Mon, 02 Sep 2024 01:37:41 -0400

Movie Curiosities: Strange Darling Strange Darling comes to us from writer/director JT Mollner, here effectively making his feature debut. Yes, he technically made his feature […]

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Wed, 28 Aug 2024 05:35:35 -0400

Movie Curiosities: Blink Twice I feel it only appropriate that this review should open as the movie does: With a CONTENT WARNING. even before the studio logos, there’s a t […]

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Mon, 26 Aug 2024 16:56:33 -0400

Movie Curiosities: The Crow (2024) I genuinely hate how many times I’ve had to say this, and it’s never a statement I make lightly, but this movie should not exist. Ever sin […]

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Sun, 25 Aug 2024 20:34:28 -0400

Movie Curiosities: Greedy People I think we all expected Lionsgate to hit a rough patch after their tentpole John Wick franchise wrapped, but sweet Mary on a cross, 2024 has […]

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Wed, 21 Aug 2024 05:38:43 -0400

Movie Curiosities — Alien: Romulus This movie had everything going in its favor. When the news came in that Covenant wasn’t getting a sequel, it looked like a pretty surefire s […]

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Tue, 20 Aug 2024 05:39:56 -0400

Movie Curiosities: Didi To start with, “didi” is a Chinese term — roughly translated, it means “little brother”. Hence Didi, the semi-autobiographical picture from writ […]

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Mon, 19 Aug 2024 04:17:48 -0400

Movie Curiosities: Skincare Say what you will about Elizabeth Banks, but she’s certainly not boring. Charlie’s Angels (2019). Cocaine Bear. Brightburn. Rita goddamn Rep […]

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Wed, 14 Aug 2024 05:43:53 -0400

Movie Curiosities: Borderlands Sometimes, the problem with forgettable movies is that everyone forgets they ever happened. Take, for instance, The House with a Clock in Its […]

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Sun, 11 Aug 2024 06:47:12 -0400

Movie Curiosities: Cuckoo A short time ago (in fact, the movie is still playing in some theaters), Neon released a prestige horror movie called Longlegs. Savvier film […]

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Mon, 05 Aug 2024 06:09:02 -0400

Movie Curiosities: Trap Ah, Manoj Night Shyamalan. What the blue blazing hell are we going to do with you? Sure, it’s nice that Shyamalan isn’t actively emb […]

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Sun, 04 Aug 2024 06:25:42 -0400

Movie Curiosities: Twisters Twister was a big-budget disaster movie that came out in 1996. It was produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Michael Crichton — alongside A […]

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Sun, 28 Jul 2024 07:55:05 -0400

Movie Curiosities: Deadpool & Wolverine I’ve been saying for a while now that MCU burnout isn’t happening because we’ve gotten so many of them. It’s happening because we still expect […]

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Mon, 22 Jul 2024 03:27:38 -0400

Movie Curiosities: Oddity Oddity is yet another another shoestring prestige horror flick. It comes to us from writer/director Damien Mc Carthy, who’s effectively making h […]

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Mon, 15 Jul 2024 05:10:09 -0400

Movie Curiosities: Longlegs I’m sincerely pleased and relieved to see that Maika Monroe landed on her feet. Monroe hit a bit of a rough patch, after The Guest and It F […]

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Mon, 15 Jul 2024 03:16:44 -0400

Movie Curiosities: Fly Me to the Moon The moon landing was not faked. Over 50 years since it happened, there should be no doubt whatsoever that the moon landing really happened. […]

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Tue, 09 Jul 2024 21:10:05 -0400

Movie Curiosities: Kill It’s a blood-soaked action movie set on a train, and the title is Kill. Nothing else, just the one word. Kill. I can’t tell if the fil […]

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Mon, 08 Jul 2024 16:21:58 -0400

Movie Curiosities: MaXXXine “Marge, I’m confused. Is this a happy ending or a sad ending?” “It’s an ending, that’s enough!” The Simpsons (1989) – S05E04 I know […]

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Sun, 07 Jul 2024 06:34:01 -0400

Movie Curiosities: Kinds of Kindness Hello, Yorgos. Again. Yorgos Lanthimos has always been a fascinating director. Whether you love or hate his movies, he’s certainly never b […]

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Thu, 04 Jul 2024 16:43:45 -0400

Movie Curiosities: Thelma With the tragic losses of Bea Arthur and Bettie White, it seems that June Squibb is quietly poised to take their place as our sweet little old […]

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Wed, 03 Jul 2024 05:44:36 -0400

Movie Curiosities — A Quiet Place: Day One As I was saying a month ago, nobody gives a shit about the aliens in A Quiet Place. They are only important as a plot device to serve the basic […]

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Tue, 02 Jul 2024 05:42:18 -0400

Movie Curiosities: The Exorcism When I’m this far behind on my backlog, I like to make a game of simply showing up to my local multiplex and going to see whatever’s on my wat […]

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Mon, 01 Jul 2024 05:42:07 -0400

Movie Curiosities: Inside Out 2 Yes, I know I’m late to this one. I was out of town for a while. And a lot happened while I was away. On quite a few occasions, Todd in the S […]

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Sat, 15 Jun 2024 18:22:29 -0400

Movie Curiosities: Whiskey Dixie & The Big Wet Country Time for another dive into the world of Portland indie cinema. “Whiskey Dixie & The Big Wet Country” started out as a stage musical, all the […]

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Sat, 15 Jun 2024 01:13:24 -0400

It’s a valid complaint, and far be it from me to defend anti-vaxxers. Still, De Niro has an autistic son, and that’s much more relevant to the topic at hand. As to how he feels about autism — i.e. whether it’s better to be autistic than to die of rubella or smallpox — I really couldn’t say.

In reply to - Curiosity Inc. wrote a new post Movie Curiosities: Ezra In the past, I’ve been open (often to the point of embarrassment) about my life history on the autism spectrum. Most especially with regards to […]

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Wed, 12 Jun 2024 06:35:01 -0400

Movie Curiosities: Ezra In the past, I’ve been open (often to the point of embarrassment) about my life history on the autism spectrum. Most especially with regards to […]

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Mon, 10 Jun 2024 03:56:08 -0400

Movie Curiosities: The Watchers “This is getting out of hand — now there are TWO of them!” Superhero fatigue is clickbait bullshit and the MCU did not kill cinema. This has b […]

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Mon, 03 Jun 2024 04:05:44 -0400

Movie Curiosities: In a Violent Nature In a Violent Nature comes to us from writer/director Chris Nash, who made a respectable name for himself as a special effects artist before […]

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Mon, 03 Jun 2024 03:35:05 -0400

Movie Curiosities: The Young Woman and the Sea No two ways about it, folks, this summer movie season is off to a BAAAD start. As late as three weeks ago, everybody knew that Furiosa was […]

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Wed, 29 May 2024 04:10:13 -0400

Movie Curiosities: Babes Babes comes to us from the writing/producing team of Ilana Glazer and Josh Rabinowitz, both of whom worked extensively on “Broad City”. Dir […]

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Mon, 27 May 2024 04:19:31 -0400

Movie Curiosities — The Strangers: Chapter 1 I can’t for the life of me figure out what the hell we’re doing here. Granted, modern horror films are low of budget and quick of scr […]