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Movie Curiosities: One Battle After Another
September 28, 2025 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Sorry, but I simply can’t get on board with the hoopla surrounding Paul Thomas Anderson. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
September 23, 2025 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
I’m not sure what I expected with this one. And I’m still not 100 percent sure what the hell I just sat through. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Him
September 22, 2025 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
On January 2nd of 2023, Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest in the opening minutes of a Bills/Bengals game with massive playoff implications. It was a fluke accident, caused by a hit to the chest in just the right place at just the right time to interfere with cardiac function. Though Hamlin was luckily brought back to full health and his football career continues to this day, he was technically and literally dead on the field for a few terrifying minutes. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: The Long Walk
September 14, 2025 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Wow, Lionsgate finally got a win. Not that a bloody and intellectual anti-corporate allegory with a mid-tier budget and zero chance of franchising will be enough to save the studio, but it’s nice to see them crank out a legitimately good film after such a long string of failures. (Then again, somebody apparently figured out how to make a sequel to The Black Phone, so I guess anything’s possible.) Of course, the box office returns still haven’t come in as of this typing — if the studio can’t spin a box office win out of their best film in years, that’s yet another nail in the coffin. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Twinless
September 8, 2025 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
I can’t believe my eyes. A film set and shot in Portland, getting mainstream attention (albeit in a slow weekend for new releases) and it’s somehow good?! Oh, you already know I’ve got to check this out. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: The Toxic Avenger (2025)
September 3, 2025 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
We’re really doing this, huh? The de facto mascot of freaking Troma is getting a modern reboot with an all-star cast. I’m not entirely sure how or why this happened, but let’s roll with it. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Relay
September 2, 2025 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
I love what David Mackenzie did when he made Hell or High Water. I like Riz Ahmed and Lily James. Oh, and Sam Worthington is playing a villain this time instead of trying to sell himself as a leading man? Yeah, I’m 100 percent down with what’s on offer with Relay. What have we got? Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Caught Stealing
September 1, 2025 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Caught Stealing comes to us from director Darren Aronofsky and writer/producer Charlie Huston, adapting his own novel. Quite a lofty pedigree — and such a remarkable cast, more on them later — for what appears to be a darkly comical crime thriller. What have we got here? Only one way to find out. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Honey Don’t!
August 26, 2025 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
A year and a half ago, we got Drive-Away Dolls from the eccentric husband/wife team of Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke. The film was a neat lesbian spin on the kind of pitch-black crime thriller comedy that Coen and his big brother Joel made their name on. Unfortunately, the film could never quite settle on a consistent tone or internal logic, and the parts never quite came together into a satisfying whole. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: K-Pop Demon Hunters
August 24, 2025 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
I don’t know much about South Korea, but there are two things I do know. First, they have arguably the most robust online infrastructure on the planet, with speeds and coverage that are vastly cheaper and leagues more advanced than anything in the USA. Second, they are a highly vain culture, with eating disorders and plastic surgery both pervasive enough to make Los Angeles blush. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: The Roses
August 20, 2025 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
“Speaking of love, one problem that recurs more and more frequently these days, in books and plays and movies, is the inability of people to communicate with the people they love: husbands and wives who can’t communicate, children who can’t communicate with their parents, and so on. And the characters in these books and plays and so on — and in real life, I might add — spend hours bemoaning the fact that they can’t communicate. I feel that if a person can’t communicate, the very least he can do is to shut up!” –Tom Lehrer (RIP)
Movie Curiosities: Americana
August 19, 2025 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Oh, Sydney Sweeney. This was bound to happen eventually. Read the rest of this entry →
