by aditya | Dec 21, 2021 | Archive
I said in the video (and have told friends) that Promising Young Woman was basically an art-house version of I Spit On Your Grave. It’s as if writer/director Emerald Fennell thought, “Hmm, instead of showing the rape, let’s have it be in the past so it’s not...
by aditya | Aug 30, 2021 | Archive
One episode of a long-running PBS documentary series called American Masters, this 90-minute film shows why people love public television. It’s an absolutely riveting piece of entertainment about how two larger-than-life figures – former child prodigy Orson Welles, a...
by aditya | Aug 30, 2021 | Archive
Now here we are. The movie that, for decades, critics have been stereotyped as calling the best movie of all time. There is “Truth in Television”, as TV Tropes puts it. Although Citizen Kane, thanks to whatever success Hearst had in suppressing it, was largely under...
by aditya | Aug 30, 2021 | Archive
I once had a temp job helping Warner Bros. move its video library to a new location. A HUGE perk of that was that I could keep any duplicates I found. Among them was RKO 281. Unfortunately, it was only in the past couple of years I finally thought it was about time I...
by aditya | May 31, 2021 | Archive
The last (to date) version of this story, the only one that was a Disney Channel premiere, and a good argument that we’ve had enough. If you’ve already seen some or all the other versions, the story will feel played out at this point. If you haven’t seen those other...
by aditya | May 31, 2021 | Archive
This 2009 film certainly had a high concept: “High School Musical’s Zac Efron grows into Matthew Perry and back” and it didn’t disappoint! The casting of both as Mike O’Donnell raised some eyebrows. Not only do they look nothing alike (I saw a Reddit post brilliantly...
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