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10:27 "the Ferrari man getting past his ex-boyfriend" 💀💁‍♀️

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GLASS ONION: A Whodunit Lacking Style & Smarts

GLASS ONION: A Knives Out Mystery brings together an all-star cast to take us on a whodunit adventure. While the pieces are there for a fascinating puzzle, the final product is an overstuffed film that doesn't have the same satirical smarts as the first.

An eccentric billionaire invites some old pals to a murder mystery party on his remote island, only to discover the famed Benoit Blanc has crashed to solve a real crime. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery brings together an all-star cast to take us on a whodunit adventure. While the pieces are there for a fascinating puzzle, the final product is an overstuffed film that doesn’t have the same…

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THE MENU (2022)

💁‍♀️Strong Female Lead

A nice artistic horror film with a SAW type feel of bad people being punished for their bad actions. Beautiful cinematography, food dressing, and scenes in general. All things considered a fairly fresh take on the horror genre.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

We hit the ground running, meeting Margot and Tyler the (apparent) couple and (possibly) main characters for the film. Tyler is a little nasty freak for food and Margot is just trying to eat. Next is one short character introducing boat ride to the island featuring some real heavy hitters in the real world like Judith Light, John Leguizamo, Arturo Castro just to name a few (that I knew anyway). On the Island we meet Ralph Fiennes as Chef Slowik himself (Voldemort is here, with a nose and a pallet cooking us dinner, y’all, get pumped up).

THE MENU begins, which is a very select meal crafted by the chef and made by his staff but things are strange in the dining room. Guests are not appreciating the food (except Tyler who is a whole mess), guests are being rude to staff, but then the staff will kind of clap back at the guests which is great but also eerie. Guests are already grumbling at the chefs fancy and innovative menu that doesn’t include bread (because bread is for poor people and these people don’t deserve it, clever) so when the third course has the patrons private information laser printed on the tortillas everyone starts to get a bit cagey. Before the fourth course, Chef informs Margot he knows she isn’t supposed to be here and basically that he is sorry… and then The Mess.

The Mess is the fourth course, an almost ritualistic suicide of one of the “lesser” staff in the kitchen. The guests are horrified but the staff overwhelm them (giving one guy the finger!). Chef tells them all why they are here, deserving of their fates (some more than others) and we move on to Man’s Folly. The men of the group are allowed to attempt escape while the girls eat and talk shit, then the inevitably captured men come back for the next course (but the last boy found got a snack!). Tyler is bugging because he missed what the girls ate, but that's fine because Chef reveals that Ty-ty knew for 8 months that this was a death trap, but he wanted to eat there so bad, he came AND brought a date! What a schmuck!

Chef has Tyler cook, because he will not shut up about being good in the kitchen. Homeboy puts leeks, shallots, and lamb in a pan together with like four tablespoons of butter while flop sweating then feeds it to Chef after letting it cook for about 30 seconds. Chef spits it out then whispers in Tyler's ear and I can almost guarantee he just told the dumb fecker that he wasn’t going to be getting any more food for the evening because the boy promptly shows himself to a back room to hang out. Margot is unphased the man who was happy to let her die for a meal killed himself over a meal.

Margot is given an errand, briefly escapes, “accidently” kills a staff member, calls the “coast guard”, thinks she gets help, doesn’t get help, and has to sit right back down where she started.

In a final attempt to save herself, Margot stands, claps (like Chef), and basically demands better service, says she hasn’t liked the food and is starving. She just wants something simple and filling and I blurted out with her, “HAMBURGER,” but of course she said “Cheeseburger.” (But that is what I mean when I say Hamburger, because of course there is cheese on it! Gah!) It is nice to see such an art heavy film in the mainstream in 2022 (yes, the culinary arts count as art).

If you think our heroine wins the day because she asks for a simple, non-artistic food you would be wrong, it is because the food she asks for at the end is made by Chef Slowik and not by his staff (also being a burger man was in another life when he was happy which helped a lot too but I DIGRESS). That made all the difference. He got to experience the joy of cooking he hadn’t felt in ages, the joy of making art for someone and making them happy. That is what saved her life, so that she could live another day and eat her leftover burger. And when it comes down to it, isn’t that what we all want? To live another day so that we may eat our leftover burger?

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Sundance 2024 Film Review: Stress Positions ★★★1/2

Theda Hammel returns to Sundance following her 2022 TV pilot My Trip To Spain, with her feature debut as writer-director-composer-editor and star, Stress Positions, playing in the festival’s US Dramatic Competition. With its dry, sometimes uncomfortable tone, that easily shifts from offbeat to satirical to absurd to farcical, this deliciously dark, thought-provoking comedy sees her deliver on the…

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Episode 362: Grumpier Old Men (1995)

#Movie Theater Time Machine #podcast continues Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon month with a #review of "Grumpier Old Men". For more, visit www.movietheatertimemachine.com

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2023: The Year in Green's Party

This was a historic year for my blog as it turned 10! In Jan. 2013 I began this blog as a way to share my thoughts on pop culture and since then I've gotten to do things I never even imagined would be possible: interviewing filmmakers, actors, musicians, authors and more; reviewing movies, music, concerts, books, and theater; covering conventions and film festivals; and connecting with fans who also have their hands on the pulse of pop culture at the moment and it's history. This was hands down one of my best years yet! Here are just a few of the highlights:

the many faces of Green's Party

Retweets and social media: Tom Petty's website included a pull quote from my Nov. 2022 album review of Live at the Fillmore 1997 on their website page for the album; Ondi Timoner and her doc Last Flight Home shared my interview with her on Twitter; the Video Archives Podcast liked and shared my Best Podcasts of 2022 list on Twitter; Cadence13 and David Spade of the Fly on the Wall podcast liked my Best Podcasts of 2022 lists on Twitter; TV Guidance Counselor host Ken Reid liked and shared my Best Podcasts of 2022 list on Twitter; Completely Conspicuous host Jay Kumar liked my Best Podcasts of 2022 list on Twitter; U2 Daily Tour News shared my U2 movie review and album review on their daily newsletter and on Twitter; the Video Archives Podcast liked and retweeted my Quentin Tarantino birthday post; Andy Summers shared my concert review on his social media; the Chasing Chasing Amy team shared my movie review on Twitter; X (the band) shared my concert review on their Facebook; the There Was No Alternative team shared my interview with author Jeff Gomez on their Facebook; and Tremolo Productions liked and retweeted my Congrats to them on 20 Feet From Stardom being added to the National Film Registry on Twitter.

Exene Cervenka and I backstage at the X concert

Interviews: I got to interview a number of entertainers I find fascinating including director Ondi Timoner, musician Glen Matlock, Exene Cervenka of X, author Michael Azerrad, author Jeff Gomez, and Pete Stahl of Scream!

me hanging with Indiana Jones

Movie Reviews: I got to review loads of movies including One Fine Morning, Marlowe, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, my annual guide to the Oscar Nominated Short Films, Scream VI, Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman, Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan: Brothers in Blues, Spinning Gold, Air, Little Richard: I Am Everything, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, Master Gardener, Lynch/Oz, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, The YouTube Effect, Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning: Part One, Oppenheimer, Chasing Chasing Amy, Stop Making Sense re-release, Flora and Son, The Holdovers, The Stones and Brian Jones, Silent Night, The Sacrifice Game, and Godard Cinema!

Album Reviews: I got to review tons of albums including Shonen Knife's Our Best Place, Inhaler's Cuts & Bruises, Philip Selway's Strange Dance and Live at Evolution Studios, U2's Songs of Surrender, Mudhoney's Plastic Eternity, The Kinks' The Journey - Part 1 and The Journey - Part 2, Wilco's Crosseyed Strangers: An Alternate Take on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and Cousin, Iggy and the Stooges' Raw Power RSD Essential release, The Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet RSD edition and Hackney Diamonds, Galen & Paul's Can We Do Tomorrow Another Day?, Hollywood Vampires' Live in Rio, Tommy Stinson's Cowboys in the Campfire's Wronger, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' Council Skies, Alice Cooper's Killer and School's Out Deluxe Editions and Road, Extreme's Six, the Asteroid City soundtrack, Deaf Charlie's Catastrophic Metamorphic, Wham!'s The Singles: Echoes from the Edge of Heaven, Brian May and Friends' Star Fleet Sessions, Neil Young's Chrome Dreams, Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros' Live at Acton Town Hall, London, Aerosmith's Greatest Hits, Speedy Ortiz's Rabbit Rabbit and Major Arcana (10th Anniversary Edition), Courtney Barnett's End of the Day (Music from Anonymous Club), Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense Expanded Edition Remaster, Huey Lewis and the News's Sports 40th Anniversary Edition, Will Butler + Sister Squares' Will Butler + Sister Squares, The Replacements' Tim (Let It Bleed) Edition, The Breeders Last Splash 30th Anniversary Original Analog Edition, Ringo Starr's Rewind Forward, Haim's Days are Gone 10th anniversary edition, Chris Shiflett's Lost at Sea, Duff McKagan's Lighthouse, Prince and the New Power Generation's Diamonds and Pearls Super Deluxe Edition, Snail Mail's Valentine (Demos), Jimi Hendrix Experience's Hollywood Bowl: August 18, 1967, Scream's DC Special, The Beatles' 1962-1966 and 1967-1970, Pearl Jam's Vs. 30th anniversary edition, and The Black Crowes' The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion Box Set.

TV Reviews: This year I branched out and got to review some TV shows including Lucky Hank, John Carpenter's Suburban Screams, Geddy Lee Asks: Are Bassists Human Too?, and John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial.

my friend Ron and I at Boston Calling in May

Concert Reviews: I wrote about my day at the 2023 Boston Calling festival and I also got to cover concerts from Andy Summers, X, Sting, The Breeders, and Scream. I also started a new feature called Concert Pics, where I share pics from concerts I attended but didn't review.

Blu-ray Reviews: I got to review some blu-rays including Project: Alf, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, The Lost Weekend: A Love Story, and We Are Not Alone.

Book Reviews: I got to review and cover some books including Stewart Copeland's The Police Diaries, Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana, and Jeff Gomez' There Was No Alternative.

my friend Jenn and I at Jagged Little Pill

Theater Reviews: I got to review Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill when it played in Boston!

Comedy Reviews: I got to cover The State reunion show in Boston!

me at the Boston Underground Film Festival in March 2023

me with Mr. Sam J. Jones at 2023 MusicCon Collectibles Extravaganza

Film Festivals, Conventions and Events: In February I got to cover Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Man of the Year presentation to Bob Odenkirk and Woman of the Year to Jennifer Coolidge; the 2023 Northeast Comic Con Spring Edition; the 2023 Boston Underground Film Festival (my first time covering them since 2019); the 2023 Salem Horror Fest; the 2023 Independent Film Festival Boston; the 2023 MusicCon Collectibles Extravaganza; I got to cover the Stop Making Sense reunion Q&A simulcast from TIFF, IFFBoston's 2023 Fall Focus mini-fest, and the 2023 Northeast Comic Con Fall Edition.

Me seeing Stop Making Sense on the big screen!

Stray Observations:

I got to cover Hollywood Vampires collectively and individually: In June I got to review Hollywood Vampires' album Live in Rio and I got to see them live in July, I also saw Joe Perry solo in April and I got to review Aerosmith's Greatest Hits in August, and I got to review Alice Cooper's Deluxe Editions of Killer and School's Out in June and his newest album Road in August.

It was a sad year for Gen X: in May MTV News announced they were ceasing operations; and there was also the passing of Andy Rourke of The Smiths, Sinead O'Connor, and Paul Reubens, all staples of the 80s and 90s :(

The Police never ended: It's as if I got to see a Police reunion this year because I got to cover guitarist Andy Summers' concert in July, singer / bassist Sting's concert in September, and while I didn't see drummer Stewart Copeland live, I did get to cover his book The Police Diaries in October!

Tough year for physical media fans like me between Netflix ending it's DVD by mail service and Best Buy announcing they're going to stop selling DVDs. Time to go to my local library more often for DVDs and blu-rays!

...And the Biggest Postings and News of the Year on Green's Party:

1/2/23: This blog turned 10! It feels like I'm just getting started in some ways!

1/20/23: A very rare clip of The Eric and Mike Show, the cable access TV show I co-hosted and co-produced as a teen, surfaced online.

Jan. - Mar. 2023: I rolled out my Best of 2022 lists in time for awards season!

3/15/23: I had my 3000th post on this blog!

4/18/23: After Netflix announced they would be discontinuing their DVD by mail service, I wrote my remembrance of Netflix DVD.

6/26/23: I shared my thoughts on the Best of 2023 so far.

9/14/23: I got to cover the re-release of Stop Making Sense, the re-release of Talking Heads' soundtrack album, and the simulcast of the Talking Heads' reunion Q&A at TIFF with Spike Lee.

10/28/23: I posted about Dave Grohl's history of SNL appearances. 34 notes.

10/30/23: I got to cover The Holdovers screening with an intro and Q&A from director Alexander Payne.

11/25/23: I wrote about the passing of Marty Krofft. 16 notes.

11/29/23: In memory of George Harrison's passing on that day in history, I posted his music video for "Any Road". 10 notes.

11/30/23: I wrote about the passing of Shane McGowan. 192 notes, making it my biggest post of the year!

11/30/23: I was quoted in a Boston.com article about the best holiday music!

Nov - Dec. 2023: I got to do an album review of Scream's DC Special, interview singer Pete Stahl and cover their concert, a rare hat trick for me!

12/27/23: I wrote about the passing of Tom Smothers. 11 notes.

Thank you for attending Green's Party in 2023! Now onto more pop culture thoughts in 2024....

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Sara Pascoe: My dad brought our dead cat to school in a bin bag : Punching Up 2023 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide

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Sara Pascoe: My dad brought our dead cat to school in a bin bag : Punching Up 2023 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide

Comic recalls her first experience of death Sara Pascoe has told of the day her father surprised her by bringing her dead cat to school in a bin bag. Appearing on Kathy Burke’s death-based podcast Where There’s A Will There’s A Wake, the comic recalls how her dad – the jazz musician Derek Pascoe – tried […]

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THE PYR REVIEW episode 01  Please enjoy a short history of the Great Pyrenees breed... a PYR-story, if you will :) 

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We have another interview but this time it's with two very important people. This week we got to have a wonderful conversation with Kristen Cloke and Glen Morgan about Space: Above and Beyond!

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December 1988.

The Vancouver Sun reviews a new program called The Kids in the Hall

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Muppets Haunted Mansion (2021) Review

Muppets Haunted Mansion (2021) Review

Surprise, you’re getting another Halloween review because I couldn’t wait another 365 days to talk about my favorite spooky special in recent years. Muppets Haunted Mansion (or as I sometimes call it, “Muppets Most Haunted”) is one of those features that feels tailor-made me. It combines three things I love: the Muppets, Halloween, and the beloved Disney ride The Haunted Mansion. If you’re…

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THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985)

😿dog half un-dies (I guess?)

This is a wild follow up to NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD but is an extremely fun time and a great movie. Just don’t expect it to be like its predecessor. Special effects were a treat, use of the F-word felt very natural (who wouldn’t be saying it in their situation?), and the characters felt genuine and likable. You can see how it is inspired by the previous film and that influence only makes this one better. This movie is a romp and a half, I highly recommend it, (and as long as everyone is okay with a little female nudity) watch this with friends!

⭐⭐⭐⭐.5

Right off the bat, let me just say that I love how the whole premise of this movie is based around the US Army royally screwing up AND making faulty equipment. At first I wasn’t sure how they were going to make this punky and colorful sequel have anything to do with its black & white dramatic predecessor but they used it as non-fiction in universe movie lore (think like Grave Encounters only it doesn’t lead you to the place where you die, oh wait).

Freddy is our friend who now works at a medical supply place (the kind that sells real skeletons, cadavers, and half-dogs) with this guy Frank who wants to scare the new kid with these sPoOkY metal barrels the army left behind back in 1968 (though Frank claims 1969), he says they contain bodies from the actual events that inspired the movie NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. They go down to investigate and to prove their strength Frank slaps a barrel like he’s a car salesman and the thing immediately starts to spew a thick yellow gas that knocks them both out. 

When they come to, the cadaver in the freezer is dancing a jig (and his little half-dog too) but here is where I have my first problem, the zombies are just so damn fast. For a reanimated stiff that was frozen, you’d think this first guy would be a little more… Stiff. But he runs out that door like a sprinter and doesn’t stop squiggling and squirming until they roast up his pieces in the crematorium. Not thinking about the smoke rising from the chimney (all thick and yellow) the team falsely assume the night is over. Rain pours the chemical smoke back down to earth and now the party really begins because Freddy’s punk friends are all rocking out in the graveyard (aptly named Resurrection) and suddenly this acid rain is gonna wake the dead.

Our girl, Trash, (that is her name, I’m not making fun of her), gets the death she always wanted, ripped apart by old men (the dream, really). The rest of the wildly named gang hightail it out of there and find themselves face to face with the original Barrel Boy. He is a goopy mess who not only knows how to use tools but understands the basics of leverage? This guy was really scary and freaky and wasn’t fast but he was persistent and I think that made him the worst of them all! He was also one of the Zoombobbies we watched just grab a character by the face and bite into their head which is a lot to process. Award for best/worst Z-Babe to the Gooey Basement Barrel Boy.

Speaking of dead people, Freddy and Frank just simply do not have vital signs anymore. They are talking and moving around but… Yikes, let’s get them some help. But oh, no! This sets off a domino effect of paramedics being called and eaten then cops being called then eaten. The wild thing is, it was the reanimated who kept calling for more help. That was very alarming to me. But it also confused me about what exactly these guys are. I joke around not always calling them “Zombies” but half of the time they seem like magical beings the way they have been decomposing in the ground for goodness knows how long but then were able to crawl out and now can sprint and have incredible strength? I don’t fully buy it (shenanigans). In NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, the threat was in hoards and being overwhelmed, but in this film (much like 28 DAYS LATER) just one Zomb-o in your area and you’re basically already dead.

Finally when things came down to it they contacted the number on the barrels, they asked the army for help, they thought they could handle it on their own and just bury the problem but they couldn’t. Turns out the army had a contingency plan in case this sort of thing ever happened. They just NUKED LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. I understand WHY they did it, but there have to be some real ramifications from just casually launching a nuke. I don’t think the rest of the world would just sit quietly when the US bombs one of its own cities. Maybe it is just our political climate now (vs 1985 when this film came out) but I think it is wild that that was their solution and they just ended it there like US citizens weren’t rioting in the streets saying, “I had family there!” and that neighboring towns weren’t suffering radiation poisoning… WILD.

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"ofmd s2 sucks because it's fan service" reviewer do you also go to mcdonalds and complain when they serve you a big mac? its a silly queer pirate show. it does what it says on the tin

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Theatre Review: Judy Gold in Yes, I Can Say That! (59E59 Theaters, New York) ★★★★★

Based on her on 2020 book—Yes, I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians, We Are All in Trouble—Emmy-winning veteran comedian Judy Gold’s thrillingly ambitious new one-woman show—Yes, I Can Say That!—examines stand-up comedy’s ability to speak truth to power, and the dangers of censoring and silencing comedians. Not only is it provocative, thought-provoking, and moving, it’s continually…