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Holy Roller (2023) #3

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No Country For Old Men (2007)

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Aaaah the Inbetween Time: when both DC and Marvel have yet to pull their queer characters out of the toy box for Pride specials.

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Fargo (2014)

Season 5, Episode 1: “The Tragedy of the Commons” (2023) Director: Noah Hawley Cinematographer: Dana Gonzales

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Go read Gutterballs for Days!! It’s funny and weird and so very sweet, and helping make our pirates mid-90s bowlers, slackers and scammers has been an absolute joy 💖 @yerbamansa

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My favorite films about being an artist:

The Phantom of the Paradise (1974) dir. Brian De Palma

The Watermelon Woman (1996) dir. Cheryl Dunye

Amadeus (1984) dir. Milos Forman

The Red Shoes (1948) dir. Powell & Pressburger

Naked Lunch (1991) dir. David Cronenberg

Barton Fink (1991) dir. Joel Coen

Santa Sangre (1989) dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Sunday in the Park With George (1986) dir. Terry Hughes [written by Stephen Sondheim]

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more new-to-me movies I've enjoyed recently:

1. The Villainess (2017 writ./dir. Jung Byung-gil, writ. Jung Byeong-sik). This film dares to ask, "What if John Wick were a Korean lady with more than a few shades of Kill Bill, plus some Hitman thrown in for good measure?" and the answer is, "It would be pretty fucking sick, that's what." The titular "villainess" Sook-hee gets run through the wringer; it's impossible not to root for her when the movie lets her go apeshit about it.

2. The Green Knight (2021, writ./dir. David Lowery). "Is this really all there is?"

"What else ought there be?"

3. In Bruges (2008, writ./dir. Martin McDonagh). Pitch-black Irish hitman comedy with one of the nastier deaths I've seen in a movie. "Fuck, man, maybe that's what hell is. The entire rest of eternity spent in fuckin' Bruges."

4. Burn After Reading (2008, writ./dir. Joel & Ethan Coen). Another Coen black comedy in which no one knows what's going on and everyone is being distinctly uncool about it. Probably the most hilarious instance of someone getting shot in the face that I've ever seen. Don't think too hard about it all.

5. Heathers (1989, writ. Daniel Waters, dir. Michael Lehmann). Yet another black comedy. All the childishness, abuse, and indignities of ephemeral 80s teen movie relationships satirized to murderous levels. J.D. is fun to hate, I'll give him that.

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On October 9, 1998, The Big Lebowski debuted in Poland.

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Another pitch for a live-action “Resident Evil” movie:

1) STORY

In Raccoon City, South Dakota, two teams of S.T.A.R.S. units (basically SWAT teams) are dispatched to the long-abandoned Spencer Mansion in the Arklay Mountains. A group of federal prisoners who were being transported to another facility have gotten free. The prisoners managed to take refuge inside the mansion and are holding the transport crew as their hostages.

The night takes a dark, bizarre turn when both the prisoners and the STARS officers realize that there’s something else in the woods and inside the mansion. Something…unnatural. When both sides are attacked by monsters, the survivors are forced to work together in order to escape with their lives.

2) ADDITIONAL PLOT DETAILS

a) one of the escaped inmates is Billy Coen, who is the only one of his group to survive the movie

b) a major source of tension in the movie is the STARS officers and the inmates needing to put aside their differences and work as a team. This is also to heighten the shock to non-Resident Evil viewers that STARS commander Albert Wesker is a traitor since the audience will keep expecting the prisoners to betray the team.

c) Brad Vickers is rewritten to be one of the transport crew that the prisoners took hostage. His storyline is also changed in which he has to be kept alive since he’s the only one who knows how to use a helicopter, which is important since the group finds an abandoned one while exploring the facility.

d) The story is only loosely based on RE0 and RE1. Just to get an idea of what is kept in the main story, some of the main story beats are that Rebecca Chambers is the first STARS officer to recognize that Billy Coen is a good guy, Barry Burton is being manipulated by Wesker, Jill and Chris are the protagonists, everything culminates in a showdown with the Tyrant, and the movie ends with Brad flying all the survivors away from the area.

e) for those who played House of Ashes, think of Rebecca and Billy’s relationship as being similar to Jason and Salim.

f) while I can’t give an exact body count, I’d imagine that all the STARS officers, escaped prisoners, and transport crew characters not named Chris, Jill, Barry, Rebecca, Billy, and Brad end up dying. Albert Wesker is also “killed”, but we all know he survived off-screen.

g) due to how the story unfolds, Billy Coen is also flown to safety by Brad at the end, which ends up playing a role in how the sequel starts

3) CAST/CHARACTERS (not meant to be a complete list)

a) Taron Egerton as Chris Redfield (STARS officer who was about to go on vacation with his sister, Claire)

b) Natasha Liu Bordizzo as Jill Valentine (STARS officer who deeply opposes Umbrella’s prescribe in Raccoon City)

c) Kiernan Shipka as Rebecca Chambers (STARS officer who is the youngest of the team and the one to befriend Billy Coen)

d) David Harbour as Barry Burton (STARS officer who is a veteran about to retire)

e) Jon Bernthal as Billy Coen (disgraced US marine and one of the escaped inmates)

f) Iain de Caestecker as Brad Vickers (one of the prison guards taken hostage by the prisoners, later revealed to be a licensed pilot)

g) Cillian Murphy as Albert Wesker (leader of the STARS units, later revealed to be a double agent for Umbrella)

h) Florence Pugh makes a cameo appearance as Claire Redfield. She only appears at the start when she’s talking to Chris about vacation plans, and in a post-credits scene in which Claire arrives in Raccoon City several weeks after the events of the movie.

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Holy Roller (2023) #1

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) - Surly Joe (Tim Blake Nelson)

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The Big Lebowski (1998)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.

The Big Lebowski has one brief scene late in the film with lightning striking off-screen, with a very slow strobe as the only source of light in that scene. It lasts about 10 seconds, and the rest of the film is safe to watch.

All of the camera work in this film is either stationary or very smooth. There is one dream sequence where the camera rolls forward a few times for a very disorienting 10 seconds or so. Another brief dream sequence depicts flight at extreme heights.

Flashing Lights: 3/10. Motion Sickness: 4/10.

TRIGGER WARNING: The entire film centers around a kidnapping conspiracy. One man accuses a disabled man of faking his disability.

Image ID: A promotional poster for The Big Lebowski

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Happy Birthday Tilda Swinton

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I really enjoyed this movie. It’s both a clever story and a turn-your-brain-off-and-enjoy story. Despite the contrivances, this is a MUST WATCH!

Bullet Train is a 2022 American action comedy film directed by David Leitch from a screenplay by Zak Olkewicz, and produced by Antoine Fuqua, who initially conceived the film. It is based on the 2010 novel Maria Beetle (titled Bullet Train in its UK and US edition) by Kōtarō Isaka. The film stars Brad Pitt, with Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Shannon, Bad Bunny, and Sandra Bullock. 

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The Big Lebowski (1998)

I don’t know what other movie I’d compare The Big Lebowski to. It’s got a lot of drug use and trippy dream sequences, but a stoner movie? That’d be a stretch. Its cast contains kidnapping and thieves but I’d never call it a crime film. The characters we meet are so distinct it’s a struggle to find their equivalents in any other tale. It’s a film in a category all of its own, which makes it a must-see.

Slacker Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) has few ambitions beyond having a good time and bowling with his friends Walter (John Goodman) and Donny (Steve Buscemi). After some idiotic thugs confuse The Dude and millionaire philanthropist Jeffrey Lebowski (The titular Big Lebowski, played by David Huddleston), The Dude becomes embroidered in a kidnapping and ransom scheme.

Every character in this film is a standout. It’s as if the Coen brothers (who write and direct) snatched every standout comedic weirdo you see in other films and put them all together on their own planet where only their rules apply. The results are completely unpredictable. Everyone from the Big Lebowski’s aggressively feminist weirdo artist daughter Maude (Julianne Moore) to the thugs who demand a ransom for his trophy wife Bunny (Tara Reid) will say and do things that will make you do a double-take over and over. Even when you become somewhat acclimated to the people surrounding The Dude (who, thankfully, is more of an everyman, or as close to it as one can get in this film), you have no idea what's coming next.

You’ll laugh, you’ll bite your nail out of nervousness, you’ll curse one character that’ll turn out to have been right the whole time and you’ll latch onto another who will turn out to be the last person you should trust. You feel exactly as confused and overwhelmed as The Dude. Before you know it, everything’s spun out of control and the only course of action is to continue along the same path that’s been set out since the beginning. Anything else is sure to end up in a shootout. If this doesn’t seem to make any sense, just wait and see. You’ll understand soon enough.

Part of what makes The Big Lebowski so magnetic are the inane conversations found throughout. There are a lot of great lines in this picture. I’m not sure when you’ll be able to refer to a rug as “really tying a room together”, but the characters, the scenes, the plot (nutty as it is) and the dialogue are all so memorable, you’ll find a way to crowbar it in somewhere. This inspired screenplay is about people who range from either so passive trouble seems to seek them out, or so aggressive they turn the world around them to hell. You don’t see yourself in any one of these people directly, but it feels like you've met at least some of them at one point.

While my second viewing of the film meant the surprises weren't there anymore, and this meant I didn't enjoy it as much as the first time, I can sense The Big Lebowski growing on me. I suspect I'll like this film even more the third, fourth, fifth, etc. times I see it. (On DVD, May 19, 2018)