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You should've seen Corey's face when I selected Baby's Day Out as my podcast episode for the week. We ended up having a blast. Terrifically violent piece of family slapstick. The Three Stooges if penned by John Hughes.
A question to ponder: Is Baby Bink an agent of chaos? Or merely a lucky infant? All this and more at the link below.
open.spotify.com/episode/2XL7Y6tb4MsnJTCdJz4yrX?si=qg3PQbizTsieaqi6jpTZHQ
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25th Anniversary Theatrical Screening
George Lucas is 1 of 1 because he's the only artist capable of mixing dry, stilted political allegory (it would be a deadly drinking game if you took a shot for every mention of taxation or trade routes or bureaucracy or The Senate or chancellors) with cutaways to Jar Jar wrecking Droids on the Naboo battlefields. Whimsical and strange. Final 30 minutes are transcendent.
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Brutalizing melancholy from a cultural mainstay that's gone from traditional spy pulp to silly outrageous spectacle to political intrigue. This one has a little bit of everything but it lingers with a vengeance. A trained killer spots a light at the end of the tunnel only to recognize that it's merely a mirage.
Corey and I talked about BOND on the pod:
open.spotify.com/episode/2J2dQWl577mkXsjQIW4cnX?si=DObxkpb4Tsqxlv0mVpHYnQ
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Like a bizarro world version of a Christopher Guest movie. Mean-spirited, vicious, and (almost) consistently funny.
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Kevin Thomas of the LA Times really nailed this movie right on target back in 1971: "a high-style film with lowbrow appeal, a movie after which you may dislike yourself for liking it as much as you do."
We get into Dirty Harry on the pod: spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/YRxftatibJb
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Go for the marvelous Sayombhu Mukdeeprom photography, the three brilliant leads, the trademark Luca Guadagnino sunshine and moody eroticism, and stay for the Reznor/Ross score transforming any Large Format auditorium into a full-on rave.
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Just a fair warning, this adorable and charming animated film will eventually ruin your life. It will happen and you'll be like, "ah fuck, here it comes", and you can't do anything to stop it.
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Corey picking this for the pod was like digging up an ancient relic circa 1990. Definitely feels like a movie that wasn't supposed to be watched past its opening weekend.
More here: open.spotify.com/episode/1yCsMDECj2oLnpeMNNLoOm?si=l06IhzqMTuq17K-OXpWUXw
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There's a photo of me somewhere in a family picture album of a 6 year old Will doing a spidey pose next to a Spider-Man statue at my local Blockbuster Video, impatiently awaiting the DVD release. Without question, one of the defining motion pictures of my life. I had the toys, the costume, and an inkling for horror and pulp. That's all it took for me to fall in love with the pop-art sensations of Sam Raimi's first web-slinger…