3 things about Matthew Warchus’s PRIDE

Posted on June 2, 2026 by robchristopher

Pride [2014]

1. Margarine sandwiches.
2. She gets out of the van and shouts, “Where are my lesbians? Where are my lesbians?”
3. Headlined by Bronski Beat.

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3 things about Kane Parsons’ BACKROOMS

Posted on June 1, 2026 by robchristopher

Backrooms [2026]

  1. Mounds of discarded clothes; a “Stop Apartheid” t-shirt.
  2. The excavator rips into the house.
  3. Absurd belly shirt.

Any film which, consciously or not, evokes Robert A. Heinlein’s classic short story “—And He Built a Crooked House—” (1941), Richard Matheson’s “Little Girl Lost” episode of The Twilight Zone (1962), and David Lynch’s INLAND EMPIRE (2006) has got my attention. 

Its only “flaw” is that it’s not much of a horror film. (Something I couldn’t care less about, so it’s all to the good.) Pretty much everything else is impeccable! Quite an allegory of AI’s awfulness. The production design is genuinely astonishing. Last Year at Marienbad by way of K-Mart.

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3 things about Jerry London’s RENT-A-COP

Posted on May 31, 2026 by robchristopher

Rent-a-Cop [1987]

1. A nice touch: he’s a department store Santa at Carson’s, not the more upscale Marshall Field’s.
2. The hottest nightclub in Chicago is The Golden Gargoyle.
3. “Sometimes you have to go through a hell of a lot to find out what you’re really good at.”

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3 things about Angus MacLachlan’s A LITTLE PRAYER

Posted on May 28, 2026 by robchristopher

A Little Prayer [2023]

1. Hiding the pregnancy test in the garbage.
2. Gently, she tells the child to stop bashing the tree.
3. He explains the meaning of “panorama.”

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3 things about John Glen’s FOR YOUR EYES ONLY

Posted on May 27, 2026 by robchristopher

For Your Eyes Only [1981]

1. Not Liverpool, she corrects him. Manchester.
2. Before the meal, ouzo.
3. “An old smuggler’s trick and he knows them all.”

3 other things.

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3 things about John Badham’s BLUE THUNDER

Posted on May 26, 2026 by robchristopher

Blue Thunder [1983]

1. His last words: “That’s impossible!”
2. Raining BBQ.
3. Car chase through a drive-in.

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3 things about Stanley Kramer’s THE DEFIANT ONES

Posted on May 25, 2026 by robchristopher

The Defiant Ones [1958]

1. He applies a poultice after they climb out of the clay pit.
2. Sharing roasted frog around a campfire.
3. “Ya’ll can’t lynch me! I’m a white man!””

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3 things about Peter Scriver & Seth Scriver’s ENDLESS COOKIE

Posted on May 24, 2026 by robchristopher

Endless Cookie [2025]

1. She offers to contribute some sound effects.
2. Stomach candy.
3. Colonialist shooter game.

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3 things about Nicholas Ray’s ON DANGEROUS GROUND

Posted on May 23, 2026 by robchristopher

On Dangerous Ground [1952]

1. He gently puts all the objects back into place.
2. An address scrawled on a corner of the newspaper.
3. “When you talk to me, there’s no pity in your voice.”

3 other things.

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3 things about Sophy Romvari’s BLUE HERON

Posted on May 23, 2026 by robchristopher

Blue Heron [2025]

1. Years later she still has the heron keychain.
2. Gasoline in his bedroom.
3. She bends down and whispers something in her own ear.

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