3 things about Ken Finkleman’s AIRPLANE II: THE SEQUEL

Posted on October 23, 2020 by robchristopher

Airplane II: The Sequel [1982]

1. Theme from The Love Boat.
2. “I’m sorry, I don’t do impressions; my training is in psychiatry.”
3. Loud elevator.

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3 things about Joseph Newman’s THIS ISLAND EARTH

Posted on October 22, 2020 by robchristopher

This Island Earth [1955]

1. Catalog with pages made of metal.
2. Pulsing neon green.
3. Cat lapping up milk while perched on a lead slab.

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3 things about Christopher Nolan’s INSOMNIA

Posted on October 21, 2020 by robchristopher

Insomnia [2002]

1. It’s 10 PM, not 10 AM.
2. “There are two kinds of people who live in Alaska: the ones who are born here and the ones who come here to escape something else. I wasn’t born here.”
3. Paul Dooley’s schlumpy polo shirt.

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3 things about John Hancock’s LET’S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH

Posted on October 20, 2020 by robchristopher

Let’s Scare Jessica to Death [1971]

1. Getting back to the land includes spraying your apple orchard with poisonous pesticide.
2. Evil flowers lamp.
3. Rowing, motionless.

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3 things about Spike Lee’s DAVID BYRNE’S AMERICAN UTOPIA

Posted on October 19, 2020 by robchristopher

David Byrne’s American Utopia [2020]

1. Tracing the longitudinal fissure with his index finger.
2. Pant leg dance moves.
3. Congratulating an audience member on his age.

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3 things about Jack Arnold’s TARANTULA

Posted on October 14, 2020 by robchristopher

Tarantula [1955]

1. “The bones just stripped clean like peeling a banana!”
2. Pools of goo.
3. Leo G. Carroll’s monstrous brow.

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3 things about William Castle’s HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL

Posted on October 14, 2020 by robchristopher

House on Haunted Hill [1959]

1. “Don’t you see a little touch of greed around the mouth and eyes?”
2. Blood on the ceiling.
3. Marionette contraption.

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3 things about Gary Sherman’s DEATH LINE

Posted on October 13, 2020 by robchristopher

Death Line [1972]

1. Fixation on teabags.
2. Handy oil dispenser.
3. Biting off a rat’s head.

A few bravura sequences (opening title, lengthy tracking shot of the hidden lair) but this mostly plods along.

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3 things about Paul Thomas Anderson’s THERE WILL BE BLOOD

Posted on October 12, 2020 by robchristopher

There Will Be Blood [2007]

1. “I should have known that under this, all these years you’ve been building your hate for me piece by piece.”
2. A plate of cold spare ribs.
3. Filthy will oil and dirt, lying together on top of a blanket.

3 other things.

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3 things about Rian Johnson’s KNIVES OUT

Posted on October 10, 2020 by robchristopher

Knives Out [2019]

1. Dust bunnies on the floor of the abandoned laundromat.
2. Fruit magnet scrambling the videotape.
3. Jolly sailor at the foot of the staircase; an allusion to Sleuth?

3 other things.

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