3 things about Stephen Maing and Brett Story’s UNION

Posted on October 8, 2025 by robchristopher

Union [2024]

1. Laptop propped up using Monopoly.
2. Container ship named CAPITAL.
3. A two-hour commute via MTA.

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3 things about Paul Thomas Anderson’s ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

Posted on October 3, 2025 by robchristopher

One Battle After Another [2025]

1. “Do the revolution, baby. Do the revolution.”
2. Reciting lines from The Battle of Algiers.
3. Suite 55.

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3 things about Billy Wilder’s SUNSET BLVD.

Posted on September 22, 2025 by robchristopher

Sunset Blvd. [1950]

1. Solid gold cigarette case.
2. “Get me Gordon Cole.”
3. He references The Naked and The Dead.

3 other things.

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3 things about Sean Baker’s ANORA

Posted on September 21, 2025 by robchristopher

Anora [2024]

1. It’s his grandmother’s car.
2. Spraying champagne aboard a private jet.
3. “You know, you should learn English first before you attempt French.”

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3 things about Vanessa Gould’s OBIT.

Posted on September 19, 2025 by robchristopher

Obit. [2016]

1. The morgue of the New York Times: 10,000 drawers.
2. An inherently retrospective disciple.
3. No euphemisms for “death” permitted.

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3 things about Sidney Lumet’s THE WIZ

Posted on September 18, 2025 by robchristopher

The Wiz [1978]

1. Hungry trashcans.
2. Sweaty sweatshop sign.
3. Starbabies.

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3 things about Ceyda Torun’s KEDI

Posted on September 13, 2025 by robchristopher

Kedi [2016]

1. If you can’t love an animal, you can’t love a person.
2. Everyone has open tabs at the vet.
3. Feeding her babies.

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3 things about t.o.L’s TAMALA 2010: A PUNK CAT IN SPACE

Posted on September 12, 2025 by robchristopher

Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space [2002]

1. Let’s! Catty Diet!
only 7 yen
2. His name, as he keeps reminding her, is Michelangelo.
3. Trying to find the toilet in the basement of the museum.

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3 things about Walter Salles’s I’M STILL HERE

Posted on September 11, 2025 by robchristopher

I’m Still Here [2024]

1. Burying a tooth on the beach.
2. They pull away from the house for the last time without saying anything.
3. A secret bottle hidden in his desk at work.

3 other things.

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3 things about Richard Quine’s STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET

Posted on September 7, 2025 by robchristopher

Strangers When We Meet [1960]

1. “Martinis don’t mix with S-E-X.”
2. Walter Matthau as a lecherous heel.
3. Inappropriate mixed chorus vocal version of the theme song as the film ends.

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