3 things about Rian Johnson’s WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY

Posted on December 19, 2025 by robchristopher

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery [2025]

1. The Lazarus door.
2. “I tried everything. Believe me, I hammered the race thing. I hammered the gender thing, the trans thing, the border thing, the homeless thing, the war thing, the election thing, the abortion thing, the climate thing. Thing about induction stoves, Israel, library books, vaccines, pronouns, AK47s, socialism, BLM, CRT, the CDC, DEI, 5G, everything. All of it I did. Nobody, just nothing. People are just numb these days. I don’t know why.”
3. A knob sewn on the cloak.

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3 things about Vincente Minnelli’s TEA AND SYMPATHY

Posted on December 18, 2025 by robchristopher

Tea and Sympathy [1956]

1. Bonfire like a flaming cross.
2. “Years from now when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.”
3. She remarks that he has hands like a woman’s.

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3 things about Joseph Cates’ WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR

Posted on December 9, 2025 by robchristopher

Who Killed Teddy Bear [1965]

1. Theater poster for Victor Borge.
2. Dollbaby, dollbaby, dollbaby.
3. “You have a great body.”
“I like to work out.”

What a disturbing and awesome movie. Sal Mineo and Elaine Stritch are fearless!

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3 things about Roy Rowland’s THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T.

Posted on December 7, 2025 by robchristopher

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. [1953]

1. Parachute shirttail.
2. He puts her away for the night in her “lock-me-tight.”
3. “I want my leg-of-mutton sleeves and in addition to those/I want my cutie chamois booties with the leopard skin bows/I want my pink-brocaded bodice with the fluffy, fuzzy ruffs/And my gorgeous bright blue bloomers with the monkey feather cuffs”

3 other things.

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3 things about Preston Sturges’ HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO

Posted on December 5, 2025 by robchristopher

Hail the Conquering Hero [1944]

1. Burning the mortgage at the pulpit.
2. “I never felt better in my life, except I never felt worse.”
3. Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith.

3 other things.

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3 things about John Carpenter’s ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13

Posted on December 3, 2025 by robchristopher

Assault on Precinct 13 [1976]

1. “I go through all that, and his gun isn’t even loaded.”
2. Blood on the car roof.
3. Crowbar hooks coming over the edge of the door.

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3 things about Jia Zhangke’s CAUGHT BY THE TIDES

Posted on December 2, 2025 by robchristopher

Caught by the Tides [2024]

1. Pushing her back into the seat again and again and again.
2. Wordlessly removing the taser gun from her purse and showing it to the would-be robbers.
3. The robot apologizes for not being able to read her face. She lowers her mask.

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3 things about Jafar Panahi’s IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT

Posted on November 25, 2025 by robchristopher

It Was Just an Accident [2025]

1. Motif of stray dogs.
2. After telling the security guards he doesn’t have any cash on him, one of them helpfully produces a mobile credit card reader and punches in the amount of the bribe.
3. Box of sweets for the nurse.

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3 things about Marc Forster’s QUANTUM OF SOLACE

Posted on November 24, 2025 by robchristopher

Quantum of Solace [2008]

1. “Hello. We’re teachers on sabbatical and we’ve just won the lottery.”
2. Tripping him on the stairs “accidentally.”
3. Literally at the end of his rope.

3 other things.

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3 things about John G. Avildsen’s SAVE THE TIGER

Posted on November 23, 2025 by robchristopher

Save the Tiger [1973]

1. Garters for his socks.
2. “You want something?”
“Yes … I want that girl in a Cole Porter song. I want to see Lena Horne at the Cotton Club. Hear Billie Holiday sing ‘Fine and Mellow.’ Walk in that kind of rain that never washes the perfume away. I want to be in love with something. Anything. Just an idea. A dog, a cat, anything. Something.”
3. He slips him the envelope of cash and tells him to do it Sunday, while Phil is out fishing.

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