Luna
Jill Clayburg sleeps with son
Ma Barker’s Killer Brood
Mom and sons rob banks
Losing Isiah
Junkie mom/white foster throwdown
Movies on the Criterion Channel
Lost Highway
Robert Blake makes creepy appearance
The Fisher King
Underrated Robin Williams is heroic
Night of the Living Dead
Romero’s black and white classic
Next: Last three movies you watched on Netflix
The Twister: Caught in the Storm
Survivors recall deadly Joplin tornado.
Happy Gilmore 2
Alcoholic widower returns to golf.
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
Detroit cop in Beverly Hills.
Movies with gay subtext
Tea and Sympathy
Come, now-- he’s just shy.
Fried Green Tomatoes
She said “our bed”! Our!
Rope
Based on real-life ambiguous couple.
NEXT: Movies from before 2000, that are explicitly gay, no subtext
Cruising
Al Pacino: Lips or hips?
Madchen in Uniform (1931)
Oh, those boarding school girls!
Making Love
Kate Jackson, Harry Hamlin, dude.
NEXT: Movies featuring Dirty Damn Hippies
Woodstock
It’s Woodstock, for Christ’s sake.
Hair
Guy gets drafted, meets hippies.
Alice’s Restaurant
Trash incident = disqualified for war.
The films of John Hughes
Uncle Buck
Bachelor reconnects with brother’s family
Sixteen Candles
Teen’s sixteenth birthday is forgotten
The Breakfast Club
Brain, Athlete, Nutjob, Princess, Criminal
Next: More Brat Pack movies
Some Kind of Wonderful
Dating techniques I never use
St. Elmo’s Fire
Emilio Estevez digs older chick
Pretty in Pink
I overly related to Ducky.
Next Movies where the dog tragically dies
Old Yeller
Rabies is a terrible disease
Marley & Me
Adorable, troublesome Lab snuffs it
Hachi: A Dog’s Tale
Very loyal dog’s finally rewarded
Next up:
Movies about offbeat artists
Great Balls of Fire
Skilled pianist marries young cousin.
Amadeus
Eccentric Mozart upsets Antonio Salieri.
Moulin Rouge
Lautrec gets a little Toulouse.
Next: Movies You’ve Seen, but that You Never Want to See Again
The Mist
The ending just killed me.
The Kids Are Alright
A depressing family crumbles slowly.
Little Miss Sunshine
Except Olive, unlikeable characters all.
Movies with scenes where food plays an important role
When Harry Met Sally
What was Meg Ryan eating?
Lady and the Tramp
Dogs eat spaghetti? Who knew?
The Godfather
How to make pasta sauce.
Next: Moves made from/inspired by TV shows
The Naked Gun
Based on TV’s Police Squad
Serenity
Firefly takes a theatrical run
Borat
From Da Ali G Show
Next: More movies made from/inspired by TV shows
Baywatch
Dwayne, Zac in saltwater stinker
The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)
Just 14% on Rotten Tomatoes
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Got the Trekker franchise started
Next up:
Good movies made from/inspired by TV shows
That’s an important feature of the story. Everyone in the family is a speciic type of over-the-top loser; remember Paul Dano’s rant in the desert right before Olive calms him down? “Divorce! Bankrupt! Suicide!” And now he’s inescapably just like them. Olive might be the first one in the family to break the chain–she won’t but they don’t know that yet, she is their last desperate hope. This is actually one of my favorite movies!
Good movies made from/inspired by TV shows
The Addams Family
Creepy, crawly family defends inheritance
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Arguably best 90s Batman movie
The Muppet Movie
Henson brings magic to screen
Next: Movies with Muppets
The Great Muppet Caper
The fourth wall? Totally shattered!
Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird
Welcome to Toadstool: Mushroom City
Muppets Treasure Island
Tim Curry: The Greatest Muppet
Next:
Movies with foxes in them
The Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Cellar’s full of boozy cider
Robin Hood (1973)
Disney’s take on the legend.
The Bad Guys (2022)
Foxy Diane keeps poor company.
Next: Movies with seriously miscast characters
Airport
Dean Martin sober? Flying airliner?
Down Periscope
Grammer’s “Frasier” character commands submarine.
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Costner cannot do English accent.
Next: More movies with seriously miscast characters
Lindsay Lohan as Elizabeth Taylor in Liz & Dick
No “old Hollywood” presence whatsoever.
John Wayne as Genghis Khan in The Conqueror
Seriously? Really? who thought this?
Vince Vaughn as Norman Bates in Psycho (non-Hitchcock poorly-imagined remake of 1998)
Vaughn vacationing from college football?
NEXT: Odd casting choices that worked.