Black Comedies.
Harold and Maude
Morbid dude meets old dame.
Eating Raoul
Cannibalism has never been funnier.
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’s Hung You In The Closet And I’m Feeling So Sad
The stage version is better.
Next: Billy Barty movies.
The Bride of Frankenstein:
Sadly, his part was cut.
Nothing Sacred:
Billed: Boy Biting Wally’s Ankle.
Gold Diggers of 1933:
Played a baby yet again.
Next: teenage angst has a body count
German expressionist movies
Nosferatu
Still scary vampire, tops Dracula
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Painted shadows, bizarre set design
*The Golem: or How He Came into the World *
German Jews briefly defend themselves
…and the next topic is?
Next: **teenage angst has a body count
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I’m not sure where the German Expressionism interlude came from. Maybe it got skipped way back due to a double post, or something.
Jennifer’s Body
Demon munches on dumb jocks.
Heathers
Killer croquet game, my dear.
Brick
High schoolers play cheap detective.
Next: Adam Arkin movies.
No it was me. I screwed up in my excitement to get back in the game, and thought for some reason it was self-chosen.
:: hangs head ::
Adam Arkin movies:
Catch-22
War sane only if insane
Glengarry Glen Ross
Death of a fucking salesman
Slums of Beverly Hills
Family searches for middle class
Movies set in WW I
Fuck me.
ADAM.
Note to self: learn to read
Paths of Glory
French troops mutiny; some executed.
Gallipoli
Botched invasion causes massive casualties.
A Very Long Engagement
Love can conquer even war.
Next: Bob Balaban movies.
Bob Balaban movies.
Moonrise Kingdom
Maybe Wes Anderson’s tenderest work.
A Mighty Wind
Guest affectionately skewers Sixties folk.
The Majestic
Amnesia, McCarythism, and Jim Carrey
Next: Lousy films featuring otherwise revered actors
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
What was Helen Mirren Thinking?
Bride of the Monster
Lugosi really needed drug money.
Flightplan
Foster shouldn’t take on Hitchcock.
Next: films starring Law & Order regulars.
Films starring Law & Order regulars.
Beauty and the Beast
Orbach is the singing candle!
Catwoman
Bratt contributes to epic stinker.
The Killing Fields
Waterston abandoned his little buddy. 
Next: Non-comedy films featuring cross-dressing.
Glen or Glenda?
It wasn’t meant as comedy.
Silence of the Lambs
Winner: most unrealistic cross-dressing depiction.
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Crossing-dressing not source of humor.
Next:** films starring real-life siblings**.
Dinner at Eight
Hey, it’s Lionel, John Barrymore!
Grosse Pointe Blank
John, Joan Cusack both appear.
Born on the Fourth of July
Watch for three youngest Baldwins.
Next: Carol Channing movies.
Carol Channing movies.
Alice In Wonderland
Wonderfully daffy as White Queen.
Thoroughly Modern Millie
She falls for an aviator.
Parade Of Stars
Lorelei Lee: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Next: Films set in Elizabethan England.
Shakespeare in Love
Warm, charming, ahistorical romantic comedy.
The Privates Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Davis, Flynn court at court.
Elizabeth
Young queen beset by danger.
Next: David Duchovny films.
David Duchovny films
Evolution
Poor man’s Ghostbuster; mildly amusing
X-Files: I Want to Believe
One more stab at it.
Kalifornia
Go for ride with killer.
Next: Téa Leoni movies
Flirting with Disaster:
Steals show from Ben Stiller.
Jurassic Park III:
What a waste of talent.
A League of Their Own:
A base of one’s own.
Oops. Next: movies with a robot/android/cyborg/mechanical person, from before 1950.