Currently streaming on Netflix
Director: Michael Tiddes
Starring: Marlon Wayans, Regina Hall“It’s deja groom all over again.”
Category: Movies
OtherLife (2017)
Now Available on Netflix
Director: Ben C. Lucas
Starring: Jessica De Gouw, T.J. Power, and Thomas Cocquerel
1922 (2017)
Now Streaming on Netflix
Directed by: Zak Hilditch
Starring: Thomas Jane, Molly Parker
1922 is the newest Stephen King adaptation to make it to the big screen, via the small screens of Netflix. It also marks the sixth Stephen King adaptation this year alone – following films The Dark Tower, It, Gerald’s Game, and the TV shows The Mist and Mr. Mercedes. It’s like those years where Alicia Vikander or Jessica Chastain just happen to be in 10 movies. I’ll be honest and say I hadn’t even heard of the novella before hearing of this new Netflix horror flick – it seems like they’re coming out of the woodwork now. Is it worth it to return to the well once more for 1922? Surprisingly, yes.
Talkie Talk # 57: A Bay of Blood / Crazy Horror Title Trivia
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Happy Halloween! To celebrate the spookfest, our homework is the 1971 influential Italian (but English-speaking) horror film A Bay of Blood by Mario Bava. This movie notoriously was released under more titles than any movie – under Chain Reaction, Twitch of the Death Nerve, even Last House on the Left 2 (no connection to that franchise… at all). In honor of the many-named film, we have a trivia game for Crazy Horror Titles, specifically horror subtitles.
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Homework Assignment: A Bay of Blood (2:28)
Main Topic: Crazy Horror Sequel Titles (17:35)
New Homework Assignment: Stripes for Talk of Fame (Starz) (39:23)
Warning: Some mild language. Some language is picante.
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Suburbicon (2017)
In theaters now
Director: George Clooney
Starring: Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Oscar Isaac
The Babysitter (2017)
Now streaming on Netflix
Director: McG
Starring: Judah Lewis and Samara Weaving
Talkie Talk #56: Talk of Fame – An American Werewolf in London (1981)
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Light your candles and dust off your pentangles, because we are talking An American Werewolf in London for submission to the Talk of Fame. It’s a real bloodbath, both in the movie… and on the pod!
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Homework/Main Topic: An American Werewolf in London Talk of Fame (0:53)
New Homework: Bay of Blood (Filmstruck) (53:09)
Warning: Some mild language. Some language is picante.
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The Beguiled (2017)
Now available to rent on Amazon, Apple, Google Play $4.99
Director: Sofia Coppola
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning
Virginia. Three years into the civil war. A girl wanders the forest, looking for mushrooms, and comes across a wounded Union colonel, John McBurney (Colin Farrell), and takes him back to her school, the Seminary for Young Ladies. The school, run by the steely and pragmatic head-mistress Miss Martha (Nicole Kidman), only has a few students left and one teacher, Edwina (Kirsten Dunst), around. Everyone else has ditched the Seminary to be with their families, or perhaps had existentialist crises about the conflict of teaching/learning sewing / violin / French as the country is torn apart, causing them to wander country roads in search of meaning (my fan-fiction, not really within the movie). The school is a mansion on a small plantation, and has run into disrepair, as the civil war is raging outside the iron gates. At first, the ladies hide the charming Union soldier from the Confederates, who check in on the school. Later, they are confronted by the consequences of this “Christian-minded” action, as McBurney disrupts the equilibrium of this little community. I’m comfortable giving away this plot (for free!) as the film is not that interested in it. Instead, it luxuriates in the humid and tense atmosphere of a school being reclaimed by nature and repressed feelings. And there’s the crux.
Talkie Talk # 55: The Watchlist / Survivor / The Florida Project / News – 10/25
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Talking Survivor, The Challenge, Are You the One? for our reality focus – we talk Watchlists, including the new Florida Project and a tiny taste of Breezy on the Streets (week’s news in film, TV and games).
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The Watchlist (1:51)
Reality Dump: The Challenge (1:51), Are You the One? (5:52), Survivor (8:00)
TJ: Minions (19:25), The Florida Project (19:52)
Brent: Song to Song (25:47), Blade Runner 2049 (28:34), Death Note (34:44), Gerald’s Game (36:21)
Chris: This Is Us Season 1 (44:16), Mindhunter Season 1 (46:51), Mine (48:01), Dragon Blade (51:29)
Breezy on the Streets (54:00)
Best Bet this Weekend (55:15)
Warning: Some mild language. Some language is picante.
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Too Funny to Fail (2017)
Now streaming on Hulu
Director: Josh Greenbaum
Starring: Dana Carvey, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Robert Smigel