She needs to suck it up. I had an Alien, Us, and Get Out weekend with my 11-year old a few months ago. Now he wants to watch scary shit all the time. We were just talking about The Thing this morning, but I’m saving that one - I think it would be a bit much.
(Clearly I’m joking - I give your kid credit for a) trying, and b) being honest and bailing.)
She was okay with it, if rather bored, up to that point. Obviously the effects of that era didn’t wow her as you might expect. She even commented that the room with all the lights where they went to “talk” to the computer “would be a great place to make Tik Toks.” 
But when the alien constricts around dude’s neck it was time to move on to other household projects lol
Liquid Sky
5/10
Rotten Tomatoes has this at like 90% rating from critics (20 of them) and it’s one of those times where art house film critics are way too far up their own asses. Absolutely no way this approaches a serviceable movie. Scenes are disjointed, editing is weird, acting is bland. The plot about aliens killing people who have orgasms, the frank discussion of drugs, and the crazy David Bowie/ Lady Gaga get ups everyone has is enough to not make it absolutely terrible but definitely wouldn’t recommend
The Young Karl Marx
9/10
Loved it. Starts with Marx’s beginnings, his relationship with Engels, and his contentious relationships with everyone else
My biggest film weakness is for disaster movies, I can watch any old shite as long as the fate of the human race is at stake. This was useful too keep me going through The Wandering Earth, a Chinese disaster epic that came out last year. It was really shoddy, indistinguishable from the average SyFy channel disaster movie except for the budget.
I love Sci Fi and I hate people who care about its plausibility, but this one even managed to offend me. Before the intro was over the Earth had rockets all over it and was being flown across the galaxy to a new star because the Sun [was doing something or other, I’ve already forgotten]. After that it just got stupider, no plot point or piece of character motivation made any sense and it was as mawkish a film as I’ve ever seen. It was dreadful, and to be saying that about a film that involved exploding Jupiter to catapult the Earth out of the solar system is a sad sad day.
Anyway, I don’t want to offend our new global overlords, but they need to up their game quite a lot. It was even worse than 2012.
https://collider.com/movie-theaters-reopening-why-you-shouldnt-go/
Any movie theater that doesn’t make wearing masks mandatory is asking that the customer (or “guest” as the PR would like to refer to audience members) assume all the risks so that these businesses can resume making money. Your safety is not their concern.
Halfway through ‘The Short History of the Long Road,’ and it’s good.
My main man Bill Corbett is also a fan of Mandy (greatest movie ever) and I feel extremely validated by this.
https://twitter.com/BillCorbett/status/1274557176242221058?s=20
https://twitter.com/BillCorbett/status/1274554521524584448?s=20
Saw it in the theater on its 1 day showing. If anyone can catch their first viewing at a drive in I highly recommend it.
I haven’t been thinking of drive-in theaters lately, but I’m so glad you mentioned them. There’s no way I’m going back into a movie theater to see Tenet, but if I could see it at a drive-in? 
Drive-in movie theaters are open again. Here’s what it’s like to go, masks and all.
And here’s what’s odd about those movies: Surely everyone at the Skyline or the Rodeo could have watched what they came to see at home. “The Goonies” didn’t translate very well to a drive-in screening — the projection was muddy, to such an extent that it was hard to tell the characters apart. “The Invisible Man,” newly in theaters earlier this year, fared much better — it looked crisp, and there was something delicious about watching a scary movie while out in the woods, with a potential invisible man right there in your back seat — but still could easily be watched in one’s living room.
But I suspect that didn’t matter. Going to the drive-in, it seems, is less about seeing a movie and more about the gathering: about rolling down the windows and smelling the cool quiet; about getting out of the house and seeing people on a larger-than-life screen; about parking a car on the same dirt that’s stood there for decades. About knowing that, as you sit in your car in the dark, there’s a quiet community all around you; all of us caught up in the movie and the night, together. About taking time, to pause and wait and let the world slow down, just a bit.
https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1275122309091729408
Batman and Robin isn’t nearly as bad as we remember.
It’s not GOOD, heavens no. But Joel’s contributions to movies and storytelling are undeniable.
Best set up for adrive in movie is a pickup truck, back in tailgate first. Drop the tailgate, set up some lawn chairs and a cooler in the bed
A town I lived in had a drive in movie theater, it was great.
That sounds amazing
This sounds excellent. My only objection would be well how are you going to hotbox if you’re not in the cabin.
Lol how fucking meta can we be.
Batman plays Birdman to then go on to play Batman like he did in Birdman.
Randomly I just watched American Assassin last night. Keaton was almost believable as a “tough-as-nails former U.S. Navy S.E.A.L.” but in the end I couldn’t quite buy it. My enjoyment of the movie was also hobbled by its horrible politics. Otherwise it was serviceable–worth the price (free on Netflix).
Whoa! That sounds like a Nic Cage-level hate watch waiting for me.
If you want to see some prime Michael Keaton man meat, 1998’s Desperate Measures with Andy Garcia.
