This semester I have gotten far off-track with the show, so I’m just now catching up with show pages and they’re going to be very slapdash.
After the Summer we came back and did a two-part catch-up show to talk about the various films we’d seen over the season.
Here’s part one:
…wherein we discuss Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2, The Big Sick and Dunkirk.
And here’s part two:
…wherein we discuss War For the Planet of the Apes, The Dark Tower, and Baby Driver.
So apparently I forgot to publish a page for our show about Elem Klimov’s Come and See! What a fool I’ve been.
Here’s what you need to know: this film is perfect and jaw-dropping, and so is our review of it.
Adding guests to the show didn’t really complicate our production schedule until one of those guests HAD to appear for a review. We needed Jon, needed him to talk about James Mangold’s Logan, the final appearance of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine from the X-Men franchise of movies from Marvel and Fox. This excellent film also stars Patrick Stewart as Professor Charles Xavier and Dafne Keen as Laura. It took us two months to make it happen, but here it is.
I really fucked up this time, and I seem to be on a real streak in that regard. For starters, I called Stephen Merchant’s Caliban “Callorann”, the same fake name I kept wrongly using to refer to Scatman Crothers’ Hallorann way back in our GBU 4 review of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Then, I wrongly claimed that Dafne Keen was an American, and this was easy enough to cut out and save face. The Callorann shit had to stay in, and my ego may never walk again.
If it sounds a little loud, I have been experimenting with trying to find the perfect settings for our volume. It’s hard because 
SOME PEOPLE don’t know how to get on-mic and stay there. I also wish we could have fit a bunch of clips of the film into the show like we did with The Wrestler, but unfortunately Fox has got almost all footage of this movie locked down tight, and the quiet, less-than-ideal clip I used in the beginning was just about the only usable one online. I’d like to say we’ll have clips in the next two shows, but we really won’t, as they’re both foreign features.
Speaking of which, get ready for our next episode, which will come out in a timely manner two weeks from today: Elem Klimov’s Come and See, which we forgot to name-drop at the end of this episode.
Be sure to rate and review the show on iTunes and tell a friend if you like what we’re doing. And now, to put one more thing in, here’s the trailer for Logan if you’re somehow not only unaware of its existence, but somehow learning it from this obscure film review podcast’s even more obscure website:
We’re back to discuss Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood.
I fucked it up again. Keegan*-Michael Key and Mike* Birbiglia, thank you very much!
There’s not much to say about this episode. It was in the pipe for months, and we finally recorded it. In fact, we wanted to record a show about the recently released Logan, but we need Jon on the show to have the best possible discussion of that, and since we couldn’t get him, we did The Wrestler instead. The Logan episode is forthcoming, though, and there may be another Wong Kar-Wai film coming down the pike.
Be sure to rate and review the show on iTunes and tell a friend if you like what we’re doing. And sometime between now and, oooh, two weeks from now, catch Logan while it’s still in theaters so you’ll be ready for our next romp into film review.
Ho, ho, ho! It’s the second annual last-minute Christmas Miracle GBU Christmas special!
Brian’s Exploratory Christmas Endeavor 2016: 9/25
It’s no secret that I’ve spent most of my life disapproving of this movie. I watched it a fair amount as a child, as my aunt gifted me a copy one year for the holidays. Then I grew out of it, left it in that great pile of films I once enjoyed but didn’t feel much need for any longer.
Continue reading “The Nightmare Before Christmas”Brian’s Exploratory Christmas Endeavor 2016: 8/25
I love this special. It is unassuming, low-budget, hurried in its production, and unique. The child characters are voiced, hilariously, by inexperienced real children. Its soundtrack is among my favorite music, Christmas or otherwise, that I’ve heard in my entire life.
It’s just wonderful. And I discussed in our holiday episode last year. So I’m not going to go to too much trouble reviewing it here. It’s a 30-minute (less, really) family-friendly Christmas cartoon that does its job, and well. A classic if ever there was one.
★★★★☆
GOOD
Brian’s Exploratory Christmas Endeavor 2016: 7/25
Four Christmases isn’t a great movie, or a great Christmas movie. It just sort of is.
I saw this film, directed by Seth Gorden, when it arrived in theaters in 2008. I had gone with my family, which probably peppered my experience with a good vibe that wrongly colored my experience and my memory of this one as being enjoyable. It’s not worthless; it’s just too long and too lacking in humor. Oh, and too silly. And too big-budgety to feel like it’s got any soul in it.
Continue reading “Four Christmases”Brian’s Exploratory Christmas Endeavor 2016: 6/25
Talk about a trip through time. It’s not just an old episode of America’s longest running sitcom, animated or otherwise, it’s the first episode ever aired. This aired on 17 December, 1989. I was only 2 years old at the time.
I grew up with The Simpsons, and was a full-fledged fan at 5 or 6 years old. It accompanied my formative years in a pretty significant way. Nearly as long as I’ve been a television watcher, I’ve been a Simpsons fan.
Continue reading “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire”Brian’s Exploratory Christmas Endeavor 2016: 5/25
This was actually the first Christmas special I watched this year. Days behind on trying to write about each of these films, I scrambled to remember what all I’ve seen, and decided to cheat a little by going straight for the TV shows (read: short and easy to catch up writing on).
Continue reading “Bojack Horseman Christmas Special (Sabrina’s Christmas Wish)”
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