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Renfield (2023)
Fun rake on a classic tale
Renfield is a fun and funny take on the classic Dracula tale. After a century under the spell of a monster, wouldn't you want to reclaim your life and humanity too?
Akwafina is always so charming, and watching her and Nicholas Holt go bananas on bad guys is supes entertaining. It's appropriately campy at times, harkoning back to the original Universal monster movies, but also has a lot of heart and is just generally an enjoyable movie. If you don't like over-the-top tongue-in-cheek violence and gore, maybe this isn't the movie for you. But we left the theater with big ol smiles on our faces and would happily watch Renfield again.
The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
Pleasantly surprising (not to mention fantastically vulgar)
I was really surprised with this movie. Going in to the sneak preview, knowing nothing about the movie except for the one trailer I'd seen, I thought it was going to be a Dude Where's My Car kind of crap fest. I was expecting bad sex jokes and farting and a pathetic lead character who will get laid in the end because that's just how movies work. Instead I got a smart, surprisingly original movie about a decent, average guy who just never had sex.
Yes, the film is chock full o' sex jokes and vulgarity and the occasional hey-look-a-nipple!, but it's done much in the spirit of Bad Santa rather than Sorority Boys. All the characters are people you probably know in real life, redeemable friends who are just trying to hook a brother up and live their lives.
I went in thinking this movie was going to be total crap, and I was very surprised. Yea, it's pretty over the top (c'mon, it's a movie about a 40 year old virgin!), but it's very smartly done.
In the end, you're really pulling for this guy to get laid, which says a lot about the movie because honestly, did you really care if Ashton Kutcher found his car or not?
The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
So much crying, but oh sooooo good.
Normally when I cry at a movie, it's a single tear that quietly slips out just as the credits start to roll. But sometimes, on VERY rare occasions, I actually sob.
Schindler's List. Cinema Paradiso. The Pianist.
But this movie - this sappy chick flick - I cried like a baby. And damn if it didn't feel GOOD.
So, if you're looking for a damn fine romance that's seamlessly made, and sobbing like a small child sounds really really good to you, I'd DEFINITELY recommend this movie.
Andy Richter Controls the Universe (2002)
Yes! It's back!
Andy Richter Controls the Universe is the coolest show in years, and the most genius thing to come out of FOX since The Simpsons. It is one of the few shows out there that's funny and innovative and smart, and actually entertaining! I just hope it can stick around this time. It's so hard to find a TV show that doesn't pander to the majority of mentally vapid viewers, and I guess that's why it got canned in the first place... because this is a show for the discerning viewer who wants their comedy with intelligence and without a laugh track.
Braindead (1992)
Best movie ever? Well, best horror anyway...
There are only three things you need to know in order to make a great horror film: 1) If you don't have a zombie-rat-monkey-thing, you don't have anything. 2) You can never have too many ninja priests. 3) There's nothing better than disemboweled intestines chasing the protagonist.
Dead Alive has all these and more. Go See It. Now.