Happy Thursday, everyone! We've finally been getting snow here in Chicago and the baseball lockout continues but we can certainly look at what I've run across recently or have found while weeding before our movie.
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I've been thinking about Brooklyn (2015) lately just because it involves Irish immigrants coming over fairly soon after my own grandparents would have. It's a lovely piece of work about finding your own place while also trying to please your family. It doesn't hurt that the lead is Saoirse Ronan, who has rapidly become one of our best young actors. It's a sad and funny piece of work and I kind of hope the slow-gestating spinoff involving the Brooklyn boarding house comes to fruition at some point.
Brooklyn is available for rent or purchase at all the usual places.
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Nostalgia, as John Hodgman has said, can be a poison making everyone look back for more favorably on times that were just as bad as now. But sometimes, you just want to enjoy a good look at a weird small portion of history. For instance, this look at that brief time where London was the center of pop culture. Where Vidal Sassoon was giving woman shocking, geometrical haircuts that would reverberate for the next few decades. Where Michael Caine and Terrence Stamp shared a flat that frankly, you would never want to shine a UV light around.
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"They dyed me!"
What a weird, weird movie this is. Set in a retirement home where somehow two guys who think they are the hidden Elvis Presley and JFK are being stalked by a murderous Egyptian mummy who wants to steal old people's souls through their anuses...except the weird part is they might very well be Elvis and JFK. And they might have a chance to defeat a mummy in this dusty Texas retirement home. It's a weird, goofy movie based on a John Lansdale story I remember reading in a very odd anthology titled The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem. Absolutely worth your time if you like movies to be both mocking and enjoying their subject.
Bubba Ho-Tep is available on Hoopla as well as Tubi and Pluto TV with ads.
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My recommendation of the week? Let's go back to 1987 and watch Near Dark. It's full of the Kathryn Bigelow crew of actors (who John Cameron would borrow as well) and it's such a fantastic piece of western vampire gore that's also weirdly sad. Also, it's part of the "Bill Paxton has been killed by an Alien, a Predator, a vampire and AgentPhil Coulson" thing.
Near Dark is streaming in the US literally...nowhere. Hit eBay up for a DVD, since it's out of print. Sorry about this, but it's a great movie that it's kind of insane that it's so unavailable.
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