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Spring Season: Week 80
I keep all of my long-sleeved shirts on a higher shelf that I rarely bother to reach for, but I was feeling fat and cold this morning, so I busted out an old purple and grey number I used to wear a lot, and my boss complimented me on it when he came in this morning, and now I feel good, so hooray!
For the love of god, somebody remind me to buy new boots on my week off, though, OW.
FILMS
Blow Out (1981): This movie is even better when I can focus on it properly because I'm not spending the entire thing obsessing over where I know the recurring love theme from (Planet Terror!).
Color Adjustment (1992): Damn, this thing does not pull any punches. Full of stuff that I already technically know (it fuckin' sucks not seeing anybody who looks like you represented in your society's primary modes of entertainment, even some of the biggest strides forward in terms of decent representation over the years have been deeply flawed because they're all still fighting from the back), expressed much more starkly and clearly than I think I've ever seen?
Cutter's Way (1981): Has a fairly open relationship with things like plot and clarity in a very particular '80s way that I can't define but know when I see it, but hey, it knows what works for its life. Young Jeff Bridges always feels unsettlingly lean to me.
Key Largo (1948): I always conflate this movie and To Have and Have Not in my head despite never having actually seen either (I kept expecting the plot to mirror The Breaking Point before remembering no, that's the other one), so hopefully this will put an end to that! Such good shit! Claire Trevor is just haunting.
The Royal Road (2015): Dear essay filmmakers: narration is a skill. I know you want to be the ones to tell your own stories, but I promise there are people who will get the point across better than an hour plus of your atonal droning. For the love of god.
SHORTS
Les enfants de la nuit (2011): I feel like this expected me to have a lot more sympathy for the lead than I did. Maybe if the forbidden tragic romance hadn't been with such a shitty, pushy weenie of a Nazi? I'm sure it was a very nuanced issue in real life, but she deserved every bit of that shaming, that dude suuuuuuucked.
Cityscape (2019): Always nice to get to see Toronto play itself for once. I think this would give me a panic attack in IMAX!
Long Train Running: A History of the Oakland Blues (1981): Doesn't seem to have a whole lot to say, but a nice place to spend a bit of time in regardless.
Non, je ne regrette rien (1993): 'Powerful' is such a corny, overused descriptor for movies, but... yeah, that's all I got here. Painful, moving, measured but passionate in all the best ways. Managed to keep my awareness of how little time all these men had left at bay until the very end, at least, and then I googled my favourite one and yeah, he was dead like a year later and I criiiiiiiiiied and cried.
Tongues Untied (1989): Jesus christ, Marlon Riggs. It takes a lot to get me to not zone out when documentaries use passages of poetry and quotes and shit, but pretty much every moment of this just slaps you in the fucking face. So good and upsetting and maybe hopeful?
TELEVISION
Queer Eye 4x07/4x08: FEEL. GOOD. SCHLOCK. The clear three-tiered hierarchy of the Fab Five remains firmly in place (Antoni and Karamo: useless but we love them anyway, Jonathan and Tan: the reliable workhorses, Bobby: king shit of fuck mountain the secret MVP).
Rick and Morty 5x09/5x10: BOY, THEY WENT OUT LORE-HEAVY ON THIS ONE, HUH. Hopefully the era of two-year gaps between seasons is over for keeps.
Riverdale 5x15: This episode was a hot nonsense mess of a narrative, but fuck it, JOSIE!!! I still need to actually watch Katy Keene, OOPS, it's my fault she had to come back! Since they immediately wrote her out again, this was her one episode, so I'm fine with them going all out with it. Melody's (and to a lesser extent Valerie's) big number was so many worlds more entertaining than the lazy theater kid pop covers they've come to rely on, though. Loved her calling out all the horrible Riverdale young adults (NOT CHILDREN ANY MORE) for all the horrible shit they did that we all just forget when moving onto the next bit of insanity. Also loved her rolling into town and just immediately sleeping with Sweet Pea before rolling back on out, good for her. Please give the Pussycats the spinoff they were clearly gunning for with that ending so that they can actually have the musical show that they so desperately want to make instead of whatever the hell they keep doing with this one.
Star Trek: Lower Decks 2x05 They should have brought their skants!!
What If...? 1x05: Sixty Spooks #6 of 60! ZOMBIES!!! Digging this current trend of every episode being more depressing than the last, but surely they have to bottom out somewhere, right? We're halfway through the season now, time to start setting up Big Peg showing up and beheading Zombie Thanos, right? Head-in-a-jar Scott flying around with the cape was legit the funniest goddamn thing I've seen in ages.
Wrestling
AEW Dark 3x38
AEW Dark: Elevation 1x27
AEW Dynamite 3x36
AEW Rampage 1x05
Before the IMPACT 1x30
IMPACT! Wrestling 18x36
New Japan Pro-Wrestling 1x40
NJPW Strong 2x36
NWA Powerrr 6x02
ROH Glory By Honor 2021 Night 1
ROH Glory By Honor 2021 Night 2
ROH Week By Week 2x36
ROH Women's Division Wednesday 1x20
ROH Wrestling 13x36
We are STARDOM!! 1x40/1x41
One more day of this left. Strength. STRENGTH!!! A little over six hours until I can go home and watch Elevation.
For the love of god, somebody remind me to buy new boots on my week off, though, OW.
FILMS
Blow Out (1981): This movie is even better when I can focus on it properly because I'm not spending the entire thing obsessing over where I know the recurring love theme from (Planet Terror!).
Color Adjustment (1992): Damn, this thing does not pull any punches. Full of stuff that I already technically know (it fuckin' sucks not seeing anybody who looks like you represented in your society's primary modes of entertainment, even some of the biggest strides forward in terms of decent representation over the years have been deeply flawed because they're all still fighting from the back), expressed much more starkly and clearly than I think I've ever seen?
Cutter's Way (1981): Has a fairly open relationship with things like plot and clarity in a very particular '80s way that I can't define but know when I see it, but hey, it knows what works for its life. Young Jeff Bridges always feels unsettlingly lean to me.
Key Largo (1948): I always conflate this movie and To Have and Have Not in my head despite never having actually seen either (I kept expecting the plot to mirror The Breaking Point before remembering no, that's the other one), so hopefully this will put an end to that! Such good shit! Claire Trevor is just haunting.
The Royal Road (2015): Dear essay filmmakers: narration is a skill. I know you want to be the ones to tell your own stories, but I promise there are people who will get the point across better than an hour plus of your atonal droning. For the love of god.
SHORTS
Les enfants de la nuit (2011): I feel like this expected me to have a lot more sympathy for the lead than I did. Maybe if the forbidden tragic romance hadn't been with such a shitty, pushy weenie of a Nazi? I'm sure it was a very nuanced issue in real life, but she deserved every bit of that shaming, that dude suuuuuuucked.
Cityscape (2019): Always nice to get to see Toronto play itself for once. I think this would give me a panic attack in IMAX!
Long Train Running: A History of the Oakland Blues (1981): Doesn't seem to have a whole lot to say, but a nice place to spend a bit of time in regardless.
Non, je ne regrette rien (1993): 'Powerful' is such a corny, overused descriptor for movies, but... yeah, that's all I got here. Painful, moving, measured but passionate in all the best ways. Managed to keep my awareness of how little time all these men had left at bay until the very end, at least, and then I googled my favourite one and yeah, he was dead like a year later and I criiiiiiiiiied and cried.
Tongues Untied (1989): Jesus christ, Marlon Riggs. It takes a lot to get me to not zone out when documentaries use passages of poetry and quotes and shit, but pretty much every moment of this just slaps you in the fucking face. So good and upsetting and maybe hopeful?
TELEVISION
Queer Eye 4x07/4x08: FEEL. GOOD. SCHLOCK. The clear three-tiered hierarchy of the Fab Five remains firmly in place (Antoni and Karamo: useless but we love them anyway, Jonathan and Tan: the reliable workhorses, Bobby: king shit of fuck mountain the secret MVP).
Rick and Morty 5x09/5x10: BOY, THEY WENT OUT LORE-HEAVY ON THIS ONE, HUH. Hopefully the era of two-year gaps between seasons is over for keeps.
Riverdale 5x15: This episode was a hot nonsense mess of a narrative, but fuck it, JOSIE!!! I still need to actually watch Katy Keene, OOPS, it's my fault she had to come back! Since they immediately wrote her out again, this was her one episode, so I'm fine with them going all out with it. Melody's (and to a lesser extent Valerie's) big number was so many worlds more entertaining than the lazy theater kid pop covers they've come to rely on, though. Loved her calling out all the horrible Riverdale young adults (NOT CHILDREN ANY MORE) for all the horrible shit they did that we all just forget when moving onto the next bit of insanity. Also loved her rolling into town and just immediately sleeping with Sweet Pea before rolling back on out, good for her. Please give the Pussycats the spinoff they were clearly gunning for with that ending so that they can actually have the musical show that they so desperately want to make instead of whatever the hell they keep doing with this one.
Star Trek: Lower Decks 2x05 They should have brought their skants!!
What If...? 1x05: Sixty Spooks #6 of 60! ZOMBIES!!! Digging this current trend of every episode being more depressing than the last, but surely they have to bottom out somewhere, right? We're halfway through the season now, time to start setting up Big Peg showing up and beheading Zombie Thanos, right? Head-in-a-jar Scott flying around with the cape was legit the funniest goddamn thing I've seen in ages.
Wrestling
AEW Dark 3x38
AEW Dark: Elevation 1x27
AEW Dynamite 3x36
AEW Rampage 1x05
Before the IMPACT 1x30
IMPACT! Wrestling 18x36
New Japan Pro-Wrestling 1x40
NJPW Strong 2x36
NWA Powerrr 6x02
ROH Glory By Honor 2021 Night 1
ROH Glory By Honor 2021 Night 2
ROH Week By Week 2x36
ROH Women's Division Wednesday 1x20
ROH Wrestling 13x36
We are STARDOM!! 1x40/1x41
One more day of this left. Strength. STRENGTH!!! A little over six hours until I can go home and watch Elevation.