georgewatchesalot
@dgbellak.bsky.social
Film nut (all eras genres and budgets), armchair progressive with hypertension, proud Californian, casual retro gamer, red vine addict
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NOW WATCHING! My crystal clear 2019 Warner Archive blu of Wagon Master (1950)! A tidy epic, it's one of Ford's purest and most satisfying westerns, with his most memorable leads not named Stewart or Wayne.
That a picture as great as “Wagon Master” (released 75 years ago this week) isn't seen as one of John Ford's go-to "classics" is simply a commentary on the high quality of his entire filmography. crookedmarquee.com/the-open-hea...
April 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
NOW WATCHING! My crystal clear 2019 Warner Archive blu of Wagon Master (1950)! A tidy epic, it's one of Ford's purest and most satisfying westerns, with his most memorable leads not named Stewart or Wayne.
The mini-majors made some of the best movies ever, until greedy studios gobbled them all up in the 90s
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Movies Need More Moments Like Sam Rockwell’s Foot Clan Intro
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles features a scene where Sam Rockwell introduces ‘90s kids to skateboarding and poker. It’s amazing.
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April 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The mini-majors made some of the best movies ever, until greedy studios gobbled them all up in the 90s
Unblocking the trauma of being assigned this short story in grade school
A Single Ray of Light: On Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” and Living in the Shadow of Long COVID
“My first well Day—since many ill— I asked to go abroad, And take the Sunshine in my hands, And see the things in Pod—” —Emily Dickinson, 574 * When I was a child, I spent many long afternoons at J…
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April 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Unblocking the trauma of being assigned this short story in grade school
Approx 7 hours in, I still don't know if this is actually accomplishing anything, but it's at least marginally more inspiring than anything else party leadership is doing
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
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April 1, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Approx 7 hours in, I still don't know if this is actually accomplishing anything, but it's at least marginally more inspiring than anything else party leadership is doing
Now watching: Reform School Girls (1986), Tom DeSimone's camp punk women in prison classic is comically and brutally over the top and loaded with great line deliveries and iconic grindhouse imagery - you will never forget Wendy O. Williams riding on top of a moving bus. Fun!
A ★★★½ review of Reform School Girls (1986)
Tom DeSimone's take on women-in-prison flicks is ambitious, but it doesn't want to subvert genre expectations so much as take those expectations out to a club and get 'em hammered. He employs every ar...
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March 26, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Now watching: Reform School Girls (1986), Tom DeSimone's camp punk women in prison classic is comically and brutally over the top and loaded with great line deliveries and iconic grindhouse imagery - you will never forget Wendy O. Williams riding on top of a moving bus. Fun!
Now watching: Fist of the North Star (1986)! A thin Mad Max / Wall-E plot buried under 2 hours of machismo and exploding body parts, but the animation is gorgeous and the soundtrack thumps
February 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Now watching: Fist of the North Star (1986)! A thin Mad Max / Wall-E plot buried under 2 hours of machismo and exploding body parts, but the animation is gorgeous and the soundtrack thumps
Now watching: the delightful Ninotchka (1939)! Lubitsch sez the best economic system isn't capitalism or communism, it's Garbo's laugh, and I have to agree
February 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Now watching: the delightful Ninotchka (1939)! Lubitsch sez the best economic system isn't capitalism or communism, it's Garbo's laugh, and I have to agree
The prescience of psychedelic 60s satire The President's Analyst was eerie even before the tech bro takeover, but now? It's basically Ma Bell wanting to take over the world with Neuralink. Chilling. Still funny, tho.
Incorrigible, Lawless Plutocrats - Digby's Hullabaloo
Nihilists on a mission Still image from The President’s Analyst (1967). Yes, their plans are a bizarre geek wet dream. And yes, these gullible
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February 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The prescience of psychedelic 60s satire The President's Analyst was eerie even before the tech bro takeover, but now? It's basically Ma Bell wanting to take over the world with Neuralink. Chilling. Still funny, tho.
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If the United States saw what the United States was doing to the people of the United States, it would invade the United States to save it from the tyranny of the United States.
February 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
If the United States saw what the United States was doing to the people of the United States, it would invade the United States to save it from the tyranny of the United States.
Vance doing the verbal equivalent of the elon salute right in front of the whole damn world
Germany's Scholz rebukes Vance, defends Europe's stance on hate speech and far right
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz delivered a strong rebuke on Saturday to U.S. Vice President JD Vance's attack on Europe's stance toward hate speech and the far right, saying it was not right for others to tell Germany and Europe what to do.
www.reuters.com
February 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Vance doing the verbal equivalent of the elon salute right in front of the whole damn world
True, but still fight it
February 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
True, but still fight it
"sycophants, extremists, performance artists, and opportunists"
"Their thuggish approach reflects the reality that Trump cannot enact parts of his agenda through the democratic process in Congress."
John Harwood writes about the moral and intellectual collapse of the Republican party.
Read his thought-provoking piece on zeteo.com
John Harwood writes about the moral and intellectual collapse of the Republican party.
Read his thought-provoking piece on zeteo.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
"sycophants, extremists, performance artists, and opportunists"
Now watching: Bad Company (1972)
From the writers of Bonnie & Clyde, it's Revisionist with a capital R (and often for no discernible reason, a hard R). Does what it says, but it's thoroughly unpleasant and needed an ending.
From the writers of Bonnie & Clyde, it's Revisionist with a capital R (and often for no discernible reason, a hard R). Does what it says, but it's thoroughly unpleasant and needed an ending.
A ★★½ review of Bad Company (1972)
Often described as an acid western or a coming of age story, but it's neither - it tells the counterculture narrative of acid but almost completely lacks the often anachronistic and/or surreal style o...
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February 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Now watching: Bad Company (1972)
From the writers of Bonnie & Clyde, it's Revisionist with a capital R (and often for no discernible reason, a hard R). Does what it says, but it's thoroughly unpleasant and needed an ending.
From the writers of Bonnie & Clyde, it's Revisionist with a capital R (and often for no discernible reason, a hard R). Does what it says, but it's thoroughly unpleasant and needed an ending.
Now watching: Roger Corman's Gunslinger (1956)! Drive-in schlock but I loved it. Gunfights, catfights, Charles B. Griffith dialogue, an unbelievable love story, and gratuitous Dick Miller - what's not to love?
A ★★★ review of Gunslinger (1956)
Shot in miserable conditions for 2 bits in 6 days to beat new union regulations, but so help me, I liked it! The seasoned Corman stock cast really sells this gender-flipped revenge western that sees B...
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February 13, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Now watching: Roger Corman's Gunslinger (1956)! Drive-in schlock but I loved it. Gunfights, catfights, Charles B. Griffith dialogue, an unbelievable love story, and gratuitous Dick Miller - what's not to love?
Now watching: Michael Powell's wonderful The Edge of the World (1937), a bittersweet chronicle of a strong and resilient small community gradually learning it can no longer exist in isolation. A fine ensemble and stunning views.
A ★★★★½ review of The Edge of the World (1937)
"The world's changed, it's bigger, it's easier to get at. Before, we were no worse off than anyone else. Now, we're living in an old world." The tragic irony of progress is as the world gets bigger, t...
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February 13, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Now watching: Michael Powell's wonderful The Edge of the World (1937), a bittersweet chronicle of a strong and resilient small community gradually learning it can no longer exist in isolation. A fine ensemble and stunning views.
Now watching: Frivolous Lola (1998), a beautifully shot Tinto Brass sexploitation dramedy that reminds us that dysfunctional romance is still romance. Just ask Lola! Also, butts are awesome.
A ★★★ review of Frivolous Lola (1998)
In which Tinto reminds us that even a fractured romance is still, technically, a romance, peccadillos and all. What, your marriage's foundation is so perfect? Also, butts are awesome. I, like many oth...
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February 13, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Now watching: Frivolous Lola (1998), a beautifully shot Tinto Brass sexploitation dramedy that reminds us that dysfunctional romance is still romance. Just ask Lola! Also, butts are awesome.
Pure evil.
Russell Vought's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a “miracle drug” backed by an agency the top Trump appointee is now attacking.
Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid
Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.
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February 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Pure evil.
"Put simply, the film may have played fast and loose with 1784 because its real preoccupation was 1984"
And it's more fun to watch than The Firemen's Ball
And it's more fun to watch than The Firemen's Ball
'An unmistakable stab at the USSR': Could Amadeus be the most misunderstood Oscar winner ever?
Released 40 years ago this month, Miloš Forman's best picture-winning Amadeus is often accused of historical inaccuracies – but the film's critics could be missing the point.
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February 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"Put simply, the film may have played fast and loose with 1784 because its real preoccupation was 1984"
And it's more fun to watch than The Firemen's Ball
And it's more fun to watch than The Firemen's Ball
"Thievery has moved beyond the concrete schemes of past centuries and into a digital void that ordinary people do not know how to navigate — other than to identify what plutocrats stole from them.
And that our country is one of those things."
And that our country is one of those things."
New article! On a certain plutocrat invading our government to steal our future: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-miners
The Miners
The men who would strip the future for parts.
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February 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
"Thievery has moved beyond the concrete schemes of past centuries and into a digital void that ordinary people do not know how to navigate — other than to identify what plutocrats stole from them.
And that our country is one of those things."
And that our country is one of those things."
A hard boiled cop, shadows, fog, wet streets, neon - honestly, a lot of Trancers works very well in b&w!
Can't wait to see where Band goes with Full Moon Noir!
Can't wait to see where Band goes with Full Moon Noir!
The original 1984 Full Moon "neo-noir" masterpiece, now presented in STUNNING silver toned BLACK & WHITE, with special introduction by Charles Band.
Welcome to Angel City, 2247.
Welcome to Angel City, 2247.
Trancers | Noir Version | Introduction by Charles Band - Full Moon Features
The original 1984 Full Moon "neo-noir" masterpiece, now presented in STUNNING silver toned BLACK & WHITE, with special introduction by Charles Band.
Welcome to Angel City, 2247. Trooper Jack Deth (Ti...
www.fullmoonfeatures.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:28 AM
A hard boiled cop, shadows, fog, wet streets, neon - honestly, a lot of Trancers works very well in b&w!
Can't wait to see where Band goes with Full Moon Noir!
Can't wait to see where Band goes with Full Moon Noir!
"It’s this... marrying of the theatrical with the corporal – the belief that all the world’s a stage and all of us players – that surely appealed to French viewers at the time... and imbues Children of Paradise with an earthy, immortal quality that continues to enchant in the modern age."
Marcel Carné's lavish 1945 epic ‘Children of Paradise’ survived impossible circumstances to become a timeless testament to the resilience of art. It’s now streaming on the Criterion Channel: crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...
Classic Corner: Children of Paradise — Crooked Marquee
Some films are impossible to separate from their provenance. That’s especially true for those made during wartime. 1943’s The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
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February 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
"It’s this... marrying of the theatrical with the corporal – the belief that all the world’s a stage and all of us players – that surely appealed to French viewers at the time... and imbues Children of Paradise with an earthy, immortal quality that continues to enchant in the modern age."
February 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk around Walmart
Monroeville Mall bought by Walmart in $34 million deal
Though they plan to redevelop the once-thriving retail hub, Walmart states it's too early in the process to share a plan.
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February 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk around Walmart
I also highly recommend the 2008 doc Walt & El Grupo
When Disney released “The Three Caballeros,” the wartime package film meant to mend fences with South America, they snuck in an unexpectedly adult journey for Donald Duck to try and sow his wild oats. crookedmarquee.com/the-three-ca...
The Three Caballeros at 80: A Duck Amuck — Crooked Marquee
Love has always been a foundational aspect of Disney’s animated storytelling, in short or feature form. The notion of “happily ever after” is rooted in
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February 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I also highly recommend the 2008 doc Walt & El Grupo