Old Fogies & Films

The Fogies followed a well-planned yet circuitous path and found themselves suddenly at the slaughterhouse. Our final regular film is about that wonder, that legend, Temple Grandin! Film fans see in pictures too, Temple. Thanks for taking us out of the world on a wave of serenity.

Temple Grandin - dir. Mick Jackson - 2010

She’s ‘bout that diamond

—that baseball diamond.

But also buyin’

—the cow, by lyin’. 

She’s feelin’ matrimonial. 

Her friends all bitch and moan, y’all. 

But one’s been bidin’

—his time, not tryin’.  

Players - dir. Trish Sie - 2024

Stop making sense! Who hasn’t been simultaneously charmed and terrified of Nicolas Cage at some point? The Fogies weren’t sleepin’ on this movie. But in this difficult modern world, perhaps we have all forgotten how to dream. 

Dream Scenario - dir. Kristoffer Borgli - 2023

Kylie Minogue plays a One Boy Girl in a one horse town, and this Impossible Princess meets a greaser twink with big city lights in his eyes. Of all the bad influences, is Love the worst one?

The Delinquents - dir. Chris Thomson - 1989

From being tagged in a photo, to a toe tag. You never know who may be literally Following you—you’ll be saying OOMF as they bash in your head.

Influencer - dir. Kurtis David Harder - 2022

We need a sequel—call it “Blood Run Cold”—that follows Gavey, now obviously a serial killer known as The Subtractor, making calculated kills that slowly corner Oliver until the only person who can keep him out of prison is Gavey himself. And they live together in stalemate at Saltburn, forever.

Saltburn - dir. Emerald Fennell - 2023

Are you an Italian who Italians everything Italian, and Italian Italian until it Italians? Then Italian Italian Italian! But some Lesbians Italian too.

Alto - dir. Mikki del Monico - 2015

NEW EPISODE: “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.” – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations. The perfect gift for everyone on your Christmas list!

The Holdovers - dir. Alexander Payne - 2023

Just because you’re buried, doesn’t mean you’re dead. As the Wyrm turns, he shifts the ground slightly under his friends and family. The Fogies were charmed by this oddball survivor! 

Wyrm - dir. Christopher Winterbauer - 2019

Otto, like Auto, as in all by yourself, under your own power, no help! The Fogies watched a movie about a very lonely and self-sufficient man with strong views on AUTOmobiles, whose community said ‘Won’t you be our neighbor?’

A Man Called Otto - dir. Marc Forster - 2022