Cat, piano, well, watermelon, mirror, bananas.  You know, you're basic horror movie formula.  Director Nobuhiko Obayashi spins a eerily formulaic but wildly unanticipate-able story of teens.  And death.

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Jim Jarmusch's Night On Earth (1991).

What says “Merry Christmas” more than a sexy tale of infidelity and alienation set against the backdrop of soviet invasion and oppression?  In the Criterion Collection?  Not much. Join us as we discuss Phillip Kaufman’s adaptation of Milan Kundera’s novel of Prague Spring and its aftermath, starring some distractingly beautiful people.

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Nobuhiko Obayashi’s House (1977).

It’s Orson Welles! It’s Shakespeare! Everyone involved is at the top of their game! Filmed across continents on location! It was a labor of love 3 years in the making!  Yep. No problems here. None at all. No need to investigate further…

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Phillip Kaufman’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988).

Albert & Allen Hughes take a stab at the classic tale of the American twentieth century with a star-studded cast and a sweeping narrative starting in the Bronx of 1968, the bloody jungles of Vietnam, back to a changed America, and then… an iconic 90s heist scene?

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Orson Welles’ Othello (1952).

David Lynch’s follow-up to one of the most disturbing and lovingly crafted pieces of auteur cinema ever made is… an Oscar-bait biopic? Sure: he brazenly assaults Victorian (and maybe even a few modern) sensibilities by frankly visualizing the appearance and living conditions of a young man cast from polite society. And, yeah-yeah, who are the REAL monsters, amiright? But more that this, Lynch taps into is own dark dreamscape, to poke at the less obvious, but deeply felt, horrors of the industrial age.

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Albert & Allen Hughes Dead Presidents (1995).

This week, it’s Moonstruck.  Thank God: it’s Moonstruck.

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing David Lynch’s The Elephant Man(1980).

If you throw everything at the wall (romance, screwball comedy, noir thriller, globe-trotting action) you will ALMOST predict one of the great disasters of the twentieth century.  This coincidence is inevitably repeated a ton on the IMDb trivia page. But spare yourself from being spoiled and just watch Frank Borzage’s charming tale of star-crossed lovers set against a backdrop of 1930s Hollywood glamour.

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Norman Jewison’s Moonstruck (1987).

Get ready for another action-packed…Yasuhiro Ozu movie?  Well, at least compared to his other masterpieces.  Buckle up for this bracingly gentle study of a middle-aged married couple as they lightly bicker and tell harmless lies to one another all in service of slowly coming to understand and maybe even love each other.  Hope you survive the experience!

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Frank Borzage’s History is Made at Night (1937).

Two unlikely kindred souls find purpose and companionship as they wander through the cross-continental 1970s in search of a sense of… just a little stability. Wim Wenders sets the tone for his career as a quiet student of humanity with a big ol heart.

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Yasuhiro Ozu's The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952).

Is this the one where Keanu takes a bunch of future drugs?  I mean that DOES sound kind of like a Cronenberg movie…. No wait!  It’s the head exploding one.  Except that maybe, just maybe, this early 80s psychic thriller offers a whole lot more than just exploding heads.  But don’t worry: if you really like exploding heads, this film still has you covered.

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Wim Wenders Alice in the Cities (1974).