The Criterion Correction

When you try to go straight-laced, but find yourself under constant threat from your previous crime syndicate contacts, what should you do? Fight back? Become a pacifist? Or wander through a surreal Japanese landscape, get in a wild west brawl, and then take your climatic battle to the heart of your sometimes girlfriend’s club?

If you chose the third option, then you’re ready for Tokyo Drifter.

What do you get when you combine The Doctor, The Great Intelligence, and Vernon Dursley? Withnail and I!

This week is for the dogs. No, we’re not watching Homeward Bound or Milo and Otis. We’re not even watching A Dog’s Purpose (though we are watching a creation of its director). So let’s take a trip on the wild side and watch the “kinda-not-dog-centric” movie, My Life As A Dog.

Sometimes you see a movie so noteworthy that you have to talk about it. No, we’re not talking about Joss Whedon’s sci-fi/western cult classic, but the newest pinnacle of Matthew McConaughey’s acting career. Join us for Serenity.

After spending a few weeks in the realm of romance, we’re headed for the absurd. With…a little bit of romance? Well, a marriage at least. And kids being kids. And…fascists. Lots of happy fascists.

This week, we watch Amarcord.

Viewers waited another nine years and we waited another week. Sounds fair, right? Well, we’re completing the hat trick with this episode and looking at Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight.

And we have to ask, if there’s another title in the series yet to come, what would it come “Before”? Or are we headed to the realm of “After”?

Nine years. What can happen over the course of nine years? How many different lives will you lead in that amount of time? Moviegoers had to wait nine years to find out the next chapter in Jesse and Celine’s relationship, but us? We only had to wait one week. Join us as we continue exploring Linklater’s Before trilogy with Before Sunset.

What would you do if you had one day to figure out if you’d just met the person of your dreams? What would you talk about? How would you figure it out? How would you grapple with the fact that you’re living in 1995, the internet barely exists and smartphones are over 10-years down the road?!

Let’s see what Jesse and Celine do in Before Sunrise.

2018 was a year of movies, many of which Ed saw and Zed did not. Tune in for our (mostly Ed’s) Top 10 films of 2018!

Well, yessee sir, we’ve got a good old fashioned flick starring the one and only Rock Hudson. Let’s go join Mr. Rock as he tries to find himself a wee bit of love with an older lady. Oh, yessiree, imagine the scandal at the old-timey club as he tries to woo his lady with talk of there being more important things than money.

So…yeah. We’re actually in for some nice biting commentary on the nature of expectation when it comes to women’s lives and the perils of gross capitalism run amok.

And Rock. Hudson.