Tortellini at Noon

This week we watched a pretty star packed film that seems like it’s been forgotten, 2007’s Stardust. directed by Matthew Vaughn and based on Neil Gaiman's 1999 novel of the same name, it tells the story of  a young man who makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm over the wall. It features an ensemble cast led by Claire Danes, Charlie Cox, Sienna Miller, Ricky Gervais, Jason Flemyng, Rupert Everett, Peter O'Toole, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Robert De Niro, with narration by Ian McKellen. Come join us

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For the final entry in this year’s Animation Month, we watched the 2022 Netflix film The House. Written by Enda Walsh it tells different stories that form a trilogy spanning different worlds and characters but set inside the same house. Directed by the duo of Emma de Swaef and Marc James Roels, Niki Lindroth von Bahr, and Paloma Baeza, each story deals with themes of obsession, madness, wealth, and the pursuit of true happiness. Come join us!!!

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For the third installment of our Animation Month we watched the film that broke Conor, 1988’s Grave of the Fireflies. Written and directed by Isao Takahata, and animated by Studio Ghibli, the film stars Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara and Akemi Yamaguchi. Set in the city of Kobe, Japan, it tells the story of two siblings, Seita and Setsuko, and their struggle to survive during the final months of the Second World War. Grave of the Fireflies has been ranked as one of the greatest war films of all time and is recognized as a major work of Japanese animation. Come join us!!!

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For the second entry of our Animation Month we watched the much forgotten Disney animated 2002 film Treasure Planet. A science fiction adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure novel Treasure Island (1883), the film was co-written, co-produced and directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, and features the voices of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brian Murray, David Hyde Pierce, Martin Short, Roscoe Lee Browne, Emma Thompson, Michael Wincott, Laurie Metcalf, and Patrick McGoohan (in his final film role). Come join us!!!

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This week we’re on to another one of our annual themes Animation Month and to kick things off Donald picked the 2007 film The Simpsons Movie. Directed by the show's supervising director David Silverman and stars the show's regular cast of Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria and Harry Shearer. The film follows Homer Simpson, who irresponsibly pollutes the lake in Springfield, causing the EPA to imprison the town under a giant glass dome. Come join us.

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This week for the final entry of Spooky month we watched the 1981 psychological horror drama film Possession. Directed by Andrzej Żuławski, and written by Żuławski and Frederic Tuten. The plot obliquely follows therelationship between an international spy (Sam Neill) and his wife (Isabelle Adjani), who begins exhibitingincreasingly disturbing behavior after asking for a divorce. Come join us!!!

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Continuing with Spooky Month, after three years of talking about it amongst ourselves we finally watched the 2019 film The Lightnhouse. Directed and produced by Robert Eggers, it stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson as nineteenth-century wickies (lighthouse keepers) in turmoil after being marooned at a remote New England outpost by an intense storm. Come join us!!!

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Continuing with Spooky Month, we watched the “conclusion” to the Halloween Saga with 2022’s Halloween Ends. Directed by David Gordon Green and written by Green, Danny McBride, Paul Brad Logan, and Chris Bernier. It is the sequel to Halloween Kills, the thirteenth installment in the Halloween franchise, and the final film in the trilogy of sequels that commenced with the 2018 film, which directly follows the 1978 film and disregards all other entries. The film stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Andi Matichak, Rohan Campbell, Will Patton, Kyle Richards, and James Jude Courtney, and marks Curtis and Nick Castle's final appearances as Laurie Strode and Michael Myers, respectively. Come join us!!!

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This week for the second entry of Spooky Month, Conor picked the 1988 horror comedy Elvira: Mistress of the Dark. Directed by James Signorelli it stars Cassandra Peterson as eccentric horror hostess Elvira, a character previously established in the television program Elvira's Movie Macabre. The film's plot centers around Elvira inheriting a house that is nestled in the heart of an overtly prudish community. The film's screenplay was written by Peterson, John Paragon, and Sam Egan. Come join us!!!

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It’s finally Spooky Month!!! To kick things off Mark picked the 2019 comedy horror film Exorcism at 60,000 Feet. directed by Chad Ferrin and written by Robert Rhine and Daniel Benton, on the last flight of a transatlantic passenger airliner, a priest, a rabbi and the airline crew team together to save a plane from a pandemic of demonic possessions.  The film stars Robert Miano, Bai Ling, Lance Henriksen, Matthew Moy as Thang, Bill Moseley, Adrienne Barbeau and Robert Rhine. Come join us!

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