Ep 433 – Peppermint – Jackie Kashian & Simon Ore
Graham and Chris welcome Simon Ore and Jackie Kashian. Graham liked Peppermint a lot. Chris was bummed about Anon. Jackie liked Spy Who Dumped Me even with some problems. Chris got some He-Man doc love. Simon and Jackie talk about their new comic book project and more!
Nicolas Roeg’s “The Man Who Fell to Earth” is the kind of film you’d expect from a cinematographer-turned-director. Every shot could be slipped undetected into a Taschen photography book. Like a book of photographs, TMWFTE has vivid colors and good use of lens flare and shadow. It’s never boring, but randomly linear. It would be…
Details“Reform School Girls” is a parody of women-in-prison movies that delivers what it promises–lots of girls in reform school. It’s a good thing the “girls” are twenty-something starlets playing teenagers, because they’re very clean reform school girls. Otherwise, the shower scenes would be creepy. Aside from soapy breasts, big 80’s hair, and chick-fights every twenty…
DetailsI was known on the boards for my militance and lack of decorum. At one heated meeting while discussing a contract proposal that would cover comedians, but was unacceptable to the comics for its substandard wages and residual structure, I asked the staff and leaders on the dais to “grow a dick.” For a great…
DetailsIn case you’ve been method acting a role from ancient times and missed it, there’s a civil war going on within the Screen Actor’s Guild (SAG). It’s civil like other civil wars. To the untrained eye it might look like a fight between militants and moderates, or just a drunken brawl. It is neither. It…
DetailsI had a big weekend watching children’s movies. I don’t have children myself, and often find it hard to get anyone to go with me. But I enjoy them and often find them better than the dramas clearly designed to go after awards. First I saw “Madagascar: Back 2 Africa”. If you love animals (especially…
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