Collin Souter

"Shut yer' goddamn piehole!"

Can someone confirm something for me regarding the Oscar Shorts? I've never seen them in a theater, only the screeners for review. Have they always had bumpers between the shorts announcing which short you're about to watch? Or do they just play through uninterrupted?

Good to know and I will correct my stance. See? I knew nothing. Now I know.

Valentine's Day Movies Actually: My Bloody Valentine (1981) The second Valentine's Day Movies Actually episode takes a strong left turn from the warm and fuzzy feels of the Garry Marshall ensemble rom-com they covered a couple years ago. This time, Kerry and ...

New episode! We're taking a detour and doing Valentine's Day again, but more for the anti-V-Day crowd. Patrick Ripoll joins us for a discussion of this much-celebrated slasher film from 1981. We also talk about the remake, Hitchcock and new blu-rays. Enjoy! www.nowplayingnetwork.net/christmasmov...

Got my preview copy of this and nowhere on the packaging does it say it's a BD-R. I put it in the player and I was informed it was a data disk. Then I had to hunt for the correct file to play, which didn't play all the way through and wouldn't let me turn off captions.

You can have your Lists, your Pianos and all them Rooms with all them Views… but the best film of 1993 will always be Matinee.

Christmas Movies Actually: A Very Jonas Christmas Movie (2025) The Jonas Brothers surprised Kerry and Collin with their charming holiday offering this past season that they decided to devote an entire episode to "A Very Jonas Christmas Movie."

Our latest episode is about that Jonas Brothers Christmas movie that showed up this past season on Disney/Hulu. Hey, we liked it!
Our next episode is a detour to Valentine's Day with the classic slasher movie "My Bloody Valentine" (1981). Enjoy! www.nowplayingnetwork.net/christmasmov...

Eerie Visions of Donald Trump in 1981's "Shock Treatment" | Features | Roger Ebert On how a sequel to "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" is frighteningly relevant today.

I wrote about it back in 2016 after revisiting it and noticing how deeply prophetic it was to everything in our culture today. It's a hard movie to love on first viewing for many people, but it gets better, richer and catchier every time. www.rogerebert.com/features/eer...

My favorite post of the day.

Everything here is for a project of some sort. "The Lodger" is part of a year-long Hitchcock viewing project. I hosted a screening of "Blue Velvet" with a talk-back. A Sundance short. "Jonas Brothers" for latest episode of Christmas Movies Actually pod. Busy! Fun!
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Always.

Short Films in Focus: "Bug Diner" | Short Films in Focus | Roger Ebert We take a look at a very spicy insectoid animated short.

Are you horny for bugs? Check out Phoebe Jane Hart's animated short "Bug Diner," which I wrote about for Ebert this month. NSFW. Enjoy!
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Christmas Movies Actually: 152 - Nutcracker: The Motion Picture (1986) As always, Kerry and Collin begin the year taking a look at a Nutcracker movie. This one celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, so the festivities for it starts now! "Nutcracker: The Motion Pictur...

Our latest episode is up! We always talk about a Nutcracker movie at this time of year and this time we're focusing on a 1986 performance film by Carroll Ballard and featuring sets and costumes by Maurice Sendak: "Nutcracker: The Motion Picture". Enjoy!
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there needs to be a sex offender registry but for ice guys. you should have to go door to door when you move to a new area and inform your neighbors that you used to be an ice guy. they shouldn't be allowed with 500 feet of a school

Most child actors don't pull off playing 'the bully' character. Most of the time, you can see the overcoached acting, because in real life, the kid is probably super-nice.
This one in THE PLAGUE, though! Damn, he nailed it. He brought back so many bad jr-high moments for me. Subtle and terrifying.

I started the year with some U2. I ended it with a lot of U2 (every year, we play a live version of New Year's Day at midnight and then, eventually, we get sucked into watching the whole thing).

Every year, some variation of this, without fail, thanks to my wife and I watching cartoons every weekend during breakfast, courtesy of #WarnerArchive.

I'll also echo the Funny Farm defenders. George Roy Hill reined him in pretty good so that the wonderful assortment of character actors could be funny instead. And they are.

YouTube video by redhair Girl ET alternative ending (in HD)

Alternate ending to "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial." Seems familiar.
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Oh definitely. I just remember seeing them going into the deadly white slime place and thinking, "good on the Duffers for going to the New World Pictures well, too."

That and THE STUFF.

So, the end of "Stranger Things" is supposed to take place on November 6, 1987. Kerry had an idea to follow up the finale with a movie that came out on that date. I love this idea! Well, I did until I saw the choices.
Okay, well... Made In Heaven, Death Wish 4 and Steel Dawn, it is. Happy new year?

Criminy, it really is Friday, innit. Three of these are first-time watches. We watched Christmas Vacation as a filler before ST5 became available.
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Kerry, myself and our families are experimenting by talking to each other and about each other in strictly expositional dialogue style, as if people are watching a movie about our lives and need catching up. There's a reason no one outside of holiday rom-coms talks like this. It's exhausting!

Timothée Chalamet’s New Movie Is Part of a Trend I Can’t Stand Marty Supreme is one of the year’s most acclaimed movies. But aren’t there higher goals than just stressing you out?

This is kinda where I'm at, too. Even if everything is well-executed, I need less anxiety-based storytelling in my life. It's losing its freshness for me (and I had Teacher's Lounge at #1 in 2023). I'm happy you all love it, though.
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"Stay a little Jesus... happy birthday, Christmas..."

Five "Step Up" films the wife wanted to watch, and we,
We chose to watch them completely out of order,
And it has made all the difference.

Last 15 watched, Where's Waldo? edition.

Christmas Movies Actually: 151 - Santa Claus: The Movie (feat. Peter Sobczynski) Though beloved in England, the 1985 Salkind Production "Santa Claus: The Movie" never met its high expectations, either critically or at the box office. Film critic Peter Sobczynski returns to the sho...

New episode! Peter Sobczynski returns to talk about another Dudley Moore Christmas movie, this one celebrating its 40th anniversary. We also talk about the SCTV Xmas special and we cap it off with an actual gift exchange. Helpful links in show notes. Enjoy!
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It's still Friday.
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