Tag: marathon
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Hooptober 12.0 – Die Alone (2024)
Being Film #31 for Hooptober 2025 I don’t remember exactly what they say about the best laid plans, but of course after finishing last night’s movie and looking at my list I realized I still needed 1) a Canadian film, and 2) a post-apocalyptic film. And I really didn’t want to watch Bird Box, so…
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Hooptober 12.0 – The Toxic Avenger (2023)
Being Film #30 for Hooptober 2025 Here’s the deal. I just realized I got all my requirements in for this year’s Hooptober by review #29. So rather than watch films I thought I needed, I picked two films I needed. As in, “my stress level is so high I just need some FUN” needed. And…
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Hooptober 12.0 – Eggshells (1969)
Being Film #29 for Hooptober 2025 We’ve finally gotten to the “Hooper” of Hooptober – and Eggshells is a doozy of a debut for the director, a dark and experimental abstraction of the concept of community and utopia in a world intent on pushing back on anything that doesn’t fall in line with the regimented,…
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Hooptober 12.0 – The Invitation (2015)
Being Film #28 for Hooptober 2025 Is this the first time we’re covering a film that we already covered on the podcast? Yes, but in this case I wasn’t there for Episode 32 which focused on the films of Karyn Kusama, so The Invitation was a new experience for me. And now having watched it,…
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Hooptober 12.0 – The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Being Film #27 for Hooptober 2025 I don’t need to re-watch The Wizard Of Oz to recall with perfect clarity the impact of the flying monkeys had on my six-year-old psyche. I suspect for a large group of people my age watching the film was an annual tradition: VCRs and cable television were still uncommon…
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Hooptober 12.0 – The Man Who Laughs (1928)
Being Film #26 for Hooptober 2025 I was trying to write this introduction when I realized that the sentence I was trying to create was immortal. That’s right: it can live forever, applied to whenever and still make sense. The sentence? Oh, “With all the advancements technology has afforded cinema in the last…” I stopped…