Trylon

Favorite films

  • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
  • Natural Enemies
  • Return of the Jedi
  • Come and See

All
  • The Panic in Needle Park

  • Natural Enemies

  • Threads

  • Dogra Magra

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Natural Enemies

1979

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A customer asked if doing something like Bleak Week was even ethical these days. An important question—the ethics aren't really the issue though. A lot of difficult art is designed to provoke thought and expose others to themes they may not want to confront on their own, in a safe, fictional environment.

Or at least that's what Finn Odum thinks in their essay on Jeff Kanew's Natural Enemies. Read that alongside Jackson Stern's fantastic assessment of the nature of toxic masculinity and its impacts on one man's deteriorating mental health.

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Air Bud: World Pup

2000

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uhhhh fuck it we're showing this one tonight too. triple feature. three in one. air bud to the third for air bud three. the one with the puppies before Air Buddies. did you know there are six puppies in this one, but only five in the Buddies movies? Canonically this means the ABCU (Air Bud Cinematic Universe) killed one of the dogs.

Threads

1984

Watched

logging the correct threads and not the charming hand-drawn animation from 2017, this one is TOUGH with a capital T...HREADS.

Read Ben Jarman's assertion that Threads is part of the Mad Max story and Doug Carmoody's musing on the reality of destruction