What really sells this zombie comedy, which is so sharp it almost overwhelms the whole film. If you see a character alive at the beginning, you'll see them again later, undead. And yes, it's a film about choosing a path towards personal growth, which is very odd. #yabtm

Alfred Hitchcock's follow-up to PSYCHO, THE BIRDS was almost as popular. He does something interesting here: He gives us two reasons for the massive bird attack. One is unexplained, the other is supernatural. #YabtM

Super peculiar film about a filmmaker who travels to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to learn about their funerary practices. That never happens. What happens is he finds himself in "Quirky Town." Lots of strange stuff occurs, which of course is to be expected in Quirky Town. #yabtm

The first entry into this week's "Visit to Quirky Town" theme, LOCAL HERO involved a junior executive from a Texas oil company traveling to an eccentric Scottish town to basically buy the place. Everybody in town is wacky. Even his boss (Burt Lancaster) is wacky. #yabtm

Only a guy confident in his masculinity would allow this to be published

It was my turn this week so I chose a movie I love and a movie I'd never seen. They mirrored each other in some ways—in other ways they were very different. #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

If you’re still in line, STAY IN LINE

Fuck.

Very rare movie pairing this week: Same director, same star, VERY different movies. #YabtM

My sign, No Kings 2 Rally, Colma California (where all the cemeteries are).

1975 dystopia week continues with A BOY AND HIS DOG (Directed by L. Q. Jones). You'll recognize a lot the post-apocalyptic tropes... but with a kinky, misogynistic spin, because Harlan Ellison. Here's our discussion. #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ1x...

Seattle-Detroit ALDS game is absolutely insane. Top of the 14th!

On a personal level, I have never really liked this film. It’s all about a narcissistic, self-destructive choreographer and the people who inexplicably love him. The musical numbers are bland, the songs unmemorable, the plot tired and shaky. It’s a decent advertisement for dance wear, though. #yabtm

Classic, influential, iconic... we deploy all the adjectives in discussing 8 ½ (1963), Federico Fellini's autobiographical dream/dramedy about the circus that is a film director's life. #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8ld...

A Marvel movie warned us, 15 years ago. In CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER Dr. Erskine, the kindly and brilliant German scientist who fled the Nazis, explains a rather important and overlooked bit of history to Steve Rogers.

A personal favorite of mine, an exploration of a basic premise: what would YOU do if you knew the world was going to end in 21 days, and you and everyone else was going to die? Be sad? Party? Take a lot of X and party? Look for a long-lost love? All these possibilities and more are explored.

A series of coincidences in the middle of the night leads to one person in Los Angeles knowing the city will be nuked in less than 90 minutes. Nice slow roll that grows from casual to frenzied and insane-- and all set in one small area of West LA, near the tar pits. #YabtM #nuclearwar #losangeles

Tilly Norwood doesn't need a hairstylist. It has no regrettable posts. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead!

Apocalypses now: two new episodes of Yelling About Movies drop (the big one) this Friday. #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky

Director Nash Edgerton mines the reliable territory of film noir and Coen Bros. thrillers for his own tale of dumbass criminals and their backfiring schemes. He digs up some good stuff. Here's our discussion of THE SQUARE (2008). #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaAF...

A show of fists, please. Two new episodes of Yelling About Movies drop this Friday. #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky

I've looked at things from four sides now. Two new episodes of Yelling About Movies drop this Friday. #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky

Watch for these moves in the coming days: 1.) Instant sanctification by the leader 2.) Rituals that migrate into rallies 3.) Attribution-before-evidence 4.) Policy ratchet tied to grief: calls for emergency powers, campus purges 5.) Merchandising the memory,

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

"The one with the car chase that destroys the shanty town." We watched Jackie Chan do his thing in POLICE STORY (1985, D. Jackie Chan). Here's our discussion. #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGbN...

You petty ghouls making fun of Trump’s health aren’t fit to change his freshly soaked-and-soiled diapers every time a door slams near him.

It’s very conspicuous rewatching this that Trump is desperately trying to hide the back of his right hand from the camera

Warren Oates has it all in the bag in BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA (1974, D. Sam Peckinpah) Here's our discussion. #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky

God damn!

Oh my God

Director Ondi Timoner followed two up-and-coming rock bands for seven years and recorded everything. Her film DIG! (2004) tells a tale of talent, charisma, ego, rivalry and self-sabotage. Here's our discussion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8vY... #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky #documentary

No sympathy for the rats. Two new episodes of Yelling About Movies, droppings this Friday. #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky

Family dynamics are twisted by greed in THE ORIGIN OF EVIL (2022, D. Sébastien Marnier). Here's our discussion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1kA... #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky

@porridgebird.bsky.social Hey: have you ever found or listened to the Quadrophonic version of “I think we’re all bozos on this bus”?

One of our AR-15s is missing: Director Henry Dunham's THE STANDOFF AT SPARROW CREEK (2018) is a tense, contained thriller about an American militia. Here's our discussion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcMJ... #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky

Think before you speak, it might help. Then again maybe not. Two new episodes of Yelling About Movies drop this Friday. #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky

British gangsters: you can hide in Spain, but the past always comes calling. Two new episodes of Yelling About Movies drop this Friday. #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky

Okay, that’s weird. “Until something breaks” became prophetic. The House literally broke over Epstein.

Sisters. Love and hate. Blood, sickness, and death. CRIES AND WHISPERS (1972, Ingmar Bergman). Here's our discussion. #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrJi...

Once upon a time there was a country where a politician did something bad, and then there were consequences. Our 1976 mini-thon continues with ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (1976, Alan J. Pakula). Here's our discussion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLa_... #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky

HOBSON'S CHOICE (1954) is probably the only David Lean movie we will ever discuss on this show-- 'cos it's only around 90 minutes long. The story of a overbearing shoemaker, his hapless employees, and his sharp, calculating daughter. We're very divided on it! #YabtM www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX2x...

RUGGLES OF RED GAP (1935) is a comedy of manners from 1935. It tells the story of an English butler who is "sold" to a rustic American millionaire. So the initial concept is kinda icky. Nonetheless, the film has a kind heart. Oh, and ZaSu Pitts is in it too. #YabtM www.youtube.com/watch?v=cecF...

Who's got a finger on the pulse of today's movie-goer? Not us. Not this week, anyway. Two new episodes of Yelling About Movies drop this Friday. #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky

Beat cop: Detective Azuma brings a hands-on approach to his work in VIOLENT COP (1989, D. Takeshi Kitano). Here's our discussion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR7a... #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky

Nazis. A love triangle. Uranium in the wine cellar. But we couldn't take our eyes off Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. We watched NOTORIOUS (1946, D. Alfred Hitchcock) and here's our discussion. #YabtM 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QvA...

Ask yourself: If Donald Trump was a thinly-veiled Russian asset, can you name one thing he’d be doing differently?

Why did the Dodgers give up a grand slam, bottom of 9th, 2 outs?

Thank to all the @dailybeanspod.com listeners who reserved trump parade tickets but went to #NoKings protests instead. It’s because of people like us that they expected 200K but got fewer than 10K - generating images like this.