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fletch

Jake was looking for something to watch last night and came upon this movie. I liked it so much when I was a teenager that I named one of my pets, a parakeet, after it. While the guys thought it was really funny, I was not as amused. But, given …

vacation

Brian and I watched the 2015 version of this movie last night. We both thought it was hilarious, which might tell you more about us than you need to know. I wouldn’t say it holds a candle to the original moviesĀ (at least the first few of them), though–the humor was …

goodnight mommy

This was an Austrian horror film. Europeans do horror very differently than Americans (see Martyrs). While this film wasn’t a 90 minute torture fest (it was only a 30 minute one), it definitely wasn’t like any American horror film that you might see. I thought the premise was pretty good–though …

pulp fiction

We’re making Jake watch our top 13 films with us. We started with Pulp Fiction. It was as good as I remembered it. Jake saw parts of the movie in the past, but never in its entirety. Needless to say, he liked it. My rating: 4/5

top 13

Brian and I were talking about movies lately and what we thought were the top 10 best–not necessarily our top 10 favorites, but movies we really liked that we thought others should see. For example, Mulholland Drive is one of our favorites, but it didn’t make the cut because it …