ECSTATIC

Sorcerer

2023-03-06T16:41:00.002-05:00

William Friedkin, 1977

La Chinoise

2023-03-02T12:25:00.001-05:00

Jean-Luc Godard, 1967

The Great Silence (Il Grande Silenzio)

2023-02-27T13:39:00.003-05:00

Sergio Corbucci, 1968

Snake in Eagle's Shadow

2023-02-26T13:42:00.002-05:00

Woo-Ping Yuen, 1978

A Spell To Ward Off the Darkness

2023-02-23T22:53:00.001-05:00

Ben Russell/Ben Rivers, 2013

The Mummy

2023-02-21T23:28:00.000-05:00

Stephen Sommers, 1999

Rififi

2023-02-21T11:05:00.001-05:00

Jules Dassin, 1955

Fragment of Seeking

2023-02-20T11:57:00.002-05:00

Curtis Harrington, 1946 (short)

A Page of Madness

2023-02-19T07:30:00.002-05:00

Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926

Jason and Jen's TWELVE TERRIBLE MOVIES of CHRISTMAS! (2022/23)

2023-02-17T16:57:00.006-05:00

The TWELVE TERRIBLE MOVIES of CHRISTMAS are finally here! I would have posted about this sooner, but the films were SO terrible this year that we spent a month debating whether or not this utterly wretched pile of cinematic dreck could even be ranked. We finally decided..."no"...and resolved ourselves to the fact that--after five years of this tradition--this particular group of movies had short-circuited our ability to even think about them, much less sort them out in our own personal rankings. But then we remembered that tradition is important, that the twelve days of Christmas mean something to us...and that "something" is torturing our eyeballs with incompetently conceived genre rip-offs, truly unfunny attempts at comedy, and naseau-inducing Netflix holiday films. We realized that--unlike Lindsey Lohan in the blatant Overboard copycat movie Falling For Christmas--we know who we are! So, by mid-Februuray we picked up this dreadful, diabolical list of films and managed to rank them accordingly. While Jen and I don't always agree, our mutual hatred of Falling For Christmas has bonded us deeply in 2023, and might just carry us through to December! Cheers!

Lindsay Lohan, Actor

Jen's Ranking

12.Falling For Christmas (Janeen Damian, 2022)

11.The Bride and the Beast (Adrian Weiss, 1958)

10.The Wizard (Todd Holland, 1989)

9. Jack Frost (Michael Cooney, 1997)

8. Glitter (Vondie Curtis-Hall, 2001)

7. Stay Tuned (Peter Hyams, 1992)

6. Ben and Arthur (Sam Mraovich, 2002)

5. Beyond the 7th Door (Bozidar D. Benedikt, 1987)

4. R.O.T.O.R. (Cullen Blaine, 1987)

3. Ninja Commandments (Joseph Lai/Godfrey Ho [uncredited])

2. Suburban Sasquatch (Dave Wascavage, 2004)

1. Clash in the College (Paul Kattupalli, 2011)

Paul Kattupalli stars, directs, and discovers snow in Clash in the College

Jason's Ranking

12.Falling For Christmas

11.Glitter

10.The Wizard

9. Jack Frost

8. Stay Tuned

7. The Bride and the Beast

6. Ben and Arthur

5. Ninja Commandments

4. Suburban Sasquatch

3. Clash in the College

2. R.O.T.O.R.

1. Beyond the 7th Door

Canadian Super-Thespian, Lazar Rockwood in Beyond the 7th Door

I guess that makes one of the most unendurable, incompetent movies ever made our 2022/23 winner...

If you like movies with their fingers on the pulse of political debate within academia, and that are shot mostly in a single motel room, then you'll love Clash in the College. It's free on youtube. We dare you to watch all of it. We did. And we still feel like we deserve some sort of award or compensation for our patience. After all, we had just watched the entirety of Suburban Sasquatch, which ain't exactly economical storytelling.

Until next year, have a less-than-terrible 2023!

Pierrot le Fou

2023-02-14T15:35:00.001-05:00

Jean-Luc Godard, 1965

The Passenger

2023-02-10T15:25:00.002-05:00

Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975

Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

2023-02-06T12:33:00.002-05:00

Alejandro G. Iñárritu, 2022

The Emperor's New Groove

2023-02-05T21:38:00.008-05:00

Mark Dindal, 2000

Audition

2023-02-03T22:14:00.002-05:00

Takashi Miike, 1999

What Happened Was...

2023-01-29T22:07:00.003-05:00

Tom Noonan, 1994

Neptune Frost

2023-01-27T07:49:00.004-05:00

Anisia Uzeyman/Saul Williams, 2021

Blue Collar

2023-01-21T09:52:00.000-05:00

Paul Schrader, 1978

Earwig

2023-01-20T12:00:00.000-05:00

Lucile Hadzihalilovic, 2021

Battle Royale

2023-01-19T06:44:00.002-05:00

Kinji Fukasaku, 2000

Carnival of Souls

2023-01-17T11:07:00.003-05:00

Herk Harvey, 1962

Canyon Passage

2023-01-14T23:19:00.001-05:00

Jacques Tourneur, 1946

Dont Look Now

2023-01-10T23:29:00.002-05:00

Nicolas Roeg, 1973

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

2023-01-03T00:12:00.002-05:00

Albert Lewin, 1951

Die Hard

2022-12-24T09:00:00.001-05:00

John McTiernan, 1988