Watch Alone: movies, with love and hate

In which Gabrielle cements herself as a permanent guest of the podcast and we discuss MFA from 2017, a nice piece of misandry (sez J), Kitano's Takeshis' and Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman and Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead's awesome follow-up to Resolution, The Endless. I forget what else we discussed but we got some real scum flicks coming up for next episode - Nick Zedd, Annie Sprinkle, big fat titties and Jon Moritsugu!

We're sorry we were gone so long. We recorded one before but it really fucking sucked and it took a while to get back together to record again. Gabrielle went to school so she could replace Papa John and that guy at Netflix. First Reformed 2018 - horny! Hereditary 2018 - EH Inside (2007, French) - funny! mother! 2016 - complex

Ran late again cuz I'm a fucking dummy. We did a bunch of flicks, bringin dat bomb-ass dick. Thou Shalt Not Kill...Except (Becker dreck) Cleo from 5 to 7 Thin Man Goes Home Design for Living Last 3 Eric Rohmer moral tales - Suzanne's Career, Bakery Girl of Monceau, La Collectionneuse.

G gets promoted. not a lot of bits this ep on account I'm tired but - We talk about feminism in The Woman (2011, Lucky McKee), Revenge (2017, Coralie Fargeat), and the general illiteracy of most film reviewers to talk about feminism in film since they don't know what feminism is, and whether feminism is just of utility to a certain-educated class of folks and not others. -Castle Freak from Stuart Gordon -Metropolitan from Whit Stillman -Age of Innocence from Martin Scorsese

Da latest, whole fucking gay squad here - Nick and Rene showed up. I forgot where we left off when we paused so I gave you Suicide for the interim. Isle of Dogs Week of? something Avengers You Were Never Really Here Anatomy of Hell maybe something else

I mostly fixed the audio from last time but there's this annoying buzz and I'm sorry but I just can't help it if if I'm attracted to your daughter who's underage in one jurisdiction but not in this one! We saw Krasinski's A Quiet Place; verdict is split. I'm against it except as a comedy. We also saw Bunuel's The Milky Way, and it ruled. Scathing, surreal, historically literate mockery of Catholic traditions.

Da doctor is in. and we all agree Annihilation is worth seeing, even if we had a lot of issues with the screenplay. It's probably my fault the condenser mics didn't pick up Rene and G's voices very well. Next time, folks.

NRod sits down to talk about how many women he'd rape if he had a gun to his head and we eventually get to Black Panther and what makes an epistemic African. 22:20 is when review starts lol, it's all law and legal bullshit before then

Chingchong doctor is extremely rude and do NOT say it to ANYOne. JK Rowling is committing gay erasure and she MUST be stopped by any uhhh lawful means necessary When you Google Andy Dier the first result is "Andy Dier child predator" and that is very funny. Alex Garland didn't read the second book in a series so he's a racist

Big dick NRod stops by as the Watch Alone Premium Guest Host. We talk about the gays and talk about the "gays" in Beach Rats (2017) and Call Me By Your Name (2017). Beach Rats > Call Me By Your Name

Gabrielle's high on Benadryl, sorry. BPM (2017) Phantom Thread (2017, I guess) ICYMI - Swiss Army Man (2016) We discuss the recent Twitter practice of shadowbanning escorts / sex workers / whores / prostitutes, as a segue. Sad! Lexi Alexander quit Twitter to focus on our dating life, sorry haters.

It's 2018 folks: Race is a construct. The only race is orc. Movies discussed - Mayhem, Woodshock, Columbus, Brawl in Cell Block 99, Shape of Water, Bright (all 2017) and Herzog's 2010 taiga documentary. David can get it if he wants but will pretend he doesn't get it and then get mad at you if he thinks you got it while he was getting it.

RIP August Ames. Gabrielle laments Roy Moore's loss and talks up her favorite race science. Josh recoils in horror. We discuss The Disaster Artist (2017) and The Love Witch (2016) - Anna Biller of The Love Witch was quoted as gospel by IndieWire, which confirms my suspicion it's a shit publication (and the name sucks). We both liked The Disaster Artist for different reasons, and recommend it for different reasons. I liked The Love Witch a lot more than Gabrielle but it's a very tough film to discuss and like, which makes me think it's made basically to teach in film school and not much else.

We go into it. Gabrielle calls me a hypocritcal liar so she's fired and owes me backpay. Money shot review is Blade of the Immortal (Takashi Miike 2017) - 36:40. This is the man movie our 2017 needed after the slump following Logan. Porn and Ohio / South Texas racism - first 15 minutes or so Marquise von Sade aka Portrait of Doriana Gray (Franco, 1976) - 15:00 in - Jesus Franco "porno" - very strange, interesting camera work and setting but not a good movie The Otherworld (Richard Stanley of Dust Devil and Hardware, 2013) - 22:15; bizarro documentary about the director's time in a mountain fortification in France hanging out with weirdos waiting for the end of the world in the summer of 2012 Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, 2017) - 26:10 - some kid goes to high school and every woman in the world simultaneously orgasms because of this. Who cares. French Can Can (Renoir 1958) - 46:45 - fun, colorful, story with cool costumes and sexiness about the founding of the Moulin Rouge - it's good go see it, I think I got distracted by the fucking cats Jim and Andy (Netflix 2017) - 50:00 or so - good docu about Jim Carrey when he went crazy playing Andy Kaufman, followed by my pitch for Yes Woman (guess the plot) More porn talk. OUTRO - music from Interno di un convento, a lovely, interesting nun porn from the 70s.

The intrepid duo of Gabrielle and Josh dig into the entertainment news. Louis CK is apparently a rapist because he jacks off in front of people, or that's what Eve Peyser would have you think. Movie reviews kick in around 26:40 1) The Florida Project - Josh says garbage; Gabrielle liked it - in theaters 2) While We're Young - both say garbage, on Netflix 3) The Killing of A Sacred Deer - really good shit per Josh; all the misanthropy a man needs; in some theaters 4) Loving Vincent - really good shit per Josh; a painted cartoon mystery about van Gogh's last hours - in some theaters Ian got fucked on the Great British Baking Show. Those hags sabotaged his ice cream! https://twitter.com/watchalonepod

https://twitter.com/watchalonepod Gabrielle and I dig into the real smelly gay dirt of New York City. She subtly suggests I'm anti-Semitic and I deftly deflect her barbs and call her ability to tell jokes into question. I'm da fuckin' KING uh GASLIGHTIN' baby. Kevin Spacey does a Devin Faraci: he can't remember also he's gay. He reminds me of Shane Vader, the childporn-addicted "lefty" "tranny": both coming out about different things for the wrong reason. Liberal implosions rule. Norman (2016) - good movie about a Jewish guy trying to make a living in New York and failing miserably at it while accidentally working his dumb way into a beautiful, tragic resolution to all his mistakes (Josh); meh (Gabrielle) Raw (2016) - decent but no cannibal film (Josh); I liked it! (Gabrielle) Meyerowitz Stories (2017) - good fuckin shit (both) - watch it on Netflix Margot At the Wedding (2009) - forgettable (both) Noah Baumbach is like a more realistic Wes Anderson, which isn't saying much, but Meyerowitz Stories does something beautiful and good in family drama storytelling. No Halloween movies reviewed because I'm not a fucking hack.

Law school pals from way back get together and discuss movies that they've seen together, in complete contradiction of my show's theme - watching movies alone! I like to think that I still saw a movie alone, since we don't see eye to eye on shit. Which is fun. It's a good time. Blade Runner 2049 - theaters now - it's good, go see it Happy Death Day - theaters now - it's not great, but it's okay, you should see it Trash Fire - Netflix - last feature so far from Richard Bates, Jr.: it's not good, you shouldn't see it. You should still see his Excision. https://twitter.com/watchalonepod

https://twitter.com/watchalonepod Your devoted servant gets into the shit again. Where angels dare not tread, there goeth he. Fantastic Fest is over, and while I didn't go, I poked around the edges of the Harry Knowles controversy, earning me a block on Twitter from Scott Weinberg of 80s All Over podcast, which is funny as hell. Their podcast is good! Listen to it! The story is on the podcast and it digs into Harry Knowles (formerly) of Ain't It Cool News, Lloyd Kaufman of Troma Film and Scott the egghead whiner. Twitter rules! Movies I watched! mother! (2017) -it sucks in so many ways but rules in so many others, go see it! Three women fled the theater and I laughed my ass off throughout it! Funny movie about trauma, and life dogpiling on you. Bleak Street (2015) - Mexican surreal true-crime story about dwarf twin wrestlers who get murdered, and the black-and-white oddity leading up to it. Fans of Hard To Be a God are sure to love it! Gerald's Game (2017) - MORE STEPHEN KING! On Netflix! I didn't like it! Baskin (2015) - Netflix Turkish horror about scumbag cops who get it good by Lovecraftian terror cults living in a Resident Evil mansion! This shit ruled! Watch it! Brainstorm (1983) - skip Flatliners 2017 and just pick this up at your local videomart. Christopher Walken does science for the sake of learning, and nothing will stop him from experiencing a colleague's death caught on a psychic recording machine! This movie ruled! A Dark Song (2016) - Netflix supernatural drama-horror about a mom hellbent on asking for God's aid in killing her son's murderers, but the price is high: a year in a big manse with a bald working class occultist locked from the outside world and trying fiendishly to invoke an avenging angel! Was good! Watch it! Catfight (2016) Onur Tukel's last feature boasts sharp dialogue, good gay humor, woman-on-woman coma-inducing battery (x2!) and other remarks on the insipid, futile world we occupy! Good shit! WAY better than Summer of Blood, which you can safely skip! lol forgot about Chloe (2009) - awful Egoyan film but lush and full of juicy lesbian / masturbation shots of beautiful Julianne More and the voluptuous Amanda Seyfried, who's no stranger to lesbian shots (2009's Jennifer's Body with Megan Fox for a long makeout scene). So watch it for any reason you want, or skip it. It's a bad movie. But it's got some great scenes. The conflict! The debate! Damn you Egoyan. I'm on a roll baby.

I watched a bunch of shit and spare you most of it. https://twitter.com/watchalonepod Good Time - 2017 feature from the Safdie brothers about street trash trying to scrape by after fucking up a felony; see it ASAP! I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives In the House - 2016 Netflix Gothic mood horror from Oz Perkins, son of Anthony Perkins (Psycho, and more). Stars Ruth Wilson, queen of my heart since she stole it in BBC's Luther. Literary, interesting. Starry Eyes - good horror about Hollywood strivers - get it wherever you can Holidays - shitty horror anthology on Netflix - skip Spontaneous Combustion - part of my Tobe Hooper retrospective (RIP) - a Brad Dourif vehicle for special effects and satirical exploration of the "nuclear family" in atomic America. Paris is Burning - 1990 documentary about underground gay community theater scene called "drag balls" - touching eye-opener about gay street urchins just trying to look like divas and feel "real" for once. The Servant - 1963 Joseph Losey offbeat suspense flick about a sick relationship between a con artist (Dick Brogarde) and his loser alky rich boy boss (James Fox). Black and white, masterfully shot - so many good scenes and frames that I recommend you see pronto to understand what I love about it. Then I pipe up about the Devin Faraci / Tim League fiasco. Spoiler alert: I think Faraci was just bad PR for Alamo, but Tim had a good heart and wanted to help him out, so he kept him on payroll. Tim now pays the price for his kindness masked with deceit - no charges filed yet against Faraci, but people think "11 months without working" isn't punishment enough. What a bloodthirsty society.

Andrew quit because his brother wouldn't listen to the podcast. I don't blame either one, not one bit. I don't even listen to it. I just record this shit. https://twitter.com/watchalonepod I talked about a bunch of shit off my Letterboxd. I went on a horror binge. 1) The Devil's Candy - 2015 Netflix horror - had promise, but squandered it. I would watch another of this guy's films. I don't recommend it. 2) From a House on Willow Street - don't watch this trash 3) Creep - 2014 documentary-style flick about a cat and mouse game between a beta male and his bizarre gig employer. Moral of the story - get a career, not a gig where you can get stalked for sport. I recommend it. 4) Hush - 2016 survival horror flick about a deafmute trying to survive a bored murderer's attempts to kill her in her cabin. I really recommend it. 5) Our Mother's House - 1967, lovely pairing to Mary Poppins about kids who descend into religious mania and powermongering when their mother dies and they fear being sent to the orphanage, as well they should: kids get raped and sold by the state there. Need I say I recommend it? 6) The Transfiguration - 2016 vampire film about an autistic serial killer living in the projects; I liked most of it. Lot of uncomfortable, tense moments that drag you through the mind of a killer. I would recommend it. 7) Ingrid Goes West - 2017 stalker film about a social media retard; I liked it. I'd definitely recommend it. 8) Austeria - beautiful, eventime-lit 1982 war film about a Polish Jewish pogrom in 1918 and the interesting mystical antics of a batch of Hasids who dance their way to doom during it. Great movie. 9) My Night at Maud's - beautiful love story about the damning power of faith and humanist love. Five stars on my Letterboxd. I definitely recommend.

The humble bois are back, freshly jacked off, I think. My upstairs neighbor's boyfriend just deadeyes me whenever she's around, which I guess is an intimidation tactic, and Andrew's upstairs neighbor lives in fear that he's a Kik molester from Cedar Park. He's not! https://twitter.com/watchalonepod We watched a lot of shit. Dead Silence - garbage ventriloquism horror Original Gangstas - amazing Larry Cohen flick about the original members of a street gang coming back to town to clean up the streets of the bastards who've sullied their gang's good name after a tragic drive-by; lot of good socioeconomic commentary, and it's woke to watch cuz a Jewish guy made a movie for a black cast Atomic Blonde - Andrew says it's humdrum action, not even a shadow of Indonesian action cinema; lots of quips from James Mackelmore and Charlize Theron, so. If you like quips, just rewatch Lethal Weapon. Red Desert - beautiful Antonioni film starring Monica Vitti as a woman driven insane from living in a disgusting, industrialized port community that looks like a setting lifted from Eraserhead. Very lovely, patient film about neurosis in the shadow of capitalism. Crimes and Misdemeanors - Landau's Woody Allen flick about Allen and Alan Alda vying for Mia Farrow's pussy. Could have been more psychologically compelling, for Andrew. Young Doctors In Love - Airplane-style hogwash humor in a hospital. Absolutely banal, which is sad because it had young Michael McKean doing pretty good as a fellow autist. Birth of the Living Dead - the Romero documentary! Watch it if you don't know anything about the Romero classic Night of the Living Dead. I didn't know the casting of the black male lead (Duane Jones) was more of a crapshoot than an intentional decision. Blue Steel - awful Kathryn Bigelow female cop movie. Tries to channel Mann's Manhunt, and fails. Boring. Don't support this deep state shill with her false Al Qaeda narratives. Kuso - Flying Lotus's debut in cinema with a weird quartet of stories, all of them full of disgusting imagery and tons of fluids (boil blowjob with jizz on the pus? yes, please). Weird cartoons, Aphex Twin score, and insane scenery. Andrew gives a hard recommend. Ken Park - Larry Clark / Harmone Korine team up for a spiritual sequel to Kids. California skater trash suck and fuck, and they're all depraved. It's good, believable, sad dialogue and poor characters. I like this a lot. Invisible Adversaries - a Vital Export film about a madwoman dealing violently with her delusions. Andrew gives a hard recommend. The Dreamers - Bertolucci's cinephiles' film. I liked this a lot. Beautifully shot love story about a young, idealistic American watching the Parisian riots go down on the streets while he sucks and fucks upstairs with two hot siblings who sleep naked together and play kinky games of "what's that movie" trivia. Sexual without being overtly pornographic. I really liked it. Michael Pitt (Funny Games, and I, Origins) rubbing his cheek on Eva Green's (Sin City 2) bush was pretty lovely. The Innocents - a movie about a cryptic, otherworldly girls' school. Andrew liked it a lot. Expect strange, unsettling shots like girls arriving to school in coffins. What's YOUR favorite girls' school movie? Claire's Knee - a 1970 Eric Rohmer moral fable about a man about to get married who goes on a vacation to a lakeside retreat under a mighty mountain with his beautiful friend who challenges him to try to seduce a pretty teenager she lives with, without fucking her. Things get complicated when this weird perv falls in love with her pretty blonde friend, who's getting railed by some French stud. I liked this movie a lot. It's full of beautiful, thoughtful dialogue and amazing natural settings and shots in the sunlight of nature's glamour: mountains, dales, lakes and the supple flesh of the young.

We got a real knock out for you sluts out there with this one. https://twitter.com/watchalonepod GLOW - the docu, not the show cuz the show sucks even if Allison Brie shows her tits twice in one episode. Valerian - scifi from Luc Besson, not great, but Cara Delevingne who got fucked on a plane apparently and *kisses fingers* God bless he who rogered. Antonio Campos' Afterschool! Lucky McKee's All Cheerleaders Die! John Waters's Polyester! Lovely Divine and Mink Stole tranny love. Great fuckin flick. Kill By Inches - the Tiny Tailor Slasher Shit you didn't think you needed; it's like Perfume, but instead of cologne murders, it's dick measuring tape murders Child's Play 2 - it's good, but Chucky is a dumb franchise! George Romero may he rise in peace - Bruiser from 2000 and Survival of the Dead from 2009 Eric Rohmer's Love in the Afternoon - gorgeous 1972 French morality play Joseph Losey's 1951 Prowler! Noir goes backdoor. David Lowery's A Ghost Story - really good shit per Josh, won't even watch it per Andrew FF Coppola's Tucker: The Man and His Dream - for lovers of Hudsucker Proxy and sad sacks of shit. The Gymnast - Ned Farr's cishet P90x babe wife plays a bulky lesbian in a loveless het marriage. Free your shackles. War for Planet of the Apes - Gollum does monkey business again, but who can remember anything? Woody Harrelson has to walk around reminding the audience of past two plots out loud. Otto Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse - David Niven, Deborah Kerr and Jean Seberg make and ruin love in the beautiful Mediterranean The Horseman - a forgettable sack of shit starring Dennis Quaid. Do you like theme serial killer movies like Se7en? Then skip this one, cuz it's more of the same! L'eclisse - Antonioni. Andrew hates, Josh loves. L'avventura - more Antonioni, ditto. The Naked Prey - some man shit where Africans hunt a naked white down in the bush for sport. Convincingly, he outplays them all. The Hunter - Andrew nearly showed an emotion talking about this one with Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill; a tale of a man hired to kill the last Tasmanian Tiger. Never on Sunday - Jules Dassin's shitty sex comedy. Skip it and watch classic Dassin like Brute Force. Cosmos - Zulawski's last movie before he croaked. Delirious, hallucinatory, amazing, per Josh. The Verdict - Lumet puts Newman as a shitty lawyer who insists his client go to trial on a med mal case when they'd rather settle. Predictably, problems ensue and the law has its ways with the facts.

https://twitter.com/watchalonepod Try 1000 to upload this fucking track onto a host. Andrew and Josh both watched Okja; in a twist we become children's authors at the end of the episode, so touching was this movie about a lil 'phoeb and her CGI, shitting pig. Josh thinks Kitano is the shit but Andrew efficiently silences him before he can talk about 7 more Kitano flicks. Belching is minimized.

The boys return for more film talk in Andrew's sweltering bungalow. Andrew establishes he is not a cynic, while Josh forgets movie titles again. https://twitter.com/watchalonepod

Two Texan autists find a mic in the back of a sweltering restaurant kitchen and discuss the movies of 2017 they've seen so far. Andrew establishes he's funnier than Josh, Josh plays "avoid being racist while discussing Get Out". https://twitter.com/watchalonepod