366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links. “You get to the point where you’re, like, ‘I want someone to be sad, and I want to know that I’m responsible!’”–Patton Oswalt on living in New York City DIRECTED BY: Alan Arkin FEATURING: Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd, Vincent Gardenia, Elizabeth Wilson, Jon … Continue reading IT CAME FROM THE READER-SUGGESTED QUEUE: LITTLE MURDERS (1971)
366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links. DIRECTED BY: Chris Smith FEATURING: Robert Downey, Sr., Robert Downey, Jr. PLOT: Father and son co-create a documentary chronicling Robert Sr.’s career and end of life, and Robert Jr.’s relationship with his father and coping with his imminent loss. COMMENTS: Papa Downey wraps … Continue reading CAPSULE: SR. (2022)
DIRECTED BY: Grant Heslov, Ellen Kuras, George Clooney FEATURING: Christopher Abbott, Kyle Chandler, Daniel David Stewart, Grant Heslov, George Clooney PLOT: In the Italian theater of World War II, terrified American bombardier Yossarian seeks any way he can find out of the Air Force, but his commander continues to find an excuse to raise the … Continue reading CHANNEL 366: “CATCH-22” (2019)
When the Wizard of Weirdness benevolently gave each of us regular contributors the opportunity to pitch one movie onto the List—with no veto—the Present Author got away with Nothing But Trouble (1991). It’s a controversial pick, for sure. My reasoning was, why pick a movie that was probably comfortably fated to end up on the … Continue reading NORTH (1994): THE WEIRDNESS OF A COLOSSAL FLOP – A CASE STUDY
“You’re a very weird person, Yossarian.”–General Dreedle, Catch-22 “When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.”–Randall Jarrell, “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” DIRECTED BY: Mike Nichols FEATURING: Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Jack Gilford, Jon Voight, Art Garfunkel, Orson Welles, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins, Paula Prentiss, Buck Henry, Richard … Continue reading 323. CATCH-22 (1970)