Dave and I disagree on how familiarity with the book affects the viewing experience, but we both think Saoirse Ronan is incredible. Because she is. Caramel Pistachio Popcorn with Sea Salt Dave: I’m always ambivalent about going to see movies made of books that I love. No matter how good they are, they never seem to live up to the magical aura of the original. I was hoping The Outrun would be different since the Orkney Islands are such a presence in the original text and I wa

Splashy gore can't make up for an absolutely insane script. Three cheers for this popcorn, though! White Chocolate & Pumpkin Pie Spice Popcorn Dave: If a film can make several “best films ever” lists with an entirely impenetrable plot and almost incoherent dialogue, then I should get into the horror movie business. While Suspiria is visually stunning, the script makes absolutely no darn sense. Certainly, for its time, the careful attention to the visual effects of the entire

Why? 2 Korny... Konfounding? One of us liked it, anyway. Both of us like the popcorn, though. Kankankan Popcorn (the dregs of it, anyway) Dave: If The Young and the Restless had a “scary computers” episode, it might have been the movie Y2K . The acting was a tad wooden, the computer monsters were bizarre, and the special effects were…not very special. Still, this film gets at some of the creepiness of the information age while plucking at the heartstrings of late Gen-X/early

Rosemary Garlic Popcorn Dave: What The Blackening lacked in original plot it made up for in one-liners and hilarious social commentary. The tired, albeit creepy plot twist was hard not to see coming and the villains were straight out of older B-rated horror films. The humor buoyed the otherwise stilted and hackneyed script, and the villain being a Trumper definitely got a laugh in our house. (️️️⭐️⭐️⭐️) We’ve done homemade popcorn so often for the past ten years (ten years!?