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Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 7:13PM 
So many new trailers. Nightmare Alley, Pam & Tommy, She-Hulk, Spider-Man No Way Home, Dog, Marry Me, Turning Red, Moonfall. Let's watch them all after the jump...
Friday, July 16, 2021 at 6:30PM by Nathaniel R
Tilda in dog collar
With Cannes wrapping up this weekend, the awards are now rolling out. Trust Tilda Swinton to bring inhuman glamour to the kick-off by accepting the Palm Dog award and wearing the coveted red collar herself! Her three spaniels Rosie, Dora and Snowbear won for their roles in The Souvenir Part Two...
Cannes, Feathers, Middle Eastern Films, Olga, Palm Dog, The Souvenir, Tilda Swinton, dogs, egypt, film festivals, short films Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at 6:28PM This week Team Experience pays tribute to John Waters for his 75th birthday.
by Nathaniel R
Unlike eggs and fresh meat, both of which are memorable supporting characters in John Waters Pink Flamingos (1972), movies don't come with expiration date. Nor should they. The expiration dates for movies are theoretical, figurative, and cultural, and are thus almost never agreed upon. Some movies magically live forever losing little of their original flavor. Some become even more flavorful and would be better suited to a wine analogy than this ill-advised animal byproducts one we're pursuing. We call these expiration-date busting films, classics. Whether they make you sick, these "old" movies, is entirely up to you. Can you remove yourself from the now while watching them or do you expect all movies to cater to the accepted opinions, values, and mores of the right now (which will have its own expiration date)? These are questions we might ask about any classic especially in our current very volatile and angry social climate, where everything is being reevaluted (which is a good thing) and mostly branded unacceptable (an unfortunately reductive thing, especially when it comes to art from previous eras).
But since our subject tonight is Pink Flamingos (1972) which wants to make you sick, it's the wrong question altogether. Maybe we don't have a question at all. Our eyes are still wide, heads still spinning, and feeling slightly nauseous...
10|25|50|75|100, Divine, Edith Massey, John Waters, Mink Stole, Pink Flamingos, dogs, nudity, sex scenes Tuesday, December 29, 2020 at 10:01PM by Nathaniel R
Over the Moon
We have a few big 2020 Year in Review pieces left to go but how about something fluffy and little tonight like "Bungee" in Over the Moon (pictured above).. or if not always that then slippery but cuddly, or dangerous and otherwordly. We polled Team Experience for their favourite critters of the year onscreen and here were the results (sort of). We'd intended to do the usual countdown thing but the results were truly all over the place with 20+ animals cited and not much in the way of consensus. So rather than attempting little blurbs and a ranking we'll let these dozen animals speak for themselves. Not that they can speak. Which was your favourite screen creature in 2020?
Thursday, December 24, 2020 at 9:30AM 7 random things that happened on this day, December 24th, in showbiz history
1936 The Jungle Princess starring Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland opens in movie theaters. How about that tagline?
"You savage, untamed she-devil -- I adore you!"
