FILM

Gabe celebrates that there’s always something to watch—even a hidden gem of a film here and there—in this month’s Captain Canada’s Movie Rodeo.

I keep a folder on my phone called "continuity error🤍." This brief compendium of movie discontinuity began with a scene that's been mystifying me since I watched The Perks of Being a Wallflower at home for the first time, when I discovered one of the most perplexing "continuity errors" I've ever seen

Maybe I can understand why it's not everyone's cup of tea ~ it's insane. Pure fuckin crazy. But god, it was one of the greatest cinematic surprises of my life & I drank it UP.

But while a label may not always be necessary, they are SO VALUABLE. Besides Quinni (Heartbreak High), Billy Cranston is the only character I've seen actually acknowledge his own autism & it feel real, & authentic, & relatable (unlike *hacking cough* The Good Doctor et al).

I’m not a die-hard Kevin Smith fan by any means, but when I had the opportunity to go on a cruise where not only Jay and Silent Bob themselves (Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith) would appear, but a whole cast of View Askewniverse actors, comedians, and musical acts, I caved to the peer pressure and purchased my cruise ticket a month before the inaugural cruise left the Miami port.

To be sure, there’s a lot about the script for Delirious that I love. The soap opera characters and situations in particular are clever subversions of the genre, and anyone watching this movie on some level at least understands how soaps work. The movie takes your understanding and runs with it to some surprising and often surreal places. The movie operates on soap opera logic, but also works with dream logic, and it’s easy to see why Gable is more often than not way in over his head. 

One night after watching Dr. Phibes, I woke from a horrid nightmare, grisly death scenes flashing through my mind. Timidly—I knew I was too old for this—I knocked on my parent’s bedroom door and begged to sleep with them.

The black-and-white framing device of Asteroid City (2023) provides the narrative of the play with context, specifically context surrounding artists, especially queer artists, and their anxieties embedded within their art.

Returning to The Last Unicorn with my three-year-old daughter this year, I found that my love of it has not dimmed; my relationship to its symbolism and characters has evolved.

Call me Molly Shannon as Mary Catherine Gallagher. You may as well, Father. I'm that high school student with thick-framed glasses and an insatiable need for love and stardom.

Gabe muses about Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind turning 20 years old and reviews some films in the latest Captain Canada’s Movie Rodeo.

Unlike myself, who was seemingly entrapped in a helpless limbo of awkward exchanges with my friend, Makoto reverses time to void Chiaki’s romantic confession to Makoto, as Chiaki’s confessions end up lost in a web of alternate timelines.

Gabe shares some observation about how people read and watch films in this month’s Captain Canada’s Movie Rodeo.

Gabe counts down his most and least anticipated films of 2024 in the first Captain Canada’s Movie Rodeo of the year.

Gabe ends this year optimistically in the latest Captain Canada’s Movie Rodeo.

The pineapple, familiar to him but unfamiliar and spoken at random to her, becomes a question that was left hanging in the air between people, an undercurrent of unspoken words that were meant to be inwardly contained and never to be directly processed.

One of the most important and central elements of ecofiction, that human accountability is intrinsically part of an artwork’s ethical positioning, is a topic central to the works of famed filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki.

Gabe goes to bat for indie studios in this month’s Captain Canada’s Movie Rodeo.

I settled on James Cagney, who was playing Lon Chaney in Man of a Thousand Faces: The Lon Chaney Story. Lon Chaney was a famous actor and makeup artist on vaudeville and in silent films in the early 1900s. He was a CODA (long before the term CODA had been coined).

Gabe shares a lovely tribute to his mom in this month’s Captain Canada’s Movie Rodeo.

Vacations are exhausting. And what’s most exasperating about German writer/director Maren Ade’s Everyone Else (2009) is that there’s no escaping the claustrophobic world she’s created. The volatile coupling of Chris (Lars Eidinger) and Gitti (Birgit Minichmayr), holed up together at Chris’ parents’ Sardinian villa, defies any expectations for a customary on-screen getaway.

Gabe goes to bat for creatives during these uncertain times with AI in this month’s Captain Canada’s Movie Rodeo.

Phantom of the Paradise rewired me. Electrified me. This movie is, in the words of Jessica Harper’s character Phoenix, “special to me.”

When I was growing up, White Jesus was everywhere, but I never thought of him as a real person. He was like Zeus or John Henry or Captain Kirk—iconic figures operating outside my daily life, moving in worlds so far away they were impossible.

Gabe loves going to the movies and we do, too, in this month’s Captain Canada’s Movie Rodeo.

Gabe returns this month with Captain Canada’s Movie Rodeo.

The vampires of this film skew younger than usual, the clan having been built up by Lothos with unlucky high school students who remain ready to party and have fun. As they are reborn into their new world of darkness, they maintain some of their personalities and memories of who they were before, still wanting to flirt and play basketball and DJ their senior dance and drop in on their friends for a bite. These vampires are more relatable than they are terrifying.

Perhaps this is the anthem of Commando as a whole. Don’t think, don’t ask questions, just shut up, watch, and enjoy.

In fact, substance runs aplenty in Elvis cinema if you only know where to look. The films often challenge authority and prove downright fascinating in their portrayal of class dynamics, gender, and sexuality.