Red Vines and Twizzlers

Twizzlers Top 10: Top Galentine’s Day movies

While it is true another Galentine’s Day has come and gone, as far as I’m concerned every day should be treated as Galentine’s Day. What is Galentine’s Day you might ask? Just heed the wise words of Ms. Leslie Knope, the founder of Galentine’s Day, herself: With that in mind, whether you’re new to the…

The FYRE Documentaries

Red Vine’s Take It’s crazy that we live in a time where there could be two documentaries released about the exact same obscure subject, Netflix’s FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, and Hulu’s Fyre Fraud. The war for best documentary streaming service is far from over, but as far as this particular battle, Netflix was…

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Red Vine’s Take While perusing CNN, I saw an opinion article called “What America needs now is Mr. Rogers” and after watching the documentary “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” at the True/False Film Festival, I can say quite easily that the opinion article’s title is not at all hyperbolic but rather a severe understatement. America…

Twizzler’s Top 10: Chilly Movies

If you’re anything like me, you absolutely detest the cold. Don’t get me wrong, there is something particularly comforting about being hidden under layers of clothing (no need to suck in that gut!), piled under mountains of blankets, with a warm (spiked?) beverage in hand. But outside of those few fleeting moments of fuzzy warmth…

Twizzlers Top 10: Wanderlust Movies

Knowing that we’re finally at the end of one of the coldest winters in recent history, I thought I would escape the hum-drum of my artificiality heated reality and instead escape into those movies that fill me with the greatest sense of wanderlust. Side note: these movies may inspire you to immediately book that vacation…

Anomalisa

T: After a random watching of Adaptation on HBO the other evening, Red Vines and I delved into the world of its creator, Charlie Kaufman. I, myself, am quite familiar with Kaufman as he is the mastermind behind my favorite movie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (which – by the way – if you have…

The Disaster Artist

T: Any true fan of cult-movies surely has seen – or a least heard of – Tommy Wiseau’s infamously bad film, The Room, starring Greg Sistero and Tommy Wiseau himself. It is infamous in the sense that it is one of those strange films that you know, with every fiber of your being, is terribly…

Mother!

T: I had been wanting to watch this movie ever since the eery and cryptic trailers had come out during late summer. Its limited clues and haunting imagery had me instantly hooked. Plus, being an Aronofsky fan and Jennifer Lawrence enthusiast, I was excited to see this (former) real-life couple team up in Aranofsky’s latest psychological…

Okja

T: I had initially heard about this film while reading an article about all the upcoming summer Netflix releases and what had initially caught my attention was the divisive opinions about how this film should have been released. Even now, having watched the film, I find myself delving into the differing opinions – and ultimately…

Baby Driver

T: Gosh, where do I begin? First and foremost, RV and I (on a whim) decided to go see this movie. Neither of us knew anything about it, and my own limited understanding of the film centered primarily on the rave reviews that kept popping up in my Twitter feed. We hadn’t seen the trailer…

Community (Entire Series)

RV: I can always tell if I’m going to like a person that I meet simply by knowing if they watched Community. It’s a show that was ahead of its time. Seriously, if it would have been released on Netflix, it would have dominated. It was just never broad enough for a major network, yet it…

Black Mirror

T: This show, more than any, is what the world needs right now. The title alone suggest the darkness that lies lurking in the milieu of our own society – tapped into our various screens and devices. RV discovered this show from NPR and demanded that we begin watching this series on an ordinary Saturday night. I…