Road To Wellville (1994)

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11/17/20 • 61 min

The unexpected surprise, an actually good movie. Selling us on only sunshine and ideas, the Welville health clinic seduced Lucas and Dylan. A film that somehow feels of the time, and yet severely underappreciated on release. A large cast of characters perfectly weave the various intertwining plots of this ruminating, comedic narrative.

There's a bit of election discussion, of course. Skip the first fifteen minutes or so if you're tired of it. We completely understand. We're all slowly decaying from the conversations around this topic.

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Bullets Over Broadway (1994)

A brisk episode, brisk on purpose. We had to cut this short to enjoy the autumn day, the sun and leaves of the mythic Pacific Northwest. It's not that we didn't have anything to say about this movie, or that both of us had forgotten most everything about the plot and characters.

Skip it, or love it.

John on John sucks, John on John exists to make Dylan look bad.

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City Hall (1996)

Get the yiddish out of your gumbo. You're like a detective from a dime novel. A crab in the pool signals to the tropical storm on its way. The banana peel on the western front is dew on the dogwood tree.

City Hall (1996) is a magnificent mess, and nowhere near as charming as True Colors. Another centrist political narrative, wrapped fifteen times over by its four different screenwriters, City Hall struggles to say anything at all. We have hard discussions about the nature of irony, and just how tainted we've become watching these movies.