Join us as we pay tribute to the cinema of 2013. We congratulate the Oscar winners (kind of) and watch Ridley Scott’s mixed-bag of a movie, The Counselor. We learn that a certain philosophical concept, in fact, has no temperature. In Seen It, we discuss fiends, promises, and Adam Sandler’s trip to the arthouse.
Finish off your February by diving into some romantic tragedy with us as we watch the gothic classic Wuthering Heights. The passion is palpable. We also talk Oscars. In Seen It, we discuss more Oscar bait — Wall Street wolves, American hustles and melancholy monochrome portraits of the midwest.
Welcome to Season 3! We’ve got an exciting year ahead of us and we start with a bang as we watch the race car romance Viva Las Vegas. We also bid a fond farewell to a greatly missed Philip Seymour Hoffman. In Seen It, we discuss manipulative Goblin Kings, elaborate cookie signals and the merits […]
In Spike Jonze’s Oscar nominated film Her, a man starts a very personal relationship with his very personal computer. Broken-hearted sad sack Theodore Twombly falls for Samantha, his new artificially intelligent computer operating system, and she falls in love right back. Thus begins one of the most inventive love stories ever put to film. Or […]
Come join us as we look back on Welcome To The Basement’s second year. We watch “The Great Train Robbery” and “The Red Balloon”, we induct new members into our hall of fame, retire our old notebooks, issue New Year’s resolution challenges to each other, and there’s even […]
Ho Ho Ho, Happy Holidays! Tis the season for gambling as we play another game of Three Film Monte. Which movie will we watch? The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T? Meet Me in St. Louis? Or Rare Exports? Watch and find out. In Seen It, we discuss fidelity, desire and Spanish Vampires.
Get ready to show us your “jazz hands” as we get ready to show you Bob Fosse’s 1979 autobiopic, “All That Jazz”. In Seen It, we discuss some of our viewers most hated movies: Some natural born, some legendary and some titanic.
Come and board the viking longboat that is the Ol Leather Couch and sail off into a brutal world of stabbings, disembowelings and mist. From Denmark, we give you Valhalla Rising. In Seen It, we confront our deeply buried resentment of the dregs of cinema. Woody Allen, The Coen Brothers and Steven Spielberg all get […]
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