Dec 25
Watching a movie for exactly the second time ever, when you haven’t seen it since you were a young kid, is a pretty amazing experience. I streamed Scrooged the other night. I hadn’t seen it since shortly after its 1988 release, when I was about six or seven. Total flashback. The terrifying ghouls under the cloak of the ghost of Christmas Future. The incomprehensible mania of a drunken, laid-off Bobcat Goldthwait. The pointless distraction of the love story. Those things were not, I can report, a bunch of scary nonsense this time around. More »
