#southern art critic

[southernartcritic-blog]

At last, for your bread and circus pleasure, here is our complete list of on-screen recommendations made between 1979-2021.

American Movies made after 1979 that I found worth a second view:

Wise Blood (1979)

Being There (1979)

The Warriors (1979)

10 (1979)

The Shining (1980)

Somewhere in Time (1980)

Caddyshack (1980)

Scanners (1981)

Blade Runner (1982)

The Dark Crystal (1982)

Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)

Michael Jackson: Thriller (1983)

National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983)

Ghostbusters (1984)

Blood Simple (1984)

1984 (1984)

The NeverEnding Story (1984)

Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985)

Commando (1985)

Brazil (1985)

Summer Rental (1985)

Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985)

Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)

Short Circuit (1986)

Crocodile Dundee (1986)

Flight of the Navigator (1986)

9½ Weeks (1986)

Children of a Lesser God (1986)

Labyrinth (1986)

Lucas (1986)

The Fly (1986)

Harry and the Hendersons (1987)

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

The Princess Bride (1987)

Batteries Not Included (1987)

RoboCop (1987)

Near Dark (1987)

They Live (1988)

Dead Ringers (1988)

Bird (1988)

Willow (1988)

Bright Lights, Big City (1988)

Radio Bikini (1988)

Short Circuit 2 (1988)

Beetlejuice (1988)

Heathers (1989)

Christmas Vacation (1989)

Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)

Dreams (1990)

Prancer (1989)

Harlem Nights (1989)

Dead Poet’s Society (1989)

Parenthood (1989)

Who’s Harry Crumb (1989)

Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Dreams (1990)

Home Alone (1990)

Young Guns ll (1990)

Quick Change (1990)

The Witches (1990)

Goodfellas (1990)

Jacob’s Ladder (1990)

Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)

Naked Lunch (1991)

Regarding Henry (1991)

The Last Boy Scout (1991)

The Fisher King (1991)

What About Bob (1991)

Doc Hollywood (1991)

Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (1991)

Bugsy (1991)

Nothing but Trouble (1991)

Switch (1991)

Ricochet (1991)

Flirting (1991)

People Under the Stairs (1991)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Baraka (1992)

Deep Cover (1992)

The Player (1992)

Juice (1992)

Boomerang (1992)

A League of Their Own (1992)

Hero (1992)

True Romance (1993)

Groundhog Day (1993)

Judgement Night (1993)

Untamed Heart (1993)

A Perfect World (1993)

Dazed and Confused (1993)

Kalifornia (1993)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

PCU (1994)

Natural Born Killers (1994)

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

Silent Fall (1994)

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)

Wolf (1994)

The Crow (1994)

Nobody’s Fool (1994)

Casino (1995)

Dead Man (1995)

To Die For (1995)

Kids (1995)

Seven (1995)

Matilda (1996)

Sleepers (1996)

Kingpin (1996)

Fargo (1996)

Blood and Wine (1996)

Flirting with Disaster (1996)

The Ice Storm (1997)

Lost Highway (1997)

The House of Yes (1997)

Lolita (1997)

Boogie Nights (1997)

Booty Call (1997)

The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997)

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)

Gang Related (1997)

Gummo (1997)

Jackie Brown (1997)

The Devil’s Advocate (1997)

Breakdown (1997)

Enemy of the State (1998)

Wild Things (1998)

Batman (1989)

Psycho (1998)

Fallen (1998)

Sliding Doors (1998)

Patch Adams (1998)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

All the Little Animals (1998)

The Truman Show (1998)

Meet Joe Black (1998)

Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

The Matrix (1999)

The Ninth Gate (1999)

Magnolia (1999)

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)

Eye of the Beholder (1999)

Being John Malkovich (1999)

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Instinct (1999)

Ravenous (1999)

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)

Being John Malkovich (1999)

Best in Show (2000)

American Psycho (2000)

Cast Away (2000)

Best in Show (2000)

Requiem for a Dream (2000)

Josie and the Pussycats (2001)

Monster’s Ball (2001)

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

Donnie Darko (2001)

Frailty (2001)

The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)

Hannibal (2001)

Storytelling (2001)

Mulholland Dr. (2001)

Josie and the Pussycats (2001)

The Hours (2002)

Secretary (2002)

Beat the Devil (2002)

The Sweetest Thing (2002)

Lost in Translation (2003)

The Big Lebowski (2003)

The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003)

Spun (2003)

Monster (2003)

The Human Stain (2003)

Man on Fire (2004)

Closer (2004)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)

No Country for Old Men (2005)

A History of Violence (2005)

Fierce People (2005)

Broken Flowers (2005)

The New World (2005)

V for Vendetta (2005)

Tideland (2005)

Factotum (2005)

The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)

The Proposition (2005)

A Scanner Darkly (2006)

The Fall (2006)

Idiocracy (2006)

Zodiac (2007)

There Will Be Blood  (2007)

Michael Clayton (2007)

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007)

The Girl Next Door (2007)

Fracture (2007)

An American Crime (2007)

Into the Wild (2007)

Death Proof (2007)

Synecdoche, New York (2008)

Appaloosa (2008)

Doubt (2008)

Burn After Reading (2008)

The Dark Knight (2008)

Gran Torino (2008)

The Wrestler (2008)

City of Ember (2008)

The Ramen Girl (2008)

Hachi: A Dog’s Tale (2009)

Crossing Over (2009)

Antichrist (2009)

Wall Street Money Never Sleeps (2010)

Black Swan (2010)

Melancholia (2011)

J. Edgar (2011)

Killer Elite (2011)

The Mechanic (2011)

Midnight in Paris (2011)

Drive (2011)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

Water for Elephants (2011)

Chained (2012)

Cloud Atlas (2012)

The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)

The Master (2012)

The Iceman (2012)

Life of Pi (2012)

Her (2013)

Blue Jasmine (2013)

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

Snowpiercer (2014)

Phil Spector (2013)

The Giver (2014)

Big Eyes (2014)

Kill the Messenger (2014)

Winter’s Tale (2014)

Foxcatcher (2014)

Ex Machina (2014)

Sea of Trees (2015)

The Hateful Eight (2015)

Experimenter (2015)

Sicario (2015)

Mascots (2016)

The Neon Demon (2016)

Rebel in the Rye (2017)

The Wizard of Lies (2017)

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Wonder Wheel (2017)

Phantom Thread (2017)

The Shape of Water (2017)

Lucky (2017)

The House that Jack Built (2018)

Under the Silver Lake (2018)

Mandy (2018)

The Devil We Know (2018)

Dark Waters (2019)

City of Lies (2019)

The Irishman (2019)

Elsewhere (2019)

The Beach Bum (2019)

Richard Jewell (2019)

Capone (2020)

Pig (2021)

Old (2021)

Nightmare Alley (2021)

Binge-worthy Shows of Recent Years:

Chuck

Breaking Bad

Better Call Saul

The Good Wife

Person of Interest

Animal Kingdom

Mind Hunter

Hannibal

Dexter

Six Feet Under

Tales from the Crypt

The Righteous Gemstones

The X-Files

Honorable Mentions:

Westworld

Game of Thrones

Sopranos

Deadwood

True Detective 

Yellowstone

Black Mirror

American Horror Story

Dope Sick

The Old Man

Yellowjackets

Billions

Patrick Melrose

Yellowstone

Boardwalk Empire

You

The Handmaid's Tale

Bonus 80’s Faves:

Night Court

Alf 

Twilight Zone

The Muppets

[shadydruid]

2024 vs. 2022. I still like this art (my first Imodna art ever!) as is, but I wanted to re-render it using all of the new things I've learned over these 2 years.

Back then, when it was first posted, Imogen and Laudna were just roommates...

[circle-of-wildfire]

[hirosboard]

Proof that fumbling horrendously WORKS.

[reagomyeggo]

"...she is entirely yours."

[papirfecni]

imodna (ft. paté) girlband au……… hear me out

[usikunox]

Just a silly little Imodna doodle for pride month :>

[elzorton]

Carry your girlfriend

[leafspiritz]

short hair laudna fans rise up

[radsity]

now every time they take a long rest i can imagine them tangled together comfy and safe and in love

[image description: a loose watercolor style illustration of Laudna and Imogen from Critical Role. Both are dressed down for sleeping, and are cuddled together. Laudna has a gentle hold of Imogen's head, her mouth buried into that soft purple hair. Pâté sits snuggled between Imogen's arm and her side, and Laudna's Hound of Ill Omen rests its jaw sleepily in the crook of Laudna's hip. The energy is soft and tender and extremely gay. End ID.]

[nightmaskart]

"She is neither pink nor pale, and she never will be all mine; she learned her hands in a fairy-tale, and her mouth on a valentine."

[southernartcritic-blog]

Top two films to view in October:

“Rosemary's Baby” (1968)

It is our belief that the 1969 Manson murders were done in retaliation against Roman Polanski for making this film.

–Kombo Beanie Jr.

“The Exorcist” (Director’s Cut, 1973)

No other film has such strong ties to MK Ultra and demonic possession as the "The Exorcist" director's cut.

–Lune-Eazy-Tic-Toc Pollywok Clown Shroud 3PO

[shadydruid]

Can I kiss you? 🖤💜 oh, I love them so much

[maesonc-artistic-adventures]

Country Love.

[hirosboard]

Spent your whole life running away.

[bjarkanart]

Y'all, I can't stop drawing Imodna and it gets spicier every time. What happened to my ace brain going from "oh no, I can barely draw people kissing, I'm uncomfy..." to ”oh we're going down, bitch, let's go!"

Aaanyway, have a little close up cause I really like Imogen's expression here and I also like the eyes closed version