Neighbors (2014)
Less interesting than the old Belushi/Akroyd film, but reliably
middle-of-the-road broad comedy where Rogen and Byrne make a surprisingly fun and funny duo. I guess they though so too, as they're now making their third film together,
Platonic.
The Searchers (1956)
Like
The Deer Hunter, I think the racist depictions here are
not simply a product of their time and really do cross over from Depiction to Endorsement. We really are meant to be on John Wayne's side as a cantankerous unrepentant racist Confederate soldier who'd rather kill a girl that slept with a Native American than "rescue" her. The movie has a bit of a copout ending too, but damn does it have some stunning cinematography.
Station Eleven (2021)
A mini-series every critic seems to have loved that I found pretty insufferable. Loved the first episode, hated the next two when they moved off to other characters and actors and jumped all over in chronology. I have no patience now for
LOST-esque stories that
tease a million questions and absurdities that they'll probably never answer, so I turned this off.