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OK, first of all I have to tell you that I saw Tickled<\/strong><\/em> and I want you to go see it without knowing much about it. I went in knowing that it was a documentary about \u201ccompetitive endurance tickling\u201d and the filmmaker uncovers\u2026 something? a weird thing? the story is weirder than it sounds? So I assumed it would be a story about a subculture, maybe about how we build community or identity off of inexplicable and sometimes sad things.<\/p>\n

NOPE. It starts out very, very funny, and the humor is enhanced by the fact that it\u2019s filmed like a horror movie. Then, slowly but surely, the shadowy outlines of its central figure begin to emerge. It\u2019s possible this is a story about toxic shame<\/a>. It\u2019s also, though, a story about abuse of power. I don\u2019t want to say more than that but just\u2026 the atmosphere in the audience went from \u201clololol freak of the week\u201d (which I disapprove of\/identify with, but okay) to \u201ctake me home and hold me, tell me it\u2019s not real.\u201d<\/p>\n

A painful story that remains in many ways mysterious all the way through. Like the human heart.<\/p>\n

Okay, deep breath, on to other things. I\u2019m doing the free trial of Amazon Prime so I watched some streaming stuff there.<\/p>\n

In the Custody of Strangers<\/strong><\/em>: \u201980s message flick about how it\u2019s bad to jail juveniles with adults. I already agree but good grief the script of this film clunks like a broken-down Chevy. Great acting from Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez (love his twitchiness) but you don\u2019t have to act in terrible movies just because you\u2019re Cat\u2019lick you know.<\/p>\n

No, there\u2019s some powerful stuff here, especially the Rust Belt setting. (This might be the second movie I\u2019ve ever seen with an unemployment-office scene, after Last Days of Disco<\/em><\/a>.) But this subject deserves a better movie.<\/p>\n

Rockula<\/strong><\/em>: A perfectly serviceable slab of cheese from 1990 (the year I call 1989B<\/a>) about a schlemiel of a vampire trying to save his mortal lady friend. Opening credits are great, Toni Basil is phenomenal as the vampire\u2019s hot-blooded mom and Thomas Dolby is great as Overgrown Draco Malfoy, this is fun. It doesn\u2019t reach any heights of demented glory but it does have Bo Diddley. The sublime and ridiculous Yum-Yum liked it much more than I did <\/a>but I did not dislike it nor regret its encroachment onto my viewscreen.<\/p>\n

EDITED I forgot that this movie lets me use my \u201ceye-boobs\u201d tag! O FRABJOUS DAY.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"