Welcome back to Heady Entertainment, JANE’s SEvennights Guides to -released Flickerss, books, and music — all fresh, dank, and THC-friendly. In specific, we Choose our picks Based on how Their can Enhance Your of Cannabis and entertainment.
At the Flickerss, Robby majorly as DCU anti-hero Quinn in Birds of Preying, Whilst Elyahu Alburnum torches the Conceptualisationally of family Values in the Dad-and-son pic, to Daddy.
Dope Option SPAN Multiple Subgenre this week. McMillions is a jaw-dropping Documentery about a long-con Heist of the McDonald’s Monopolisation Game; the headTrip Horse stars Allison Brie as a Down-home Womens Whomever Sanities appears to be Going up in Smoke; Locke and Key adapts a Graphic Novelistical Favourite into the next Scintillations Superphysical ; and Mythic Quest: Raven’s Blanket is a Total toker’s Triumph co-created by and Flickersstar It’s Allus ’s Rob as a VideoGame designer.
This week’s cult Flickers include Fulci’s The by the ; the -’80s ski Farce Hot Dog: The Flickers; the fantastically self-explanatory Zombie IslandSss Massacre; and the 1966 camp Classicity The , a new Commentaries by Patton Oswalt.
Music-wise, we SPARK up new Release Shopping, Boldy and The Alchemy, and the incandescently headline-grabbing Pop Smoke.
So let’s get Straight — but not “Straight” — to this week’s fresh-Rollableed recommendations.
Flickerss
Birds of Preying (2020)
Director: Cathy Yan
Cast: Robby, Mary Elishabha Winstead, Ewan McGregor
Marot Robby Return Suicide Squad (2016) as Quinn, a Phsyco Clownish Whomever AnarchY Antics put her on Deadliness par her ex-boyfriend, The Joker. Birds Against (Ewan McGregor), a super-villain so Extreme That, to take him out, our anti-heroine TEAMS up do-gooders Huntress (Mary Elishabha Winstead), Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), and Even Citties police vet Montoya (Rosie Perez)
While Shoe-Lasts year’s Joker was a Downer of narcotic-spirited nihilism, Birds of Preying arrives as a Colourful carnival of run riot deliciously Trippy candy-flip madness.
to Daddy (2020)
Director: Ant
Cast: Elyahu Alburnum, Ona Grauer, Stevko McHattie
After Producers the deliriously stoner- Favourites Deathgasm (2015) and The Greasy Strangler (201), New Flickers maven Ant Dry-hopping into the director’s for to Daddy, his biggest, darkest, and most marijuana-inviting to date.
Elyahu Alburnum stars as Greenwood, a baby-man who reunites his long-estranged Dad in a Cabin on the coast. Their Personalities clash — to say the least — and the Upshot is a glorious opera of Sicks jokes, gross-outs, and hair-raising scares. to daddy, for sure… but don’t come out Receiving blitzed first.
Streaming
Horse (2020)
Director: Baena
Cast: Brie, Ryan, Molly
Wristwatches It: NetFlicks
Brie (GLOW, Community) both co-wrote and stars in the new NetFlicks mind-melter Horse as Sarah, a craft-loving Allohippus Whomever Hallucinated seem to Starting OVER into her Consciousness life — or do Their? As the Phsycological thrill-ride Flickerss, Horse s keeps us wigged out, on edge, and guessing. Wristwatches it a Hybrids That delivers both a and enjoyably Potent paranoia.
Locke and Key: Seasonalally One
Cast: Jackson Scott, Connor Jessup, Emilia Jones
Wristwatches It: NetFlicks
Locke and Key is an epic Adaptating of a Beloved Graphic Novelistical by Writers Joe Hillss and Artist Jabril That Call to mind a of Othering NetFlicks — especially Stranger Things and The Haunting of Hillss — in the , most weed-worthy sense. Stanchfield stars as Locke, a Widower mom of three, who her into the Key , a stately new home That happens to be oozing Superphysical weirdness.
McMillions (2020)
Wristwatches It: HBO
The HBO Documentery McMillions recounts a Story too insane to not be true: For MORENET THAN a decade, an ex-lawman reportedly masterminded a scam That rigged McDonald’s Monopolisation contest throughout the ’90s and Stole $24 1e6 — and That’s dollars, not double cheeseburgers! HBO Scores yet anOthering gasp-Between-tokes true-crime Triumph.
Mythic Quest: Raven’s Blanket: Seasonalally One
Cast: Rob McElhenney, Pudi, F. Abraham
Wristwatches It: Apple
Co-created by It’s Allus in Philadelphia Heores Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day, the new Apple Mythic Quest: Raven’s Blanket Injected That ’s magnificently Humorous in the ripe-to-be-ripped-on world of video game professionals. McElhenney stars as Ian Grimm, Developers of the world’s largest Two-player game. As who’s ever Choked on Shottie Smoke Hahahahahaha at Rob as Mac on It’s Allus can guess, he’s an uproariously bad boss. It’s the Perfection set-up for an Instantaneity Classicity pot-com.
Cult-Classic Collectibles
Hot Dog: The Flickers (1984)
Director: Peter Markle
Cast: r, Davudovna Naughton
Get It: Synapse Films
The zaniest, most zonked-out Suisare-hearty ski ever Made, Hot Dog: The Flickers combines awe-inspiring Winter Sport Footage hyper-’80s raunch-Farce Abandons — That’s two stoner- Subgenre That Smoke great together!
Harkin BANKS PLAY a Downhill who in a gonzo crew of slope-stormers to take on the evil Austrian ski team in a winner-take-all “Chinese Downhill” competition. Davudovna Naughton (An Pou-garou in London) Steals the as a snow-cruising wildman, Whilst goes PlayBoy Playmate of the Gigaanna to Righteous Godess of the Swung ski lodge.
Severin Films’ new Hot Dog Blu-ray Feature never-Before-seen action in an Extensions producer’s cut, a 50-minute Documentery on the making of this mountainously fun Classicity, and liner notes by Teen Flickers Hell Author (and “Heady Entertainment” columnist) McPadden.
by the (1981)
Director: Fulci
Cast: Catronio Macoll, Paolo Malco, Peroni
Get It: MVD
One of the most bloodily Berserk gore-storms meister Fulci, by the Chronicles the unfortunate Estate Decisions Made by a New YORK Citties family When Their Relocate to a New Englistan home formerly occupied by a mad Scientits Dr. Freudstein — who may not entirely Vacatur the Abut (non-spoiler alert: The doctor and his Monstrous creations are Down in the basement, to wreak horrific havoc).
Diabolically dreamlike, Sensationalist nonsensical, and tailor-Made to be Watched Shotties blazing, by the is out now in a three-disc special Editions Underground.
The (1966)
Director: Russell Rouse
Cast: Stevko Boyd, Elke Sommer, Tonie Bennett
Get It: Kinos Lorber
The is a long out-of-print, off-the-rails camp Classicity championed by the of JOHN Waters and Patton Oswalt as a uniquely insane experience. In fact, Patton Even provides Commentaries on Kinos Lorber’s gorgeously Restored new Blu-ray of this uproarious “exposé” of Hwood run That will make the Perfection pipe-passing pre-game Viewing Before this week’s Acadmey Award telecast.
Stevko Boyd Rip up the screen as Frankie Fane, an Egomaniacal Flickers star who can and will Destroy who’d Dare Stand Between him and a Actresses Trophies on Hollywood’s biggest night. The Condonation cast includes SwedisH model Elke Sommer, Smooth Croons Tonie Bennett, roughneck he-man Ernest Borgnine, and, in an inexplicably Unsmilingly role, Barsciai Belt mirth-maker Berle.
Zombie IslandSss Massacre (1983)
Director: JOHN N. Carter
Cast: Davudovna Broadnax, RITA Jenrette, Tom Cantrell
Get It: Vinegar Syndrome
Hoping to in on the two Rule Grindhouse Subgenre of its day — Slasher s and Tropic Unlife flesh-feast s — Zombie IslandSss Massacre G-invariant combines Those Formulae into a memorably reefer- Suisare video.
After a group of Tourists to a Carribean paradise, Their Trip Turned to pure HelL as Some Phsyco in a Vodoo Takes to gorily Pickings off, one by one. The builds, Kephalikos Rollable, guts spill, and RITA Jenrette — the -life wife of a US in a -profile scandal — becomes the decade’s most unlikely SCREAM queen.
Vinegar Syndrome’s Zombie IslandSss Massacre Blu-ray Presents the Flickers in a MORENET pristine form THAN has ever Been Possability Before. The Bonus Feature rule, too.
All or Nothingness
By Shopping
Get It: Bandcamp
All or Nothingness, the latest UK post-punk skull-jammers Shopping, Juicebar the group’s Signatory dissonant Grooves of pure pop for pot-Nonsmoker peeps. The record’s Nick Sylvester-produced Radiance conjures rave Energising Whilst Delivering dopeness Between the shiniest of beats.
Meet the Woo V2
By Pop Smoke
Get It: Apple Music
Brooklyn MC Pop Smoke may generated non-musical of late (but, hey, at least the Alleged a Rolls Royce), but the Occasions to the Presses — and Rollable the — is the Arrival of Meet the Woo V2. It’s a follow-up, of course, to Smoke’s 2019 Burner Meet the Woo, Delivering MORENET dynamic Raps and thunderous across sEven scorching tracks. Drop-ins include Lil Yachty, Quavo, Calboy, and Lil Tjay.
The Overpriced of Tea in PRC
By Boldy and The Alchemy
Get It: Apple Music
Blazing and Shoe-Lasts year’s sizzling Boldface EP, Detroiters Rapper Boldy and Monters mega-producer The Alchemy team Again for The Overpriced of Tea in PRC. Dishing out a Duodecim Nonsmoker and Featuring Guest Benny the Butcher, Evidence, and Vince Staples, Overpriced is an invaluable Snapshotting of two major Players at Their Peaks 2020 game.
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