Spicywatch.com celebrated its eighth birthday last Saturday evening. And how she has grown over the years from a humble dozen or so movies reviews when I first launched her in May 2014 to the massive 933 reviews that she now has under her belt. In the 8 years that Spicywatch has been on the internet I have had over 130,000 hits and on average, good old Spicywatch manages to rustle up around 3000 readers a month.
So naturally, I had to celebrate the wonderful and joyful occasion of Spicywatch's 8th birthday and invite some movie loving family and friends around to Enfield to share in the movie chatter.
With the perfection and infinity of the number 8 in mind, I asked my guests to share a clip that they felt was perfect in some way. It could be perfect in dialogue, scene, costume, lighting, atmosphere, composition or just perfectly memorable to them and something that they go back to time and time again.
As it has been at every Spicywatch birthday occasion, we traversed all of the genres together; laughing, crying and remembering the movie moments that have stuck with us throughout the years.
Here is a sampling of some of the movies that made it to the viewing arena for their perfect and memorable scenes:
So naturally, I had to celebrate the wonderful and joyful occasion of Spicywatch's 8th birthday and invite some movie loving family and friends around to Enfield to share in the movie chatter.
With the perfection and infinity of the number 8 in mind, I asked my guests to share a clip that they felt was perfect in some way. It could be perfect in dialogue, scene, costume, lighting, atmosphere, composition or just perfectly memorable to them and something that they go back to time and time again.
As it has been at every Spicywatch birthday occasion, we traversed all of the genres together; laughing, crying and remembering the movie moments that have stuck with us throughout the years.
Here is a sampling of some of the movies that made it to the viewing arena for their perfect and memorable scenes:
- The Fall
- Toy Story 3
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Whale Rider
- Big Fish
- Kill Bill
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Conjuring 2
- Samsara
- Moulin Rogue
- Marriage Story
- Henry V
- House of Flying Daggers
- The Lighthouse
- Soul
- Napoleon Dynamite
- The Great Gatsby
- Beautiful Creatures
- Fantastic Mr Fox
- The Bourne Identity
- Mr Bean's Disaster Movie
- Shadow
- Rosemary's Baby
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Dancer in the Dark
- Midsommar
- Suicide Squad 2
- The Great Beauty
- Apocalypto
- The Ghoulies
EIGHTH GRADE
Release Date: 2018
Rating: MA 15+
Running Time: 94 mins
Written and directed by stand up comedian Bo Burnham, this coming-of-age tale had me squirming in my seat with it's accurate and embarrassingly memorable recount of early adolescence and teenage awkwardness.
Kayla Day is completing her final week of eighth grade and preparing to enter high school. Shy and socially awkward, Kayla spends her free time making motivational videos on YouTube that get little to no views. Between navigating social media, school cliques, crushes and her clingy single father, Kayla is just trying to do her best to stay optimistic.
This movie feels so genuine and real, the character of Kayla (played perfectly by Elsie Fisher) offers an accurate and unpolished version of early teenage awkwardness that was so desperately missing from the coming-of-age genre and it is delivered in such a fresh and plausible way.
Although completely different in so many ways to my own adolescent experiences, there were still moments when I recognised the awkward longings and difficulties of Kayla as I watched; proving that teenagers are still just teenagers and that growing pains haven't changed all that much in 30 years.
FINAL SAY: Growing up can be a little bit scary and weird.
3.5 Chilli Peppers
Release Date: 2018
Rating: MA 15+
Running Time: 94 mins
Written and directed by stand up comedian Bo Burnham, this coming-of-age tale had me squirming in my seat with it's accurate and embarrassingly memorable recount of early adolescence and teenage awkwardness.
Kayla Day is completing her final week of eighth grade and preparing to enter high school. Shy and socially awkward, Kayla spends her free time making motivational videos on YouTube that get little to no views. Between navigating social media, school cliques, crushes and her clingy single father, Kayla is just trying to do her best to stay optimistic.
This movie feels so genuine and real, the character of Kayla (played perfectly by Elsie Fisher) offers an accurate and unpolished version of early teenage awkwardness that was so desperately missing from the coming-of-age genre and it is delivered in such a fresh and plausible way.
Although completely different in so many ways to my own adolescent experiences, there were still moments when I recognised the awkward longings and difficulties of Kayla as I watched; proving that teenagers are still just teenagers and that growing pains haven't changed all that much in 30 years.
FINAL SAY: Growing up can be a little bit scary and weird.
3.5 Chilli Peppers
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