Recent Viewings, Part 2

[Dalmatian Bobby Samaritan]

BY DESIGN (2025): Juliette Lewis becomes a chair. Ionesco and Buñuel would be proud. 4/5.

Luis Buñuel is dead! What do you mean? Oh wait I get it. The Cow's eyes getting slit open. And we are the cattle as per movies like Snow Piercer. Ah. Ok. I am a little groggy a late night last night I was looking for my special edition version of Little Mermaid that the case alone is supposed to be worth over eight hundred dollars. I guess my friend stole it (well I stole it from him, so I guess in the end. It is..Well it is what it is!)

Peace all Buñuelians. Doesn't that sound like it would make a good Star Trek villain! Captain: It's the Buñuelians. And they are slitting cows eyes open again!
Captain (whoever, something stuck up his..AKA Scott Bakula forgot to do his count all of the toothpicks routine) "On screen!"

[FatFreddysCat]

"Ghostbusters" (aka "Ghostbusters: Answer The Call," 2016)
Three lady scientists and an NYC subway clerk team up to battle against a supernatural outbreak in New York City.
Paul Feig's attempt to re-boot the dormant "GB" franchise with a new crew of funny females was met with unprecedented hostility online and tanked at the box office. Honestly, it's not a terrible movie -- there are some legit laughs and the special FX were decent, but the fan base obviously didn't want to see anyone but the O.G. 'busters in the jump suits. File it under "interesting misfire."

[lester1/2jr]

Bikini Nurses (2026) -  This was kind of interesting but extremely hard to recommend. The letterboxd reviews https://letterboxd.com/film/bikini-nurses/reviews/ show people alternately furious about how stupid it was, but also sheepsihly admitting, as one reviewer put it, "It's so absurd that I couldn't help but get sucked into it ". Okay, I'll stop reviewing the reviews here and get to the story.

3 bikini clad nurses have a problem: an unhappy but wealthy patient is going to purchase their clinic to fire them because he hates them for some reason. It's the director himself and he also confusingly plays some other guy. They try and work out a solution, which includes doing some kind of voodoo dance for like 20 minutes.

I would break it down like this

1/3 some kind of tax shelter
1/3 demented improv experiment
1/3 purposely opaque art school project
1% wanted to tell this story

or another way to look at it: it's a guy making a Something Weird style exploitation flick, but he couldn't afford to have the girls get naked and also hadn't yet thought of ways to fill out the running time, which is 70 minutes but feels like 3 hours. 

4/5 as the band Scream once sang "Who knows? Who cares?"