Drive-By Cinema

Drive-By Cinema, Primer

Mostly Rick here talking at length about time travel puzzler Primer. Also the ethics of AI creativity.

Drive-By Cinema, The History Of Future Folk

Trigger warning: descriptions of painful intimate medical examinations.
One-boxer Rick and two-boxer Paul discover the The History Of Future Folk, while grappling with the slippery dividing-line between real and fictional music acts. Take a look at fictional act Ashley O - I'm on a roll.

Drive-By Cinema, Time Lapse

Join Rick and Paul in the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell as they discuss temporal photography thriller Time Lapse. Paul explains kardassian pointing while Rick encourages everyone to watch the Bobby Fingers YouTube channel. 

Drive-By Cinema, The Taking Of Deborah Logan

Dementia horror in The Taking Of Deborah Logan, a found footage phd thesis. Rick asks Paul to compare to songs from the previous decade: Tenderoni by Kele and Wearing My Rolex by Wiley.

Drive-By Cinema, Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes

Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes is a Japanese sci-fi comedy about a café owner named Kato who discovers he can communicate with a version of himself from two minutes in the future through a computer screen. As the film progresses, Kato's interactions with his future self become increasingly complex and lead to some unexpected consequences. This is a low-budget, "one cut" style movie fascinates both Rick and Paul (who has terrible sound quality for some reason). 
You can watch Chris Ramsay opening puzzle boxes for you here.

Drive-By Cinema, Happy Death Day

Groundhog Day meets Scream by way of Edge of Tomorrow, this week's review topic is Happy Death Day. 
Paul and Rick have started using a website to track movies for review, check out letterboxd, maybe start your own list.

Drive-By Cinema, Your Name

For Paul 'Netflix and Chill' means getting a free projector, more on TV detector vans, and in-passing a discussion of animated film Your Name.

Drive-By Cinema, Spirited Away

Gambling fallacies and unknowable information: what's inside a TV detector van? Paul and Rick marvel at the masterpiece animated film Spirited Away. 

Drive-By Cinema, Jerry & Marge Go Large

Paul reveals the full extent of his gambling experience while Rick tries to get ChatGPT3 to create a Blur song. True story "drama" Jerry & Marge Go Large is the backdrop to all of this.
Here are the lyrics for the song "Parklife" by Blur (by ChatGPT)
Verse 1: London's a rip-off You pay for the privilege of living in the capital The North West is cheaper But they don't have the same opportunities
Chorus: It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife
Verse 2: The girls are in the park Wearing next to nothing It's not getting any warmer But they're not complaining
Chorus: It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife
Verse 3: It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife
Verse 4: The council wants to clean up the park But it's not a park at all It's a people zoo They're trying to kick us out
Chorus: It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife
Verse 5: It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife
Here are the lyrics for the song "Parklife" by Blur:
Verse 1: London's a rip-off You pay for the privilege of living in the capital The North West is cheaper But they don't have the same opportunities
Chorus: It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife
Verse 2: The girls are in the park Wearing next to nothing It's not getting any warmer But they're not complaining
Chorus: It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife
Verse 3: It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife
Verse 4: The council wants to clean up the park But it's not a park at all It's a people zoo They're trying to kick us out
Chorus: It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife
Verse 5: It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife....(repeats 90 times)

Drive-By Cinema, Trust

Back to 1990 for Hal Hartley's Trust.  Warning for themes of suicide. Rick bangs on about patents again, while revealing to Paul how they had both failed to notice some critical film-making techniques in last week's movie, Decision To Leave.