What Video Will I Make Next? Your Choice.

Hello, kind patrons! If you're kind enough to think my work is worth a dollar a month, then you get to help choose my next project!

As with the last poll, I plan on doing all of these ideas eventually - this poll is just to decide what I'll do next. If something isn't picked this round, it will (likely) still be on the docket for the next poll once this project is done.

Parasite: English, Language, Movies

A look at how the first non-English language winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture  uses the English language, and what Bong Joon-Ho's barrier-shattering 2019 class drama says about English, language, and movies. We'll talk Hallyu, the history of Korean-American relations, and the 'one inch barrier' known as subtitles. (captions are, of course, provided)

The Top 20 Comic Book Movies OF ALL TIME

Hell yeah, comics can be cinema! From the page to the screen, these are my TOP 20 COMIC BOOK MOVIES OF ALL TIME! There will be costumed punch-em-ups! There will be intimate slice of life dramas! There will be one (1) MCU entry! There will be a film praised by Martin Scorsese! There will be at least one silent film! I might include Popeye! WHO KNOWS!?! (spoiler - Honorable Mentions: The Dark Knight, Blue is The Warmest Color, It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!)

Network: Thoughts On Being Mad As Hell

Sidney Lumet's timeless masterpiece re-examined as a precursor to the age of the streaming Debate Bro and performative anger. What being Mad As Hell means when, in the age of the internet, everyone has the chance to become Howard Beale.

Bisexual Lighting REDUX

It's been four years since I did a video about so-called Bisexual Lighting. Revisiting the concept after years and after the fad has since become standardized, what that color scheme has come to mean in cinema, and in bisexual culture.

Trash Humpers and New New Queer Cinema

This would be another "Redux" video - going back to an old thing that I mocked and reexamining it through a new lens. And Harmony Korine's, er, mid-period work could be reexamined through the lens of, of all things: Queer Theory. Hear me out. We'll be talking John Waters, the Kuchar brothers, Jack Smith, Barbara Hammer, and TikTok.

William Shakespeare's The Avengers

A while back I was given a review copy of Ian Doescher's latest in his iambic pentameter pop culture adaptations: a compilation of all four Avengers movies: The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame, rewritten as an Elizabethan drama. I suppose I should review it? Fair warning: I'm on Martin Scorsese's side.

We’re All Going to The World’s Fair and Online Cinema

I don't often talk about such recent releases, but Jane Schoenbrun's debut feature has left me so speechless that I have to write about it (yes I'm aware of the inherent contradiction in that sentence). An ambiguous horror/tragedy/coming of age tale about an isolated teen that gets sucked into a creepypasta subculture, We're All Going to The World's Fair explores late 2010's cyberspace with an ingenuity worth celebrating. A must-see for the terminally online, like me.

Mary Harron’s American Psychos

Note the title is "Psychos" - plural. Sure, Patrick Bateman is a meme, but Christian Bale's iconic performance wouldn't have taken off without the nuanced direction of Mary Harron. Let's look at Bateman's character through the lens of two of Harron's other, non-fictional, homicidal subjects: Valerie Solanas (I Shot Andy Warhol) and Charles Manson (Charlie Says).

Performance (1970 dir. Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg) of Masculinity

Not enough people on YouTube talk about this counterculture classic starring Mick Jagger playing a version of himself sending a London gangster on a bad trip that messes with his entire identity. Chas, you see, is a "performer" for the London crime scene. That is, he performs the dirty deeds that demonstrate the mob's power. On the run after killing the wrong man, Turner (Jagger) takes him in and through the power of rock n' roll, gender identity, and psychedelic mushrooms, makes him question the roles he "performs." A classic that I've been aching to write about for years.

Polling will last a week, multiple options can be selected, and the winner will be announced at next week's livestream on my YouTube Channel.

Can't wait to see the results! DTF stands for Death To Fascism,

- K