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Rob Christopher<p>3 things about Bong Joon Ho’s MICKEY 17 [2025]</p><p>1. The tail becomes a sauce.<br>2. An accent somewhere between Bobby Brady and Columbo.<br>3. Sex expends too many calories.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/3things" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3things</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>movies</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scifi</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BongJoonHo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BongJoonHo</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cinema</span></a></p>
Rob Christopher<p>3 things about Paul Wendkos’ GIDGET [1959]</p><p>1. She’s reluctant to strip down to her bathing suit; one of her friends commands: “Peel, girl!”<br>2. Breast-enhancing exercises.<br>3. When The Four Preps pop in to perform “Cinderella” at the luau, it’s the squarest, corniest, whitest musical interlude in 1959 cinema.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/3things" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3things</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>movies</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/surfing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>surfing</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/california" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>california</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/summer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>summer</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cinema</span></a></p>
Rob Christopher<p>3 things about Jean Renoir’s FRENCH CANCAN [1955]</p><p>1. An afternoon tryst in the backroom of the boulangerie.<br>2. Taking turns showing off their newfound limberness.<br>3. Pepto-Bismol walls backstage.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/3things" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3things</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>movies</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/musicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>musicals</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/jeanrenoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jeanrenoir</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/paris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>paris</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cinema</span></a></p>
Rob Christopher<p>3 things about Steven Soderbergh’s OUT OF SIGHT [1998]</p><p>1. She silently enters the bathroom, spots him, makes an appraisal.<br>2. Reading glasses perched on Dennis Farina’s nose.<br>3. “I just want to know what happens next.”<br>“You know.”</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/3things" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3things</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>movies</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/stevensoderbergh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stevensoderbergh</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/georgeclooney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>georgeclooney</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cinema</span></a></p>
Rob Christopher<p>3 things about Danny Boyle’s 28 DAYS LATER [2002]</p><p>1. Their note. “Don’t wake up.”<br>2. Fleeing rats.<br>3. “I promised them women.”</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/3things" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3things</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>movies</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/horrormovies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>horrormovies</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/dannyboyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dannyboyle</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cillianmurphy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cillianmurphy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cinema</span></a></p>
Rob Christopher<p>3 things about Aaron Wertheimer’s WEDGERINO [2015]</p><p>1. When something’s cooler than cool, it’s beige.<br>2. A round of private conversations.<br>3. “I’m Lisa. People call me ‘Sa for short.”</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/3things" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3things</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>movies</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/comedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>comedy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cinema</span></a></p>
Random Canuck 🍁😷 💉<p>Tonight I'm grateful for</p><p>1) My beloved<br>2) Good friends<br>3) Tiny dogs<br>4) Canada</p><p><a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/3GoodThingsToday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3GoodThingsToday</span></a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/3things" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3things</span></a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/Tuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tuesday</span></a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a></p>
Rob Christopher<p>3 things about Busby Berkeley’s THE GANG’S ALL HERE [1943]</p><p>1. “I know what I’d do if girl take my man away from me.”<br>“What do you mean?”<br>“I break her into little hunks. And then I break him into little hunks. And then I take all the little hunks and—Well, good-bye. I must do some rehearsalings.”<br>2. Banana wave.<br>3. She teaches him how to dunk a donut.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/3things" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3things</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>movies</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/musicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>musicals</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/busbyberkeley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>busbyberkeley</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cinema</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/carmenmiranda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>carmenmiranda</span></a></p>
Rob Christopher<p>3 things about Gene Fowler Jr.’s I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE [1958]</p><p>1. An empty street at night. Lone raincoated figure staring into a toy store window.<br>2. The aliens are teetotalers.<br>3. Floating, dangling bodies in the spacecraft.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/3things" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3things</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>movies</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scifi</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/1950s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>1950s</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cinema</span></a></p>
Rob Christopher<p>3 things about THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP: A LOONEY TUNES MOVIE [2024]</p><p>1. Foreshadowing.<br>2. A monster consisting of an eyeball stalk, novelty teeth, and gum.<br>3. Clampett’s Diner.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/3things" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3things</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>movies</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/looneytunes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>looneytunes</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/animation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>animation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cinema</span></a></p>
Rob Christopher<p>3 things about Daniel Petrie’s FORT APACHE, THE BRONX [1981]</p><p>1. Razor blade in her mouth.<br>2. A five-minute warning prior to tear gassing.<br>3. Walking her corpse up and down the hallway.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/3things" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3things</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>movies</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/paulnewman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>paulnewman</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/nyc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nyc</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cinema</span></a></p>
Rob Christopher<p>3 things about Robert Aldrich’s WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? [1962]</p><p>1. A perfectly ordinary lambchop.<br>2. “You mean all this time we could have been friends?”<br>3. Seeing her reflection in the mirror, she breaks down sobbing. Then Blanche starts buzzing again and again.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/3things" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3things</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/horrormovies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>horrormovies</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bettedavis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bettedavis</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/joancrawford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>joancrawford</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/camp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>camp</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cinema</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/robertaldrich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>robertaldrich</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>movies</span></a></p>
JenicaGrief:friend passing: pictures of a beautiful woman with some eye contact
Rob Christopher<p>3 things about Hugo Fregonese’s BLACK TUESDAY [1954]</p><p>1. He lies about the result of the coin toss.<br>2. Raiding the storage units for medical supplies.<br>3. He laments the fact that he can take things apart but never seem to put them back together again.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/3things" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3things</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>movies</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/edwardgrobinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edwardgrobinson</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cinema</span></a></p>
TamaraPNW<p><a href="https://social.seattle.wa.us/tags/3Things" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3Things</span></a> for TUES: Day of Thistle &amp; Ginger<br>1. Had “the talk” this morning with my girls… no, not about sex, but about ICE RAIDS<br>2. Reading the 2024 BA SFF, a story a day with breakfast, to prep for fall workshop with Richard Thomas<br>3. These are the 95 steps at Point No Point from yesterday’s hike</p>
Tamara Kaye Sellman<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/3Things" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3Things</span></a> for SUN: Day of Lemon &amp; Sunflower <br>1. Today's morning garden haul: leeks, bok choy, red romaine, cilantro, spinach (no pix--most of it picked, then hauled off to my daughter today) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/homegardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homegardening</span></a><br>2. Replaced my faded ally flag with a fresh new one! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pride" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pride</span></a><br>3. Watching 28 Days Later while doing laundry on a hot day. Tonight? 28 Weeks Later. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>horror</span></a></p>
RootLeafStories ~ TK Sellman<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/3Things" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3Things</span></a> for SUN: Day of Lemon &amp; Sunflower <br>1. Today's morning garden haul: leeks, bok choy, red romaine, cilantro, spinach (no pix--most of it picked, then hauled off to my daughter today) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/homegardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homegardening</span></a><br>2. Replaced my faded ally flag with a fresh new one! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pride" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pride</span></a><br>3. Watching 28 Days Later while doing laundry on a hot day. Tonight? 28 Weeks Later. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>horror</span></a></p>
TamaraPNW<p><a href="https://social.seattle.wa.us/tags/3Things" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3Things</span></a> for SUN: Day of Lemon &amp; Sunflower <br>1. Today's morning garden haul: leeks, bok choy, red romaine, cilantro, spinach (no pix--most of it picked, then hauled off to my daughter today) <a href="https://social.seattle.wa.us/tags/homegardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homegardening</span></a><br>2. Replaced my faded ally flag with a fresh new one! <a href="https://social.seattle.wa.us/tags/pride" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pride</span></a><br>3. Watching 28 Days Later while doing laundry on a hot day. Tonight? 28 Weeks Later. <a href="https://social.seattle.wa.us/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>horror</span></a></p>
Rob Christopher<p>3 things about James Goldstone’s WHEN TIME RAN OUT… [1980]</p><p>1. Manual cable wench.<br>2. Lava bomb mirror smash.<br>3. Burgess Meredith as superhero!</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/3things" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3things</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>movies</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/disastermovies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disastermovies</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/paulnewman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>paulnewman</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/irwinallen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>irwinallen</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BurgessMeredith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BurgessMeredith</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/trash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trash</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cinema</span></a></p>
Rob Christopher<p>3 things about the Hughes Brothers’ DEAD PRESIDENTS [1995]</p><p>1. He buries the memento.<br>2. OD during "Soul Train."<br>3. Radioing for the bus schedule.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/3things" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3things</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>movies</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>war</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crime</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cinema</span></a></p>