It’s almost a rare thing that all three of us at 9ES watch the same movie these days. Rarer still is that we watch a movie that we all kind of agree on one way or the other. Rarer still is we all watch a movie that is almost as good as Hot Rod. Enter: Obsession.
I’ll say it again: what a year for horror 2026 is turning out to be.
Obsession is so good that I make the bold prediction that Inde Naverette might just get an Oscar nomination for her performance as Nikki. She’s that good.
It’s a simple enough premise executed to damn near perfection and it should pretty much be a “must watch” if you’re any kind of fan of horror.
Also Elon Musk flew a car… sort of.
Over on Garbage Time Jono was convinced (by me) to watch Paul Verhoeven’s 1995 vision of Las Vegas: Showgirls. And while we both agree that it was bad, it is kind of undeniable that Verhoeven was going for… something. He missed the mark completely but he was definitely aspiring for strange “fun” satire that there was about a 0% chance of a 1995 audience ever caring about.
With Street Fighter hitting the theaters we took a look at Rolling Stone’s Top 25 Video Game adaptations and then decided there were too many TV shows so we skimmed through the list of live-action theatrical releases based on video games and well… it’s pretty bleak.
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