I am a simple man with simple pleasure, so when I see Alison
Brie’s name, my brain goes, sure, I will check that out. Maybe I should have paid more attention to
the Cinema Toast press release than just seeing Alison Brie. When I skimmed the non- Alison Brie parts of the
press release that said the show was a reimagining of movies in the public domain,
I was under the assumption they would be re-filming the scripts. But it turns out the actors are coming up
with new dialogue to put over the action of old films. Other voices include those of Nick Offerman,
Fred Armisen, John Early, Christina Ricci, Megan Mullally, Chloe Fineman and
Chris Meloni.
But all you really need to know is that all ten episodes are
being released on Showtime’s streaming service and On Demand page today. Today as in 4/20, the most celebrated day for
stoners. You have to be pretty high to
enjoy this show and unfortunately recreational legalization has not come to my
state yet. It probably also hurt that I am
not much of a cinephile of movies older than I am so of the ten episodes, the
only movie I recognized was Night of the Living Dead.
That movie gets turned into Attack of the Karen’s where the
zombies are repurposed of whiney while ladies.
There are a couple episodes that reappropriate these movies into modern tales;
the first episode features a family that reluctantly invited a Qanon believer
to Thanksgiving. Others stick to their
times like the one where gay marriages comes to town where one brave straight
dude tries to protest it by… sacrificing straight people off a giant ladder.
Another episode turns John Wayne into a gay cowboy… I
think. Is it gay if the actors are both
dudes, but one is voiced by a woman? You
probably have to be high to properly answer that question. But the strangest of all the episodes (which
there is plenty of stiff competition for) features Ronald Reagan watching a
film with Ronald Reagan where he watches a film that features… Ronald Regan. My brain hurts now. Maybe I can get my doctor to prescribe some
medical marijuana to dull the pain. At least
that is legal here.
All episodes of Cinema Toast are now available on the
Showtime streaming app or their On Demand page.
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