Volcano

Volcano. 20th Century Fox 1997.

Before watching the movie:

I didn’t know this movie existed before I decided I wanted to collect some disaster movies. It’s about a volcano erupting under Los Angeles. Tommy Lee Jones is in it. I don’t really know anything else, so I have nothing to say and I’m basically going in cold. Saying anything else would be padding out this section to try to get it closer to the height of the movie poster, which is just not going to happen this week because I have nothing else to say.

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Wag the Dog

Wag the Dog. Baltimore Pictures 1997.

Before watching the movie:

I haven’t been able to laugh at the presidency in years. At least, not as the product of something other than a mixture of horror, anger, and embarrassment. Washington/the Federal Government lately hasn’t been a source of cynical guffaws. But things have changed and there’s room to be relieved and somewhat relaxed again. For the foreseeable future, we’re returning to, at worst, garden variety corruption and only casual imperialism.

This movie came to me in a presidential-themed movie collection that I found when looking for a disk-based replacement to an old VHS copy of Dave, a favorite I’m looking forward to returning to soon, and could get a Movies of My Yesterdays if “soon” is not all that soon.

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