1. Jack White as Elvis.
2. “Smell that shit, baby!”
3. 50,000 didgeridoos.

1. A functioning waffle-maker.
2. One night in jail.
3. He told his coworkers that the group was just working on an art project.

3 other things.

1. “Touching isn’t it? The way he counts on his wife.”
“Yes, like a drowning man clutching at a razor blade.”
2. Playing with his pills.
3. A fitting for his bermuda shorts.

1. In addition to pop, they know a few children’s songs.
2. “I once knew a man who met his wife at a disco.”
3. Clock running backwards on the side of the train.

1. Margarine sandwiches.
2. She gets out of the van and shouts, “Where are my lesbians? Where are my lesbians?”
3. Headlined by Bronski Beat.

1. Mounds of discarded clothes; a “Stop Apartheid” t-shirt.
2. The excavator rips into the house.
3. Absurd belly shirt.

Any film which, consciously or not, evokes Robert A. Heinlein’s classic short story “—And He Built a Crooked House—” (1941), Richard Matheson’s “Little Girl Lost” episode of The Twilight Zone (1962), and David Lynch’s INLAND EMPIRE (2006) has got my attention. 

Its only “flaw” is that it’s not much of a horror film. (Something I couldn’t care less about, so it’s all to the good.) Pretty much everything else is impeccable! Quite an allegory of AI’s awfulness. The production design is genuinely astonishing. Last Year at Marienbad by way of K-Mart.

1. A nice touch: he’s a department store Santa at Carson’s, not the more upscale Marshall Field’s.
2. The hottest nightclub in Chicago is The Golden Gargoyle.
3. “Sometimes you have to go through a hell of a lot to find out what you’re really good at.”

1. Hiding the pregnancy test in the garbage.
2. Gently, she tells the child to stop bashing the tree.
3. He explains the meaning of “panorama.”

1. Not Liverpool, she corrects him. Manchester.
2. Before the meal, ouzo.
3. “An old smuggler’s trick and he knows them all.”

3 other things.

1. His last words: “That’s impossible!”
2. Raining BBQ.
3. Car chase through a drive-in.