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I <3 Netflix

As if anyone needed another reason to sign up for Netflix, The Muppets Take Manhattan and Muppets From Space was added to the Instant Queue! Okay, so maybe that just interests me but they’ve added a lot of other good movies to the Insant Queue like Gone Baby Gone or Bigger, Stronger, Faster (!).

But that’s not why I love them. Do you ever remember movies from when you were a kid and can describe the plot to a tee, but have no idea what they were called? This happens to me a lot, but somehow Netflix found one of them and reccommended it to me. That movie? EXPLORERS.

That’s Ethan Hawke! And River Phoenix! And some other kid! I can’t believe that Joe Dante (Gremlins, The ‘burbs) directed this movie, but really that explains so much. I am going to add this to my Queue and get it pretty soon. Hopefully not ruining all memories of my youth like I did when I watched The Garbage Pail Kids. (Seriously, what was wrong with me?)

Awesome news of the day

Now, you know me. “I love puppets. I love Fraggle Rock, I love Lamb Chop, I love Elmo, Sesame Street, Bert and Ernie. Snuffleupagus? Fucks my shit up.” So, this movie from the Henson Co? Love it already.

The Henson Co. has nabbed a script called THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS. Brian & Lisa Henson will produce the project with Jason Lust. Brian’s looking to direct.

Written by Todd Berger from a story by Dee Austin Robertson and Berger, the story takes place in a world where humans and puppets co-exist, with the puppets viewed as second-class citizens. When the puppet cast of an ’80s children’s TV show called “The Happytime Gang” begins to get murdered one by one, a disgraced LAPD detective-turned-private eye puppet — with a drinking problem, no less — takes on the case.

I don’t even know why I love puppets actually. Greg The Bunny was a let down if you ask me and the Muppets haven’t had a good movie in like 20 years, but I’ll still be there for this. And I’ll definitely be there if the Jason Segel Muppet movie ever happens.