It's old, but it's a classic for a reason. The movie that made Leslie Nielsen a comedy star. It's dumb and funny as heck. Even if you don't laugh at one particular joke, you'll get five more in the next minute: visual gags, dad jokes, the works. Comedy is a genre that becomes dated easily, but this kind of silly nonsense is timeless.

Representative quote:
Rumack: Captain, how soon can you land?
Captain Oveur: I can't tell.
Rumack: You can tell me. I'm a doctor.
Captain Oveur: No. I mean I'm just not sure.
Rumack: Well, can't you take a guess?
Captain Oveur: Well, not for another two hours.
Rumack: You can't take a guess for another two hours?

The oldest movie in my library. In 1965, movies were a bit slower-paced, but it's a real fun ride if you can take it. I once watched this movie with a friend who requested we run it at 1.1 speed, though I feel like it's fine as it is.

It's cheerful and fun, but it's hard for me to tell how dated it really feels, since I watched it as a kid, so I'm biased by nostalgia. There's a Hollywood-level romantic story that's pretty flat, but I can recommend it for the the jokes and gags, and a fantastic soundtrack by Stubby Kaye and Nat King Cole.

Representative quote:
Clay Boone: We can't hold up the train.
Cat Ballou: Why not?
Clay Boone: Lots of reasons.
Cat Ballou: Name 'em.
Clay Boone: We're rustlers, not train robbers.
Cat Ballou: Well, if people didn't try something new, there wouldn't be hardly any progress at all.

An actually good original Hollywood movie is rare these days. The corpos love doing remakes and sequels to established movies. Why take a risk when you can just slap together a few big movie stars and make a new Star Wars or MCU thing?

Well, the director Ryan Johnson did a Star Wars thing with the specific request to be allowed to just do whatever he wants next and he pulled out all the stops in this one. This is a wild detective mystery that's built up carefully and with a lot of attention to detail. It's the kind of movie you watch multiple times just to be delighted at all the early hints and foreshadowing. It is a perfect movie.

Representative quote:
Benoit Blanc: I feel a noose tightening. The family is truly desperate. Desperate motives, with the mystery of who hired me, the impossibility of the crime, and yet a doughnut. One central piece, and if it reveals itself, the fog would lift, the arc would resolve, the Slinky become unkinked.

The totally true story of Weird Al and his rise to fame. Well, mostly true. More of it is true than you might expect, let's put it like that. Did he actually date Madonna? Who can really say.

Even if you don't particularly know about Weird Al, this is a fantastic comedy, but if you've heard a few of his greatest hits, you'll love the references. The movie goes through all the standard stages of "rockstar biopic", and it parodies every one perfectly: The unsupportive parents, the bad relationships, the alcoholism, and of course the awards show when the star finally makes it big in the category of "Perhaps Not Technically The Best, but Arguably the Most Famous Accordion Player in an Extremely Specific Genre of Music".

Biopics are boring, but this fake one is perfect.

Representative quotes:
Mary: Honey, I know it's hard to hear this, but your dad and I had a long talk and we agreed it would be best for all of us if you would just stop being who you are and doing the things you love.