Title: The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed Year: 2023 Starring: Joanna Arnow, Scott Cohen, Babak Tafti Director: Joanna Arnow Synopsis: A mosaic-style comedy following the life of a woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family. - via Letterboxd.com Lilith's Notes: I thought this would be much funnier and enlightening. Watch Now: Amazon "In theory I like it, but in practice I might need aftercare." Welcome back to a fresh new year of Lilith Likes to Watch. Looking around, it seems that so far, 2026 is just second verse, same as the first. Probably even more dire. Great. Maybe we should try and start this year of reviews with something fun, snarky and perhaps uplifting? Too bad that isn’t what we have on the docket for tonight. Instead of fun we have something else… We have twee. My goodness how I hate twee. Now, I suppose twee can be defined in many different ways....

2025 sure was a year. We consumed so many short films that reflecting on best and worst was a rather daunting experience. Therefor Kage and I decided to tackle the end of the year list in a new way: Make our own little award show! Who was the best performer? What had the best set design? What was the worst remake? As usual, the one real rule was that it had to be something we watched for the first time in 2025. Otherwise, it was a free for all. Let's begin! *** Best and Worst of 2025... BEST SCENE OF THE YEAR Flesh and Fire Read Original Review A witchy, arcane experience where a woman tends to herself sing a lit candle. It's also infuriatingly brief and apparently only a trailer for a bigger work we were never able to find. This is our new White Whale. If anyone can direct us to the full experience that is Flesh and Fire, please do. It has never left our minds since we saw it. We are bewitche d. Also, if there was an award for Best Use of a Candle of the Year, Flesh and Fire w...

Title: Cheers! Portland, the Strip Club Capital of America Year: 2024 Starring: Maggie Magnolia, Phoenix Rising, Axel Director: Megan Ashley Alan Synopsis: Portland, Oregon has the most strip clubs per capita of any major U.S. city. Through interviews with strippers, regulars, and industry experts, viewers are invited to leave their preconceived notions at the door and step into a highly misunderstood world. - via Amazon Prime Lilith's Notes: Oh my god why are my eyes wet?? Watch Now: Amazon | Apple TV "So, I was working at a different club and I got in trouble for doing the robot." Some time during the pandemic, I remember reading a tweet that said something along the lines of “We’ve reached the neon cyberpunk portion of the dystopia”. Attached to the tweet was a link to a news story about a strip club in Oregon who invented a drive-thru strip club experience. Five years later, maybe you’re wondering what happened to those sexy entrepreneurs? Or maybe you forgot a...

Title: We Kill For Love Year: 2023 Starring: Andrew Stevens, Monique Parent, Amy Lindsay Director: Anthony Penta Synopsis: A documentary that goes in search of the forgotten world of the direct-to-video erotic thriller, an American film genre that once dominated late night cable television and the shelves of neighborhood video stores. - via Letterboxd.com Lilith's Notes: How many titles do you recognize? Watch Now: Amazon "It's just a thriller." I don’t remember what movie it was, or maybe it was just a show, but I had a VHS of something recorded off the TV, commercials and all, and one commercial for one movie has been unidentified, half-remembered, my own little piece of Lost Media that to this day, haunts me. In the commercial, a woman wearing a long fur coat walks into a room. The camera is behind her. She begins removing the coat, wearing nothing underneath. But before we see anything more risque than a nude back, she either walks into the room and our l...