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If there’s one stereotype that holds true, it’s that zombies be shopping

In my head the conception of this movie was just a studio exec in a meeting saying like "Jaws is a near-perfect movie whose impact and success can never be replicated, but it's missing ONE thing!" and other execs in the room were like hmmmm and then after a beat he was like "HORNY TEENS" and everyone threw sacks of money at him until he suffocated

Overall I really liked this and as a documentary it feels vital in of focus and timing, but I don’t get the seemingly random cuts to safari/anthropological film footage of Africa? There’s a brief bit about one of the main girls wanting to “live in Africa with a pet monkey” when she grows up but even that felt out of the blue. Maybe I’m missing some parallels to the overarching theme of queer experience among young American (mostly white, but some Black) girls in the 60s but it felt fetishizing and just out of place to throw that kind of imagery in without commentary.

The way Mel Brooks says “guacamole” lives rent free in my head

Watched on Thursday June 5, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday June 4, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday June 4, 2025.

I wanted spectacle and I GOT SPECTACLE! The only thing that keeps me from being all in on this is I found the Antonia section a bit of a dud but the rest is a magical, maximalist delight.

Me having just watched the first four Final Destination movies the past week: “I’m getting a lot of Final Destination vibes from this.”

But seriously there are a LOT of parallels are we sure Death and Dennis Hopper weren’t working together here

Watched on Sunday June 1, 2025.

Watched on Sunday June 1, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 30, 2025.

An extremely bonkers, tonally bizarre movie that correctly posits that the scariest thing that could ever happen would be for a random woman to suddenly abandon her toddler at your house for an uncertain amount of time and without any explanation, information, or hint of remuneration. Jinkies!

Watched on Friday May 30, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 29, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 27, 2025.

Any men I interact with better be extra fucking nice to me the next few days because this movie really gives me… ideas

Watched on Tuesday May 27, 2025.

Lady Kaede to every man she meets: “I can’t fix him; I can make him worse 😈”

gutted

Watched on Sunday May 25, 2025.

I love how a third of this is just little talent shows for all the different women performers at the mansion. 

Also do we think that mask is what inspired Ti West for X

I like the romantic subplot in this because it begins with a woman completely bashing the creative output of a man, a thing I think should happen more often.

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

Absolutely bananas. Revels in its own bad taste. Set in the most beautiful apartment I’ve ever seen. How did Peter Coyote get here.

I don’t really know anything about Dogme 95 and I don’t get why people seem to be kind of down on this movie; I found it quite charming! The shot-on-video aesthetic isn’t my fave but it does give a kind of intimacy that made me feel like I was watching a small theater performance. I think everyone describing it as a rom-com is misinformed, though, and that probably leads to incorrect expectations. I’d describe it as a romantic dramedy, or a drama with a rom-com set up. It has a fair share of heavy moments, including an overarching theme of grief and loss, but gives its characters a happy ending after putting them through some bummer times. It’s nice!

Watched on Sunday May 18, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 18, 2025.

An action movie where the protagonist says sorry every five seconds while fighting feels very me-coded.

Anyway this is like 10x gorier than I expected, oof

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

Fun! I wish this was a series!

Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.

Watching something while I'm projecting means I do miss some details when I'm busy changing reels etc, but somehow I caught both the blink-and-you'll-miss-it Bud Cort cameo AND the Jon Favreau jumpscare around reel 8.

My eye kept getting caught on one of the dog-boy sons because he reminded me so much of the kangaroo-boy designs in the previous year’s Tank Girl so I looked into it and at least one special effects makeup artist worked on both productions, shout out to Rolf John Keppler for keeping that Ripper spirit alive 🤙🤙

ok THIS is how we defeat the manosphere!

Solid and surprisingly progressive combination of murder mystery, political thriller, and character study but I think it’s bogged down by pacing and by standards of the time. I could see the direction it was headed pretty early and I was annoyed it took the protagonist and the story so long to *get* there. But I enjoyed Val Kilmer’s understated performance and of course Graham Greene is a fucking star and seems like he’s having a great time. Would love an altered version of this that’s more of a two-hander with Kilmer and Greene as odd couple detectives working together from the start to expose government corruption and state violence.

Watched on Tuesday May 13, 2025.

I loved this; it’s hilarious and imaginative and ultimately deeply moving, while also being an accidentally gut-wrenching Mother’s Day watch. Beautiful.

"There are no great men, buster! There's only men." - new favorite line spoken by a literal throwaway character, she really made an impact.

Cute! A lot more dream/fantasy sequences than I expected!

Double feature this with The Seven Year Itch for a fun night of "married men getting up to dumb shit with hot women while their wives and children are out of town for the summer".

Watched on Tuesday May 6, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 5, 2025.

Spooky and sad and no cis male characters of note, just like I like it 👌

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

In order of viewing

• Room Service
• The Ice House
• I Used to Be Funny
• Encounters at the End of the World
• The Man I Love
• Forever, Lulu
• Wicked
• Rebel Ridge
• Nickel Boys
• Robot Jox

...plus 157 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Horror written and/or directed by creatives of marginalized genders (women, nb folks, trans folks, folks who are not cis dudes, etc). Some of these are more horror-adjacent but I'm not too picky about what gets labeled horror.

• 12 Hour Shift

  Writ./dir. Brea Grant

• All That We Destroy

  Dir. Chelsea Stardust

• Always Shine

  Dir. Sophia Takal

• American Mary

  Writ./dir. Soska Sisters

• American Psycho

  Co-writ. Guinevere Turner, co-writ./dir. Mary Harron

• Amulet

  Writ./dir. Romola Garai

• Apartment 7A

  Co-writ./dir. Natalie Erika James

• The Babadook

  Writ./dir. Jennifer Kent

• Bad Girl Boogey

  Co-writ./dir. Alice Maio Mackay

• Bad Things

  Writ./dir. Stewart Thorndike

...plus 181 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

For reference - only for films I've seen. Mostly features, some shorts and miniseries included.

• The Dark Side of Tomorrow

  Dir. Barbara Peeters

• Don’t Cry, Pretty Girls!

  Dir. Márta Mészáros

• Fruit of Paradise

  Dir. Věra Chytilová

• I Am Somebody

  Dir. Madeline Anderson

• Murdering the Devil

  Dir. Ester Krumbachová

• The Student Nurses

  Dir. Stephanie Rothman

• Wanda

  Dir. Barbara Loden

• Blood of the Dragon

  Dir. Kao Pao-shu

• Bury Me an Angel

  Dir. Barbara Peeters

• I Don't Know

  Dir. Penelope Spheeris

...plus 598 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Good and/or notable movies written and/or directed by women, nb folks, trans folks, marginalized genders. Arranged by year. Only for films I've seen, and I continually add more as I see them. Click "Read notes" to see relevant writer/director credits.

1. Suspense.

   Writ./co-dir. Lois Weber

2. Mabel at the Wheel

   Co-dir. Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett

3. Mabel's Strange Predicament

   Dir. Mabel Normand

4. Shoes

   Co-writ. Stella Wynne Herron and Jane Addams, co-writ./dir. Lois Weber

5. A Little Princess

   Writ. s Marion

6. The Cigarette

   Dir. Germaine Dulac

7. The Love Light

   Writ./dir. s Marion

8. The Smiling Madame Beudet

   Co-writ./dir. Germaine Dulac

9. The Plastic Age

   Writ. Frederica Sagor and Eve Unsell

10. The Adventures of Prince Achmed

    Writ./dir. Lotte Reiniger

...plus 1482 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

For my own records. I became a projectionist in November 2022.

• The Straight Story
• Wild at Heart
• It's a Wonderful Life
• Die Hard
• Kung Fu Hustle
• Clash of the Titans
• Pearl
• X
• The Phantom of the Opera
• Singin' in the Rain

...plus 153 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Horror movies/series that I dig.

• 12 Hour Shift
• 28 Days Later
• Abigail
• The Abominable Dr. Phibes
• The Addiction
• Alice, Sweet Alice
• Alien
• Alison's Birthday
• All About Evil
• All That We Destroy

...plus 475 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

When I say something's weird I mean that as a compliment.

• Un Chien Andalou
• Hellzapoppin'
• Meshes of the Afternoon
• The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
• The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
• When the Cat Comes
• Shock Corridor
• Daisies
• The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean
• Something Weird

...plus 227 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Hauntings, possessions, spooky presences, friendly spirits... Just for fun. I love ghosts!

• 13 Ghosts
• An American Werewolf in London
• The Ash Tree
• Atlantics
• The Awakening
• The Babadook
• Bad Things
• The Black Phone
• Blood Beat
• Blood Sisters

...plus 140 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I co-organize a regular screening and discussion group that welcomes an audience of women, trans, genderqueer, and non-binary folks. We screen films directed by non- cis male filmmakers, and this list will keep track of selected titles.

For the time being we have moved to primarily virtual screenings, with some in-person events in the Boston area, as we are able.

If you're interested in following along, we have an instagram at @strictlybrohibited

• Girlfight

  Writ./dir. Karyn Kusama. Screened November 2017.

• Smithereens

  Co-writ./dir. Susan Seidelman. Screened December 2017.

• Appropriate Behavior

  Writ./dir. Desiree Akhavan. Screened January 2018.

• Seven Beauties

  Writ./dir. Lina Wertmüller. Screened February 2018.

• The Piano

  Writ./dir. Jane Campion. Screened February 2018.

• Eve's Bayou

  Writ./dir. Kasi Lemmons. Screened February 2018.

• Daisies

  Co-writ. Ester Krumbachová, co-writ./dir. Vera Chytilová. Screened March 2018.

• Obvious Child

  Writ./dir. Gillian Robespierre. Screened April 2018.

• Bound

  Writ./dir. Lana and Lilly Wachowski. Screened May 2018.

• Belle

  Co-writ. Misan Sagay; co-writ./dir. Amma Asante. Screened June 2018.

...plus 119 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Loosely in order of how much I like them

• Fucktoys
• WTO/99
• Universal Language
• Mickey 17
• Sister Midnight
• The Ugly Stepsister
• OBEX
• Sinners
• Linda
• Fréwaka

...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Movies with bisexual protagonists (not side characters) that aren't super stereotypical or totally shitty. Typically it's overtly stated or shown, but a few are more implied.

A work in progress, as this list is only for ones I've seen and can recommend.

• A Woman, a Part
• All Over Me
• Appropriate Behavior
• Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
• Black Swan
• Cabaret
• The Countess
• Crush
• Dallas Doll
• Deadpool 2

...plus 51 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

For reference - only for films I've seen. Mostly features, some shorts included.

• Suspense.

  Dir. Lois Weber

• Mabel at the Wheel

  Dir. Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett

• Mabel's Strange Predicament

  Dir. Mabel Normand

• Shoes

  Dir. Lois Weber

• The Cigarette

  Dir. Germaine Dulac

• The Love Light

  Dir. s Marion

• The Smiling Madame Beudet

  Dir. Germaine Dulac

• The Adventures of Prince Achmed

  Dir. Lotte Reiniger

• Get Your Man

  Dir. Dorothy Arzner

• The Wild Party

  Dir. Dorothy Arzner

...plus 69 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Loosely in order of how much I like them

• I Saw the TV Glow
• Problemista
• La Chimera
• Nickel Boys
• Dahomey
• The Substance
• Bird
• Flow
• Lisa Frankenstein
• Hundreds of Beavers

...plus 87 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My forever ongoing horror watchlist, really, I just focus on it more in the fall. Deleting films as I watch them.

• 3 from Hell
• 976-EVIL
• Amer
• Bizarre
• Black Pit of Dr. M
• Black Sabbath
• Boardinghouse
• Cam

  netflix

• Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
• Cry_Wolf

...plus 52 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Very very faves on top but otherwise not ranked

• A Question of Silence
• Nowhere
• A Place of Rage
• The Cat
• The Trial
• After Life
• Kokomo City
• When Night Is Falling
• Little Darlings
• Rouge

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

In order of viewing

• The Cocoanuts
• True Love
• The Cat
• Renata
• Bad Timing
• The Many Miracles of Household Saints
• Priscilla
• The Great Sinner
• A Thousand and One
• Poor Things

...plus 417 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I have seen a lot of romantic comedies and these are my fave 100-ish (some of these are a little more rom com-adjacent but it’s my list and I make the rules)

• 10 Things I Hate About You
• 13 Going on 30
• Amélie
• Appropriate Behavior
• The Baxter
• Better Off Dead...
• Born Yesterday
• Bride & Prejudice
• Bridget Jones's Diary
• Bringing Up Baby

...plus 94 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A work in progress list of my favorite films.

• Adaptation.
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
• Akira
• Alice
• Alien
• Amateur
• The American Astronaut
• Amélie
• Angie
• The Apartment

...plus 234 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I like to design posters for movies I love or private commissions for people, most of them are available as prints through my etsy and ko-fi shops.

ko-fi.com/panandscan/shop
www.etsy.com/shop/panandscan

• All About Eve

  ko-fi.com/s/c2daaf0332

• Almost Famous

  www.etsy.com/listing/80404913/almost-famous-stillwater-gig-poster

• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

  www.etsy.com/listing/851904632/anchorman-poster-artwork

• The Apartment

  www.etsy.com/listing/91945345/the-apartment-poster-artwork

• Barbarella

  ko-fi.com/s/96b6f4759c

• Black Swan

  www.etsy.com/listing/64123089/black-swan-poster-artwork

• Blazing Saddles

  www.etsy.com/listing/709780266/lili-von-shtupp-poster-artwork-blazing

• The Blues Brothers

  www.etsy.com/listing/89865072/the-blues-brothers-gig-poster

• Bound

  ko-fi.com/s/3073db7d2c

• Bride of Chucky

  www.etsy.com/listing/553645360/bride-of-chucky-poster-artwork

...plus 33 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Science-fiction is one of the few genres I feel fairly well-versed in, though of course there are still many I haven't seen. I made this list ten years ago and forgot about it then I went back and removed/added several titles so it’s kind of uneven

• A Trip to the Moon
• Metropolis
• Island of Lost Souls
• The Day the Earth Stood Still
• Godzilla
• The Incredible Shrinking Man
• The World, the Flesh and the Devil
• Ikarie XB 1
• The Last Man on Earth
• Seconds

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Pre-1970 movies I want to see, will be used as a reference for when I’m at the video store. Deleting movies as I go.

• 7th Heaven
• Belle Starr
• Blonde Venus

  Tisch

• Bonjour Tristesse

  Tisch

• The Buster Keaton Story
• Don't Sting the Mosquito
• The Five Pennies
• From Here to Eternity

  VU

• Gertrud
• Golden Gate Girl

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Loosely in order of how much I like them

• Showing Up
• The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future
• How to Blow Up a Pipeline
• Poor Things
• Anatomy of a Fall
• Kokomo City
• Monster
• Past Lives
• Smoking Causes Coughing
• May December

...plus 64 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

In order of viewing

• Animal Crackers
• Infinite Escher
• Union City
• Please Baby Please
• Tales from the Quadead Zone
• Infernal Affairs
• Flaming Ears
• Love Exposure
• Solomon King
• Tales from the Gimli Hospital

...plus 324 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Just wanted to catalog all the movies about art and artists I could find. Some of these aren't very good. Some of these I haven't seen yet. Will continually add more.

• Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case
• Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
• Andrei Rublev
• The Art of the Steal
• Art School Confidential
• Artemisia
• Basquiat
• Beautiful Losers
• Beauty Is Embarrassing
• The Best Offer

...plus 67 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Loosely in order of how much I like them

• Flux Gourmet
• Aftersun
• Medusa
• RRR
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Strawberry Mansion
• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
• The Eternal Daughter
• The Janes
• TÁR

...plus 73 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

In order of viewing

• The Man Who Knew Too Much
• Test Pattern
• Titane
• It's a Wonderful Afterlife
• Spawn
• The Lost Daughter
• Portrait of Jason
• To Live and Die in L.A.
• Native Son
• The Goddess of 1967

...plus 365 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.