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Airport '77 371p1q 1977 - ★★★

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 12:31:20 +1200

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Jack Lemmon and Jimmy Stewart being in this is like if Jim Carey and Tom Hanks were in the Twisters reboot for no apparent reason. I love it. Set design less fun, but the sink the plane in the Bermuda Triangle, so the kookoo conflict earns it a

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Airport 1975 5r6w4s 1974 - ★★★½

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 12:27:28 +1200

Honestly some great low altitude aerial photography. Jerry Stiller is lowkey hilarious here. Set design is 70s goopery. Why is everyone so excited when that old woman orders a boilermaker? Karen Black is the utterly exhausted, reluctant messiah we dont deserve. The initial crash an ensuing enger pandemonium is something to see. I saw it about 5x in a row using the rewind feature 😏

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The Phoenician Scheme 1r2y3h 2025 - ★★★★

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:29:31 +1200

Not quite the artistic heights of Asteroid City or the depth of heart in French Dispatch but somehow more watchable than either. I would group this with Moonrise and Bottle Rocket. Essentially are you looking for a fun and/or goofy jaunt?

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers 3o1539 1978 - ★★★★

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:26:49 +1200

What a (hellish) joy

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Airport 6z5u5y 1970 - ★★★

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 09:54:50 +1200

Trash spectacle, surprisingly delightful, with Burt Lancaster and George Kennedy actually giving really solid performances. Ms Quonsett is an all time character delivered with perfect pitch by Helen Hayes. Jean Seberg's hair. I continue to not buy Dean Martin as an actor

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Fail Safe 3l603g 1964 - ★★★★

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 09:41:40 +1200

Fail-Safe programmed so WAR GAMES could operate

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The Core 95z63 2003 - ★★★

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 09:36:27 +1200

Why is this becoming one of my top rewatchables year after year? Can't fight a trashterpiece!

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The Host 30342b 2006 - ★★★★

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 09:34:54 +1200

Way sillier than I was expecting, but then again it's Director Bong so I should've known better. Kang ho Song's range is ridiculous

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Xanadu 3v3a2d 1980 - ★★★★★

Fri, 6 Jun 2025 01:22:23 +1200

Pure commercial art that gets you so high by not giving a shit about your expectations of what a "narrative structure" is or if it should even exist. Absolute, cocaine fueled showbiz madness that doesn't stop until all of a sudden it does. No notes

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Mission 71384a Impossible – The Final Reckoning, 2025 - ★★★

Tue, 3 Jun 2025 14:06:46 +1200

That 1st hour is sloggy dog shit, but that last 1hr40 is jammin

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Jurassic World Dominion 36233w 2022 - ★★½

Tue, 3 Jun 2025 14:04:15 +1200

I was entertained at the movie rather than by it, but entertained nonetheless

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Jurassic World 222s4a Fallen Kingdom, 2018 - ★★

Sun, 1 Jun 2025 14:10:11 +1200

Geraldine Chaplin is in this movie

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Mission 71384a Impossible – Dead Reckoning, 2023 - ★★★★

Wed, 28 May 2025 12:43:29 +1200

You're playing 4 dimensional chess with an algorithm, Ethan!

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Caught by the Tides 3ld1z 2024 - ★★★★★

Tue, 27 May 2025 11:37:05 +1200

How did this tapestry of b roll find its way into my heart like that? Masterwork in bending the form to one's will. What at the start feels like a chaotic supercut of Jia's entire thesis as an artist, ages along with its creator and collaborators through its 22 year journey. By the last act, it isn't moving as fast as it used to or jumping up and down to techno anymore, but instead has become more deliberate with each step and wiser with each frame, calmly and gently coming to the realization that you can't fight the rushing current of progress and eventually you have to let yourself be swept away in the tides of change

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Jurassic World 222s4a 2015 - ★½

Mon, 26 May 2025 13:07:15 +1200

Why did casting director think this was a comedy?

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Unknown Pleasures 2c4x68 2002 - ★★★★★

Sun, 25 May 2025 02:58:10 +1200

I love this because while early aughts industrial China feels and in fact was far away from my personal experience, and I'm sure there are loads of cultural / historical undertones I'm missing; I can't help but see the mirror image of the malaise of youth in the solid concrete, nothing to look at but fast food, Best Buys, and a seemingly infinite supply of vacant strip malls generation of suburban America. Seems so silly to me the culture and society we have seemingly alienated ourselves from the most, shares so many of the same values and have made similar mistakes creating similar societal baggage. I absolutely knew a Xiao Ji & Bin Bin

Also love that Jia is on a mission to make sure the Chinese public knows how sick Pulp Fiction is

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The Quick and the Dead 4y2c1n 1995 - ★★★½

Wed, 21 May 2025 13:50:29 +1200

You know Raimi is delivering that looney tunes Western

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Still Life 1b6w3g 2006 - ★★★★★

Tue, 20 May 2025 15:17:00 +1200

I love how this will be one of the most grounded, chilling movies about modernization, and then a huge monument will just blast off into space. Honestly learning that Zhangke produced Memoria is making so much sense to me rn

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Friendship 6xc3c 2024 - ★★★★

Mon, 19 May 2025 13:47:28 +1200

Turns out that a more subtle, long-form ITYSL really works for me 🤷‍♂️

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Ash Is Purest White 146t6a 2018 - ★★★★★

Mon, 19 May 2025 01:47:51 +1200

No one else like Jia. And DEFINITELY no one else like Zhao Tao

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Look Who's Talking 164733 1989 - ★★½

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 23:11:33 +1200

Idk if yall know but this is a bad movie

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Jurassic Park 1j126w 1993 - ★★★★★

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 23:11:04 +1200

Idk if yall know but this is a good movie

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The Searchers 61c2m 1956 - ★★★★★

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:58:05 +1200

That'll be the day

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Tron r705g 1982 - ★★★½

Sun, 13 Apr 2025 03:32:49 +1200

Honestly a good time

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Mon Oncle 6s5o2s 1958 - ★★★★½

Sun, 13 Apr 2025 03:25:29 +1200

Classic, simple perfection in a complicated, imperfect, modern world

So much Wes in this

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Y2K 9112t 2024 - ★★★½

Mon, 7 Apr 2025 11:19:47 +1200

That first 25-30 in bonkers in the best way. Fizzles out a bit by the end, but it at least stays committed to being comedy forward

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Black Bag 4n555y 2025

Mon, 7 Apr 2025 03:51:41 +1200

Did you fall asleep and need to rewatch this?
Me: Black Bag 🤐

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Monsieur Hulot's Holiday 63g6t 1953 - ★★★★

Mon, 7 Apr 2025 03:50:46 +1200

This is almost more of a sketch anthology than a cohesive story, but it's still very good and charming!!

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Death of a Unicorn 3t5p6n 2025 - ★★★

Mon, 7 Apr 2025 03:49:13 +1200

Tea and will are having the most fun. Wished had gone full on silly

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TRON 2xdf Legacy, 2010 - ★★★½

Sun, 6 Apr 2025 08:26:38 +1200

What else can you say in times like these, but 🗣TRON

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Fly Me to the Moon 4t1m1g 2024 - ★★

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:13:18 +1300

That weird Purgatory of being better than your average streamer but not quite the full kit and kaboodle of a classic studio

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The Challenge 1y3n2o 1982 - ★★★

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 01:24:16 +1300

I don't think I've ever seen a head chopped down the middle quite like that

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Rififi 2z6i6w 1955 - ★★★★½

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 01:23:05 +1300

Just perfect simple entertainment. Love that Dassin is skilled enough in his visual story telling that he can go several stretches with no dialog throughout

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Raw Deal 93n12 1948 - ★★★

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 01:20:58 +1300

FACE IN THE CLOCK

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Two for the Road 615r67 1967 - ★★★★

Mon, 17 Mar 2025 05:57:25 +1300

Zany, fun, and heartfelt. I had no clue what to expect going into this movie and came out with a belly full of laughs, a zest to get back to southern , and heart that feels seen. Audrey's last act meeting David and wrestling with the paradox of love and marriage is chef's kiss writing and editing. The good memories will always feel good; making it increasingly difficult to know when something is truly over, even when the answer is as clear as a sunny day on the beaches of Menton

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Against the Wall b4an 1994 - ★★★

Sun, 16 Mar 2025 03:30:57 +1300

Pretty by the numbers historical drama/thriller, with Frankenheimer steady as ever behind the wheel. Long hair hippy Kyle at the start really made me giggle. Clarence Williams III is one of the most intense presences I've ever seen

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52 Pick 52t2h Up, 1986 - ★★★

Sat, 15 Mar 2025 11:46:55 +1300

This movie is clinically insane and should be 1013'd immediately

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Breaking In 1u28w 1989 - ★★★

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 14:06:55 +1300

Definitely a midshelf Forsyth but it still went down just as smooth. The whole bit with the guard dog had me goofy giggling

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The Tall Target 3mn68 1951 - ★★★★½

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 16:04:41 +1300

The acting is pretty cheesy at times, but my God this is one of the most beautiful movies ever made. The b&w contrast is so rich with all the head lamps and street lights playing off the the steam and black steel engine of "The Flyer". I know this is cliché but it really does feel like the train is the secret third lead. The way Mann shoots it with such reverence and almost flattering angles? Like Mann was enamored with the beauty of the machine and it comes through hard. What weird movie that I'm so glad exists wtf

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Black Sunday 5o454n 1977 - ★★★

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 15:59:15 +1300

Frankenheimer is a great director on full display here, but the not-so-great script combined with the trifecta of bizarre lead performances from Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, and Marthe Keller all adds up to a cringey but thrilling mess

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Mickey 17 2q27c 2025 - ★★★½

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:47:02 +1300

Mickey 17-25 minutes too long. Still fun and worth the ride! Pattison does well to deliver two unique performances as one character. Just felt like there was a lot of unnecessary faff. Always happy to see some Cameron Britton representation though 💞

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Beats 632i14 2019 - ★★★

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 12:32:41 +1300

That rave was tight. The rest was fine

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Local Hero 54cy 1983 - ★★★★½

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 05:22:08 +1300

Filmed spectacularly. Give me all the weirdo small town human stories set at the beach please

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if.... 1i6647 1968 - ★★★½

Sun, 9 Mar 2025 16:00:36 +1300

It'd be so funny if that Ryan Reynolds slop ended in a Monty Python style mass shooting too

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The Naked Spur 2f6z4m 1953 - ★★★½

Sun, 9 Mar 2025 15:59:20 +1300

Janet Leigh!!!!

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Charlie's Angels 96b26 2000 - ★★★

Sun, 9 Mar 2025 15:57:58 +1300

The most 2000s a 2000 could 2000. Somewhere in between kill Bill and Austin Powers

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Gregory's Girl 76lp 1980 - ★★★½

Wed, 5 Mar 2025 12:27:17 +1300

Bill Forsyth just has that magic touch with storytelling. Pretty nothing teenage plot but I was fully in and several throw away lines had me cackling. VERY silly 80s score but it's part of the cha at the same time

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September 5 4h556k 2024 - ★★★½

Mon, 3 Mar 2025 01:38:21 +1300

S-tier cable movie right here

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Hobson's Choice 5r171m 1954 - ★★★

Sun, 2 Mar 2025 12:04:02 +1300

You go girl cinema for sure but deeply strange and staggeringly brittish. David Lean knows how to compose the hell out of image though!

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2025 Theatrical 236119

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 09:46:58 +1200

Caught by the Tides

The Phoenician Scheme

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

Death of a Unicorn

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John Sayles 5z6r6q

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 03:25:05 +1200

Matewan

Return of the Secaucus Seven

The Brother from Another Planet

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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Anglomatic Faves 6o6sa

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 01:54:25 +1300

The Quiet Man

I Know Where I'm Going!

Local Hero

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Topsy-Turvy

Secrets & Lies

Happy-Go-Lucky

The Banshees of Inisherin

Ratcatcher

Benediction

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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2024 US Theatrical 5v2i4u

Tue, 5 Mar 2024 09:22:41 +1300

Dahomey

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

The Brutalist

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

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Thu, 25 Mar 2021 17:05:25 +1300

This group of movies is intended to paint a broad picture of American history from Pre-Columbian Mezzo-America all the way to a near-future dystopia. Movies listed in chronological order by plot

...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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Baseball 2vx73

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 14:41:46 +1200

A League of Their Own

Sugar

For Love of the Game

Field of Dreams

The Rookie

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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Spike Lee ts 2p6j5i

Wed, 29 May 2024 13:50:43 +1200

Chi-Raq

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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Claire Denis 4e4y35

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 11:44:50 +1200

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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Fincher 6679

Mon, 29 Apr 2024 04:09:56 +1200

Zodiac

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Se7en

The Game

Fight Club

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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2023 US Releases ranked 4q3mq

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 11:39:28 +1300

Killers of the Flower Moon

...plus 27 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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Welcome to Melville 493j2i

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 07:26:46 +1300

If Fellini's cinematic subconscious was a Circus, then without a doubt Jean-Pierre Melville's was a scummy little jazz club. Across these seven films Melville hones in on one of the most clearly defined genre voices the medium has ever seen with a glorius culmination between Army of Shadows and Le Cercle Rouge at the height of his powers; and finally a fitting swan song with Un Flic where, like one of his stubborn and cool headed anti-heroes, he had no backing, no funding, but still got a team together and pulled off one last job. Please enjoy Melville's Underground

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Agnès Varda 💜 v594r

Sun, 14 Aug 2022 04:24:20 +1200

All feature length Varda films (Ive seen). Documentary and narrative because the line is so blurred with her

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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Kelly Reichardt ranked 2z1t4

Sun, 26 Apr 2020 15:36:30 +1200

There's really not a film i didn't enjoy

Wendy and Lucy
First Cow
Certain Women
Showing Up
Meek's Cutoff
Old Joy
Much like K.R.'s hiatus between River of Grass and her second movie Old Joy. It was 10 years since the last time I watched this movie. When I was 18 I enjoyed it when I was 28 I felt seen on a new level. I feel Kelly as an artist made the same journey between debut and sophomore features. River of Grass has a lot of pizaz and attitude and fun and Old Joy has the broader perspective and slightly beat down energy but twice the strength of voice. A beautiful reflective realist blip
Night Moves
River of Grass
This movie picks up the torch that Barbara Loden left burning with Wanda 🔥

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