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Watched on Thursday June 12, 2025.

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Watched on Tuesday June 10, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday June 10, 2025.

Still feels like the missing link in American exploitation. A rehash of similar explo classics, to be sure, but fully realized in ways you’d never expect. Like if Peckinpah still had some hope for the American dream, despite giving you every reason to have no hope. Blunt and artful.

Watched on Sunday June 8, 2025.

Watched on Saturday June 7, 2025.

I’d probably be more forgiving of a fun Jai Courtney performance if it wasn’t in a listless approach to exploitation. All attempts at moral buy-in fall flat. Just make your genre movie balmy, it’s okay!

Not nearly a good Die Hard movie, not nearly a bad time. Comparing the tactile and conceptually insane action sequences here to the tedium of Ballerina makes you wonder where the fuck Len Wiseman went wrong.

And no, I do not accept Underworld slander because that franchise skyrocketed Kate Beckinsale to fame, my favorite celebrity to ever post about butt stuff on social media.

I’m putting y’all on notice for praising this one, even lightly. Actually pretty funny when the Stahelski-directed sequences briefly inject life into this dead dove.

Watched on Thursday June 5, 2025.

Watched on Thursday June 5, 2025.

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The Dark Knight Rises of the Mission: Impossible franchise, in that it’s so fucking dumb but has stunts and action you’ll be awestruck by. You’ll be exhausted by the end.

It’s too bad that big bi-plane chase is cut to pieces. Just completely loses momentum when switching between maudlin end-of-the-world sincerity and Hollywood’s Dorian Gray getting thrown around like a ragdoll.

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

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• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• The Beast
• Challengers
• The First Omen
• Drive-Away Dolls
• I Saw the TV Glow
• Hit Man
• AGGRO DR1FT
• Dune: Part Two
• The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

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

• John Wick: Chapter 4
• Pacifiction
• Beau Is Afraid
• Poor Things
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• The Zone of Interest
• Priscilla
• De Humani Corporis Fabrica
• Afire
• May December

• The Thing from Another World
• The Faculty
• Little Women
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
• The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
• Medium Cool
• They Live
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Trouble Every Day
• Dial M for Murder

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Thing from Another World
• The Hellbenders
• Kill Them All and Come Back Alone
• The Great McGinty
• House by the River
• The Good Fairy
• The Fugitive Kind
• John's Lonely Trip to Coney Island
• The Acquaintances of a Lonely John
• John's Gone

...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A running list of everything I've seen on 35mm in The Year of Our Lord 2019.

• New Nightmare
• Singin' in the Rain
• Cat People
• 42nd Street
• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
• Eastern Condors
• The Florida Project
• Enter the Dragon
• Dune
• The Descent

...plus 65 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

2019 was a blessed year, but not only because of new releases. I watched an incredible amount of older titles. Here are some that I think fucking rule, rule or are more than just alright.

• The Magnificent Ambersons
• North by Northwest
• The Hitch-Hiker
• Andrei Rublev
• Southern Comfort
• The Palm Beach Story
• The Vikings
• Detour
• Singin' in the Rain
• Poetic Justice

...plus 46 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Excluding any 2019 releases.

• The Magnificent Ambersons
• Torn Curtain
• North by Northwest
• The Hitch-Hiker
• Dune
• Landline
• Assassination Nation
• Andrei Rublev
• Forty Guns
• The Long Riders

...plus 164 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

2018 was a damn good year for catching up on some blind spots. In no particular order, here are the new-to-me viewings that meant the most to me.

• The Small Back Room
• Climates
• The Earrings of Madame de...
• Robin and Marian
• Only Angels Have Wings
• Coming Home
• Scarecrow
• They Live by Night
• The Apartment
• Scarlet Street

...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Here are my top 25 of the 2000s (so far), in no particular order. If you don't agree, that's fine. Haven't seen BLACK BOOK on any of these lists. See BLACK BOOK. Please, dear god, see BLACK BOOK.

• The New World
• Inherent Vice
• Black Book
• Under the Skin
• The Banishment
• Zero Dark Thirty
• The Bling Ring
• Chi-Raq
• A Field in England
• Heaven Knows What

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.