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Watched on Tuesday June 3, 2025.

The only movie with no cuts, only tears.

Never seen this before, but I thought COVID would affect how I experienced the movie at first and then realized that a pop culture oversaturated in zombie lore was the bigger lens. These characters just don’t know everything we do after having seen zombie movies and TV shows in the decades since this was released. Last act was kind of abysmal.

Conner O’Malley comes and kills for like 3 minutes, says the funniest thing I’ve ever heard, and leaves.

Haven’t seen this many single guys enjoying a solo night at the movies since the Academy Museum screened “There Will Be Blood.” We’re so back.

Third watch, second time in IMAX 70mm, and the aspect ratios changes are still distracting. But great movies with great crowds are pretty undeniable.

The reports of Marvel being back are greatly exaggerated, but I would appreciate more not-actively-bad movies like this! The ending (it was cute!) kinda sold me on it as a whole.

There are things I loved about Final Reckoning, but it used to feel like they were getting away with making these movies. This is the first that feels like they were tasked with making another one.

A great time at the movies for families with more than a ing familiarity with Catholicism.

Coping with post-concert depression, part 2.

All my reservations disappeared in Ultra Panavision 70mm. Also helped that the packed crowd went bananas at all the right moments.

Overstuffed with ideas and images, but there’s an alchemy that’s undeniable on the big screen. It doesn’t totally cohere, but its genre trappings make it just so entertaining. Had me grinning! It exists in the space between the three points of Nolan, Tarantino and Flanagan. Though it’s undercut by a feeling that Coogler’s picked up some bad habits from superhero moviemaking and cinematography choices that feel a little too IMAX house style, there’s a satisfaction that comes from feeling that he’s been given a canvas big enough for his vision.

Coping with post-concert depression, part 1.

No snark in this review!! I just loved it!

Spent most of the runtime thinking about how high the screen was at the LF3.

When roller skating overalls guy shows up, I’m like I’ve got this guy’s gang totally figured out. They wear overalls and they roller skate. But turns out, his gang’s thing is striped shirts and arcade games!

One of the cleanest premises for a movie ever.

Some of the funniest physical comedy I’ve ever seen.

Great gowns, beautiful gowns.

Cars have never ruled harder. This is why I refuse to take public transit.

Q&A with John Carpenter and Bong Joon Ho almost reached “Megalopolis” livestream levels of wacky. Carpenter kept counting down how much time was left, scoffed at a gender swapped remake of “Escape from New York” and said he needed to leave to “eat his drug dealer.” Legend.

I rewatched the final 20 minutes of “Past Lives,” or as I like to call it, the greatest piece of acting of the 21st century.

Smartest fucking movie

Everything at the carnival was great, but feels like this movie sidesteps moral complexity by not having Guy get fully seduced to the dark side.

The degree to which we are back has potentially never been greater

Perhaps Oz is just not for me

Sauce is the true litmus test of civilization.

Paddington is one of our best white latinos

They don’t cast actors like Griffin Dunne anymore, and we’re poorer for it.

I’d kill for Spielberg to make another car picture. Let’s get that Bullitt movie off the ground.

Yo homie! Is that my briefcase?

All timer Cruise line reading.

Subtitles on screen for like a millisecond in some cases but the action is insane. Hard to follow but easy to enjoy. Lost my mind when the bow becomes a multi shot bow.

Corporate self mythologizing masquerading as documentary. But there have been some cool artists on SNL.

Very taken by this movie that asks what if Annihilation (2018) was an absolutely stupid action movie.

As singular an experience in going to the movies as they get.

First time at Vidiots which is maybe the most perfect vibe for a theater. Movie was followed by performance of “Llorando” by and Q&A with Rebekah del Rio.

Mark Wahlberg is a little gremlin, but not giving enough freak energy. The movie just needs to be nastier. My first 4DX experience. Lit up like a Christmas tree when the trailers had 4DX.

Thrilling in how often it made me feel like I thought I understood it, only to have my understanding reoriented. She’s angry! But so is everyone! But she’s justified!

I there being more Looney Tunes

A classic for a reason! Kind of the epitome of a sweet movie.

I’m a Dua Lipa completionist.

Brisk 90-minute buddy comedies are so back

soundtrack hits perfectly

There’s a campy artifice (Gerard Butler’s tough guy demeanor, the way it’s set in L.A. but is so clearly shot in Atlanta or Louisiana) that can read as charming sometimes, but just didn’t work for me the longer it went on. My mom loved it though.

My parents played this movie three consecutive times while I was at their house to escape the terrible air quality in L.A. Moby’s “Extreme Ways” does hit different.

Dude was going 40 on an interstate and thought the other driver was the problem.

The people right next to me were having a great time laughing and it gave permission to the whole theater to start cracking up in the best way. A pretty fitting answer to “Eyes Wide Shut” all these years later.

Everyone was hootin’ and hollerin’ at all the right moments. You can’t really ask for more.

Fizzles out in real time. There’s sex in this movie, but it lacks desire. I used to think Eggers was one of my guys, but that’s only because he’s obsessed with the directors who actually are my guys. Why watch this when we have Bram Stoker’s Dracula at home?

Johnny Cash is who he is, the thought of trying to define himself probably never crosses his mind. Meanwhile Bob Dylan can’t stop thinking about himself, much less articulate what he wants. There’s a sense of embarrassment to Bob. He could never it to being Johnny’s pen pal. Songwriting is a burden to him, lightning strikes and ruins his relationships. For as much as he wants people to be around, he can’t help but pursue his art even if it means losing the people who really know him. Why would anyone be envious of that?

People ask me where the songs come from, but they’re really asking why they didn’t come to them.

Each decision is overflowing with intention

Sometimes it’s just really nice to look at bright colors

1. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
2. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
3. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
4. Mission: Impossible
5. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
6. Mission: Impossible II
7. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
8. Mission: Impossible III

1. Interstellar
2. Dunkirk
3. Inception
4. The Prestige
5. The Dark Knight
6. Tenet
7. Batman Begins
8. Oppenheimer
9. The Dark Knight Rises
10. Memento

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

1. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
2. A Different Man
3. Rebel Ridge
4. Dune: Part Two
5. Conclave
6. Robot Dreams
7. Anora
8. The Brutalist
9. Flow
10. Wicked

...plus 61 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All the films I saw at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.

1. Anora
2. Conclave
3. Emilia Pérez
4. William Tell
5. The Brutalist
6. The Life of Chuck
7. Oh, Canada
8. Queer
9. The Return
10. On Swift Horses

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

1. Past Lives
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
3. Anatomy of a Fall
4. All of Us Strangers
5. Ferrari
6. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
7. John Wick: Chapter 4
8. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
9. May December
10. Godzilla Minus One

...plus 54 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. RRR
2. The Fabelmans
3. TÁR
4. Top Gun: Maverick
5. Kimi
6. The Batman
7. Triangle of Sadness
8. Ambulance
9. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
10. The Woman King

...plus 35 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The best new movies I saw in 2021

1. Licorice Pizza
2. Dune
3. The Green Knight
4. The Power of the Dog
5. The French Dispatch
6. CODA
7. Nightmare Alley
8. Pig
9. The Lost Daughter
10. West Side Story

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

I don’t have friends, I got letterboxd rankings.

1. Fast Five
2. Furious 7
3. F9
4. The Fast and the Furious
5. Fast & Furious 6
6. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
7. 2 Fast 2 Furious
8. Fast & Furious
9. The Fate of the Furious
10. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
2. Sound of Metal
3. Minari
4. Another Round
5. Wolfwalkers
6. First Cow
7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
8. One Night in Miami...
9. The Father
10. Nomadland

...plus 38 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Tree of Life
• The Matrix Revolutions
• Speed Racer
• Do the Right Thing
• Following
• Being John Malkovich
• Police Story
• Police Story 2
• Bram Stoker's Dracula
• Stop Making Sense

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

bold ornamentation conveying a sense of drama, movement, and tension. grotesqueness, extravagance, complexity, flamboyance.

1. Bram Stoker's Dracula
2. Crimson Peak
3. Dracula
4. Pan's Labyrinth
5. Frankenstein
6. The Phantom of the Opera
7. The Innocents
8. The Nightmare Before Christmas
9. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
10. Nosferatu

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

1. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. Star Wars
4. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
5. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
6. Return of the Jedi
7. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
8. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
9. Solo: A Star Wars Story
10. Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones

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

Will be adding more movies to this list when they’re released

• The Art of Racing in the Rain

A running list of 2019-released movies I enjoyed

• The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
• Alita: Battle Angel
• How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
• Captain Marvel
• Triple Frontier
• Shazam!
• Avengers: Endgame
• John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
• Always Be My Maybe
• Booksmart

...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A ranked list of my favorite movies of 2019

1. Parasite
2. Knives Out
3. Midsommar
4. Uncut Gems
5. The Farewell
6. Marriage Story
7. Little Women
8. Hustlers
9. The Report
10. Doctor Sleep

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

I’m slowly filing down my backlog by watching movies that aren’t recent releases.

• Unbreakable
• Cloud Atlas
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• The Third Man
• We Need to Talk About Kevin
• Clue
• Jupiter Ascending
• The Evil Dead
• Evil Dead II
• The Monster Squad

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I only buy physical copies of movies I absolutely love, unless there was a deal

• The Matrix

  Been wanting to get the 4K since it was announced and finally did

• The Tree of Life

  My cousin has been hounding me to watch this for years but I was holding out for the Criterion edition

• Do the Right Thing

  I feel like I’m gonna love this movie so I bought the Criterion

• Blade Runner 2049

  Don't own the first one, 4K Blu-Ray

• Star Trek

  One of the most colorful sci-fi films, 4K Blu-Ray

• 2001: A Space Odyssey

  This 4K Blu-Ray was my first time watching this and I loved it

• Dunkirk

  Saw this is IMAX 70mm and it was one of the best theater experiences I've ever had, 4K Blu-Ray

• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

  One of my favorite movies of all time but it needs the 4K treatment, Blu-Ray

• The Shape of Water

  Loved this movie and really want more of Guillermo del Toro's work on disc, 4K Blu-Ray

• Mad Max: Fury Road

  How could I not own the greatest movie ever made on 4k UHD Blu-Ray?

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

Keeping a running list of 2018 movies I enjoyed watching.

• Black Panther
• Annihilation
• Game Night
• A Quiet Place
• Upgrade
• Incredibles 2
• Blindspotting
• Hereditary
• Sorry to Bother You
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout

  This is the best movie of the year.

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• A Wrinkle in Time
• Wonderstruck
• Tomb Raider

Too many to like for a top 10 so here’s all of my favorites from the past year

1. Get Out
2. Dunkirk
3. The Work
4. The Post
5. Lady Bird
6. The Shape of Water
7. Blade Runner 2049
8. Coco
9. A Ghost Story
10. Colossal

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