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Watched on Monday June 2, 2025.

Watched on Sunday June 1, 2025.

Fred Zinnemann’s Oklahoma! is an extremely shallow interpretation of the quintessential American musical. The camera never moves; every scene is flat and shot with zero creativity. Rod Steiger’s Jud Fry lacks emotional depth, and he’s not even the worst actor. Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, and Eddie Albert play the comedic trio in this movie; however, I genuinely don’t think any of them (nor the director) realized their scenes and dialogue were supposed to be comedic. Grahame in particular gives one of the worst acting and singing performances I’ve ever seen on film—it’s seriously baffling how cartoonishly bad she is. I spent the movie wondering if she was even trying! Unfortunately, Zinnemann and the actors have zero understanding of the source material, leading to a very surface level and one-dimensional take on the most influential musical of all time. Watch the Hugh Jackman version if you want to see a take that captures the nuances of Oklahoma! 

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

The Pharaoh is one of my all time dream roles! I can’t believe he’s played by Zack and Codys’ dad, but he stole the show. Such a guilty pleasure musical. 😭

Watched on Monday April 28, 2025.

Everything about this movie was so painfully awkward.

Rest in Peace to the definitive Batman voice, Kevin Conroy. 🦇

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

As a DC fanboy, I appreciate having something like Robot Chicken to parody even the most niche corners of the DC universe. 😂

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

My stomach was hurting for minutes because I was laughing so hard 😂

Watched on Thursday April 17, 2025.

The George W. Bush sketch was the best part. This holds up very well! Feels like going back to a 2000s time capsule.

Watched on Monday April 14, 2025.

Every time I rewatch Challengers, I notice new things. Super fun rewatch movie—can’t get enough of it!

Shoutout to the dozens of man children who kept quoting the lines from the trailer as the actors said them!

PHENOMENAL third act!

I can now officially say I’m a certified cinephile™

Overall a solid movie, but not as comedic as I expected. This definitely got a few laughs out of me, but I frequently kept thinking that many jokes felt like a first or second draft. None of them were bad per se, but a lot of them could’ve been funnier with some fine tuning. Keke Palmer is a star as always. The use of Doechii’s music was 👌Also the Keshawn character completely changed his personality and voice in the middle of the movie for no reason. Weird.

Watched on Saturday February 8, 2025.

Surprisingly visually creative with some funny visual gags! Unfortunately, it’s still tied down to a dumb kids’ movie.

Watched on Wednesday January 22, 2025.

Watched on Sunday January 19, 2025.

Who knew Jesse Eisenberg could write and direct so well?! Great script with fun and interesting characters. Kieran Culkin keeps proving he’s one of the most compelling actors in the industry right now, while Eisenberg delivers a very strong, subtle performance. Definitely check this one out.

Looking for a bad movie night with friends? Look no further than Kazaam.🧞‍♂️

Watched on Tuesday January 7, 2025.

Easily some of the best music I’ve ever heard in a film—it complements the movie so well.

Watched on Tuesday December 24, 2024.

Watched on Friday December 20, 2024.

Watched on Friday December 13, 2024.

After seeing Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers earlier this year, I was elated when I heard he was releasing a second movie in 2024. Unfortunately, Queer did not live up to the hype for me. This is especially shocking considering it was not just the same director returning from Challengers, but writer Justin Kuritzkes and songwriters Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor returned as well. 

Very little happens in the first act of Queer. I definitely felt the length of the movie. The movie is only about the two main characters, which is fine; however, they’re both painfully boring. Daniel Craig is fantastic and Drew Starkey does a good job as well, but they’re given nothing to work with. Starkey’s character gets to show zero emotional range. We end up knowing very little about either of them. I didn’t find this movie to be very thought-provoking either. With that being said, the cinematography was pretty stellar. Other than that, this was a huge disappointment for me.

Paul Giamatti is BRILLIANT and his performance alone makes the movie worth watching! Really felt for his character.

Watched on Wednesday December 11, 2024.

I did not expect to enjoy this as much as I did! Funny, charming, great production value, and killer musical performances! This felt very unique to Sabrina and her personal brand. Plenty of great celebrity appearances, too.

Someone on Youtube bought a VHS demo on eBay that had the unreleased Barnyard pitch and just ed this—super cool!

Watched on Friday December 6, 2024.

I can’t even the last time I genuinely enjoyed watching a love triangle on screen

Watched on Saturday November 23, 2024.

Anora is an extremely well-acted and well-edited film. Mikey Madison delivers an incredible Oscar-worthy performance. With that being said, the writing for the main character was pretty bad. I left the theater knowing nothing about Anora as a character. The entire movie, I was so confused by her motivations. I kept trying to piece together why she was doing the things she did but Sean Baker’s writing was very disinterested in exploring her character. The last scene is incredible as an isolated scene, but the emotional buildup to it isn’t there. It’s hard to care when I know nothing about Anora. In all fairness, the only other Sean Baker film I’ve seen is Red Rocket, but if I were just by going off this movie, I would say Baker doesn’t know how to write interesting, 3 dimensional women. My understanding is that Baker likes to make movies that humanize sex workers. If that’s the case, then this movie failed in that regard. This is still an entertaining, funny movie and definitely one of the better films to come out this year.

Watched on Wednesday October 30, 2024.

The best project Disney has ever made!

Watched on Friday October 25, 2024.

Watched on Tuesday October 15, 2024.

A heartwarming story reminiscent of classic Pixar. This is directed and written by the writer/director of Lilo and Stitch, and it shows. Pedro Pascal delivers a brilliant performance.

Decided to watch this documentary after finishing a run as Orin in Little Shop of Horrors. I consider Little Shop to be the most well-written musical of all time, so it was a real treat seeing how the great Howard Ashman wrote his magnum opus. Rest in peace to a legend. ❤️🪴

Watched on Thursday October 3, 2024.

A boring and forgettable story with bland characters. Never really had any reason to care about what was going on. Everything from the scale, to stakes, to world building felt very small. Overdone ending found in every unoriginal kid’s movie. The animation looked like a Netflix movie.

Edit: Just found out this movie shares the same writer and director as Toy Story 4, which explains a lot.

• Barbie
• Judas and the Black Messiah
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Sorry to Bother You
• Get Out
• Mickey 17

1. Mickey 17
2. One of Them Days
3. Dog Man
4. Plankton: The Movie
5. A Minecraft Movie

1. Challengers
2. A Real Pain
3. The Apprentice
4. Piece By Piece
5. The Wild Robot
6. Anora
7. Civil War
8. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
9. Sonic the Hedgehog 3
10. Despicable Me 4

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

1. Tickled
2. La La Land
3. All the Way
4. Grease Live
5. Hairspray Live!
6. Moana
7. Batman: The Killing Joke
8. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
9. Sausage Party
10. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

• Brokeback Mountain
• The Godfather
• The Godfather Part II
• Back to the Future
• Moonlight
• Phantom Thread
• Parasite
• Little Women
• Django Unchained
• Jurassic Park

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

• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Isle of Dogs
• Piece By Piece
• Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
• Little Shop of Horrors
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

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

1. Carterland
2. Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary
3. Tickled
4. The Tickle King

   I’m ranking this next to Tickled because I view it as a companion piece. I’m not so much ranking it, as much as I’m telling people to watch both movies together.

5. Mommy Dead and Dearest
6. The Reagans
7. Movie, MovieCrash

1. West Side Story
2. Carterland
3. Judas and the Black Messiah
4. Red Rocket
5. tick, tick... BOOM!
6. Bo Burnham: Inside
7. The Suicide Squad
8. Spider-Man: No Way Home
9. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
10. Dune

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

These are just the DreamWorks movies I’ve seen recently enough to rank.

1. Shrek 2
2. Shrek
3. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
4. Kung Fu Panda
5. The Wild Robot
6. Dog Man
7. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

1. The Wolf of Wall Street
2. GoodFellas
3. Taxi Driver
4. The King of Comedy
5. Raging Bull

1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2. Sorry to Bother You
3. Isle of Dogs
4. Beautiful Boy
5. Red
6. Game Night
7. Vice
8. Incredibles 2
9. The Grinch
10. Venom

1. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2. Barbie
3. The Iron Claw
4. Bottoms
5. The Holdovers
6. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
7. Past Lives
8. Oppenheimer
9. Theater Camp
10. The Color Purple

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

1. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
2. Sonic the Hedgehog 3
3. Sonic the Hedgehog

1. BEEF
2. Red Rocket
3. The Iron Claw
4. Past Lives
5. This Place Rules
6. Midsommar
7. Everything Everywhere All at Once
8. Queer

1. Hundreds of Beavers
2. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
3. Nope
4. This Place Rules
5. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
6. Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie
7. The Batman
8. Everything Everywhere All at Once
9. Entergalactic
10. Turning Red

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

Quite possibly my favorite movie genre; in no particular order.

• Swarm
• Inglourious Basterds
• Judas and the Black Messiah
• Sorry to Bother You
• GoodFellas
• Reservoir Dogs
• Pulp Fiction
• The Act
• BEEF
• Get Out

1. Get Out
2. Nathan for You: Finding s
3. Call Me by Your Name
4. Mommy Dead and Dearest
5. Baby Driver
6. The Lego Batman Movie
7. Spider-Man: Homecoming
8. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
9. Coco
10. The Greatest Showman

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

• West Side Story
• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
• tick, tick... BOOM!
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Oklahoma!
• Aladdin
• Into the Woods
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• Little Shop of Horrors
• The Sound of Music

These are the only Tarantino movies I’ve seen.

1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Reservoir Dogs
3. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
6. Jackie Brown
7. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

These are just the TMNT movies I’ve seen recently enough to rank.

1. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
2. Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie
3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
4. TMNT
5. Turtles Forever
6. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: We Wish You a Turtle Christmas

1. Marriage Story
2. El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
3. Shazam!
4. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
5. Midsommar
6. Knives Out
7. The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
8. Spider-Man: Far From Home
9. Guava Island
10. Toy Story 4

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

This is not a ranking of his acting performances, rather a ranking of his movies/shows overall.

1. Swarm
2. Donald Glover: Weirdo
3. Spider-Man: Homecoming
4. Guava Island
5. The Lion King

These are just the Pixar movies I’ve seen recently enough to rank.

1. Toy Story 2
2. Toy Story
3. Monsters, Inc.
4. Soul
5. Turning Red
6. Coco
7. Incredibles 2
8. Onward
9. Toy Story 4

1. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
3. Spider-Man: No Way Home
4. Spider-Man
5. Spider-Man 2
6. Spider-Man: Homecoming
7. Spider-Man: Far From Home
8. The Amazing Spider-Man
9. Spider-Man 3
10. Venom

These are the only Wes Anderson movies I’ve seen.

1. Fantastic Mr. Fox
2. Isle of Dogs
3. Asteroid City

1. Before Sunset
2. Before Sunrise
3. Before Midnight

1. Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
2. Batman: Under the Red Hood
3. Batman Beyond: The Movie
4. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
5. The Lego Batman Movie
6. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2
7. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1
8. The Batman/Superman Movie: World's Finest
9. Batman: Year One
10. Batman: The Killing Joke

1. Toy Story 2
2. Toy Story
3. Toy Story 3
4. Toy Story 4

1. Hamilton
2. Soul
3. Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
4. Sonic the Hedgehog
5. Onward