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But always Jay, out there in the starlight, someone is cheering you on…your biggest fan. 

So beautiful, so vibrant, so touching and so refreshing. I’ve been craving for a film to make me feel like this again, and leave it to east-asia animation to do so. I just could not get enough—an ethereal and dreamy world. 

Do you like to dance? I know a school where they teach dances.

John Wick is the greatest aura farmer we have ever seen. The first half was about as rock solid as you could get from a spinoff. Im a sucker for club action sequences, and a bigger one for those involving De Armes. I have nothing good to say about the 2nd half, except for the babayaga himself—impeccable on-screen presence. 

Watched on Friday June 6, 2025.

Truth is like poetry. And most people fucking hate poetry.

How does Adam Mckay end up with these casts? He’s actually capable of making a good movie? Who is funding these projects??? 

Only a fool argues for the pride of a dead man. 

It’s hard to explain this other than it feeling like the climax of the action genre as whole. I could watch this 10 times over and still take for granted all the one take hand-to-hand sequences on display. Greatest foreign action film ever, immaculate style. Iko Uwais you are 1 of 1.

Ordinary people under extraordinary pressure, Mike. What the hell do you expect? Grace and consistency?

Beautiful criterion restoration, seeing Mann’s colours pop like this is what we were made for. Corporate corruption—the raging impact of journalism, a lost platform. Seeing Pacino go bonkers with Mann behind the helm is one way to make a drama go from good to great. 

You'll never read another book that hasn't already been written... or see a film that hasn't already been shot.

Surprisingly a ton of heart—which should have been a given with the likes of Cillian & Brendan. Preferred the first half a lot more, but wowzers the soundtrack in the latter. Camcorder recording is such a beautiful product of its time. 

You must know... surely, you must know it was all for you. You are too generous to trifle with me… My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will silence me forever.

Ah, the inimitable feeling of a film projecting similar situations you have experienced. A gorgeous moving painting. Real yearning—real cinema. Created for and loved by the hopeless romantics of the world. 

Watched on Sunday May 25, 2025.

Our lives are not defined by any one action. Our lives are the sum of our choices.

What a bittersweet ride. It always sucks seeing a franchise you love go. Not nearly MI’s best, but it does more than enough for me. Being submerged into that underwater submarine sequence is otherworldly. There is something very Kubrick-2001-esque with how harrowing the soundtrack and how deafening the silence was. The movie is filled with absurd sets and high stakes, final scene amplified. Just incredible work. Certain gripes—this was made as if you had never seen an MI film before, with characters you don’t really care for. Also very evident Rebecca Ferguson presence was missed, she elevated this franchise on every pedestal possible. All that aside, it’s so important to see this on the biggest screen possible. Enjoy the shadows, Mr. Hunt. 

If anything happens to them, there's no place you and your God will be safe. There's no place that I won't go to kill you. That is written

The Venice portion till the uncharted-esque train sequence is still the most batshit crazy stretch this franchise has done. ***** death will bother me forever. 

Fate whispers to the warrior.
A storm is coming.
And the warrior whispers back.
I am the storm.

My oh my. I’ve almost run out of words to describe this at this point. Exhilarating, twisting, visually stunning. Im so happy the franchise peaked as high as this, it truly deserves nothing less. One of the defining action films of the century—maybe even ever—and a staple for films to come. A beautiful, beautiful product of IMAX. Long live physical media. 

We only think we’re fighting for the right side because that’s what we choose to believe. 

Undoubtedly near the top of MI films. Just looks and feels incredible. Tom Cruise challenging death and Rebbeca Ferguson making me bark at the screen…life is always worth living. 

We all have our secrets. Don't we, Ethan?

Im sure Tom Cruise climbing the Burj Khalifa straight into the infamous run out of it with a gigantic sandstorm looming AND entering a car chase scene isn’t the pinnacle of cinema. 

You're on their side, aren't you? So, who will you bet with?

The fourth wall portions were so refreshing, especially from the horror genre. Real bleak and real dark. Also Grant Gustin has to do a DNA test, those face cards are eerily similar. 

A mother doesn’t wake up one morning not loving her son. 

This was one of the more harsh watches I’ve had in a while. So many moments that made me extremely uncomfortable—a very challenging experience on the viewer. But wow. Theres a specific moment at the halfway mark where Dolan just fires on all cylinders from there on out. Maybe the finest use of needle-drops and a soundtrack..ever? Excellent. 

Life is short. I need to make the most of it. Today is the first day of the rest of my life. I'm a walking cliché.

It’s fascinating how much depth is involved in writing a film about your own psychosis all the while diving into a screenplay of a movie adapting a novel. It’s a bit too much, and fever dream feeling at times, but I’m sure that’s how Kaufman wanted it to feel—in trying to get the viewer to grasp the maze that is his mind.

The most stereotypical slasher film ever with an Elon Musk interpretation of Jack Nicholson’s Joker. Hilarious actually.  

Watched on Saturday May 10, 2025.

We're all traveling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride.

I wonder how many memories, moments and feelings the me of the future would die to go through again, only for the me of the now to have the luxury in experiencing. Always getting caught up in the chase of tomorrow that we forget to actually live today. Life is wonderful.  

Watched on Wednesday May 7, 2025.

There's something... wrong with me. An emptiness.

It’s been a while since a MCU film, has you know, felt like an actual movie. Not a sluggish CGI-infested coagulated mess aiming to be something “bigger”—but a movie, with sound writing and sound direction. I’m not going to sit here and say this is phenomenal, but it’s a step in the right direction, and belongs in the upper half of the franchise. Real satisfied with how they did Sentry, and for the first time in half a decade, am looking forward to what they do next. 

You keep dancing with the devil... one day he's gonna follow you home.

Cinema has always been the perfect agglomeration of sound and symbolism to me, embodying what art is and what it truly means. Ryan Coogler just gets it. Using the soul behind black history, the inherent connections they have with the world, and the hardships they faced—all while making it a VAMPIRE film. Not wanting to let go of that which you love, even if it causes you to lose all that you love. Demons arising from our past knowing they aren’t what limit us, rather what fuel us to keep going. Im so grateful I have a 70MM IMAX theatre near me, because this deserves to be experienced on the biggest screen possible. 

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?

If you were to trap 10 year old me in a room and endlessly play Tom Hanks & Bill Murray films—I would leave the room still convinced they are the same human. What a great time this was, checks off all the right boxes. The embodiment of 90’s films. 

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

Thank you for being born 

Kore-eda, I grow more and more fond of your work each day. I’m not sure if there is any director out there—past or present—who understands the ideals of family like you do. I’m on a plane trying to place words into the thoughts this film provoked out of me, but once again, hits right at home. 

Wisdom is holding two contradictory truths in our mind, simultaneously, Hope and despair. A life without despair is a life without hope.

Uncertainty regarding life, uncertainty regarding faith. Stunning, both figuratively and visually. Do our minds deteriorate faster than our bodies do? Or is it all a product of those we are surrounded by. An infiltration of the mind is poison to the body. Magnificent performance, Mr. Hawke. 

Sometimes I wonder if I’ve changed so much is my wife even going to recognize me, whenever it is that I get back to her.

That might very well be the best opening sequence ever put on film—Spielberg at the pinnacle of his work. Raw, unfiltered hopelessness filled with the tiniest beam of heart. I think the film carries a bit too long halfway through, but that ending sequence is just as brutal and incredible. Easily one of the best war films of all time. 

I was never more certain of how far away I was from my goal than when I was standing right beside it.

The themes here are so prevalent. What I expected to be a generic sci-fi film was so much more. Suring beyond the mental and physical limitations society places on us, and who it expects us to be. Maya Hawke being a by-product of this film is hilarious, but also seems so fitting. 

Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

I wish I had seen this growing up, because it would have been something I cherished dearly. The fairy tale of all fairy tales and clearly influential on many films decades later (we are staring at you Shrek). As per usual thank you 80’s practical effects and sets, you are always missed. 

You show me how to control a wild fucking gypsy and I'll show you how to control an unhinged, pig-feeding gangster.

British humour…you’ve finally done it for me. An exhilarating, batshit crazy ride. I’ve always loved films with intertwined timelines—and this one just excels. Hilarious how Ritchie saw Brad Pitt in Fight Club and decided that boy needs an ACCENT. 

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

My dreams are a cruel joke. They taunt me. Even in my dreams I'm an idiot... who knows he's about to wake up to reality. If I could only avoid sleep. But I can't. I try to tell myself what to dream. I try to dream that I am flying. Something free. It never works..

I feel so tempted. I feel so tempted to despair. I'm afraid. The weight of your silence is terrible. I pray, but I'm lost. Or am I just praying to nothing? Nothing. Because you are not there.

The first hour was such a visual feast, wow. Easily Scorsese’s best looking film, all I can do is applaud Prieto. The deconstruction of spirituality, what it means to have faith and the reality of martyrdom—the true definition of a ion project. Any christian, or person of faith even, should find this amongst his best pieces.

Someday, I’d like to show you the starry skies…in that place where we promised to meet. 

You know what Mr. Kon, happiness sucks anyways. Who cares about smiling when a movie is this brutally beautiful. Maybe the most unconventional romance film to exist, chasing love through a faceless ghost while being haunted by the shrouded memories of your own. A lost soul who re her life through nothing but movies. Amazing. 

You don't live with me, you live among the remains of dead people. You sift through the detritus, you read the terrain, you search for signs of ing, for the scent of your prey, and then you hunt them down.

It’s still pretty unfathomable that Heat actually exists. How does Mann consistently show us that in a world succumbed by loneliness, we truly are never alone? The two greatest actors of all time wandering the night sky and being stuck in an endless chase pre-determined by fate. I couldn’t help but sit there staring at the credits once they rolled out—because what else can you really do after experiencing a film like this. Rest in peace Val Kilmer. 

Cinema is not magic. It's a technique and a science. A technique born of science and at the service of a will. The will of the workers to free themselves. 

The calm after the storm that comes with filmmaking. An incredible movie-making, movie. In my extremely humble & unbiased opinion—I think every film should look, feel and sound like this, while simultaneously starring Maggie Cheung. 

Don't worry, I saw Lord of the Rings. I'm not going to end this 17 times.

the good news; im robert downey jr in this film.

the bad news; im robert downey jr in this film.

In a 100 years, when you and I are both long gone, any time someone threads a frame of yours through a sprocket, you will be alive again…A child born in 50 years will stumble across your image flickering on a screen and feel he knows you like a friend, though you breathed your last before he breathed his first. 

So ambitious, chaotic and raw. It’s exhilarating and exhausting from start to finish—and I believe Chazelle fully intended it to be that way. Though I think the pacing in the first half didn’t match the speed to which the film was actually moving, the second half much better fits the tonal aspects I felt it needed, contrary to the norm. An unfiltered roller coaster depiction of Hollywood and an unorthodox love letter to cinema. Will age beautifully as time goes on, Damien just rocks. 

And here's hoping we kill Bigfoot on the way back.

Unicorn cocaine son or Blueberry vape daughter ?

I’ll you as the symbol of love’s forgetfulness. I’ll think of this story as the horror of forgetting. 

Watching this felt like picking up and reading a journal—in late 1950’s Japan—of a couple lost in time. Intimate, poetic and beautiful.

One late autumn night, the disciple awoke crying. The master asked, "Did you have a nightmare?" … "No," said the disciple. "I had a sweet dream." "Then why are you crying so sadly?" The disciple wiped his tears away and quietly answered, "Because the dream I had can't come true."

Kim Jee-Woon & Lee Byung-Hun vengeance stories I will never get enough of you. I just wish the romance was explored much more, hindered its potential immensely.   

Do you
The 21st night of September?

No dialogue but manages to make you feel every emotion possible. Almost comes across like a collection of short stories/films that demonstrate the feelings on hand. Filled with heart and loneliness—and THAT ending….yeah.

I have run out of time. I have lost it all. So I can't work fast enough to catch up. I can't run fast enough to catch up. And the only thing that catches me up is doing my magic act.

Was there any better way to start this than on a gloomy, rainy day? Michael Mann I wish I could live within your blue nights. Unmatchable aesthetics.  

This is the reality. Everything else is nothing but a dream. 

The first half reminded me so much of my childhood. All the best parts that resided in watching older Japanese Godzilla films on the VHS growing up. Truly how my love for Godzilla begun. I do think the second half hinders a lot for me, but that midway point still did more than enough. 

If you do not surrender, may the limbs rot and die. 

You know, I often find myself asking—is this not one of the ten greatest films ever made? It doesn’t take a shaman’s eyes to see the threshold this film exceeds with each ing scene. You’re dropped into an extreme situation, in an unprepared world, and see our characters adopt each other’s philosophies in dreams of obtaining some sort of closure and solace. Encapsulating the pain and suffering of the innocent AND the chills of the killer with that final shot? No words. Forever perfect.

Oh, you bad, now, huh? You bad. You gotta shoot somebody now, huh? Well, here I am. Come on, shoot me. You bad, right?

Raw and wrenching coming of age in the world that is urban, gang ridden, America. A ton of underlying messages and tones in this one, still as powerful then as it is now. Lawrence Fishburne just steals the show. 

Watched on Thursday March 13, 2025.

Sometimes fathers feel despair, like everyone else. And they say things, things they only think they mean in the moment. But with time, they learn that... well, that they never really meant it at all.

Far and away the most innovative rendition of Pinocchio, and dare I say my favourite. Filled with endless amounts of warmth and joy—and a depressing fascist undertone. There is nobody who incorporates War and Fantasy like Del Toro for me. Such a beautifully made film, in and out. 

My 100 favourite films of all time. Ranked in some sort of order but more so tiers per row. Constantly fluctuating.

• Interstellar
• Blade Runner 2049
• Perfect Blue
• Memories of Murder
• The Batman
• Heat
• Dune: Part Two
• Prisoners
• Oppenheimer
• Se7en

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

Steelbooks, Criterions, Collectors Editions and Blu-Rays. See Notes

• La Haine

  Criterion Collection

• Parasite

  Criterion Collection

• High and Low

  Criterion Collection

• Memories of Murder

  Criterion Collection

• Cure

  Criterion Collection

• Seven Samurai

  Criterion Collection

• 12 Angry Men

  Criterion Collection

• Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

  Criterion Collection

• Yi Yi

  Criterion Collection

• Malcolm X

  Criterion Collection

...plus 167 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Movies Ranked From My Favourite Director Ever.

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

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