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Watched on Monday June 9, 2025.

Watched on Monday June 9, 2025.

There's powerful stuff in here but I feel that, contrasted with the level of backstory given to misogynistic attitudes and their particular histories, the introduction of Iran's concept of forcible gender reassignment surgery is dropped into a viewer's lap in a really decontextualised way. There's no framework whatsoever given prior and, with its Sundance and Visions du Reél/Sydney Film Fest status it strikes me as irresponsible given the current culture outside Iran where this reads as akin to "transing the children". It's not the prerogative of the filmmakers to cater to every possible audience and I'm aware that I'm perhaps (you think?) oversensitive on this point, but I really think an IRL introduction could have assisted with this.

Watched on Sunday June 8, 2025.

Watched on Saturday June 7, 2025.

Watched on Saturday June 7, 2025.

God I love it when a guy just fucking SUCKS

Watched on Wednesday June 4, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday June 4, 2025.

Not fucken bad actually

Kicking my feet under the seats as I watch this nasty little tale unfold again. The first solo viewing experience was one of exquisite tension, second watch is just side-eyeing people around me in the cinema to watch their reactions: the more people who look slightly stricken with a hand over their mouth, the better the movie.

Intimate, uncategorisable, as delicate as a bird bone and sharp as a knife. The things Angelidi does with sound design in The Hours aren't as overtly audience-hostile as in Topos and the occasional step outside gives a reprieve from the oppressive interior world, so despite the strong subject matter I feel like this is actually a perfect place to start with her work.

Just as good the third time, if not better

Lot of talk lately about "evil cinema" not enough respect given to the OG reactionary vigilante fantasy fodder of Death Wish. Are they cooked? Will you see people have horrible things done to them and then be referred to in the credits as "Rape Victim"? Yes, but you will also see a guy on fire jump off a three story building that is also on fire, and have it be treated as a background stunt. Exploitation cinema is what it is, I can't fault anyone for not being down with it but by god they get the people going.

The movie that, aside from Revenge of the Nerds III, I may have watched the most times in my entire life. Absolutely god awful, part of my brain now

They should have given Turner a god damn Academy Award for this one

Watched on Monday May 5, 2025.

A jewel in the late+career Jess body of work, the kind of thing I was always promised by banned VHS box art as a child but almost never actually managed to find. Rubbery gore that somehow still manages to work its way into the brain with startling, searing images. An extra star for that ending *mwa*

Watched on Monday May 5, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 5, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

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Watched on Saturday April 26, 2025.

Watched on Thursday April 24, 2025.

Wolfman, mummy, Marquis de Sade, the gang's all here. Really big fan of how the cool young people in this are aware of (and enthusiastic about) the prospect of a new "waxworks" opening in their neighbourhood. I have a real soft spot for this mode of affectionate riffing on classic horror, especially how they end up in a weird zone of incredibly juvenile but also inappropriate for children.

NB: Apparently the key, best boy, dolly and grip on this are called Crash, Flash, Lash and Dash.

here we go again, it's still incredibly gay and I love it. Is it a good movie, no. Does it do what it needs to do? Well

It's still gay as hell BUT THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT GOOD but it does make it gay

We gotta get these computers checked out!

It's been so long I completely forgot about the Rammstein lmao. Absolutely gorgeous, shame about everything else but what a wonderful chilly early 00s palette. Needed a lot more Jeffrey Combs

"how bad can a tōru murakawa movie really be" pretty god damn bad it turns out, yeesh what a waste of cool tough guy character actors. Watchable if you pretend it's old man yaoi

The cunnilingus should have been longer and more explicit, my only critique

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

It's better than Airplane, it is better than the Naked Gun

I said "I hope it's good, I loved Stranger by the Lake and I'm really into evil horny gay cinema."

"Well," said the person who sent me the screener, "It's not that gay," leaving me to wonder whether they're straight or simply gay on a level beyond my consciousness.

Watched on Sunday April 13, 2025.

one of the cruelest movies I've seen in the last couple of years, if you like it fuck you

Watched on Tuesday April 8, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 7, 2025.

When I die I want to be left on a highway median strip in a black garbage bag, with a Samsung Galaxy in a glass nearby playing the Stargate main theme until the battery runs down

Watched on Monday March 31, 2025.

Ok but this time for SURE babe

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Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.

The last act is always a very slight letdown, only because it comes after the chartres cathedral moment that makes me hold my breath. God I'm sick with jealousy of this film, SICK

commodity and transaction top to bottom and side to side. It may seem incredible now, but in the 90s many did consider the kind of Café del Mar/William Orbit balearic beat they play nonstop in Club Exotica sexy, no explanation for the leonard cohen though

I just really love an allegorical folk horror with a bunch of people going existential bonkers in the woods, while a funky little score plays

So-so Crazies elevated by the presence of Kennedy until the John Ford Western aspirations kick in with jaw dropping helicopter stunts, what in the world

perfecly paced trash short with energy and verve, exactly what I wanna see when I sit in a sweaty warehouse

Movies about class anxiety, horniness and the idle rich to watch instead of Saltburn (2023)

• Theorem
• The Draughtsman's Contract
• The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
• The Servant
• Maurice
• The Go-Between
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
• La Grande Bouffe
• The Age of Innocence
• Great Expectations

...plus 19 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Body at Brighton Rock
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
• Till Death
• Weekend at Bernie's
• Weekend at Bernie's II
• Rough Night
• Diabolique
• Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
• Stand by Me
• Saw

...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Addiction
• The Velvet Vampire
• Fascination
• Shadow of the Vampire
• Nosferatu the Vampyre
• Vampyros Lesbos
• Alucarda
• Martin
• Rabid
• The Hunger

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

- You're not into kinky shit, are you, Angelo?
- Not yet.

• Point Break
• Beau Travail
• American Psycho
• Mikey and Nicky

Cities and skylines and trying to live in them

• Oxhide
• Disorder
• London
• Electric Signs
• The Lovely Month of May
• Street Life
• The Slow Business of Going
• Homo Sapiens
• Millennium Mambo
• Work in Progress

...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf
• Ganja & Hess
• The Long Walk

"Indeed, it is tempting to think of Schrader and Scorsese's floating yellow taxicab (...) and Spielberg's floating yellow spacecraft (...) as the two most resonant emblems of the decade. They represent the extremes of menace and magic that were Hollywood's chief box-office assets during the turbulent 1970s" (Sinyard, "Guilty Pleasures: The Films of Paul Schrader", 1982)
NB: Luigi from Cars 1-3 does NOT count

• Taxi Driver
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Yellow Submarine
• The Great Gatsby
• The Great Gatsby
• Malcolm
• The Fast and the Furious
• Safety Not Guaranteed
• American Graffiti
• Death Proof

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

• Talking Head
• Brand Upon the Brain!
• Taiwan Night Market
• Foxfur
• Dandy Dust
• Finished
• Level Five
• The Flying Luna Clipper
• We're All Going to the World's Fair
• After Blue (Dirty Paradise)

...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Black Cat
• Satanis: The Devil's Mass
• The Great Satan
• Mausoleum
• Witchfinder General
• The Blood on Satan's Claw
• The Devil's Rain
• The Blood of Jesus
• Alucarda
• Bloody Sect

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

• The Lair of the White Worm
• Hagazussa
• The Wicker Man
• Witchfinder General
• A Field in England
• Penda's Fen
• The Blood on Satan's Claw
• Whistle and I'll Come to You
• A Warning to the Curious
• Lost Hearts

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

• Electric Dragon 80.000 V
• 964 Pinocchio
• Biotherapy
• The Flying Luna Clipper
• Gacha Gacha
• Rubber's Lover
• Tokyo Olympiad
• A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
• Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
• The Calamari Wrestler

...plus 51 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Cannibal Apocalypse
• The Blob
• 99 Women
• Alison's Birthday
• The Astro-Zombies
• Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
• Bad Boy Bubby
• Beyond Re-Animator
• Re-Animator
• Bride of Re-Animator

...plus 124 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• The Red Spectre
• The Dying Swan

• The Head
• The Man Without a Body
• The Brain That Wouldn't Die
• The Thing with Two Heads
• Donovan's Brain

• The Slumber Party Massacre
• Slumber Party Massacre II
• Man
• Funeral Parade of Roses
• Scary Tales
• The Tingler