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Brisbane to Melbourne to Sydney pipeline in full effect

Watched on Friday May 30, 2025.

martin sheen and kirk douglas find themselves timetravelling through lockheed-martin stock footage circa 1980 to answer the ultimate question. Would Tora, Tora, Tora be better with poufy hair?

there’s not really a narrative throughline, but who needs that when you have F-14 Tomcats and lloyd kauffman in control of a United States Navy aircraft carrier.

i want dr west carnally

This movie makes me want to take up smoking. Said ‘hell yeah’ out loud several times.

The first three quarters are so good, then it just…. eugh tropes.

i love this documentary

this rules

i’m waiting for the brazzers version, personally

Kyle Gallner is really great at playing absolute freaks

Watched on Friday February 21, 2025.

Watched on Friday February 21, 2025.

the costume designer should be crucified

they made a softcore adaptation of Succession… and it fucks

this rules

‘Do you know the street value of this mountain!?’

One of my favourite comedies of all time

Modern philosopher unkle pill

I love documentary as a genre and I find the best one’s are able to take a real subject and still touch upon the wide spectrum of emotion that is usually the bread and butter of fictional works. Some documentaries can be very one note but I went from laughing to choked up several times with Dear Kelly. It’s excellent and I highly recommend it!

Watched on Friday January 17, 2025.

Stupid sexy vampires

Chekhovs bazooka

silly hedonists full of whimsy are god’s most oppressed people

just a couple of tender comrades doing normal soldier stuff like committing warcrimes out of lust

but I get it, david bowie is very hot

Bust out the asbestos blankets fellas

I wish XTC kept touring

girlboss

hanging on the telephone really is just that good of a song

i can’t believe my introduction to this was scanner cop, and i also cannot believe i liked scanner cop better

pre-code movies rule
Will H. Hays ruined decades of art

even the movies can’t escape the australian bartender

I love documentaries, but I REALLY love when documentary is used as a framing device to portray what-ifs or fiction. This BBC funded film honestly may sur Threads (1984) in its stark depiction of nuclear war and that mostly comes from the documentary style it uses. It is brutal in its matter-of-fact delivery, and the direct references to the events of Hiroshima and Dresden as the basis for its depiction of what may happen in the aftermath of nuclear war is harrowing.

Double feature with Threads if you want to see how goddamn bleak the British are.

Watched on Tuesday November 12, 2024.

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big fan of vampiric neo-noir

Another entry into one of my favourite types of film: 2 hours of ‘yeah it’s alright’ followed by the final ten minutes becoming pure unadulterated schlocky viscera

Watched on Thursday November 7, 2024.

i love blondes

The times they are a changeling

It really takes a special talent to make Roy Cohn a sympathetic character.

I haven’t stopped thinking about this and probably won’t ever stop thinking about it

Watched on Wednesday September 4, 2024.

This fucken rules

Watched on Thursday August 22, 2024.

Watched on Wednesday August 21, 2024.

Alien3 put british men in space so Alien: Romulus could bring us space roen, and for that I thank it

But it also solidifies the fact I hate 1990s fimmaking :( so much!!!

Aliens. Brought to you by Reebok! *sole not designed for use with acidic blood

Watched on Tuesday August 20, 2024.

TECHNO EMERGENCY

Watched on Sunday August 18, 2024.

the medicine drug was actually the stupid drug. MORE MOUSEBITES!

Watched on Wednesday August 7, 2024.

this movie is just gorgeous

Reality truly is stranger than fiction.

• Harlan County U.S.A.
• The Decline of Western Civilization Part III
• Sarasota Half in Dream
• Dear Kelly
• Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary
• The Decline of Western Civilization
• The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
• Australia Daze

You guys, I’m starting to think this whole nuclear war thing isn’t such a great idea.

• The War Game

  Bleak

• Threads

  Bleak and disgusting and gross and horrifying and really just double feature this with The War Game if you want some existential dread felt by our parents!

• When the Wind Blows

  Jesus Christ the cold war and Maggie Thatcher did a number on the British psyche

• Grave of the Fireflies

  Yeah, this one is one of the only one’s in this list based on non-fictional events. It’s fucking sad. And awful. And mandatory viewing.

• Oppenheimer

  the og

• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

  My favorite Kubrick and one of the best nuke movies, mostly because it’s batshit insane and doesn’t cause an existential crisis.

  
  

  ‘I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed. 15-20 million dead, tops’

• WarGames

  American propaganda. It’s good, but contrast it with all of the other films on this list. ‘Ahhh computers’ computers are not the unpredictable scary variable in nuclear war.

Schlocked and loaded baybee

• Hackers
• Stone
• Scanner Cop
• Repo Man
• Big and Hairy
• Scanners
• Scanner Cop II
• The Dentist 2
• Long Weekend
• Surviving Edged Weapons

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

They got me. The bastards finally did it. I'm SICK!

Recommendations from friends to help me through this trying time. I wish they offered me an egg as well, but a guy can't be too picky.

• The Power of the Dog
• Arizona Dream
• Beats
• Gentlemen Broncos
• Grizzly Man
• Four Rooms
• What We Do in the Shadows
• Black Swan
• Braindead
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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

The 1980s movie protagonist is predominantly working class, fighting against a dystopic corporate class and kicking ass at it. Where the hell did they go?

• They Live

  The quintessential movie on this list. Nada (Roddy Piper) is a construction worker who stumbles into a mass conspiracy of media and government messaging hiding aliens in plain site. The aliens in the film are all upper class/corporate types, which while not exactly subtle, is relevant to the time the movie was made. Plus the 10 minute alley way fight with Keith David is something I could definitely see tradies doing.

• Repo Man

  Ordinary fuckin’ people. I hate ‘em.

• Alien

  The crew of the Nostromo are basically space truckers. Normal people flung into terrifying and extraordinary circumstances.

• Aliens

  Aliens takes the ordinary survivor from the first film and throws them into a commentary on corporate greed.

• Ghostbusters

  Four libertarian ghost exterminators vs The EPA

• RoboCop

  John Murphy vs the entire capitalist hellscape of Detroit