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Watched on Monday June 9, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday June 4, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 9, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 24, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 24, 2025.

The cat and mouse fight scene in the ice block factory that ends with the bad guy getting shoved into the refrigerant gas compressor-thing and turned into a block of ice is an idea someone competent should steal.

Watched on Tuesday May 27, 2025.

This movie contains some of the most confusing images I’ve ever put into my brain.

Watched on Sunday May 25, 2025.

An excellent film about the predatory nature of psychiatry.

First two acts are perfect. Stops working when it tries to have a plot. Alicia Silverstone Is really a brilliant comedian.

Watched on Friday May 23, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 23, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

This is like Infinite Jest — it feels like the movie’s constantly about to begin and then it ends.

Watched on Sunday May 18, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.

Chris Marker wishes!

Watched on Wednesday May 14, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 8, 2025.

Can’t we let Harvey produce movies from prison? It’s an emergency.

Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 30, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 28, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 26, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

“Activist investor” is one of the funniest I’ve  ever heard. Like “let’s obscure the reality of class relations by commodifying social responsibility!”Capitalist realism af!

Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

Watched on Thursday April 17, 2025.

Watched on Thursday April 17, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 16, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 14, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

I appreciate the craft but it’s a bit too clever for me.

Watched on Wednesday March 19, 2025.

Watched on Monday March 17, 2025.

Oh I get it, it’s about Trump! Very satirical, Mr. Joooon-hoe! I especially liked the part where Mr. Markus Roofilio did basically all the stuff Trump does, but with goofy framing and lots of reaction-shots from characters rolling their eyes to make me feel smart for having the unnuanced political opinion that was fed to me by the mainstream liberal media. 

And Mr. Roberto Pattington, may I say, your Steve Brule impression was on point. I liked how the movie spent its first half carefully establishing the mechanics of the post-death re-printing device all to justify there being two Robertos, at which point that whole re-incarnation element was dropped narratively and thematically, in favor of yer standard gothic Doppelgänger tripe (cf The Substance, for another recent mishandling of trope). 

Oh! I especially liked the part at the end where the morally upstanding love interest portrayed by Ms. Nome Ackeee was somehow democratically elected to lead the space colony filled with Trump ers, because after Trump exploded, it became trivially easy to convince the working class to vote in their own interest.

Anora is still the only good recent movie that accurately confronts the problems of late-stage capitalism because it doesn’t try to do so through allegory. There’s a dishonesty to Mickey 17’s satire — it can’t quite grasp the scope of our modern problem, and so the problem is reframed in it can manage, with variables it can control.

Not that it matters as much as the above points I’ve already voiced, but Mickey is also kinda a Gary Stu. He has no agency in his own story but everyone keeps telling him how important he is, and 3/4ths of the women with speaking roles are absolutely fawning over him (the one exception being the character played by Toni Collette, who always brings her A game and did a good job with the material she was given).

Watched on Saturday March 8, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 2, 2025.

What’s the point of naming the main character of your movie Lily Bloom and making her run a flower shop if you’re going to lampshade that absurdity constantly? Just own it!

Watched on Friday January 24, 2025.

Watched on Thursday January 23, 2025.

Watched on Friday January 17, 2025.

Watched on Thursday January 16, 2025.

Watched on Sunday January 12, 2025.

This was a good year for movies.

• The Beekeeper
• Joker: Folie à Deux
• Anora
• Kinds of Kindness
• Megalopolis

My ranked list of my favorite movies from the year 2022

• Ambulance
• Dual
• Focus
• Alice Goodbody
• Pearl
• She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
• Love Wrecked
• X
• Alex's War

Come back, Amanda! We miss you!

• She's the Man
• Love Wrecked
• Easy A
• Hairspray
• Big Fat Liar
• What a Girl Wants
• Sydney White

I watch a lot of low budget exploitation stuff, mostly because there’s a ton of it on Amazon and it’s easier to sit down and watch something that could potentially be bad than to commit to watching, like, a Kurosawa movie, where I necessarily have to pay attention and get something out of it because it’s considered Cinema. Anyway, occasionally, I’ll watch a film that turns out to be extremely good. This is a list of some of the best random stuff I’ve seen.

• Gas Pump Girls
• Meet Him and Die
• Reflections of Evil
• The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz
• So Sweet... So Perverse
• Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
• Touch of Death
• Don't Torture a Duckling
• The New York Ripper
• Four of the Apocalypse

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz
• Percy
• Meet Him and Die
• They Came to Rob Las Vegas
• Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
• Deadlier Than the Male

  Pynchon fully pulls a scene from this movie in GR

• Percy's Progress
• Lisa and the Devil

Some of my favorite movies in no particular order.

1. Catch Me If You Can
2. Star Wars
3. Lost in Translation
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Serie Noire
6. M*A*S*H
7. Fitzcarraldo
8. s Ha
9. Inglourious Basterds
10. Observe and Report

...plus 57 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I’m also including nun movies since an abbey is sorta like a prison.

1. Chicago
2. The Little Hours
3. Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
4. Freeway
5. The Transgressor
6. Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable
7. Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song
8. Caged Heat

I put basically no thought into this. Also, s Ha is number 16. Alsoer, if Inglourious Bastards came out 7 days later than it did, it would be number 1. 

Postscript: Alsoerer, I didn’t see Hellboy (2019).

1. Guardians of the Galaxy
2. God Help the Girl
3. 20th Century Women
4. Drive
5. Young Adult
6. Pain & Gain
7. Exit Through the Gift Shop
8. The Lobster
9. Under the Silver Lake
10. The Favourite

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

Mainly an excuse to once again show how much I love Catch Me If You Can, and also be contentious by putting 1941 second and Raiders of the Lost Ark last. This list doubles as a Martin McDonough ranked list, too.

• Catch Me If You Can
• 1941
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• In Bruges
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• Seven Psychopaths
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
• Jurassic Park
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

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

• Red Sparrow
• The Favourite
• Destination Wedding
• Mandy

Movies where one of the words is just a letter.

1. M
2. Dial M for Murder
3. F for Fake
4. Easy A
5. Bee Movie
6. V for Vendetta
7. World War Z
8. Letters from Iwo Jima
9. The Scarlet Letter
10. Letter from an Unknown Woman

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

I am not ranking the best Michelle Pfeiffer performances, nor the quality of the films featuring Michelle Pfeiffer. This list is simply for me to keep track of the Michelle Pfeiffer movies I’ve watched. I will add to the list as I watch more Michelle Pfeiffer movies. When I’ve seen every Michelle Pfeiffer movie (which I hope to do some day) I will delete this list, as it will no longer serve any purpose.

• Scarface
• Batman Returns

  I really like the scene where Michelle Pfeiffer goes back to her apartment after falling out a window and starts guzzling milk, symbolizing her transformation into Cat-Woman. If I drank that much milk, I wouldn’t be able to do crazy acrobatics like Michelle Pfeiffer because I’d be too busy having diarrhea. This all just goes to show what an incredible actress Michelle Pfeiffer is.

• Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

  I saw this movie when I was very young and don’t it at all. I think it’s safe to assume Michelle Pfeiffer gave a riveting performance, as always.

• Hairspray
• New Year's Eve

  Michelle Pfeiffer acts opposite Zac Efron in what is definitely the best storyline of this ensemble-driven New Years classic.

• Dark Shadows
• mother!

  I think Darren Aaronosfky could have made a better movie if he cut all the stuff with Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem (which, let’s be honest, was filler anyway) and just filmed the book of Genesis starring Michelle Pfeiffer as Eve, Ed Harris as Adam, and Dolph Lundgren as Snake.

• Murder on the Orient Express
• Ant-Man and the Wasp

  Michelle Pfeiffer is not in Ant-Man and the Wasp that much, and this is very disappointing to me. I wish there were less scenes with Ant-Man and more scenes with Michelle Pfeiffer in the quantum realm.

1. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
2. Batman and Harley Quinn
3. ission
4. Switch
5. Million Dollar Arm
6. Casa Amor: Exclusive for Ladies
7. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
8. Good Luck Chuck
9. Undercover Grandpa
10. Metropolis

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

• The Sorcerer's Apprentice
• Focus
• 22 Jump Street
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• Run All Night
• ission
• Undercover Grandpa

• Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

I might need to revise this list if more Night at the Museum movies come out.

• Night at the Museum
• Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
• Knight and Day
• Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb