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Watched on Thursday May 29, 2025.

Was this really almost two years ago? Where does time go? As time goes on, and the theaters and streaming services fill up with slop, a filmmaker and franchise that values the cinematic experience holds up even better, even on a small phone screen while I'm working. I didn't get to rewatch 3-6 before I go see 8 tonight, but them's the breaks.

Watched on Sunday May 25, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 24, 2025.

Perhaps because I’m afflicted with shingles at the moment, I found myself with much less patience for how boring and goofy this movie is, such a stark contrast with the first. Outside of less than ten minutes of stylistic action, this is a bad movie. Definitely the worst of the series, objectively. At least 3 has Hoffman going for it.

Quaint. Erotic. Small scale in a way the layer films aren’t. Ethan Hunt is still a character rather than a trope unto himself, even though that’s why we love him.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 15, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

I love this movie, but it's honestly sad how incompetent of a director and writer George Lucas is. What could have been...

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 9, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 5, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 30, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.

You don’t want the money?

Watched on Saturday March 15, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 15, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 9, 2025.

Megastructures. Synthetic life. The stargate sequence from 2001: A Spave Odyssey. Vegeta. It’s all here.

What a specific experience watching this was. Visuals looked great, and it seemed like it was a film scan, because I swear I saw a cigarette burn at one point. The audio didn’t feel remastered, and it was subtitled so no Deftones, but this felt like what watching a bootleg VHS in the 90s on a Saturday night must have felt like.

Watched on Saturday March 8, 2025.

The first time Timmy starts g in this movie I almost burst into tears.

Watched on Saturday March 1, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 1, 2025.

Watched on Saturday February 22, 2025.

Watched on Friday February 21, 2025.

Watched on Monday February 17, 2025.

Watched on Sunday February 16, 2025.

Who are you?

This made me feel physically sick lol

Watched on Sunday February 2, 2025.

Watched on Sunday February 2, 2025.

Watched on Saturday February 1, 2025.

Watched on Saturday January 25, 2025.

Watched on Monday January 20, 2025.

Watched on Monday January 20, 2025.

Watched on Monday January 20, 2025.

Watched on Saturday January 18, 2025.

Well, nobody’s perfect.

Watched on Saturday January 11, 2025.

Watched on Saturday January 4, 2025.

Watched on Saturday January 4, 2025.

Watched on Saturday January 4, 2025.

Jack Lemmon

Watched on Wednesday January 1, 2025.

Ringing in the 2025 with my good buddy, the Lisan al Gaib.

Watched on Monday December 30, 2024.

We’ve been singing since before we wrote the words down

Watched on Saturday December 28, 2024.

I started this list thinking my rankings would change, and although the ratings have changed, the rankings so far have stayed the same.

1. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
2. Mission: Impossible
3. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
4. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
5. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
6. Mission: Impossible III
7. Mission: Impossible II

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars
3. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
4. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
5. Return of the Jedi
6. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
7. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
8. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
9. Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
10. Solo: A Star Wars Story

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

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. Seven Samurai
3. Barry Lyndon
4. Singin' in the Rain
5. There Will Be Blood
6. Amadeus
7. Mad Max: Fury Road
8. Inside Llewyn Davis
9. Godzilla
10. 2001: A Space Odyssey

...plus 96 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. GoodFellas
2. The Wolf of Wall Street
3. Taxi Driver
4. The Irishman
5. Killers of the Flower Moon
6. After Hours
7. The Departed
8. Mean Streets
9. The Aviator
10. Silence

...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Still missing a few.

1. No Country for Old Men
2. Inside Llewyn Davis
3. Barton Fink
4. Fargo
5. Raising Arizona
6. The Big Lebowski
7. Miller's Crossing
8. Hail, Caesar!
9. Blood Simple
10. The Tragedy of Macbeth

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

1. Godzilla Minus One
2. Godzilla
3. Shin Godzilla
4. Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
5. Terror of Mechagodzilla
6. Godzilla vs. Biollante
7. Mothra vs. Godzilla
8. The Return of Godzilla
9. Mothra
10. Godzilla: Final Wars

...plus 43 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Oppenheimer
2. Poor Things
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
4. Godzilla Minus One
5. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
6. The Holdovers
7. Asteroid City
8. Anatomy of a Fall
9. May December
10. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

From June 2019 to July 2023, I watched as many Godzilla/Ishiro Honda/related kaiju films as I could. Most of these I finished very early in the pandemic, but I finally just got around to watching Shin Godzilla.

• Godzilla
• King Kong
• The Son of Kong
• Godzilla Raids Again
• Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
• Rodan
• The Mysterians
• Varan
• Battle in Outer Space
• Mothra

...plus 43 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Zodiac
2. The Social Network
3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
4. Gone Girl
5. Fight Club
6. The Killer
7. Se7en
8. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
9. Mank
10. Panic Room

It’s fitting that the first director I finish reviewing and ranking on Letterboxd is Tarantino’s. He was the first director in my life that showed me what heights cinema can aspire to when a person with a vision takes the helm. These were tough choices, as even those at the bottom of the list are movies I’d watch just about every week.

1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
3. Jackie Brown
4. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
7. Django Unchained
8. Death Proof
9. The Hateful Eight
10. Reservoir Dogs

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Boogie Nights
3. The Master
4. Phantom Thread
5. Licorice Pizza
6. Punch-Drunk Love
7. Magnolia
8. Inherent Vice
9. Hard Eight

That Top 3 is a really tough call.

1. Barry Lyndon
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. Eyes Wide Shut
5. The Shining
6. Paths of Glory
7. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
8. Full Metal Jacket
9. The Killing
10. Lolita

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

I still have to watch Assault on Precinct 13 but I doubt I watch the others.

1. The Thing
2. Prince of Darkness
3. In the Mouth of Madness
4. Halloween
5. Christine
6. They Live
7. Big Trouble in Little China
8. Escape from New York
9. The Fog
10. Dark Star

I’ve still got two left plus a random documentary, but here it goes!

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. Doctor Zhivago
3. The Bridge on the River Kwai
4. Brief Encounter
5. Hobson's Choice
6. A age to India
7. Summertime
8. This Happy Breed
9. In Which We Serve
10. Great Expectations

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

I'm not sure why I see all of these movies, or what the point is in ranking them, but I guess it's mildly amusing.

1. Iron Man
2. The Avengers
3. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
4. Avengers: Endgame
5. Guardians of the Galaxy
6. Avengers: Infinity War
7. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
8. Spider-Man: Homecoming
9. Iron Man 3
10. Spider-Man: No Way Home

...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I barely saw anything that came out last year, especially compared to 2018, and my top four entries are basically interchangeable.

1. The Irishman
2. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
3. Parasite
4. Little Women
5. Uncut Gems
6. Knives Out
7. Marriage Story
8. Us
9. The Farewell
10. Toy Story 4

...plus 12 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This is a marathon I technically started in May 2018 when I finally watched "Drunken Angel" after a decade of owning the Criterion DVD. I picked it back up again in the fall, and then again the Spring/Summer of 2019. The idea is to watch Kurosawa's entire filmography in order and build a ranked list as I progress. There's a few on here I will re-watch when I come to them, mostly because I want the narrative of seeing them in context of when they were made, i.e. to watch Kurosawa's growth as a director.

1. Yojimbo
2. Drunken Angel
3. Sanjuro
4. One Wonderful Sunday
5. Sanshiro Sugata
6. No Regrets for Our Youth
7. The Most Beautiful
8. Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
9. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
10. Those Who Make Tomorrow

Perhaps the most current year releases I’ve ever managed to see. There’s really no productive purpose in ranking such a diverse group of films, but this app lets you do it, and I’ve never done it.

1. The Favourite
2. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
3. Annihilation
4. Roma
5. If Beale Street Could Talk
6. BlacKkKlansman
7. Sorry to Bother You
8. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
9. A Star Is Born
10. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Attempting the impossible by cheating and starting in September.

• The Thing from Another World

  FilmStruck

• Hereditary

  Redbox

• Vampyr

  FilmStruck

• Night of the Living Dead

  FilmStruck

• Night of the Living Dead

  DVD

• Dawn of the Dead

  DVD

• Day of the Dead

  Blu-ray

• 28 Days Later

  Blu-ray

• The Evil Dead

  DVD

• Evil Dead II

  DVD

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

Don’t disrespect John Woo, especially his contribution to one of the longest-running action franchises that’s actually still entertaining and interested in exploring and innovating in the genre.

1. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
2. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
3. Mission: Impossible
4. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
5. Mission: Impossible III
6. Mission: Impossible II