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Some might say the land is cold (especially in winter), but when the romance heats up and gets warm, it thaws out some. When the union gets going though, oh boy, that's where it gets steamy. Nothing revs my engine like a boy finding his ... union rep. Yeah. Work that representation. Get it boy. This was pretty.

What if Bring it On met Black Swan but they kiss? Fun fun fun. Get it girls.

the girls.

It's a very real complication, the constant push pull between an individual and society. The social contract we all sign indelibly ties us to one another. Finding a way to be together and be yourself is a battle. Add in culture, tradition, and it only gets even more complicated. This short is perfect and brilliant. You want more but it gives you just enough.

Michael Moore only wished his protests looked this good. An interesting look at queer culture and legality as only a drag queen performance artist outlaw on skates can provide. Sharp. Says more about Russia than our current istration does.

In lieu of a eulogy, please have someone I respect spend two hours giving a film lecture as solid as this about me instead.

The writer director has made good films before. I'm not sure what happened here. It felt more rambling and incoherent than I expected given some of the prior works, to the point that I thought maybe I had written it. Just kidding, I wouldn't have filmed Jacob Elordi so ... upright. This isn't a bad film. It might even be an interesting film eventually. But it needed a sharper script to bring it into focus, and a better editor to trim it down to a message. This just didn't work for me despite my excitement for Jacob Elordi and the premise.

I'm taking a ride with my best friend. Also a puppy. Daddies, hug your puppers tonight. A cute peak into a world few of us know, yet we do all know it already.

Oh sinner man... where you gonna run to? Langley or Wall Street? While this is a great story of Jazz and decolonization, it also showcases some of the failures of the CIA et Al. In an attempt to maintain the status quo, governments have done less than savory things. Truthfully, corporations are just as negligent. Nestle managed to make the fair trade rules for chocolate a joke. It's only a matter of time before we get to enjoy the pop bops of today as we learn about whatever horrible Coup some tech giant oligarch orchestrated. Fun times and great songs. your local democracy and all the sunlight in the world instead of demagogues and whatever flavor of autocratic rulers.

Today on why we can't have nice things...

I wasn't around for these Olympic games, but I was around for the Atlanta 96 ones. The security was stupid then thanks to the events we see unfold in this. It only got worse after that park bombing. Airport security was a hassle once upon a time but then 911 happened. Now we have to take our shoes off because one time that guy wanted to turn his shoe into a bomb. That quote about slowly then suddenly springs to mind as I think about the question of how we got to here. There's now a couple of films about the events of the Munich Games. Feel free to pick the one that speaks to you best. I don't think any of the dramatizations tackle it head on as they maybe should. Most like to pretend it occurred out of the blue with no history stoking the provocation. This is neat because of how nascent it is told. The effusive excitement of a new technology and the related potential bleeds through to the story told. Part of what makes this film work as well as it does is because we know everything that springs from this event: the OJ Trial coverage, court TV, people using Twitter in real time to misidentify the culprits behind whatever event is happening, This captured that frenzied uncertainty and even caught some of the palpable discomfort. I'm not sold on all the choices but I am willing to rewatch this which says everything.

I sometimes wonder what labor advocates would have to say about today. Not just the big names like Chavez, Marx, Huerta, etc, but the lessor known names too like Cruikshank et Al,. In truth, we already know what they would say. Despite the GDP increasing, our own personal wealth is not. Oligarchs not only are the richest they have ever been, but the ratio between them and us is also at an all time high. Worse still, everything is increasingly concentrating into fewer hands which are using that concentration to rewrite the rules in their favor. My friend lost his small business not because he couldn't make it as a businessman, but because he couldn't make it as a business competing against a billionaire who got the rules rewritten in his favor and the board tilted for him. Worse still, they've convinced us that trickle down, despite not happening in the past forty years is totally going to happen. People keep spouting their talking points for them. They drank the Kool aid and they didn't even get a crumb of the pie for it.

This film isn't exactly as anti-capitalism as all those words above are, but while watching this, my mind did wander to those topics and thoughts. We see in this women's tales being told in India, which are just as minimized as any other minority out there. Since so much of that is labor related, it makes sense that the film would highlight that and that a film with the languid pauses that this has would give me space to ponder those big topics that I am. the worker and their rights. Maybe for lent this year, we can give up billionaires. Just kidding, didn't you see how the oligarchs got better places at the president's inauguration than the actual people or government he supposedly works for? Sorry ladies, you're just going to have to keep imagining that light for a few more years I guess.

A man and his beard in a cabin. What a fun time for someone. This is perhaps the best film usage of "Nights in White Satin" though. The direction is fine, but the writing felt ive. Just a smattering of retreads without any new elucidation.

For the record, If I have to put up with Julianne Moore to get seduced by Nicholas Galitzine, so be it. Her evil antics here at her worst were still nothing compared to some of my exes' parents. Anyway, this was decent, if slightly uneven. It excels at the royal bedlam and thirsting. Someone knew how to make us thirsty for queer royals but pacing and dialogue needed a bit more of the livery we got in costumes. It was enjoyable and not just because we got to see nearly all the bits of some very good looking men.

This was stunning and gorgeous. I won't begin to understand the intricacies this is discussing given how I in fact don't have hair. I will say when a friend moved to town a billion years ago, he struggled to find someone skilled to work with his hair. Plenty of barbers but none familiar with his particular needs. When he found a capable barber, he was so damn glad to let his hair down as it were. So I get it in an associative way. Regardless, this film is so well woven that you don't need a personal connection to the topic to understand or appreciate it. I will say that I have a tiny quibble: that was the wrong flag. Which was odd because like three minutes earlier, they had the right flag. But other than that, this just made me wish I had the hair needed for her to work her magic on me personally.

I don't actually have an issue with things being watered down or written so that they are age appropriate. This film wasn't for me, and that's ok. I found it to be a little too softened and safe but I'm sure for the targeted audience it's fine. I was hoping for more from Helen Mirren but I always am, and airbrushed twink was just way too vapid for my expectations. It does ok, it just wasn't for me.

Watching this with the news in the backdrop makes this awkward. The Holocaust specifically and Antisemitism generally are horrible. Given how often I find reason to say punch Nazis here (for good reason), I think we know which side of the fascist and antisemitic arguments I'm on without another diatribe here, regardless of who we're talking about specifically. So I'll just say, what the world needs now is love and peace. And fewer people spouting Nazi rhetoric or behavior.

There's a scene early into the film where one man says to the other "do I know you?" The second man replies "You do now" after the quickest of eye flicks. It's the briefest of moments in an otherwise bland racist sexist weird western (I mean a more racist, more sexist, weirder than usual western) that could almost be construed as a queer coded cruising moment. Despite having baby faced Twink Rock Hudson playing cowboy dress up, and a horribly miscast Jimmy Stewart trying to sound as rugged as any John Ford cowboy lead would, this is neither gay nor campy in any sense. What's around the river bend? Hopefully something better than this, Pocahontas.

I don't like Truffles. But these old men... May I be this wild and zany in my older ages. Preferably the unabomber ranting one most of all. This was an adorable romp even if I don't like truffles. I now want to go be a silly hunter in the woods. Slap a go pro on my puppy and let's go play in the dirt.

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Did he... did he do it? Did Tom Cruise save cinema? I was ittedly harsh on the last film in this series. I rewatched the films in this franchise to get it all fresh in my head before this. I clearly didn't need to do that since the first half of the film is a dedicated recap (how hard is it to say "previously on MI: Ethan Hunt and the team must kill off the nefarious AI"). The first film is a perfect bit of action cinema. The second is a product placement laden John Woo'd sequel. Three is where my gripes really start. It's a little less a team doing the impossible and a little more Ethan Hunt and friends. Four becomes a bit more Stunts by Ethan™. It introduces an expert out but Ethan gonna Ethan. Five and Six increasingly are Mission: Impossible Stunts by Ethan™ (with friends appearing). By the time we get to the Reckoning Part One, it is as I said: "It used to be a team of some measure, not just a one man super spy." I see this one is more of the same with more focus on Ethan than anything else. The stunts are done well enough too although we yet again seem to be stacking stunt upon stunt upon stunt rather than adding layers to the script. As I said in AI Bad the beginning, they changed the name to distance themselves even if the script did not change much, leaving the plot post recap is more or less as promised: CLAW is really just an AI after Ethan (did he ghost it or something on the Apps™?).

This is a solid film. It is. For Tom Cruise at least. it's laden with references and tropes from a black guy being among the first to die to the radar question in one being answered finally. It's a swan song. The ultimate farewell. A nice recap that ends this run for realsies. Or so I would like to think. But I thought we could've stopped at one, or three, or even four. I know the franchise will continue but I'm hoping Tom takes the out this time. Those callbacks to one (and even later films) shows just how much he has aged. No CGI is gonna de-age him back into shape or talent.

I don't care if the next time is run by Pegg or Renner or another fresh new face we haven't seen yet. What I do care about is that this gets back to the premise of the franchise: a team doing the impossible together whether that's defusing a bomb or hacking a computer by incredibly sexy means. The IMF didn't chase paperwork and approvals. It wasn't chockablock full of American flags either. They weren't chasing presidential approvals or even acknowledging the CIA. The message self destructed in seconds after reading and nobody ever itted it happened. Get back to what made the IMF actually interesting which is this but with more teamwork and less grandstanding performative stunts.

I still want to see Angela Bassett's character on her adventures as CIA Director or President. A Black Bad Ass Bitch in a post anti-DEI world? Sign me the fuck up. Outside of this franchise, I want to see Hannah Waddingham and the Naval fleet in some sort of sea battle game of cat and mouse. Tramell Tillman in a cold war era or even something with China sub battle? Yes please. Greg Tarzan Davis got underplayed in this final edit whereas Nick Offerman got far too much a screen credit for his bit. I could keep going given how bloated it was. Overall, this misguided finale covered the space it needed to with where it was pigeonholed. Hopefully Tom Cruise lets it be the end for him with the franchise able to grow and be reborn yet again. Quite enjoyable but it is still a twelve hour epic to say goodbye that we didn't need. Well made but needless is still needless.

It's impossible not to compare this film against the MCU films that came before it. In part because it is the ... 36th feature film give or take eight. It also happens to be the ... tenth featuring Sebastian Stan. He has evolved significantly both personally and his character over the course of those films. I don't care much for the tentpole film. It tends to water down the sharp edges that make films interesting as a proffer for greater appeasement. I'm not sure they have typically succeeded by becoming more generic. They have however managed to persist. This one is a decent balance of comedy and callbacks, making a film out of the scraps that fill most of the pages in comics. Sure we know the marquee names, but anyone who has read the other 80000 titles know who these characters are. They fill the pages. This does nicely to fit into that niche, which probably doesn't do well to fit into what people expect for a tentpole. The mental health PSAs are nice too but again, probably not what the masses want (even if it is what they need). A fun mess, with some pretty eye candy and Veep references along the way.

Watching this is a bit like seeing an outsider describe someone else's culture while well meaning but ill informed. Or maybe more aptly when someone is trying to tell a story but they are five bottles of nog into the night. Oh I hope that himbo gets a boyfriend. I live in a culture that doesn't understand the merits of a nativity but really the only thing I think this franchise has needed is more Acid and an Octopus. I have a long list of people I think should be in the next iteration of this series from John Barrowman, Jack Whitehall (and his dad), Jimmy Carr, James Acaster, Eddie Izzard, Richard Ayoade to Jodie Whittaker, Ncuti Gatwa, Emma Thompson, Norman Cook, and Ewan McGregor. Basically anyone who is Jack Whitehall or was in Doctor Who, QI, or the Big Fat Quiz of the Year.

I am a film snob. Just kidding. This is cinema. Middle Aged Josh Hartnett cosplaying as a hungover twink post orgy (the dye job, the formfitting pink shirt... we all love it so don't lie). Is it stupid? Yes it is. I'm not a fan of the title, which is generic and forgettable. I wish it was something crazier like Snakes on a plane. Is Assassins on a Plane too much? Smokin Aces: Unfriendly Skies also doesn't work but this film does. The bad plot points were terrible but the film was bad enough to distract me. When can we expect a sequel and will Twink Hartlet keep us throbbing and excited with it? And Katee Sackhoff as the bad guy? Sign me up for more of that please. Would love to see her and Kate McKinnon in some sort of Face/Off or other pairing. I'll just take more in whatever form I can get though. Good vibes all around.

In the list of dumb horror, this is pretty forgettable. Pretty boys and girls doing stupid things to propel and move the scary thump thump elements along. Split up? Obviously. Not communicate? Naturally. Go into the scary crypt? Sounds legit. Is that howling and screaming I hear? Let me check it out and not tell anyone else. In of video game adaptions, this isn't the worst. It hits the right spots of the game even though it can't be nearly as faithful as some would demand. It is stupid. So stupid. Which is exactly what we want. Despite the eye candy here, I think I'll stick with the replay of the games instead.

What happens when someone doesn't realize school has let out for the summer? The Girl Scout Troop invade for Pancakes and Barbie. Honestly, not the worst way to spend a Monday morning. Not the impromptu movie party I intended this morning but not the worst.

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I actually watched this twice this round. Once as god intended: in the original amazing format and once as man intended: AI downscaling.

The AI is ... fine. Distracting and not the improvement everyone thinks it is. This is less the improvement we got when we shifted from VHS to DVD and more the sharper contrasts and jarring details we got moving from DVD to HD/4K/Ultra/Whatever. I'll stick to the classic and not just out of allegiance to nostalgia for the version I've watched several times, but because you're not really gaining or losing something regardless of which version you pick.

The "refurbishment" of the rerelease aside (I did deduct points for it though), this holds up still as a masterpiece. There's something in this that is in the vein and spirit of older classics (Fantastic Planet springs to mind) with how adult and nontraditional it is yet the film is refined with a more modern animation style (Gundum Wing, Macross Plus, et al spring to mind).

The story of how Daft Punk came into being is a wild ride, and this piece of art is similarly just as fantastical. A perfect pairing honestly. This is a breathtaking piece of art. I kind of want more but then I'm a big fan of Daft Punk, their genre of music, animation, and sexy sexy aliens being reprogrammed to think they're humans. I don't think we'd Get Lucky twice, so let's just celebrate being Alive with this Discovery. If they come back together though for another film (sequel or otherwise), even just One More Time, then I hope they hit it Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. Until then, I guess we'll just hide in the Outlands some more with Rinzler.

I know several people growing up that for whatever reason and time ended up outside the traditional housing situations we expect in our culture. Most of them because they came out as LGBTQ. Christian charity, amirite? Some though were just good old fashioned poverty. A lot of them worked hard to mask that reality, to hide that they were living on the streets or in their cars. This film could have been about them and their struggles, especially those that were thrust into the scenario alone as kids. This was a gorgeous glance at that cruel reality but mostly in how easy it is for all of us to turn that blind eye ignoring the truth we all see. This has an interesting narrative structure which only adds to artistry. Mostly, it's a stunning reminder of how close so many of us are to the drain. I loved this for the simplicity, the stark naked rawness.

The real reason we put Tariffs on the country of Mattel was to stop their propaganda from revealing the truth of class structure to our children. Unite children! Tear down these artificial walls. I've often made Ken is gay jokes, but I see now that Barbie also needs her own LGBT happily ever after as well. Get it you butch femme queen you. Happy pride indeed.

My childhood education was a mix of independent research and historical propaganda. Manifest Destiny was presented in class and some of the books I read even as nothing but noble well meaning intentions. The land being "claimed" was defined as "wild" and "uninhabited" with nothing and nobody here. Never mind the native indigenous people who lived there either by choice or force. Or the outsiders removed from society including Hispanic, tejano, Mexican, black, and gay cowboys. This documentary is a rather decent one albeit nothing extraordinary. It's a basic, gentle, introductory documentary. This hardly goes anywhere fanciful. Yet, that's exactly why this is so critically needed at this time. We aren't talking about what is happening there, much like what we did with Manifest Destiny. It's a modern Apartheid happening right in front of us and we certainly aren't giving it the attention it deserves. Instead, we are aggressively pushing to silence anyone not toeing the acceptable line which sadly includes this documentary. It doesn't go into any depth of detail, but I suppose when you don't want anyone to know that you're bulldozing buildings inconveniently in your way, evicting people in the process, arresting anyone who disagrees, and occasionally killing innocent children in the process, even the initial layer of documentary is extra scary. I'd almost say this got the Streisand effect but if that's what happened, it works out well because we really should be talking about this kind of conflict in greater depth and honesty than we have.

The border issue is so much more complex than just who is invited in and who isn't. This effortless slices through the layers and perspectives to create the tangled mess say something without that typical Hollywood way of minimizing everything except the one or two bullet points worth discussing. We follow the overlapping arcs, the conflicts, the struggle, the white knight saviors, the military nonsense, the racism, the geopolitical attacks. This does well to highlight all the right notes, even as it more or less ends precisely where it began with nothing resolved. After tromping about in the woods, we all are left wanting more. We probably should talk about what causes these issues, which might've best been described in Spy Game when they point out the bombs and guns all come from those western "powers" fueling the conflict. Until then, I guess we'll keep having this issue.

I kept going back and forth on this one. Was the movie title a reference to the architecture style or a character in this film? If it is a character, which one? Was the Brutalist brutal because of his exacting standards nobody could attain or brutal for the emotional cruelty? Where I landed, shifted who I thought we were talking about. I certainly found everyone at times brutal and sitting through all 12 hours felt... (ok, it wasn't quite that bad). I don't know that this is "best picture" material for me. Oscar bait sure. The leads are... storied yes. I enjoyed this but I'm only watching this because it is awards material according to the nominations and I guess the real Brutalist is whomever thought that. I have questions about everyone's marriage in this and I truly want a scene or three more to really explain that side story arc. Overall this is fine, with pretty cinematography but it left me with a "meh" feeling instead of any sense of wonder at the massive building being built.

I like that what makes a nation is a constant conversation that is ever evolving and shifting with the language and concepts moving just as much what is or isn't included. I grew up with the expression "melting pot" being uttered as opposed to today's "multi-culturalism" or the fading "pluralism" of before. When my first family arrived, I can't say they were welcomed by this nation either. It seems to be a rite of age that you proudly say "I'm a [blank]-american" to acknowledge where your family came from before ing this nation while tying yourself to it; double bonus points are awarded if you simultaneously say something stupid like "came the right way" (whatever that means) or "#deporthemall" (which I always read as deport the mall) or "you need to fit in if you're coming to this country" (again, WTH?) or "you need to have papers" or any of the other stupid bad ideas people utter to define this nation in an exclusionary way. I'm pretty sure that mostly what makes a nation is a group of people who stand together and argue how you're not part of it rather than anything else. This film is mostly that tension as an allegory. Accusations fly. You aren't conformist enough. You didn't prep the plate right. You looked at him instead of me. This is my station, not yours. The drama sizzles more than the food does. And I think the way this unravels at the end is very fitting for where we are politically. The president and his criminal lackeys aren't even a month into their job and already it's a mess of a nation. Are we going to put the kitchen ermn nation back together again or just let the insanity continue? Who's ready for desert? (the lead is yummy).

This captured the wetness, the remoteness, the wild parts of the woods.
It also got the general awfulness of being in the woods with two divorced/single dads. You in danger, girl. Somehow the stress is cathartic and relaxing. It's a gorgeous journey but that relief at the end is palpable.

When I first came out, my mother did not say the right words. However, she did the right actions. When my school turned homophobic, she was there immediately and beating the fucking door down to fix problems caused by injustices. She flipped tables, raised hell, and took on anyone willing to be a dick to me just because I in fact like dick. She let me explore and find myself, make mistakes, get messy, and live my life as a teen. Bad dates and bad choices of my own choosing were allowed as she gave me space to grow into myself, like every teen should have. She might not have said the right things, but she showed me the right love regardless. This film reminded me of that, with all the love that mother showed. She's awesome, especially at the end. Strong mothers are awesome. Let the girls be girls. Let the boy- actually no. Do not let boys be trash. This was the greatest when it let go and boy was it fun. Or maybe I should say girl was it fun.

Two teen friends, they might teen. This is an exploration into the current immigration struggles - or it could have been but it mostly just uses that as a backdrop as we keep the focus solely on the teens in question. Overall, the doc is fairly solid, I'm not sure it does anything interesting or goes anywhere worth exploring. This mostly is a reminder that teens gonna teen, even as the world around them crumbles and goes to shit. I have a lot of thoughts about the politics of immigration and civil rights. I think I'd be interested in a postscript addendum to explore how the current istration and reality has made everything worse. (or if it magically has kept things neutral or if it even made it better which is more unbelievably fantastical with what we know). This is a decent entry but not a memorable doc.

This is what happens after you work with Andrew Unger. Marianne Jean-Baptiste is an absolute gem here owning this screen in every single way. But I'm sure her character would complain about this film, this diary entry, the website, my words, the colors, the movie poster, the...

A friend and I recently made the same Jewish dish for a potluck. He kept it kosher and used a traditional recipe handed down from generations. I did a more modern approach that wasn't kosher and had flair. I'm not saying which is right or which is wrong, but I know which dish was enjoyed by the potluck guests. That's the neat quirk here. What would be just a depressing dramedy of a depressed guy struggling to find his path after his wife's death is elevated with the introduction of all things Carol Kane. This is a trainwreck about a trainwreck but Carol Kane at least makes it an interesting trainwreck as we all rubberneck and ponder what we should gnosh on. Culture is weird and Carol makes it feel better, even as Jason makes it weirder.

Lesbians don't deserve that kind of foxy intrusions. Madness. Keep the fox out of the barn house. Same rule for the straight guys.

I know what prison is supposed to do - both for the prisoner and for the community. I also know that prison today isn't really doing either goals in any measure. This past November, the local ballot had a question about how society should treat prisoners. The question basically was "should we treat prisoners more harshly?" Sadly the question ed without issue as it would seem the people in my state wanted more than the current pound of flesh we're getting. This film shows us the optimism and hope we could find in our current prison system, which is more than the question on the ballot gave me. This is beautiful. A painting that shines and shares that ion with everyone around. It glows and grows without issue. What a fun show.

What starts as a standard biopic ends with just a subtle twist. The gold medal might be the capstone we typically stop at, but that's rarely where the story ends. This does well to remind us of that. Also, that maybe the real heroes don't wear capes, don't get wheaties boxes, and don't get the recognition they deserve. Be bad ass. Even in the darkness of obscurity.

Teen angst in the first swim lane.
Unrequited crushes in the second swim lane.
Sexy swimsuits in lane three.
The winner is... ourselves after all?
Languid and interesting as it works through that burgeoning sexuality and identity most everyone goes through. Just the right about of thirsting and growth.

I love cowboys and I love communities that live in time. What a fun adventure.

Hallmark movies are hilarious. Police appreciate and tolerate a baker meddling in their investigations to the point of solving crimes before they do? They are hyperbolic and caricatures of the most minor of tropes we associate with small towns. Some might see meddling and others might see invested community. This is not a Hallmark movie but it is the most grounded and realistic version of a Hallmark movie set in the real world. Instead of bringing home the girl of his dreams to a family that welcomes him and helps the two fall in love Hallmark style as he seemingly has baked into his mind already, we get a family with tensions, conflicts, judgements, and instead of snow falling being seen as sweet, we see snow falling as a tortuous punishment. This is cute. But not in the rom-com traditional sense. I'd make it gayer, but this at least felt honest.

Clearly, I'm going to the wrong parking structures.

I hooked up with this guy once who was heavy into christian punk. He was adorable. Fucked up. Beyond fucked up to be honest. He could've been in this film. Except he doesn't speak German and is incredibly xenophobic.

I watched this because I wanted more of Jeremy and well... now I want more of Jeremy AND more of this story.

Oh I wish my father would. Some characters win the super lotto. I got the reality edition, too crappy for even dollar store moniker consideration.

Himbo cop lawyer gets it in the end. His scenes are generally comedic in this but I wouldn't object to a side adventure about him (as a SHORT SHORT though - tissue paper is deeper than that character). Mostly this was just saccharine sweet sugar coating over a depressing tale of sorrow. It yoyos with tragedy lows and romantic highs but the tone stays mostly positive. The divorce and affair are glossed over, the cop stop hardly is noticed, and we move from scene to scene building towards the output but barely with a need to do so because you know where it is going. Even at the darkest, there's something sweet and uplifting seeping into the film. Ugh. It tries to be something meaningful but to me it was just "make your teeth fall out sweet" while you watched the sad parts of life.

Yeah Ann Margaret, I get it. Elvis is pretty in this. I also would've bumped and ground up against him too while I twisted and turned about. Viva Las Vegas!

There's an interesting argument to be made that films such as this are intended for the "forgotten" man. I'm not sure this has held up as well as people think. But if you like this version of Elvis, then I guess you'll still find joy in this.

Was this so dumb it was brilliant? No, it was just dumb. For a minute, I thought Joe's character was going to be gay. Still could be given how inert he was around the female characters and that bemused perusal of the penthouse magazine. Vincent Price got the campy vibes though. I giggled a lot. Treat nearly got the right Himbo energy. Those last "45 minutes" though don't maths right but the prosthetics make it worth it.

This felt like a progenitor of sorts to a whole subgenre of films that continue today. Fun times that hold up today.

It amazes me how many drinks are made from just a handful of ingredients. Bars and clubs too are pretty much the same too. It doesn't take much to create a space or venue. Yet, they aren't all the same. Watching this made me think of some of the places and spaces I've been. Some rise, some fall, some evolve. Inevitably, capitalism and greed ruin a good thing. This is a sweet tribute to the good (and bad) of one such place. The order this document places a few topics makes some things feel a little bit of an afterthought or intentionally ignored to minimize the consideration of the topic. It is a nice bit of everything that makes a bar or club a success: drinks, cute people, loud music, drrrrrrama, hookups and breakups (and reunions), good times, and sticky floors you do not want to see with the lights on. What a fun time. Shots?

films I haven't seen yet in the top 72 for the last 35 years, circa 2025 June.

• The Idiots
• I Stand Alone
• A Moment of Innocence
• La Ceremonie
• Ashes of Time
• Braindead
• Singles
• The Double Life of Véronique
• The Lovers on the Bridge
• Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky

...plus 357 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Be Gay! Do Cinema!
the Challenge

Here's the criteria for the 2025 Queer Film Challenge:

1. A film directed by Andrew Fleming
2. A film featuring Susan Stryker
3. A film directed by or starring Lizzie Borden
8. A film directed by Terence Davies
9. A film directed by Catherine Gund
10. A film directed by Alice Maio Mackay
11. A queer silent/early film
some things to help:
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQJgrjZzSJsGyayoqY-qxl49b1_-ekop7
nerdist.com/article/earliest-queer-movies-film-history/
12. Watch a queer Film in theaters! (Repertory showings absolutely allowed and if you can’t see something in a theater based on availability, watch a 2025-release queer film at home)
13. A film directed by Takashi Miike
14. A film directed by Bertrand Mandico
15. A film directed by Bill Condon
17. A film directed or co-directed by Kasia Adamik
18. A film starring Lizabeth Scott
22. A film directed by a trans woman
23. A film directed by a trans man
24. A film by a non-binary or genderqueer director
26. A lesbian/WLW/sapphic film directed by a man.
27. A gay/mlm film directed by a woman
29. A film featuring an asexual character, or one theorized to be asexual since it's not something that really gets as much identity in film.
Some lists to help:
Asexual
Asexuality On Screen
Asexuality on Film
Good Asexual/Aromantic Films (Confirmed or otherwise!)

31. An African queer film
32. A Latin American queer film
36. A queer comedy
38. A sci fi movie with queer characters or directed by a queer person
39. An action movie with queer characters or directed by a queer person
40. An animated queer movie
X 4. A film directed by Curtis Harrington
X 5. A film based on a play by, written by, or featuring Edward Albee
X 6. A film starring Niecy Nash
X 7. A film based on a book or short story by Cornell Woolrich
X 16. A film directed by Shamim Sarif
X 19. A film starring Montgomery Clift
X 20. A queer experimental film
A list to help: boxd.it/cdyOY
X 21. A queer documentary
X 25. A lesbian/WLW/sapphic film directed by a woman.
X 28. A gay/mlm film directed by a man
X 30. A film featuring an actual bisexual character.
A list to help:
Films With Actually Bisexual Characters
X 33. A European queer film
X 34. A Middle Eastern queer film
boxd.it/5y9iM
boxd.it/ciShA

X 35. An Asian queer film
boxd.it/gI48c

X 37. A queer horror movie

• Dou kyu sei – Classmates
• Queer
• Blue
• Stolen by My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story
• Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo
• Nurse 3-D
• Deadly Obsession
• Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet
• Night Tide
• With A Kiss I Die

...plus 48 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A few of my favourite things, circa 2025 viewing

• 20 Days in Mariupol
• Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story
• Black Bag
• Hard Truths
• Green Border
• Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

WBCN and who's this?
I mean Live from New York...
Coming in from WKRP
WJM-TV
KGGY
KBEX
We're taking requests no matter the station we're broadcasting from. Throw it in the comments and I'll get around to it, eventually.

• Good Ideas
• Save Yourselves!

  Best of rec...

• Never Rarely Sometimes Always

  Best of rec...

• Lovers Rock

  Best of rec...

• Relic

  Best of rec...

• Nomadland

  Best of rec...

• Promising Young Woman

  Best of rec...

• Minari

  Best of rec...

• Dick Johnson Is Dead

  Best of rec...

• Kajillionaire

  Best of rec...

...plus 468 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Putting it to paper again this year. My feeble attempt at HoopTober'24.
The Original

There must be 31 horror films
6 countries
✔8 decades (30s, 40s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, 20s)
ALL of the films from a horror franchise with at least 4 entries (if there is a hard reboot, you can choose whichever has 4+ that you prefer)
1 film by Wes Craven
1 film caused by/worsened by weather
1 film starring a Black woman
✔1 Donald Sutherland film
3 films from New World Pictures.
2 Indian films.
4 Italian films
2 Horror comedies
2 films made primarily or entirely in Texas
1 film that exists in at least 2 available cuts (you just have to watch one. Bonus if you watch them all.)
1 Robert Wiene film
1 Michele Soavi film
1 film from 2011
1 film from 1984

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film) ✔ (Salem's Lot)

• Salem's Lot
• Dracula's Daughter
• Woman Who Came Back
• The Curse of the Werewolf
• Beware! The Blob
• Burial Ground
• Embrace of the Vampire
• The Poughkeepsie Tapes
• Blood Quantum
• Salem's Lot

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

You're simply the best
Better than all the rest
Better than anyone
Anyone I've ever watched
I'm stuck on your heart
I hang on every word you say
I stick to every image you show
Tear us apart
Baby, I would rather be dead

• Spy Game
• Hackers
• The Trip
• Pride
• Good Bye, Lenin!
• Knife+Heart
• Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street
• What Keeps You Alive
• They/Them
• Daniel Isn't Real

...plus 76 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The incomplete and unofficial bibliography (videography) of everything mentioned in the 2024 book "Falling in Love at the Movies: Rom-Coms from the Screwball Era to Today." Sorted in almost alphabetical order. These are the films directly mentioned or referenced in some degree or fashion. Anything mentioned indirectly (eg: sequels to Bridget Jones' Diary) are not included unless explicitly listed (eg: The Princess Diaries 2.

• 10
• 10 Things I Hate About You
• 13 Going on 30
• 27 Dresses
• The 40 Year Old Virgin
• 50 First Dates
• (500) Days of Summer
• About a Boy
• Ace in the Hole
• Adam's Rib

...plus 230 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

You start with Nine Inch Nail's "We're In This Together" and work your way back to The Beatles "Revolution" because you and me, we're going to get through this somehow and everything will be all right. Until then, here's some soothing cinema to remind us of that. Keep calm, cinema on, and wash your GD hands proper.

• And the Band Played On
• BPM (Beats per Minute)
• How to Survive a Plague
• 5B
• United in Anger: A History of ACT UP
• Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
• We Were Here
• The Normal Heart
• Sorry Angel
• 1985

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

Play it again, Sam.
Watched it a thousand times. Or at least twice. A short and incomplete list of things I've watched again this year. They aren't logged and there are no diary entries this time around. They are just things I've watched again for leisure and pleasure because I watch too much too often. Maybe once, maybe twice. Maybe... more often.

• Saved!
• Blue
• The Substance
• That's Entertainment!
• That's Entertainment, Part II
• That's Entertainment! III
• Spaceballs
• Brokeback Mountain
• Speed
• Congo

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

It has something interesting in the credits. Like snake handler or happy meal or something. Be jealous your job title isn't that cool.

• Love Lies Bleeding

  Happy meal (for the cat)
  Snake Wrangler

• The First Omen
• The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
• A Quiet Place: Day One

  Microlight technician

• MaXXXine

  Life casting
  Dental scans
  Doberman trainer

• National Anthem

  IGRA Liaison

• Borderlands

  COVID Purchaser
  Imaging scientist

• Blink Twice

  Warehouse manager
  Flame artist
  Biologist - butterfly

• The Crow

  Crow Makeup Artist

• Nosferatu

  Romania consultant
  Cabinet maker
  Wolf trainer
  Dog owner

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The incomplete and unofficial bibliography (videography) of everything mentioned in the 1985 documentary That's Dancing (companion doc to the That's Entertainment franchise). Sorted in no particular order. These are the films and shows mentioned or referenced in some degree or fashion.
Related to the
That's Entertainment, Part I
That's Entertainment, Part II
That's Entertainment, Part III
Lists

• That's Dancing!
• The Dumb Girl of Portici
• So This Is Paris
• Flying High
• 42nd Street
• Gold Diggers of 1933
• Rufus Jones for President
• Dames
• The Gay Divorcee
• Gold Diggers of 1935

...plus 49 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The incomplete and unofficial bibliography (videography) of everything mentioned in the 1976 documentary That's Entertainment, Part II. Sorted in no particular order. These are the films and shows mentioned or referenced in some degree or fashion.
Related to the
That's Entertainment, Part I
That's Entertainment, Part III
That's Dancing
Lists

• That's Entertainment, Part II
• The Broadway Melody
• The Song Writers' Revue
• Blondie of the Follies
• Grand Hotel
• Red Dust
• Tarzan the Ape Man
• Bombshell
• Dancing Lady
• Going Hollywood

...plus 71 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The incomplete and unofficial bibliography (videography) of everything mentioned in the 1994 documentary That's Entertainment, Part III. Sorted in no particular order. These are the films and shows mentioned or referenced in some degree or fashion.
Related to the
That's Entertainment, Part I
That's Entertainment, Part II
That's Dancing
Lists

• That's Entertainment! III
• The Hollywood Revue of 1929
• Brigadoon
• Singin' in the Rain
• The Barkleys of Broadway
• Annie Get Your Gun
• Torch Song
• I Love Melvin
• Broadway Rhythm
• Meet the Baron

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

The incomplete and unofficial bibliography (videography) of everything mentioned in the 1974 documentary That's Entertainment. Sorted in no particular order. These are the films and shows mentioned or referenced in some degree or fashion.
Related to the
That's Entertainment, Part II
That's Entertainment, Part III
That's Dancing
Lists

• That's Entertainment!
• The Hollywood Revue of 1929
• Speak Easily
• Little Nellie Kelly
• Singin' in the Rain
• The Broadway Melody
• Rosalie
• Rose Marie
• The Great Ziegfeld
• Broadway Melody of 1940

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

A few of my favourite things, circa 2024.

• Saltburn
• Godzilla Minus One
• Kokomo City
• ages
• All of Us Strangers
• Cure
• The Doom Generation
• Lakota Nation vs. United States
• They Shot the Piano Player
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Here are the criteria for the 2024 Queer Film Challenge:

1. Watch Funeral Parade of Roses,
2. A queer adult film (yes, porn!)
3. A film directed by or starring David Wojnarowicz
4. A film based on the writing of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade aka Marquis de Sade
5. A film written or directed by Dennis Cooper
Use this link, both wikipedia and letterboxd have some missing information
www.imdb.com/name/nm1418756/
6. A film directed by Nagisa Ōshima
7. A film directed by Joel Schumacher
8. A film directed by Stephen Cone
9. A film edited by William Reynolds
10. A film starring Cesar Romero
11. A film starring River Gallo
12. A film directed or produced by Andrew Ahn
13. A film starring Randolph Scott
14. A film starring Tallulah Bankhead
15. A film starring Alexandra Shipp
16. A film starring Leslie Cheung
17. A film directed by Erlingur Thoroddsen
18. A film starring Sophia Bush
19. A film directed by, written by, or featuring Jenni Olson
20. A film directed by Sergei Eisenstein
21. A film directed by Peter Strickland
22. A film directed by a trans woman
23. A film directed by a trans man
24. A film by a non-binary director
25. A lesbian/WLW/sapphic film directed by a woman.
26. A lesbian/WLW/sapphic film directed by a man.
27. A gay/mlm film directed by a woman
28. A gay/mlm film directed by a man
29. A film featuring an asexual character, or one theorized to be asexual since it's not something that really gets as much identity in film.
Some lists to help:
letterboxd.conexionsite.com/windyblue/list/asexual
letterboxd.conexionsite.com/vonnepat/list/asexuality-on-screen
letterboxd.conexionsite.com/holdenreviews/list/asexuality-on-film
letterboxd.conexionsite.com/revvydot/list/good-asexual-aromantic-films-confirmed-or
30. A film featuring an actual bisexual character.
A list to help:
letterboxd.conexionsite.com/gdw/list/films-with-actually-bisexual-characters
31. An African queer film
32. A Latin American queer film
33. A European queer film
34. A Middle Eastern queer film
35. An Asian queer film
36. A queer comedy
37. A queer horror movie
38. A sci fi movie with queer characters or directed by a queer person
39. An action movie with queer characters or directed by a queer person
40. An animated queer movie

• Nimona

  40. An animated queer movie

• Breaking Fast

  34. A Middle Eastern queer film (kinda)

• The Bisexual

  30. A film featuring an actual bisexual character.

• Sonny Boy
• The Rainbow
• Buffalo Stampede
• Wagon Wheels
• The Fighting Westerner
• Broken Dreams
• The Cariboo Trail

...plus 52 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Play it again, Sam.
Watched it a thousand times. Or at least twice. A short and incomplete list of things I've watched again this year. They aren't logged and there are no diary entries this time around. They are just things I've watched again for leisure and pleasure because I watch too much too often. Maybe once, maybe twice. Maybe... more often.

• Saved!
• I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story
• Real Genius
• Weird Science
• Straight-Jacket
• Lilies of the Field
• The Last Castle
• Dune
• Dune
• Ivan the Terrible, Part I

...plus 54 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films where I'm the first visible journal entry and probably a terrible diary entry. Ignore my words.

• The Books of John
• Contadora Is for Lovers
• San Francisco Sounds
• Wild Horse Mesa
• From There to Here
• Michael Jackson: Ungloved

It's gonna be a short list.

• Fargo
• Serpico
• Polisse
• Guilty Prejudices

The incomplete and unofficial bibliography (videography) of everything mentioned in the 2018 documentary Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema. Sorted in no particular order. These are the films and shows mentioned or referenced in some degree or fashion.
Related to the Story of Film: An Oddysey and Story of Film: A New Generation

Things Not Included Currently:

• Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema
• We Were Young
• You and Me
• On the Twelfth Day...
• Brief Encounters
• The East Is Red
• First Comes Courage
• The Silences of the Palace
• Strange Days
• Harlan County U.S.A.

...plus 303 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The incomplete and unofficial bibliography (videography) of everything mentioned in the 2024 Documentary Best Christmas Movies Ever

Not Listed

• The Christmas Chronicles
• The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two
• Jingle All the Way
• Elf
• National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
• A Christmas Story
• Miracle on 34th Street
• It's a Wonderful Life
• The Muppet Christmas Carol
• Home Alone

...plus 55 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The incomplete and unofficial bibliography (filmography) of everything mentioned in the 2024 documentary Hollywood Black. Sorted in no particular order. These are the films and shows mentioned or referenced in some degree or fashion.

• Hollywood Black
• Lime Kiln Club Field Day
• The Birth of a Nation
• Within Our Gates
• Stormy Weather
• Imitation of Life
• Emperor Jones
• Show Boat
• Gone with the Wind
• Carmen Jones

...plus 41 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

And the nominees are... for all time

• After Hours
• Blood Simple
• Smooth Talk
• The Trip to Bountiful
• Trouble in Mind
• Crossover Dreams
• Wildrose
• Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart
• Kiss of the Spider Woman
• Dreamchild

...plus 1548 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

And the Nominees are... for 2024

Global Spirit List

Not listed
TV Series
Diarra From Detroit: Best New Scripted Series | Best Breakthrough Performance in a New Scripted Series
English Teacher: Best New Scripted Series | Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series | Best ing Performance in a New Scripted Series | Best ing Performance in a New Scripted Series
Fantasmas: Best New Scripted Series | Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series
Erased: WW2's Heroes of Color: Best New Unscripted Series
Photographer: Best New Unscripted Series
Presumed Innocent: Best ing Performance in a New Scripted Series
Three Women: Best ing Performance in a New Scripted Series
Penelope: Best Breakthrough Performance in a New Scripted Series
How To Die Alone: Best Ensemble in a New Scripted Series

• A Different Man

  Best Screenplay
  Best ing Performance

• Heretic

  Best Screenplay

• I Saw the TV Glow

  Best Screenplay
  Best ing Performance
  Best Lead Performance
  Best Director
  Best Feature

• My Old Ass

  Best Screenplay
  Best Breakthrough Performance

• A Real Pain

  Best Screenplay
  Best ing Performance

• Gaucho Gaucho

  Best Documentary

• Hummingbirds

  Best Documentary

• No Other Land

  Best Documentary

• Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

  Best Documentary

• Patrice: The Movie

  Best Documentary

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

As they say when you visit Santa in Miracle on 34th Street or the strip club: Ho! Ho! Ho!

Here's a curation of some LGBT Holiday Cinema. Maybe it's a main theme, maybe it's an LGBT cult classic, or maybe it's a minor character. Don't judge me, i'm making it festive AND gay.

(PS: go see the much less curated list Make the Yuletide Gay! 🏳️‍🌈🎄 to see even more queer holiday yummy goodness. Be sure to write Santa and or Letterboxd a nice letter.)

• Make the Yuletide Gay

  It's so cheesy. Featuring the most interesting blend of parents and pretty twinks. Very mid 2000s and just about right. Could be spicier but but these gingerbred(!) men leave this one perfectly sweet for your holiday season.

• Single All the Way

  If you're going to give up living the big city life for a small town where your family is close enough that they can show up unannounced or uninvited, make sure you have plenty of liquor, a cute Twink from Taskr and/or Grindr, and Jennifer Coolidge as your aunt. Oh, and if you don't want the hunky spin instructor that skies, my number is...

• The Family Stone

  My family has plenty of drama but unlike this family, they don't know what i'm saying when I swear in ASL; it's so nice when the seasonal cheers turns to jeers that I can call them all #$%@ @#$%@ #@#$@% @#$@$%^ who can't even @#$%@ @#^&#& @@&**$ @&*(%*( *%*^&%^ without a map to @#%%@# on a #@#%@% day because they're @#$@%^#%^! @#$@#%. Just that heels belong on the runways of drag shows and you'll be fine. Bring tissues and call your mother. (for those who can't call theirs, please feel free to call mine; she'll love you forever).

• Carol

  Ah, first loves. Mine would make a terrible holiday film because I was young and stupid and he was also a young stupid Twink that didn't know the price of salt. Let's all fall in love this holiday season with the clerk from the shop around the corner. Preferably before the big box company drives them out of business, only to be driven out as well by mismanagement from the Hedge Fund that bilked us.

• A New York Christmas Wedding

  AS the Muppets once sang: Somebody's getting married! How's that saying go? Something old, something queer, something borrowed, someone blew the groomsmen? I think I'd rather your wedding colors (and movie posters) be blush and bashful than Red and Green but you do you boo.

• Let It Snow

  John Hughes but with overt gay people? And a Christmas tree. If this is the small town Single All the Way moved back to, I get it now.

• Happiest Season

  Clea DuVall reminding us all that the rewards for coming out of the closet are Aubrey Plaza, Drag Queens, and Dan Levy (to name a few). Being yourself is the best present you could ever get, Never date someone who thinks the play title "I love You, You're Perfect, Now Change" is sound dating advice. Even if Victor Gerber is their Zaddy.

• Tangerine

  All I want for Christmas is Efficient High Speed Intracity Rail, functional walkable cities, World Peace, and a guy willing to date me despite all my flaws. If this film teaches us anything, it's that the It's a Wonderful Life Angel Clarence would say "world peace huh? Ok, yeah, we can do that one."

• Anna and the Apocalypse

  Be Gay! Do Crimes! I'm pretty sure zombies would improve most nativity plays put on by schools . I can't even be mad at Anna for being oblivious when she walked to school as I too was often in my own world thinking about maths, or last night's rave, or why I was in the local police's spy files for my efforts to Free Tibet. Unless the zombies were shirtless with great abs or biceps, I would've missed their carnage too. This film does give us a few euphemisms for cute boys and candy cane pole though.

• Some of My Best Friends Are...

  Old school gays do it in the bar while drunk and wild.

  
  
  

  Host their holiday parties. What were you thinking I was talking about?

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

And the nominees are...for all time.

• Paris Is Burning
• Swoon
• Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
• Go Fish
• Angela
• Manny & Lo
• Family Name
• Hurricane Streets
• Wonderland
• The Delta

...plus 637 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

And the nominees are... for 2024

• Anora

  Best Feature
  Best Director
  Best Lead Performance
  Best ing Performance

• Babygirl

  Best Feature
  Best Lead Performance

• Challengers

  Best Feature

• A Different Man

  Best Feature
  Best ing Performance

• Nickel Boys

  Best Feature
  Best Director
  Breakthrough Lead Performance

• All We Imagine as Light

  Best International Feature
  Best Director

• Green Border

  Best International Feature

• Hard Truths

  Best International Feature
  Best Lead Performance

• Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

  Best International Feature

• Vermiglio

  Best International Feature

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

And the nominees are... for 2023

Not Listed:
Interview with the Vampire: Outstanding Series Performance | Breakthrough Series (over 40 Minutes) |
Poker Face: Outstanding Series Performance |
The Last of Us: Outstanding Series Performance | Breakthrough Series (over 40 Minutes) |
High School: Breakthrough Series (under 40 Minutes) |
Rain Dogs: Breakthrough Series (under 40 Minutes) |

• ages

  Best Feature
  Outstanding Lead Performance

• Past Lives

  Best Feature
  Outstanding Lead Performance

• Reality

  Best Feature

• Showing Up

  Best Feature
  Outstanding Lead Performance

• A Thousand and One

  Best Feature
  Outstanding Lead Performance
  Best Director

• Origin

  Outstanding Lead Performance

• The Unknown Country

  Outstanding Lead Performance

• Our Father, the Devil

  Outstanding Lead Performance

• All of Us Strangers

  Outstanding Lead Performance
  Outstanding ing Performance
  Best Screenplay
  Best International Feature

• Priscilla

  Outstanding Lead Performance

...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A few of my favourite things, circa 2023 viewing

• Wildhood
• Under the Gun
• Happening
• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Polisse
• Neptune Frost
• The Roof
• Asteroid City
• Every Body
• Mutt

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

How about a nice game of chess?

• Super Mario Bros.
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie
• Clue
• Tomb Raider
• Uncharted
• Street Fighter
• Mortal Kombat
• Silent Hill
• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
• Gran Turismo

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

WBCN who is this? Who's your favourite artist, who do you want to see?
That artist kicks ass. The band of the 90s, if you want to call it a band because it's a one man name.

• Moon
• Gravity
• Run Lola Run
• Cast Away
• The Martian
• Buried
• All Is Lost
• Under the Skin
• Inside
• The Rider

You're a winner baby, and I... haven't watched you yet.

• McCabe & Mrs. Miller
• Duel

Sisters are doing it for themselves.
Roll it, Joan

• Beautiful Thing
• Little Nicholas: Happy As Can Be
• Jumpin' Jack Flash
• Blue Jean
• Eve's Bayou
• Birds of age
• Rocks in My Pockets
• The Adventures of Prince Achmed
• Mädchen in Uniform
• Europa Europa

...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

WRONG!
Just watch me. It's so simple, you sissy maries. Give me the playback. Match me ***. Stick out your hands, throw out your tush. Hands on your hips. Give 'em a push. You'll be surprised. You're doing the French Mistake. Have you got it?

It's like listening to steam escape.

CUT! This is a closed set.

• Lifeboat
• The Life of Emile Zola
• It's a Wonderful Life
• 12 Angry Men
• Some Like It Hot
• La Dolce Vita
• The Sound of Music
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• Mary Poppins
• In the Heat of the Night

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

Slice, Dice, and Splice

• Giant
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• North by Northwest
• The Great Escape
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• The Killing Fields
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• RoboCop
• Mississippi Burning

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

Put me in the Cel. I'm ready for my brush up, Mr demille.

• Nimona
• The Boy and the Heron
• Luca
• Howl's Moving Castle
• Spirited Away
• The Triplets of Belleville
• Persepolis
• The Princess and the Frog
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Coraline

...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A junk drawer of movie things from someone. A smorgasbord of "look at me" with no theme rhyme or reason. Just things I've collated and archived for noteworthy reasons.

• Pay It Forward
• The Sixth Sense
• The Tourist
• The Shipping News
• Pinocchio
• Radio
• Alexander
• Elizabethtown
• Jerry Maguire
• Almost Famous

...plus 223 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The ridiculous and over the top GAYS BE SCARY!!! film made at peak Lavender Scare of the McCarthy Era lives on. This is a collection of everything that references it or features it or otherwise acknowledges it.

• Boys Beware
• Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York
• Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror
• Making Montgomery Clift

This isn't a bibliography per se. This list is a bunch of movies that someone somewhere has recommended. Maybe it's a YouTube Channel doing a deep dive into what has made modern cinema. Or a random lecture where some snob frowns upon me not seeing something they deem necessary. Or just a conversation I've had in ing at the theatre where someone shares their imioned pleas for us to watch something they find irrefutably critical to appreciate something else in cinema. Maybe they're technically proficient, or just enjoyable watching, or notable for some other reason. This is a random list of things accumulated. A curation of curios. The only requirement to get on this list is to be valued by someone and pressed into my palm. This list might get long.

• An American Werewolf in London
• Jurassic Park
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• Inception
• Star Wars
• The Thing
• Jason and the Argonauts
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• A Trip to the Moon

And the Nominees are... for 2002

• Far from Heaven

  Best Feature
  Best Director
  Best Female Lead
  Best ing Male
  Best Cinematography

• The Good Girl

  Best Feature
  Best Screenplay
  Best Female Lead
  Best ing Male

• Lovely & Amazing

  Best Feature
  Best Director
  Best Screenplay
  Best Female Lead
  Best ing Female
  Best Debut Performance

• Secretary

  Best Feature
  Best First Screenplay
  Best Female Lead

• Tully

  Best Feature
  Best Screenplay
  Best ing Female
  Best Debut Performance

• The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

  Best First Feature

• Interview with the Assassin

  Best First Feature
  Best First Screenplay
  Best Cinematography

• Manito

  Best First Feature
  Someone to Watch
  Producers Award

• Paid in Full

  Best First Feature

• Roger Dodger

  Best First Feature
  Best Screenplay
  Best Male Lead

...plus 34 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Hashtag Not My University Experience

• PCU
• Real Genius
• The Freshman
• Revenge of the Nerds
• Animal House
• 3 Idiots
• Slackers

The incomplete and unofficial bibliography (videography) of everything mentioned in the 2018 documentary The Great Buster: A Celebration. Sorted in no particular order. These are the films and shows mentioned or referenced in some degree or fashion.
Not Included
TV Shows:
MacGyver
The Buster Keaton Show
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Silent Years
The Simpsons
This is Your Life
What's My Line?

Music Videos:
"The Test" By The Chemical Brothers

• The Great Buster: A Celebration
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• A Southern Yankee
• Beach Blanket Bingo
• Buster Keaton Rides Again
• Doughboys
• Free and Easy
• How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
• In the Good Old Summertime
• Jackass Number Two

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Having seen so many so recently, I've elected to make a list.

• The Cave
• For Sama
• Last Men in Aleppo
• Cries from Syria
• The White Helmets
• City of Ghosts
• Of Fathers and Sons
• A Syrian Love Story
• Jim: The James Foley Story
• Born in Syria

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

You know the one. Sadly. These are also better than him and also less pretentious than he is. And we probably know whose baby this is.

• Hanukkah on Rye
• Round and Round

And the Nominees are... for 2023

Global Spirit List

Not listed
TV Series
Jury Duty: Best New Scripted Series | Best Ensemble Performance Series
Slip: Best New Scripted Series | Best Lead Performance Series
Dreaming Whilst Black: Best New Scripted Series | Best Breakthrough Performance Series
Wrestlers: Best New Non-Scripted/Documentary Series
The Last of Us: Best Lead Performance Series | Best ing Performance Series | Best ing Performance Series | Best Breakthrough Performance Series
Will Trent: Best Lead Performance Series
Rain Dogs: Best ing Performance Series
Changeling: Best ing Performance Series | Best Breakthrough Performance Series
Shrinking: Best ing Performance Series | Best ing Performance Series

• All of Us Strangers

  Best Feature
  Best Director
  Best Lead Performance

• American Fiction

  Best Feature
  Best Screenplay
  Best Lead Performance
  Best ing Performance
  Best ing Performance

• May December

  Best Feature
  Best Director
  Best First Screenplay
  Best Lead Performance
  Best ing Performance

• ages

  Best Feature
  Best Director
  Best Lead Performance
  Best ing Performance

• Past Lives

  Best Feature
  Best Director
  Best Screenplay
  Best Lead Performance
  Best Lead Performance

• We Grown Now

  Best Feature
  Best Editing
  Best Cinematography

• All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

  Best First Feature
  Best Cinematography

• Chronicles of a Wandering Saint

  Best First Feature
  Best First Screenplay
  Best Cinematography

• Earth Mama

  Best First Feature
  Best Breakthrough Performance

• A Thousand and One

  Best First Feature
  Best Lead Performance

...plus 41 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The incomplete and unofficial bibliography (videography) of everything mentioned in the 2022 documentary Queer for Fear. Sorted in no particular order. These are the films and shows mentioned or referenced in some degree or fashion.

• Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror
• The Birds
• The Exorcist
• The Lost Boys
• The Wizard of Oz
• Scream
• Psycho
• A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
• Häxan
• Bride of Frankenstein

...plus 106 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The incomplete and unofficial bibliography (videography) of everything mentioned in the 2022 documentary series The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time. Items 2-102 are the 101. Otherwise, sorted in no particular order. These are the films and shows mentioned or referenced in some degree or fashion.

1. The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time
2. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
3. The Thing
4. Hereditary
5. Audition
6. Psycho
7. The Shining
8. The Exorcist
9. Sinister
10. Train to Busan

...plus 92 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

And the Nominees are... for 2022

Global Spirit List

Not listed
TV Series
The Bear Best New Scripted Series | Best ing Performance in a New Scripted Series | Best ing Performance in a New Scripted Series
Pachinko Best New Scripted Series | Best Ensemble Cast
The Porter Best New Scripted Series | Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series
Severance Best New Scripted Series | Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series | Best ing Performance in a New Scripted Series
Mo Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series
Abbott Elementary Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series | Best ing Performance in a New Scripted Series | Best ing Performance in a New Scripted Series
Somebody Somewhere Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series | Best ing Performance in a New Scripted Series |
Rap Sh!t Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series
Yellowjackets Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series
As We See It Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series
A League of Their Own Best ing Performance in a New Scripted Series
This Fool Best ing Performance in a New Scripted Series
I Love That For You Best ing Performance in a New Scripted Series
The Rehearsal Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series

• Bones and All

  Best Feature
  Best Lead Performance
  Best ing Performance

• Everything Everywhere All at Once

  Best Feature
  Best Director
  Best Screenplay
  Best Lead Performance
  Best ing Performance
  Best ing Performance
  Best Breakthrough Performance

• Our Father, the Devil

  Best Feature

• TÁR

  Best Feature
  Best Director
  Best Screenplay
  Best Lead Performance
  Best ing Performance
  Best Cinematography

• Women Talking

  Best Feature
  Best Director
  Best Screenplay
  Robert Altman Award

• Aftersun

  Best First Feature
  Best Lead Performance
  Best Breakthrough Performance
  Best Cinematography

• Emily the Criminal

  Best First Feature
  Best First Screenplay
  Best Lead Performance
  Best ing Performance

• The Inspection

  Best First Feature
  Best Lead Performance
  Best ing Performance

• Murina

  Best First Feature
  Best Breakthrough Performance
  Best Cinematography

• Palm Trees and Power Lines

  Best First Feature
  Best First Screenplay
  Best ing Performance
  Best Breakthrough Performance

...plus 33 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Play it again, Sam.
Watched it a thousand times. Or at least twice. A short and incomplete list of things I've watched again this year. They aren't logged and there are no diary entries this time around. They are just things I've watched again for leisure and pleasure because I watch too much too often. Maybe once, maybe twice. Maybe... more often.

• Cloak & Dagger
• The Woman King
• Earth Girls Are Easy
• A League of Their Own
• Cloverfield
• 10 Cloverfield Lane
• The Cloverfield Paradox
• Moonfall
• Geostorm
• The Core

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

The incomplete and unofficial bibliography (videography) of everything mentioned in the 2008 documentary Not Quite Hollywood. Sorted in no particular order. These are the films and shows mentioned or referenced in some degree or fashion.

• Not Quite Hollywood
• Caddie
• Wake in Fright
• The Naked Bunyip
• Alvin Purple
• Alvin Rides Again
• The Adventures of Eliza Fraser
• End Play
• High Rolling
• The Love Epidemic

...plus 89 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.