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Had some artistic/experimental appeal along with a good soundtrack, but never really lived up to its salacious title.

The epic conclusion(s) to Peter Jackson's monumental cinematic achievement. Simply the best kind of storytelling, revolving primarily around heroism and hope. And so. Much. Action. Although what stuck out to me this time was the insidious way that Gollum tried to turn Frodo and Sam against each other. Even though it was motion-captured, Andy Serkis's performance as Gollum/Smeagol was one for the books. Devious and menacing, while also being somewhat sympathetic. Of course, the rest of the film was excellent and still holds up, obviously thematically but also in VFX. Docking this a half-star for the protracted endings, but it hardly impacted my overall enjoyment. This trilogy is simply incredible. (And now for The Hobbit)

Watched on Saturday June 7, 2025.

"Trick or treat, mothafucka!"

Ngl, I was rooting for Michael Myers in this one.

The kind of kinky, artistic sleaze I'd been expecting from a Franco film. Still mostly vibes and visuals over plot, but this one was well-paced and short enough that I was entranced pretty much the whole way through. The jazzy score and production design in this I thought were particularly strong. More like this, please.

A step back up from Asteroid City, this felt like more of a focused story while still retaining the diorama-like intricacies and overall quirkiness I like in Wes Anderson's other films.

Watched on Friday June 6, 2025.

Watched on Thursday June 5, 2025.

Not as good as the 'Road' movies, but still a fun wartime comedy.

Watched on Thursday June 5, 2025.

Puerile gender politics; quantity over quality, listlessly going from one sexual encounter to the next, with the occasional score check-in. The three leads were moderately attractive, I'll give them that, and there were a couple of scenes that did what they were supposed to do. But I had pretty much checked out by the time Spring Finley donned a strapon and told her hookup for the night to suck it.

Watched on Wednesday June 4, 2025.

The last L&H sound short I hadn't seen yet. It was above average, with some good gags, the last of which made the entire journey to get there worth it.

Excellent voice cast and some good tunes wasted on a lame story and subpar animation. Shame that Rankin/Bass had to go out like this.

An insurance claims investigator (Paul Thomas) and his sort-of girlfriend (Anna Ventura) go undercover as a married couple at a swingers resort to investigate the suspicious death of the owner's previous wife. This is porn, so...not much investigating, plenty of fucking. Considering that this took place at a swingers retreat, there could have been more variety than there was, but what was on offer was certainly hot. One of the standout scenes was between Sharon Kane and some guy named Frank, and involved beads. Good lord, what a minx she was! Lisa De Leeuw, who I just saw in Pro-Ball Cheerleaders, popped up in this as well and played a more interesting character this time. Paul Thomas's character was named Nick, and De Leeuw talking in a low, smokey range made me think of Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct (although this predates that by about a decade). On the downside, the investigation pretext is resolved in a quick, dumb way and the real point of the story --something a bit more mundane but relatable-- was revealed. The actual ending was a bit abrupt, but oh well. This was the better of the two films on this After Hours Cinema DVD, and is one I wouldn't have a problem revisiting in the future. In fact, it's good enough that I would love if Vinegar Syndrome did a proper restoration (assuming they haven't already).

A lot of balling happens, all of it off the field... This was a silly porn comedy with the expected double entendres and overly broad performances. It was what it was, and it was ok. Highlights for me were a girl/girl between Candida Royalle and Jennifer West and Lisa de Leeuw taking it up the butt in the rain. Was not expecting incest (sort of) and pegging, though. And then there was the ending: more movies should end with a disco strip.

On a side note: IMDb has this as being 80 minutes, but the version copyrighted on After Hours Cinema's DVD is 69 minutes (giggity). There did seem to be some things trimmed out, but nothing that affected comprehension.

Reportedly contained some of Gene Kelly's personal favorite dance creations. If I had to guess (without going and looking it up), I would say the favorite is the final one, with Gene Kelly dancing through a medley of children's games/songs in a construction site. I mean, that was my favorite one here. The story is about a veteran (Kelly) who gets a quickie marriage and returns home three years later only to discover that his wife has basically moved on with her life (and didn't even tell her parents). The primary source of drama was whether they will reconcile or get a divorce. This is a Hollywood romance, so you know how it *should* end (and it does). The subplot about veterans' housing was nice, and allowed me to meet a wider assortment of characters who each got their little moment here and there. Aside from the musical numbers --which were engaging and delightful-- the overall story wasn't anything terribly special. Things happened in about the way I expected without any additional pizzazz or emotional hook. But while this isn't anywhere near my favorite Gene Kelly movie, I did enjoy myself.

Watched on Tuesday June 3, 2025.

A female CIA agent decides she wants to get pregnant by a senator, but he has trouble getting it up. More of a self-important political satire than an arousing adult film (although there was a fair amount of sex). There were several funny moments, and the leading ladies were attractive. However, there was no reason for this to be over two hours. And then there were the two twists at the end... Good grief. [Vinegar Syndrome's DVD has a commentary track by star William Margold, so I'll be sitting through this one more time.]

Watched on Monday June 2, 2025.

Top 50 Unwatched #25

"Why don't you like Beethoven?"
"Well, I'm more of a Mozart gal, I guess."

A soft reboot of the series which is also a family-friendly Vacation rip-off with a little Home Alone 3 thrown in for good measure. Aggressively mid but watchable.

Watched on Monday June 2, 2025.

Watched on Monday June 2, 2025.

Watched on Monday June 2, 2025.

Sharptooth: the Pit Bull of dinosaurs

Nice message about kids' urge to grow up. Played a lot more "kiddie" than the first one, especially with the cutesy musical numbers.

Dull, but inoffensively so. Just watched this for Marilyn Monroe. (She was ok.)

🎵But I gotta kn-kn-kn-know wh-what's your fanta-tasy🎵

A solid romantic comedy/fantasy from Cecil Howard and Roberta Findlay with, in the end, a bit of tragic irony. Reliably structured around the fantasies of two people (editors?) who work at a smut publishing firm. The most hilarious part was having the over-the-top prose they're reading as voiceover while the actions described unfolded onscreen. My favorite scenarios were towards the end: a black-and-white one involving classical music; and at the other end of the spectrum, a psychedelic circus orgy. This is my favorite from Findlay and Howard so far, and I look forward to seeing more from them.

Top 50 Unwatched #23

Finally finished the trilogy, and like the first one, the three hours ed by like it was nothing. Lots of great character moments (which led to more familiar memes), a deepening of the drama, all building to the epic Battle of Helms Deep. Just, wow.

An Australian softcore production featuring American porno stars. So ludicrous, cheekily so, that it almost works. Individual moments and scenarios worked for me, but the Dr. Freud character tying the whole thing together wore out his welcome somewhere around the midpoint. In any case, this was a mildly amusing diversion that I'll at least watch one more time (for the commentary track).

Not your average Christmas-type special. After being familiar with Yogi and a few of the other Hanna-Barbera characters, this was the first thing I've actually watched all the way through. Not bad, but nothing amazing either. Excellent voice and character work largely carried a story that went on for at least 20 minutes too long.

🎵Now the moral of this story is cuff yo bitch, 'cause hey...🎵
She might try to steal your future son-in-law.

Decent for a late silent melodrama. A good, subtle makeup for Lon Chaney.

Basically a mid-70's Las Vegas travelogue with some hardcore loops thrown in for good measure. The semi-meta conceit of shooting a porn film was thin but effective. I can see how this might have influenced Jamie Gillis's and John Stagliano's later experiments with gonzo. At least now I'm done with the pornos in this Ray Dennis Steckler set, so no more torturously long extreme closeups of fellatio.

Doug Darush/Wayne Williams (Volta) looked a lot like Adam Driver. #ChangeMyMind

The most coherent of Ray Dennis Steckler's pornos (so far), although that wasn't too high a bar to clear. About as arousing as the other ones, too (which is to say, not at all).

Was wondering what the title had to do with anything, but it's explained pretty early on and is a pun on the scientist Pavlov. Beyond that, Jerry Delony was his usual goofy self, and the sex was set to German military/patriotic music. Giggity. Wasn't much to this, but it was still probably the best of Steckler's Nazi sexploitation flicks.

Watched on Wednesday May 28, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 28, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 27, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 27, 2025.

My wife is one bitch I'd like to beat the shit out of.

That one line and its delivery was the single best thing about this barely-a-feature excuse to showcase some BDSM and orgy footage. There was about as much story as the previous half of this After Hours Cinema double feature, although to its credit, this one was a bit shorter. And it had some schlubbier, hairier Rich Evans* lookalike banter with Annie Sprinkle. Also had Vanessa Del Rio in a small role, but you didn't get to see much of her in action.

* For those who don't know, Rich Evans is one third of the YouTube content creators, RedLetterMedia.

Maybe 5-6 minutes of dialogue tops out of 66 minutes total. Almost hilariously bad acting and a few good sexy shots aside, this was a poor excuse for a movie.

🎵When you can't get it all together, improvise🎵

While not as iconic or memorable as the Christmas ones, the other Rankin/Bass holiday specials still have a charm of their own, this one included. The animation was quality, the voice cast solid (particularly Vincent Price as the villainous Irontail).

Me and Tarantino when the foot stuff came up: 🤢

Not bad for a softcore fetish film. The Peninsula score suited it well.

Never seen a titty twister done like that before...

Perhaps not the most intuitive place to start with Jean Rollin. Light on plot, heavier on the softcore, with a bit of humor for spice. It was ok and short enough not to wear out its welcome. I suspect Rollin's vampire films will better appeal to my sensibilities.

I feel seen. Or attacked. Maybe a bit of both?

Harmless (bland) filler with some pleasant music.

Top 50 Unwatched #24
(Going slightly out of order to accomodate my Lord of the Rings marathon)

No ideals. No faith. Just power. Although hardly novel or deep, this was the essence of Nazism/Fascism. Having seen Caligula before, I was somewhat inured to Tinto Brass's approach to this sort of material, making me that much more surprised when this turned out to be a bit restrained. Granted, there were glimpses of perversity and plenty of flesh on display, but the overall effect was more serious than I was expecting. It was almost not even Nazisploitation, which I kind of liked. So, while this wasn't some unsung masterpiece or anything, this was still quite good, and one of my favorite Tinto Brass films so far.

Death by Dildo

A hilarious riff on whodunnits that is my favorite Golden Age of Porn comedy so far. The sex was fun, but the clever dialogue and running gags more than kept my interest. Most outrageous scene was Kim Pope in a Nazi getup "disciplining" two subs. #TarantinoApproved

So...
Who killed Scarlet?
⚡⚡⚡
Get a Clue!

I hadn't seen this in over 20 years, and back then it was on VHS. So, this time, it was like the first time again (and technically the first time in its proper aspect ratio). This was (and is) amazing epic storytelling. Can't think of anything wrong with it. So many iconic moments (that have been memed to death), the drama, pathos, Peter Jackson's special brand of action, the score, etc. Everything was just right and expertly paced. Going to take my time getting through this trilogy, so I look forward to getting to The Two Towers and The Return of the King the next two weekends. (And then the extended cuts a while after that.)

Well, that was certainly horrific...
(RIP George Wendt)

The ten directors for which I have the most titles. Represented by their most popular film I own and ordered by overall popularity.

• Hot & Saucy Pizza Girls

  Bob Chinn (11)

• Mascara

  Henri Pachard (17)

  Most popular on IMDb: Public Affairs

• The Submission of Emma Marx

  Jacky St. James (15)

  Most popular on IMDb: The Temptation of Eve

• Perspective

  Bree Mills (10)

• Flashpoint

  Brad Armstrong (30)

  Most popular on IMDb: The Preacher's Daughter

• Top Guns

  Robby D. (14)

  Most popular on IMDb: Body Heat

• The Blonde Dahlia

  Stormy Daniels (30)

  Most popular on IMDb: Redemption

• Poetics for Tramps

  Kayden Kross (18)

  Most popular on IMDb: American MILF

• Sex Games

  Hervé Bodilis (18)

• Project Pandora

  Stills by Alan (16)

  Most popular on IMDb: Missing - A Lesbian Crime Story

Every title I own in all formats.

• 'G' Men
• The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
• 101 Dalmatians
• 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
• 102 Dalmatians
• 12 Angry Men
• 13 Assassins
• 1492: Conquest of Paradise
• 1900
• 1917

...plus 6354 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Going to start with the Golden Age of Porn and work my way forward as I watch what's already in my current collection. Will also cap this at 100 titles, updating/replacing titles that I add to my collection.

• Touch Me
• Deep Throat
• Little Sisters
• Marianne Bouquet
• Sex in the Comics
• Tropic of ion
• Sleepy Head
• Lialeh
• The Seduction of Lyn Carter
• The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Inspired by Clark Abraham. Arranged chronologically by release date up to 2023; 2023 and onward is arranged by the day I saw it in theaters. Anything prior to 2007 is my best guess, a hazy memory at best.

• Kull the Conqueror

  Saw with my dad.

• The Emperor's New Groove
• Pearl Harbor

  Saw with my dad.

• The Scorpion King

  Saw with my dad.

• Reign of Fire

  Not 100% sure about this one, but put it here anyway.

• Bruce Almighty

  Again, not 100% sure.

• The ion of the Christ

  Saw with my dad.

• Starsky & Hutch
• Walking Tall

  Saw with my dad.

• Hitch

...plus 203 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Lion King
• The King
• Hamlet
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Coriolanus
• Kiss Me Kate
• Ran
• West Side Story
• The Taming of the Shrew
• Romeo and Juliet

Non-exhaustive list of adult films with the "neo noir" tag on IMDb.

Not on LB:
- Temptation Eyes (1991, Jim Enright)
- Killer (1991, Julian Newmark)
- A Pussy to Die For (1992, Jim Enright)
- Vanity (1992, Jim Enright)
- Vagina Town (1993, Henri Pachard)
- A Kiss Before Dying (1993, Mitch Spinelli)
- No Motive (1994, Buck Adams)
- The Girl in Room 69 (1994, Bosley DeLongprez)
- Chinatown (1994, Jim Enright)
- The Romeo Syndrome (1995, Jim Enright)
- The Drifter (1995, Jim Enright)
- Bed and Breakfast (1995, Kelly Holland)
- Pristine (1996, Nic Cramer)
- Night Vision (1996, Jim Enright)
- Incognito (1998, Bud Lee)
- Lust and Lies (1998, Matt Zane)
- The Kissing Game (1999, Brad Armstrong)
- Perversions (2000, Michael Zen)
- Looker 2: Femme Fatale (2000, Nic Cramer)
- Forbidden Flesh (2000, Marc Cushman)
- Dangerous Flesh (2000, Mike Quasar)
- XXXtortion (2001, Frank Thring)
- The Damned (2002, Marc Cushman)
- Guilty as Sin (2002, Bud Lee)
- House of Lies (2002, David Stanley)
- Cumming Home (2002, Chris Streams)
- Beautiful (2003, Michael Raven)
- The Vault (2003, Nicholas Steele)
- 1 Way Out (2003, David Stanley)
- Digital Daydreams (2004, Francois Clousot)
- Black Widow (2007, Michael Raven)
- Slave to Sin (2007, Marc Cushman)
- Sex to Die For (2007, Marc Cushman)
- Sex Over Easy (2007, Marc Cushman)
- Bring Me the Head of Shawna Leneé (2008, Marc Cushman)
- Dark City (2008, Ethan Kane)
- Stuff Dreams Are Made Of (2008, Marc Cushman)
- Where There's Smoke (2008, Stuart Canterbury)
- Stripped Bare (2008, Kelly Holland)
- Skin City (2008, Paul Machnicki)
- Cheating Sex (2010, Marc Cushman)
- Lesbian Deception (2011, Nica Noelle)
- Suicide Blondes (2011, Max Cool)
- Fatal Seduction (2011, Nica Noelle)
- The Valley (2012, Sam Hain)
- White Witch (2014, Scott Allen)
- Shades of Scarlet (2014, Mike Quasar)
- Family Secrets (2015, Kimberly Kane)
- The Fetish Diaries (2016, Holly Randall)
- Crank XXX (2018, Dick Bush)
- Flawless (2018, Hank Hoffman)
- Exposed (2019, Jacky St. James)
- The Girls Next Door (2019, Jacky St. James)
- What We Do for Money (2019, Shawn Alff)
- Slide (2021, Ricky Greenwood)
- Gods & Sinners (2021, Francois Clousot)
- Is This How You Kiss? (2021, Bree Mills)
- Another Night in the Valley (2021, Ricky Greenwood)
- Let's Play (2023, Bree Mills)
- Risqué Business (2023, Scarlett Sage)
- The Hunger (2024, Claudia Ross)

• Run, Jackson, Run
• Midnight Heat
• Voyeur
• The Return of Johnny Wadd
• Beyond Desire
• Naked Stranger
• Trouble
• Reckless ion
• Cinesex
• Priceless

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A chronological listing of live action adaptations/remakes of official Disney animated features, as well as sequels to the same.

• The Jungle Book
• 101 Dalmatians
• 102 Dalmatians
• Alice in Wonderland
• The Sorcerer's Apprentice
• Maleficent
• Cinderella
• The Jungle Book
• Alice Through the Looking Glass
• Beauty and the Beast

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The month's slate has already been picked, but will update this list as I finish a title.

• The Office Wife
• Party Husband
• Veiled Aristocrats
• Ten Minutes to Live
• The Cabin in the Cotton
• When Ladies Meet
• I Sell Anything
• Guilty Hands
• The Mouthpiece
• Secrets of the French Police

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All currently released theatrical films based on Marvel comics, 2008-present (so, no Disney+ stuff).

• Iron Man
• The Incredible Hulk
• Iron Man 2
• Thor
• Captain America: The First Avenger
• The Avengers
• Iron Man 3
• Thor: The Dark World
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier
• Guardians of the Galaxy

...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Lady Vanishes
• Beauty and the Beast
• The Seventh Seal
• The Silence of the Lambs
• Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
• The Naked Kiss
• Summertime
• The Long Good Friday
• M
• The Wages of Fear

...plus 323 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My favorite sci-fi/fantasy films made before 1980.

• Alien
• A Clockwork Orange
• The Wizard of Oz
• Metropolis
• The Holy Mountain
• Bride of Frankenstein
• Vampyr
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• I Married a Witch
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

My attempt at a comprehensive list of feature-length and short sound films produced in America between 1930 and July 1934 (plus others included on pre-code.com, and Wikipedia's and Letterboxd's other Pre-Code film lists).

I am open to suggestions to add or delete entries.

• The Fresh Lobster
• The Sky: A Film Lesson in "Nature Study"
• Gus Van and Joe Schenck
• Character Studies
• A Naughty Nurse
• A Breeze from the South
• Melodious Moments
• Gus Arnheim and His Ambassadors
• Gus Arnheim and His Cocoanut Grove Orchestra
• Lights of New York

...plus 4046 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

In disc order

• Wild Guitar
• The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?
• The Thrill Killers
• Rat Pfink a Boo Boo
• Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters
• Body Fever
• Sinthia: The Devil's Doll
• Blood Shack
• The Hollywood Strangler Meets the Skid Row Slasher
• Las Vegas Serial Killer

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Volumes 1 & 2, in set order

• Identikit
• I Like Bats
• Footprints on the Moon
• The Other Side of the Underneath
• Butterfly Kiss
• Morgiana
• The Savage Eye
• The Glass Ceiling

Top 10, ranked by my rating

• American Psycho
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• Happiness
• Evil Dead II
• Pulp Fiction
• Little Shop of Horrors
• The Truman Show
• Parasite
• The Menu
• Anora

A chronological list of all the CG-animated Barbie films.

• Barbie in the Nutcracker
• Barbie as Rapunzel
• Barbie of Swan Lake
• Barbie as The Princess & the Pauper
• Barbie: Fairytopia
• Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus
• Barbie Fairytopia: Mermaidia
• The Barbie Diaries
• Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses
• Barbie Fairytopia: Magic of the Rainbow

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

In no particular order

• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• The Prestige
• The Wizard of Oz
• The Double
• The Great Dictator
• Enemy
• Dead Ringers
• Sisters
• The Man in the Iron Mask
• Legend

For whatever reason, there were a lot of movies in 1993 (and 1994) that revolved around some man (or woman) infiltrating an underground/illegal fight ring in order to avenge the death of someone close to them. Or some variation on that theme. It was also the year that UFC was started. This list is dedicated to collating all the films of 1993 through November of 1994 (UFC's first full year) that tell some version of that story. If I missed something, please let me know.

• Best of the Best 2
• Ring of Fire II: Blood and Steel
• Full
• Shootfighter: Fight to the Death
• Angelfist
• Dragon Fire
• Firepower
• Nothing to Lose
• Ring of Steel
• Final Round

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

As complete a list as I can make of Sherlock Holmes on film, from the silent era to the present day.

If I've overlooked any (very likely), please let me know.

• Sherlock Holmes Baffled
• The Confidence Trick
• The Hound of the Baskervilles
• A Study in Scarlet
• Der Hund von Baskerville, 2. Teil - Das einsame Haus
• A Study in Scarlet
• Der Hund von Baskerville, 3. Teil - Das unheimliche Zimmer
• Der Hund von Baskerville, 4. Teil - Die Sage vom Hund von Baskerville
• Sherlock Holmes
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

...plus 102 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• 9 Lives of a Wet Pussy
• Café Flesh
• A Climax of Blue Power
• Come With Me My Love
• Corruption
• Disco Sex
• El Paso Wrecking Corp.
• Exploring Young Girls
• The Fireworks Woman
• A Formal Faucett

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Adult films with "erotic thriller" tag on IMDb (non-exhaustive).

Not on LB:
- Persona (1997, Teri Diver & Tom Elliot)
- Sinister Sister (1997, Jim Enright)
- Erica (2000, Kovi)
- The Wild Circle (2003, Susi Medusa Gottardi)
- Trust No One (2003, Susi Medusa Gottardi)
- Theatre of Lust (2004, Susi Medusa Gottardi)
- House of the She-Wolves (2004, Susi Medusa Gottardi)
- Enjoy the Abyss (2005, Susi Medusa Gottardi)
- Lost Girls (2006, Susi Medusa Gottardi)
- Danger in the Night (2006, Andrea Nobili)
- Draculya: The Girls Are Hungry (2006, Susi Medusa Gottardi)
- Sweet Bitter Moon (2006, Andrea Nobili)
- Fetish Obsessions (2007, Susi Medusa Gottardi)
- The Viper's Kiss (2007, Susi Medusa Gottardi)
- Nessuno deve sapere (2010, Susi Medusa Gottardi)
- Ulterior Motives (2024, James Avalon)

• Lilian, the Perverted Virgin
• Pink Prison
• Mafia Princess
• House of Games
• The Condemned
• Dangerous Women

  Interestingly enough, not currently on IMDb. Looks like a job for me...

• Broken Butterfly: The Perfect Shade of Blu

• 1917
• Lady Macbeth
• Amy
• Rush
• The Bourne Ultimatum
• A Man for All Seasons
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Saltburn
• The Father

The #1 film in the US on the actual day of my birthday (i.e., not the weekend).

List with the overall #1 for the most recent weekend is here.

• Twins
• Back to the Future Part II
• Kindergarten Cop
• Hook
• A Few Good Men
• Schindler's List
• Little Women
• Toy Story
• Evita
• Titanic

...plus 27 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Inspired by Clark Bray's and Matthew Ramsey's own lists.

Because I was born so close to the beginning of the year, the actual release date of most of these titles will be the previous year. For simplicity's sake, if my birthday was not on a weekend, I'll go with the most recent #1.

After completing the list:
With January notorious for being the studios' dumping ground for shitty movies, I was pleasantly surprised to see so many awards contenders-holdovers from the previous month.

List with the #1 from the actual day of my birthday is here.

• Rain Man
• Born on the Fourth of July
• Home Alone
• Hook

  Was overtaken by The Hand That Rocks the Cradle by the end of the weekend.

• A Few Good Men

  Interrupted Aladdin's #1 reign.

• Mrs. Doubtfire
• Dumb and Dumber
• Twelve Monkeys
• Michael
• Titanic

  Would continue as the #1 movie through March.

...plus 27 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All live action, theatrically released feature films based on DC Comics properties and imprints, excluding the DCEU and Gunnverse.

• Superman and the Mole Men
• Batman
• Superman
• Superman II
• Swamp Thing
• Superman III
• Supergirl
• Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
• The Return of Swamp Thing
• Batman

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

My top ten favorite films that are 150 minutes or longer. Limiting it to one per director.

• Dune: Part Two
• The Godfather
• Pulp Fiction
• The Dark Knight
• Braveheart
• The Departed
• Avengers: Endgame
• Heat
• The Green Mile
• Saving Private Ryan

Going to just post my entire schedule this time instead of adding them day by day. All first-time watches, should be some absolute bangers in there.

• Midnight
• The Man with Two Faces
• Black Friday
• The House Across the Bay
• Stranger on the Third Floor
• The Suspect
• My Name Is Julia Ross
• Black Angel
• The Last Crooked Mile
• The Dark Mirror

...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All currently released live-action theatrical feature films based on Marvel Comics that pre-date the MCU and/or fall outside of it. Expanded to include any titles based on Marvel imprints.

• Howard the Duck
• Men in Black
• Blade
• X-Men
• Blade II
• Spider-Man
• Men in Black II
• Daredevil
• X2
• Hulk

...plus 38 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A chronological listing of all the official Disney animated films that have been released theatrically. (Pixar not included)

• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• Pinocchio
• Fantasia
• Dumbo
• Bambi
• Saludos Amigos
• The Three Caballeros
• Make Mine Music
• Fun and Fancy Free
• Melody Time

...plus 53 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Outsiders
• Class
• Sixteen Candles
• Oxford Blues
• The Breakfast Club
• St. Elmo's Fire
• Pretty in Pink
• Blue City
• About Last Night...
• Wisdom

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

All the titles* in Warner Archive Collection's Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy.

*for which there is a Letterboxd page

Those that do not:
Disc 4
- Vaudeville Reels 2-4 (unless the one title on Letterboxd covers them all)

• Between the Acts at the Opera
• Gus Arnheim and His Cocoanut Grove Orchestra

  As of yet (3/15/23), I still have not watched this set. This title could be a duplicate entry for the previous one.

• Tal Henry and His North Carolinians
• Rhythms
• The Opry House
• Red Nichols and His Five Pennies
• Bubbles
• Jack Buchanan with the Glee Quartet
• Fashion's Mirror
• 23 -- Skidoo

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

The fifty titles in my collection that I've gone the longest without watching yet. Details on how long are in the notes.

Removed (because finally watched)
- Other Men's Women (TCM Forbidden Hollywood Collection Volume Three)
- Dr. No (Bond 50 collection)
- Merrily We Go to Hell
- Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis
- Murder at the Vanities / Search for Beauty

UPDATE (11/16/24): The project to watch all the titles currently on this list will begin in January 2025.

• Kundun

  First purchased the DVD in October 2008. Have since upgraded on blu-ray twice.

• Flight of Fury

  Purchased on DVD in September 2008.

• Inland Empire

  First purchased on DVD in July 2009. Upgraded on blu-ray twice, finally with the Criterion Collection release.

• Fear and Desire

  First purchased a Region 2 import DVD in November 2009. Then, the Kino Lorber blu-ray. Upgraded that to the Kino Lorber 4K , which contains a longer pre-release version and all of Kubrick's early shorts, which I've also yet to see.

• The Return of Frank James

  First purchased the DVD in November 2009. Have since upgraded to blu-ray.

• Unstoppable

  Had the DVD since December 2009.

• The Corruptor

  First purchased on DVD in December 2009. Have since upgraded to blu-ray.

• Derailed

  Had the DVD since December 2009.

• Ticker

  Had the DVD since December 2009.

• Bloodfist VII: Manhunt

  Had the DVD since March 2010.

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

Titles added to list as I thought of them, so no particular order.

• Braveheart

  The Battle of Stirling Bridge

• Why Don't You Play in Hell?

  The climactic battle royale

• Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
• Kill Bill: Vol. 1

  The Bride vs. the Crazy 88

• Battle Royale

  The entire movie?

• 13 Assassins

  The climactic siege

• Commando

  Climactic battle/siege at the villain's compound

• Avengers: Endgame

  You know what part...

• The Raid

  Basically the whole thing?

• Deadpool & Wolverine

  Deadpool and Wolverine vs. Deadpool variants

• The Shining
• Die Hard
• Parasite
• Misery
• The Sunset Limited
• The Menu
• Glengarry Glen Ross
• 12 Angry Men
• Rear Window
• Reservoir Dogs

Unlike last year, I didn't plan an entire month ahead of time, so will just add titles to this list as I watch them. Hopefully, I can get at least one a day.

• Un Chien Andalou
• Friday the 13th Part 2
• Island of Death
• Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever
• Blood Tide
• Blind Date
• Infinity Pool
• It Lives Again
• Halloween II
• The Zero Boys

...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Chronological list of all currently released animated titles based on DC comics.

• Superman: Doomsday
• Justice League: The New Frontier
• Batman: Gotham Knight
• Wonder Woman
• Green Lantern: First Flight
• Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
• Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
• Batman: Under the Red Hood
• Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
• All Star Superman

...plus 47 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All of them have to do in some way with TV, but a lot of them are also about the darker side of mass media. Just the way I am, I guess.

• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
• The Truman Show
• Videodrome
• Good Night, and Good Luck.
• A Face in the Crowd
• To Die For
• The Insider
• The Cable Guy
• Natural Born Killers
• Network

Released on my birthday (January 10) somewhere and at least 40 minutes long. No documentaries or short films.

• The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
• Kuffs
• Gunsmoke: To the Last Man
• Elvis and the Colonel: The Untold Story
• Natural Selection
• Murder Between Friends
• Payback
• Welcome to Paradise
• Lebensborn
• Farmer & Chase

...plus 59 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A collection on Criterion Channel that highlights women writers in 1930's Hollywood.

• What Price Hollywood?
• Working Girls
• Finishing School
• Make Way for Tomorrow
• Red-Headed Woman
• Back Street
• Bed of Roses
• Blondie of the Follies
• Dinner at Eight
• Hallelujah

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

• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
• A Streetcar Named Desire
• Happiness
• Onward
• Warrior
• American History X
• The Straight Story
• Marrowbone
• Lilo & Stitch
• Frozen

As complete a listing as I can make of all the Emmanuelle films across all the different series, spinoffs, remakes, etc. Going to leave out any that just traded on the name recognition and weren't part of any of the series.

• Emmanuelle
• Black Emanuelle
• Emmanuelle: The Joys of a Woman
• Emanuelle in Bangkok
• Black Emanuelle 2
• Emanuelle in America
• Sister Emanuelle
• Emanuelle Around the World
• Emmanuelle 3
• Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals

...plus 47 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Full listing comes from IMDb. After all, they do occupy the same fictional universe.

• Cyborg
• Nemesis
• Knights
• Cyborg 2
• Cyborg 3: The Recycler
• Nemesis 2: Nebula
• Nemesis 3: Time Lapse
• Omega Doom
• Nemesis 4: Death Angel
• Cyborg Nemesis: The Dark Rift

  This one was only ever screened in a rough cut but not finished before Pyun's death. Unlikely now that it ever will be finished or seen.

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Going to limit this to movies I watched while I was 12 and under, and with classifications PG or less (or an unrated equivalent).

• A Little Princess
• Charlotte's Web
• Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
• Black Beauty
• Wee Sing in Sillyville
• Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
• Pippi Longstocking
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• Dennis the Menace
• The Pagemaster

The NC-17 rating replaced the X rating in 1990 as the X rating was not trademarked by the MPA and had become more identified with the porn industry.

Arranged chronologically by release date. No claims to completeness, but will try to keep it updated.

• The Dolls

  Rated in 1991. (So says Wikipedia...)

• Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands
• The Secret Sex Lives of Romeo and Juliet

  Rated NC-17 in 1990.

• Tropic of Cancer

  Originally rated X; re-rated NC-17 in 1992 for strong language and sex-related dialogue.

• Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

  Received NC-17 rating in 1990. Initially rated X, but re-rated after the rating symbol was adopted that year.

• Pink Flamingos

  1997 re-release rated NC-17 for a wide range of perversions in explicit detail.

• The Canterbury Tales

  Originally rated X in 1979; name of rating changed to NC-17 in 1991.

• Last Tango in Paris

  Originally rated X; re-rated NC-17 in 1997 for some explicit sexual content.

• La Grande Bouffe

  Rated NC-17 for some explicit sexuality.

• Arabian Nights

  Rated X in 1979; name of rating changed to NC-17 in 1990.

...plus 82 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Thirst traps for days. No particular order.

• The Long, Hot Summer
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Cool Hand Luke
• Body Heat
• Top Gun
• A Time to Kill
• In the Heat of the Night
• Dog Day Afternoon
• 12 Angry Men
• Pain & Gain

Top ten, ranked by favorite-ness. Going to exclude some (potentially) obvious picks because I think of them as a different genre.

1. High Noon
2. Strangers on a Train
3. A History of Violence
4. Nobody
5. Videodrome
6. Surviving the Game
7. Blue Ruin
8. Source Code
9. Game Night
10. Frailty

Every feature-length horror film that Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee did together at Hammer Films and other assorted studios. Includes sequels which they may or may not have appeared in.

• The Curse of Frankenstein
• Dracula
• The Revenge of Frankenstein
• The Hound of the Baskervilles
• The Mummy
• The Brides of Dracula
• The Evil of Frankenstein
• The Gorgon
• The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
• Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

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

Chronological list of every Disney Channel original movie, through all iterations. (Excludes content exclusive to Disney+.)

• Tiger Town
• Gone Are the Dayes
• Love Leads the Way: A True Story
• Lots of Luck
• The Undergrads
• The Blue Yonder
• The Parent Trap II
• Spot Marks the X
• Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills
• Strange Companions

  Premiered in Canada on December 4, 1983.
  Premiered on the Disney Channel on February 28, 1987.

...plus 153 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My top ten favorite films dealing with fans/fandom.

1. The King of Comedy
2. Misery
3. May December
4. Ingrid Goes West
5. All About Eve
6. Hairspray
7. Perfect Blue
8. Play Misty for Me
9. Antiviral
10. Last Action Hero

An indispensable part of my childhood media experience. Thank you to the elementary school teachers who used these in class, whether for a learning break or for musical enjoyment.

While these are on DVD, there is an official Wee Sing YouTube channel. And I made this handy dandy playlist

• Wee Sing Together
• Wee Sing: King Cole's Party
• Grandpa's Magical Toys
• Wee Sing in Sillyville

  Out of the whole series, probably the one I the most.

• The Best Christmas Ever!
• Wee Sing in the Big Rock Candy Mountains
• Wee Sing in the Marvelous Musical Mansion
• The Wee Sing Train
• Wee Sing Under the Sea