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Watched on Tuesday June 10, 2025.

I mean, there's really one thing you can do after making this movie.

Watched on Saturday June 7, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday June 3, 2025.

Watched on Monday June 2, 2025.

“Galoshes depress me.”
“Yes. They don’t even look like shoes.”

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 19, 2025.

Do you think, sometime in 1999, a young Seth Macfarlane stumbled out of a showing of this into the daylight, wild-eyed and inspired?

It was an absolute treat to watch this with a delighted audience, in a converted rowhome, with Charles Roxburgh’s head silhouetted against the bottom middle third of the screen. (It’s OK, I didn’t miss any crucial visual information.) The venue was a couple doors down from The Met, where Philly’s favorite regional rock band The Hooters (our equivalent to the River Mud Warriors) were playing a concert, which I thought added a nice bit of synchronicity. When art and community come together, it’s a beautiful thing. Why not a Riverbeast?

Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.

Blackly funny, but not in a glib way at all. Tom Metzger's sleazy "manager" (and federal handler?) sounds exactly like Jello Biafra.

"Yeah, I'm mad at you. I'm not gonna invite you to my birthday party."

Up there with Chinatown and Jackie Brown in the "he listened but he didn't learn" canon

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 2, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 29, 2025.

Unsettled, unsettling, generally strange. An almost fable-like exploration of the psychic rot within Y2K-era American prosperity. Peter Stormare projects the worst vibes imaginable in this.

The Farrellys attempt to muscle in on the post-40 Year Old Virgin studio comedy boom with mixed to poor results. I really don’t miss the era where Robs Corddry and/or Riggle showed up in every movie to yell punch-up jokes.

Truly refreshing lack of fucking around. I hope the antiwoke guy(s?) from Mumford and Sons saw this and it really hurt his feelings.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Stink Badillac. The archetypal "Siskel and Ebert complaining about tonal inappropriateness" movie.

Watched on Thursday April 17, 2025.

Watched on Thursday April 17, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 16, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 15, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 14, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 14, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 13, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

Watched on Thursday April 10, 2025.

This review may contain spoilers.

The only way the twist could be better is if the little kid had Esther from Orphan syndrome

They should replace the state flag of New Jersey with the Happiness poster

Being white ethnic seems like so much fun

Watched on Wednesday April 2, 2025.

Has the stuff of life in every minute

Nooooo thank you, lol. I predict that A24 will make a movie with these exact vibes within the next two years.

Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.

The best kind of comedy is the kind that, while you’re watching it, makes almost all other comedy seem completely pointless. Every young adult should have an IDM phase and an edgy humor phase, I’m grateful that I got to kill two birds with one stone w/ this one back in the day. (Also grateful I saw this before I got the impression that Million Dollar Extreme were doing anything original or unique.)

Whenever Rock Hudson and Lauren Bacall are left alone together, the loudness and ugliness of the world around them is dampened. But once Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone are left alone in a room together, the world around them destabilizes on a molecular level.

Watched on Saturday March 22, 2025.

Dickie Goodman jumpscare

Watched on Monday March 10, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 9, 2025.

Why did Mickey 18 come out of the printer all horny and angry? Why does the French lady disappear from the movie and show up at the end for five seconds with a butch girlfriend? Was doing the Trump lips Ruffalo’s idea or did Bong Joon-Ho tell him to do that? Why are all of this guy’s American movies about snow and creatures?

Quibbles aside, it is nice to see a movie that ends with the unambiguous victory of Wokeness. I think if anybody in it acted like a human being I would find it more emotionally resonant though. Reminded me of the bad Wes Andersons

Watched on Wednesday March 5, 2025.

I would hate Kevin Smith so much if he wasn't from New Jersey. However, he is from New Jersey, so that's my dog right there.

Watched on Monday February 24, 2025.

Films by foreign directors that play around with the mythology of the U.S.A.

• Lemonade Joe
• Model Shop
• Whity
• Chinatown
• News from Home
• Atlantic City
• Ragtime
• Human Highway
• Paris, Texas
• Bagdad Cafe

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

• The Incredible Time-Travels of Henry Osgood
• Between Two Women
• Amazing Stories
• Second Sight
• Jury Duty: The Comedy
• It's My Party
• Slappy and the Stinkers
• Board Heads
• The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy
• Second Best

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

quaaludes, hangovers, infidelity, divorce, the damn kids, self-realization, career woes, dick don't work, steely dan, dionne warwick, the sixties, college, white muslin, white wine, long tall glasses filled up to yar, one more expensive kiss-off, summers in the hamptons, winters at the ski resort, a perpetual state of by the ocean, haze, gauze, too lazy to do coke, too old to fuck all night, the gradual evolution of the shoulder pads and blazer power suit

• FM
• Moment by Moment
• Same Time, Next Year
• 10
• A Perfect Couple
• Chilly Scenes of Winter
• Starting Over
• The Main Event
• A Change of Seasons
• HealtH

...plus 86 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

the jangly and unpredictable end of oscarbait, the carell and clint complex, the five-day limbo between christmas and new year’s day. your uncle might have slept through it, but you know a film maudit when you see one! 2015-2019 approx.

• Foxcatcher
• Last Flag Flying
• Welcome to Marwen
• mother!
• Allied
• Downsizing
• A Star Is Born
• The 15:17 to Paris
• The Mule
• Richard Jewell

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

• Splendor in the Grass
• Eegah
• Vampir Cuadecuc
• That Most Important Thing: Love
• Creature from Black Lake
• Logan's Run
• Halloween
• Gregory's Girl
• My Beautiful Laundrette
• Beyond Therapy

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

• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• Piranha
• Magic
• Coma
• Someone's Watching Me!
• The Swarm
• The Mafu Cage
• The Medusa Touch
• The Brood
• The Amityville Horror

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

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2WKSjgJsCE

• The One
• Double Team
• The 6th Day
• Face/Off
• Knock Off
• Blackjack
• Simon Sez
• Swordfish
• Ghosts of Mars
• Exit Wounds

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

acclaimed auteurs go sentimental/classicist/“a love letter to hollywood” after a success or two. musical numbers not a prerequisite but common, not all of these are bad in fact most of them are pretty good. I Promise I Will Never Add La La Land To This List

• The Moon in the Gutter
• New York, New York
• One from the Heart
• Mo' Better Blues
• 1941
• Always
• Popeye
• The Lovers on the Bridge
• The Fortune
• At Long Last Love

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

• Star Trek: The Motion Picture
• Grandview, U.S.A.
• Streets of Fire
• Condorman
• Xanadu
• Can't Stop the Music
• Herbie Goes Bananas
• The Nude Bomb
• The Island
• Under the Rainbow

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

ben gazarra optional but preferred

i’ve never seen HE GOT GAME but if this happens in that lmk

• Buffalo '66
• Belly
• The Big Lebowski
• Snake Eyes

suggestions welcome

• Abby
• Beyond the Door
• The Sentinel
• Audrey Rose
• Exorcist II: The Heretic
• Ruby
• Enter the Devil
• The Omen

• Top Secret!
• The Man with Two Brains
• Smorgasbord
• The Bellboy
• Hot Rod
• The Brothers Solomon
• The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
• National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch
• Billy Madison

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

• Black Hawk Down
• August: Osage County
• Safe House
• Swordfish
• Charlotte's Web
• The Pelican Brief
• Stealth
• Baby Boom
• Bandidas
• The Accidental Husband

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

• Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
• Blade: Trinity
• Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
• Born in Flames
• Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
• The Thief and the Cobbler
• Rebel in the Rye
• Gossip
• Made for TV

• The Jerk
• Rio Bravo
• Southland Tales

• Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker
• Scream for Help
• Pin
• Julie Darling

mubbedysay, mubbedyah

• Pie in the Sky
• Race the Sun
• Matilda
• The Theory of Flight
• Ice Age
• Standing Still
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith
• Curious George
• Alpha and Omega
• Sheep & Wolves

or: white spats

you know, this kinda movie. dinner party downturns, double-date doom, a punch-up at a wedding. suggestions welcome

• Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
• Carnage
• The Wife
• The Last Supper
• The Oath
• The Overnight
• The Invitation
• It's a Disaster
• Dinner with Friends with Brett Gelman and Friends
• Dinner with Family with Brett Gelman and Brett Gelman's Family

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

• Babe: Pig in the City
• Shortbus
• How to Talk to Girls at Parties
• Raising Arizona

  or whatever genre x's "more fun in the new world" is

• Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie
• Josie and the Pussycats
• Spider-Man 2
• Spider-Man 3
• Girl 6

a companion to justin laliberty's list "pre-giuliani dirty old new york." (https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/jlalibs/list/pre-giuliani-dirty-old-new-york/)
the noo yawker's guide to corporatism, centrism, commodification, commercialization, and cleanliness.
timeline: 1994-01 (giuliani) and 02-13 (bloomberg).
good films are technically allowed, but studio dross/macrobudget ephemera will be prioritized. (post-911 jingoism/tribalism and gentrification-centric hipster flix are also strongly encouraged.)
"it's the end, the end of the 70s / it's the end, the end of the century"

• 'R Xmas
• 13 Going on 30
• 1408
• 15 Minutes
• 25th Hour
• 27 Dresses
• 4:44 Last Day on Earth
• Above the Rim
• Adam
• Addicted to Love

...plus 312 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.