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I had no idea what this film was about going into it. The title intrigued me, I hadn’t even seen a trailer for it. This is exactly how I like, how I prefer, to see a movie the first time: knowing as little about it as I can. The cinematography is gorgeously intimate. The performances are subtle and nuanced. The songs are rich and sweet, poignant and catchy. This was an absolute joy to watch. A brilliant film of complex emotions and vibrant personalities. I just wish it had been longer. Like another little mermaid, I just wanted more.

Definitely derived from a work by William S Burroughs. Wild and trippy period piece with music which is so anachronistic that it only adds to the surreal dreamlike quality of the whole experience. CGI backgrounds that look painted, or is it painted backgrounds that look CGI - again this just adds to the whole thing being a drug induced fever dream. Yep, William S Burroughs.

So this is a great episode. A brilliant ending for a spectacular season. I was so happy to see Anita back, I literally screamed. And I really have nothing to complain about … except Ncuti Gatwa’s departure. I’m more than a little pissed about this. Gatwa was brilliant as The Doctor. The seasons were too short, but otherwise I adored his performance. Definitely one of my favorites. Not sure what to make of the new person, as they’re coming aboard the TARDIS with baggage so to speak. On one hand, I’m rather hoping that we will have a holiday special and then that will result in “fixing” all the stuff broken and misaligned since The Doctor and Donna screwed up with Isaac Newton and created Mavity, with the resultant need for a degeneration back to Gatwa for next season. But I do want this to be more than just stunt casting. On the other hand, I feel like it’s all being set up for a sort of reunion of the 14th and 16th Doctors. I mean, at this point how can we not.

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Every time. Every single time. Even knowing what’s coming. Every single time, when Alberto comes running to Luca’s rescue with that big umbrella, I burst into tears. 
Luca + Alberto FOREVER! 
I love this film. 
Perfect way to start off Pride Month.

Lots to process! Again! How did this all happen? How do The Rani survive? How did she create this Wish World? Why this particular warped reality? Omega? Here we go again! Interesting in all this as it was implied that the new Disney+ series was another soft reboot, but there so much calling back to classic Who in this season that it feels like it’s never ended. Rogue! Susan! UNIT! Ruby! Belinda! The Rani! Omega! Well, the one thing this new Disney+ version of Doctor Who has been remains intact. And that is it is unpredictable. The final ending is more than a bit disappointing, so we’ll have to see where this is going. It seems we’re headed back to David Tennant eventually at this point, one way or another, it is now inevitable. And RTD has definitely set that up. Will it get wrapped up in a holiday special? Or will it take a season to … fix this? So The (Sixteenth) Doctor goes looking for The (Tenth) Doctor and finds The (Fourteenth) Doctor. Do we get Rogue as a companion during this? Where’s Susan? What’s going on with that? Will they ever fix the “Mavity” problem (yes, we’ve been a smidge out of sync with reality since that happened)? Where is all this headed now?

This is the kind of thing that the Mission: Impossible franchise should have become, not that trashy shit with Tom Cruise. There’s no huge ridiculous chase scenes or insane action sequences that are only included to showcase a need to uphold the star’s ego and fragile masculinity.

A spiritual coming of age film about a boy trying to deal with his grief. I was hoping there would be something more to this, but there really is not. Uninspired and underdeveloped.

Based on a documentary that focuses on the rescue of a downed diver in the North Sea, this film is a little too homogenized and glossy for its own good. Solid performances and some really nice cinematography don’t really add much to a script strained to keep things moving for longer than the rescue took. Good, but not great.

This is not quite a found footage type of film, but it has some similarities. It is also not quite a haunted house type of movie, but there are definitely similarities. It is certainly not a time travel thriller, but there are some elements that are very reminiscent. It certainly has nothing in common with main stream horror films since this is a slow build and is really about the characters, not about body count or gore. In that respect there are similarities to The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. Definitely a lot of Shyamalan influences going on here. There is even some nods to the film Here. But this is still a remarkably unique and original film, in no small part to the way the cinematography is handled, and that is what makes this film work.

Set up as a stereotypical slasher movie, stereotypical to the point of cliche actually. And then it twists into something very different, only to devolve into exactly what it was initially trying to separate itself from. Sure there are some nifty twists, but it is still just another cliche slasher horror film.

Another fun filled frolic with music, mayhem, and muppets.

A friend recommended this to me. I mean, it’s Clive Barker so I’m sure it’s at least entertaining. It starts off very promising, but goes down hill really fast. Unfortunately, the CG effects are awful. I kept trying to talk myself out of this observation by reminding myself it was released in 2008. But they’re just so video game quality that it’s laughable. The characters are fleshless and uninteresting. It just gives me the feeling that Barker may not translate well into movies.

One of the most ambitious “muppet” projects ever conceived. A wonderful work of art.

I just found myself rewatching this, without actually realizing I was rewatching it. Which actually makes me realize that my previous review (“A fairly straightforward (no pun intended) documentary on contemporary LGBTQ+ representation in media. Nothing groundbreaking or earth-shaking, but interesting and well presented nonetheless. Basically a nice overview or introduction to the topic.”) is pretty darn accurate. And it makes me wonder if in another year or two, I’ll find myself watching this again, having forgotten that I have already seen it.

Not quite enough here. I feel like there needed to be some consequence or fallout. But as a depiction of “bro culture” it is pretty well done. Still, feel like it was missing something.

The Muppets can get away with a ton of stuff that other comedy films simply shouldn’t even try. Great musical numbers, but this one still doesn’t work as well as their first feature film.

This such an honest, endearing, heart-warming romp from start to finish. There is such joy and humor in the simplicity of the whole thing. Presented as the Muppets origin story, this film nothing but 100% lies. There is only slight nod to their roots in Public TV (shout out to the one and only Big Bird) and not even a mention of The Muppet Show (although after their epic road trip they probably made the movie and then the show, so I guess it’s implied). In any case it’s fun and entertaining.

I wanted to enjoy this more than I did. The first half of the film is - well, it’s tedious. I got just a bit over half way through and was ready to completely give up on it. I shut it off walked away and was pretty much done with it. The cinematography is nice, the music is good, the editing is fine, but the characters are all ill conceived, poorly written, and clumsily performed. And the world building is nothing but a social commentary extrapolation of today’s screwed up Republican Party. Mark Ruffalo’s portrayal of a combination of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush (take your pick, or even both), and First Lady Donny the whiney toddler is probably the most uninspired performance of his career. Toni Collette pulls off her role as the power behind the throne, but she far too underutilized until the second half of the film, and there she really shines. I’m adding an entire star to my rating just for her. And after I decided to go ahead and finish watching the film, as I had already gotten half way through it, I discovered that things did eventually get a bit more interesting. But far too little and far too late in the film. Unfortunately not even Collette could salvage anything from Robert Pattinson’s performance as the titular protagonist, which is, unsurprisingly, underwhelming. Honestly, the native creatures of the planet are the most interesting thing in the entire movie. So I’d only give this 2-stars, but I’m giving it 3 just for Collette being as awesome as she always seems to be.

Okay, let’s start with the big monkey in the room. Yes, I know this is NOT a Planet of the Apes movie, but it’s got a bloody talking (and singing) monkey for f#cks sake! His stage persona, and what he becomes as his career progresses, was a party animal, so it all rather makes undeniable sense. Seriously though, can we move on now? The big number two for me is: I’ve never been a fan of musicals, except those that are more fantasy or wish fulfillment than about trying to have some street gang sing and dance about how tough they are. But that appears to be changing for me, I seem to be gaining a greater appreciation for musicals as I get older. Although it is also about the types of music being used (and about the relevance of the material I suppose), and more recent musicals are not afraid of using popular music instead of the traditional style of show tunes. And then there’s my third issue with this particular movie: while I have a faint recollection of Take That, I really have only the vaguest memory of Robbie Williams. Neither were quite to my tastes back in the day. This is all to say that I have no investment in the story of this particular “famous person.” I’m not really sure why this film caught my attention. Well, no, I’m lying there. As soon as I saw the previews with a talking and singing monkey I was interested. I am, after all, a HUGE fan of Planet of the Apes (except that awful one by Tim Burton, what a mess). Even though I could barely recognize Robbie Williams from any John, Harry, or Dick (or hairy dick for that matter), the Ape element is what made me really want to see this. I was really interested in seeing if they could actually pull off such a conceptual gimmick. As for the film? Great. Very entertaining. Fantastical musical numbers. The cinematography is a brilliant blend of the whimsically ethereal and a kind of gritty English realism. Sequences move from scene to scene in a dreamlike train wreck that keeps your attention. The whole film is a juxtaposition of the surreal and a harsh reality of stuff that has been done before: early success, some really dark times, addiction, depression, self-destructive behavior, and even fighting his inner demons (depicted literally) of self doubt, self hatred, self ridicule, etc. and then how he reconciles with himself. Cliched musical biopic on a singer I barely anything know about? I’ll skip. But the whole monkey gimmick makes the otherwise clichéd narrative work. It grabs you by a chokehold to the throat in the first moments and doesn’t let go until the credits roll. Basically: your ass is Robbie’s for two hours and you WILL be entertained.

First rewatched, and my original review stands: Well, no surprise that the anti-woke losers are savaging a film with a person of color as the lead, a person of color as the sidekick, and a big red monster as the president. Yep, no surprise that the MAGA crowd doesn’t like this one. Yawn, you people are tedious, too sensitive, too fragile, and just plain deplorable. 
For me, this is another fun superhero thrill ride. The narrative picks up threads from The Eternals, The Incredible Hulk and, of course, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. We get more information on the transformed and deceased Celestial, the introduction of adamantium, a new Falcon, several new villains, the return of Isiah Bradley, and a new Hulk. The whole thing is woven together quite nicely, not as tight as Captain America: The Winter Soldier, but still lots of fun. What’s not to enjoy? Yeah, Sam Wilson is not Steve Rogers. And you know what? I couldn’t be happier about that.

I thought I’d seen this before, but I think I may have only seen clips of it somewhere. Or, if I had seen it, I seem to have blocked most of it from my memory. And perhaps I can now understand why. First off, this is an excellent movie. The premise is farcical, but the resulting emotional journey is far from that. They are some truly devastating moments in this narrative, even though the overall tone is fairly light-hearted. If it sounds complicated, it is. Subtle performances, nice cinematography, human relationships are center stage, it all adds up to be a beautiful family drama. But it is also mired in the early 90s mentality in which it was made, so it does feel dated, but not quite so much that it becomes a “period piece.”

Not quite hitting the mark for comedy, but too light for just labeling this film as a drama. It walks a fine line between the too. And it walks a fine line on social commentary as well. But then that is exactly what the film is trying to do. The film flips racial expectations on their butt, but it also flips gender expectations there as well. A family moves from the Brooklyn to a suburban small college town in Washington state. Once there, removed from their comfortable backgrounds, the seems start to show as the family encounters the subtextual racism inherent in suburban small college towns across the US. The whole thing is pointlessly trivial and utterly believable. Excellent performances from the leads, some nice cinematography that illustrates the unobtrusive nature of living in a suburban small college town. This film should be hitting all the buttons, unfortunately it doesn’t. Nothing quite works, the dysfunction to which the family succumbs is the same that the audience feels. The filmmakers, perhaps, did their job of conveying that dysfunction a bit too well. Still, it’s a good film that moves at an almost glacial pace, allowing plenty of time to understand the weight of each scene.

While superficially entertaining, there is little substance to this glossy overview of the development of the Marvel Studios and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The biggest problem though, at least for me, is how Jack Kirby is presented as little more than and assistant to Stan Lee in the early years of Marvel as covered in the first episode. That really set the tone for me, and it was not a good tone at all. Rather like ordering a big juicy steak and getting it, only to find that the side facing you looks to be full of meat. But when you flip it over, the other side is nothing but fat and gristle. Presentation is everything, except when you find out theres very little meat to go with your potatoes and broccoli.

Second viewing: I enjoyed it even more the second time around. I love that the “big bad” is depression. Beautiful. We need more superhero films about the psychology of what’s going on.

A real slice of ‘Merica before it knew it was MAGA. Almost agonizingly painful to watch, but the performance by Justin Long as Zeke (with some ridiculous assistance from his closeted gay friend, Shirts) wins this film an extra star.

This is, I believe, the first time I’ve seen this film in a theater. I had tried to get my parents to take me to see it when it was first out and they refused. I never could figure out why. I mean, I’d talked my mother into taking me to see The Exorcist the year before, so I don’t really see the problem. Still scratching my head over this 50 years later. Anyway, classic Monty Python comedy. Great stuff. It was weird seeing it with an audience because they were all laughing at all the scatological humor and I was laughing at the meta jokes and the social commentary. That kind of juxtaposition always make me feel like I’m existing in a slightly parallel reality.

One of those rare musicals that I really enjoy.

Going into this one, I did not have extremely high expectations. Most of these characters are not among my favorites from the other films. Not to say that I do not like these characters, they just are not among my particular favorites. So, I was very pleased with how this played out on screen. For a cast that had been chosen for other completely different projects, they have a lot of really wonderful chemistry. There are lovely comedic bits, well developed action sequences, an entertaining narrative and some strong emotional moments as well. A really wonderful film. And I also loved that there a some jabs at the toxic-incel-fanboys that review bomb anything they think is “too woke.” There needs to be more toxic-incel-fanboy shaming in everything.

This is kind of a hybrid film. It has clips of interviews with people who were there interspersed with the fictionalized footage of the events. I’m guessing that the intent was to add authenticity to the narrative in order to draw the viewer into the lives of the characters, but it actually has the opposite effect. These commentary segments end up being distracting and pulling the viewer out of the story. The performances are fine, there’s a lot of heart felt warmth from the entire cast. It is as if they wanted to give everything they had to the film, unfortunately the portrayals feel a bit too characterized, a bit too rehearsed. I also found it a little hard to believe that the kid loses his pants and his shoes fall apart in the first 24 hours, but he keeps his boxer shorts intact through all nine days of his ordeal. I mean, I suppose that’s what happened, but it’s actually really difficult to accept. Lovely cinematography. Nice music. And one last comment, I could not help but find myself thinking of the book by Stephen King The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon which a simpler premise. I’m left wondering how much of this story inspired King to tell his. In the end, it’s not a great film, but certainly one that a lot of young teens could benefit from watching.

From a historical or biographical standpoint this film is ludicrously inaccurate. But what gets me is that several of these songs really speak to me, or rather sing to me. Those songs (not all of them) would get a 5-star rating from me, and if you watch the bonus feature version that is just the music and only the music, it’s brilliant and wonderful. And so many of the songs are easily interpreted as LGBTQ+ themes. Unfortunately the rest of the narrative drags the film down. Still it’s very entertaining.

Fascinating look at the history of the US through a slightly different lens. While history is pretty clear that Nixon was a criminal, Ford was an incompetent tool, but the war crimes of Reagan, Bush, and Shrub (aka Bush 2) are laid bare. But it doesn’t stop there. The narrow minded shortsightedness of Truman, Johnson, Clinton, and Obama are also examined. It is also refreshing to see someone actually talk about how the military industrial complex basically owns the government and controls the decisions that are made. At least most of the time. Sadly it ends in 2012, while Obama was still in office, so we don’t get anything about the absolutely most incompetent and treasonous president of them all.

There’s a moment or two of some really cringe worthy acting but otherwise this is simply lovely. I wish I could have seen films like this when I was a kid.

What was the point?

Surprisingly, even worse than the first one. The filmmakers did the typical sequel cliches of reusing the previous film’s plot and doubling down on all the worst aspects of the original. I don’t even think I can stomach trying to watch the next two films in this franchise.

Nope. Yawn. Boring. Couldn’t finish it. Nothing but a steaming pile of cliches. Unoriginal. Uninspired. Uninteresting.

Episode 1: Brilliant. Powerful. Amazing performances from the entire cast. Excellent. (4.5/5)

Episode 2: Wow, what a mess. After how good the first episode was, this was just chaos. Perhaps the filmmakers were just illustrating how the case against Jamie was floundering, or perhaps they were trying to depict life in a school. I’m not really sure, but for me the performances were all over the place and very uneven. Some people were believable, others were ludicrously bad. The whole episode was too performed and frankly unbelievable. (3/5) 

Episode 3: Wow. Just, wow. That has got to be the single most powerful episode on any series I have ever seen. I don’t know if I can ever sit through that again. Shit that felt real. Seriously. (5/5) 

Episode 4: Another powerful and emotional episode. Absolutely phenomenal camera work. Brilliant performances. (4/5) 

Aside from the second episode, which just felt staged and artificial when compared with the rest of the episodes, this series is astonishingly good. Brilliant performances. Astonishing camerawork.

This may be surprising, but I have never seen this before. And I found it more than a little offensive. Making all cats out to be evil and nasty, well except for that particular one. I get the analogy that was intended, but it’s still pretty racist and offensive. No cats in America, I am definitely offended. 😾😿

Not what I was expecting at all. This is not a glorification of war, nor is it a condemnation of war. This is a realistic portrayal of how war effects even those who are not combatants. Gorgeous and lush locations, with simple but effective cinematography, further sets this film apart from the usual films depicting warfare. Nicu, the film’s central character, is not worldly, he lives a simple life in the forests of mountainous Romania. But when his beloved horses are stolen by Nazi soldiers, he sets out to get them and get them to safety. But the war keeps coming back into his life in increasingly disastrous ways. These events change him and set him in direct conflict with his past. A beautiful and troubling film.

Cute. Fun. Light-hearted. But nothing real substantial about it. Good film to show the homophobic bro dudes.

Promotional teaser to get audiences interested and prepared for Lynch’s “adaptation” of Dune.

There was a tendency in the 80s and 90s to make queer films that didn’t offer much the way of validation. One the love interests would change their mind, or reveal they were just experimenting. I feared this was going to be like those films. So, while it is not exactly a happy ending, the teens part as friends. We’ve come a long way. And yet we still have so far to go. In any case, a good film. Entertaining. And some lovely cinematography.

This is a breath of fresh air against the stranglehold that toxic white men with savior complex have on the entire revenge genre of action films. I am absolutely sick of the cliched troupe of white-hetero-man-can-do-no-wrong-and-everyone-else-in-the-world-is-an-incompetent-buffoon. This works because Rami Malek is a brilliant actor and the casting department did a fantastic job. If you’re wanting to see yet another non-stop action piece of shoot-em-up spy thriller, don’t bother seeing this. You’ll be disappointed. If you are exhausted with that kind of film and want something more mature but still have that hero-gets-even mentality - well, then this is exactly what you’re looking. If you’re one of those fragile toxic masculine bro-dudes, go watch Tom Cruise pretending to be tough or Jason Stratham in yet another mind numbing piece of trash, this is not for you.

I am a self identified POTA aficionado. I love all things POTA. The movies. The TV shows. The comic books. The books and novelizations. It’s all just apey-goodness to me. But this particular film is … well … it’s terrible. Between making Helena Bonham Carter somehow look like Janet Jackson (yeah that’s not racist at all) and Mark Wahlberg’s laughable attempts at acting, this film is an unintentional tragedy of cinematic proportions. Between the ludicrous narrative and the terrible script, this is nightmarish cluster f*ck. And don’t even get me started on the way they launched ape actors through the air. What the holy hell are you people thinking? If you’re trying for camp you missed the target by about an astronomical unit (that’s about 93,000,000 miles you dim witted goons). This wasn’t the first Tim Burton film I was disappointed with, but it’s the first one that made me question both his drug use and his sanity. And I did lose an enormous amount of respect for him as a director. The production of this film is just one bad decision after another.

While not as good as either of the previous films in this trilogy, this is still a fine entry in the Planet of the Apes franchise. But like some of the other films, I feel like it’s a little misnamed. This one should have been either something like The Great Ape Escape (although that is too cheesy and doesn’t use the Planet of the Apes title formula necessary for the franchise) or maybe Exodus on the Planet of the Apes. In any case, this wraps up the Caesar trilogy and it’s a fitting, if slightly predictable and more than a bit cliched, combat movie. The only thing that makes it work is the presence of the Apes. If this was just a human vs human combat film, it would have been terrible.

Another brilliant film and jewel for the POTA franchise. This latter films are focusing on the characters more so than the action and it really helps strengthen the overall narrative. Not quite up to the level of Rise, but almost there.

When I first saw this in the theater, I had some trepidations. I absolutely love the original classic sequence of POTA films. I also really enjoy the TV series. But the Burton reboot film was so bad, I feared that the franchise was going to end there. This film goes where no other POTA has gone before. And it does so in ways that almost make it not even a POTA film. Almost. The Burton film may have been a reboot, but Rise is a cinema masterpiece that completely reconceptualizes the concept, removing the fantastical elements, making the core concept believable and even topical. This is science fiction at its best.

Ever once in a while I take a chance and watch some typical macho action flic just to see what the stoic incels are into these days. And is definitely what they would seem to be enjoying. White savior mentality. Messiah complex. Tough guy with a loyal heart fantasy. This is some truly moronic dumb ass shit. This will definitely appeal to the generation of boys raised on Wolverine comic books. “I’m the best there is at what I do, but what I do isn’t pretty.” Yes, Wolverine you’re such an badass. Too bad you can’t seem to convince yourself of that. Every single person in this film is a complete feckless idiot, no one is at all capable of making a smart or rational decision. Not a single person. Except, of course, for our dear white savior macho male lead who is cleaning house and taking names. And he, of course, doesn’t make a single mistake. This was a completely ludicrous and absurd film that deserves to be forgotten as soon as it’s over and hopefully that will happen to me. All I want to is that I’ve seen it so it won’t rewatch it at some point in the future. So why didn’t I give this garbage a half-star? Well, it is decently made. The filmmakers did put together a nice looking film. The story is manure that stinks like only dog shit can, but it is mindlessly entertaining and kept me interested. If for no other reason than to see if my predictions for where the whole thing was going was actually going to go there. And yes, there wasn’t a single surprise or twist that wasn’t easily predictable. So, they writers did follow through on everything I expected. Unfortunately, that also makes for a rather boring film. Still, it’s better than most Zack Snyder movies, I suppose.

While not the worst of the Planet of the Apes films, it does add a lot of the franchise while simultaneously wreaking havoc with the basic concept. This has to be one of the single most bizarre and unusual sequels ever made. Usually sequels try to rework the success of the original, which this one does, by taking the successful components and just repurposing them. But here a brand new threat is introduced in the appearance of telepathic humans. The addition of this human mutant faction dilutes the impact of the entire premise, but it also allowed for the development of the entire concept to evolve and change through three subsequent sequels as well as a fairly successful comic book magazine series. Additionally, it is worth noting that while this is the only one of the classic film series in which Roddy McDowall does not appear (David Watson portrays Cornelius this time), he is still included via archival footage reused from the first film.

Well, the toxic fanboy turd-heads are being true to form: review bombing anything that doesn’t conform to their narrow, ignorant point of view. In contrast, this is a fun spinoff from Star Trek Discovery (another wonderful Star Trek gem that gets review bombed) that continues plot threads left dangling from that series when the vessel was stuck several centuries in the future. It does a nice job playing in the franchise sandbox, without appearing to the usual restrictions. Lots of frenetic, and very unusual, camera work for anything Star Trek related. But it’s actually works, like the Dutch angles used in the classic Batman series, to convey that this is not the usual Star Trek narrative. The actors are clearly having fun with there parts and the whole larger-than-life, and off-the-wall production feels, at least in some ways, to have more inspiration from The Fifth Element than from the Star Trek franchise. Not the greatest Star Trek film, but certainly leaps and bounds better than the disappointing films helmed by JJ Abrams. Definitely fun and entertaining.

Religion is nothing but hypocrisy.

• The Pink Panther
• Pink Pajamas
• The Pink Phink
• A Shot in the Dark
• Bully for Pink
• Dial 'P' for Pink
• An Ounce of Pink
• Pickled Pink
• Pink Ice
• Pink Panzer

...plus 120 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Pink Panther
• A Shot in the Dark
• Inspector Clouseau
• The Return of the Pink Panther
• The Pink Panther Strikes Again
• Revenge of the Pink Panther
• Bob Hope's Pink Panther Thanksgiving Gala
• Trail of the Pink Panther
• Curse of the Pink Panther
• Son of the Pink Panther

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

• Downton Abbey: Christmas at Downton Abbey
• Downton Abbey: A Journey to the Highlands
• Downton Abbey: The London Season
• Downton Abbey: A Moorland Holiday
• Downton Abbey: The Finale
• The Manners of Downton Abbey
• Downton Abbey
• Downton Abbey Live!
• Return to Downton Abbey: A Grand Event
• Downton Abbey: A New Era

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

Still no adaptations of Rage, Roadwork, The Regulators, or Blaze.

• The Running Man
• Thinner
• The Long Walk
• The Running Man

• The Stand
• The Stand

This is going to be a tough one (still a work in progress) as LGBTQ+ isn’t a genre in any sense of the word.

• Rope
• Strangers on a Train
• Death in Venice
• You Are Not Alone
• Deathtrap
• The Times of Harvey Milk
• My Beautiful Laundrette
• Mala Noche
• Parting Glances
• Maurice

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

These are the films from 1989 that are among my favorites. Subject to change.

1. Dead Poets Society
2. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
3. For All Mankind
4. The Little Mermaid
5. Henry V
6. Do the Right Thing
7. Longtime Companion

These are the films from 2024 that are among my favorites. Subject to change.

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

   Remastered & Extended Edition (2024) 

2. Dune: Part Two
3. Agatha All Along
4. Better Man
5. Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend - The Live Show
6. #Untruth: The Psychology of Trumpism
7. Wicked
8. I Saw the TV Glow
9. A Complete Unknown
10. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

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

1. Stand by Me
2. Misery
3. Apt Pupil
4. It
5. It Chapter Two
6. Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital
7. The Outsider
8. The Shawshank Redemption
9. Storm of the Century
10. The Mist

...plus 77 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Billie Piper

• Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

My favorite cinematic adaptions of Shakespeare

• Throne of Blood
• Ran
• Henry V
• 10 Things I Hate About You
• Titus
• Were the World Mine
• Hamlet
• Macbeth
• The Tempest
• The Hollow Crown: Richard II

Not simply a list of zombie films, but one that shows the influence of Romero’s interpretation of the monster and how it’s had such a profound impact on the sub-genre since Night of the Living Dead hit the cinema.

• Night of the Living Dead
• Dawn of the Dead
• Day of the Dead
• The Return of the Living Dead
• Return of the Living Dead Part II
• Night of the Living Dead
• Return of the Living Dead III
• 28 Days Later
• Return of the Living Dead: Deg the Dead
• Dawn of the Dead

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

Jodie Whittaker

• Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
• Doctor Who: The Woman Who Fell to Earth
• Doctor Who: Resolution
• Doctor Who: The Runaway
• Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks
• Doctor Who: Eve of the Daleks
• Doctor Who: Legend of the Sea Devils
• Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor
• Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

Ncuti Gatwa

• Doctor Who: The Giggle
• Doctor Who: The Church on Ruby Road
• Doctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday & Empire of Death
• Doctor Who: Joy to the World
• Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

The new era of Doctor Who produced for the BBC by Bad Wolf Productions & Disney+

• Doctor Who: The Star Beast
• Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder
• Doctor Who: The Giggle
• Doctor Who: The Church on Ruby Road
• Doctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday & Empire of Death
• Doctor Who: Joy to the World
• Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

Just for my reference, all of Doctor Who and the Whoniverse in one spot.

• Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child
• Doctor Who: The Daleks
• Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour
• Doctor Who: The Edge of Destruction
• Doctor Who: Marco Polo
• Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus
• Doctor Who: The Aztecs
• Doctor Who: The Sensorites
• Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror
• Dr. Who and the Daleks

...plus 246 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films about people playing games with other people, whether knowingly or not.

• The Most Dangerous Game
• The Seventh Seal
• Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker
• Doctor Who: The War Games
• Death Race
• The Last of Sheila
• Death Race 2000
• Rollerball
• Murder by Death
• Death Game

...plus 75 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

When is James Bond, not James Bond? When it’s not a James Bond film. Films about spies, secret agents, and even normal folk that get caught up in the tangled web of lies, deceit, espionage and treachery of the games of diplomats.

1. London Spy
2. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
3. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
4. The Incredibles
5. Incredibles 2
6. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
7. Black Bag
8. Secret Invasion
9. Black Widow
10. Hellboy

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

1. The Village

   One of my all time favorite films.

2. Unbreakable

   One of the best superhero films. <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Shyamalan’s Superhero Trilogy 1 </span>

3. The Sixth Sense

   
   

4. Split

   Shyamalan’s Superhero Trilogy 2

5. Trap

   Right out of Hitchcock’s playbook. 

6. Glass

   Shyamalan’s Superhero Trilogy 3

7. Old
8. The Watchers

   As a producer. 

9. The Visit
10. Lady in the Water

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

• The Wizard of Oz
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Life of Brian
• The Muppet Movie
• The Great Muppet Caper
• The Dark Crystal
• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
• The Dark Half
• Pan's Labyrinth
• The Prestige

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

Documentaries I’ve been able to see, all thanks to my local public library.

• Dont Look Back
• Gay and Proud
• Parade
• Freedom Day Parade
• Gay USA
• The AIDS Show
• Behind the Planet of the Apes
• The Universe According to Universal
• Troy: The True Story of Love, Power, Honor & the Pursuit of Glory
• Small Town Gay Bar

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

• The Laughing Dead

  Director, Producer, Script writer 

• Ill Met by Moonlight

  Director 

• Burial of the Rats

  Script writer

• Vampires: Thirst for the Truth

  Actor

• Terror at Tate Manor

  Composer 

• Amphibious Creature of the Deep

  Script writer 

• The Maestro: A Symphony of Terror

  Script writer 

• Splatterfest Exhumed

  Actor

• The Hobbit
• The Lord of the Rings
• The Return of the King
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

  Extended Cut 2002

• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

  Extended Cut 2003

• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

  Extended Cut 2004

• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

  Extended Cut 2013

• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

  Extended Cut 2014

• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

  Extended Cut 2015

• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Global Fan Screening

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

Films with audience-aware characters. They either know they’re in a movie, or in a constructed artificial reality, or become aware during the film.

• Blazing Saddles
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• All That Jazz
• The Muppet Movie
• The Purple Rose of Cairo
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Spaceballs
• Last Action Hero
• Funny Games
• Pleasantville

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

• The Moonstone
• King Solomon's Mines
• Allan Quatermain
• The Moonstone
• Moonstone
• King Solomon's Mines
• Allan Quatermain (1950 series)
• King Solomon's Mines
• The Moonstone
• Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze

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

• Knives Out
• Velvet Goldmine
• The Sixth Sense
• Hereditary
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Hitchcock
• Nightmare Alley
• Juror #2
• Fright Night
• The Way Way Back

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

• Metropolis
• Things to Come
• Alphaville
• Fahrenheit 451
• Planet of the Apes
• Beneath the Planet of the Apes
• A Clockwork Orange
• Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
• Silent Running
• Soylent Green

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

Adaptations, continuations, and documentaries of the classic novella by Oscar Wilde.

• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• The Royal Life
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Il Novelliere - Il salotto di Oscar Wilde
• Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
• Dorian Gray
• The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

All the How to Train Your Dragon / Dreamworks Dragons films.

• How to Train Your Dragon
• Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon
• Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury
• Book of Dragons
• How to Train Your Dragon 2
• Dragons: Dawn of the Dragon Racers
• Where No One Goes: The Making of How to Train Your Dragon 2
• How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
• How to Train Your Dragon: Snoggletog Log
• How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming

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

… Star Wars

• Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
• Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
• Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
• Solo: A Star Wars Story
• Obi-Wan Kenobi
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• Star Wars
• The Star Wars Holiday Special
• The Story of the Faithful Wookiee
• The Empire Strikes Back

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

These thrillers films are among my favorites of this particular sub-genre.

1. Psycho
2. Rear Window
3. Strangers on a Train
4. Shadow of a Doubt
5. Rope
6. Vertigo
7. Duel
8. Apt Pupil
9. Misery
10. North by Northwest

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

Spaghetti or Otherwise

• 3:10 to Yuma
• A Fistful of Dollars
• For a Few Dollars More
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• Hang 'em High
• High Plains Drifter
• The Outlaw Josey Wales
• Pale Rider
• Thelma & Louise
• El Mariachi

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

• Ghost Rider
• Sin and Salvation: The Comic Book Origin of Ghost Rider
• Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
• The Path to Vengeance: Making Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

• The Customer is Always Right
• Sin City
• Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Not necessarily the best or greatest films ever made, but for one reason or another, these are my favorites. These are films I can sit down and rewatch at any time. These films speak to me in a personal way. My comfort food of film.
(Listed by year of release.)

• Rear Window
• Seven Samurai
• Vertigo
• North by Northwest
• Psycho
• Bless the Beasts & Children
• Harold and Maude
• Paper Moon
• Jaws
• Alien

...plus 68 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Listed by year of release.

• Citizen Kane
• Rope
• Strangers on a Train
• Rear Window
• Seven Samurai
• Vertigo
• Psycho
• Lawrence of Arabia
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Duel

...plus 118 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Wizard of Oz
• Peter Pan
• A Hard Day's Night
• Dont Look Back
• Yellow Submarine
• All That Jazz
• Fame
• Stop Making Sense
• A Chorus Line
• True Stories

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

Films that prominently feature a holiday … or maybe even two.

1. Coco

   Dia de los Muertos aka the Day of the Dead

2. The Holdovers

   Xmas & New Year’s

3. Hawkeye

   Xmas Marvel Style

4. Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol

   Xmas, as it says in the title

5. Doctor Who: Last Christmas

   Again, Xmas in the title

6. Something Wicked This Way Comes

   Not technically a Halloween film, but close enough 

7. Doctor Who: The Church on Ruby Road

   Xmas special

8. The Nightmare Before Christmas

   I think of this as a Thanksgiving movie, as it’s AFTER Halloween and BEFORE Christmas

9. Die Hard

   It’s wouldn’t be Xmas without Die Hard

10. Doctor Who: Joy to the World

    Xmas 

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

• Destination Saturn
• Saturn 3
• Death on Saturn's Moon
• Journey to Saturn

• A Trip to Mars
• A Trip to Mars
• Aelita: Queen of Mars
• Trip to Mars
• Just Imagine
• Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars
• Rocketship X-M
• Flight to Mars
• Conquest of Space
• It! The Terror from Beyond Space

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

• A Trip to Jupiter
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Outland
• 2010: The Year We Make
• Sayonara Jupiter
• Astronaut: The Last Push
• Europa Report
• Jupiter Ascending
• Jupiter & Europa

The movies that give me the same emotions as a warm blanket of protection. Comfort films. 
Like a big bowl of Pad Thai, extra spicy (no onions).

More to come, as I think of them. Or discover them.

• The Wizard of Oz
• Peter Pan
• The Jungle Book
• Bless the Beasts & Children
• Harold and Maude
• Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
• Logan's Run
• The Hobbit
• Time After Time
• Raiders of the Lost Ark

...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Jungle Book
• Return to Oz
• Hook
• The Jungle Book
• Peter Pan
• The Muppets' Wizard of Oz
• Tin Man
• Princess of Mars
• John Carter
• Oz the Great and Powerful

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

Films based, how ever loosely, on the books and stories of Stephen King. Oh … why not, I’ll include documentaries as well. So anything and everything Stephen King.

• Carrie
• Salem's Lot
• The Shining
• Making 'The Shining'
• The Boogeyman
• Creepshow
• Cujo
• Disciples of the Crow
• Christine
• The Dead Zone

...plus 216 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films about scientists and very educated people.

• Arrival
• Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
• Cosmos
• The Martian
• The Imitation Game
• Hidden Figures
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
• The Fly
• The Andromeda Strain
• The Theory of Everything

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

Films adapted or inspired by the novels and stories of Clive Barker.

• Salome
• The Forbidden
• Transmutations
• Rawhead Rex
• Hellraiser
• The Yattering And Jack
• Hellbound: Hellraiser II
• Nightbreed
• Candyman
• Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth

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

Cinematic mysteries with and about the Detective Benoit Blanc solving crimes. 
Classic whodunnit mysteries, with contemporary twists.

• Knives Out
• Knives Out: Making a Murder
• Glass Onion
• Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Terminator films

• The Terminator
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• The Making of 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day'
• Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
• The Making of 'The Terminator': A Retrospective
• Terminator Salvation
• Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series
• Terminator Genisys
• Terminator Genisys: The YouTube Chronicles
• Batman vs. Terminator

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

The Misadventures of John McClane

• Die Hard

  John McClane has to save everyone held hostage in a building.

• Die Hard 2

  John McClane has to save everyone held hostage in and above an airport.

• Die Hard With a Vengeance

  John McClane has to save the entire populace of New York City.

• Live Free or Die Hard

  John McClane has to save the entire United States.

• A Good Day to Die Hard

  John McClane has to save the entire world - and has officially jumped the shark.

These fantasy films are among my favorites of this particular genre.

1. Luca
2. Coco
3. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
5. How to Train Your Dragon
6. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
7. The Princess Bride
8. Aladdin
9. The Empire Strikes Back
10. Barbie

...plus 35 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.