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Watched on Friday June 6, 2025.

Watched on Thursday June 5, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday June 4, 2025.

I wish I could give it a higher rating, and I might change it yet. 
When this movie is at its best it’s a 5/5 picture. It contains my personal favourite stunt/set piece of the franchise.

Sadly this is not sustained for the whole movie.

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 18, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

Incredible rewatch for me and Christian and a great first watch for Jeremy and Josh. 

I was very impressed by the buds with how astute their observations were. They picked up on things on their first watch that took me 3 or 4 watches to notice 😅

Watched on Monday May 12, 2025.

It’s hard to say how much this movie means to me. It’s still the greatest action movie of all time and one of the greatest movies period 🥹

Snowstorms animated in 2D are just the most beautiful thing

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

Buster Keaton’s character is so real for seeing  movie and immediately wanting his life to imitate it

It's easy for this movie to be overshadowed by Fallout when talking about my favourites of the franchise, but dang this movie is so good. Tom and McQ love references classic films and they change the tone and subgenre effortlessly.

They essentially remade the opera scene from the man who knew too much. The multiple parties moving around the opera house, the shifting perspectives, the live opera scoring the scene. It is perfect and does the James Bond thing better than any James Bond movie ever has.

They introduced a Buster Keaton-esque slapstick that wasn't really present in previous movies, allowing Tom to play the stone face while wacky things go on around him. It's hard to describe the effect this has other than movie magic.

Watched on Tuesday April 29, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 28, 2025.

This films has such a unique tone and style compared to the first two. I guess that’s the benefit of having three different directors. 

MI2 gives us a weird characterization of Ethan Hunt. This film brings us back to something similar to the first film and sets the stage for the rest of the franchise. After what happened to his team in the first film, Ethan wants to protect those around him and I love how this film builds on those themes. 

This franchise blows me away every time I rewatch it.

Watched this at the 20th anniversary re-release. Went to buy tickets and there were only 8 spots left so we sat in the front row. I had a great time. The audience was clearly big fans of the movie and I enjoyed laughing along with the audience at many of the funny moments. I definitely wouldn't have appreciated it as much if I had been watching it alone.

Watched on Thursday April 17, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 14, 2025.

Can’t believe I chose to watch this anxiety fest over the final round of the masters

Watched on Friday April 11, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 8, 2025.

Perfect 94-minute runtime. No unnecessary story beats so the pacing was correct. No physical action. Lots of verbal action. The directorial style enhances the romantic aspects.

Love letter to the Big Sleep. Not every plot point is over-explained. It's a rollercoaster. Keeps you guessing the entire time. Just enjoy the ride.

Just as sleek as a Daniel Craig bond film with campy music that would fit into a Sean Connery bond film. All these aspects contribute to the film working as well as it does.

Watched on Friday March 21, 2025.

Watched on Monday March 17, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 15, 2025.

Watched on Thursday March 13, 2025.

The plants and payoffs in Toy Story are some of the best in all of film 

Extremely underrated screenplay

Can’t believe they besmirched Bemidji’s name by calling Brainerd the home of Paul Bunyan 😤

No practical sets, several ugly CGI cherry blossom trees, not one funny joke, no themes, no character arcs, boring action, no cinematography, no vision, no one asked for this.

One of Pixar’s biggest strengths is opening a film and sucking you into a world you’ve never seen before. It happens in both the Toy Story films and Inside out particularly well. 

In 2025 the theme of this movie is still powerful but it’s hard to say how impactful it was when it came out. 

I have a lot of gratitude for Pete Docter who had a major impact on my childhood with Monsters Inc. in 2001 and he had a massive impact on my young adult years with Inside out in 2015.

I’ll always choose a mid-tier standalone film over a top-tier franchise pic

Watched on Monday January 27, 2025.

Hot take: The Parent Trap is Alan Silvestri’s best work

Watched on Thursday January 9, 2025.

Watched on Friday January 3, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday December 25, 2024.

Watched on Wednesday December 25, 2024.

Watched on Monday December 23, 2024.

Hits harder every single year 

“I want to live, Clarence! I want to live!”

Watched on Tuesday December 17, 2024.

Ron Howard said no to eggnog but yes to dutch angles 

Why so grungy?

Watched on Friday December 13, 2024.

Watched on Sunday December 8, 2024.

A boxing film set in the 40s is bound to remind one of On the Waterfront, but I had completely forgot about the direct reference at the end. 
Although Brando’s character is sad and full of regret over what his life has become, it is the result of his brother’s decisions.
Jake LaMotta on the other hand has no one to blame but himself. “It was you, Charlie” spoken into the mirror was Jake’s reckoning about his own actions. 

The theme of self-destruction isn’t necessarily relatable for me, but as with many Scorsese movies, there is such raw humanity portrayed in the movie that I can’t help but see slivers of my own emotions. Unlike Jake, I’m glad I don’t always (or ever) act on them.

As a kid I never noticed the brilliance of how this movie is made but it’s technically brilliant as well as sentimental. Harry and Marv clumsily making their way through the house is reminiscent of John Wick fighting his way through floors of a nightclub. It has perfect editing. Each little boobie trap is its own little set piece with a plant, tension, and payoff. 

Chaplin and Keaton would’ve LOVED this movie.

Watched on Monday November 11, 2024.

My favourite movie of all time. I've seen it maybe six or seven times but this was my first in theatres. It amplified everything I love about it. Small details in the performances of the neighbours, viewed from a distance, are so much better when seen on a massive screen.

Hitchcock lets us live in these long scenes of observing Jeff observe his neighbours. We know exactly what he's thinking at every moment, including whether or not he scratched that itch on his toe. Perfect facial acting by Stewart and perfect direction by Hitchcock.

As with most movies, it's so much funnier when viewed with a crowd. I don't like to play the comparison game, but Thelma Ritter's quips are so much funnier than anything we have today, even when delivered by RDJ or Ryan Reynolds. The writing sets it up so perfectly and doesn't do too much that it distracts you from the jokes. The jokes are set up and we are given time and permission to enjoy them.

Watched on Tuesday October 29, 2024.

• Sinners
• Black Bag
• Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
• Warfare
• Thunderbolts*
• Mickey 17
• Captain America: Brave New World
• A Minecraft Movie

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

1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
3. Guardians of the Galaxy
4. Avengers: Endgame
5. Avengers: Infinity War
6. Iron Man
7. Captain America: Civil War
8. Spider-Man: Homecoming
9. Thor: Ragnarok
10. The Avengers

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

• The Martian
• Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
• Arrival
• The Prestige
• Murder on the Orient Express
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• No Country for Old Men
• The Batman
• King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
• Sing Street

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

• Sing Street
• The Hunger Games
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2
• The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
• Cars
• Toy Story
• Toy Story 2
• Toy Story 3

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

• Dune: Part Two
• Civil War
• Monkey Man
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Twisters
• Hit Man
• Trap
• A Quiet Place: Day One
• A Complete Unknown
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

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

• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• When We Were Kings
• Superman
• Amadeus
• Ghostbusters
• High Noon
• Planet of the Apes
• Reservoir Dogs
• Young Frankenstein
• Touch of Evil

...plus 247 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Sing Street
• Heat
• Some Like It Hot
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Top Gun: Maverick
• On the Waterfront

• The Prestige

• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

• Frankenstein
• The Invisible Man
• Bride of Frankenstein
• Rebecca
• The Wolf Man
• Rope
• Creature from the Black Lagoon
• Rebel Without a Cause
• Psycho
• It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

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

Recommended by Francis Ford Coppola

• French Cancan
• The Bad Sleep Well
• The Bitter Tea of General Yen
• Shanghai Express
• The Awful Truth
• The Ladies Man
• The Burmese Harp
• Tokyo Story
• The Last Laugh
• The Blue Angel

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

I think I have a problem…

• Air Force One
• American Graffiti
• Apollo 13
• Arrival
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
• Avatar
• Avatar: The Way of Water
• The Avengers
• Avengers: Endgame
• Avengers: Infinity War

...plus 154 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Jaws
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
4. Schindler's List
5. Saving Private Ryan
6. Minority Report
7. Jurassic Park
8. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
9. War of the Worlds
10. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

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

• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• Fail Safe
• Planet of the Apes
• Seven Days in May
• Them!
• The Day the Earth Caught Fire
• The Day the Earth Stood Still

• Sing Street
• La La Land
• Arrival
• Everybody Wants Some!!
• Moonlight
• Patriots Day
• Hell or High Water
• The Nice Guys
• Zootopia
• Moana

...plus 28 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Oppenheimer
2. Tenet
3. Memento
4. The Dark Knight
5. Inception
6. Dunkirk
7. The Prestige
8. Interstellar
9. Insomnia
10. Following

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

• The Lost World: Jurassic Park
• Jurassic Park III
• Jurassic World
• Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
• Jurassic World Dominion
• Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
• Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
• Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

...plus 81 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. 12 Angry Men
2. Fail Safe
3. Dog Day Afternoon
4. Network

Films in which an increase in temperature leads to psychological aggression or despair. Can be present as a theme throughout the film or just in specific scenes.

• 12 Angry Men
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• Cape Fear
• Cape Fear
• Cool Hand Luke
• Dog Day Afternoon
• Do the Right Thing
• A Few Good Men
• Key Largo
• Lawrence of Arabia

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

1. Rear Window
2. The Birds
3. North by Northwest
4. Vertigo
5. Psycho
6. Shadow of a Doubt
7. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
8. The 39 Steps
9. Strangers on a Train
10. Foreign Correspondent

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

• Breathless
• The Young Girls of Rochefort
• Cléo from 5 to 7
• Le Bonheur
• Elevator to the Gallows
• The 400 Blows
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
• Pierrot le Fou
• Hiroshima Mon Amour
• Vivre Sa Vie

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

1. Oppenheimer
2. The Iron Claw
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
4. The Boy and the Heron
5. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
6. Godzilla Minus One
7. John Wick: Chapter 4
8. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
9. Rye Lane
10. Asteroid City

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

1. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
3. Die Hard
4. The Terminator
5. John Wick
6. Raiders of the Lost Ark
7. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
8. The General
9. Top Gun: Maverick
10. Prey

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

• American Fiction

  Banff, 2024

• The Croods

  Calgary, 2013

• Emily the Criminal

  Minneapolis, 2022

• The Fall Guy

  Bemidji, 2024

• The French Dispatch

  Palm Springs, 2021

• Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

  Minneapolis, 2018

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

  Minneapolis, 2014

• Little Women
• Parasite
• Toy Story 4
• Ford v Ferrari
• 1917
• Avengers: Endgame
• Jojo Rabbit
• Yesterday
• Knives Out
• Frozen II

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

• Dazed and Confused
• Everybody Wants Some!!
• Before Sunrise
• Before Sunset
• Before Midnight
• Boyhood
• Licorice Pizza
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
• The Breakfast Club
• Do the Right Thing

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

Unlike current meta trends, these films are sincere about movies and the filmmakers show their love for film.

• Avatar: The Way of Water
• Belfast
• CODA
• Groundhog Day
• Hustle
• Little Women
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout
• The Peanut Butter Falcon
• Top Gun: Maverick

My personal top 100 greatest films of all time. Takes into personal preference, technical aspects, and overall greatness.

1. Rear Window
2. Casablanca
3. Singin' in the Rain
4. The Godfather
5. La La Land
6. Little Women
7. Sing Street
8. Back to the Future
9. Oppenheimer
10. Toy Story 3

...plus 104 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• City of God
• Groundhog Day
• Midnight Cowboy
• The Fly
• RoboCop
• The Exorcist
• Jackie Brown
• ¡Three Amigos!

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

• Oppenheimer
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Top Gun: Maverick
• Dune: Part Two
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
• Don't Look Up
• Avatar: The Way of Water
• Belfast
• John Wick: Chapter 4

Back in the 50s and 60s, studios made two kinds of pictures. Color films and black and white films. Since then almost all films are in color. 

Over the last couple of years it seems like black and white films are becoming more popular again. This is a list of films that are a part of the B&W film renaissance 🤍🖤

List includes films that are filmed entirely in black and white or have large, significant sequences in black and white.

• Belfast
• Blonde
• C'mon C'mon
• Death on the Nile
• Dune: Part Two
• s Ha
• The French Dispatch
• The Iron Claw
• Maestro
• Mank

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

• Little Women
• Dune: Part Two
• Don't Look Up
• Lady Bird
• Dune
• The French Dispatch
• Bones and All
• Entergalactic
• Wonka
• Hostiles

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

• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• Spotlight
• Whiplash
• Parasite
• The Iron Claw
• Silverado
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• The Godfather
• Psycho
• Die Hard

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Wizard of Oz
2. Roman Holiday
3. Psycho
4. Mary Poppins
5. It's a Wonderful Life
6. Singin' in the Rain
7. It Happened One Night
8. Some Like It Hot
9. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
10. Bringing Up Baby

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

• Autumn Sonata
• The Blood of a Poet
• Bullet Ballet
• Cléo from 5 to 7
• Closely Watched Trains
• The Color of Pomegranates
• Disintegration Loop 1.1
• Earth
• Elegy to the Visitor from the Revolution
• Goodbye, Dragon Inn

...plus 2119 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Oppenheimer
• Barbie
• Poor Things
• The Holdovers
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Anatomy of a Fall
• American Fiction
• Maestro
• Past Lives
• The Zone of Interest

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

In movie industry parlance, a film has “legs” when its box office trajectory defies normal patterns by running longer and more successfully in theaters than would typically be expected. A “leggy” film is one that has strong and profitable box-office stamina and audience drawing power far beyond the opening day or opening weekend.

This is a list of modern films that defied expectations by drawing crowds long after the films opening in todays front-loaded marked. In general, it is considered impressive if a film has a 3x - 4x multiplier, that is, it's total domestic box office divided by its opening weekend.

This is a (non-exhaustive) list of films that had a 5x multiplier or larger.

By analyzing the legs, we get a picture into the audience response for a film, and in turn, we see how society behaves towards different films.

• The Greatest Showman

  19.7x opening weekend multiplier

• Everything Everywhere All at Once

  12.8x opening weekend multiplier

• Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

  11.2x opening weekend multiplier

• Sound of Freedom

  9.7x opening weekend multiplier
  *Note, opened on Tuesday July 4, so I used its first full weekend as it's opening weekend

• Avatar

  9.7x opening weekend multiplier

• The Iron Claw

  6x opening weekend multiplier (and counting)

• Top Gun: Maverick

  5.7x opening weekend multiplier

• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

  5.4x opening weekend multiplier

• Where the Crawdads Sing

  5.2x opening weekend multiplier

• Avatar: The Way of Water

  5.1x opening weekend multiplier

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Movies where the plot only revolves around two people meeting, falling in love, and hanging out for a while.

• Before Sunrise
• Before Sunset
• Before Midnight
• Bones and All
• Brief Encounter
• City Lights
• La La Land
• Past Lives
• the Night
• Roman Holiday

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

Just like space movies released in the fall, I enjoy this trend. 
In orders of release from earliest to most recent.

• Les Misérables
• Into the Woods
• La La Land
• The Greatest Showman
• Mary Poppins Returns
• West Side Story
• Wonka

• The Boy and the Heron
• My Neighbor Totoro
• Kiki's Delivery Service
• Spirited Away
• Castle in the Sky
• Porco Rosso

1. The King of Comedy
2. Raging Bull
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
4. Taxi Driver
5. Italianamerican
6. GoodFellas

• A Streetcar Named Desire
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople
• Parasite
• Surf's Up
• What We Do in the Shadows
• Before Sunrise
• Before Sunset
• Before Midnight

• Before Sunrise
• The Worst Person in the World
• The Double Life of Véronique
• s Ha
• Lost in Translation
• Shiva Baby
• Daisies
• Punch-Drunk Love
• On the Beach at Night Alone
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower

...plus 134 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• 12 Angry Men
• A Few Good Men
• Anatomy of a Murder
• Paths of Glory
• To Kill a Mockingbird

• All Quiet on the Western Front
• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Oppenheimer
• Paths of Glory

• Arrival
• Inside Out
• La La Land
• Little Women
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout
• Parasite
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• Sing Street
• Spotlight
• Toy Story 3

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

• A Few Good Men
• When Harry Met Sally...
• Misery
• The Princess Bride
• Stand by Me
• This Is Spinal Tap

• tick, tick... BOOM!
• Sing Street
• The Endless Summer
• Before Sunrise

• Some Like It Hot
• Double Indemnity
• The Apartment
• Sunset Boulevard
• Ace in the Hole
• Witness for the Prosecution