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You’ll either go with the sincerity or you won’t. It worked for me. It has a lot of Big Fish, Interstellar, and some good dance. Actually wait: Dan Fogelman’s Life Itself? No? Well if you do, this is like if that was good.

I know he’s a very bad man but you have to respect how much the dude loves sharks and vintage camcorders.

Anything trying to follow John Wick Chapter 4, even tangentially, was going to have an uphill climb. This does okay I guess! It has most of what makes the Wick films great, but there’s a certain characteristic verve that Len Wiseman isn’t quite able to capture here.

Very good flamethrower content.

Pretty bad!

Very funny a lot of time, a real mess a lot of the time. Sadly didn’t have that Wes emotional secret sauce imo. Mia Threapleton is the real deal though, Cera belongs in Wes movies, and Cumerbatch’s beard is the star of the show.

This is the poster child of what you would call “A24 Horror,” but before you run for the hills, I think this is maybe its platonic ideal. Deeply upsetting in a very effective way.

Sally Hawkins is incredible here, and they do her character justice. In most thrillers of this type (and damn are there a lot), we would have started with the movie trying to pretend she’s normal as she gradually and predictably got more wacko and we got more bored. Here, the Philippous are smart enough to know that we’ve seen movies before, so she’s a weirdo from minute one, but it’s only as the film goes on that we learn exactly what type of weirdo she is, which is a lot more interesting.

Yeah it’s about grief again, just like every horror movie in the last 10 years, but unlike most of those, this is really good. I liked Talk to Me, and this is a step up.

A good movie to see if you imagine that you’d enjoy watching the Jacob Tremblay scene from Doctor Sleep for 100 straight minutes.

When I checked and almost an hour had already gone by, I couldn't believe it. Not because it was entertaining or anything, but because literally nothing had happened. And nothing continued to happen. Then a plot appeared at the 9-minutes-left mark for about a minute and a half. Then nothing happened again.

I’ve never been a big Stitch guy (kind of annoying and also the subject of maybe the worst Walt Disney World attraction of all time. In this essay I will…) but I’ve always liked the original movie for Lilo and Nani, with Stitch okay in doses.

Like all the Disney live action regurgitations, this somehow feels both rushed and too long. But it’s one of the almost good ones, mostly thanks to Lilo and Nani again. I’m always a sucker for found family stuff too.

3D hairy Stitch is better than uncanny photorealistic Mufasa and pixelated Beast, but he’s still not especially cute. Making Stitch do a “liar revealed” plot twist was certainly a bad choice, as was giving this a Marvel climax, not to mention turning the whole movie into a Capri Sun commercial. Still could’ve been worse.

Absolute jumpscare cameo at the end.

Slow, plodding, and morose is not the way I like my Mission Impossible, and this is that for a good 2/3 of its running time.

The streamlined thrills that have made this our best-running action franchise really get put on the back burner here. There’s a solid 2 hours of people dramatically discussing stakes, difficult decisions, trolley problems, and the fate of the world. You might be thinking “Hey man that’s what makes the series fun! The whole impossible mission of it all!” And you’d be right! But that has previously been presented with an over-the-top flair for the dramatique. Here, they try to make it so grounded and self-serious that instead it becomes dour, unpleasant, and something the series has never been in all its decades: boring.

When the setpieces do get setpiecing, it’s as thrilling as ever. There’s not a single one here that falters. But for the most part, when pulling off goofy masks is replaced with poorly written and gloomy dialogue scenes of the executive branch choosing an American city to sacrifice (again, this sounds fun, but I swear it’s the most bleak and uninvolving stuff), the movie is deadly, and not in the good way.

The poster tells you all you need to know. Ethan Hunt just keeps brooding in this. It’s not fun!

YES! YESSSSSSSSS!

If every movie brought me as much joy as the Final Desination franchise does, I’d be a happy boy.

Very fun if very obvious little cheap teen horror flick. It never quite nails the tone and it’s not the best throwback slasher I’ve seen, but it has Will Sasso as a mustachioed sheriff and Kevin Durand doing whatever it is he’s doing, so go see it!

What if Bullet Train was Bullet Plane?? 

The real world implications it goes for feel very tacked on and the final act is a real mess, but at its best it’s joyously silly. Lots of creativity in the brutal kill department.

Possibly the greatest trip scene in movie history

Watched on Thursday May 8, 2025.

Unfortunately pretty consistent in its use of Snarky Marvel Dialogue™️, and the weaponization of these characters’ “pain” oscillates between powerful (occasionally) and a very transparent and cheap attempt at pathos (usually). Also thought there were actual stakes for a minute but don’t worry, still no. But! This is the first Marvel in a long time (since Guardians 3, which itself was the first in a while) to have some genuine joy, well-drawn and engaging characters, and a nice bit of scrappiness.

Been a lot of years since I’ve truly loved a comic book movie that isn’t directed by James Gunn. Still not there, this is a step in the right direction! And I like Bob!

Did not recall that the editing of this movie is complete and utter garbage.

How bout Ki-Adi-Mundi tho!

Music, movies, and music AND movies.

Not sure it’s a great horror movie, but it’s pretty great at everything else.

Cried a bunch at this. They actually don’t spend as much time on the love story itself as I would have liked, but the real story here is the family, which is presented wonderfully. Every gentle, vulnerable smile from Harish Patel as the dad gave me so much joy.

So warm. I like some John Carney movies, but this is the best film he never made.

Still not entirely sure who this is for or what its purpose is beyond the visceral “damn that’s intense” of it all, but at the end of the day I guess they made that aspect happen

A killer who communicates through normie memes is the scariest thing I can think of

Watched on Wednesday April 9, 2025.

I’ll watch Fred Hechinger do anything and there are scattered moments that are legitimately funny (I burst out laughing at a hard cut after Hechinger yells “OH NO”), but there’s just something bland and tame about this.

Such an odd, interesting, and even wacky take on so many different types of films. Getting on its wavelength is tough at times for that reason (although it’s never not engaging), so I think another viewing when I now know exactly what it’s doing might bring this rating higher.

Watched on Tuesday April 1, 2025.

If you had told me in advance what some of the reveals were in this movie I would have said that it actually sounded like the worst movie ever made, but I think they pulled (at least some of) it off. For a grief horror Twilight Zone episode, it’s not bad. Danielle Deadwyler is amazing in everything.

I like the old lady who runs the candy store and I like one of De Niro’s performances, but this is a cartoon, and a boring cartoon at that. The acting experiment going on here is unique I guess, but that doesn’t mean it makes sense or that it isn’t ridiculous.

Steve Oedekerk’s thumb movies? That’s what De Niro’s second character looks like here. That, or Influence from Dick Tracy.

In one scene, good performance De Niro and his wife (played by Debra Messing of all people) are watching the White Heat trailer on TV. Not the movie; the trailer. Why are they doing that! I’m confused!

Also one more time I want to express how weird it is that De Niro plays both of these guys. Can SOMEONE explain why! PLEASE tell me! Is it some kind of “2 sides of the same coin” bs? Because if that’s it it’s not worth it. Mamma mia!

Looks like crap. Edited like crap. Even the fonts are bad.

Stupid fun! The visual storytelling is rough, with Skarsgard stating everything that happens as it happens (When the air conditioning comes on he goes “air conditioning!!!”) but I’ll never hate a single location thriller.

Hopkins is a joy. He’s like if Jigsaw kind of talked like Paddington.

Nothing like the butterflies feeling you get when you realize you’re watching a new favorite.

Beyond a few performances (Zegler, Burnap, Andrew Barth Feldman behind some horrific motion capture), not much is especially good here, but that’s par for the course. By the incredibly low standards of Disney live action remakes, this vaguely approaches “able.” It has a tiny bit of creativity, and ends up as a weird combo of Snow White and Tangled. The only abjectly awful things about it are the CGI, the Spirit Halloween costume Zegler is wearing, and the fact that Pasek and Paul did the songs.

Jack Quaid bringing excellent Dr. Pomatter in Waitress energy.

One of the best of the very large “guy trying to live an ordinary life gets involuntarily dragged into an action movie” subgenre, and maybe the most fun. Would actually like to see a sequel! Lots of cool ideas to be had with this premise.

People who hate the stereotypical (but usually inaccurate) idea of a Spielberg movie probably see this in their nightmares. Not that bad though!

Man this kid loves planes

LOVE how weird the animation is on Farmer Jim.

Nothing great, but a fun little attempt to bring these characters into the 21st century. Give it money so we never have to see the Ketchup Entertainment logo before a Looney Tunes movie again.

Watched on Monday March 10, 2025.

I've consumed a lot of work on this study over the years (kinda hard to avoid it), and this is the only one that actually made me feel like I had learned something.

Quirky political commentary sci-fi Bong isn’t my favorite type of Bong, but it’s still Bong. In his filmography it’s closest to Okja, and quality-wise I’d place it around there too. I love Pattinson’s crazy energy and I like how much Toni Collette likes sauces.

I must it I would have unmatched the minute he started on his speech about reincarnation.

Watched on Saturday March 1, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 1, 2025.

Only Satyajit Ray could get such incredible performances out of bugs and water.

Still magic.

Watched on Friday February 28, 2025.

Something about the sprawl here removes a bit of the downhome charm of the first two films, but he is still just the sweetest little guy.

I liked that part in the trailer when Harrison Ford said “YER NOT STEVE ROGERS!” I liked it in the movie too. Otherwise……

“I wanna be Mrs. Stupid Monkey.”

I was pretty mid on Longlegs, finding most of it pretty dull, but my favorite part was the occasional over-the-top wackiness. Turns out that’s actually Oz Perkins’ strength, because this was so fun. It’s silly as hell, and joyously repetitive in just the right Final Destination type way. Some of the twists and turns and attempts at larger themes don’t work, especially as it enters the third act, but it’s a good entry in the recent monke canon.

Incredibly sloppy (with some of the worst ADR I’ve ever seen), but idk I had fun with this

Heart eyes heartize heart ies

You ever so filled with dread about the state of the world that you find yourself watching Jersey Shore Massacre (2014) on Tubi

Doing a list like this makes you realize that the Academy often has better taste than you think they do.

Need to see a few (All the King's Men, The Last Emperor, whichever others aren't here.)

1. The Godfather
2. The Apartment
3. Moonlight
4. Casablanca
5. Midnight Cowboy
6. The Godfather Part II
7. Lawrence of Arabia
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
9. Rebecca
10. The Best Years of Our Lives

...plus 73 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A few of these movies are pretty good.

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

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

COME ON TARS

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

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

My lil collection of faves. Kind of in order I guess?

• Jaws
• Sherlock Jr.
• To Be or Not to Be
• The Ox-Bow Incident
• Nashville
• Chinatown
• Psycho
• Back to the Future
• Moonlight
• It's a Wonderful Life

...plus 129 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Every Criterion-released feature (Out of prints included, Eclipse collection films included at the end, Laserdiscs and shorts not included) that I've seen (seen, not own). More of a personal diary but you can look at it too.

Hey B&N sales and Criterion Channel: Thanks for my education.

Originally was gonna try to rank these but yikes too hard. Organized by spine number.

1. Grand Illusion
2. Seven Samurai
3. The Lady Vanishes
4. The 400 Blows
5. A Night to
6. Hard Boiled
7. The Seventh Seal
8. This Is Spinal Tap
9. The Silence of the Lambs
10. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

...plus 342 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Jaws
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
4. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
5. Jurassic Park
6. Schindler's List
7. The Fabelmans
8. Munich
9. War of the Worlds
10. A.I. Artificial Intelligence

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

Features. US Release Dates.

1. Challengers
2. Daughters
3. Anora
4. Green Border
5. Love Lies Bleeding
6. Hundreds of Beavers
7. My Old Ass
8. The Substance
9. No Other Land
10. A Real Pain

...plus 164 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Features. US Release Dates.

1. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
2. Boys State
3. First Cow
4. Lovers Rock
5. Shithouse
6. Da 5 Bloods
7. Nomadland
8. The Assistant
9. Bad Education
10. Sound of Metal

...plus 64 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Features. US Release Dates.

1. Aftersun
2. The Banshees of Inisherin
3. Bad Axe
4. The Fabelmans
5. Barbarian
6. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
7. RRR
8. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
9. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
10. Nope

...plus 152 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This is my Star Wars ranking. There are many (many, many, many, many) like it, but this one is mine.

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars
3. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
4. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
5. Return of the Jedi
6. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
7. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
8. Solo: A Star Wars Story
9. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
10. Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones

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

All of the feature-length Disney animated film I've seen ranked. Doesn't include anything by DisneyToon Studios (they make the sequels) or Pixar.

Aren't these what started all of our loves of cinema? I mean, come on

1. Pinocchio
2. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
3. Beauty and the Beast
4. The Fox and the Hound
5. The Lion King
6. Tangled
7. The Little Mermaid
8. Aladdin
9. Sleeping Beauty
10. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

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

All of the films of 2015 I've seen, in order of preference. US release dates.

Some favorites. Many categories taken from the Village Voice poll (Ranked when there are multiple):
Actor: Jason Segel (End of the Tour), Paul Dano (Love & Mercy), Samuel L. Jackson (The Hateful Eight), Géza Röhrig (Son of Saul), Al Pacino (Danny Collins), Ben Mendelsohn (Mississippi Grind)
Actress: Mya Taylor (Tangerine), Charlotte Rampling (45 Years), Brie Larson (Room), Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn), Rooney Mara (Carol), Lily Tomlin (Grandma)
ing Actor: Benicio Del Toro (Sicario), Oscar Isaac (Ex Machina), Walton Goggins (The Hateful Eight), Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies), Sylvester Stallone (Creed)
ing Actress: Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina), Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs), Tessa Thompson (Creed), Hana Saeidi (Taxi), Mickey O'Hagan (Tangerine)
Director: Pete Docter (Inside Out)
Screenplay: Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch (Tangerine)
Score: Disasterpeace (It Follows)
Debut Feature: Son of Saul
Documentary: The Look of Silence
Animated: Anomalisa
Overrated: The Revenant, The Martian
Underrated: Danny Collins

Best scenes:
-Donut Time climax (Tangerine)
-Michael sits on the stairs and watches the toy (Anomalisa)
-Final Scene (Danny Collins)
-Handing a rose to the camera (Taxi)
-Jack looks at the sky (Room)
-Jay tries to catch a piece of paper (Slow West)
-Kate's face after the speech (45 Years)

1. Tangerine
2. Anomalisa
3. Inside Out
4. It Follows
5. Mad Max: Fury Road
6. Steve Jobs
7. Taxi
8. 45 Years
9. The Gift
10. Danny Collins

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

Features. US Release Dates.

1. May December
2. Oppenheimer
3. Past Lives
4. John Wick: Chapter 4
5. The Holdovers
6. Anatomy of a Fall
7. Godzilla Minus One
8. Poor Things
9. Killers of the Flower Moon
10. BlackBerry

...plus 146 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Rankin'. US Release Dates.

1. The Florida Project
2. Good Time
3. Get Out
4. Dunkirk
5. Phantom Thread
6. The Shape of Water
7. Call Me by Your Name
8. Raw
9. Coco
10. Brawl in Cell Block 99

...plus 73 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Ready? Here we go now!

My Award winners:
Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron (Roma)
Best Actress: Toni Collette (Hereditary)
Best Actor: Daveed Diggs (Blindspotting)
Best ing Actress: Elizabeth Debicki (Widows)
Best ing Actor: Jesse Plemons (Game Night)
Best Screenplay: Blindspotting
Best Documentary: Shirkers
Best Cinematography: Roma
Best Production Design: The Favourite
Best Score: If Beale Street Could Talk

1. Hereditary
2. Roma
3. Widows
4. Blindspotting
5. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
6. Paddington 2
7. If Beale Street Could Talk
8. Shirkers
9. The Miseducation of Cameron Post
10. Searching

...plus 93 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

First Name Mister, Last name Sass.

US release dates.

1. Parasite
2. Knives Out
3. The Farewell
4. Hustlers
5. Uncut Gems
6. Midsommar
7. The Irishman
8. Little Women
9. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
10. Marriage Story

...plus 108 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Can we agree that when he's on, he's kind of untouchable in his very-particular realm?

And no, I've never seen Frankenweenie. Didn't include shorts like Vincent or the original Frankenweenie, but those would honestly be near the top.

1. Pee-wee's Big Adventure
2. Ed Wood
3. Beetlejuice
4. Mars Attacks!
5. Edward Scissorhands
6. Big Fish
7. Batman
8. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
9. Batman Returns
10. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

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

1. The Sixth Sense
2. The Village
3. Unbreakable
4. Old
5. Knock at the Cabin
6. Signs
7. Trap
8. The Visit
9. Split
10. The Happening

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

Missed Cars 3 and Onward.

1. WALL·E
2. Ratatouille
3. Inside Out
4. Up
5. Toy Story
6. Finding Nemo
7. Coco
8. Toy Story 2
9. Monsters, Inc.
10. Turning Red

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

I recently found a doc from December 2008 where I listed my Top 25 Favorite Movies. Some WEIRD picks on here (although what 14-year-old didn't adore Shawshank?), but I still like most of them, and it's interesting to take a look at my taste when my love of film was first starting out.

1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. Fargo
3. 12 Angry Men
4. Jaws
5. Network
6. Double Indemnity
7. Forrest Gump
8. The Deer Hunter
9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
10. City of God

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

US release dates.

1. The Wolf of Wall Street
2. Inside Llewyn Davis
3. Before Midnight
4. Captain Phillips
5. Nebraska
6. 12 Years a Slave
7. The Place Beyond the Pines
8. Prisoners
9. The Act of Killing
10. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

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

Only one movie here that I would argue is actively not good, which is solid, Academy-wise!

1. Oppenheimer
2. Past Lives
3. The Holdovers
4. Poor Things
5. Anatomy of a Fall
6. Killers of the Flower Moon
7. The Zone of Interest
8. Barbie
9. American Fiction
10. Maestro

The list you've been waiting for!!!!

Obviously these movies are all terrible but I also find them fascinating in a weird time capsule way. I will never watch them again.

1. Date Movie
2. The Starving Games
3. Epic Movie
4. Best Night Ever
5. Disaster Movie
6. Superfast!
7. Meet the Spartans
8. Vampires Suck

My David Fincher ranking. Haven't seen Dragon Tattoo.

1. The Social Network
2. Zodiac
3. Gone Girl
4. Se7en
5. The Game
6. The Killer
7. Panic Room
8. Alien³

   Only seen the Assembly Cut but it's pretty good.

9. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
10. Mank

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

I rank them as I see them.

All of the films of 2016 I've seen ranked. US release dates.

Some Favorites, ranked when multiple:
Actor:
1. Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)
2. Joel Edgerton (Loving)
3. Trevante Rhodes (Moonlight)

Actress:
1. Hailee Steinfeld (Edge of Seventeen)
2. Krisha Fairchild (Krisha)
3. Viola Davis (Fences)
4. Isabelle Huppert (Elle)

ing Actor:
1. Andre Holland (Moonlight)
2. Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)
3. John Goodman (10 Cloverfield Lane)

ing Actress:
1. Janelle Monae (Moonlight & Hidden Figures)
2. Imogen Poots (Green Room)
3. Elle Fanning (20th Century Women)
4. Riley Keough (American Honey)

Director:
Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)

Screenplay:
1. Jeremy Saulnier (Green Room)
2. Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)

Score:
Nicholas Britell (Moonlight)

Soundtrack:
American Honey

Debut Feature:
Swiss Army Man

Documentary:
Tower

Overrated:
La La Land
Deadpool

Underrated:
The Purge: Election Year

1. Green Room
2. Moonlight
3. American Honey
4. Arrival
5. Elle
6. Manchester by the Sea
7. The Handmaiden
8. Krisha
9. Swiss Army Man
10. Tower

...plus 67 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Favorite director? He's definitely a major Player (heh) in that conversation.

One of cinema's truest, most versatile masters.

1. Nashville
2. 3 Women
3. Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
4. Short Cuts
5. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
6. California Split
7. The Player
8. The Long Goodbye
9. A Prairie Home Companion
10. Secret Honor

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

All I've seen that he wrote or directed.

1. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
2. Pretty in Pink
3. National Lampoon's Vacation
4. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
5. Home Alone
6. The Breakfast Club
7. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
8. National Lampoon's European Vacation
9. Sixteen Candles
10. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

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

Stanley the manley

1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. The Shining
3. Barry Lyndon
4. Eyes Wide Shut
5. Paths of Glory
6. A Clockwork Orange
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey
8. Full Metal Jacket
9. Spartacus
10. The Killing

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

1. Psycho
2. North by Northwest
3. Rebecca
4. Strangers on a Train
5. Vertigo
6. Rear Window
7. Dial M for Murder
8. The Lady Vanishes
9. Notorious
10. Rope

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

Top 3 can change spots depending on the day

1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Reservoir Dogs
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Django Unchained
5. Jackie Brown
6. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
7. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
8. The Hateful Eight
9. Death Proof
10. Kill Bill: Vol. 2

Features. US Release Dates.

1. Drive My Car
2. Pig
3. The Worst Person in the World
4. A Hero
5. The Power of the Dog
6. The Lost Daughter
7. Red Rocket
8. Licorice Pizza
9. West Side Story
10. The Suicide Squad

...plus 94 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
6. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
7. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
8. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
9. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
10. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

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

He made magic.

1. The Apartment
2. Sunset Boulevard
3. Double Indemnity
4. Ace in the Hole
5. Some Like It Hot
6. One, Two, Three
7. Witness for the Prosecution
8. Stalag 17
9. The Lost Weekend
10. Sabrina

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

All the films I've seen from the bros.

1. Fargo
2. Inside Llewyn Davis
3. Barton Fink
4. A Serious Man
5. No Country for Old Men
6. Miller's Crossing
7. Blood Simple
8. Raising Arizona
9. The Big Lebowski
10. True Grit

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

Inspired by the one the only Monday Seagull.
Tasked with assembling a selection of blu-rays utilizing a set of parameters: Ten groupings, each with a specific number of films (one group will have ten movies, one with nine, one eight, et cetera). The groupings will consist of titles released by different Boutique Labels. Desert island , so rewatchability is a big factor here.

Criterion (Ten Spots)
• To Be or Not to Be (1942)
• Nashville (1975)
• Harakiri (1962)
• Apur Sansar (1959)
• Modern Times (1936)
• Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
• His Girl Friday (1940)
• Midnight Cowboy (1969)
• Rashomon (1950)

Shout Factory (Nine Spots)
• Southern Comfort (1981)
• Fargo (1996)
• Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
• Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
• UHF (1989)
• When Harry Met Sally (1989)
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
• City Slickers (1991)
• Aguirre the Wrath of God (1971)

Scream Factory (Eight Spots)
• The Thing (1982)
• Return of the Living Dead (1985)
• Sleepaway Camp (1983)
• The Burning (1981)
• The Body Snatcher (1945)
• Carrie (1976)
• Candyman (1992)
• They Live (1987)

Kino Lorber (Seven Spots)
• Sherlock Jr. (1924)
• The Ox Bow Incident (1943)
• One Two Three (1961)
• Marty (1955)
• The Good the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
• Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
• Tower (2016)

Warner Archive (Six Spots)
• What's Up Doc (1972)
• Running on Empty (1988)
• Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
• Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
• Dial M For Murder (1954)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Arrow (Five Spots)
• Cinema Paradiso (1988)
• Robocop (1987)
• The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
• A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
• The Mutilator (1984)

Olive Films (Four Spots)
• Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean (1982)
• A New Leaf (1971)
• Johnny Guitar (1954)
• Invasion of the Body Snatcher (1956)

Indicator (Three Spots)
• Bunny Lake is Missing (1965)
• The China Syndrome (1979)
• The enger (1975)

Twilight Time (Two Spots)
• 9 to 5 (1980)
• The Snake Pit (1948)

Drafthouse Films (One Spot)
• Four Lions (2010)

• To Be or Not to Be

  Criterion

• Nashville

  Criterion

• Harakiri

  Criterion

• Apur Sansar

  Criterion

• Modern Times

  Criterion

• Y Tu Mamá También

  Criterion

• Fast Times at Ridgemont High

  Criterion

• His Girl Friday

  Criterion

• Midnight Cowboy

  Criterion

• Rashomon

  Criterion

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

Need to see more of his, but I really ire most of what I've seen. Anyone idolized by Billy Wilder is fine by me.

• To Be or Not to Be
• Trouble in Paradise
• The Shop Around the Corner
• Design for Living
• Heaven Can Wait
• Ninotchka

For the Big Apple showdown. Sorta-ranked list of my favorite New York movies. Tried to stick to movies that FEEL New York instead of just being IN New York.

1. The Apartment
2. 12 Angry Men
3. Rosemary's Baby
4. Taxi Driver
5. Midnight Cowboy
6. Inside Llewyn Davis
7. The Godfather
8. The Warriors
9. Do the Right Thing
10. Liquid Sky

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

All I’ve seen. I know he didn’t direct The Producers remake but I’m counting it anyway.

1. The Producers
2. Blazing Saddles
3. Young Frankenstein
4. History of the World: Part I
5. Silent Movie
6. The Twelve Chairs
7. High Anxiety
8. Spaceballs
9. The Producers
10. To Be or Not to Be

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

Innocent people die every day. They might as well do so for a reason.

My first LB showdown! I finally feel part of something.

1. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
2. Marathon Man
3. North by Northwest
4. The Manchurian Candidate
5. Charade
6. Notorious
7. Sicario
8. From Russia with Love
9. The Bourne Supremacy
10. Three Days of the Condor

I just really want to watch a lot of horror movies so HOOPTOBER HERE I COME. Color me pumped.

Getting started on September 15 and reviewing all of them (I hope). I have more than 31 here, so I'll pick and choose (OR MAYBE WATCH ALL OF THEM WHOA CALM DOWN).

Some rewatches, some big blindspots, all super cool horror stuff I can't wait to watch.

God bless Cinemonster and this wonderful beast of a tradition.

Requirements:
6 sequels
6 countries
6 decades
6 films from before 1970
6 films from the following: Carpenter, Raimi, Whale, Browning, Craven, Tom Holland
3 people eating people (non-zombie)
1 Hammer Film
1 Romero Dead film
1 terrible oversight

Here are my movies, and I'll probably add even more. Movies are just really cool, guys.

• Bride of Frankenstein

  Whale
  Sequel
  Pre-1970
  Decade- 30s

• Raw

  People eating people
  Country ()
  Decade- 2010s

• Black Christmas

  decade-70s

• Halloween II

  Sequel
  Decade- 80s

• Halloween III: Season of the Witch

  Sequel

• The Innocents

  Terrible Oversight
  Pre-1970

• Ravenous

  People Eating People
  Decade- 90s

• Eating Raoul

  People eating people

• Day of the Dead

  Sequel
  Romero Dead film

• Eyes Without a Face

  Pre-1970

...plus 37 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A genre I have always had a strong connection to, and I haven't figured out why yet. But here's a ranked list of some of my favorites.

1. The Ox-Bow Incident
2. The Searchers
3. Winchester '73
4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
5. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
6. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
7. The Man from Laramie
8. Red River
9. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
10. Once Upon a Time in the West

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