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Watched on Sunday June 8, 2025.

Watched on Friday June 6, 2025.

Could you imagine what would happen if Disney came out and said they’re relaunching a 2D animation studio with the first three films being totally original. Just make me CEO and I’ll boost stocks instantly

Watched on Thursday June 5, 2025.

Watched on Thursday June 5, 2025.

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Watched on Tuesday June 3, 2025.

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Watched on Sunday June 1, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 28, 2025.

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Watched on Saturday May 24, 2025.

Tough

The only emotion in the future will be extreme grief only to be interrupted occasionally by intrusive conspiratorial thoughts of who is responsible for that grief. The true hell, though, is we’re not gonna let each other die, which would be the only refuge. When we’re dead, that’s when the real work will begin.

Watched on Sunday May 18, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 15, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 12, 2025.

You know what it is

Watched on Thursday May 8, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 8, 2025.

Way goofier than I thought it’d be. Way more like King of Comedy than I thought it’d be too.

Watched on Sunday May 4, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 4, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 28, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 26, 2025.

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Watched on Thursday April 24, 2025.

It’s doesn’t say Based On A True Story before the movie, it says Based On Their Memories. An interesting distinction since they seem synonymous (most true events that get the narrative treatment primarily utilize people’s memories of the event in the form of research, interviews etc.) but this movie wants nothing to do with the word Story. Not because the movie prioritizes spectacle over substance but because Story would actually NOT be a concept considered by their memories. This is what happened as they and there’s no interest in re-contextualizing those memories to find what’s interesting to the filmmakers.  What’s interesting to them is re-staging an event so violently banal that it proceeds to turn humans into bricked phones where this memory becomes all that is important. Like wall-e transporting the flower in the boot to the humans — these soldiers carry with them a memory that maybe someone else can react to. And while the movie does that thing where it shows the real life guys next to the actor who portrayed them at the end which usually signals a pro military fuck yeah salute the troops sentiment, it unspools a bit differently. As more and more of the real troops elected to keep their face blurred it becomes more clear that no glorification was sought, just an outlet for memories that have the purpose to be projected and interpreted and decoded by others. I’m not gonna say this movie isn’t made with panache and capital F filmmaking tools which, to some, might negate the “raw memory selling point.” I get that, but also that panache still always results in a zero sum game. They’re just trying to leave a house that they have no good reason to be in. (why they even enter the home in first place has been rendered non useful information by their memories and therefore the movie also has zero interest in context) It’s an anti story. They go to a place they are unwelcome. They are surprised by the degree of violence thrust upon them in retaliation for their occupation. They leave the place they are unwelcome. Three people die. What’s the point? They’d like to know.

Watched on Friday April 11, 2025.

Wait what they do the EXACT thing at end of Snow White where she just knows people’s names and two fun facts about them and that sways everybody. It’s the same thing!

Watched on Sunday April 6, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 4, 2025.

Watched on Monday March 31, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.

No matter what movie Michael Mann makes there’s always a little Chicago in it. It’s not always an actor but sometimes a sensibility. You cant take the Chicago fully out of Mann even when the studio rips his movie in half. Mann always makes sure some of himself is in a movie because otherwise you might as well just let someone else make it. It’s why directors who always make the same movie are far more interesting than those who always make a different one. 

A list of Chicago representation in every Mann movie

Thief — This movie’s existence is the filmic manifestation of the city itself. There is not a single frame that ISN’T Chicago even when a scene is happening in a different city. 

The Keep - Robert Prosky as a tired, bewildered Romanian Priest. (Robert Prosky is not from Chicago and yet his face and beard are)

Manhunter - William Peterson’s steppenwolf-ass out here talking to Hannibal Lector.

The Last of the Mohicans - Chicago comes from the Algonquin word for Onion or Skunk. 

Heat - For this one Mann fully embraced LA, just kidding this is based on a cop and robber duo who fought it out on the streets of Chicago. As if anyone in LA has ever had the name McCauley.

The Insider - Reading newspapers and trusting them is very Chicago

Ali - Thinking about boxing is very Chicago

Collateral - Having a conversation with your cab driver is very (and only) Chicago

Miami Vice - When someone from Chicago goes to Miami this is what they imagine will happen to them. 

Public Enemies - Dillinger died in Chicago

Blackhat - Hemsworth thinks all Americans sound like Bear fans. 

Ferrari - Shailene Woodley’s Italian accent 

(4K Vinegar Syndrome)

Watched on Saturday March 22, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday March 19, 2025.

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Watched on Sunday March 16, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 15, 2025.

Parking on Seward, happy hour at Boardners, movie at Egyptian becoming a thing

Watched on Sunday March 9, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 8, 2025.

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Cronenberg Ranked

• The Fly
• Videodrome
• Crimes of the Future
• The Shrouds
• A History of Violence
• The Brood

1. Jaws
2. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
3. Catch Me If You Can
4. Jurassic Park
5. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
6. Minority Report
7. Munich
8. Saving Private Ryan
9. The Post
10. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

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

1. Heat
2. Thief
3. The Insider
4. Collateral
5. The Last of the Mohicans
6. Miami Vice
7. Ferrari
8. Manhunter
9. The Keep
10. Ali

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

• Beauty and the Beast

  Blu-ray - Criterion 

• Walkabout

  Blu-ray - Criterion

• The Silence of the Lambs

  Blu-ray - Criterion

• Picnic at Hanging Rock

  Blu-Ray - Criterion

• M

  Blu-ray - Criterion

• Time Bandits

  Blu-ray - Criterion

• Tokyo Drifter

  Blu-ray - Criterion

• The Red Shoes

  Blu-ray - Criterion

• Brazil

  Blu-Ray - Criterion

• Peeping Tom

  Blu-Ray - Criterion

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

1. Ocean's Eleven
2. Contagion
3. Erin Brockovich
4. Behind the Candelabra
5. Black Bag
6. Unsane
7. The Limey
8. Magic Mike
9. Out of Sight
10. Ocean's Thirteen

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

1. Titane
2. Stillwater
3. The Power of the Dog
4. Red Rocket
5. The Medium
6. The Last Duel
7. Drive My Car
8. Pig
9. Lamb
10. Riders of Justice

...plus 83 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

2024 Ranked

1. The Brutalist
2. Rap World
3. Flipside

   98 day reign - 36 challengers

4. Red Rooms
5. Pictures of Ghosts
6. I Saw the TV Glow

   79 day reign - 41 challengers 

7. Dune: Part Two

   53 day reign - 22 Challengers

8. Challengers
9. Anora
10. Flow

...plus 123 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Lynch Ranked

1. Mulholland Drive
2. The Straight Story
3. Blue Velvet
4. Eraserhead
5. Inland Empire
6. Lost Highway
7. The Elephant Man
8. Wild at Heart
9. Dune

M Night Ranked

• The Sixth Sense
• Signs
• Unbreakable
• The Village
• Knock at the Cabin
• Trap
• Old
• The Visit
• Split
• The Happening

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

PTA Ranked

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Boogie Nights
3. Magnolia
4. The Master
5. Phantom Thread
6. Punch-Drunk Love
7. Inherent Vice
8. Hard Eight
9. Licorice Pizza

• Oppenheimer
• The Prestige
• Inception
• The Dark Knight
• Dunkirk
• Tenet
• Memento
• Batman Begins
• Insomnia
• Interstellar

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

1. Oppenheimer
2. Past Lives
3. BlackBerry
4. The Zone of Interest
5. Anatomy of a Fall
6. The Boy and the Heron
7. Barbie
8. Fallen Leaves
9. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
10. May December

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

David Fincher Ranked

1. The Social Network
2. Zodiac
3. Se7en
4. Fight Club
5. The Killer
6. The Game
7. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
8. Gone Girl
9. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
10. Panic Room

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

1. The Royal Tenenbaums
2. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
3. Fantastic Mr. Fox
4. Moonrise Kingdom
5. Asteroid City
6. The Grand Budapest Hotel
7. Isle of Dogs
8. The French Dispatch
9. Rushmore
10. Bottle Rocket

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

1. RRR
2. Aftersun
3. Top Gun: Maverick
4. TÁR
5. EO
6. Anaïs in Love
7. The Banshees of Inisherin
8. Decision to Leave
9. The Eternal Daughter
10. Bones and All

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

1. Iron Man
2. Avengers: Endgame
3. The Avengers
4. Thor: Ragnarok
5. Guardians of the Galaxy
6. Spider-Man: Homecoming
7. Avengers: Infinity War
8. Spider-Man: No Way Home
9. Black Panther
10. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

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

1. WALL·E
2. Inside Out
3. Up
4. Toy Story 3
5. Coco
6. Toy Story
7. Ratatouille
8. The Incredibles
9. Toy Story 2
10. Incredibles 2

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

1. Roma
2. Hereditary
3. The Favourite
4. First Man
5. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
6. Minding the Gap
7. Three Identical Strangers
8. Shoplifters
9. Sorry to Bother You
10. Eighth Grade

...plus 39 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Every film I’ve seen that was released in 2020, ranked.

1. First Cow
2. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
3. Minari
4. Bad Education
5. Nomadland
6. Selah and the Spades
7. Americaville
8. David Byrne's American Utopia
9. The Vast of Night
10. His House

...plus 84 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films watched during rona quarantine of 2020

• Citizen Kane
• Casablanca
• Eyes Wide Shut
• Onward
• Clue
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• Aliens
• The Hunt
• Wait Until Dark
• Banana Split

...plus 113 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Lady Bird
2. Paddington 2
3. Phantom Thread
4. Dunkirk
5. Logan
6. Coco
7. The Florida Project
8. Get Out
9. The Big Sick
10. The Post

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

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Sicario
3. The Revenant
4. Inside Out
5. Creed
6. The Lobster
7. Green Room
8. The Big Short
9. Carol
10. Tangerine

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

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

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

1. Whiplash
2. Ex Machina
3. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
4. The Raid 2
5. Nightcrawler
6. Boyhood
7. Edge of Tomorrow
8. John Wick
9. It Follows
10. Paddington

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

1. 12 Years a Slave
2. The Wolf of Wall Street
3. Gravity
4. Blue Is the Warmest Color
5. Snowpiercer
6. Inside Llewyn Davis
7. Her
8. Mud
9. Blue Ruin
10. Philomena

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

1. Hell or High Water
2. Weiner
3. Arrival
4. 10 Cloverfield Lane
5. La La Land
6. Swiss Army Man
7. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
8. Jackie
9. Sing Street
10. Kedi

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

2019 Ranked

1. Parasite
2. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
3. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
4. Uncut Gems
5. The Farewell
6. Little Women
7. Marriage Story
8. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
9. Us
10. The Souvenir

...plus 63 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Heathers
2. Fight Club
3. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
4. Election
5. The Cabin in the Woods
6. Team America: World Police
7. Shaun of the Dead
8. Thank You for Smoking
9. The Truman Show
10. District 9

Radiohead has two seminal records. OK Computer was genius for some reasons and Kid A was genius for other (completely different) reasons. The following is a list of big directors' respective OK Computer and Kid A based on the virtues of those albums. Subjective as hell and sometimes a director made their Kid A before their Ok Computer. The below list has their OK Computer listed in front of their Kid A.

• The Dark Knight
• Dunkirk
• Schindler's List
• Munich
• GoodFellas
• Taxi Driver
• Zero Dark Thirty
• The Hurt Locker
• Titanic
• True Lies

...plus 52 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.