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A pretty big shrug, unfortunately. I just felt Anderson was muddled here. A lot of the pieces at play are really fun (Michael Cera carries!), but it's all rather cold by the end. Maybe it'll grow on me in later years, but this easily on the lower-end of Wes Anderson for me.

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

Honestly a pretty massive disappointment even if it isn't quite a disaster. Tom Cruise manages to stage a terrific third act that brings the thrills, but the two hours getting there is a surprising slog that can't escape from excessive callbacks and franchise connectivity. As a finale to the series, it's able. However, I just come to expect more from these.

First time viewing since childhood and with the added bonus of now being a stoner I guess. It's fun!

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 15, 2025.

A Universal exec watching Rush Hour 2 in 2001: I'm getting some real Manhunter vibes from this.

The IMAX aspect ratio changes in this hit you as if a Liveleak logo has just appeared above your head.

Watched on Tuesday May 13, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 13, 2025.

Low-key shocked Barry Levinson never did another horror movie to be honest. I'm sure Jason Blum could've pulled out some slop for him.

Watched on Monday May 12, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

Al Pacino just looks so fucking cool in this man

Watched on Saturday May 10, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 9, 2025.

A cocktail of the hypnotic works of early Steven Soderbergh and the thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock filtered through a Big Pharma lens. Definitely a bit messy in its storytelling, but it's hard not to get engrossed in the pure atmosphere this oozes in every frame. Thomas Newman provides a fantastic score.

Has some wacky ideas and moments that could've worked just right had the film given itself a proper pulse. This only really comes to life when Lena Olin is on screen. The rest is well-made technically but is just a bit of a slog that feels like it's focusing on the wrong subject. The mystique and the way Peter Medak plays with that for Olin's character is strong, but those moments only happen intermittently, leaving the rest of the film with Oldman playing a corrupt cop that just isn't engaging enough to get behind as a compelling character.

Meryl Streep has some incredible line reads in this.

Watched on Tuesday May 6, 2025.

Can't quite capture that "lightning in a bottle" feeling of The Silence of The Lambs. Instead, it offers a bigger and more expensive Hollywood type sequel, flaws and all. Ridley Scott creates an engaging enough thriller with gorgeous photography, but the narrative just doesn't quite click with me. There's a lot of campy elements present here and sometimes, the film taps into those quite well. The rest, however, is all a bit messy for me to really sink my teeth into.

Watched on Monday May 5, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 4, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 4, 2025.

It's fine!

Watched on Friday May 2, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 30, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

These movies are my Black Panther.

Watched on Tuesday April 29, 2025.

I was smiling through a good portion of this. Just a bunch of dudes being dudes while Steven Soderbergh and Gregory Jacobs bring their filmmaking A-games. Aims for something a little less raw and gritty like the first and instead goes for straight up maximalist fun without removing any of the sincerity that Channing Tatum especially brings forward.

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 25, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 25, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 25, 2025.

An absolutely beautiful episode with a fantastic performance from Paul Giamatti. Easily the highlight in what's been a very forgettable season of Black Mirror.

Watched on Thursday April 24, 2025.

A retread of San Junipero with less charm and more Awkwafina! 🫠

Watched on Thursday April 24, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 23, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 23, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 23, 2025.

Gorgeous movie! How Soderbergh managed to make this, especially as a sequel to a very popular blockbuster, is staggering. The deconstruction of the whole Ocean's concept and how Soderbergh smoothly pays homage to classic spy films in his own signature style is simply magnificent. On top of all that, it's just a fun opportunity to lay back for two hours and watch a bunch of experienced and swarve actors play around in a sandbox that was, by this point, already on the way out within Hollywood.

Watched on Tuesday April 22, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 22, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 21, 2025.

An almost perfect blend of genre thrills and social edge that's as broadly entertaining as it is contemplative and empathetic. Fucking rules!

My definitive list of films that have had a profound impact on me, whether they're childhood faves or helped craft the taste I have today. Whether they're masterpieces or trashsterpieces I love to come back to on a bad day, these are my favourite movies, and I hope that as the years go by, I'm coming back to this regularly to update it.

In order of release.

1. Faust
2. Frankenstein
3. Citizen Kane
4. Cat People
5. Tokyo Story
6. The Night of the Hunter
7. 12 Angry Men
8. A Face in the Crowd
9. Paths of Glory
10. The Seventh Seal

...plus 1226 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A priority watchlist for me and my fiancé when we're looking to watch a cheeky lil film ;)

1. Tell Your Children
2. Grave of the Vampire
3. Meatballs
4. Animalympics
5. Caddyshack
6. Times Square
7. Stripes
8. Urgh! A Music War
9. Night Shift
10. National Lampoon's Vacation

...plus 140 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. A Face in the Crowd
2. The Conversation
3. Made in Britain
4. Videodrome
5. Paris, Texas
6. The Exorcist III
7. Barton Fink
8. True Romance
9. Dazed and Confused
10. The Hudsucker Proxy

...plus 116 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Sinners
2. Warfare
3. Mickey 17
4. Black Bag
5. The ant²
6. The Monkey
7. One of Them Days
8. Cloud
9. Heart Eyes
10. The Surfer

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

1. Grafted
2. Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
3. Birdeater
4. The Girl with the Needle
5. Night Call
6. Armand
7. George A. Romero's Resident Evil
8. Seven Veils
9. Locked
10. The Gorge

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

1. Longlegs
2. The Substance
3. The Brutalist
4. I Saw the TV Glow
5. Civil War
6. The First Omen
7. Trap
8. Challengers
9. Sing Sing
10. Red Rooms

...plus 133 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Slender Man
2. Hereditary
3. The Bye Bye Man
4. As Above, So Below
5. The Borderlands
6. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
7. The Witch
8. Unfriended
9. Escape from Tomorrow
10. Take Me to the River

...plus 271 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
2. Possessor
3. The Invisible Man
4. Host
5. Riders of Justice
6. The Nest
7. She Dies Tomorrow
8. The Father
9. Black Bear
10. Violation

...plus 78 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• All of Us Strangers
• Twin Peaks
• Weekend
• A Single Man
• It's a Sin
• Aftersun
• Past Lives
• Moonlight
• Manchester by the Sea
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

In order of viewing.

1. Inception
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
3. TRON: Legacy
4. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
5. The Adventures of Tintin
6. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
7. The Avengers
8. The Dark Knight Rises
9. Skyfall
10. Iron Man 3

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

• I Saw the TV Glow
• Rain Man
• We're All Going to the World's Fair
• Thelma & Louise
• Mysterious Skin
• Punch-Drunk Love
• Marriage Story
• Paris, Texas
• Little Miss Sunshine
• The Fabelmans

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

2. Super 8
3. Nope
4. Cloverfield
5. Everything Everywhere All at Once
6. Fire in the Sky
7. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
8. Ad Astra
9. Arrival
10. Signs

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

• Scream
• Bride of Chucky
• Trap
• Psycho
• Thanksgiving
• Prom Night
• The Slumber Party Massacre
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• Halloween
• The Clovehitch Killer

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

1. Trainspotting
2. Clerks
3. Beau Is Afraid
4. I, Daniel Blake
5. Boogie Nights
6. The Football Factory
7. Office Space
8. Freddy Got Fingered
9. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
10. Sorry We Missed You

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

Basically a diet version of my Aaroncore list. Subject to change!

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. All of Us Strangers
3. American Psycho
4. Alien
5. Almost Famous
6. Annihilation
7. Babylon
8. Blade Runner 2049
9. Blue Velvet
10. Boogie Nights

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

I'm insane and wanna do this little challenge before I finally perish :)

1. Paranormal Activity
2. Paranormal Activity 2
3. Insidious
4. Paranormal Activity 3
5. Sinister
6. Paranormal Activity 4
7. The Bay
8. Dark Skies
9. The Lords of Salem
10. The Purge

...plus 145 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Oppenheimer
2. The Zone of Interest
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
4. All of Us Strangers
5. John Wick: Chapter 4
6. The Iron Claw
7. Skinamarink
8. Talk to Me
9. The Holdovers
10. Poor Things

...plus 101 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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

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

A list of my favourite reviews I've written both on here and on various outlets for when I need inspiration or need a little self esteem boost on those rough days. Ranked in order of review date.

• Saint Maud
• Punch-Drunk Love
• Judas and the Black Messiah
• Cherry
• Mysterious Skin
• Malcolm X
• Dancer in the Dark
• Shiva Baby
• The Power
• The Father

...plus 60 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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

1. Spider-Man 2
2. Evil Dead II
3. Spider-Man
4. Army of Darkness
5. A Simple Plan
6. Darkman
7. The Evil Dead
8. The Gift
9. Drag Me to Hell
10. The Quick and the Dead

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

1. True Romance
2. The Hunger
3. Man on Fire
4. Déjà Vu
5. Crimson Tide
6. Unstoppable
7. Domino
8. The Fan
9. Enemy of the State
10. The Last Boy Scout

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

1. Jaws
2. The Fabelmans
3. The Adventures of Tintin
4. Jurassic Park
5. War of the Worlds
6. Raiders of the Lost Ark
7. Minority Report
8. Munich
9. Catch Me If You Can
10. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

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

1. No Country for Old Men
2. The Hudsucker Proxy
3. Burn After Reading
4. Inside Llewyn Davis
5. Blood Simple
6. Barton Fink
7. Fargo
8. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
9. Raising Arizona
10. The Big Lebowski

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

1. Videodrome
2. Maps to the Stars
3. A History of Violence
4. The Fly
5. Dead Ringers
6. eXistenZ
7. Spider
8. Naked Lunch
9. The Brood
10. Crimes of the Future

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

1. Twin Peaks: The Return
2. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
3. Twin Peaks
4. Mulholland Drive
5. The Elephant Man
6. Eraserhead
7. Blue Velvet
8. Lost Highway
9. Wild at Heart
10. Inland Empire

1. The Conjuring 2
2. The Conjuring
3. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
4. Annabelle Comes Home
5. The Nun
6. Annabelle: Creation
7. The Nun II
8. Annabelle

• Insidious: Chapter 2
• Insidious
• Insidious: Chapter 3
• Insidious: The Red Door

1. Saw
2. Saw III
3. Saw II
4. Saw X
5. Saw VI
6. Saw IV
7. Spiral: From the Book of Saw
8. Saw V
9. Saw 3D
10. Jigsaw

1. The Gentlemen
2. Snatch
3. Wrath of Man
4. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
5. RocknRolla
6. Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
7. Aladdin
8. Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre

1. Unbreakable
2. Knock at the Cabin
3. The Sixth Sense
4. Glass
5. Split
6. Old
7. The Village
8. The Happening

1. John Wick: Chapter 4
2. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
3. John Wick: Chapter 2
4. John Wick

1. The Irishman
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
3. Raging Bull
4. Cape Fear
5. Bringing Out the Dead
6. After Hours
7. Casino
8. Taxi Driver
9. Silence
10. The Departed

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

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

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

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

1. Spider-Man 2
2. Spider-Man
3. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
4. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
5. Spider-Man: No Way Home
6. Spider-Man 3
7. Spider-Man: Far From Home
8. Spider-Man: Homecoming
9. The Amazing Spider-Man
10. The Amazing Spider-Man 2

1. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
3. The Hunger Games
4. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
5. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2

1. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
2. Guardians of the Galaxy
3. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
4. Avengers: Infinity War
5. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
6. Captain America: The First Avenger
7. The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
8. Iron Man 3
9. Thor: Ragnarok
10. Hawkeye

...plus 32 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Resident Evil: Retribution
2. Resident Evil
3. Resident Evil: Afterlife
4. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
5. Resident Evil: Extinction
6. Resident Evil: Apocalypse

1. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
2. Friday the 13th
3. Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
4. Freddy vs. Jason
5. Friday the 13th
6. Jason X
7. Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
8. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
9. Friday the 13th Part 2
10. Friday the 13th Part III

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

1. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street
3. New Nightmare
4. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
5. A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
6. Freddy vs. Jason
7. A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child
8. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
9. A Nightmare on Elm Street

1. Halloween
2. Halloween
3. Halloween II
4. Halloween
5. Halloween III: Season of the Witch
6. Halloween II
7. Halloween Ends
8. Halloween Kills
9. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
10. Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

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

Want to get into found footage? Here's a list of many of the classics both mainstream and within the cult following of the sub-genre. Enjoy your descent into one of the coolest corners of cinema!

(This list will likely be updated every so often with new titles so keep an eye out!)

1. The War Game
2. Punishment Park
3. Cannibal Holocaust
4. 84C MoPic
5. Man Bites Dog
6. Ghostwatch
7. Without Warning
8. The Blair Witch Project
9. Interview with the Assassin
10. Zero Day

...plus 61 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

WHAT'S WITH THESE HOMIES DISSING MY GIRL?

1. Angus
2. Mallrats
3. American Pie 2
4. Out Cold
5. Mr. Deeds
6. Accepted
7. 21
8. Drillbit Taylor
9. Shrek Forever After
10. Marmaduke

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

1. Furious 7
2. Fast Five
3. 2 Fast 2 Furious
4. F9
5. Fast & Furious 6
6. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
7. The Fate of the Furious
8. Fast X
9. The Fast and the Furious
10. Fast & Furious

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

1. Evil Dead II
2. Evil Dead
3. Evil Dead Rise
4. Army of Darkness
5. The Evil Dead

1. Scream
2. Scream 4
3. Scream 2
4. Scream VI
5. Scream
6. Scream 3

1. Nope
2. Babylon
3. Skinamarink
4. We're All Going to the World's Fair
5. The Banshees of Inisherin
6. Smile
7. The Fabelmans
8. The Northman
9. Barbarian
10. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

...plus 114 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Autopsy
2. The Viewing
3. Graveyard Rats
4. The Outside
5. Dreams in the Witch House
6. Pickman's Model
7. The Murmuring
8. Lot 36

1. Transformers
2. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
3. Bumblebee
4. Transformers: The Last Knight
5. Transformers: Age of Extinction
6. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen