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Genuinely compelling and well-executed depression allegory? In my MARVEL SLOP? What the hell, sure!

‘Ello ‘ello ‘ello, wot the bloody ‘ell’s all this then?
-Gwyneth Paltrow

Unsurprisingly this thing fuckin rips with a crowd! 

Saw with  live Q+A with Ryland Tews, several people mentioned the obvious influences of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton to him, but nobody mentioned who I think is the clear standout influence on his performance in the film: Wile E. Coyote.

Every squad got the:

Protagonist Cat
Chill-as-hell unbothered Capybara
Gay little lemur in the Apple Store
Kinda annoying loveable retriever
The most beautiful bird you’ve ever seen
Bro’s evil other friend group who kill the vibe 

If you liked The Menu then this is probably not the film for you, because it’s literally just The Menu again offering nothing new. Watch The Menu.

If you didn’t like The Menu then this DEFINITELY isn’t the film for you because it’s literally just The Menu again!!

Soderbergh fully back in Oceans mode here and it’s great to see. A tight-90 spy whodunnit, this is exactly the type of film you just don’t see enough of any more and that’s a damn shame. Slick, smooth, sexy, smart… Steven-Soderberghy.

CRAZY chemistry between those two sibling actors… is the whole show like that?

Not now kitten the walls are closing in on daddy

Just incredible how well Del Toro balances the scary fantasy shenanigans with the scary fascism ones. The Pale Man is SO scary but Captain Vidal is one of the best ever movie villains.

Lowkey one of the most romantic films of the decade so far?

Honestly the best shot film of the year, with the POV thing acting as so much more than a gimmick and really pulling you into the characters perspective, as well as making for some truly beautiful and innovative cinematography.

I’m always gonna love you.

I’m always gonna love you too.

EASILY the best of these. That scene in the jazz bar is just beautiful and touching and I’m so glad they let the Pig guy do more of that in a big action blockbuster.

Excellent finale to an excellent show! Extremely satisfying with lots of fun and emotional moments for every character. The balancing act here is incredible.

However, the best thing here. In the fun little add-on thing at the end of the characters watching this in the cinema, they gave one character a job. MY favourite character, and they gave him MY job! Seeing Captain Levi doing a cool flip while on screen cleans was CRAZY. I am the captain Levi of Cineworld Silverburn 😎

My favourite part of this was when hanging around with a lesbian for a few days briefly made Ben Affleck woke.

There’s a lot to be said about this film’s relationship with Perkins’ parents. A father keeping a secret, the 9/11 reference, the sudden and unpredictable death.

BUT

None more interesting than the fact that he named the parents in this film PETER AND LOIS!

Violence in movies indeed.

Appreciated what this was going for in a lot of places but not enough of it really landed for me. Silly and funny but not enough weight behind the bits that were supposed to be taken more seriously.

I was so shocked by the top secret twist reveal in the third act of this that I almost dropped my Harrison-Ford-As-Red-Hulk popcorn bucket!

Kind of unbelievable how well this film manages to balance the tones of being a legitimately entertaining and fun watch while intermittently hitting you with some of the most sobering scenes you’ll see. Ending with the overly fun glossy happy ending and then tearing it all down with those last few minutes is an incredible choice. One of very few films I’ve seen handle Trump well at all, and honestly one of the best edits of the last decade. The whole cut here is so good I’m sure it lost the Oscar to a wholly deserving film…

Guys do you get it? His son was in a SAFE place!

This thing has an Apocalypse Now reference

You know when you watch an early film from a beloved director and you can see all the early iterations of the things you’ve grown to love them for? And it’s fun to see them finding their feet at something you know they later perfect and it feels very raw?

Well this film is like that but specifically for Steve Martin’s performance in The Pink Panther (2006).

Do with that what you will.

László Tóth contender for hardest character name in all of fiction

Marianne Jean-Baptiste.

What if you stayed this time?

Stanley Tucci innocent

You know that feeling when you’re watching a film, and a sex scene comes on and you start to have that irrational worry that your parents are gonna walk in the room at that exact moment?

Well this film felt like that for its entire runtime, only I was worried that the actual police were gonna walk in on me watching it.

Sorkin’s best script, Fincher’s best direction, Eisenberg, Garfield, Timberlake’s best performances, Reznor and Ross with the best score of all time. Masterpiece!

The first half of this is one of the best films of the decade, a true American epic in every sense of the word.

The second half of this is much tougher to get through, by design.

The Tár style epilogue is still something that’s sitting with me, I understand what it was going for and think it works well thematically but in the moment it was such a jarring shift.

All time great movie dad 🤝🏼 all time worst movie mum

I don’t this scene in Better Man

What if a butterfly was made out of butter? These small thoughts could DESTROY Big Brother!

Unofficial Fargo season 1.

Incredible script anchored by three brilliant lead performances from the subdued straight man Paxton, the transformative Thornton, and the explosive Briscoe. Bridget Fonda was excellent in a Lady Macbeth type role as well. Greed and jealousy are evils that creep into the American psyche and tear people apart from the inside. Really great shit.

This watch was particularly stressful because with about 30 minutes to go we were told that a fire alarm test would kill the power in the building and could go off at any minute. We managed to get through the whole film but still. I recommend watching all thrillers this way.

This might be the worst screenplay I’ve seen put to film in a long time. The gimmick limits everything so characters just have to walk into the room, announce their feelings and express out loud the plot details that had to happen offscreen and then leave the room again. It’s genuinely written like a high-school play trying to be deep and thought-provoking.

1 1/2 stars and all of that is for the inventor of the La-Z boy who likes to have sex with his hot wife and experiences zero conflict. Also shoutout to the plane guy. If the film was about those 2 stories and not the Hanks stuff this would have been a whole lot better.

Loved that Jay and Silent Bob in this film just go through a series of increasingly Looney-Tune-y escapades.

Jason Lee, Michael Rooker and Ethan Suplee are incredible here.

I know it’s probably blasphemy to consider a Dylan biopic that ignores Freewheelin’ but man this thing would have been a whole lot more engaging if it focused less on being a biopic and more on exploring him “going electric”. All the most interesting stuff here happens post that 1965 title card and it makes me think this could have been a great 100-110 minute film about the pushback to Dylan’s electric era, instead of a kinda bloated 120 minute write biopic. It’s still pretty good but not really anything new or interesting at all as a whole.

The world is a fine place and worth fighting for. I agree with the second part.

Crazy that Spacey thought that dude deserved the most horrible torturous death imaginable just cos he was fat.

Rest in peace to a giant, a titan, an artist.

David Lynch has been a huge inspiration to me - as an aspiring filmmaker, an avid film watcher and as a human being. His films have made me more scared than I’ve ever been, they’ve made me cry, laugh, question. The thing they all have in common is they’ve made me feel so profoundly.

A filmmaker with a reputation (and understandably so) of creating these dark, surreal and frightening worlds. But for me this darkness is always created in service of delving into the pure humanity at the centre of his works.

What do you fear the most Garland?
The possibility that love is not enough.

There’s always trouble til the robins come.

My life is full, because I know that I am loved.

Lynch has such an earnest connection to the beauty at the centre of humanity and taps into this so wonderfully while surrounding it with a genuine fear of the evil that we are also capable of. This here is probably his most dark and frightening and “evil” film he ever made. And why did he make it? Because he was so transfixed on this character of Laura Palmer, this beacon of Americana destroyed by darkness that he was compelled to tell her story and give her agency.

You know about death. That it’s just a change. Not an end.

Rest in peace David Lynch.

Down so bad she posed up like Blair Witch in the corner of the hotel room

People like to act like this movie is weird, but who among us hasn’t gone to visit an estranged family member with 6 of our closest friends (Kung-Fu, Sweet, Mac, Fantasy, Prof and Melody) and found ourselves dying in increasingly surreal ways dreamed up in the nightmares of a toddler? I when it happened to me.

One of the most “watched this with my dad” ass movies of the last few years. So I did exactly that. He liked it!

Sat through the whole credits so I know his name is nowhere to be seen but there is nothing anyone can tell me that will convince me that Richard Curtis had no hand in this.

This was just so supremely my thing. A legitimately very funny film with lots of genuinely interesting questions to confront about how people look back on history through the lens of a tourist, and exploring two fascinating characters through these questions and their relationship to each other. Culkin is obviously ridiculously good here as many have said but I don’t see enough praise for Eisenberg’s performance. His work as writer/director is definitely great too but performance wise he goes toe-to-toe with one of the performances of the year and does so brilliantly. And Michael Dymek’s cinematography was another surprise standout element, just a great film all round!

Shadow The Hedgehog hardest character in all of fiction

Maybe I went into this a bit too ready to dislike it because fuck David O. Russell, but idk this really didn’t do much for me.

The performances were good, there was some really sweet stuff with De Niro here and I was delighted to see Shea Whigham show up halfway through. But overall I just wasn’t as wholly invested in everything, I really liked the dance stuff and I wish there was more of a focus on that.

And yeah

Fuck David O. Russell xx

Robert Eggers miss challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

Yeah this thing fucking rules. That one shot of Hoult at the crossroads in the moonlight was spectacular, Skarsgård’s makeup and voice were inspired, a final shot that’s stayed with me since.

Eggers has such an eye for creating a world based in historical reality and using that to build atmosphere, so of course he was the perfect person to remake Nosferatu. I’m well aware that vampires in fiction are often used as an allegory for sexual assault, but I really liked what Eggers did with that element here too, using Orlok as a “toxic ex” returning to reclaim his “property”. Ellen viewing her own desire as a monstrous side of herself due to the world at the time’s puritanical views on sex, so when that manifests physically it does so as the monstrous Nosferatu.

But aside from the allegorical and deeper meaning stuff the film has going on, it’s also just a really fucking effective gothic horror film, with a completely immersive world and unsettling atmosphere. The performances are phenomenal across the board (Johnson stood out like a sore thumb I felt early on. He never felt truly “of the time” and he was acting opposite some really excellent performances, but when it came time for him to deliver emotionally in his last couple of scenes he really did so). The titular vampyre was realised incredibly, with phenomenal makeup and effects, a brilliant performance underneath that and a director who knew exactly how to bring the best out of those elements.

Nosferatu is such a scary guy and the way Murnau shoots him is genuinely incredible.

Shoutout to Herr Knock though, my bro was CLIMBING at any given opportunity and he was so fun. Genuinely shocked that he’s not who Dafoe is playing in the Eggers remake.

Is it too late to scrap the Timmy Chalamet Bob Dylan movie and recast him as an orangutan or something?

My friend kept telling me that Billy Crystal was fugly, but like anyone would look fugly next to 1989 Meg Ryan so leave him alone he works perfectly for this.

Crazy how much I love this film despite the fact that I kinda fundamentally disagree with its central thesis of men and women being unable to work as friends. They can! These two are just an exception to the rule because they’re so perfect together and Billy Crystal’s new years monologue is the most romantic thing anyone has ever said.

1. I Saw the TV Glow
2. Hundreds of Beavers
3. Red Rooms
4. Conclave
5. A Different Man
6. Challengers
7. Anora
8. A Real Pain
9. The Substance
10. Dune: Part Two

...plus 58 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Fuck it let's rank the Wes Anderson movies

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

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

Unranked

• Better Man
• Nosferatu
• Nosferatu
• Silver Linings Playbook
• Sonic the Hedgehog 3
• A Real Pain
• We Live in Time
• Babygirl
• A Complete Unknown
• Mallrats

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

• Black Bag
• Mickey 17
• The Monkey
• Dog Man
• Opus
• Heart Eyes
• Captain America: Brave New World

• Silver Linings Playbook
• House
• Mallrats
• Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
• Burlesque
• Looney Tunes: Back in Action
• BlacKkKlansman
• Chasing Amy
• La La Land
• Pan's Labyrinth

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

1. Aftersun
2. The Banshees of Inisherin
3. TÁR
4. Nope
5. Everything Everywhere All at Once
6. Top Gun: Maverick
7. Barbarian
8. RRR
9. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
10. Glass Onion

...plus 62 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Aftersun
2. The Banshees of Inisherin
3. Oppenheimer
4. Titane
5. The Zone of Interest
6. TÁR
7. Killers of the Flower Moon
8. The Fabelmans
9. Monster
10. Top Gun: Maverick

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

Credit to Kyle

• Free Guy
• The Fall Guy

1. Oppenheimer
2. The Holdovers
3. The Zone of Interest
4. Killers of the Flower Moon
5. Monster
6. Poor Things
7. Anatomy of a Fall
8. Godzilla Minus One
9. Asteroid City
10. Past Lives

...plus 82 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My personal ranking of every film I’ve seen from 2019.

1. Parasite
2. Little Women
3. Midsommar
4. When They See Us
5. Knives Out
6. The Lighthouse
7. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
8. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
9. Honey Boy
10. The Irishman

...plus 57 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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

• Priscilla
• Anyone But You
• Godzilla Minus One
• Poor Things
• The Apartment
• Mean Girls
• The Zone of Interest
• The Color Purple
• The Holdovers
• All of Us Strangers

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

Self-explanatory (doesn’t include new releases - in chronological order)

• The Seventh Seal
• The Double Life of Véronique
• The Velvet Underground
• On the Count of Three
• The Lobster
• Rashomon
• The Elephant Man
• Inside Man
• Stay Alive
• Imagine Me & You

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

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

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

• The Royal Tenenbaums
• Scream 4
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
• Stay Alive
• Imagine Me & You
• Sing Street
• Being John Malkovich
• The Raid
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
• Frozen II

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

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

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

My favourite uses of songs in movie scenes, not including musicals or instrumental score, in no particular order.
Songs and scenes are all logged in the notes 😉

• Aftersun

  Under Pressure 
  -Queen, David Bowie
  Last dance 😔😔😔

• Almost Famous

  Tiny Dancer
  -Elton John

  "you are home" 

• Magnolia

  Wise Up
  -Aimee Mann

  Singing montage

• Mommy

  Wonderwall
  -Oasis

  "Liberté!!!"

• Shrek 2

  Holding Out For A Hero
  -Jennifer Saunders

  Storming the castle

• Drive

  A Real Hero
  -College, Electric Youth

  Ending

• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

  Dog Days Are Over
  -Florence and the Machine
  Ending dance

• Little Miss Sunshine

  Super Freak
  -Rick James

  Pageant dance

• A Ghost Story

  I Get Overwhelmed
  -Dark Rooms

  ing C

• Call Me by Your Name

  Visions of Gideon
  -Sufjan Stevens

  Fireplace ending

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My own personal rankings of the MCU films

1. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
2. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
3. Avengers: Infinity War
4. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
5. Thor: Ragnarok
6. Captain America: Civil War
7. Guardians of the Galaxy
8. Avengers: Endgame
9. Spider-Man: No Way Home
10. Iron Man 3

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

1. Little Miss Sunshine
2. 12 Angry Men
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. Parasite
5. Ratatouille
6. Hot Fuzz
7. The Social Network
8. Magnolia
9. Mommy
10. Punch-Drunk Love

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

I think the title gets the point across

• Titane

  Little fucked up car baby

• Annette

  Little fucked up puppet baby

• Lamb

  Little fucked up lamb baby

• Nightmare Alley

  Little fucked up human baby in a jar

• The Boss Baby: Family Business

  I didn’t see it but I mean these babies are definitely fucked up

My comfort movie characters - just a bunch of wholesome ass people doing wholesome ass things

• Little Miss Sunshine

  Olive Hoover - Abigail Breslin
  Frank Ginsburg - Steve Carrell
  Edwin Hoover - Alan Arkin

• Pride & Prejudice

  Mr Bennet - Donald Sutherland

• Cinema Paradiso

  Alfredo 🥺 - Phillippe Noiret

• Fargo

  Norm Gunderson (the GOAT movie husband) - John Carroll Lynch
  Marge Gunderson - s McDormand

• Twin Peaks

  Special Agent Dale Cooper - Kyle McLachlan
  Sheriff Harry S. Truman - Michael Ontkean
  FBI Deputy Director Gordon Cole - David Lynch

• Little Women

  Beth March - Eliza Scanlen

• Almost Famous

  Penny Lane - Kate Hudson

• The Way Way Back

  Owen - Sam Rockwell

• Felicità

  Timothée - Pio Marmaï

• Hereditary

  Steve Graham - Gabriel Byrne

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

All new releases I’ve seen from 2021 ranked in an arbitrary numbered list, you know how it works

1. Bo Burnham: Inside
2. Pig
3. The Sparks Brothers
4. Censor
5. The Suicide Squad
6. The Mitchells vs. the Machines
7. Supernova
8. Judas and the Black Messiah
9. The Beta Test
10. Luca

...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All the movies I’ve watched for the first time in 2021 ranked INCREDIBLY loosely please nobody take any of these rankings seriously.

Jan: 25
Favourite: Midsommar Director’s cut

Feb: 22
Favourite: The ion of Joan of Arc

Mar: 19
Favourite: Kajillionaire

Apr: 27
Favourite: Stop Making Sense

May: 19
Favourite: Bo Burnham: Inside

June: 20
Favourite: Ikiru

July: 21
Favourite: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

1. Bo Burnham: Inside
2. Stop Making Sense
3. The Apartment
4. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
5. Anatomy of a Murder
6. The ion of Joan of Arc
7. Ikiru
8. Midsommar

   Directors cut only, had already seen theatrical

9. Pig
10. The Sparks Brothers

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My ranking of all films with our friendly neighbourhood spoderboi

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

My personal ranking of all new releases throughout 2020

1. The Father
2. Another Round
3. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
4. David Byrne's American Utopia
5. Saint Maud
6. Sound of Metal
7. Nomadland
8. Kajillionaire
9. Felicità
10. Promising Young Woman

...plus 58 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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

My personal top 20 favourite films of the 2010s. These are the films that spoke the most to me and my taste personally from the decade, not necessarily the films I think are the BEST.

1. The Social Network
2. Parasite
3. Blade Runner 2049
4. Hereditary
5. Inside Llewyn Davis
6. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
7. Blindspotting
8. Ex Machina
9. Mommy
10. The Lighthouse

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

Self explanatory

• Hereditary
• I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Fuck it

1. Shrek 2

   MASTAPIECE

2. Shrek

   Unlucky that Shrek 2 is just better than it in every conceivable way cos this is also, a MASTAPIECE

3. Far Far Away Idol

   Simon Cowell is in this, which obviously keeps it from being any higher in the list. Fuck it though this is iconic and fun as hell

4. Shrek Forever After

   Better than it has any right to be

5. Shrek the Halls

   Merry fuckin Christmas

6. Scared Shrekless

   Spooky

7. Shrek the Third

   Fuck this movie

Shrek 2

1. Shrek 2

   It's Shrek 2