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I love that a rain/water motif appears during Dan/Alex’s first fling, Alex’s suicide attempt, the Rabbit murder aftermath, and the final showdown in the Gallagher bathroom. A maelstrom of torrential terror brought forth by sins of the flesh. 

Glenn Close is truly extraordinary and the film treats her character heinously, right down to the filmed-after-test-screening ending. The Paramount+ reboot tried to right its wrongs, but the actual story is still wrapped up in basic psychological misogyny. 

Alas, It’s still a nostalgic piece of late ‘80s pop art — and an iconic Best Picture/Best Actress nominee — with indelible set pieces/character moments. 

(I’m dog sitting in Tribeca rn and the loft I’m staying in looks remarkably like Alex Forrest’s apt.)

Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.

Unadulterated stupid FUN, with a twist so obviously in plain sight that it comes around to being incredibly clever/inventive. 

Can’t believe it’s been 25 years to the day (well, yesterday) that Flight 180 met its fateful end and part 6 arrives tomorrow. Time really is a flat circle. 

Watched originally on Evergreen Ave circa 2018.

"The Real Thing."

Rewatched for THEAT8999 Individual Research & Writing w/ Prof. Christian Parker.

Setting the film’s climax in a movie theatre — the ultimate death by ontological 3D image — would’ve been really meta/impactful if this was truly the “final” picture in the franchise but alas…

Why do many slasher/horror films around 2009 have a semi-hardcore porn vibe to them? Much to think about. 

Seen originally in theatres @Famous Players Coliseum, Mississauga, ON w/Becca, with a trip to Jack Astor’s afterward.

Bring back the mid-budget ABC Sunday Original Movie of the week. Let’s be serious!

So distinctly 2006, right down to the Motorola RZR, low-cut jeans, and digital camera. It's also the first film to make me fetishize an iMac/Apple products!

Seen originally in theatres @AMC Courtney Park, Mississauga, ON w/Melanie, Rebecca, Maribeth, Nicholai, and Nikki and Erica a few rows away.

"I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at the DIRT."

I find the brief flash of Christopher pulling the duvet cover over his face right before Joan physically/emotionally tortures Christina to always be particularly upsetting.

Funny how it utilizes the legacy "seek—out—original—survivor—for—help" sequel in ways that we see heralded as "inventive" and "fresh" in horror cinema today. Everything that's old is new again, of course.

An eerie follow-up that doubles down on '03 naturalism to subjugate the 00's teen sleekness of its predecessor and the eventual camp qualities of subsequent entries in the franchise. Many strange set pieces abound. The Man With Hooks sequence still scares the shit out of me.

Ali Larter, thank you for your service.

Seen originally in theatres @AMC Courtney Park, Mississauga, ON w/ Thomas, Julian, and Dean, with a quick trip to the arcade beforehand.

I love that Alex Browning is not only a fan of John Waters/the Toronto Raptors but also has Death of a Salesman on his desk AND poops next to his best friend. Legend!

Catch me I’m falling 💜

Fourth time experiencing this material and I feel like this production fully cracked it open for me. Truly magnificent across the board.

Now we need a true movie musical event….

“Where are the belts?”

Happy Met Gala Monday!

Watched on Sunday May 4, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 4, 2025.

22 years ago, Hilary Duff as Isabella Parigi walked onto the stage of The International Music Awards and made history with 4 simple words: "Sing to me, Paulo." That's what this is.

A true TV series-to-Walt Disney Pictures pipeline event.

My iPhone 12 Pro Max circa 2020 is only a few IOS updates away from making me upgrade. I can feel it.

Oh, sinnerman, where you gonna run to?

Real and BLOODY blockbusters are truly back, right down to the two ending credits songs that quite literally levitate you out of the cinema.

In conversation with Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995) and From Dusk till Dawn (1996), while conjuring something else entirely fresh. Also feels small, but I genuinely appreciated the V word being used, instead of just dancing around exactly what the 'monsters' were.

So happy to see the first Best Picture contender of the year!

paired w/ merlot & popcorn @ AMC Lincoln Sq 13, IMAX 70mm

Watched on Monday April 28, 2025.

Sure, I was born gay, but I think I was actually gay activated the minute my parent's bought this on VHS (which I still own!) and showed it to me as a kid.

@BRAVO TV Midnight screening.

Reimagining American Theatre - Week Eleven - Coursework

Helen McCrory... the legend that you will always be.

The Devil’s offer might be tempting but God’s grace is often more rewarding. You make the choice, and that's the beauty of life! 

Brendan Fraser gives one of the greatest comedic performances of the millennium (“My stables!”) and Elizabeth Hurley is the epitome of sex appeal.

The open heart surgery video moment during the third act club sequence upset me as a kid and still upsets me as an adult!

Third time in 10 years that I’ve watched a Halloween picture on Good Friday, so I guess it’s officially a tradition and therefore a true conversation between me and my God. 

So earnestly sincere in its depiction of trauma on community/the soul that it’s incredibly hard not to ire/chuckle what Gordon Green & co are going for. A fitting and subversive end to a trilogy that helped build and cement the legacy sequel trend of this era. I’ll never forget seeing it in theatres, and will probably talk endlessly about its merits until the end of time. 

Corey Cunningham is always the moment, and we will always have the cherry blossoms.

I saw this in theatres on Nov 1st (Day of the Dead) after getting really drunk for the first time at a Halloween party with old high school friends. I can’t help but feel 17 again every time I press play.

Watched on Sunday April 6, 2025.

I would’ve absolutely rented this multiple times from Blockbuster in 2000.

Watched on Monday March 31, 2025.

"What a picture!" — Marvin Schwarz, Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (2019)

I've been social media friends with Róge and David since 2019, and that strange yet familiar parasocial online relationship (made even stronger by the pandemic and being chronically online) made witnessing this feel like catching up with family.

Tangible real things, gifts, movie stubs, DVDs, VHS, intermixed with internet memes — I will always be Nyad’ed — and text messages. The connection to the 'real' and the 'ethereal' exposed during that liminal time period between Christmas and New Years (and the lull of Jan to Feb.) Part docudrama, absurdist POV cinema, and video diary. A bold new take on a classic, indeed, and a Christmas filmè to cherish every year.

Congratulations, Róge, and thanks for giving me my feature film debut!

(Also might have a screen crush on Deak; Grandma Vicki almost made me cry.)

I'll never forget getting my H1N1 vaccine and going home to watch the Women of Nine on Oprah. Be Italian in 2009 was a lifestyle.  

It’s messy, of course. Pretentious, obviously. Marshall copying his own Chicago (2003) schtick to the fine line — but that's the point! Cinema is just lies and pastiche and actresses with faux Italian accents singing their faces off. 

Day-Lewis is so extraordinarily hot; Take It All with Cotillard is one of the greatest 'made-for-film musical numbers' ever created and same with Hudson's Cinema Italiano.

Screened via Air Canada's in-flight entertainment service on my ride from YYZ to LGA w/o the film audio — didn't secure wired earphones — and just blared Creed and 90s alternative through my AirPods.

“Finally, a love story I can relate to. So insane, so well thought out, so well directed, so much smoking! It’s Jailhouse Rock meets Busby Berkeley with a 9/11 That’s Entertainment! ending that will make you shake your head in cinematic astonishment. Stupid critics. Gaga so good. Joker so right. Die, dumbbells, die!” — John Waters 

Loses one star for cutting Gaga’s cover of Dinah Washington’s This Bitter Earth. 

Rewatched w/ my parents.

I think it’s high time we start recognizing that Ray Nicholson is a major MAJOR talent — yes, he channels his father, who cares? — and destined for a strange, freaky career.

Micky D’s + martinis + a Sirk picture = a Wednesday evening well spent. 

w/ my mom.

“America is a nation of immigrants, Kyle. Everybody’s ancestors came from another country.”

🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀

Now entering the St. Paddy’s day 24 hour window.

Watched on Sunday March 16, 2025.

So deeply funny and weird and vulgar in a way we have rarely seen since the 80s. Hard cocks and ghostly shenanigans abound!

An instant New Line Cinema classic.

Soderbergh is the greatest living American director because he understands that the ontological image of cinema exists on every screen and medium: digital, iPhone, silver screen, etc. He’s a storyteller through and through, and it really doesn’t matter how you encounter it all. All he cares about is the humans he presents and this story is emblematic of that. Of all its stylistic flourishes, it’s a simple parable of marital Walpurgisnscht — an evening of fun of games with George and Martha née Kathryn — and you ride its wave to the bitterSWEET end. What a fucking joy to witness in a cinema, or on the couch in the future. 

@AMC Lincoln Sq 13. New York, NY.

Egoyan is always at his peak when he's straddling the line between intellectual mindfuck and playful psychosexual melodrama.

The film's metatextuality and intertextuality feel apt given that I'm navigating my experience watching Egoyan's 2023 opera remount of Salome in Toronto one week before finding out I got into Columbia, now living back in New York watching the U.S. premiere of this film wherein Amanda Seyfried returns to Toronto after making Chloe (2009) 16 years ago — a companion piece, right down to Mychael Danna's score; also life-changing to me — playing a director remounting Salome in the Four Seasons while struggling with sexual demons, of which I am very familiar with.

Lots of swirling thoughts, reflections, and looking: right at the thing, around the thing, not at the thing, but it's there like an old DV camera capturing innocence lost or a screen illuminating the essence of memory.

@Quad Cinema. New York, NY.

Watched on Monday March 3, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 2, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 1, 2025.

I had a religious experience during the Angels sequence.

Watched on Saturday March 1, 2025.

“We as gay animals, we get to choose our family.”

H.R. Giger’s Xenomorph concept — obviously featured heavily here — influencing Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, and both of these films being nominated for Oscars this year, really puts a smile on my face. 

Loved all of the Prometheus (2012) callbacks, along with the final birth sequence… fan service nirvana but what the hell, have a little fun!

Watched on Friday February 28, 2025.

Denzel can say faggot with his full chest and those RINGS.

Watched on Friday February 28, 2025.

One day we’ll look back and that the Academy nominated this and The Substance in the same year… major. Both are Mubi releases too! 

Also me throughout: https://shorturl.at/CZdQu

Watched on Thursday February 27, 2025.

• The Lizzie McGuire Movie
• Drop
• Wolf Man
• The Devil Wears Prada
• Next to Normal
• Final Destination
• Final Destination 2
• Mommie Dearest
• Final Destination 3
• The Devil's Child

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

• Holland
• The Woods
• The Haunting of Molly Hartley
• Halloween Ends
• Bedazzled
• National Theatre Live: Medea
• Death Becomes Her
• Warfare
• Sinners
• Black Mirror: Common People

• Alien: Romulus
• Flow
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig
• Better Man
• The Only Girl in the Orchestra
• I Am Ready, Warden
• Gothica
• Seven Veils
• Black Bag
• The Parenting

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

• Closer
• Disclaimer
• 9½ Weeks
• I'm Still Here
• Heart Eyes
• Valentine's Day
• Cherry Falls
• Basic Instinct 2
• Wander to Wonder
• No Other Land

...plus 36 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Arthur
• The Brutalist
• Wicked
• Anora
• Inside Out 2
• Agatha All Along
• Baby Reindeer
• Smile 2
• Scream
• A Real Pain

...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• All That Heaven Allows
• Wicked
• Krampus
• Apartment 7A
• A '90s Christmas
• I'll Be Home for Christmas
• Season's Greetings from Cherry Lane
• The Nutcracker Prince
• Frosty the Snowman
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

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

• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Chicago
• Mrs. Doubtfire
• Chloe
• Holiday Mismatch
• Othello
• Three Wiser Men And A Boy
• Hot Frosty
• Miracle on 34th Street
• Mary Poppins

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

• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
• Joker: Folie à Deux
• An American Werewolf in Paris
• Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
• Romeo + Juliet
• Speak No Evil
• Queer
• The Shrouds
• Addams Family Reunion
• The Front Room

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

• Beetlejuice
• Trap
• Bringing Down the House
• Cruel Intentions
• The Faculty
• Single Black Female 2: Simone's Revenge
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
• The Perfect Couple
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Medea

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

• Femme Fatale
• The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
• The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
• Blonde
• Leave It to Beaver
• Flubber
• The Princess Diaries
• The Night Logan Woke Up
• The Driller Killer
• They Were Ten

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

• National Lampoon's Vacation
• Antiviral
• Kinds of Kindness
• Blue Velvet
• Under Paris
• Independence Day: Resurgence
• I Know What You Did Last Summer
• I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
• Murder at 1600
• In a Violent Nature

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

• Messiah of Evil
• The Watchers
• Late Night with the Devil
• Femme
• Notes on a Scandal
• Tarot
• Trick
• Big Fat Liar
• Nasty Baby
• Extremities

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

• Mother's Day
• The Curse
• Massacre at Central High
• Ripley
• Luckiest Girl Alive
• The Strangers: Chapter 1
• Challengers
• I Saw the TV Glow
• Mary & George
• Gaga Chromatica Ball

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

• The First Omen
• Apples Never Fall
• Titanic
• Jade
• Vanilla Sky
• Night Swim
• Speaking Parts
• Abigail
• Civil War
• Dune: Part Two

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

• Urban Legend
• The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
• The After
• Invincible
• Knight of Fortune
• Red, White and Blue
• Rustin
• The ABCs of Book Banning
• The Barber of Little Rock
• NYAD

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

• 20 Days in Mariupol
• The Teachers' Lounge
• Antigone at the Barbican
• Bobi Wine: The People's President
• National Theatre Live: Phaedra
• The Eternal Memory
• Golda
• Upgraded
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• My Bloody Valentine

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

• Arthur
• Scream
• The Holdovers
• Book Club: The Next Chapter
• A Murder at the End of the World
• Mafia Mamma
• Anatomy of a Fall
• The Zone of Interest
• Scream 3
• Nanny

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

• Christmas at the Chalet
• Candy Cane Lane
• It's a Wonderful Knife
• Krampus
• May December
• Jingle All the Way
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
• Love Actually
• I'll Be Home for Christmas

...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Texas Chainsaw 3D
• A Haunting in Venice
• In the Mouth of Madness
• Red, White & Royal Blue
• Rope
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• Thanksgiving
• The Holiday Sitter
• The Christmas House 2: Deck Those Halls
• Saltburn

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

• The Exorcist
• Nightalk
• Rosemary's Baby
• Dressed to Kill
• Hocus Pocus
• Hocus Pocus 2
• Cruella
• Totally Killer
• Eyes of Laura Mars
• House on Haunted Hill

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

• Cruel Intentions
• Cruel Intentions 2
• Cruel Intentions 3
• The Pope's Exorcist
• Perpetrator
• Identikit
• Psycho
• Psycho II
• Psycho III
• Fair Play

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

• Scream VI
• Fright Night
• Bram Stoker's Dracula
• Oppenheimer
• The Black Dahlia
• Vegas Vacation
• Drive Me Crazy
• My Best Friend's Wedding
• Swarm
• Unfaithful

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

• Mambo Italiano
• National Lampoon's Vacation
• Murder Mystery 2
• Mrs. Davis
• Deep Blue Sea
• Showgirls
• Influencer
• Disturbing Behavior
• Mysterious Skin
• Suspect Zero

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

• Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island
• Dead Ringers
• National Theatre Live: Prima Facie
• Suddenly, Last Summer
• Dracula
• Renfield
• National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
• Black Adam
• Shazam! Fury of the Gods
• Valley of the Dolls

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

• Gossip
• Peter Pan & Wendy
• Midnight Lace
• House of Wax
• Scream VI
• They
• DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
• Rosemary's Baby
• 80 for Brady
• Mother's Day

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

• Lady Voyeur
• Sister, Sister
• Scream VI
• Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
• Bedazzled
• Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert
• Call Me
• How to Blow Up a Pipeline
• Titanic
• Beau Is Afraid

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

• Turning Red
• Tell It Like a Woman
• RRR
• Triangle of Sadness
• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
• Argentina 1985
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
• The Whale
• Scream 4
• Scream VI

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

• Open Cam
• Fire of Love
• EO
• Decoys
• To Leslie
• A House Made of Splinters
• Knock at the Cabin
• Thunder on the Hill
• All That Breathes
• Simply Irresistible

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

• See How They Run
• Emily the Criminal
• Arthur
• ion
• M3GAN
• Deep End
• Batman Returns
• The Menu
• Sick
• Basic Instinct

...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
• Frozen II
• Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
• The 12 Days of Christmas Eve
• Hotel for the Holidays
• 12 Dates of Christmas
• Krampus
• Toothless
• Inside Man
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

...plus 41 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Halloween Ends
• The Watcher
• The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time
• My Policeman
• Lot 36
• Graveyard Rats
• Causeway
• The Fan
• TÁR
• A Magical Christmas Village

...plus 19 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Blonde
• Smile
• Bring It On: Cheer Or Die
• Mr. Harrigan's Phone
• Halloween
• Halloween Kills
• Halloween Ends
• Significant Other
• She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
• The Witches

...plus 19 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• I Came By
• Pam & Tommy
• Watcher
• Top Gun: Maverick
• Dopesick
• Freaky Friday
• Who Invited Them
• Brother
• Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
• Carmen

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

• Not Okay
• Nope
• Irma Vep
• The Black Phone
• Fresh
• Dracula
• Prey
• They/Them
• Black Bird
• Little Fires Everywhere

...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• National Lampoon's Vacation
• I Know What You Did Last Summer
• The Burning
• I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
• Manderlay
• Texas Chainsaw 3D
• Dangerous Minds
• Urban Legends: Bloody Mary
• Legally Blonde: The Musical
• Perfect Stranger

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

• Crimes of the Future
• Candy
• Fire Island
• Experiment in Terror
• Angelyne
• Bunny Lake Is Missing
• Evil Eye
• The Requin
• You're Killing Me
• Father of the Bride

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

• Spring Awakening: Those You've Known
• Top Gun
• Top Gun: Maverick
• Keeping Company with Sondheim
• Crash

• Just Before Dawn
• The Weekend Away
• Benedetta
• The Deep House
• Rapture
• The Northman
• Windfall
• Original Cast Album: Company

• Scream
• Alison's Birthday
• On My Mind
• Please Hold
• The Dress
• The Long Goodbye
• Take and Run
• Ascension
• And Just Like That... The Documentary
• The Batman

...plus 27 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Tourist Trap
• The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
• Cold Prey
• Death Drop Gorgeous
• Urban Legend
• The Lost Daughter
• Urban Legends: Final Cut
• Scream
• Single Black Female
• Valentine

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• ing
• Arthur
• Clyde's
• Scream
• Scream 2
• Scream 3
• Scream 4
• Scream
• Sharp Stick
• Master

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

• The Guilty
• Malignant
• Scream
• Seance
• Child's Play
• Child's Play 2
• Brand New Cherry Flavor
• Child's Play 3
• Bride of Chucky
• Seed of Chucky

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

• Candy Coated Christmas
• Nightmare Alley
• Annie Live!
• National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
• My Favorite Christmas Melody
• West Side Story
• The Housewives of the North Pole
• Krampus
• Frosty the Snowman
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

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

• Midnight Mass
• Personal Shopper
• Dune
• The Manor
• The Santa Stakeout
• The Card Counter
• The Christmas Setup
• An Ice Wine Christmas
• A Holiday in Harlem
• Love Hard

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

• Cinderella
• No Sudden Move
• Dear Evan Hansen
• Titane
• A Banquet
• Kicking Blood
• Dashcam
• The Humans
• The Eyes of Tammy Faye
• Karen

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

• Zodiac
• Vegas Vacation
• Into the Woods
• The Talented Mr. Ripley
• Aquaman
• A Tale Best Forgotten
• Shazam!
• In the Earth
• The Suicide Squad
• Eye Without a Face

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

• National Lampoon's Vacation
• Kissed
• Till Death
• Chloe
• The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
• Fear Street: 1994
• The Bay
• Lake Placid
• In the Heights
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

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

• The Gay Bed and Breakfast of Terror
• Saw III
• Saw IV
• Saw V
• Killer Unicorn
• Saw VI
• Saw 3D
• Jigsaw
• Spiral: From the Book of Saw
• Cruella

...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Final Flesh

• The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
• Grease 2
• Book Club
• French Exit
• The Woman in the Window
• Mortal Kombat
• Those Who Wish Me Dead
• Saw
• Army of the Dead
• 101 Dalmatians

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