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Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

Finally caught up with this one, and while I enjoyed it, it wasn't quite the movie I thought it was going to be. The film is beautiful and engrossing, fully pulling you into its world. Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce are excellent and fully deserving of all of their accolades. Ultimately though I felt like the film was let down by its second act. I was expecting an expansive movie about a man introducing new ideas about architecture to the US after World War 2, but instead it became smaller in scope and a little too melodramatic for my taste. Still a great movie though, and well worth your time.

Thanks to @d_roo for the recommendation.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 8, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 25, 2025.

I'm not sure exactly what I think of this yet, but all I know is that it went up by a star rating by the time it had finished. I found the beginning to be strangely stilted and artificial, and I wasn't at all convinced that Tom and Nicole were right for their roles. However, it then became a beautifully pitched horror movie, an existential story about the impossibility of knowing other people, and a fairy tale whose dream logic could mean that everything is in Tom's head. I'm clearly going to have to watch this one again.

Thanks to @mrjerz for the excellent recommendation. Another classic knocked off my list!

It took me a while to get on this movie's wavelength, but by the end I didn't want it to be over. Tilda, as always, is just mesmerizing, and her character is lovable while simultaneously being deeply infuriating. Alejandro's relationship with her is the heart of the film, and you never know where the story is going to take you.

Thanks to @conanneutron for the great recommendation.

Watched on Friday April 25, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 25, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 25, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

I'd been putting this one off, but finally put it on last night. I was clearly in the right frame of mind, as I had a great time right from the beginning. I usually hate de-aging, but somehow I found the young Indy to be charming (as I did with the babyfaced Mads). The whole film was a fun romp, Phoebe had some great British quips, and the crazy final act felt completely at home in an Indiana Jones movie. Thanks to @ericrost for the push I needed to watch this.

This one snuck up on me, starting out as a fairly ordinary film about alcoholism and recovery, but ending up as a gorgeous story about how to find meaning in this world. Saoirse Ronan is my favorite modern actor, and this is one of her finest performances, up there with Lady Bird, Little Women, and Brooklyn. I can see why you might think this would be too earnest or depressing, but I found it to be wonderfully inspiring. Highly recommended!

Thanks so much to @mmatza7 for the excellent pick.

Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.

Watched on Monday March 24, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 23, 2025.

This is a fun, atmospheric 70s horror movie, that has been beautifully restored to its full glory. It isn't scary in 2025, but it is a well told story, with some striking visuals and set pieces. The best moments are when they succeed in making mundane locations (a supermarket, a movie theater, a gas station) truly creepy.

Thanks to @jbump1 for the great recommendation.

Watched on Saturday March 15, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 8, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 1, 2025.

This was a long overdue watch, and it lived up to its reputation. The Criterion remaster is gorgeous, the two leads are fantastic, and the Noel Coward screenplay is beautifully constructed. I'm slowly catching up on David Lean, after Lawrence of Arabia last year, and this makes me eager to be a completist.

Thanks to @Daraghrryan and @ty_mcgowen for both recommending this one to me.

Watched on Friday February 21, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday February 18, 2025.

Watched on Monday February 17, 2025.

Watched on Sunday February 16, 2025.

Watched on Saturday February 15, 2025.

Growing up in the UK with gay friends in the 80s, this film really hits home. This is a sombre movie, but thought provoking, and Rosy McEwen makes for a heartbreaking lead. Of course I'd had beans on toast for dinner before sitting down to watch this one.

Thanks to @lynseyengle for the recommendation.

Watched on Sunday February 9, 2025.

Watched on Friday January 31, 2025.

Watched on Thursday January 30, 2025.

I'd been dying to see this since the Screen Drafts Hitchcock Draft, and it lived up to my high expectations. It is a simple story, expertly told, and it just feels so dangerous. The amusement park scene was perfection, from the popping of the boy's balloon to the inevitable outcome. The final third is tense, if a little predictable with the need for a studio ending. I need a double bill with Challengers, which clearly "borrowed" the fantastic tennis watching scene.

Thanks so much to @GiANT_KiLLER for the recommendation.

Rango has a unique anarchic style with deliberately ugly character designs, and some crazy plot twists. I loved the endless movie homages, with the highlight being the trench run. This was unexpectedly a lot of fun.

Thanks to @paulpdx, @Colinstackin, and @machlen from the 70mm Pod's VHS Village who've all recommended that I give this a chance, and I finally did!

Watched on Saturday January 25, 2025.

Watched on Saturday January 25, 2025.

Watched on Saturday December 14, 2024.

Watched on Tuesday January 21, 2025.

Watched on Sunday January 19, 2025.

Watched on Saturday December 28, 2024.

Watched on Tuesday January 7, 2025.

Watched on Saturday January 4, 2025.

I thought this would be fun, but I didn't expect it to be one of the best movies of 2024. I loved everything about Thelma: June Squibb makes for a fantastic lead, the rest of the cast are excellent, the family relationships are touching, and then the action is hilarious. Highly recommended!

Thanks to @mmjags1942 for the recommendation.

Watched on Tuesday December 31, 2024.

Watched on Tuesday December 31, 2024.

Watched on Tuesday December 24, 2024.

Watched on Wednesday December 18, 2024.

Watched on Wednesday December 18, 2024.

Watched on Wednesday December 18, 2024.

No, I haven't seen The Incredible Hulk...

1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2. Iron Man
3. Thor: Ragnarok
4. Avengers: Endgame
5. Doctor Strange
6. Black Panther
7. Guardians of the Galaxy
8. The Avengers
9. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
10. Avengers: Infinity War

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

Trying a different way to manage my watchlist.

1. Werewolves Within
2. The Equalizer 2
3. The Equalizer 3
4. Jackie Brown
5. BlacKkKlansman
6. Companion
7. Gladiator II
8. The Brutalist
9. Drop
10. A Quiet Place: Day One

...plus 242 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Werewolves Within
• Better Man
• Let's Scare Jessica to Death
• The Conversation
• Messiah of Evil
• Mulholland Drive
• Thelma
• Pulp Fiction
• Reservoir Dogs
• The Servant

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

All the recommendations given to me by the 70mm VHS Village, in most recently watched order.

You can see all of my reviews here: letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/andywarmstrong/tag/lb-roulette/reviews/by/added-earliest/

1. Eyes Wide Shut

   Recommended by letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mrjerz/

2. Problemista

   Recommended by letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/conanneutron/

3. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

   Recommended by letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/ericrost/

4. The Outrun

   Recommended by letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mmatza7/

5. Messiah of Evil

   Recommended by letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/jbump1/

6. Brief Encounter

   Recommended by letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/Daraghrryan/ and letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/ty_mcgowen/

7. Mulholland Drive

   Recommended by letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/jordanlmeyers/

8. Thelma

   Recommended by letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mmjags1942/

9. Blue Jean
10. Strangers on a Train

    Recommended by letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/GiANT_KiLLER/

...plus 137 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Anora
2. Sing Sing
3. Dune: Part Two
4. Wicked
5. Alien: Romulus
6. Thelma
7. The Wild Robot
8. A Complete Unknown
9. The Substance
10. A Real Pain

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

1. Petite Maman
2. Dune
3. Licorice Pizza
4. The French Dispatch
5. The Sparks Brothers
6. C'mon C'mon
7. Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
8. Titane
9. After Yang
10. In the Heights

...plus 55 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• Little Women
• Parasite
• Rocketman
• Avengers: Endgame
• Booksmart
• Knives Out
• John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
• Midsommar

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

1. Get Out
2. It
3. God's Own Country
4. Paddington 2
5. The Florida Project
6. The Shape of Water
7. Columbus
8. Lady Bird
9. Thor: Ragnarok
10. John Wick: Chapter 2

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Past Lives
• Barbie
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
• The Iron Claw
• Poor Things
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Oppenheimer
• Godzilla Minus One
• Bottoms

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

These are all of my five star movies. The order is less accurate after the top twenty or so...

1. The Matrix
2. Almost Famous
3. Die Hard
4. Hot Fuzz
5. Aliens
6. The Terminator
7. Pulp Fiction
8. Fargo
9. Star Wars
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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

1. David Byrne's American Utopia
2. Stop Making Sense
3. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
4. Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
5. Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii
6. The Cure - Show
7. Metric - Dreams So Real - Live In Concert
8. The Cure In Orange
9. HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé
10. P!nk: All I Know So Far

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

• Lost in Translation
• Marie Antoinette
• Priscilla
• The Virgin Suicides
• The Beguiled
• The Bling Ring
• On the Rocks
• Somewhere
• A Very Murray Christmas

Blu Rays, 4Ks, and digital movies that we own.

• 10 Cloverfield Lane
• 13 Going on 30
• 28 Days Later
• 28 Weeks Later
• 50 First Dates
• About Time
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence
• Alien
• Aliens
• Alien³

...plus 306 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I love rewatching my favorite films, so this list truly reflects my taste in movies.

Note: I've decided to leave off holiday movies, because I don't want Elf and Arthur Christmas to take over their respective years! I'm also considering removing children's movies, but for now I'm leaving them in.

• Dune: Part Two
• Bottoms
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Dune
• Palm Springs
• Avengers: Endgame
• Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
• Get Out
• Arrival
• The Martian

...plus 65 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Aftersun
2. The Banshees of Inisherin
3. Top Gun: Maverick
4. Nope
5. Everything Everywhere All at Once
6. Moonage Daydream
7. Fire of Love
8. Elvis
9. RRR
10. Prey

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

• Alien
• Almost Famous
• Barbie
• The Batman
• The Birds
• Casino Royale
• Die Hard
• Dune
• Edge of Tomorrow
• Elvis

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

1. Little Women
2. Spider-Man 2
3. Melancholia
4. Marie Antoinette
5. Spider-Man
6. Hidden Figures
7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
8. Civil War
9. The Power of the Dog
10. Drop Dead Gorgeous

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

The list of French language movies that I'm hoping to see (or to rewatch)

1. Anatomy of a Fall
2. BPM (Beats per Minute)
3. Return to Seoul
4. ages
5. The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan
6. Happening
7. The Taste of Things
8. Jean de Florette
9. Manon of the Spring
10. Jules and Jim

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

• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• Petite Maman
• Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
• La Haine
• Titane
• Three Colours: Blue
• Possession
• Tomboy
• Girlhood
• Breathless

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

1. The Favourite
2. Poor Things
3. Superbad
4. La La Land
5. Easy A
6. Crazy, Stupid, Love.
7. Zombieland
8. Cruella
9. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
10. The Help

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

1. An Education
2. Promising Young Woman
3. Pride & Prejudice
4. Never Let Me Go
5. Drive
6. Wildlife
7. Collateral
8. Inside Llewyn Davis
9. The Dig
10. She Said

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

Seriously? Surely I've seen more of her movies!

1. Little Women
2. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
3. The Devil Wears Prada
4. Postcards from the Edge
5. The Hours
6. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
7. Manhattan
8. Julie & Julia
9. The Bridges of Madison County
10. Suffragette

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

1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
3. The Favourite
4. Shoplifters
5. Game Night
6. Paddington 2
7. First Reformed
8. Burning
9. Wild Rose
10. BlacKkKlansman

...plus 55 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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

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

1. Hoop Dreams
2. 13th
3. The Sparks Brothers
4. Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
5. Moonage Daydream
6. Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
7. Blackfish
8. RBG
9. Hamilton's America
10. Amy

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

I love Keanu but it turns out I haven't seen most of his movies. This is my ranking of how much I love those I have seen, not how great his individual performance is.

1. The Matrix
2. Speed
3. Point Break
4. John Wick
5. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
6. Parenthood
7. John Wick: Chapter 4
8. John Wick: Chapter 2
9. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
10. Toy Story 4

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

These are the movies that I've watched at least five times, ranked by the approximate number of times that I've seen them. Some of these are family traditions where we watch them every year, some were films I had on VHS as a kid, and some I just watch a lot because I love them!

This was inspired by letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/darrencb/list/my-most-rewatched-films/

1. Star Wars
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. Grease
4. The Wizard of Oz
5. The Sound of Music
6. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
7. Elf
8. The Incredibles
9. Toy Story
10. Toy Story 2

...plus 68 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Jurassic Park
4. Catch Me If You Can
5. Jaws
6. Saving Private Ryan
7. Schindler's List
8. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
9. Minority Report
10. A.I. Artificial Intelligence

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

1. The Terminator
2. Aliens
3. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
4. Titanic
5. The Abyss
6. Avatar
7. Avatar: The Way of Water
8. True Lies

I'm very aware of soundtracks, and I find that they can often make or break a movie for me. In fact, most of my favorite movies have an excellent score, and I find it very hard to like a movie with a mediocre one.

Oh, and Restless Natives is on here because I'm a huge Big Country fan. :-)

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. The Social Network
3. The Last of the Mohicans
4. TRON: Legacy
5. Cloud Atlas
6. Jurassic Park
7. Moon
8. Raiders of the Lost Ark
9. Fargo
10. Blade Runner

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

• Die Hard
• The Usual Suspects
• Reservoir Dogs
• The Wrong Tros
• Point Break
• Out of Sight
• The Thomas Crown Affair
• Inception
• Widows
• Heat

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

1. Fargo
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. The Thing
4. Groundhog Day
5. Hanna
6. Snowpiercer
7. Wind River
8. Arthur Christmas
9. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
10. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

1. Almost Famous
2. Edge of Tomorrow
3. The Social Network
4. Hot Fuzz
5. Brooklyn
6. Avengers: Endgame
7. Lost in Translation
8. Iron Man
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
10. The Dark Knight

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

My two favorite things in the world: movies and rock/pop music. I've cheated a little by including a few documentaries, and films that just have great soundtracks.

1. Almost Famous
2. Do the Right Thing
3. David Byrne's American Utopia
4. School of Rock
5. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
6. Rocketman
7. Walk the Line
8. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
9. Stop Making Sense
10. The Sparks Brothers

...plus 55 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Witness
3. The Empire Strikes Back
4. Star Wars
5. The Fugitive
6. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
7. Blade Runner
8. Return of the Jedi
9. Working Girl
10. Air Force One

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

What started as a s McDormand retrospective evolved to include all of the Coen Brothers and Wes Anderson films, which in turn led to Bill Murray. So this is a combined ranking of all of their movies that I watched in 2021.

• Almost Famous
• Fargo
• Rushmore
• Miller's Crossing
• Lone Star
• Nomadland
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Raising Arizona
• The French Dispatch
• No Country for Old Men

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

1. Apollo 13
2. Cloud Atlas
3. Toy Story
4. Catch Me If You Can
5. Saving Mr. Banks
6. Toy Story 2
7. Saving Private Ryan
8. Big
9. Elvis
10. Toy Story 4

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

1. Palm Springs
2. David Byrne's American Utopia
3. Hamilton
4. Promising Young Woman
5. Nomadland
6. Sound of Metal
7. I May Destroy You
8. The Queen's Gambit
9. Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
10. Lovers Rock

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

1. The Matrix
2. The Usual Suspects
3. Star Wars
4. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
5. The Truman Show
6. The Sixth Sense
7. Aliens
8. Arrival
9. Your Name.
10. 50 First Dates

1. The Matrix
2. Star Wars
3. Die Hard
4. The Empire Strikes Back
5. Aliens
6. Jurassic Park
7. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
8. Raiders of the Lost Ark
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
10. Avengers: Endgame

1. Your Name.
2. Get Out
3. Big
4. Vertigo
5. Coherence
6. All of Me
7. 13 Going on 30
8. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
9. Freaky Friday
10. Captain Marvel

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

1. Spotlight
2. Game Night
3. Doctor Strange
4. About Time
5. Wedding Crashers
6. Disobedience
7. The Family Stone
8. The Notebook
9. Sherlock Holmes
10. Mean Girls

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

I love movies that mess around with time

1. Groundhog Day
2. Edge of Tomorrow
3. The Terminator
4. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
5. Cloud Atlas
6. Back to the Future
7. Avengers: Endgame
8. Your Name.
9. Arrival
10. Palm Springs

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

1. Edge of Tomorrow
2. Cloud Atlas
3. Brooklyn
4. Avengers: Endgame
5. The Social Network
6. Jurassic World
7. Your Name.
8. Get Out
9. Arrival
10. Pride

...plus 46 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
2. The Incredibles
3. Babe
4. Finding Nemo
5. WALL·E
6. Aladdin
7. Despicable Me
8. Big
9. Moana
10. Paddington 2

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

This is my selection for the Empire 30 (with a bonus for 2019).

www.empireonline.com/movies/features/empire-30-vote-for-your-favourite-films-of-the-last-30-years/

1. When Harry Met Sally...

   Empire: Batman
   Readers: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

2. Miller's Crossing

   Empire: Goodfellas
   Readers: Goodfellas

3. Thelma & Louise

   Empire: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
   Readers (tie): Teminator 2: Judgment Day
   Readers (tie): Point Break

4. Reservoir Dogs

   Empire: Reservoir Dogs
   Readers: Reservoir Dogs

5. Jurassic Park

   Empire: Jurassic Park
   Readers: Jurassic Park

6. Pulp Fiction

   Empire: The Shawshank Redemption
   Readers: Pulp Fiction

7. The Usual Suspects

   Empire: Toy Story
   Readers: Toy Story

8. Fargo

   Empire: Scream
   Readers: Fargo

9. Good Will Hunting

   Empire: Titanic
   Readers: L.A. Confidential

10. Rushmore

    Empire: Blade
    Readers: Saving Private Ryan

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

Best films with fewer than 15k views

1. Monsoon Wedding
2. Drowning by Numbers
3. Hidden Agenda
4. All of Me
5. Educating Rita
6. Jean de Florette
7. Manon of the Spring
8. Restless Natives
9. North Country
10. The Dish

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

1. Paddington 2
2. The Shape of Water
3. An Education
4. Happy-Go-Lucky
5. Paddington
6. Never Let Me Go
7. Godzilla
8. Layer Cake
9. Made in Dagenham
10. X+Y

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

1. Almost Famous
2. Fargo
3. Miller's Crossing
4. Lone Star
5. Nomadland
6. Raising Arizona
7. The French Dispatch
8. Olive Kitteridge
9. Blood Simple
10. Hidden Agenda

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

1. The Matrix
2. Cloud Atlas
3. Bound
4. The Matrix Reloaded
5. Speed Racer
6. Jupiter Ascending
7. The Matrix Resurrections
8. The Matrix Revolutions