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I was like 13 when I watched this for the first time which was probably not the best age to fully be able to grasp how funny this film is but thankfully I understand now 🙏🙏

Asked my housemates if they would fuck their evil clone and sadly they didn’t appreciate the well thought out and sophisticated nature of my film commentary 😔 but honestly, I think this was a really good bong joon ho project, especially in critiquing the current state of capitalism by depicting such a shameless example of the commodification of every aspect of human life…and death. The casting was, as always, done brilliantly and I love how much of a knack bong joon ho has for directing the cutest fictional animals

Too many hats, too many bobs, and too many bad accents but the film was good otherwise

Watched on Wednesday April 30, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 29, 2025.

I think it’s amazing, and maybe even a little depressing, how, even over 30 years later this film manages to feel more current and grounded in it’s exploration of themes like racism, and displacement, and cultural identity than a lot of much more recent films with similar themes

I think this might have moved up to being my fav pride and prejudice adaptation because even though I understand the criticism that this film follows the narrative archetype of presenting an anti-imperialist, "modern" south asian woman that eventually rejects the materialistic Indian man for the American, I think that for this one specifically, the plot really only serves to solidify it as a relatively more faithful adaptation, rather than be a bad attempt at representation.

plus, I love just how cheesy and effortlessly camp this all was and any film with bloopers in the end credits automatically gets an extra half star, and also maybe this is an unpopular opinion but I think Martin Henderson was a good choice for Darcy

Watched on Thursday February 6, 2025.

Entirely possible that this film invented fashion AND friendship

Oscars for all the cats pls

Watched on Saturday November 2, 2024.

Watched on Thursday December 26, 2024.

Watched on Wednesday December 25, 2024.

Watched on Wednesday December 25, 2024.

Watched on Wednesday December 25, 2024.

Christmas morning movie

It’s good to know that bong joon ho has always been good with satire

Decided to rewatch in dub and Christian bale was such a jumpscare

Surprisingly, Hugh Grant talking about Radiohead didn’t particularly appeal to me

Even on a rewatch, the ending is such a bittersweet gut-punch

If movies where hot people sing are a flame, I am a moth. The lighting was a crime against humanity though and Jon M. Chu needs to pay

Apparently I’ve watched this before but I genuinely have no memory of it and that’s terrifying

The whole movie felt like an extended John Lewis advert. Very cute though

Maybe I’m just much more comfortable with suspending my disbelief than most people but I feel like the anachronisms were the least of this films concerns. I did have a positive opinion for like a day after I watched but I think that had a lot to do with the Paul mescal-of-it-all and very little to do with the actual quality of filmmaking

another iteration of film where I spent half the time thinking 'how did they do that???'

really fun and light hearted flat movie night watch

Very much a style over substance film but that’s okay because who doesn’t love Margaret qualley

Let women haunt!!

I think I found it way more impressive the first time I watched it than I do now but it still doesn’t take away from just how fun of a horror this is

Watched on Wednesday October 9, 2024.

Everyone who hates the intro just hates fun because it was easily the best part of the show

this was like my 4th time making someone else watch this movie and I think the only time that the other person actually enjoyed it

A Different Man balances so many hats that by the end I felt like I’d watched about five different films all at once. From comedy to satire to body horror to thriller to neo-noir, it just does it all so well and that doesn’t even cover how good the acting was. Adam Pearson completely stole the show, and Sebastian Stan delivered his best performance, and Renate Reinsve played a character that you love to hate way too well. I’d been waiting for this movie pretty much since it was announced and it’s somehow still surprising to me just how good it really was.

I love just how unhurried and quiet this film was. There were no big revelations or a very climactic ending, it was just about the relationship between Mira and her mother and how hard it is to realise, as children, just how similar we might be to our parents.

Both Panigrahi and Kusruti managed to capture their characters with such an insane amount of talent that I hope this film reaches a much wider audience because they deserve all the acclaim that they can get and I can’t wait to see more stuff from Shuchi Talati.

Violence against women is injurious to health 

Darlings balances comedy and social commentary so well that there wasn’t a moment where the tone felt off or a joke failed to land. I also absolutely loved Alia Bhatt and Shefali Shah in this, they both managed to convey such an insane amount range. Movies like this make me firm my belief that Bollywood is coming out with some of the best dark comedies in recent years

its crazy how much of the Indian film industry runs on the premise of men having daddy issues

also, because its September, I keep seeing people recommend cosy movies for autumn and I need everyone to add this to their lists right now

the only good part of this movie was the relationship between the older brother and his wife. I also felt like they relied too heavily on public knowledge that alia and varun were together because their romance in the film just felt so hollow

I always say that I love when films have a kind of soap opera flair to them but with these rewatches I'm fully realising that no one does soap operatic melodrama to the point that it almost becomes camp like Karan Johar

definitely not a perfect film (especially with how long it is) but it is just so iconic and so fun to watch its impossible not to regard it as a modern classic for bollywood

akshaye khanna is such an icon that even despite how predictable this film was I still ended up really enjoying it

Watched on Wednesday September 4, 2024.

Watched on Wednesday September 4, 2024.

Watched on Wednesday September 4, 2024.

Watched on Wednesday September 4, 2024.

Watched on Saturday August 31, 2024.

this is how my family jokes about my Hindi

Needs to be listed as a horror comedy because every man in this film was pure evil

A film about genuinely evil parents who somehow manage to raise pretty normal children

Really good plot that was horribly executed but at some points it genuinely made want to cry but I think that had more to do with the subject matter than the film itself

This was so cute and a much needed break after a very stressful day. The plot blended feel-good with social satire perfectly and the cast was amazing

Pretty sure my brain repressed the fact that they’re all meant to be high school age teenagers

• The Secret of Moonacre
• The Princess Bride
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
• Bride & Prejudice
• Juno
• Glee: The Concert Movie
• Bend It Like Beckham
• Ella Enchanted
• Down with Love
• Drop Dead Gorgeous

1. C'mon C'mon
2. Titane
3. Petite Maman
4. The Worst Person in the World
5. The French Dispatch
6. Dune
7. The Green Knight
8. Licorice Pizza
9. Pig
10. CODA

...plus 50 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

2022 releases ~ the rankings are questionable but hopefully I will end up adding more to this list

1. Aftersun
2. Decision to Leave
3. Everything Everywhere All at Once
4. Nope
5. Babylon
6. The Fabelmans
7. Cha Cha Real Smooth
8. Broker
9. Bones and All
10. Triangle of Sadness

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

1. Oppenheimer
2. The Holdovers
3. The Boy and the Heron
4. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
5. ages
6. Priscilla
7. Barbie
8. Society of the Snow
9. Talk to Me
10. Scream VI

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

• Sinners
• Thunderbolts*
• Mickey 17

• Mean Girls
• The Fall Guy
• One Day
• Challengers
• Dune: Part Two
• Shaitaan
• Twisters
• Khel Khel Mein
• The Substance
• The Perfect Couple

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

• About Time
• 10 Things I Hate About You
• Sleeping with Other People
• (500) Days of Summer
• Cha Cha Real Smooth
• 3 Idiots
• Clueless
• Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
• Leap Year
• Stuck in Love

...plus 108 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

In no particular order

• Little Miss Sunshine
• Kill Bill: Vol. 1
• Cha Cha Real Smooth
• One Cut of the Dead
• Dead Poets Society
• The Edge of Seventeen
• Life of Pi
• The Handmaiden
• Lost in Translation
• American Beauty

...plus 99 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Coming of age films that I like, spanning different sub-genres

• Donnie Darko
• s Ha
• Super Dark Times
• Juno
• Ghost World
• Eighth Grade
• Boyhood
• Lady Bird
• Dead Poets Society
• Dazed and Confused

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

• Columbus
• I ♥ Huckabees
• Before Sunrise
• Ghost World
• s Ha
• Isle of Dogs
• Midnight in Paris
• Eighth Grade
• Lady Bird
• Captain Fantastic

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

My ranking because I’m on holiday and can’t watch the new one yet

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

• Lost Highway
• Welcome to the Dollhouse
• Super Dark Times
• Donnie Darko
• Heathers
• Jennifer's Body
• We Need to Talk About Kevin
• Blue Velvet
• Twin Peaks: The Return
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

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

I really don’t watch as much horror as I should but here’s some I like

• House
• The Evil Dead
• Us
• The Haunting of Hill House
• The Haunting of Bly Manor
• Hereditary
• The Witch
• The Cabin in the Woods
• 28 Days Later
• The Blair Witch Project

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

1. Alien
2. Ready or Not
3. The Black Phone
4. Smile
5. Insidious
6. Goodnight Mommy
7. Pearl
8. The Blackcoat's Daughter
9. Lot 36
10. Graveyard Rats

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

Nothing matters, but at least these films exist <33

Please give me more films to add to this because this might be my favourite genre

• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Palm Springs
• Only Lovers Left Alive
• C'mon C'mon
• The Worst Person in the World
• Dead Poets Society
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Kicking and Screaming
• Funny Ha Ha
• 20th Century Women

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

• Saving Face
• D.E.B.S.
• Bound
• Blue
• The Children's Hour
• My First Summer
• The Half of It
• Summerland
• Fried Green Tomatoes
• Bloomington

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

• West Side Story
• Rosemary's Baby
• Mommie Dearest
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Schindler's List
• The Shining
• The Deer Hunter
• Flashdance
• The Fly
• Bright Eyes

...plus 449 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

no rhyme or reason to what posters I put up

• s Ha
• Trainspotting
• Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
• My Neighbor Totoro
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
• Being John Malkovich
• Dazed and Confused
• Mistress America
• Ghost World
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

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

1. s Ha
2. Kicking and Screaming
3. Marriage Story
4. The Squid and the Whale
5. Mistress America
6. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
7. While We're Young

some anime I’ve watched

• NANA
• Howl's Moving Castle
• Your Name.
• ERASED
• Orange
• Your Lie in April
• When Marnie Was There
• The Garden of Words
• Another
• From Up on Poppy Hill

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

• The Stepford Wives
• Evil Dead II
• Army of Darkness
• Drag Me to Hell
• Bulbbul
• The Invisible Man
• Candyman
• Scream
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• A Quiet Place

...plus 35 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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

Directors pick their horror favourites (taken from this indiewire article)

• Alien

  Christopher Nolan + Stanley Kubrick

• The Last House on the Left

  Darren Lynn Bousman

• Relic

  Mary Harron

• Scream

  Leigh Janiak

• The Shining

  Alexandre Aja + Ti West

• Rosemary's Baby

  Wes Anderson

• Ring

  Natalie Erika James

• The Blackcoat's Daughter

  Mike Flanagan

• Midsommar

  Bong Joon Ho

• The Strangers

  Osgood Perkins

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

Let’s all take a moment to thank criterion for their closet picks

• Good Morning
• A Married Couple
• Come On Children
• Tootsie
• Straight Time