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Watched on Saturday May 24, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 14, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 6, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 5, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 13, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 11, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 9, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 9, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 7, 2025.

Chicken jockey

I really didn’t get much from it. Still fun and I love Michael Douglas.

Watched on Sunday March 30, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday March 25, 2025.

We are all sick, and we all keep coming back for more.

Watched on Sunday March 23, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 23, 2025.

I like how tactile everything is in this. Dossiers, landlines, fax machines, court documents … Wigand is physically drowning in this stuff throughout the movie. It’s suffocating.

Watched on Tuesday March 18, 2025.

Watched on Monday March 17, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 15, 2025.

Watched on Thursday March 13, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 8, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 8, 2025.

Watched on Friday March 7, 2025.

Watched on Thursday March 6, 2025.

Edge of your seat stuff! It’s sad that George Clooney hasn’t been in a lot of great movies because he can really act your socks off! People forget that in 2025 but it’s true.

Watched on Saturday March 1, 2025.

I really struggle to know what to make of this. Narcissistic billionaires are steamrolling the global south and potentially going to destroy the planet, but the military can save the day. This is like one of those “median voter” memes. It’s impressive that its charm can outweigh all the craziness.

Good stuff even if almost completely carried by the two of them just being as compelling as they are. Hawke’s propensity for the meta is working against it… I’m far more interested in this story than watching Ethan Hawke grapple with how to tell it. But good nonetheless and relentlessly unafraid to show Newman’s shortcomings in his personal life. 

One thing I didn’t appreciate until seeing this was for Paul Newman’s first like decade of acting everyone thought he sucked at it. Like even his friends and even himself.

Sweeps you up into the dream and crashes you into the nightmare. But in the dream the nightmare still looms and even in the nightmare there’s glimmers of the dream. Disorienting only when you try to chase every rabbit hole. All of the most horrifying moments seem to happen when we are forced to look inwards. The dumpster out back that we can’t bring ourselves to see, the strained relationships, our jealousy, how we disappoint the ones we care about. We don’t want to face these things. And to me that’s why every character is grandstanding in their own way. It’s all a performance even down to the minutiae. The lights are on and nobody’s home! It’s all a recording. NO HAY BANDA.

Watched on Sunday February 9, 2025.

Watched on Thursday February 6, 2025.

I already feel nostalgic about seeing this when it came out. Maybe I’m getting old but maybe nothing has been much better than this since!

The ending is so beautiful. You still have to make a life for yourself in this world… and it’s a strange world out there!

This movie is so angry

Watched on Sunday January 26, 2025.

Slop, duh, but even worse because it’s slop that’s telling you it’s slop, and telling you you will eat it and enjoy it. The two cameos followed immediately by the yellow brick road wink and nod really felt like they were just saying yep fuck you.

Watched on Wednesday January 15, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday January 15, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday January 15, 2025.

Lily Rose Depp does not have iPhone Face. But I think Robert Eggers might have Music Video Direction.

Watched on Sunday January 5, 2025.

Watched on Saturday January 4, 2025.

I thought it was quite the romp and Dickinson is really good but I feel like it was about to Say Something and then it fell really flat. I would have been fine with it never even pretending like it was supposed to Say Something but I feel like it pump faked on that. It was a good time nonetheless.

Watched on Wednesday January 1, 2025.

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Apocalypse Now
• Basic Instinct
• Beau Travail
• Belle de Jour
• Blade Runner 2049
• Body Double
• Call Me by Your Name
• Casino
• Contempt

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

1. Killers of the Flower Moon
2. Oppenheimer
3. Asteroid City
4. The Boy and the Heron
5. Godzilla Minus One
6. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
7. Knock at the Cabin
8. The Iron Claw
9. Past Lives
10. No Hard Feelings

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

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

1. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
2. The Irishman
3. Uncut Gems
4. Under the Silver Lake
5. Marriage Story
6. Little Women
7. Knives Out
8. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
9. Us
10. Avengers: Endgame

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

This was hard

1. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
2. Inherent Vice
3. Blade Runner 2049
4. The Wolf of Wall Street
5. The Irishman
6. The Grand Budapest Hotel
7. Silence
8. Moonlight
9. The Nice Guys
10. Gone Girl

1. The Wolf of Wall Street
2. Inside Llewyn Davis
3. Enemy
4. 12 Years a Slave
5. Her
6. About Time
7. Captain Phillips
8. Blackfish
9. Side Effects
10. Short Term 12

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

1. Blade Runner 2049
2. A Ghost Story
3. Lady Bird
4. Phantom Thread
5. Dunkirk
6. Call Me by Your Name
7. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
8. The Florida Project
9. Get Out
10. Good Time

...plus 39 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Kid
• Metropolis
• The ion of Joan of Arc
• Man with a Movie Camera
• All Quiet on the Western Front
• City Lights
• Frankenstein
• Bringing Up Baby
• Stagecoach
• The Third Man

...plus 91 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. First Reformed
2. Roma
3. You Were Never Really Here
4. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
5. Madeline's Madeline
6. Isle of Dogs
7. Avengers: Infinity War
8. Tully
9. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
10. Sorry to Bother You

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

1. Gone Girl
2. The Grand Budapest Hotel
3. Whiplash
4. Guardians of the Galaxy
5. Ex Machina
6. What We Do in the Shadows
7. Nightcrawler
8. Inherent Vice
9. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
10. Interstellar

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

1. Inglourious Basterds
2. A Single Man
3. Up
4. A Serious Man
5. Fantastic Mr. Fox
6. (500) Days of Summer
7. Sherlock Holmes
8. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
9. The Hangover
10. Star Trek

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

1. Persona
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
4. The Graduate
5. Psycho
6. Contempt
7. Cool Hand Luke
8. Pierrot le Fou
9. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
10. 8½

Films my dad and I intend to watch soon

• The Godfather
• The Godfather Part II
• The Godfather Part III
• Django Unchained
• The Outlaw Josey Wales
• Cool Hand Luke
• Casablanca
• The Wolf of Wall Street
• Stop Making Sense
• Vertigo

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

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

2 directors. 4 films. 1 legendary list.

• Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
• Parental Guidance
• Spy Kids
• The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl

• School of Rock
• Elf
• A Christmas Story
• Back to the Future
• Big
• Mrs. Doubtfire
• Shrek
• Ice Age
• Toy Story
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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

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1. La La Land
2. The Graduate
3. Vertigo
4. Blade Runner 2049
5. Silence

1. Blade Runner 2049
2. Sicario
3. Arrival
4. Polytechnique

1. The Wolf of Wall Street
2. Silence
3. Taxi Driver
4. GoodFellas
5. The Aviator
6. The Departed
7. Raging Bull
8. The King of Comedy
9. Mean Streets
10. Hugo

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Sicario
3. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
4. Inside Out
5. Steve Jobs
6. The Revenant
7. The Big Short
8. Carol
9. Spotlight
10. Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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Movies that my dad and I love and talk about often

• Cool Hand Luke

  (George Kennedy voice)

• Casablanca
• The Outlaw Josey Wales

  “How’s it on stains?”

• The Blues Brothers
• Caddyshack
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Back to the Future
• My Cousin Vinny
• Groundhog Day
• Tommy Boy

  ‘Yeah a lot of people go to college for eight years. They’re called doctors.’

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

1. Django Unchained
2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
3. s Ha
4. Seven Psychopaths
5. The Place Beyond the Pines
6. Skyfall
7. The Master
8. The Avengers
9. Looper
10. Mud

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

The GOAT. Always so good.

1. The Place Beyond the Pines
2. Blue Valentine
3. Drive
4. The Nice Guys
5. The Believer
6. The Big Short
7. Blade Runner 2049
8. Half Nelson
9. Lars and the Real Girl
10. La La Land

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1. Black Mirror: San Junipero
2. Black Mirror: White Christmas
3. Black Mirror: Hang the DJ
4. Black Mirror: White Bear
5. Black Mirror: Fifteen Million Merits
6. Black Mirror: Nosedive

1. Django Unchained
2. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
6. Reservoir Dogs

1. There Will Be Blood
2. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
3. Zodiac
4. No Country for Old Men
5. Gone Baby Gone
6. Hot Fuzz
7. Ratatouille
8. The Bourne Ultimatum
9. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
10. Hot Rod

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

1. Moonlight
2. La La Land
3. Manchester by the Sea
4. Silence
5. Captain America: Civil War
6. The Nice Guys
7. Arrival
8. Paterson
9. Swiss Army Man
10. 20th Century Women

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1. Vertigo
2. Psycho
3. North by Northwest
4. Dial M for Murder
5. Rope
6. Rear Window

1. La La Land
2. Moonlight
3. A Ghost Story
4. Lady Bird
5. Phantom Thread
6. Manchester by the Sea
7. Blade Runner 2049
8. Silence

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
3. Jurassic Park
4. Jaws
5. Catch Me If You Can
6. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
7. Lincoln
8. The Post
9. The Adventures of Tintin
10. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

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1. Gone Girl
2. The Social Network
3. Fight Club
4. Zodiac
5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
6. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Yes, this is out of spite for TSOW’s victory.

1. Phantom Thread
2. Lady Bird
3. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
4. Dunkirk
5. Call Me by Your Name
6. Get Out
7. The Post
8. The Shape of Water
9. Darkest Hour

1. Inside Llewyn Davis
2. The Big Lebowski
3. Fargo
4. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
5. Burn After Reading
6. No Country for Old Men
7. Hail, Caesar!

1. The Dark Knight
2. Inception
3. Dunkirk
4. Memento
5. The Prestige
6. Interstellar
7. The Dark Knight Rises
8. Batman Begins

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Phantom Thread
3. The Master
4. Magnolia
5. Punch-Drunk Love

Read notes. 

These are my picks for who SHOULD win; not my predictions of who WILL win. 

Not doing every category.

• Phantom Thread

  Best Actor in a Leading Role: DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

  Costume Design

  Directing: PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON

  Best Picture

• Blade Runner 2049

  Cinematography: ROGER DEAKINS

  Production Design

• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

  Best Actor in a ing Role: SAM ROCKWELL

  Best Actress in a Leading Role: S MCDORMAND

• Baby Driver

  Film Editing

• Coco

  Best Animated Feature Film

• Darkest Hour

  Makeup and Hairstyling

• Dunkirk

  Music (Original Score): HANS ZIMMER

• Lady Bird

  Original Screenplay: GRETA GERWIG

  Best Actress in a ing Role: LAURIE METCALF

• War for the Planet of the Apes

  Visual Effects

All the feature length films I saw at the 26th Philadelphia Film Festival, ranked.

1. The Florida Project
2. 11/8/16
3. Golden Exits
4. Flesh and Blood
5. The Desert Bride

1. Drive
2. Moneyball
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
4. The Descendants
5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
6. The Tree of Life
7. X-Men: First Class
8. Super 8
9. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
10. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol

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1. Blue Valentine
2. The Social Network
3. Inception
4. Boy
5. Black Swan
6. Toy Story 3
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
8. The Town
9. Flipped
10. Beginners

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

1. First Man

   Chazelle and Gosling

2. Avengers: Infinity War

   Just cuz

3. Annihilation

   Alex Garland and Oscar Isaac and Natalie Portman

4. Isle of Dogs

   Looks cool and Greta and Ed Norton and Bryan Cranston

5. Incredibles 2

   Should be fun

6. Black Panther

   Just because

7. Solo: A Star Wars Story

   Just cuz

• Monsters, Inc.
• It
• Up
• Lilo & Stitch
• Shrek
• Arrival

Tommy gave me this idea

• Blade Runner 2049
• La La Land
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Ex Machina
• The Wolf of Wall Street
• Django Unchained
• Drive
• Blue Valentine
• A Single Man
• The Dark Knight

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

1. Moonlight
2. Ex Machina
3. A Ghost Story
4. The Florida Project
5. Lady Bird
6. 20th Century Women
7. Swiss Army Man
8. Room
9. The Spectacular Now
10. The Lobster

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

1. The Dark Knight
2. In Bruges
3. Iron Man
4. Burn After Reading
5. WALL·E
6. The Wrestler
7. Step Brothers
8. Slumdog Millionaire
9. Tropic Thunder
10. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Toy Story
2. Monsters, Inc.
3. Up
4. Inside Out
5. Finding Nemo
6. The Incredibles
7. Ratatouille
8. Toy Story 3
9. WALL·E
10. Coco

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

1. Guardians of the Galaxy
2. Star Wars
3. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
4. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
5. Interstellar
6. WALL·E
7. Star Trek
8. Gravity
9. The Martian
10. Star Trek Into Darkness

1. Blue Valentine
2. The Hangover
3. The Royal Tenenbaums
4. Shrek
5. The Princess Bride

<3

1. Casablanca
2. La La Land
3. Vertigo
4. Blue Valentine
5. (500) Days of Summer

1. Silence
2. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
3. The Wolf of Wall Street
4. The Social Network
5. Dunkirk
6. Moneyball
7. 12 Years a Slave
8. Spotlight
9. 20th Century Women
10. The Revenant

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

1. Back to the Future
2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
3. Good Will Hunting
4. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
5. American History X
6. Rushmore
7. 20th Century Women
8. Dead Poets Society
9. The Jungle Book
10. Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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