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Couldn’t stop thinking about how live action Jumba’s nose looked like The Judge’s in Nothing But Trouble.
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The type of film where you just keep praying that the inevitable won’t come to . Jesus, it’s bleak.
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One of the most endlessly rewatchable movies ever made. I love how Scorsese obviously thinks these guys are dumb vapid dorks, but unlike Wolf or Casino or the others, he also happens to kinda sympathize with Henry.
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Watched on Tuesday May 27, 2025.
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Surprisingly, I had never seen this one. Unsurprisingly, it absolutely rips. Every day I pray for Netflix’s downfall.
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Oh, Dignan.
Somehow didn’t catch just how violently Texan this one was the first time I watched it. Crazy how so many great things came from that state in the 90s. What were they putting in the water out there back then and why did they stop?
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A early 2000s British crime thriller that’s super explicit and in your face that is actually good? Crazy. Gotta watch out for this Glazer guy, he’s prooobably going somewhere.
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God, that box down the hill thing is brutal. I’m never going to stop thinking about that one.
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Endlessly charming. I love a getting a little sci fi in my rom com.
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Very charming. Took me a little too long to figure out we were in Canada, because I am very stupid.
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Watched on Friday May 23, 2025.
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“Our savior, it seems, was suffering from emphysema. He was relentlessly subjected to the benefits of modern medicine and died at 7:30 that evening.”
oh, that first half is amazing. The second half feels a bit off, but Scott is just so good at delivering these monologues that it all evens out in the end.
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Bryce would be a great kid from the get-go if his dad had died instead of his grandma. Also, if I had gone to that school as a kid I would have been in LOVE with Juli.
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This movie is a fundamental text for me. It’s just so good.
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God, I loved that. Everyone here has already commented on how dreamy and vibey it is, but it’s also just so ridiculously cozy. The kind of thing I love to find and watch late at night, but I got to see it in a theater! God bless.
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And yet the scariest thing that entity did was take away the toilet. I can live with constant torture and fear, but no toilet? Nightmare.
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Desperately awaiting the return of woke children’s films. Do you guys think Elon has ever seen this movie?
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It might be too early to say, but this one might be the actual best movie in the series, like, in filmmaking . I didn’t think you were allowed to make an actual movie when making a Final Destination flick. I loved this one so much. I love that the blonde brother is basically a live action Cal from Undergrads.
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About a million times better than I ed? Sorry guys, I was sleep deprived the first time. This one actually rocks.
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Another classic entry into the “slap a big ol wig on em for the flashback” cannon.
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The first Final Destination of the Obama era and it’s the first one to feature a klansman getting viciously killed as Why Can’t We be Friends? blares. We were so filled with hope. Too bad it peaked in the first 15 minutes and coasted through the rest of its runtime.
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I love that as the mid-tier action movies move further into the Q-Sphere, mid-tier horror has become woker and woker.
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How can you not love a movie starring a Stanwyck impersonator, a little guy, and Paul Newman? You know, for cinephiles!
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when nerds and slackers were still even mildly cool? When Stan Lee still seemed like a cool, slightly underground figure? When malls weren’t designed to punish you for loitering? If I had actually seen this when I was a teenager I probably would’ve loved it. I still liked it, for what it’s worth. Jason Lee seriously deserves more credit, man.
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Immediately shot up to the top of the list of my all time favorite short films. How Thornton is able to get so much into 30-ish minutes is beyond me. Just… impossible talent over there.
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In a way, this feels like Hal Hartley’s most commercial film, one that should have gotten him on the level with Linklatter and the Sundance brats, but because we suck, he didn’t. Love this movie, it’s weird asides, and bookish approach to intrigue. Also Posey and Ewell show up for maybe 3 minutes max and they’re so delightful.
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Watched on Tuesday May 13, 2025.
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“…and as Jim Taylor left the world of politics in the aftermath of the scandal many wondered what was next for this titan. The answer would come less than five years later with the founding of the Taylor Institute for Patriotic Studies, who through their work with the John Birch Society and Coolidge Institute led a new revolution in Washington, crowned with the election of President Buckley and Vice president Baer in late 1992.”
I adore this movie. I wish this was how it all worked, that David could bring down Goliath, but I just don’t know anymore.
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It took a long and drawn out second civil war for America to build a walkable city, also, you guys went TEN YEARS without a host?? You just showed snuff films on tv with no context for TEN YEARS??
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I know it’s been said, but I adore how this movie refuses to judge anyone in this town, or even offer them up as weird or strange. It’s just their life, and that’s that.
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Honestly delightful. Love that Hitchcock’s “film without a star” led to Shirley MacLaine of all people getting their start. God I wish Autumn was real.
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- “Free, white, and Christian? Burning crosses and hiding behind pillowcases and terrorizing families is free, white, and Christian huh?”
- “I don’t know anything about that sir.”
- “Oh yeah… it’s always the other fella. Hm.”
okay, so Fuller is at his absolute thorniest here. He’s obviously got massive contempt for the American cavalry AND the confederacy, and makes us sympathetic towards someone he so obviously sees as a coward and sniveling loser because the alternative being a social climbing John Wayne type is just too offensive to consider as a hero of any kind. He even gets off a subtler “don’t wave the flag at me” moment in near the end like in Pickup on South Street. It’s really fascinating stuff, and the end declaring that THE END OF THIS STORY CAN ONLY BE WRITTEN BY YOU is such a power move that only a bare knuckle humanist like Sam could pull it off.
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What an absolute charmer. It’s almost hard to see this as being 92 years old at this point, as it’s just so thoroughly modern that it feels like it could have been made yesterday.
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The Final Destination series is seriously so bad, man. I love them. I’ll keep watching them over and over until I become part of one. Seriously though, this is the best one of the series and its not even close.
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Thomas James "TJ" Kirk III, (born: February 20, 1985 (1985-02-20) [age 40]) better known online as The Amazing Atheist, is an American YouTuber that discusses topics such as religion, politics, and current events. He is known for his controversial and aggressive style.
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Love how everything could have gone smoothly, but Ben Kingsley thought his employee was too busted to pull Mary McDonnell.
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“God tells a man to sacrifice his own son. The man has faith, and he will do it. He doesn't ask why. Maybe Abraham, as he binds his son, knows why they are there. I don't anymore.“
We had a period there in the nineties where hyper regional, working class narratives seemed to be all the rage. Real salt of the earth cinema, in a way. Most of them were horrifically depressing and had no chance for wide appeal, but thank God there was an opening for them. I miss them.
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If I had my druthers, pieces like this would be produced through a national Department of the Arts constantly and distributed to the widest audiences possible through our public television and, hell, even in movie theaters before films.
American art deserves to be celebrated and ed from the highbrow to the low.
If we have to be the land of excess and pride, then let us create good art out of it, at the very least.
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Hernández has a way of walking that is possibly the most confident I have ever seen anyone walk? God, what a great actor. How have I never really latched on to him before??
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Poor Ed Harris, all he wants is to dance and not be alone :(
It’s not his fault he has the face and voice of a villain :((
“Mockingbirds will sing when you die, Francis.”
I’ve never stopped thinking about this one, but I DID forget the cavalcade of misery that makes up the plot. Man, I still love it though.
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There have been Cronenberg movies that I haven’t liked while watching and then gone on to love, but this might be the first one that I have actively not found anything at all to latch onto. I sincerely do not know what I’m missing here.
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Kerouac, coughing up blood while reading National Review. I’ve always said that nostalgia is poison.
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That’s right! We’re here for the end of tolerance! Tolerance went too far, and we all knew it!
No more tolerance!
No more tolerance!
No more tolerance!
Chris Isaak has an absolutely bizarre filmography doesn’t h- wait, is that DAVID HASSELHOFF?? Very amusing that even John Waters wasn’t immune to the apparently unconscionable draw of terrible ‘00s CG animals yucking it up on screen. Not his best, but if the last image of his career ends up being THAT, then honestly that’s what Waters is all about baby.
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Laird Cregar is so good, man. I really can’t believe it.
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Did… did they cut out the nipple ring scene for streaming? I swear they used to show it actually being torn out in a close up or something.
#freethenipplecut
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Okay, but that bully guy was going to end up killing someone eventually anyway and you know it.
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Oh man, that final scene made me miss Donald Sutherland so much.
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When I was a teenager and I saw A Personal Journey Through American Film with Martin Scorsese, I wrote down the name of each and every film he talked about. Bad and the Beautiful, for some strange reason as I was working through that list, instantly became one of my absolute favorites.
I haven’t seen it for years, but it felt like greeting an old friend to watch it again today.
What a picture.
]]>3 per month, in order of discovery. Yes I know, I'm disappointed in myself for taking so long to get to some of these too.
- Short Cuts
January
- Wind Across the Everglades
January
- The Last Command
January
- If I Should Die Before I Wake
February
- Your Name.
February
- Inserts
February
- Insignificance
March
- Welcome, or No Tresing
March
- Love & Basketball
March
- Alias Nick Beal
April
...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- The Adventures of Billy
- Billy the Kid
- Billy The Kid Returns
- West of Tombstone
- The Outlaw
- Alias Billy the Kid
- Son of Billy the Kid
- I Shot Billy the Kid
- The Kid from Texas
- The Boy from Oklahoma
...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>3 per month, in order of discovery. Yes I know, I'm disappointed in myself for taking so long to get to some of these too.
- Fearless
- In Heaven There Is No Beer?
- Lone Star
- In the Heat of the Night
- Dinner in America
- The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
- The Unknown
- The Night of the Iguana
- The Gospel According to Matthew
- Starman
...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Right of Way
- The Mountain Road
- The Magic of Lassie
- The Murder Man
- Rose Marie
- Next Time We Love
- Wife vs. Secretary
- Important News
- Small Town Girl
...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Cool Hand Luke
- A Matter of Life and Death
- True Stories
- Dogs in Space
- It's a Wonderful Life
- Ikiru
- Picnic at Hanging Rock
- Wise Blood
- The Wizard of Oz
- Days of Heaven
...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- In the Bleak Midwinter
- An Almost Christmas Story
- Lights
- the Night
- The Merry World of Leopold Z
- Merlusse
- I'll Be Seeing You
- Comfort and Joy
- Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
- Christmas, Again
...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Favorite depictions of ol’ Richard Nixon
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- Beetlejuice
- Batman Returns
- Edward Scissorhands
- Batman
- Big Fish
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- Sleepy Hollow
- Corpse Bride
...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Dogs in Space
- Broken Arrow
- Under the Volcano
- Dead of Night
- They Live by Night
- The Steel Helmet
- Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural
- Ride in the Whirlwind
- The Ballad of Cable Hogue
...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Walkabout
- The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
- Sunday Too Far Away
- Dogs in Space
- Bad Boy Bubby
- Muriel's Wedding
- The Devil's Playground
- Picnic at Hanging Rock
- Long Weekend
...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Halloween III: Season of the Witch
- Halloween Ends
- Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
- Halloween II
- Halloween II
- Halloween
- Halloween
- Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
- Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Movies that fully encapsulate those dreamlike memories of ghouls and monsters dancing just out of sight on Halloween night.
]]>3 per month, in order of discovery. Yes I know, I'm disappointed in myself for taking so long to get to some of these too.
(We don't talk about the missing 2020 list)
- What Have I Done to Deserve This?
January
- Young Mr. Lincoln
January
- Cop Land
January
- Leadbelly
February
- Winter Light
February
- Ham on Rye
February
- Total Recall
March
- Ace in the Hole
March
- Serial Mom
March
- Two Weeks in Another Town
April
...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- A Nightmare on Elm Street
Honestly what did you expect? The original still holds up the best.
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Cements the Elm street formula, still attempts to tell a legitimate story, and has both Lawrence Fishbourne and Patricia Arquette in it.
- New Nightmare
Playing out like a trial run for Scream, Craven comes back and resurrects his baby boy to make him terrifying again after a decade of schlock.
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
Screaming Mad George's fingerprints are all over this one, and it rules. With no need to prove itself, Dream Master coasts by on sweet kills and teenage thrills.
- A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
For a sequel made by people who hated the original, it could be worse. Would have worked better as a stand alone film though.
- Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
Freddy enters the ninties full of irony and dated computer effects. This thing is a literal cartoon.
- A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child
Tries so hard to balance its need for Freddy to have a gothic presence akin to a classic monster and to keep 80s teens interested, it flops.
Every film (that's available on letterboxd) mentioned or shown by Sam Neill in the 1995 documentary on New Zealand cinema
- One Hundred Crowded Years: The Centennial Film
- Country Lads
- Broken Barrier
- Reach for the Sky
- Runaway
- Don't Let It Get You
- This Is New Zealand
- Sleeping Dogs
- Beyond Reasonable Doubt
- Bad Blood
...plus 19 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Every film mentioned or shown in George Miller's 1996 documentary on Australian Film.
- Twilight Zone: The Movie
- The Witches of Eastwick
- Lorenzo's Oil
- Mad Max
- Sons of Matthew
- No Worries
- The Squatter's Daughter
- Newsfront
- The Back of Beyond
- Picnic at Hanging Rock
...plus 56 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- The Irishman
- Uncut Gems
- Ham on Rye
- Little Women
- The Forest of Love
- Pain and Glory
- Peterloo
- Parasite
- Richard Jewell
- High Life
...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- A Face in the Crowd
- La Strada
- Pound
- Ironweed
- Naked
- Sullivan's Travels
- Stroszek
- Border Radio
- Perfect Blue
- Something Wild
...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>undisputed 10/10 best movies ever, eat yer heart out.
]]>Starting with the advent of the modern Teen (and therefore Teen Rebel) in the 1950s, this marathon has 1 movie per decade that best encapsulates teen rebellion of that decade.
(work in progress)
- Rebel Without a Cause
As if this list was going to start with anything else, get real.
- if....
Way to go England, you invaded more than music and other countries in the 60s.
- Over the Edge
Suburbia is terrible, this movie is great.
- The Legend of Billie Jean
Place holder for the 80s. Don't really think it fits, but oh well.
- Pump Up the Volume
Whiny? Ironic? Christian Slater? Yup, it's teens in the 90s.