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Fell asleep twice catching this after work, so I’m officially in my ‘Final Dadstination’ era.

The longest runway in action history.

, no matter what, it’s better to be a live dog than a dead lion ❤️

“You have no idea where I came from. We have no idea where we’re going.”

Setting back Dungeons & Dragons nerds by a couple decades.

Part of Tubi Tuesday!

Best score than Fellowship? Y’all crazy.

35mm at the Coolidge Corner Theatre

There’s a shot of Aragorn slumped on his horse with the sun setting after being dragged off a cliff that is one of my favorite shots in all three films.

35mm at the Coolidge Corner Theatre

Beyond perfect, and I would take 5 arrows to the chest defending it.

35mm at the Coolidge Corner Theatre

I seriously thought this was going to be a little gay movie about starting a little gay bakery, what the fuck is wrong with me?

No such thing as new batteries for that smoke alarm, either.

Part of Tubi Tuesday!

Yup. If you like deals, then you’ve got a pretty undeniable one here that’s 5 for the price of 1! After most of a clan, with one cool secret hand gesture, is taken out by a more powerful rival, 5 surviving train for a year within the burnt out remains of their shaolin temple. One of the techniques a guy learns is called Plum Blossom, while the remaining fighters start hand ripping dicks and balls off. Like whole asses are obliterated in the name of martial arts. It’s pretty fucking great!

*me nearing 40 going up a flight of stairs*

“Mr. Quick is no more!”

35mm at the Philadelphia Film Center

Feels very much like a post-9/11 take on Detective Marlow by way of Agent Jack Bauer, and Val Kilmer gives one of his most direct performances ever.

RIP Val Kilmer

“I’m the baddest motherfucker on the planet!”

-Fraiser

Part of Tubi Tuesday!

This would never get made today, eggs are way too expensive.

Jeeeeeesus.

It’s like Fight Club but for Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, except it’s really fucking funny!

Two stars for Charlie Spradling.

Part of Tubi Tuesday!

The most Speed feeling chase at the end, with an all-timer bridge sequence. Gal Gadot can’t even pull off the charisma of a garbage truck driver.

With 5 minutes left, my cat takes a steaming crap right by the front door. Coincidence? I think not!

Part of Tubi Tuesday!

Nobody’s Fool? I am, since I really thought this wouldn’t be plodding.

The stabbing three times bit is an all-timer line delivery.

I want to love this every time, but I just can’t find its sweet spot.

Pair with Flashdance, or if you’re a lil freak weirdo, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? or The Substance.

This consumed me with an aching sadness I haven’t felt from a film in a very long time. Maybe my favorite performance from Al Pacino.

Rest easy, Gene.

Beep boooo.

Stunning photography but quite possibly one of the longest 96 minutes I’ve experienced since that time I was left on the moon to die.

Not a great representation of Gregs.

The reveal of who Braga really is might be one of the biggest wet farts of this entire franchise, like uh, sure? But I gotta give credit to this movie feeling the most like a janky Mario Kart level with that secret ass tunnel.

Lucas Black plays a seventeen year old, yet his chest hair looks old enough to have grandkids, but no matter, this beautiful meditation on letting go and embracing the immediate ages like fine sake.

spray-tan Cole Ha isn’t nearly as intimidating as his massive cigars would lead you to believe, and there isn’t nearly enough Midnight Club Racing outside of the first race - which is one of the best in the series - but everything plays like kinetic neon glow sticks that it’s nearly impossible not to have fun!

It’s dumb as ice, but it features Scott Glenn killing a billionaire, so it at least has common sense.

Seeing this in 1992 at the age of six felt like the entire movie was shot in a fish-eye lens, when in reality everything is just immediate and in your face with early 90s fashion tinged with a sinister shadow. Revisiting this as an adult, you can’t help but relive those early days bathed in odd sweat, gleeful madness and an abundance of flatulence. A lot of it feels like Tiny Toon Adventures, made sweet by the enduring charisma of John Ritter and Amy Yasbeck, giving it the maniacal whim Dennis the Menace would attempt one year later.

The fact that this isn’t adapted from a Dean Koontz novel is shocking!

Arnold’s entire story about teaching another bodybuilder to scream every time he poses is a real villain origin story.

At one point JCVD slow-mo flips his duster back to reveal a weapon, and it’s just his leg.

It’s like watching someone play a 16-bit beat ’em up but the buttons for punch are sticky so they just button mash jump and kick, with a heavy emphasis on watching, because this is not nearly as fun as it could be.

Albert Brooks understands that tragedy is only funny when it’s somebody else’s world that’s burning down in front of us.

John Cusack giving one of the best sad sack loser performances. “I’m a puppeteer. Waiter? Check please.”

Does for brandy what John Wick does for dogs.

Dominic Toretto lives his life a quarter mile at a time because three quarters got him sent to prison. 

Genius.

Could have used a lot less David Lowry, and I don’t know if grabbing the guy who directed the awful Room 237 documentary was such a good idea, but John Waters and Karyn Kusama craft something succinctly moving and inspired that it almost dams the self-congratulatory sludge of Lowry’s final segment from completely coating the tongue.

Where in the gaseous butthole do I even begin?

Everything about this adaptation screams written on OxyContin, which Stephen King apparently was when he wrote this while recovering from being hit by a speeding van. And ironically, watching this feels akin to being slammed by two tons of steel while the driver with dual personalities screams obscenities at you.

The plot, which involves a summer camps worth of farting - literal and metaphorical - deals with a group of friends who never really grew past being teenagers, where they come to the aid of a mentally challenged yet supernaturally gifted boy named Duddites being force fed turds (the movies term, not mine). It’s a plot point that feels like it should be the 4th film in a franchise if the movie Powder spawned multiple sequels. Later in the film, we’re gifted a grown-up version of Duddites, played by Donnie Wahlberg, who comes off as if Lawrence Kasdan (from The Big Chill to The Big No Chill) instructed him to act like a six day old Boston Cream donut with googly eyes.

In between, Thomas Jane comes close to shooting himself after humiliating an obese client during a therapy session, Timothy Olyphant drinks himself stupid before almost getting his dick bit off by a galactic worm that would make the vagina in Teeth blush, and Jason Lee riddles off asinine dialogue that feels written by AI if it lived off Monster Energy while coding Fortnite maps to look like boobs.

And yet, all of it is completely transfixing in its mind obliterating stupidity that I found myself laughing with dumbfound awe at what was transpiring. A rare one star and a heart, because honestly, it’s the closest we’ll probably ever get to a version of Falling Sky if it were directed by Tommy Wiseu.

I didn’t really think
the emptiness inside
would be so deep. 
A true genius who never
let the worlds misshapen
hate cloud the wonderment
of everything that is
beautiful. 
Beyond an inspiration.

Thank you for everything, Mr. Lynch. The hard part is over. Rest easy.

The way Jonathan Rhys Meyers says “nosy tits” would make Shakespeare cum.

These are just some of my favorite quotes from a movie that’s like Cube but if written by the person who invented the v-neck t-shirt:

*gas being pumped into a room* “It’s like air conditioning, but it’s not!”

*Jonathan Rhys Meyers elbow deep in his girlfriend’s abdomen looking for a key* “I’m sorry babe, I can’t find it. Can you tell me where it is?”

*Will Sasso trying to figure out the murder mystery* “Alright you son of a bitch, you want us to walk a mile in your shoes?! Wait, a mile, that’s 5,280 feet.”

Did not expect this to be so funny!

Never thought I’d say this, but it could have used more songs!

That fucking hair.

All-timer shootout highlighted by the use of brotherhood and formation through past football huddles and marine training. Really dug this!

1. Final Destination Bloodlines
2. Companion

• Dungeons & Dragons
• No Such Thing as Loyalty
• Money Plane
• Ski School
• No One Would Tell

1. Perfect Days
2. I Saw the TV Glow
3. Red Rooms
4. Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
5. She Is Conann
6. A Real Pain
7. Challengers
8. The Substance
9. Megalopolis
10. Dune: Part Two

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

1. Dangerous Game: The Legacy Murders
2. Mercy
3. Wifelike

1. Maximum Risk
2. Timecop
3. Double Team
4. Hard Target
5. Universal Soldier
6. Knock Off
7. Replicant
8. Street Fighter
9. In Hell
10. Sudden Death

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

A comprehensive list pooled from a Twitter question asked in regards to films that have yet to receive the blu-ray treatment with a focus on Region A/Region Free releases.

Note: many of these have a Region B/C release, so my primary focus is on the lack of Region A releases. Some do indeed have a proper release from Indicator/Arrow Video, so those will not be considered i.e. Happy Birthday to Me

Side Note: Please correct me if something does in fact have a proper, Region A release.

Side Side Note: Updated regularly

• Red Sun
• Cockfighter
• The Ugly
• Wild Grass
• Chocolat
• Mondo Cane
• Mondo Cane 2
• Mondo Cane 2000
• Inside

  Available from Second Sight (Region B)

• The Devils

...plus 144 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. John Wick: Chapter 4
2. The Iron Claw
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
4. Godzilla Minus One
5. Oppenheimer
6. Anatomy of a Fall
7. Poor Things
8. May December
9. BlackBerry
10. Ferrari

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

It's the most magical time of the year again: Halloween! And with it, arrives the 8th Annual Screamathon; a witches corset of tightly wound terrors that are sure to put the boo back in boobs (sorry, it's a work in progress). So us, as we harken back old favorites with new arrivals and all the horrors in between that have been lurking in our collection far longer than we're comfortable itting.

• Halloweentown
• ParaNorman
• Phase IV
• Top of the Food Chain
• Disconnected
• Party Line
• Dante's Inferno
• Häxan
• Samurai Reincarnation
• Murder Weapon

...plus 51 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Nightmare Alley
2. The Worst Person in the World
3. The Beatles: Get Back
4. Zack Snyder's Justice League
5. House of Gucci
6. Wrath of Man
7. West Side Story
8. The Last Duel
9. The Power of the Dog
10. Malignant

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Resident Evil: Retribution
2. Silent Hill
3. Mortal Kombat
4. DOA: Dead or Alive
5. Monster Hunter
6. Resident Evil
7. Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
8. Resident Evil: Afterlife
9. Resident Evil: Extinction
10. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

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

1. The Shining
2. Stand by Me
3. Christine
4. Misery
5. Carrie
6. Doctor Sleep
7. 1408
8. The Mist
9. Thinner
10. The Shining

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

• Mrs. Doubtfire
• Hook
• Liar Liar
• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
• Matilda
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
• The Santa Clause
• Big Daddy
• Happiness
• Falling Down

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

• Batman: Gotham Knight

• John Wick: Chapter 4
• To Live and Die in L.A.
• Thelma & Louise
• Cutie Honey
• Meeting People Is Easy
• The Fisher King
• Throw Down
• The Jerk
• A Very Sunny Christmas
• On the Run

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

1. Dark City
2. Touch of Evil
3. The Big Heat
4. In a Lonely Place
5. Blood Simple
6. The Locket
7. Drive
8. Out of the Past
9. Criss Cross
10. Memento

#noirvember 🔫 🧱🙋🏼‍♀️ 11.2.23

• The Woman in the Window
• Goku Midnight Eye
• The Most Terrible Time in My Life
• Angel Dust
• The Killer
• Man on a Swing
• Innocents with Dirty Hands
• The Maltese Falcon
• Touch of Evil
• Angel Face

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

Spooky spooky, it’s time to gather round the pumpkin patch and carve out a spine tingling jack-o-lantern of frights and delights with the 7th annual marathon spanning September 1st to October 31st 🎃👻

• The Faculty

  Pre-Screamathon Planning**

• Jennifer's Body

  Pre-Screamathon Planning**

• Scream

  Pre-Screamathon Planning**

• Scream 2

  Pre-Screamathon Planning**

• The Cannibal Man

  Paired with No One Heard the Scream

• No One Heard the Scream
• Häxan

  Paired with Sorceress

• Sorceress

  
  

• Kaun?
• Halloween

  Paired with Season of the Witch: Halloween III

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

It's that time of the year again, when @cinephile24 and I go loud and kick out the gourd (mother f***er!) with our annual Screamathon!

This marks the 6th monthly marathon we've curated, and despite digging deep into so much horror, we're still screaming. This year is possibly our most eclectic mix, ranging from wide releases (Mimic, Jennifer's Body, Us) to folklore (Eyes of Fire) and director specific double features (Mary Lambert/Tobe Hooper), capping the month off with always comforts (Sleepy Hollow/Lords of Salem).

As we try and do every year, we've filled this curation with a ton of first time watches (Phase IV, The Devil's Rain to name a few), so this journey will be fruitful, no matter how painful it gets (Draula 3D).

My cat loves Day of the Dead, so despite licking his butt, he has good taste. Happy Halloween Months to everyone!

• Eaten Alive
• The Mangler
• Mimic
• Symptoms
• Ring
• Urban Legends: Bloody Mary
• Face of Evil
• The Spiral Staircase
• Messiah of Evil
• Fascination

...plus 59 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Shining
2. Jennifer's Body
3. The Blob
4. Ravenous
5. Scream
6. The Blair Witch Project
7. Bram Stoker's Dracula
8. Little Shop of Horrors
9. Tetsuo: The Iron Man
10. Frankenstein

I've done top 10 favorite - greatest, if you prefer to conflate the two - horror lists before (countless, if I'm belaboring the point), so this time I decided to weather it with a little frightened grays. Instead of what has been done in the past, I wanted to focus on 10 favorite that have viscerally unnerved me. The kind that really rattle the cranial cage to the point where you go to bed with the lights on; your sweat glands pumping and your heart on cardiac alert. Or at the very least with a shadowy inclination that something was lurking beneath the dark recesses of your room (and mind). These are those lingering nightmares that will forever haunt.

Some have been pinpricking my nerves since I was a kid (The Blair Witch Project, seen opening night in a packed theater when I was 13), while others have more recently showed me that being older only means you have more skeletons in the closet to rattle you awake.

*As heard on The Clean Finish Podcast: open.spotify.com/show/21BNkzayVMql1dtBTHRF1M

1. The Shining
2. The Blair Witch Project
3. Maniac
4. Audition
5. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
6. Martyrs
7. Dead of Night
8. Pulse
9. Society
10. Jacob's Ladder

Work in progress list of movies that depict the death of animals so you can avoid them if you prefer!

Note: doesn’t for animal abuse on set.

• Demons 2

  House dog is painfully transformed into demon dog.

• The Granny

  House cat becomes possessed and mutilated.

• The Cat

  A dog gets into a damn wrestling match with a high flying cat that electrocutes and cuts the dog till he’s dead - the animal somehow survives though!

• Fear

  House dog gets speared to a door.

• Mirror Mirror

  The family dog of course gets murdered by a malevolent force.

• Boardinghouse

  A kitten gets a hammer to the head repeatedly.

• Black Sunday

  two beautiful Doberman’s are mysteriously killed and a bat gets shot.

• Inferno

  a bag of Italian cats are drowned in a lake.

• Smile

  a cat named Mustache is killed off screen but is discovered at a kids birthday party.

• Prey

  a wolf gets their head and spine ripped out.

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

1. Halloween
2. Halloween II
3. Halloween III: Season of the Witch
4. Halloween Ends
5. Halloween II
6. Halloween
7. Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
8. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
9. Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
10. Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers

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

This mission, if you choose to accept it…

1. Mission: Impossible
2. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
3. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
4. Mission: Impossible II
5. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
6. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
7. Mission: Impossible III

• Battleship
• Ouija
• Ouija: Origin of Evil
• Witchboard
• Clue

1. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
2. Fast & Furious 6
3. The Fast and the Furious
4. Fast Five
5. F9
6. 2 Fast 2 Furious
7. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
8. Furious 7
9. Fast & Furious
10. The Fate of the Furious

1. Elvis
2. Nope
3. The Batman
4. The Banshees of Inisherin
5. The Munsters
6. Pearl
7. The Eternal Daughter
8. Confess, Fletch
9. Emily the Criminal
10. Orphan: First Kill

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

My Sight & Sound Top 10 Best Films of All-Time

• All That Jazz
• Ravenous
• A Touch of Zen
• Frankenstein
• The Sword of Doom
• Metropolis
• Deep Cover
• The Red Shoes
• Beauty and the Beast
• The Night of the Hunter

1. A Nightmare on Elm Street
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
3. New Nightmare
4. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
5. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
6. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
7. A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child
8. A Nightmare on Elm Street

Ranked ranked ranked ranked list list list list

1. Friday the 13th Part 2
2. Jason X
3. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
4. Friday the 13th
5. Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
6. Friday the 13th Part III
7. Friday the 13th
8. Freddy vs. Jason
9. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
10. Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

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

• The In Crowd
• Jigoku
• Sound of My Voice
• The Card Counter
• Se7en
• The Heroic Trio
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2
• Gentlemen Broncos
• Before I Disappear
• Riders of Justice

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

🎵 Sitting here with nothin' to do
Sitting here thinkin' only of you
But you'll never get out of there
She'll never get out of there 🎵

1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
2. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
3. The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre
4. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
5. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
6. Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
7. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
8. Texas Chainsaw 3D

• Maximum Risk
• Hard Target
• Double Team
• Timecop
• Universal Soldier
• Knock Off
• Street Fighter
• Sudden Death
• In Hell
• Replicant

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

• Saw II
• Saw
• Saw VI
• Saw 3D
• Saw V
• Saw III
• Saw IV
• Jigsaw

1. Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
2. Godzilla
3. Shin Godzilla
4. Godzilla vs. Hedorah
5. Godzilla vs. Megalon
6. Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
7. Mothra vs. Godzilla
8. Invasion of Astro-Monster
9. Destroy All Monsters
10. Godzilla vs. Gigan

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

• Club Paradise
• The Face of Love
• The Survivors
• The Big White
• Being Human
• House of D
• The Best of Times
• The Night Listener
• Shrink
• Noel

...plus 56 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Red Shoes
• It's Always Fair Weather
• Demons 2
• The Blood on Satan's Claw
• The Black Cat
• The House of Usher
• Night of the Demon
• Dead Silence
• Color Me Blood Red
• What Have You Done to Solange?

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

1. Color Out of Space
2. Da 5 Bloods
3. First Cow
4. Relic
5. The Queen's Gambit
6. The Wolf of Snow Hollow
7. Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
8. The Invisible Man
9. The Vast of Night
10. You Cannot Kill David Arquette

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

• Se7en
• Clueless
• Heat
• Crimson Tide
• Die Hard With a Vengeance
• Showgirls
• Strange Days
• Hackers
• Tales from the Hood
• Rumble in the Bronx

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

• Oslo, August 31st
• Ravenous
• Jennifer's Body
• Dark City
• Little Shop of Horrors
• Speed
• Batman Returns
• Point Break
• The Shop Around the Corner
• The Truman Show

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Eve's Bayou
• J.D.'s Revenge
• Onibaba
• Kwaidan
• Black Sabbath
• The Whip and the Body
• Scary Movie
• There's Nothing Out There
• Burial Ground
• The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue

...plus 56 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
2. Uncut Gems
3. Parasite
4. The Irishman
5. Under the Silver Lake
6. Doctor Sleep
7. The Lighthouse
8. 3 from Hell
9. Her Smell
10. Tigers Are Not Afraid

...plus 54 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The 39 Steps
• The Sword of Doom
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• All That Jazz
• The Swimmer
• Summer of Sam
• Oslo, August 31st
• Morgiana
• Dead of Night
• Before I Fall

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Before I Fall
• Good Time
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Under the Skin
• Oslo, August 31st
• Drive
• Never Let Me Go
• The World's End
• The Place Beyond the Pines
• Crimson Peak

Since I have a lot more time on my hands, I thought, why not use this quarantine to flesh out some Hitchcock blind spots! I’ve only seen 10 of the directors films, so I won’t be rewatching any of those except for The 39 Step. Along the way I’ll be briefly writing about each one on my blog (just 400-500 words) as to put this adventure into a more creative peg. Without further ado...

• The Lady Vanishes
• Rebecca
• Rope
• Notorious
• To Catch a Thief
• The 39 Steps
• Spellbound
• Marnie
• The Trouble with Harry
• Foreign Correspondent

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

• Hocus Pocus
• Addams Family Values
• Christine
• Carrie
• Halloween
• Halloween
• Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
• Cemetery Man
• Cemetery of Terror
• Ring

...plus 59 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Spontaneous Combustion
• Slacker
• RoboCop 2
• Predator 2
• Die Hard 2
• Maniac Cop 2
• Basket Case 2
• Texasville
• Dreams
• I'm Dangerous Tonight

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

1. The Shining
2. Frankenstein
3. The Blair Witch Project
4. The Night of the Hunter
5. The Thing
6. The Evil Dead
7. The Fly
8. Mulholland Drive
9. Black Christmas
10. Scream

...plus 100 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
2. A Star Is Born
3. Burning
4. The Night Comes for Us
5. Game Night
6. Where Is Kyra?
7. Pyewacket
8. Suspiria
9. Vox Lux
10. Thunder Road

...plus 67 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Carrie
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
• Nightmare
• Demons
• Christine
• Pin
• The Man Who Laughs
• Alone in the Dark
• Night of the Living Dead
• A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge

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

• In the Mouth of Madness
• I, Man
• Bad Dreams
• Society
• The Witches
• The Witch
• Urban Legends: Final Cut
• What Have You Done to Solange?
• Cathy's Curse
• The Brood

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