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Watched like thirty minutes of this and it is absolute shit. Jim From The Office is just not built for this.

There are some truly wonderful sequences here but everything just goes on too long. Every dollar is on screen and maybe they shouldn't be.

I regret to say that this movie is still flawless.

just all the feelings over here, gonna need a minute

I miss this era of made for cable movies. Not exactly good but unhinged and cheap in a very fun way. RIP George Wendt, I hope you had a good time on this one.

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

OK, I will it I was only half watching this while I worked so I really have no idea what happened but despite that you can really feel that there were seven different directors on this.

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

Goddamn I love how this movie fucking moves. Until the get to the ship but still, 3/4’s of it are perfect.

The 90's: the best decade for comic book movies.

Also, soundtracks.

I had a good time.

This is a Movie where Owen Wilson blows it with Kari Wuher to hang with Jon Voight.

Cromulent Adkins actioner but there are two points that made me laugh:
1. He’s cleaning his guns in the forest being all pensive when a wolf comes upon him and they stare into each others eyes. Except the animal they cast is like one quarter wolf and the rest is Big Dumb Dog and it’s hilariously adorable. 

2. Under siege he explains what being a sniper is like to the woman trapped with him and it’s exactly Nice Pete’s answer to “what is it like to kill a man?” from Achewood. 

What an incredibly funny movie. A vision of Purgatory as 70’s NYC. I don’t think you get After Hours, Seinfeld or The Warriors without it.

Man, I don't know. I definitely feel like this movie was meant to drive me insane along with our main character.

God man, this movie is a blast. So many great faces. Cool effects. Max Von Sydow!

Hell yeah.

Watched on Tuesday May 13, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

A movie that would be a banger had it been made a decade earlier or later (1971 with everyone making this sharper and harder or 1991 with Lemon and Matthau (Wilder, well) full in there adorable grandpa mode).

Mash up of Mad Max and Smokey & The Bandit at a 100th of the duget with zero of the charisma. Extra star for Mary Beth Rubens being fucking adorable.

Goddamn. Two actors bouncing of each other at the top of their game in a nifty Neo-noir. My exact shit.

Very fun doc about the making of Cushing’s Dr. Who movies featuring a lot of the (then) surviving cast.

I love these goofy-ass movies. Probably my favorite Dr. Who.

Oh man, David Lynch watched this and dug it.

Close your eyes during the first two screens of acting credits so you’ll be delighted when a new luminary pops up in a tiny role.

Man, I dunno.

Dad Cinema Classic™️

Their heart is in the right place but they simply didn’t make a very good movie.

Hey this is a good time! Very much a follow up to Black Widow. Everyone understood the assignment and has good chemistry with each other.

The power of the Criterion Closet. Saw many people recommend this in their videos and saw it was leaving the channel last night and yeah, this is a real special movie. Such a great window into late-80's NYC. Wonderful performances all around.

Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.

Wild piece of feels bad 90's Hong Kong action filmmaking.

I like that Don Lee gets to give Superman’s speech from the last episode of JLU here, “I rarely get to use my full strength…”. He also has an excellent selection of fur-collared bomber jackets. He also punches dudes. Hard. Good times but it also has all the feel of an episode of Leverage. Not a knock so much of where the budget level is at.

Love the future imagined by the 80’s. You have robots but mostly the same shitboxes you’re currently driving. Also they let Gene Simmons out on the street.

80 minutes that feels like 80 hours.

Claudette needs a better class of boyfriends.

What an absolute hoot.

Wildly derivative but so well executed it’s a great time.

Every time I watch this I just want to walk around yelling, “Where’s the girl!”

Figured out that this is Gareth Evans doing his Meathead LA Confidential to Den Of Thieves Meathead Heat. He just doesn’t have the juice. The action sings but the plot (like in every movie of his that has a plot) is death.

I loved 2/3 of this movie but the last hour just went on too long. There is a 100 minute banger in here. 

This is a sequel to 1975’s Bullet Train which was the inspiration for Speed. This is by the co-director of Shin Godzilla and that is the vibe you get.

Got this movie just fucking moves like a damn shark. Rarely lets up for you to breathe. 

My son had a Revenge Of The Sith themed birthday party in 2010. I just looked at pictures and now I’m gonna go stare into the middle distance for a while.

Robert Ryan is an A+ sumbitch but everything else is just pretty good. Jimmy Stewart gets a few moments to shine but mostly it’s just people on horses.

God Dick Powell is such a perfect Marlowe here. Would love six more films of him in the role. Very much feels like a precursor to Elliott Gould’s take.

There’s a Chico bit in here where he’s doing a piano player bit and the look on his face is so joyful that makes me love film.

This movie hits like a goddamn sucker punch. 3/4’s goofy romp that suddenly gets you right in the dang gut. I love it.

I would simply not sell my soul to the devil. But I’m different.

Absolutely impeccable noir.

1. Sinners
2. Black Bag
3. Mickey 17
4. The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
5. Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
6. Presence
7. Companion
8. Heart Eyes

Gonna watch all of Anthony Mann and James Stewwart's westerns. Keeping a list for myself.

• Winchester '73
• Bend of the River
• The Naked Spur
• Thunder Bay
• The Far Country
• The Man from Laramie

1. Hundreds of Beavers
2. Conclave
3. Love Lies Bleeding
4. The Brutalist
5. Dune: Part Two
6. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
7. Kill
8. Oddity
9. Strange Darling
10. The Fall Guy

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

Movies to watch during the season.

• Christmas in Connecticut
• Violent Night
• Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2
• Die Hard
• 3 Godfathers
• We're No Angels
• The Silent Partner
• Dear Santa
• The Long Kiss Goodnight
• Black Christmas

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

• Don't Breathe

  #1 Decade: 2010's

• Black Sheep

  #2 - Decade 2000's
  Country: New Zealand
  Horror Comedy

• Chiller

  #3
  Decade - 80's
  Wes Craven

• Monster Dog

  #4
  Country: Italy
  Released in 1984

• The Brood

  #5
  Country: Canada
  Decade: 70's

• [REC]²

  #6
  Country: Spain

• Crawl

  #7
  Weather-related

• Blood Suckers

  #8
  Country: UK

1. Commando
2. The Terminator
3. Predator
4. Total Recall
5. Conan the Barbarian
6. The Running Man
7. The Last Stand
8. Last Action Hero
9. Conan the Destroyer
10. Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Best first time watches of the year. 
(In no order)

• The Lure
• The Lair of the White Worm
• The Black Cat
• Ernest & Celestine
• Kuroneko
• We're No Angels
• Safe in Hell
• Dragons Forever
• Body Snatchers
• The Last Run

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

The theater remains the best place to see a film and I had a good year at it.

1. House on Haunted Hill

   Saw this at the sold out Music Box in a 35mm print with the theater doing the full William Castle “Emergo” effect. I’d ladies were wheeled through the front row, skeletons flew over our heads and it was an amazing time. 

2. Stop Making Sense

   They shoulda removed the seats so we could’ve had a full dance party. The most purely joyful concert film ever made. 

3. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
4. Rumble in the Bronx
5. The First Slam Dunk
6. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
7. Godzilla Minus One
8. Cocaine Bear
9. Shin Kamen Rider

1. The First Slam Dunk
2. Barbie
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
4. Godzilla Minus One
5. Shin Kamen Rider
6. Asteroid City
7. Oppenheimer
8. John Wick: Chapter 4
9. Napoleon
10. Dream Scenario

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

Plan for the year: watch all of Martin Scorsese's feature directorial efforts, in order.

• Boxcar Bertha
• Mean Streets
• Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
• Taxi Driver
• New York, New York
• The Last Waltz
• Raging Bull
• The King of Comedy
• After Hours
• The Color of Money

...plus 19 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Work in progress.

1. The Phantom of the Monastery

   Country 1: Mexico
   Decade 1: 1930's

2. Frenzy

   Hitchcock

3. Mr. Vampire

   Country 2: Hong Kong
   
   

4. The Nun II

   The Devil 1

5. Synchronic

   Moorehead & Benson

6. I Know What You Did Last Summer

   Decade 2: 1990's

7. The Lair of the White Worm

   Ken Russell

   Bran Stoker

8. Scream and Scream Again

   Amicus

9. Neon City

   Post-Apocalypse/Disaster 1

10. Flood!

    Disaster/Post-Apocalypse 2

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

• Commando
• Die Hard
• Point Break

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. RRR
3. Glass Onion
4. Top Gun: Maverick
5. The Menu
6. Nope
7. Prey
8. The Batman
9. Elvis
10. Babylon

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

CAN YOU SURVIVE THIS “CHRISTMAS”!?!?!?

• Violent Night
• Silent Night
• A Creepshow Holiday Special
• Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
• The Long Kiss Goodnight
• The Silent Partner
• Night of the Comet
• Lethal Weapon
• Christmas Bloody Christmas
• Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time

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

My own personal pantheon of formative post-apocalypse movies.

• Mad Max 2
• Streets of Fire
• DEFCON-4

  I didn’t see this movie until I was in my 40’s but this VHS box has stuck with me since I was 12.

• The Bed Sitting Room
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

  Not so much post-apocalypse but an honest look at how ridiculously it will occur. 

• The War of the Worlds
• Reign of Fire
• Escape from New York

Best movies I hadn't gotten to until this year. In no order.

• In the Heat of the Night
• Miracles: The Canton Godfather
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• Leave Her to Heaven
• Only the Brave
• Saloum
• Siege

1. Deep Freeze

   Insects 1
   Decade - 00's

2. Maximum Overdrive

   Stephen King
   Decade - 80's

3. Murder Mansion

   Country: Spain

4. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

   German Silent
   Decade - 20's

5. Mako: The Jaws of Death

   William Grefe

6. Leprechaun 4: In Space

   Space

7. The Raven

   Decade: 1930's

8. The Giant Spider Invasion

   Insects 2
   Bill Rebane
   Decade - 70's

9. Prom Night

   Free Space

10. Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

    1990’s

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

1. Skylines

   SPACE!

2. Ghosts of the Ozarks

   WESTERNS!

3. Five Fingers of Death

   KUNG FU!

4. Drive

   90'S ACTION!

5. Alligator

   FREE SPACE!

6. Hell High

   SLASHERS

7. No Contest

   SHANNON TWEED

8. Stunt Rock

   CARS

9. Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris

   MONSTERS

10. Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs

    SEX COMEDY

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

1. Pig
2. Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
3. Malignant
4. No Time to Die
5. The Green Knight
6. The Tragedy of Macbeth
7. Wrath of Man
8. House of Gucci
9. Space Sweepers
10. The Matrix Resurrections

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

Ever see a good action movie that got a sequel it shouldn’t have? That’s what this is for. One rule: no franchises. If it got more than one sequel it doesn’t count (ie. no Die Hard).

• Speed 2: Cruise Control
• RED 2
• U.S. Marshals
• Conan the Destroyer
• Another 48 Hrs.
• Another Stakeout
• Escape from L.A.
• Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
• The Crow: City of Angels
• Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace

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

• First Love
• The Long Good Friday
• Duel to the Death
• Cast a Dark Shadow
• The Parallax View
• Rashomon
• Pickup on South Street
• The Return of the Living Dead
• Nightmare Alley
• Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

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

1. Don't Look Up
2. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
3. Cosmic Sin
4. Gunpowder Milkshake
5. The Tomorrow War
6. Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
7. Outside the Wire

Films that occur on or around Christmas, yet are not "Christmas Movies".

• The Night of the Hunter
• Die Hard
• Prometheus
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
• Iron Man 3
• Batman Returns
• Three Days of the Condor
• Gremlins
• Lethal Weapon
• Die Hard 2

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

1. The Curse of Frankenstein
2. The Revenge of Frankenstein
3. The Evil of Frankenstein
4. Frankenstein Created Woman
5. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
6. The Horror of Frankenstein
7. Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
8. The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
9. The Old Dark House
10. The Gorgon

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

Since absolutely zero has changed pandemic-wise (it's actually gotten worse!), Halloween this year is 61 days long. Let us do this.

1. Night of the Living Dead
2. The Return of the Living Dead
3. Vicious Lips
4. Lake of Dracula
5. Eyes Without a Face
6. The Case of the Scorpion's Tail
7. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
8. Ladyhawke
9. Ghost in the Machine
10. Malignant

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

FIGHT ME

1. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
2. Star Trek
3. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
4. Star Trek: The Motion Picture
5. Star Trek Beyond
6. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
7. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
8. Star Trek: First
9. Star Trek Into Darkness
10. Star Trek: Nemesis

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

Celebrating the release of Snake Eyes with Ninja Week.

• The Hunted
• Ninja
• Ninja III: The Domination
• Ninja in the Dragon's Den
• Ninja Assassin
• Pray for Death

Tracking my Junesploitation watches.

• Code of Silence

  1. 80's Action
  3. Henry Silva

• Freddy vs. Jason

  2. Slashers

• Hang 'em High

  4. Westerns
  5. Revenge

• First Love

  6. Free Space

• Conquest

  7. Sword & Sorcery

• Thomasine & Bushrod

  8. Blaxsplotation

• Deep Red

  9. Italian Horror

• Ninja: Shadow of a Tear

  10. Scott Adkins

• Vigilante

  11. Vigilantes

• Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

  12. Science Fiction

...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Favorites I saw for the first time in 2020

• The Silent Partner
• 3 Godfathers
• Emperor of the North
• The Baron of Arizona
• Eating Raoul
• Tiger Bay
• Starstruck
• Black Test Car
• Blow Out
• Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My favorite films of 2020

• David Byrne's American Utopia
• The Invisible Man
• Bill & Ted Face the Music
• Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
• Palm Springs
• Extraction
• Bad Boys for Life

The name kinda says it all.

NOTE: Film must take place 75% in SPAAACCCCEEEE, shit that happens on a planet (or a moon) don't count.

• Alien
• The Black Hole
• Alien Resurrection
• Saturn 3
• Solaris
• Solaris
• Sunshine
• Jason X
• Event Horizon
• Galaxy of Terror

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

Just throwing down ideas for spooky season.

• The Black Hole
• The Thing

Keeping up with F This Filmfest’s Junesploitation

• Gone in 60 Seconds
• A Vigilante
• The Great Alligator
• Crawl
• Phenomena
• Message from Space
• Fearless Hyena
• Predator
• Monstrum
• God Told Me To

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

Movies I’m planning to watch before the power/internet goes out.

• The Long Goodbye
• Widows
• Source Code
• The Maltese Falcon
• Stop Making Sense
• Something Wild
• The Island
• Alien
• The Mummy
• Pacific Rim

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

My favorites of 2018 (so far).

1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
3. First Man
4. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
5. Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
6. Solo: A Star Wars Story
7. Aquaman
8. Annihilation
9. Unsane
10. Ant-Man and the Wasp

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

• Mile 22
• Sicario: Day of the Soldado
• Avengers: Infinity War
• Hold the Dark
• The Predator
• Escape Plan 2: Hades
• Mute