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Watched with mum.

Watched with mum.

Watched with mum.

Written like a particularly grating 60s ensemble farce, and the unicorns are arguably even worse

Academy Award for Best Sound at the very least

Nasty little banger about a rest home bully. Fun for the right kind of sicko (me)

Josh hartnett positioning himself as the next Bruce Willis; a tough hapless everyman subjected to beating after beating while trying to do whatever must be done. I see it, hope he gets better movies than this one soon

Mostly fun, often funny, sometimes good

Watched on Monday April 21, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Watched on Thursday April 17, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 13, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 13, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 13, 2025.

It's snowpiercer/okja bong, not parasite/mother bong

Hard not to rate this highly. It opens with a full police raid—battering ram, guns drawn—on a scared little boy who pisses himself while being arrested. Over the next four hours, it shows just how capable of a fatal outburst an average kid can be, simply by exposing his hellish school, his reaction to questions, and the undercurrent of suppressed rage in his home environment. Our judicial systems are built to win every time, unlike our schools and homes. The film exercises restraint for the most part, avoiding the usual pitfalls of a "what are your kids consuming?" PSA. The boy is not an outright red-piller, and he doesn’t have to be—it’s an airborne contagion at this point.

I think this is the way music biopics should be: showing a period of his career that tells you all you need to know about the artist. And for Dylan, that period certainly lives between visiting a dying Woody Guthrie and ruining Newport Folk Festival.

It's redundant to say this exploitation film was exploitative. But it's not due to what was depicted, but rather who benefited from their candid portrayal (not them)

Watched on Thursday March 13, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday March 5, 2025.

Haha we get it, dudes are awful

Kinda bought tickets just to see how they'd make this work. They didn't

Watched on Sunday January 19, 2025.

Bleak and full of screaming, Possession is a tale of an anguished wife distancing from her controlling husband while she works to replace him (and even replace herself), told through performances and storytelling that the kids today would call "unhinged".

Pretty accurate documentary of the night it all went down, I was there #ama

Watched on Friday January 3, 2025.

A-A-TRON 💀

Watched on Wednesday January 1, 2025.

Firstly, it's as perfect an adaptation of Dracula as anyone alive could conjure. Invariably a Dracula tale has to have the perfectly expressed shadows, the fever dreams, the obscurity of the freak, the grim repression of the period, the weak and hapless hero and the fiendish slave, and it checks those boxes with relish. What it can't really do is reprise the themes of immigrants, homosexuality and otherness as dire challenges to decency.

Count Orlok therefore appears closer to a Slavic Vlad the Impaler type, rather than an insidious Jewish caricature. The townsfolk abroad are given more dignity than previous iterations where they were essentially backward savages based on negative perceptions of Romani people across Europe.

The pivotal stroke, however is to focus entirely on Thomas Hutter's bride Helen, and making repression the threat instead (represented by her husband waiting for more wealth before consummating their marriage, ignoring her pleas to be with her instead, and his frantic fear of Orlok himself; and the stubborn, ineffective methodology of old-timey doctor Ralph Ineson, that allows the creeping darkness all the time it needs to fully infiltrate the woman and society around them). In this film, she wasn't simply chosen by Orlok; her secret lifelong yearning for intimacy, a void she tried to fill with a safe and decent husband, has already drawn the darkness to her.

Dafoe's Professor Von Franz sees Helen's situation more clearly; described by our repression-doctor as unconventional, he is the antidote to repression: advocating for knowing herself and the darkness, and coming to with it, tricking the others into letting her accept Orlok, for everybody's sake.

And so it is that the success of the film hinges on the performance of our main actor, Lily Rose Depp. Criticism ranges from shocked praise to dismissing her performance as a weak derivative of Isabelle Adjani's performance in Possession (an actress who also played the role of Helen Hutter in Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyr 1979).

Did she successfully play a woman so horny that the austerity forced upon her by herself and the men around her caused a plague upon society? I leave that up to you.

This review may contain spoilers.

This was so good why'd they do the multiple endings 😭

Watched on Monday December 30, 2024.

Didn't finish due to my own prejudices towards people who have talkey-typey MacBook Air creative jobs in dream-big hipster cities. Oh you're bored of your harmless little husband? Get some real problems, grow up.

Switched it off and seriously wondered why I am like this.

Edit: how do you know the writer of a film is a self-involved cunt? The protagonist is a playwright. Oh she recommends Eternal Sunshine to her childhood crush? *loud fart sound*

What we loved in Gladiator, echoes emptily in its sequel

Feel-good, less problematic than Green Book

Sold itself as a dark comedy where a struggling mother starts to transform into a feral dog, but really doesn't dare to go dark or even comedy or really follow through with anything but "motherhood is misery". Still has value in lots of ways, but it's closer to an Amy Schumer reboot of the babadook, if you can imagine that.

Watched in preparation for Nosferatu 2024

Watched in preparation for Nosferatu 2024

Good reminder that comedians are angry nerds with glass egos

Watched on Friday December 27, 2024.

I'm not the intended audience and struggled to relate in any meaningful way except that I the 90s and nearly every feeling that came with it

Watched on Wednesday December 25, 2024.

Watched on Sunday December 15, 2024.

You might think you know what kind of movie this is, but not even this movie knows what kind of movie this is.

Moar dog

Watched on Sunday November 24, 2024.

Watched on Sunday November 24, 2024.

Some changes from the book. Leans more towards entertaining than thought-provoking

• The Adventures of Milo and Otis
• Dick Tracy
• White Fang
• Beauty and the Beast
• Hook
• Beethoven
• FernGully: The Last Rainforest
• Aladdin
• Jurassic Park
• Free Willy

...plus 123 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Right to Fight
• The Kings
• Mike
• Untold: Deal with the Devil
• Hatton
• Big George Foreman
• Creed III
• Macho: The Hector Camacho Story
• Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth
• The Fighter

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

• Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
• Kinds of Kindness
• A Real Pain
• Possession
• Hundreds of Beavers
• 11:14
• Nocturnal Animals
• Predestination
• Shadow of the Vampire
• Sleep

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

1. Dune: Part Two
2. Nosferatu
3. The Substance
4. MadS
5. Challengers
6. The First Omen
7. Love Lies Bleeding
8. Cuckoo
9. Oddity
10. In a Violent Nature

• Pariah: The Lives and Deaths of Sonny Liston
• The Last Dance
• The Australian Dream
• Diego Maradona
• O.J.: Made in America
• Senna
• Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals
• Hoop Dreams
• June 17th, 1994
• Icarus

...plus 12 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Dramas, comedies, foreign titles, period pieces (and even a couple of mild horrors) that won't suck for either of you.

DISCLAIMER: Your mum might be less sensitive or more sensitive than mine. I've mostly ed for both, but there are films included here that display either relationship dysfunction, or familial dysfunction or both. Read synopses and make the right choice.

• Anatomy of a Fall
• Just the Two of Us
• The Fabelmans
• TÁR
• Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
• The Beasts
• Sick of Myself
• The Power of the Dog
• Delicious
• The Worst Person in the World

...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Triangle of Sadness
2. TÁR
3. Glass Onion
4. The Beasts
5. The Northman
6. The Fabelmans
7. Sick of Myself
8. All Quiet on the Western Front
9. Bones and All
10. Jackass Forever

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

1. The Medium
2. The Innocents
3. A Quiet Place Part II
4. Freaky
5. Barbarian
6. The Night House
7. Candyman

• Everything Everywhere All at Once

  APRIL 14

• The Northman

  APRIL 21

• Jurassic World Dominion

  JUNE 9

• Nope

  AUGUST 4

• Dune: Part Two

  OCT 2023

• Nosferatu

  MAYBE NEVER :(

According to me, random letterboxd

• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Monsters, Inc.
• City of God
• Oldboy
• The Incredibles
• Batman Begins
• The Departed
• There Will Be Blood
• Step Brothers
• Inglourious Basterds

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

• Back to the Future Part III
• The Witches
• Die Hard 2
• GoodFellas
• Jacob's Ladder
• Home Alone
• Edward Scissorhands
• The Silence of the Lambs
• Thelma & Louise
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day

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

• Dune
• Cruella
• Judas and the Black Messiah
• Candyman
• The Power of the Dog
• Encanto
• The Worst Person in the World
• Nightmare Alley
• The Medium
• Licorice Pizza

1. The Last Dance
2. Freaky
3. The Call
4. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
5. The Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo
6. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
7. One Night in Miami...
8. The Queen's Gambit
9. Disclosure
10. Dave Chappelle: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize

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

1. Freaky
2. The Call
3. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
4. One Night in Miami...
5. Onward
6. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
7. Cuties
8. Soul

1. Freaky
2. The Call
3. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
4. One Night in Miami...
5. I'm Thinking of Ending Things

30 for 30 Volume I films: 1-30
ESPN Films Presents: 31-43
30 for 30 Volume II films: 44-73
30 for 30 Volume III films: 74-

1. Kings Ransom
2. The Band That Wouldn't Die
3. Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?
4. Muhammad and Larry
5. Without Bias
6. The Legend of Jimmy the Greek
7. The U
8. Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks
9. Guru of Go
10. No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson

...plus 77 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Stalker
• Possession

• Paddington
• Monsters, Inc.
• The Incredibles
• Toy Story
• Ratatouille
• Step Brothers
• Forrest Gump
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Home Alone
• Back to the Future

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

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Straw Dogs
3. The Godfather
4. The Exorcist
5. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
6. The Godfather Part II
7. Jaws
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
9. Taxi Driver
10. The Omen

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

1. Back to the Future
2. Cinema Paradiso
3. Back to the Future Part II
4. Scarface
5. Raging Bull
6. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
7. Die Hard
8. Batman
9. Stand by Me
10. Who Framed Roger Rabbit

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

• American Psycho
• High Fidelity
• Gladiator
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Me, Myself & Irene
• Amores Perros
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Memento
• Malena
• Battle Royale

...plus 131 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Includes feel-goods, blockbusters, dumb comedies, trashy horrors, documentaries, let-downs with redeeming features, art films, undeniable classics and nearly zero marvel movies, sorry.

1. Winter's Bone
2. Boy
3. Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
4. Exit Through the Gift Shop
5. How to Train Your Dragon
6. Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals
7. Toy Story 3
8. The Other Guys
9. I Saw the Devil
10. The King's Speech

...plus 140 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Exit Through the Gift Shop
2. Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals
3. Senna
4. Jiro Dreams of Sushi
5. The Central Park Five
6. 12 O’Clock Boys
7. City of Gold
8. The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst
9. Amy
10. O.J.: Made in America

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

1. Winter's Bone
2. Boy
3. The Fighter
4. The Kid with a Bike
5. The Tree of Life
6. The Hunt
7. Borgman
8. Omar
9. Blue Is the Warmest Color
10. Whiplash

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

Only includes films that are entirely comedic in nature.

1. Boy
2. Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
3. Toy Story 3
4. The Other Guys
5. Just Go with It
6. Bridesmaids
7. Our Idiot Brother
8. Ted
9. The Campaign
10. This Is the End

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

1. I Saw the Devil
2. The Cabin in the Woods
3. The Conjuring
4. Evil Dead
5. The Babadook
6. The Witch
7. Green Room
8. The Devil's Candy
9. 10 Cloverfield Lane
10. Train to Busan

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

1. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
2. Evil Dead II
3. Cinema Paradiso
4. Batman
5. GoodFellas
6. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
7. Batman Returns
8. Jurassic Park
9. Pulp Fiction
10. Toy Story

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

1. American Psycho
2. Gladiator
3. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
4. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
5. High Fidelity
6. Donnie Darko
7. Monsters, Inc.
8. Shrek
9. Y Tu Mamá También
10. Spider-Man

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

• 50 First Dates
• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
• American Psycho
• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
• Apocalypto
• Back to the Future
• Back to the Future Part II
• Back to the Future Part III
• Batman Begins
• Batman Returns

...plus 44 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Game-changers only. A few personals. Wasn't going to include series but OJ and Chernobyl were as consistent and important as any film on the list. A slight bias toward horror. Enjoy

1. Boy
2. Toy Story 3
3. I Saw the Devil
4. Senna
5. The Tree of Life
6. The Hunt
7. Blue Is the Warmest Color
8. The Conjuring
9. Whiplash
10. The Babadook

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

They each get ten films, only one serious entry each (Truman and Punch-Drunk). Sorted by highest average rating.

1. The Truman Show
2. Punch-Drunk Love
3. Dumb and Dumber
4. The Wedding Singer
5. Happy Gilmore
6. Liar Liar
7. The Mask
8. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
9. Bruce Almighty
10. 50 First Dates

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