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Still hit hard, maybe more so this time around. Andrew Garfield really stands out in this, not saying Florence Pugh isn’t great but she’s just not on his level.

When I watch romance films I always end up questioning the power of love and its hold on the human experience. There is nothing more in life I want than to fall in love and find that one person you can truly give your whole self to. It’s hard to comprehend giving yourself up to a whole other person, but it’s a feeling you simply can’t describe in words. This film for me shows the sacrifice people make for someone they love and sticking with that person through thick and thin. I love romance films too much I think.

Wes Anderson once again proving why he’s one of my favourite directors. His style is so intoxicating and the dry humour is always a delight, more so in this as we get Michael Cera putting in one of his funniest performances to date.

Guys being guys. Just some pretty fucking cool shit all around, that scene at the firing range is brilliant and that score at times is so poetic!

A MUCH NEEDED REWATCH! Fuck me, that was special, running out of words to describe Tom Cruise! 

Stacked cast all performing for a fucking brilliant level, stunts crazier than ever, broken ankles, helicopter chases, stunning landscapes, beautiful lighting and a real tear jerker. Stupendous stuff!

Feel like a broken record at this point because Tom Cruise is just the fucking GOAT. The movie star, that thing he does where he simply rides a motorbike and looks cool af, yeah I love it.

This film is my second favourite from these rewatches, the inclusion of Sean Harris & Rebecca Ferguson was brilliant. Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg & Jeremy Renner are the only team mates you could ever ask for.

I guess cheap jumpscare after cheap jumpscare is fine if you add a few cool elements right?

Over time my opinion on this film has faded, still a good film, but not as special as I once thought. Kate Siegel is really great though, when I first watched this I was convinced she was actually deaf and mute. 

Terrifying concept and I would not be as brave as Maddie so at my first opportunity I probably would have just jumped off the roof head first.

This film is so sadistic and disgusting (complimentary), full of directors juice and of course a fucking shit ton of blood! Split diopter galore, SpongeBob inspiration, chainsaw carnage and I can’t forget Alyssa Sutherland who makes this film super creepy at times.

This film felt like a fever dream, outlandish dance sequences, crazy style and a brilliant soundtrack make for a good time. 

Ewan McGrgeor & Nicole Kidman were great, but this film made me realise we were robbed of the perfect Poison Ivy casting.

Just one of those films you watch and probably never think of again, but doesn’t have enough bad things to hate it and not enough good things to love it.

I think the journey was much better than the destination with this, the gradual transformation was pretty good, but that final form was so so dull compared to what we could have been given.

Christopher Abbott & Julia Garner are decent!

I hope everybody involved with this film is subject to Chinese water torture, this is genuinely the closest I’ve ever come to walking out of the cinema midway through a film. 

Drinking a pint of piss > watching this again

This review may contain spoilers.

It’s not amazing, but it’s certainly a step in the right direction for the MCU. The post credit scene fills me with the most hope if I’m being perfectly honest, I can’t fucking wait for F4. 

This film has a lot of good action, pretty cool set pieces at times, I laughed more than I expected and Florence Pugh pretty much moving this film along more than anyone else. I can’t say everything works but I had a good enough time with it.

Sentry basically evaporating a little girl was pretty fucking wild, the whole sequence where he goes noir mode was pretty creepy.

Sam Raimi you’re my king, a real life wizard, a visionary and the genuine epitome of a genius. The stuff this man is doing with his transitions, physical comedy, humour, heartfelt interactions/quotes, horror, character building and just everything else. Honestly perfection. 

Danny Elfman produces what could be one of the greatest scores of all time, that intro scene makes every hair on my body stand every single time. This film is full of so much raw emotion, I cry multiple times without fail on every watch and as I get older it’s always a new thing each time. It feels like a film that as I progress through life I appreciate for many different reasons each time I watch it.

This is without a doubt my favourite film of all time and I genuinely do not think another film will come close, this is it, this is THE film of my life. I love it so much, I get to escape for 2 hours like no other time in my life. I can’t describe the feeling.

2 hours of being able to sit back and just be the biggest nerd you can, this film is just cool af, seems to be a theme with the Star Wars films. How can you not love a Romeo & Juliet type love story and then Sherlock Kenobi on the side travelling through these well designed planets.

I think my favourite thing about these films are John Williams score just being present the whole way, so majestic and a serious helping hand to feel the weight of so many scenes. Just like when Anakin & Pe are being sent out into the arena, they share their love for each other and the tears just started flowing unexpectedly. 

That final battle is so great, Yoda is my favourite character easily, the details they put into each character having its own style of lightsaber or gun is not missed.

I actually can’t believe people dislike this film. It’s so cool, great world building filled with crazy character designs, funky planets and big landscapes. 

Jar Jar Binks is so fucking funny and seriously overhated, the sound design is genuinely unreal, every lightsaber swing, gun shot and of course that pod racing sequence. Duel of the fates, next level shit from John Williams.

Some pretty insane moments come from this film, but it’s upsetting that we don’t get Ving Rhames in this one :(

Tom Cruise once again just being a fucking absurd individual and that Burj Khalifa scene isn’t even his craziest stunt. Movie star!

Again it has enough cool moments for me to enjoy my time, but ultimately like it’s just filler for the rest of the franchise.

Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ving ‘the goat’ Rhames & Billy Crudup do a lot of the heavy lifting in this for me. The addition of Simon Pegg is welcomed because he’s just effortlessly funny.

I mean it’s not a bad film, it’s actually pretty cool for the most part. However, it feels like a 4 hour film compared to the 2 hour runtime, I’m just glad it had the motorbike chase at the end because who doesn’t love seeing Tom Cruise on a motorbike.

Well I guess my rating of 3.5 was too low on my first watch, because this is just so fucking good. De Palma really just decided to show off with this piece of art, split diopters and all sorts of cool camera work in pretty much every frame. The score is great and Tom Cruise is the perfect example of a movie star.

That black vault sequence isn’t as flashy or bold as some of the stuff we get later in the franchise, but it might be the best thing to come out of the whole franchise to be honest.

So you want to dance with the devil? Well be prepared to meet an unspeakable evil, that is so terrifying and sadistic you will pray for the dance to end and the music to stop.

I don’t know if I can think of a film that truly uses the power of music like this one does. Transcending through eras of music, showing the past and future in a way that is so clever and beautiful it had every single hair on my body stood like never before.

I don’t think there is a single performance here that I don’t love! Michael B Jordan, Miles Caton, Jack O’Connell, Hailee Steinfeld, Wunmi Mosaku & Jayme Lawson really stand out and I wouldn’t mind it if a nomination come awards season is given to any one of them. Side note I don’t think anyone in any film has looked as good as Jayme Lawson does in this!

Ryan Coogler is the man, I feel it’s going to be very hard to top this film in 2025 for me because it’s a near perfect blend of all my favourite genres.

I think it’s time for me to say this is THE greatest horror film of all time, both effortlessly scary and funny. Wes Craven created a near perfect movie, that is beyond iconic and is simply just an unreal watch everytime.

Neve Campbell, Rose McGowan and Courtney Cox would have been my first loves if I watched this as a kid. Matthew Lillard is absolutely trying his best to push his performance to the limit and then some, but that’s what makes this performance one of my favourites. 

Side note. That mask every Halloween, would scare the living shit out of me until I was about 10 years old.

A pretty rare occurrence where I just didn’t really like or dislike a black mirror episode. Just a pretty average episode tbh, pretty disappointed.

This was a fucking weird episode, if I was in this situation I would go absolutely insane. I think the main actress was pretty great in this & that ending was hilarious. 

Pretty predictable from the moment we see a certain character what is actually going on.

A good start to the new season. The balance of dark humour and an actually depressing story worked really well for me. 

Excited to see what the rest of Season 7 can provide as Black mirror is the only tv show I ever really get excited to watch.

Ultimate cut.

3 and a half hours later, I can confirm Zack Snyder has done it again. I will say the animated aspect of the ultimate cut I didn’t really care for that much, but the rest was brilliant. 

The way this is different to so many other comic book movies with its dirty and gritty nature is why I like it so much. Rorschach has one of the coolest costumes and voice combos in any comic book movie and Patrick Wilson is just him.

Zack Snyder is yet to miss and with a UFC movie in the future he has potential to be an all timer imo.

That was a lovely fucked up 40 minutes of television.

Really really enjoyed this. For Georgina Campbell I would instantly go against the system.

Very solid stuff. Surprised Alex Lawther hasn’t been in more things, he is great in this.

Timothée Chalamet is going to end his career as one of the all time greats, he is already incredible and that speech at the SAG awards really captures his crazy ambition and drive. I can see why he was nominated for an Oscar with this role, Edward Norton too, he was effortlessly brilliant.

A completely stupid yet inoffensive franchise that just provides disgusting deaths and a simple theme that doesn’t get stale with its constant change in deaths design.

This film has the best death of the franchise and one of the most disgusting of any horror film. Suffers with the 3D aspect like the 4th film, but it doesn’t ruin the film enough to not enjoy it.

Call me stupid but I don’t hate this film one bit, 3D aspect is a bit annoying because the fucked up kills lose some juice but I’m still here for it.

James Wong providing yet enough fear, this time it being rollercoasters. There isn’t too much that separates this and the 2nd film but I think I prefer the kills and Mary Elizabeth Winstead provides the franchises best performance.

The mother of all premonitions, the one that still scares me today, absolutely brutal in the best way possible. Just a step up from the first and once again fucking hilarious ending.

Silly silly film, that ending will always make me laugh.

Well that was pretty awful with a painfully obvious ending. Lucy Hale needs a new agent.

My yearly tv watch did not disappoint one bit.

An enjoyable film for sure with good performances (not sure Oscar worthy), great cinematography and comedy at times. That final emotional impact was just lacking sadly.

Just depressing, completely ruined my whole day. I think if I had someone as good looking as Michelle Williams in my life all my problems would simply disappear.

I think the day I classed this disgustingly beautiful mess as a comfort film was the same day I realised my brain isn’t wired correctly.

Soundtrack is crazy stacked and it’s nice to see Miles Teller has always had the moves, project X wasn’t just a one off.

An absolutely brutal and harrowing depiction of an old over the hill wrestler who simply can’t let go. Mickey Rourke puts on a fucking spectacular performance, so believable and raw.

This was not as bad as expected, doesn’t really say much considering it was still boring.

I guess it’s nice to know I’m not the only Josh with a below average sized penis.

Piece of shit.

This felt like it was never going to end and at times I was happy with that but equally I was so ready for this to end at times.

The rare occasion we got to watch this in school was like winning the lottery.

I don’t think these films or the show will ever be tiring and unfunny to me. Might be some of the most perfect character casting too.

Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson together just seems to be a winning formula with their brilliant chemistry giving us a really really funny and quite dark comedy. Ralph Fiennes isn’t in it a whole lot but when he is he’s also very good and I actually  wish we got more from Clemence Poesy and Jordan Prentice.

The ending I’m not too sold on, gets a little chaotic and messy but it doesn’t stop the film from being really enjoyable.

I am surprised Eggers used that many needless and ineffective jumpscares, from what I can about The Witch and The Lighthouse this was a strange way to go about it. Other than the opening which scared the fucking shit out of me, I just hated them.

Although everyone put in great performances especially Lily Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor Johnson and Bill Skasgaard, I just didn’t really give a shit about half of the characters or what they were doing. I just found a lot of it to be very dull.

I don’t want to shit on it too much because as much as there is bad, there is also good. The best of this film is easily the way it looks, production, costumes, cinematography, everything was just brilliant and pretty standard for Eggers now. Count Orlok looked pretty fucking scary and the fact Bill Skasgaard is under all that somewhere is baffling to me.

I didn’t hate it, but ultimately I found myself zoning out at times and not connecting completely with the characters. But, I loved some scenes and I could definitely feel myself enjoying more than enough to not say Eggers is now a fraud.

I simply can’t believe the first time I watched this film I didn’t cry. I have just spent around 15 minutes lay in complete silence as I let the tears stream down my face. Completely numb and absolutely heart broken.

There’s few special films like Aftersun where you completely get lost and forget the fact you’re watching actors act, I was so lost that I thought I was watching real people in a real life situation. The holiday is a familiar feeling for me as I have done these type of holidays before and it was so perfectly done I loved it.

Paul Mescal was simply incredible, his chemistry with Frankie Coro was too real and her performance in my opinion was just as good as Mescals and if I’m honest I think an Oscar nomination would not have been a crazy reality.

First watch I really liked it, but this rewatch was so needed, a little reading up on some things I couldn’t quite wrap my head around was a big help. It looks beautiful, the music is beautiful, the score is beautiful, everything is just beautiful and those final 15 minutes FUCKED ME UP.

I think this may have altered my brain chemistry and changed the way I look at life.

1. Sinners
2. The Phoenician Scheme
3. Companion
4. Thunderbolts*
5. Wolf Man
6. Until Dawn
7. F Marry Kill
8. A Minecraft Movie

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

1. Star Wars
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. Return of the Jedi
4. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
5. Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
6. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
7. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

1. Spider-Man
2. Spider-Man 2
3. The Amazing Spider-Man 2
4. Spider-Man 3
5. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
6. Spider-Man: No Way Home
7. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
8. The Amazing Spider-Man
9. Spider-Man: Far From Home
10. Spider-Man: Homecoming

1. Black Mirror: Loch Henry
2. Black Mirror: Hang the DJ
3. Black Mirror: Shut Up and Dance
4. Black Mirror: Bête Noire
5. Black Mirror: Common People
6. Black Mirror: White Bear

1. Final Destination 3
2. Final Destination 2
3. Final Destination
4. Final Destination 5
5. The Final Destination

1. Avengers: Infinity War
2. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
3. Avengers: Endgame
4. Spider-Man: No Way Home
5. Captain America: Civil War
6. Guardians of the Galaxy
7. The Avengers
8. Iron Man
9. Deadpool & Wolverine
10. Spider-Man: Far From Home

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1. Sing Sing
2. Joker: Folie à Deux
3. Smile 2
4. Gladiator II
5. Alien: Romulus
6. Inside Out 2
7. The First Omen
8. We Live in Time
9. Longlegs
10. Snack Shack

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

My all time favourites ordered by release year.

• The Wizard of Oz
• Psycho
• The Godfather
• The Exorcist
• Star Wars
• Grease
• Halloween
• The Shining
• The Empire Strikes Back
• The Thing

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Favourite film (first watch) from each month of the year.

• Poor Things
• The Iron Claw
• Brokeback Mountain
• Kill Bill: Vol. 1
• Miami Vice
• Children of Men
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Pulp Fiction
• Titanic
• Dawn of the Dead

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1. Get Out
2. Midsommar
3. The Witch
4. Hereditary
5. Nope
6. Us
7. The Lighthouse
8. The Northman
9. Beau Is Afraid

Ranking Jake Gyllenhaal's filmography.

1. Nightcrawler
2. Southpaw
3. Prisoners
4. Brokeback Mountain
5. Spider-Man: No Way Home
6. Ambulance
7. Nocturnal Animals
8. End of Watch
9. Donnie Darko
10. Wildlife

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

1. Poor Things
2. The Iron Claw
3. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
4. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
5. Talk to Me
6. Past Lives
7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
8. John Wick: Chapter 4
9. Wonka
10. Saltburn

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

__RULES__

There must be at least 31 films

6 countries (7 total):

- India (Tumbbad)
- Italy (Demons)
- UK (American Werewolf in London)
- (Dr Caligri)
- Japan (One Cut of the Dead)
- Thailand (Shutter)
- USA (The Funhouse)

8 decades:

1920s - Cabinet of Dr Caligri
1960s - Rosemarys Baby
1970s - Deep Red
1980s - The Stuff
1990s - Scream
2000s - Planet Terror
2010s - The Cabin in the Woods
2020s - Candyman (2021)

ALL of the films from a horror franchise with at least 4 entries:

Paranormal Activity
Paranormal Activity 2
Paranormal Activity 3
Paranormal Activity 4
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
Paranormal Activity: Ghost Dimension
Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin

1 film from Wes Craven:

Scream

1 film caused by/worsened by weather:

The Fog

1 film starring a black woman:

Candyman (2021)

1 Donald Sutherland film:

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

3 films from New World Pictures:

Hellraiser
House
The Stuff

2 Indian films:

Tumbbad
Chhorii

4 Italian films:

Demons
Deep Red
Cannibal Holocaust
Bay of Blood

2 Horror comedies:

One cut of the dead
Shaun of the dead

2 films made primarily or entirely in Texas:

Planet Terror
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

1 film that exists in at least 2 available cuts:

Halloween II (Zombie)

1 Robert Wiene film: 

Dr Caligri

1 Michele Soavi film:

Stage Fright

1 film from 2011:

The Cabin in the Woods

1 film from 1984:

Children of the Corn

1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film):

The Funhouse

• Paranormal Activity
• Paranormal Activity 2
• Paranormal Activity 3
• Paranormal Activity 4
• Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
• Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
• Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin
• Scream
• Candyman
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
4. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
5. Death Proof

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

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1. Alien: Romulus
2. Alien
3. Aliens
4. Predator
5. Alien Resurrection
6. Prometheus
7. Alien: Covenant
8. Predator 2
9. Alien³

1. Signs
2. Knock at the Cabin
3. Trap
4. Split
5. The Visit
6. Old

1. Evil Dead
2. The Evil Dead
3. Evil Dead Rise
4. Evil Dead II
5. Army of Darkness

1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
4. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
6. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
7. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
8. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Ranking Emma Stone's Filmography

1. La La Land
2. Poor Things
3. The Favourite
4. The Amazing Spider-Man 2
5. Superbad
6. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
7. The Amazing Spider-Man
8. Cruella
9. Crazy, Stupid, Love.
10. Zombieland

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1. Zack Snyder's Justice League
2. Man of Steel
3. The Suicide Squad
4. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
5. Wonder Woman
6. The Flash
7. Shazam! Fury of the Gods
8. Shazam!
9. Aquaman
10. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

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Favourite film (first watch) from each month of the year.

• The Prestige

  January

• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

  February

• Star Wars

  March

• Psycho

  April

• Nightcrawler

  May

• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

  June

• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

  July

• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

  August

• Parasite

  September

• The Exorcist

  October

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1. John Wick: Chapter 4
2. John Wick
3. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
4. John Wick: Chapter 2

1. Saw
2. Saw X
3. Saw II
4. Saw III
5. Saw IV
6. Saw 3D
7. Saw VI
8. Jigsaw
9. Saw V

1. Scream
2. Scream
3. Scream VI
4. Scream 4
5. Scream 2
6. Scream 3

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

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

1. Get Out
2. Nope
3. Us