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An adventure like hundreds you’ve seen before! Only shitty this time!
It would be giving this movie way too much credit to call it the poor man’s INDIANA JONES (whose Last Crusade is directly ripped-off here), and wouldn’t even be fair to THE MUMMY RETURNS to call it the poor man’s THE MUMMY RETURNS.

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

In 35mm at the New Beverly

In 35mm at the New Bev w/The Terminator (double feature, that is. I didn’t watch Robocop with The Terminator)

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 14, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 12, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 12, 2025.

A casserole of paranoid Australian thrillers like WAKE IN FRIGHT and THE LONG WEEKEND, POINT BREAK, the novels of Kem Nunn, and Nicolas Cage’s patented MegaActing.
Sun-bake for 100 minutes, and you got yourself a stew!

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

This is my favorite SCREAM, even though it contains my most hated film class scene.

Watched on Saturday May 10, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 10, 2025.

Basically I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE: THE MOVIE, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. MVPs Connor O’Malley and the kid who sells Craig a drug trip.

This should be called THE THREE HORNDOGS. But I suppose that title doesn’t quite have the Lubitsch touch.

This isn’t a movie, it’s just a bunch of funny people saying nice things about another funny guy. Also currently my favorite movie of the year.

On top of being a beautiful rumination on fate and connections that ripple through time and space, I also applaud Kieslowski’s commitment to making movies about incredibly hot ladies.

Like watching a dream in beautiful 35mm at the New Beverly.

In 35mm at the New Beverly.

This is totally undercooked, but mostly enjoyable due to the charisma if it’s cast, particularly Pugh, who can do no wrong. I also wish they’d turned up the lights and set the color corrector to “color on.”

Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 26, 2025.

Hmm…makes you think. Or does it? Blows up real nice, though. And in the end, isn’t that the real truth. The answer, is no.

This was a solid dopey little thriller. Meghann Fahy was great and the date guy was handsome.

Best part: this was the first screening of a brand spanking new 35mm print. This movie has never looked or sounded so pretty. 

Worst part: the dude who was hacking so hard the entire double-feature I thought he might die right there.

Pure Spielberg one-upping Hitchcock car chase cinema. 
In 35mm at the New Beverly.

In 70mm at the Vista

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

Watched on Thursday April 17, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 11, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 9, 2025.

Anna Mae Wong is practically a ing character in this sweaty jungle play. The real star is J. Carrol Naish as the weird and bizarrely accented villain Gregory Prin. 

In 35mm at the New Beverly.

In 35mm at the New Beverly.

A whole buncha b-movie adventure in less than an hour! More movies should be an hour long. Honestly, more entire seasons of tv shows should be an hour long. 
35mm Anna Mae Wong triple-feature at the New Beverly.

Watched on Sunday April 6, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.

In 35mm at The Vista. The best, and only, way to “enjoy” 1941.

This movie, for a time in my early teens my all-time favorite comedy, just wears me out now.

Watched on Saturday April 5, 2025.

I’m not sure what’s happening in this movie. I am sure the filmmakers were not sure what’s happening in this movie. Doesn’t matter, because every few minutes a little spaceship or little spaceship guy or some stop-motion battle-monsters or weird glowing pyramid time-portals show up to “dazzle” us.

Watched on Friday April 4, 2025.

IMHO

• I'm Still Here

  Putting this on my 2025 list cause it didn’t get a full release here till this year and it’s my list I can do whatever I want. 

• Black Bag
• Eephus
• The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
• Sinners
• Conan O’Brien: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
• The Surfer
• Love, Death & Robots: How Zeke Got Religion

A list inspired by the song “Watermelon,” from Adam Rehmeier’s DINNER IN AMERICA

• Dinner in America
• True Romance
• Natural Born Killers
• Lady and the Tramp
• Thelma & Louise
• Punch-Drunk Love
• Bound
• Megan Leavey
• Howard the Duck
• Persona

My favorites from this current year, 2024.
 (If you’re looking at this list in a future year, 2024 is no longer current. If you’re seeing this in a previous year somehow…weird.)

1. Anora
2. ME
3. Perfect Days

   I know it was nominated for a 2023 Oscar, but I’d didn’t get released in the US till 2024, so deal with it. 

4. Hundreds of Beavers

   Apparently this has been playing festivals for two years, but is just now getting some kind of limited release in the US. 

5. Strange Darling
6. God Save Texas

   
   

7. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
8. Gasoline Rainbow
9. Sasquatch Sunset
10. The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

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

After listening to the RODAN episode of the Video Archives podcast, I decided to watch, and rewatch, all the movies in what Tarantino dubbed “The HondaVerse” (for the purposes of this list, I’m only counting the ones actually directed by Honda).

1. The War of the Gargantuas
2. Invasion of Astro-Monster
3. Matango
4. Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
5. Destroy All Monsters
6. Godzilla
7. Frankenstein Conquers the World
8. Dogora
9. Battle in Outer Space
10. Latitude Zero

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

• Cloud
• Ghost Killer
• Heresy
• Binary
• The Voice of the Sirens
• Jesus 2
• Mira
• Planet B
• Escape from the 21st Century
• V/H/S/Beyond

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

• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
• Past Lives
• Asteroid City
• Star Wars: Visions – The Spy Dancer
• Strange Darling
• River
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• The Holdovers
• The Boy and the Heron
• Barbie

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

• Petite Maman
• Space Sweepers
• Dogfight
• Take This Waltz
• The Hero
• The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young
• Matador
• Girlfight
• Queen of Katwe
• Love Jones

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

• The Toxic Avenger
• Divinity
• Triggered
• Out of Darkness
• When Evil Lurks
• You'll Never Find Me
• One-Percenter
• Saltburn
• She Is Conann
• Cobweb

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

1. Kingpin
2. Rolling Thunder
3. Candyman
4. Hook

• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Jackass Forever
• Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
• X
• Kimi
• The Northman
• Top Gun: Maverick
• Pleasure
• Prey
• Lucy and Desi

...plus 41 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Missing
• Unicorn Wars
• Chop & Steele
• Shin Ultraman
• Huesera: The Bone Woman
• Venus
• Demigod: The Legend Begins
• Leonor Will Never Die
• Decision to Leave
• Deep Fear

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

• Mask
• Working Girls
• Working Girl
• C.H.O.M.P.S.
• The Cat
• Attack of the Beast Creatures
• 10 Rillington Place
• Premutos: The Fallen Angel
• Man's Best Friend
• Let's Scare Jessica to Death

...plus 263 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Thief
• Manhunter
• Heat
• Collateral
• Miami Vice
• Blackhat
• Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
• The Silence of the Lambs
• Se7en
• Rules of Engagement

...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

In some particular order.

• The French Dispatch
• The Suicide Squad
• Derek DelGaudio's In & of Itself
• Shiva Baby
• Titane
• Nobody
• Agnes
• The Sparks Brothers
• The Green Knight
• Annette

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

• The Doberman Gang
• House of Tolerance
• Breezy
• Thumb Tripping
• Elephant
• The Firm

• Love Exposure
• A Simple Story
• Intervista
• Ginger and Fred
• Incident at Oglala
• Woman Is the Future of Man
• Black Sunday
• Mike's Murder
• Christine

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

Movies watched for the podcast “The Suspense Is Killing Us,” focusing on the glut of thrillers from the 80s and 90s (and sometimes 2000s)

• Jacob's Ladder
• Identity
• Shutter Island
• Eye for an Eye
• D-Tox
• Red Eye
• Mikey
• The Paperboy
• The Good Son
• The Temp

...plus 64 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My faves of 2020. Probably a few holdovers from 2019 on here as well.

• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
• The Invisible Man
• Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
• Da 5 Bloods
• Palm Springs
• I'm Thinking of Ending Things

• Planes, Trains and Automobiles
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• Little Women
• Fanny and Alexander
• The Iron Giant
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• The Best Years of Our Lives
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Magnolia
• The Muppet Christmas Carol

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

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

Great Kung-fu (and adjacent martial arts movies)

• Five Element Ninjas
• One-Armed Boxer
• The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter
• The Duel
• Five Fingers of Death
• Come Drink with Me
• Beach of the War Gods
• A Man Called Tiger
• The Lady Is the Boss
• Rumble in the Bronx

...plus 46 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Movies watched for the podcast “The Suspense Is Killing Us,” focusing on the glut of thrillers from the 80s and 90s (and sometimes 2000s)

thesuspenseiskillingus.com

• The Net
• Never Talk to Strangers
• Murder at 1600
• Unlawful Entry
• Domestic Disturbance
• Lakeview Terrace
• Dead Calm
• Breakdown
• A Perfect Getaway
• Mercury Rising

...plus 71 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Favorite new movies from 2019, even though some of them were technically 2018 releases.

• Cold War
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
• Deadwood: The Movie
• Us
• John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
• Dragged Across Concrete
• The Lighthouse
• Dolemite Is My Name
• Climate of the Hunter
• Blood Machines

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

All 7 Police Academy movies ranked from best to worst.

1. Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
2. Police Academy
3. Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
4. Police Academy 3: Back in Training
5. Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
6. Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
7. Police Academy: Mission to Moscow

Movies watched for the podcast “The Suspense Is Killing Us,” focusing on the glut of thrillers from the 80s and 90s (and sometimes 2000s)
thesuspenseiskillingus.com

• The Star Chamber
• The Presidio
• Narrow Margin
• Presumed Innocent
• Consenting Adults
• The Pelican Brief
• Basic Instinct
• Sliver
• Body of Evidence
• Jagged Edge

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

Stuff and junk I saw at Fantastic Fest 2019

• Black Pit of Dr. M
• Jojo Rabbit
• Tammy and the T-Rex

  The “gore” cut

• Blood Machines
• Son of the White Mare
• Happy Face
• The Death of Dick Long
• Color Out of Space
• Deerskin
• Ship of the Monsters

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

A list of the best performances by dogs in movies. This is not a list of the showiest dogs in movies, or even movies about the dogs, but the dogs who have most believably played the character of "A Dog" in a movie.

• Mad Max 2

  Mad Max's dog, who doesn't have a name, as far as I can tell.

• Chrystal

  Clifford as "Precious," who, after an unseen ingestion of some kind of poison, mostly lives under the porch, poking his head out to greet visitors.

• White Dog

  Hans, Folsom, Son, Buster and Duke. All credited as playing "Dog".

• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

  Harvey. Being way more level-headed about this whole spaceman business than any dog should be expected to be.

• The Thin Man

  Asta. Sure, a bit of a show-off, but he's the dog of those drunk detectives, so he's gotta get their attention somehow.

• Blood Glacier

  Santos as Tinnitus or "Tinnie." Some pretty bad stuff goes down inside ol' Tinnie, but she handles it like a pro. Oscar caliber work here.

• Umberto D.

  Flike, The only reason an old man decides to live.

• Tarkan and the Blood of the Vikings

  Tarkan's father and son dogs, both named Kurt.

• The Royal Tenenbaums

  Poor, doomed Buckley.

• The Thing

  Jed, as the most serious dog ever filmed. May be my favorite performance in the movie.

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

My favorites of the year 2018

• The Director and the Jedi
• Incredibles 2
• Black Panther
• You Were Never Really Here
• The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling
• Annihilation
• The Endless
• Gemini
• Hereditary
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout

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

Movies I saw at Fantastic Fest 2018

• Chained for Life
• Ladyworld
• The Standoff at Sparrow Creek
• Climax
• Unknown Woman

  Part of the Korean Shorts program

• Human Stone

  Part of the Korean Shorts program

• The Lady from 406

  Part of the Korean Shorts program

• Pepper

  Part of the Korean Shorts program

• Lala Land

  Part of the Korean Shorts program

• Strike, Dear Mistress, and Cure His Heart

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Logan
• Toni Erdmann
• 20th Century Women
• I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
• Get Out
• John Wick: Chapter 2
• Paterson
• Silence
• Raw
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• This Is Where I Leave You
• Things Behind the Sun
• Sister Street Fighter
• Southside with You
• Under Fire
• Figures in a Landscape
• Amy
• Cesar and Rosalie
• A Knight's Tale
• La Haine

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

A list of movies I've watched as co-host of the monthly "Enematic Cinematic LIVES!" podcast, with Elicia Sanchez and Travis Vogt. Check out all the podcasts here: theenematiccinematic.podbean.com/

• Yor, the Hunter from the Future

  With special guest Jennifer Burdette.
  theenematiccinematic.podbean.com/2012/09/15/episode-48-the-enematic-cinematic-lives-whats-yor-is-mine/

• Blood Games

  With special guest Brandon Ivey.
  theenematiccinematic.podbean.com/2012/10/04/episode-49-the-enematic-cinematic-lives-redneck-rampage/

• The Willies

  With special guest Douglas Gale.
  theenematiccinematic.podbean.com/2012/12/11/episode-50-the-enematic-cinematic-lives-only-aliens-own-skin-suits/

• The Cellar

  With special guest Alex Thomas.
  theenematiccinematic.podbean.com/2012/12/11/episode-51-the-enematic-cinematic-lives-have-you-ever-killed-a-white-man/

• I Believe in Santa Claus

  With special guest Josh Black (aka Ronald McFondle).
  theenematiccinematic.podbean.com/2013/01/29/episode-52-the-enematic-cinematic-lives-stop-all-your-crying-business/

• Iced

  With special guest Wilfred Padua.
  theenematiccinematic.podbean.com/2013/02/11/episode-53-the-enematic-cinematic-lives-he-questioned-my-integrity-as-a-skier/

• My Demon Lover

  With special guest Anita Goodman.
  theenematiccinematic.podbean.com/2013/04/07/episode-54-the-enematic-cinematic-lives-you-gave-me-a-fruit-burger/

• Never Too Young to Die

  With special guest Nick Sahoyah.
  theenematiccinematic.podbean.com/2013/04/08/episode-55-the-enematic-cinematic-lives-hand-over-the-disk-or-well-tenderize-your-butt/

• The Lords of Magick

  With special guest Paul Merrill.
  theenematiccinematic.podbean.com/2013/05/14/episode-56-the-enematic-cinematic-lives-is-there-a-raffle-in-here/

• Flesh Eating Mothers

  With special guest Monica Nevi.
  theenematiccinematic.podbean.com/2013/06/11/episode-57-the-enematic-cinematic-lives-she-had-an-injection-in-her-labe-doctor/

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

Time to start a new one of these for this year...2016!

• More American Graffiti
• No Retreat, No Surrender
• No Retreat, No Surrender 2: Raging Thunder
• The Lady Hermit
• Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
• Four of the Apocalypse
• Senna
• The Exiles

• Mad Max: Fury Road
• World of Tomorrow
• Anomalisa
• Green Room
• April and the Extraordinary World
• Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
• The Witch
• Too Late
• Mistress America
• Spring

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

Old stuff from before 2015, that I saw and loved in 2015.

• Show Me Love
• Devilman - Volume 1: The Birth
• Devilman - Volume 2: Demon Bird
• Cisco Pike
• Fist of the North Star
• Kid-Thing
• Crooklyn
• Over the Garden Wall
• Blonde Death
• Ozone! Attack of the Redneck Mutants

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

• Boyhood
• Guardians of the Galaxy
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Under the Skin
• Obvious Child
• Life Itself
• Cold in July
• The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
• Blue Ruin
• Gone Girl

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

Good stuff not from 2014 that I "discovered" in 2014.

• Royal Warriors
• The Bridesmaid
• Le Havre
• Highball
• Jug Face
• Static
• Altered
• Running on Karma
• Who's That Knocking at My Door
• GetEven

  aka: GETEVEN

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

• Spring Breakers
• Before Midnight
• s Ha
• Pacific Rim
• The Color Wheel

  Technically a 2012 release, but I saw it in 2013 and nobody's heard of it, which is a shame. So, on the list it goes!

• Mud
• Upstream Color
• Not Fade Away

  Another 2012 release, but it only played here for like a week last December, so I'm counting it here.

• The Lords of Salem
• V/H/S/2

  I have some serious issues with this movie (spoiler: it involves a dog). But the good parts have stuck with me, and I doubt I'll see a more intense and gruesome horror movie this year than Gareth Evans' cult segment. And the Go-Pro zombie segment made me briefly un-bored with zombie movies again.

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

Some older movies I discovered in 2013 that I think are good.

• Last Embrace
• Furious
• The Candy Snatchers
• Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
• Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge
• Truck Turner
• Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind

  aka DON'T PLAY WITH FIRE

• We're Going to Eat You
• Swing Shift
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being

...plus 58 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Moonrise Kingdom
• Prometheus
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Looper
• Django Unchained
• Headhunters
• Dredd
• The Kid with a Bike
• Miss Bala
• Entrance

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