Happy conclave day!!!!! Spent three hours watching a live stream of a roof chimney today, named our trivia team Serving Conclave Realness, and decided I needed to watch Conclave. This movie just slaps. Acting is A+. I love papal drama.

Watched on Tuesday May 6, 2025.

2025 Criterion Challenge: Director you’ve never watched before (34/52)

Baby’s first PTA!!!!! Very excited to finally cross this off my watchlist. Also very excited for the PTA. Another Sandler banger right here. Great balance between the scam and romance plot lines. Love when directors give weirdos like me some hope for love. 💕 (Gosh I wish someone would fly to Hawaii for me…which would require me to fly to Hawaii…from Nebraska…)

I would like to give props to Brad Bird for getting an A113 Easter egg into this Mission: Impossible movie (and for getting Ethan his great M:2 hair back). Makes me want to watch The Incredibles real bad.

My little weirdo, Lestat - they can never make me hate you.

Nice little French romance movie! Glad this was tonight’s mystery movie. Spent most of it wondering where I knew Oliver from (and I’m still not sure - maybe it was Downton Abbey). He do be cute. 😚

Edit: I need to watch a Mansfield Park adaptation so I can finally understand references in modern Austen-related movies. 

The musical is so much more dramatic (with some killer bops) which made this more mild, contemplative original hit so much harder. I don’t think I’ll ever get over downpour-drenched Clint Eastwood yearning in the middle of street.

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

To think, there was a scenario in my head where I didn’t stay for all three Star Wars movies at the drive in theatre. Very glad I stayed because this was the best experience I have had in a while. Bonus points for the dew that collected on my car, my new outdoor blanket (did its job so well), and my little battery powered radio. It was just a neat little detail. 🥰

Drive in Empire Strikes Back was so magical! Swimming through the fog of Dagobah while being serenaded by an army of frogs. Wow.

This is the kind of cinema that you have to see on the big screen - especially in the sleep deprivations of a midnight showing. Really really slapped!

Seeing this at the drive in on Star Wars Day Eve - truly in my element right now! Luke stared out at the two suns framed in a beautiful sunset. Film 1 of 3 of the night!!!!!!! (A child just Naruto ran in front of me.)

Don’t interrupt me when I’m asking rhetorical questions!!!!!

The three things my brain took away from this first watch: Phillip Seymour Hoffman DA GOD, love a badass woman moment in a big boy action movie, and Tom Cruise is one of the most beautiful criers in the biz. I love when all Laurence Fishburne needs to do is yell at agents. 🥰

Our homeboy Ethan (pronounced Ee-fan by me) is rocking some amazingly confusing hair. At first, it’s bad in a straight, no texture poof way. Then, an apex where it’s perfect. The texture, the wave, the right amount of sweat. It’s bad again for like one scene towards the end but I appreciate the brief moment of bliss in Ethan’s hair journey. I actually don’t much of the actual mission but can how much I fangirled over those long locks.

(I have a very strong feeling that this hair cut is going in the M:I vaunt of fame next to those glasses. Such a shame.)

Best way to start your day

Celebrating the arrival of my Criterion edition by watching with the director/cinematographer/producers audio commentary! Love the commitment to the snow and the actors actually driving for most of it.

I can’t decide if my favorite moment was Alex trying so hard not to cry at Rosie’s speech at his wedding or baby Katie holding Alex’s finger while he’s beautifully framed by the sun coming through the window and deciding whether or not to give it all up to raise this kid as his own. Either way, Sam Claflin is one of the most beautiful (and talented) men on this planet. Wow. Y’all can’t be giving perpetually single romantics like me hope like this.

Is 2005 the greatest year for girl-cinema?!? Went on impulse to see this today - not even sure if it was still showing. AMC came in clutch and I was able to get another big screen watch of Pride & Prejudice. I even cried this time!!!!!!! This watch, I noticed how many times Mr. Darcy glances at Elizabeth during their first scene together. He’s just like me!!!!!!

Who needs Barbenheimer when you have War and Prejudice - 20th Anniversary Special?

I as a child feeling so sad that I couldn’t ever see this in theatres. This was my favorite movie for so many years of my childhood along with my first age-inappropriate crush, Hayden Christensen. But I couldn’t really see this in 2005 at the age of six, could I? Waaaaay before my theater era. Now, twenty years later, I was having such a blast while trying not to sob tears of joy - Hayden’s introduction was fabulous. While this movie’s dialogue grinds my gears and the floppy CGI is hilarious, the final fight between our boys is peak cinema that was amazing on the big screen. Obi-Wan always makes me cry…

There was no doubt that we would be watching this today. The best way to ring in Jessie’s actual birthday is with a sing-and-quote along of Pitch Perfect. And, um, if the universe could bring a Jesse-type character into my life, that would be wonderful.

Watched on Saturday April 26, 2025.

Fourth year of my movie-going hobby! Another year of turning my friends into Alamo Drafthouse devotees. Second year of starting with a Timmy Chalamet movie. Another year of making my friends see movies they never planned on seeing on the big screen. Another year of feeling at home when the lights start to dim.

1. A Complete Unknown
2. Gladiator II
3. Possession
4. Nosferatu
5. The Brutalist
6. Grand Theft Hamlet
7. Companion
8. Nickel Boys
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
10. Paddington in Peru

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

All the movies I've seen in a movie theatre since I started going regularly in 2021. All under one list! Duplicates are listed under their first watch due to technical limitations. 😎 I write “theatre” because I have a BFA.

Overall Total Visits: 211
Number of Films Seen Multiple Times: 13
2021: 5 films
2022: 44 films
2023: 119 films (123 entries)
2024: 37 films (39 entries) *as of 05/09/24

1. The Eyes of Tammy Faye

   October 7, 2021 - Film Streams Dundee Micro

2. Dune

   October 24, 2021 - Film Streams Ruth Sokolof w/ Sydnee
   February 12, 2024 - AMC Westroads IMAX, Fucking fantastic!

3. The French Dispatch

   October 31, 2021 - Film Streams Dundee

4. Spencer

   November 13, 2021 - Film Streams Ruth Sokolof w/ Sydnee

5. The Muppet Christmas Carol

   December 12, 2021 - Film Streams Dundee, Birthday film!
   December 18, 2022 - Film Streams Dundee w/ Mom and Dad
   December 16, 2023 - Film Streams Dundee

6. The Tragedy of Macbeth

   January 4, 2022 - Film Streams Ruth Sokolof w/ Sydnee

7. Everything Everywhere All at Once

   April 13, 2022 - Film Streams Dundee Main

8. Downton Abbey: A New Era

   May 21, 2022 - Film Streams Dundee w/ Mom

9. Twenty One Pilots: Livestream Experience

   May 22, 2022 - Marcus Majestic

10. Best in Show

    May 28, 2022 - Film Streams Ruth Sokolof

...plus 289 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A complete list of new-to-me films watched in 2025.

• Midnight Mass
• The Conversation
• Arsenic and Old Lace
• The Truman Show
• Minari
• Election
• Grand Theft Hamlet
• Strangers on a Train
• North by Northwest
• Citizen Ruth

...plus 149 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Each week, watch a movie that relates to the last one by an actor, director, writer, etc. (Like the 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon! Get it?) For the third year of this random challenge of mine, I will be exploring the degrees of Tom Cruise. Will I find I actually don't mind Tom or will my current affliction stand? Only time will tell.

Keeping track in the notes: number (#105-206), connection, *first watch, thoughts. No repeat of connections during the year and no film repeats from this masterlist.

Fun Facts and Stats - In Progress
• Tom Cruise movies watched: (1) Risky Business, (8) Jerry Maguire, (11) Eyes Wide Shut, (15) Vanilla Sky, (16) Edge of Tomorrow, (19) Mission: Impossible, (20) Mission: Impossible 2
• Overall first watches: 10/52 (19%)
• Number of director connections: 1 - David Lynch, 2 - Todd Field

Unintentional Trends:
• 109-111: LAURA DERN
• 112 & 119: Cameron Crowe and Tom Cruise Collabs!

Previous: (2024) Dustin Hoffman
Next: TBD

1. Risky Business

   105) Connection: Tom Cruise* 😎
   (Previous film to end 2024 was Rain Man)
   This was such a fun ride. I got to check this off of my Criterion Challenge as well with this watch. The most fascinating part was his hair. It was terrible until he got rich and switched to the middle part.

2. Bound

   106) Connection: Joe Pantoliano*
   This classic be lesbian do crime flick has been on my radar for years. This was perfectly wonderful the way all Wachowski sister films are wonderful. I think I really enjoy their use of sound and color. Plus, when I saw Joe Pantoliano in Risky Business, I knew I needed to use him as a connection yet again!

3. Showgirls

   107) Connection: Gina Gershon
   Gina Gershon fucking stole the show in Bound. Probably one of the sexiest characters on this planet. (I need her. I want her.) I wanted more Gina, so I hopped on my much anticipated rewatch of Showgirls. I have always wanted to watch this with someone else and maybe that time will come eventually...soon.

4. Twin Peaks

   108) Connection: Kyle MacLachlan*
   R.I.P. David Lynch. As a tribute to you (and the magnificent Kyle sex scene in Showgirls), I am finally going to watch the international pilot episode of Twin Peaks so that I can log it. I am very close to watching all the big David Lynch features. I also watched Lost Highway this week, so it's just Inland Empire left.

   I really love Agent Cooper.

5. Wild at Heart

   109) Connection: David Lynch, Director
   I queued this one up for this week to rewatch the first David Lynch film I ever watched. I really did not like this the first time around, but that was before I binged Twin Peaks. That was before I got a taste for the Lynchian of it all. This time around, it was a much smoother and funnier watch. I'm like really into Nic Cage right now.

6. Smooth Talk

   110) Connection: Laura Dern*
   Now this is why I do not go place alone and also why I do not talk to strangers (even at the age of 26). I wish there was a bit more to it all than just the ending, but I felt Laura Dern was pretty good in this. Not sure why this is in the Criterion Collection though... Hm, anyway.

7. Citizen Ruth

   111) Connection: Mary Kay Place*
   This was amazing! Laura Dern has solidified her place in my heart. I had no idea what this movie was about going into it. I picked it because I am really into Alexander Payne right now. (I saw him at Film Streams a couple months ago and fell in love. I also really really loved Election.) Thankfully, this was a great fun ride. It was very relevant to everything that is going on right now and wasn't uber depressing! Loved this little jaunt into Laura Dern. :)

8. Jerry Maguire

   112) Connection: Kelly Preston* 😎
   Our second Tom Cruise film is in the books! I went into this blind (I didn't even realize that is was a big winner at the Oscars that year) and came out absolutely blown away. I loved this and I actually found Tom Cruise very hot in this. I think 1996 Tom Cruise is peak for me. The ing cast was great and it was so weird to watch Renee Zellweger talk in her actual accent. I've only seen her as Bridget!

9. Down with Love

   113) Connection: Renee Zellweger*
   Not my cup of tea, but it wasn't too bad. The directing kind of messed up the whole cadence of the thing for me. However, even when Ewan McGregor gives the straight-campiest performance, his eyes still seriously act. I wish she would've made him beg more. The countdown bit was extraordinary. I love that they even gave them a musical number during the credits. I was fully expecting this to be a musical lol. Well, there's only one place to go from here...

10. Moulin Rouge!

    114) Connection: Ewan McGregor
    I saw the touring stage production two weeks ago and knew I needed to give the movie a good rewatch. Plus, Down with Love didn't have enough of Ewan McGregor singing and I needed a fill. Great as ever! I still like this better than the staged production.

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

Will 2025 top 2024? Only time will tell…

• Thunderbolts*
• Mickey 17
• Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
• Grand Theft Hamlet
• Sinners
• Paddington in Peru
• Adolescence
• Death of a Unicorn
• The Monkey
• The Ballad of Wallis Island

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

Collecting challenges for 2025! Loved the idea of branching out with wacky categories. Going to be a blend of olds and news and hope to just have fun!
Began: 01/01/25
Progress: 16/52
Complete:

Original Challenge List

Hater Club Movie Challenge 2025 Remaining Prompts:
Week 19: Cybergoth & Nu Metal Cinema Week
Week 20: Robin Williams Week
Week 21: Stop Motion Week
Week 22: Evil & Creepy Kids Week
Week 23: Chuck Norris vs Steven Seagal Week (choose your fighter)
Week 24: Hicksploitation Week
Week 25: Brat Summer 💚 Week
Week 26: Jóhann Jóhannsson Week
Week 27: Hood Cinema Week
Week 28: Self-Realization / Coming of Age Week
Week 29: Willem DaFoe Week
Week 30: Gender-Bending Week
Week 31: Have you seen the Original? Week
Week 32: Greta Gerwig Recommendation Week
Week 33: Hopeless Cinema Week
Week 34: Trilogy Week (1 of 3)
Week 35: Trilogy Week (2 of 3)
Week 36: Trilogy Week (3 of 3)
Week 37: So Bad It’s Good Week
Week 38: Stephen King Week
Week 39: That’s Fucked Up Week
Week 40: NEON Week
Week 41: Remake Week
Week 42: Body Horror Week
Week 43: Based on a True Story Week
Week 44: Jake Gyllenhaal Week
Week 45: Show Me That Dick Week
Week 46: Heists, Cons, and Scams Week
Week 47: Sex Work Week
Week 48: Meme Culture Week
Week 49: The Sweetest Taboo Guide (Child Kills) Week
Week 50: Ray Liotta Week
Week 51: Dysfunctional Families Week
Week 52: ChatGPT Recommendation Week

1. Minari

   Week 1: A24 Vibes Week (Jan 1–5)
   Doesn't have to be an A24 film, just one that gives those ✨A24 Vibes✨

   Reigns as one of the most poetic film ever created. I have so much Minari movie theater swag, but it hadn't made it to the movie rotation. I loved this! Well written, acted, and directed. Such a cute family! I love Steven Yuen with a burning ion.

2. Gone Girl

   Week 2: Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross Week (Jan 6–12)
   Watch a film that features soundtrack by Trent Reznor and/or Atticus Ross

3. I'm Still Here

   Week 3: Found Footage Week (Jan 13–19)
   A found footage, POV, or mockumentary film

4. Election

   Week 4: MTV Films Week (Jan 20–26)
   I want my MTV! Watch a film released via MTV.

5. Jawbreaker

   Week 5: Pam Grier Week (Jan 27–Feb 2)
   The queen of Blaxploitation herself. Watch a film featuring Pam Grier.

6. The Man Who Knew Too Much

   Week 6: Drinking The Kool-Aid Week (Feb 3-9)
   Cults, brainwashing, and maybe some Kool-Aid.

7. The Shape of Water

   Week 7: Romance Week (No Rom Coms Allowed!) (Feb 10-16)
   We love love! Gimme that raw, complicated, and ionate romance. Watch a romance film. No Romantic Comedies allowed!

8. Wendell & Wild

   Week 8: Jordan Peele Week (Feb 17-23)
   Jordan Peele’s rise from comedy to horror mastermind has reshaped cinema as we know it. Watch anything touched by him or MonkeyPaw Productions.

9. Basic Instinct

   Week 9: Sigma Female Week (Feb 24-Mar 2)
   This one is for the girls!

10. Brazil

    Week 10: Dark Comedy Week (Mar 3-9)
    It's okay to laugh, it's not that serious. Watch a dark comedy film.

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

Putting my MAY-sion: Impossible reviews in the notes as I binge them all before Final Reckoning!!!!

1. Mission: Impossible – Fallout

   I screamed when Henry Cavill reloaded his biceps. The Cavillrine! How have I made it this far without knowing the OG reload is from this movie! About a third of the way through, I said to myself, "Henry Cavill is too hot to not be a secret bad guy." He's so hot with his little mustache.

   Anyway, this is the second Mission movie in a row where I thought, This is just like Paddington.

2. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation

   My favorite Ethan is dorky Ethan, so him falling over that car was amazing. I’m also 100% for badass women and Rebecca Ferguson really fit the bill. I do appreciate that there are starting to be more twists, turns, and near-death experiences that have an actual impact on the story. Very very excited for the next installment in my May-ssion Impossible journey.
   (Guys, I miss skinny Ethan so bad.)

3. Mission: Impossible

   My obsession for men in little glasses started with Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible. Sad we don't get more in this movie (or the following entries). #bringbacktheglass

4. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

   Watching Tom Cruise drive a car backwards was the hottest thing I've ever seen. Ethan and that dang yellow car was my favorite part of this movie. I loved how much Ethan has to fumble with the door just to get it to get in and has no idea what the buttons do. The wipers - genius. Then, he talks to Grace when she ends up behind the wheel like he's teaching his daughter to drive for the first time. "Go straight here...or turn..." and "RIGHT!" Wonderful. Anyway, I couldn't get over the lack of seatbelts, but I was laughing so hard it didn't matter.

   The best realization they had in making this series is you have to let Ethan be the biggest dork in the room. (Definitely my least favorite Ethan Hunt haircut. Gave me the ick. Thankfully, Vanessa Kirby is right over there to distract me.)

5. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol

   I would like to give props to Brad Bird for getting an A113 Easter egg into this Mission: Impossible movie (and for getting Ethan his great M:2 hair back). Makes me want to watch The Incredibles real bad.

6. Mission: Impossible III

   Don’t interrupt me when I’m asking rhetorical questions!!!!!

   The three things my brain took away from this first watch: Phillip Seymour Hoffman DA GOD, love a badass woman moment in a big boy action movie, and Tom Cruise is one of the most beautiful criers in the biz. I love when all Laurence Fishburne needs to do is yell at agents. 🥰

7. Mission: Impossible II

   Our homeboy Ethan (pronounced Ee-fan by me) is rocking some amazingly confusing hair. At first, it’s bad in a straight, no texture poof way. Then, an apex where it’s perfect. The texture, the wave, the right amount of sweat. It’s bad again for like one scene towards the end but I appreciate the brief moment of bliss in Ethan’s hair journey. I actually don’t much of the actual mission but can how much I fangirled over those long locks.

   (I have a very strong feeling that this hair cut is going in the M:I vaunt of fame next to those glasses. Such a shame.)

8. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

All films featured in an edition of my Lil Bit newsletter! Subscribe for biweekly film recommendations and other random stuff. No film snobbery here - just casual ramblings of a girl in her 20s. :)

1. Death of a Unicorn

   Lil Bit #14

2. Over the Garden Wall

   Lil Bit #1

3. Dirty Dancing

   Lil Bit #2

4. The Substance

   Lil Bit #2
   Lil Bit #10
   Lil Bit #12 - Best Picture Nominees Ranked

5. The Fly

   Lil Bit #2
   Lil Bit #6 - Spooktober Special

6. What We Do in the Shadows

   Lil Bit #2

7. Joker: Folie à Deux

   Lil Bit #3

8. The Three Musketeers

   Lil Bit #3

9. Venom

   Lil Bit #3

10. Venom: Let There Be Carnage

    Lil Bit #3

...plus 112 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Criterion Challenge attempt #2. This was my favorite challenge from last year and I am excited to do it all again. Categories in notes!
Started: 01/01/25
Progress: 36/52
Average spine number: 730
Average year: 1973
Completed: 

Ben's Original List
Criterion List by Spine Number
Criterion List on Letterboxd
2025 Criterion Challenge Dumpster - A memorial list of films that, after a short jaunt of fame, got cut from this challenge list.

Previous Criterion Challenges: 2024

1. Repo Man

   Spine Number: 654
   Category: Watch a film from the CC40 box set ✅

2. Armageddon

   Spine Number: 40
   Category: Watch a film from the year you were born ✅

3. Short Cuts

   Spine Number: 265
   Category: Directed by Robert Altman

4. Le Samouraï

   Spine Number: 306
   Category: Watch a film that would be your first choice in the Criterion Closet ✅

5. Risky Business

   Spine Number: 1227
   Category: Great Soundtracks ✅

6. Brute Force

   Spine Number: 383
   Category: John Turturro’s Adventures in Moviegoing ✅

7. Master of the House

   Spine Number: 706
   Category: 1920s

8. Crossing Delancey

   Spine Number: 1250
   Category: Watch a film that will be added to the physical collection in 2025 ✅

9. The Man Who Knew Too Much

   Spine Number: 643
   Category: 1930s ✅

10. Brazil

    Spine Number: 51
    Category: Andrew Garfield’s Closet Picks ✅

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

Since they only let you choose four on your profile, here’s a whole list. The movies that define me and which I quote on a daily basis. Movies you have to see before you die. Movies that I made my entire personality. Movies I force my friends and roommates to watch against their will because I want them to like them too.

No order.

• Shrek

  The OG(re) movie that I love to quote and watch and watch and watch

• The Shining
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• The Big Lebowski
• Over the Garden Wall
• RRR
• Pride & Prejudice

  So many things just make me swoon and give me Fanny flutters. I want what they have.

• Office Space
• Elf

  So good to watch when it isn’t Christmas

...plus 142 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Isle of Dogs
• Psycho
• Fargo
• Buffalo '66
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Blade Runner
• School of Rock
• Another Round
• The Hunt
• The Big Lebowski

...plus 33 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Starting January 2023, my "Oracle of Bacon" challenge has been an ongoing staple in my movie watching. This is a comprehensive list of all the films and how they’re all connected over the years. Connections for all films in notes. All films are connected to the film before by an actor, director, random detail that made me laugh, etc. One movie per week, unless I get excited and watch more, for 52 each year. No connection repeats during the year and no film repeats ever. It’s that easy! Each year has a new muse to start with and try to loop back to without breaking the cycle or rules.

🥓 2023 - Oracle of Bacon 1: 52 Degrees of Kevin Bacon (Kevin Bacon): 52 films, 6 Kevin Bacon movies, 38 first watches (73%)
🐥 2024 - Oracle of Bacon 2: The Hoffening (Dustin Hoffman): 52 films, 10 Dustin Hoffman movies, 40 first watches (77%)
😎 2025 - Oracle of Bacon 3: Mission Tom-possible (Tom Cruise): In Progress

Overall First Watches: 78/104 (75%)

1. Mystic River

   (1) Start: Kevin Bacon 🥓 
   First Watch 2023
   Start of 2023 challenge with Kevin Bacon Film #1

2. The Matrix

   (2) Connection: Laurence Fishburne

3. Memento

   (3) Connection: Carrie-Anne Moss, Bonus - Joe Pantoliano
   First Watch 2023

4. Inception

   (4) Connection: Christopher Nolan
   First Watch 2023

5. 10 Things I Hate About You

   (5) Connection: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
   First Watch 2023

6. Brokeback Mountain

   (6) Connection: Heath Ledger
   First Watch 2023

7. The Fabelmans

   (7) Connection: Michelle Williams
   First Watch 2023
   Seen at Film Streams

8. Uncut Gems

   (8) Connection: Judd Hirsch
   First Watch 2023

9. The Wedding Singer

   (9) Connection: Adam Sandler

10. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

    (10) Connection: Drew Barrymore
    Seen at Film Streams

...plus 116 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Progress: 5/12
Potential Picks have moved to their own list!

• The Truman Show

  January

• Ever After

  February

• Elizabeth

  March

• Armageddon

  April

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

  April

My obsession since 1st grade. *List WIP as I rewatch the sequels at some point and actually watch Solo.

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars
3. Return of the Jedi
4. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
5. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
6. Solo: A Star Wars Story
7. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
8. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
9. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
10. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

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

For me to own a movie, it has to have touched me in a certain way and impacted me enough to need to watch it at any point of time (including my obsession with the Beatles since 2010). This is a complete list of physical copies that I have in my collection.

Criterion Collection List

• Wicked
• Deadpool & Wolverine
• Anora
• All of Us Strangers
• The Promised Land
• Barbie
• Asteroid City
• Relax, I'm from the Future
• Downton Abbey: A New Era
• Everything Everywhere All at Once

...plus 211 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All films I have been surprised with by Alamo Drafthouse Secret Screenings or the AMC Screen Unseen/Marcus Mystery Movies.

• Phantasm II

  2023 Drafthouse of Horrors Secret Screening #2 - 35mm

• Suitable Flesh

  2023 Drafthouse of Horrors Secret Screening #2 - Double Feature Film 1

• Re-Animator

  2023 Drafthouse of Horrors Secret Screening #2 - Double Feature Film 2

• Stage Fright

  2023 Dismember the Alamo - Film #1

• Tenebre

  2023 Dismember the Alamo - Film #2

• Pieces

  2023 Dismember the Alamo - Film #3

• Messiah of Evil

  2023 Dismember the Alamo - Film #4

• Popcorn

  2023 Dismember the Alamo - Film #5 - 35mm

• The Boys in the Boat

  AMC Screen Unseen - December 2023

• The Book of Clarence

  AMC Screen Unseen - January 3, 2024

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

What do broke BFA holders in Nebraska do? Drive to the movie theater to watch theatre of course! The National Theatre Live broadcasts or recordings I’ve seen. Favorites first!

(EVERYONE NEEDS TO WATCH ANGELS IN AMERICA. It’s what made me decided to study tech theatre in college and also fall in love with Andrew Garfield.)

1. National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part One: Millennium Approaches
2. National Theatre Live: Prima Facie
3. National Theatre Live: Present Laughter
4. National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest
5. National Theatre Live: Vanya
6. National Theatre Live: Dr. Strangelove
7. National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part Two: Perestroika
8. National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
9. National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler
10. National Theatre Live: Dear England

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

Watching and ranking them all in order *if available (WIP)

1. Howl's Moving Castle
2. My Neighbor Totoro
3. Spirited Away
4. Ponyo
5. Only Yesterday
6. Princess Mononoke
7. The Boy and the Heron
8. The Cat Returns
9. Castle in the Sky
10. Porco Rosso

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

Gimme gimme my fancy physical media in spine number order pls

1. The Silence of the Lambs

   No. 13

2. RoboCop

   No. 23

3. Diabolique

   No. 35

4. Henry V

   No. 41

5. The ion of Joan of Arc

   No. 62

6. Rushmore

   No. 65

7. Hamlet

   No. 82

8. The Royal Tenenbaums

   No. 157

9. Richard III

   No. 213

10. Shadows

    No. 251

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

If Anora didn't win Best Picture, I was going to riot. Bless Conan O'Brien for bringing the fun back to Oscars night.

1. Anora
2. The Substance
3. Conclave
4. Dune: Part Two
5. I'm Still Here
6. Nickel Boys
7. Wicked
8. The Brutalist
9. A Complete Unknown
10. Emilia Pérez

My favorite huge jacked man.

1. Logan
2. Deadpool & Wolverine
3. Oklahoma!
4. Bad Education
5. X-Men: Days of Future Past
6. Flushed Away
7. Prisoners
8. The Wolverine
9. X2
10. Eddie the Eagle

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

Tammy was my first R-rated movie and I saw it with my ✨grandma✨

• Tammy
• WALL·E
• Ratatouille
• Rio
• Girls Trip
• Hotel for Dogs
• Annihilation
• Star Trek
• Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens

...plus 82 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• 10 Things I Hate About You

  Secret 90s Movie Marathon
  March 15, 2025
  Lily, Sydnee, Jessie, Anna, and Nicole
  
  1) Nicole’s Pick: 10 Things I Hate About You
  2) Lily’s Pick: Silence of the Lambs
  3) Sydnee’s Pick: The Borrowers
  4) Jessie’s Pick: Now and Then
  5) Anna’s Pick: Romeo + Juliet
  6) Bonus: Ghost

What better way to wrap up my 26th year on this earth with a movie marathon of my favorite watches of 2024 and all time?

⬅️ Previous (Haven't Scene It: Leading Ladies)
All 2024 Marathons

1. Confessions of a Shopaholic

   Category: Favorite Hugh Dancy in His Pre-Ass Era Film

2. Pusher II

   Category: #1 DILF Mads Mikkelsen

3. The Royal Tenenbaums

   Category: Favorite Movie No One Has Seen (Because I Haven't Shown Them)

4. Raiders of the Lost Ark

   Category: Favorite Imbiamba Jombes

5. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

   Category: Quintessentially Lily

For our first movie marathon of 2025, we journey into the decade of our births. A little Shakespeare, a little Hannibal, some abs and ass, and a lot of friends and family.
2025 Movie Marathons

• 10 Things I Hate About You

  Nicole’s Pick
  

• The Silence of the Lambs

  Lily’s
  

• The Borrowers

  Sydnee’s Pick
  

• Now and Then

  Jessie’s Pick
  

• Romeo + Juliet

  Anna’s Pick
  

• Ghost

  Lily’s BONUS Pick

• Vampires Suck
• The Princess Bride
• Paddington
• When Harry Met Sally...
• Theater Camp
• Pride and Prejudice
• Camp Nowhere
• Hot Fuzz
• Shaun of the Dead
• White Chicks

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

Dad: You like David Lynch? Isn’t he weird?
Me: I watched Twin Peaks and now it all makes sense.

1. Wild at Heart
2. Blue Velvet
3. Mulholland Drive
4. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
5. The Elephant Man
6. Eraserhead
7. Lost Highway
8. Twin Peaks: The Return
9. Dune

Ranking of Mads Mikkelsen’s fucking fantastic performance range (as I watch them all). Never before has a man made having a fucked up left eye look so sexy. Bonus points if they let peepaw smoke, fuck, dance, have a child sidekick, give him a funky hat, or they make him cry.

Obviously, if I could log Hannibal on Letterboxd, it would be #1. Hugh Dancy's list here.

1. Pusher II
2. The Promised Land
3. Another Round
4. Riders of Justice
5. The Hunt
6. Arctic
7. A Royal Affair
8. The Green Butchers
9. The Three Musketeers
10. Polar

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

The stars are back, baby!

Finalized 2/14/25

1. Anora
2. Wicked
3. Deadpool & Wolverine
4. The Promised Land
5. Dune: Part Two
6. Love Lies Bleeding
7. Kinds of Kindness
8. Longlegs
9. The Substance
10. Problemista

...plus 55 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Ever changing and ever evolving (I think you can tell years where I haven’t seen much). It took so much strength not to have Shrek as 2001.

Last updated: 7/15/24

• The Big Lebowski
• The Matrix
• American Psycho
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
• School of Rock
• Pusher II
• Pride & Prejudice
• Cars
• Blades of Glory

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

Each week, watch a movie that relates to the last one by an actor, director, writer, etc. (Like the 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon! Get it?) I started and ended with Kevin Bacon last year, so this year I’m switching it up: it’s the degrees of Dustin Hoffman. We shall start with Hoffman and try to end with Hoffman. We'll see if we ever loop back to him in between. 😍

Keeping track in the notes: number (#52-104), connection, *first watch, thoughts. No repeat of connections during the year and no film repeats from this masterlist.

Fun Facts and Stats
• Dustin Hoffman movies: 10/52 (19%) (1) The Graduate, (18) Midnight Cowboy, (19) Marathon Man, (29) Dick Tracy, (34) Kung Fu Panda, (36) Runaway Jury, (43) Tootsie, (44) Death of a Salesman, (48) Moonlight Mile, (52) Rain Man
• Overall first watches: 40/52 (77%)
• Number of director connections: 5
• Number of movies starring Mads Mikkelsen as a depressed dad who's a teacher, directed by Thomas Vinterberg: 2
• Number of movies where Mads plays a character with a fucked up left eye: 2
• Number of movies where I just wanted to give Mads Mikkelsen a fucking hug: 4

Favorite (Un)Intentional Series
#58-60: Goodman Fest 2024 - Monster's Inc, The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou
#63-68: Film af Mads Mikkelsen - At Eternity's Gate, Another Round, The Hunt, Pusher, Pusher II, Valhalla Rising, Casino Royale
#73-75: Otto Month - Laura, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Anatomy of a Murder
#98-100: Lily's White Boy of the Month Hall of Fame - Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal

Previous: (2023) Kevin Bacon
Next: (2025) Tom Cruise

1. The Graduate

   #53) Connection: Dustin Hoffman* 🌟
   First one of the year! This film has been on my radar since my Wes Anderson directorial deep dive class. It's one of his most influential films, and it shows! I really like this movie. It's so goofy and so much like Royal Tennebaums and Bottle Rocket! Jason Schwartzman is basically Dustin Hoffman from The Graduate.

2. The Elephant Man

   #54) Connection: Anne Bancroft*
   I'm still not 100% sold on David Lynch, but this one was pretty good! I especially loved Anthony Hopkins as doc. I also wasn't sold that this movie was going to make me cry, but watching John plead for his life was the sucker punch in the face.

3. The Silence of the Lambs

   #55) Connection: Anthony Hopkins*
   I just finished watching the Hannibal TV series, so I am on a Hannibal kick. Originally, I was going to watch Hannibal, because I didn't know this was actually the first in the Anthony Hopkins Hannibal experience. Thankfully, this movie was as good as people claim it to be. I honestly thought it would be scarier, and, on that same page, I thought it would be more Hannibal. I also think it would've helped the plot if the dog did die.

4. The Player

   #56) Connection: Scott Glenn*
   “Scotty Glenn, he’s great!” I did not expect all the cameos and meta movie elements. I would love to see this remade (maybe in a couple of years). The best eyebrows in the biz.

5. High Spirits

   #57) Connection: Peter Gallagher*
   Peter Gallagher is going to be my new celebrity obsession. His eyes are just so beautiful. This romp was brand new to me, and I really liked it. I also didn't recognize Liam Neeson until the last scene.

6. Monsters, Inc.

   #58) Connection: Jennifer Tilly
   I think Boo is my favorite Pixar character. Recreating her catching Cheerios is one of my favorite pastimes. Mike Wazowski, bi icon, and Sully Sullenburger, gay icon, are my favorite chaotic duo.

7. The Big Lebowski

   #59) Connection: John Goodman
   Always a classic and one of my favorite Cohen brothers' films. This movie is just weird in such a good way. This watch, I really connected with John Turturro as Jose. He just has that swag.

8. O Brother, Where Art Thou?

   #60) Connection: John Turturro
   Gosh, I haven't watched this in so long, but it's been on my re-watchlist ever since I got really into "I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow" again a few months back. I find myself drawn to George Clooney and I also think Everett is the same exact character as Mr. Fox.

9. Fantastic Mr. Fox

   #61) Connection: George Clooney
   A natural next choice after O Brother, Where Art Thou. If I wasn't emotionally invested in Luke Wilson and obsessed with Royal Tennenbaums, this would definitely be my favorite Wes movie. It was the first one I ever saw! Willem Dafoe just knows how to play a slimey little guy.

10. At Eternity's Gate

    #62) Connection: Willem Dafoe*
    Eh, meh. It's a little too whiney and wayyyy too shakey. Dafoe was good, but the other characters were so rude for no reason. That teacher bullied him for no reason, and then got mad when he fought back? Okay, bitch. I really watched this for Mads Mikkelsen, and (to no surprise) it made me say, "This is just like Hannibal," when he literally just talked to him about God through strange metaphors. I love you Mads Mikkelsen (especially as a priest holy cannoli). Never change. *kiss*

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

• X-Men: Days of Future Past
• Batman

• 300
• 50 First Dates
• The African Queen
• Alexander
• Alien: Covenant
• Assassin's Creed
• Attack on Titan
• Beauty and the Beast
• Bedtime Stories
• The Big Sleep

...plus 118 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• 28 Days Later
• 300
• 3:10 to Yuma
• The Alamo
• Almost Famous
• Apocalypto
• Arsenic and Old Lace
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
• The Awful Truth

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

• Showgirls
• But I'm a Cheerleader
• Hairspray
• Bottoms
• Mean Girls
• To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
• Thelma & Louise
• Pride & Prejudice
• Lady Bird
• Legally Blonde

...plus 47 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

First watches for 2024 - including new releases!

• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
• Fargo
• Hamlet
• Frankenhooker
• Trainspotting
• The Promised Land
• Pusher II
• Austenland
• The Graduate
• The Muppets Take Manhattan

...plus 368 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My first time trying the feat of the Criterion Challenge. Categories in notes!
Started: 01/04/24
Progress: 52/52 (100%)
Average spine number: 615
Completed: 12/31/24

Original List - https://boxd.it/o60uu
Criterion List by Spine Number
Criterion List on Letterboxd

Other Criterion Challenges: 2025

January - (45) The Graduate, (15) Charade, (9) For All Mankind, (4) Trainspotting, (43) Hamlet, (2) Being John Malkovich, (40) The Elephant Man, (37) Time Bandits, (1) House of Games, (39) A Night to , (3) The Silence of the Lambs, (11) The Player
February - (50) Inside Llewyn Davis, (48) Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, (30) Barry Lyndon
March - (52) Fast Times at Ridgemont High, (17) Blue Velvet
April - (31) Seconds, (44) The Blob, (47) Opening Night
May - (21) My Own Private Idaho
June - (5) A Woman Under the Influence, (7) Mulholland Drive, (47) RoboCop, (12) The Celebration, (14) The Big Chill, (36) The Immortal Story, (26) Infernal Affairs, (6) Heaven's Gate, (10) Paris, Texas
July - (38) The Fabulous Baron Munchausen, (29) The Velvet Underground, (35) Eraserhead, (49) Pan's Labyrinth, (46) Blood for Dracula, (33) Eyes Without a Face
August - (42) Blonde Venus, (51) Nanny, (34) The Night of the Hunter, (18) Cronos, (28) Daisies, (19) The Power of the Dog, (13) Hiroshima Mon Amour, (41) The ion of Joan of Arc
December - (24) Autumn Sonata, (8) Touki Bouki, (23) The Girls, (20) Tokyo Olympiad, (25) Bicycle Thieves, (27) Pixote

1. House of Games

   Spine: No. 399
   Category: Spine #351-450 ✅

2. Being John Malkovich

   Spine: No. 611
   Category: Spine #601-700 ✅

3. The Silence of the Lambs

   Spine: No. 13
   Category: Watch a film with a rating of 4.3 or higher ✅

4. Trainspotting

   Spine: No. 1204
   Category: First film in your watchlist ✅

5. A Woman Under the Influence

   Spine: No. 253
   Category: Most recently added film in your watchlist ✅

6. Heaven's Gate

   Spine: No. 636
   Category: Longest runtime in your watchlist ✅

7. Mulholland Drive

   Spine: No. 779
   Category: Most popular film in your watchlist ✅

8. Touki Bouki

   Spine: No. 685
   Category: Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project ✅

9. For All Mankind

   Spine: No. 54
   Category: Criterion Staff Picks ✅

10. Paris, Texas

    Spine: No. 501
    Category: New York Film Festival Favorites ✅

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

A ranking of Hugh Dancy characters (as I watch them all). Not the movies in particular, because, even in the fundamentally bad movies, Hugh Dancy still manages to give the best performance.

If I could log Hannibal on Letterboxd, you know Will Graham would be #1. Mads Mikkelsen's list here.

1. Confessions of a Shopaholic
2. Ella Enchanted
3. Downton Abbey: A New Era
4. Black Hawk Down
5. The Jane Austen Book Club
6. Elizabeth I
7. Adam
8. King Arthur
9. Daniel Deronda
10. Coach

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

I'm either addicted or I've developed a Pavlovian response to driving past the Rotella bread factory on the way to Alamo Drafthouse. (Smells are so good!)

• Wonka

  1-1-24
  First theatre outing of 2024. First time at B&B Oakview and first time in ScreenX 270 degrees, Aud 4, with Sydnee. Large popcorn, large peach cream soda from my birthday deal lol. The best moment was Matt Lucas's giant head over our right shoulder. I could not look at the main screen at all, but it was so worth it.

• The Book of Clarence

  1-3-24
  AMC Westroads Screen Unseen #1 of 2024. Aud 13. No concessions. In the deepest point of AMC Westroads I have ever been to. It took three turns to get there. Not as religiously cleansed as I though it would be, but actually had a bit of an edge to it.

• Mean Girls

  1-17-24
  Alamo La Vista with Sydnee and Jessie. Aud 8, Big Blue, Row 4, Seat 10. First movie back after snowmageddon January 2024. Saro Cranberry Spice with a Breakfast Club + Avacado, of course. I spent most of the movie dissecting the math in the movie and also annoying my friends about Cute Jake from Calculus. You go Glen Coco!

• All of Us Strangers

  1-20-24
  Alamo Drafthouse La Vista, Aud 6, Row 2, Seat 7. Lemonade and Reese’s Pieces. Apparently, I did not know anything about the plot before watching. I thought the whole plot was just Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott. I did not know there would be ghosts.

• Fargo

  1-25-24
  Alamo Drafthouse La Vista, Aud 4, Row 1, Seat 9, first watch. Fucking fantastic. Glacial Till Strawberry Rhubarb with peanut M&Ms. First of six films planned in theatres over the next three days. Wish me luck!

• The Zone of Interest

  1-26-24
  Films Streams Dundee Theatre Main. Millstream cranberry cream soda and small popcorn. I went on a whim. I had to park behind Pageturner’s because the lot was full. That was a first. A bit disappointed, because it wasn't as surreal or tragic as I had expected.

• New Nightmare

  1-26-24
  Alamo Drafthouse La Vista, 2024 Secret Screening #1. Theatre 5, row 2, seat 4. Alamo day 2/3. Just water. Meta moment. I have never seen a Freddy movie before.

• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

  1-27-24
  Alamo Drafthouse La Vista, Three Ring Circus LOTR Marathon 1/3. Big blue Dolby Atmos theatre 8, row 4, seat 8. Third day of Alamo in a row. Experienced with Sydnee, Jessie, Sierra, and Connor. Fueled up the food for the first one: Popcorn, Dr. Pepper, Glacial Till Strawberry Rhubarb cider, loaded fries. Aragorn fan club!

• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

  1-27-24
  Alamo Drafthouse La Vista, Three Ring Circus LOTR Marathon 2/3. Big blue Dolby Atmos theatre 8, row 4, seat 8. Experienced with Sydnee, Jessie, Sierra, Connor. Glacial Till Strawberry Rhubarb cider, Reese’s Pieces from All of Us Strangers and Peanut M&Ms from Fargo. Wet Aragorn, best Aragorn. This one had me entranced (it may have been the second cider).

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

  1-27-24
  Alamo Drafthouse La Vista, Three Ring Circus LOTR Marathon 3/3. Big blue Dolby Atmos theatre 8, row 4, seat 8. Experienced with Sydnee, Jessie, Sierra, and Connor. Breakfast Club w/ Avocado to finish the night. I love Aragorn but not with clean hair. They brought around the Last Call sign when they defeated the orcs and I realized there was still an hour left.

...plus 94 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Thank you Letterboxd for unlocking a new power for me to exploit. Of course, I need nun Hugh Grant on my Paddington 2 reviews.

• Paddington 2
• The Promised Land
• Ella Enchanted
• American Psycho
• But I'm a Cheerleader
• Back to the Future
• Buffalo '66
• The Jane Austen Book Club
• Adam
• Confessions of a Shopaholic

...plus 49 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Becoming a cinephile (and convincing all your friends to you) comes with the inevitable, "You haven't seen that yet?" Thankfully, I have friends who are willing to watch all these crazy films I have been berating them about for the past two years. I put out a poll amongst us with a list of some of the most popular films that are widely regarded as films you must see before you die. (Yes, I used my copy of the book for reference.) I programmed a list of films under the umbrella of "leading ladies", of which me and one other person max have seen.

⬅️ Previous (Summerween Double Feature) • Next (Lily's Birthday Marathon 2024) ➡️
All 2024 Marathons

• Dirty Dancing
• Moonstruck
• Some Like It Hot
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Heathers

What started as a fun Galentine's Day plan has morphed into an entire thing that I plan and curate for my friends and for me to live out my film programming dreams. Links to the full marathon lists in notes.

• Austenland

  Galentine's Day 2024 - Austenland Theme
  February 10, 2024 - Sydnee, Nicole, and Jessie
  Austenland
  Bridget Jones's Diary
  Pride & Prejudice
  Bonus: Sleepless in Seattle

• Star Wars

  May the Fourth
  May 4, 2024 - Jessie, Sydnee, Anna, Nic
  Star Wars
  Empire Strikes Back
  Return of the Jedi
  Secret Bonus: Rogue One

• 13 Going on 30

  Secret Movie Marathon - My 2000s Comfort Movie
  July 20, 2024 - Jessie, Sierra, Nicole, Sydnee, Stephanie
  Nicole’s Pick - 13 Going on 30
  Lily’s Pick - American Psycho
  Sierra’s Pick - Monkeybone
  Jessie’s Pick - Stick It
  Sydnee’s Pick - Sydney White

• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

  Summerween Double Feature
  August 31, 2024 - Jessie, Nicole
  The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
  Sleepaway Camp

• Dirty Dancing

  Haven't Scene It - "Leading Ladies"
  September 28, 2024 - Sydnee, Jessie, Anna
  Dirty Dancing
  Some Like It Hot
  Everything Everywhere All at Once
  Moonstruck
  Heathers

• Confessions of a Shopaholic

  Lily's Birthday Marathon 2024
  December 7, 2024

Movies I want to see on the big screen (or big screen again in another format). Rereleases or showings only. No new releases, because that's its own list.

• The Royal Tenenbaums
• 2001: A Space Odyssey

  IMAX

• The Empire Strikes Back
• Demons
• Moulin Rouge!
• The Best Years of Our Lives
• School of Rock
• Cars
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Hi, I’m Lily, and my favorite Batman is LEGO Batman. All Batman and Batman-adjacent included.

1. The Lego Batman Movie
2. Batman Returns
3. Batman
4. Batman & Robin
5. The Dark Knight
6. The Batman
7. The People's Joker
8. Batman Forever
9. Joker: Folie à Deux
10. Joker

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

First time! Starting early so I don’t burn myself out. Putting the bulk of them in October.
Completed: 10/31/2024 👻

RULES: There must be…
31 horror films,
6 countries (US, NZ, Italy, Denmark, , India),
8 decades (20s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s)
With 17 categories to meet (in notes)
Review them all!

Quick Links:
New World Pictures

1. Psycho

   ALL of the films from a horror franchise with at least 4 entries (1/4) ✅
   Country: US

2. What We Do in the Shadows

   Country: NZ ✅

3. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

   4 Italian films (1/4) ✅
   Country: Italy

4. Speak No Evil

   No category ✅
   Country: US

5. Braindead

   Two available cuts ✅
   Country: NZ

6. Demons

   4 Italian films (2/4) ✅
   Country: Italy

7. Blood and Black Lace

   4 Italian films (3/4) ✅
   Country: Italy

8. The Fly

   No category ✅
   Country: US

9. Bram Stoker's Dracula

   No category ✅
   Country: US

10. The Substance

    Two Horror Comedies (1/2) ✅
    Country: US

...plus 33 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All films mentioned, listed, or reviewed in my Q3 2024 movie report. All are sorted in order of appearance.

Television shows mentioned/reviewed:
- Fantasmas
- Unit One
- Hannibal
- Our Flag Means Death
- Downton Abbey
- What We Do in the Shadows
- Los Espookys
- Legion
- Euphoria
- The Walking Dead
- Dexter

1. Deadpool & Wolverine

   2024 Most Watched - Current Standings, Awards - Favorite New Releases "August", August Intro, August First Film, August First Watch Top 10, August Big Screen, September Intro

2. Ella Enchanted

   2024 Most Watched - Current Standings

3. Confessions of a Shopaholic

   2024 Most Watched - Current Standings

4. Bridget Jones's Diary

   2024 Most Watched - Current Standings

5. Pusher II

   2024 Most Watched - Current Standings

6. Austenland

   2024 Most Watched - Current Standings

7. Bringing Up Baby

   Milestones - 300th

8. The Wolverine

   Milestones - 350th

9. X2

   Milestones - 400th

10. Flushed Away

    Milestones - 450th, September Intro, September Honorable Menchies

...plus 127 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Movies I want to show my friends that I know they’ll judge me for. (Also ones I have shown my friends that they have judged me for.) That’s the fun!

• Braindead
• American Psycho
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• FRED: The Movie
• 1776
• Serial Mom
• Monkeybone
• The Substance
• Moonstruck
• The Royal Tenenbaums

Rules of the game: every week, watch at least one movie that has the same actor, director, or writer as the one before. Hope to find new gems, cross off my Watchlist, and make it back to Kevin by the end of the year. You can find the ongoing masterlist here.

Keeping track in the notes: number, connection, thoughts, *first watches

Fun Facts and Stats
• Kevin Bacon movies (all first watches): (1) Mystic River, (17) JFK, (31) A Few Good Men, (37) The Demon Murder Case, (41) Frost/Nixon, (52) Sleepers. ✨That’s 6!✨
• Overall first watches: 37/52 (71%)
• Number of films where Kevin Bacon plays a grumpy man in uniform: 2
• Number of films where Kevin Bacon plays a grumpy man in a suit: 3
• Number of Nixon-Watergate-related movies: 2
• Number of Newman/Redford films: 2
• Vampire flicks: 2
• Keanu Reeves Movies: 4
• Number of Wilson brothers featured in a connection film: All 3, baby! (Andrew, Luke, Owen)

Next: (2024) Dustin Hoffman

1. Mystic River

   #1) Starting point!*
   I’ve never seen this one and it was the highest rated film on Letterboxd that was in the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon box set I got from the library. 😊

2. The Matrix

   #2) Connection: Laurence Fishburne
   I was pleasantly surprised that Laurence Fishburne was in Mystic River, so I really wanted to rewatch The Matrix, naturally. 

3. Memento

   #3) Connection: Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano*
   I picked this up when I saw that it was on the list of “known for” on Carrie-Anne’s IMDB and then was surprised to find that Joe was also in it. 😂 This has been on my Watchlist for a while since it’s on every “watch before you die” list and has a high score on here. I was pleasantly surprised with my jaw dropped to the floor at the end. 

4. Inception

   #4) Connection: Christopher Nolan*
   Yes, I have never seen Inception. I really liked Memento and wanted to experience that mind twist again. While I didn’t think the ending hit as hard as Memento, it was intriguing throughout. 

5. 10 Things I Hate About You

   #5) Connection: Joseph Gordon-Levitt*
   This is possibly my least favorite Shakespeare play, but I felt that this adaptation did the story justice by taking out all the abuse. I have had this on my Watchlist forever and so many people rave about it. Plus, I thought it was funny that Heath Ledger tried so hard to have an American accent, but slipped a couple times. He is definitely the grumpy boyfriend I want and need. 

6. Brokeback Mountain

   #6) Connection: Heath Ledger*
   I have had Brokeback on my Watchlist ever since I found out it was an angst gay love tragedy (my favorite genre). I was going to do Dark Knight but then said, “NOPE I GOTTA WATCH THE GAY COWBOYS,” when I saw this on Heath’s profile and my bi heart is happy.

7. The Fabelmans

   #7) Connection: Michelle Williams*
   This was pure luck to see in theatres. I actually didn’t like Michelle Williams in this movie, but the movie was good by the end. 😊

8. Uncut Gems

   #8) Connection: Judd Hirsch*
   Judd was my favorite actor in the Fabelmans. (I thought the acting was forced by everyone else but he was so natural.) Then, I saw Uncut Gems on his list and knew I needed to check this off of my Watchlist. The last twenty minutes made me glad that I did!

9. The Wedding Singer

   #9) Connection: Adam Sandler
   I’ve been eager to watch this for the past few months and saw the perfect opportunity. This movie always slaps. 

10. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

    #10) Connection: Drew Barrymore
    Fate said, “Lily, this is the next movie you have to do,” when it happened to be playing at the movie theatre. I was already going to see it but this solidified it. 😊 I could not get over how cute Drew is in this!

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

Horror doesn't wait for October. It's horror-o'clock 24/7 in my world. Ending the summer celebrating Summerween with some summer-set horror flicks and spooky pizza.

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• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• Sleepaway Camp

• Renfield
• The Mitchells vs. the Machines
• Asteroid City
• Bad Education
• Kate & Leopold