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Ahhhh yes the classic white trash butt rock entry in the franchise. No horror series is complete without it.

It’s Mary Elizabeth and her Nikon coolpix against the world.

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

The log set piece alone is worth the price of ission. Score by Shirley Walker! Yes!

“Fuck death!”

For whatever reason, this franchise entirely ed me by, which is odd considering I find the conceit of a teen slasher where the killer is fate itself—and in which fate can be tricked—pretty fascinating. The movies never came very highly recommended (at least beyond a simple “they’re fun”) which is likely why I steered clear. There’s a high level of douchebag culture attached to early 00s horror and this film is no exception (the clothes and hair—my god) but the set pieces & VFX are pretty fantastic if you can get past the cringey bits. Plus, Tony Todd automatically makes anything a full star more exciting.  

Also, screenwriter Jeffrey Reddick follows me on Threads. Hey, Jeff! 👋🏻

Not nearly as thrilling as I had ed (the first hour is really rather dull) but kind of interesting in the scope of Schrader’s career. Fascinating in relation to the original. Plus, it gave us one of Bowie’s best songs.

Watched on Monday May 19, 2025.

“She never lied to us.”

Why did we ever quite lighting movies the way we did in the 40s?

You know a film rules when the visuals and the sound design are savagely competing to see which can gross you out more, and they both win.

*pulls a beer out of a toilet*
“Cocktail?”

Tom Atkins the undisputed heavyweight champ of 80s B-horror. Look out for the Sam Raimi cameo. Guess who reactivated his Shudder today?

“The next war isn’t going to be a cold one, it’s going to be a shooting war, a ballistic war, over a rapidly dwindling ecosystem: the last of the world’s energy, drinkable water, breathable air. Your days of fighting for the so-called greater good are over. This is our chance to control the truth. The concepts of right and wrong for everyone for centuries to come.”

Hayley Atwell! That little yellow car! The Venetian club! Expository gobbledegook!

It’s so wild that the seventh movie in a goofy blockbuster megafranchise starring a Scientologist manages to plainly state the most important truth we have to start understanding as human beings: 

These👏🏻mother👏🏻fuckin👏🏻AIs👏🏻are👏🏻going👏🏻to👏🏻kill👏🏻us!

Yeah, I wouldn’t have shaved that mustache for Justice League either.

“Sir, Hunt is the living manifestation of destiny. And he has made you his mission.”

Gun inside the flute bit—stellar stuff. Unclear why Sean Harris is styled like Tim Cook. We truly don’t deserve Rebecca Ferguson!

A very clear nexus point between the first and second halves of the franchise. Way funnier than I expected? Some of Tom’s worst hair. If I’ve learned anything from movies, it’s that there is always some crazy spy shit going on in Budapest.

Melodramatic by franchise standards but one of Cruise’s best vehicles for conveying his oddball, inhuman magnetism (see: Eyes Wide Shut or Magnolia). Also—stacked cast, even if a few of them are underutilized (see: Maggie Q, Billy Crudup). Movies used to be so cool.

Friday the 14th (of February)

Every time I see either of these guys act, I think it’s the best performance I’ve ever seen and every time it is.

What are we, some kinda T̶h̶u̶n̶d̶e̶r̶b̶o̶l̶t̶s̶* New Avengers?

It is bizarre but kind of fitting that the best MCU movie post 2020 is the first since to not be directly tied to any kind of multiverse saga or galactic threat, and comprised largely of forgettable characters from some of the studio’s worst-received properties. A two hour therapy jam about how much depression suuuuuuucks, Thunderbolts* somehow also manages to be thoroughly enjoyable and contain probably the most heart of any entry in the franchise (perhaps outside of the Guardians trilogy).

It’s carried primarily by sturdy direction and the undeniable strength of Florence Pugh—Yelena’s relationship with Alexei is really special stuff—as well as an absolute surprise stunner from Wyatt Russell (who knew?!). While I enjoyed Lewis Pullman, I think the gross mishandling/repacking of the Sentry’s origin story—which Marvel just cannot stop themselves from always doing—left that whole plot cold to the touch for me. It’s just one of the most brilliant things ever done in comics and I highly recommend anyone curious to read Bendis’s New Avengers run circa 05/06 (?) 

Also, I have no idea what movie Julia Louis-Dreyfus was in, but it ain’t this one.

The thing is they waited way too fucking long to make this movie, then had to shoehorn it into a dead timeline, and you really feel it. It’s wild that Flo is the new kid on the block and almost better than ScarJo at her own game.

This review may contain spoilers.

One of a very select few films of the 70s I think could be legitimately improved upon with a modern-day retelling—while retaining most of its visual charm—from a young hotshot visionary director who has socially and ecologically rich themes always on their mind. Perhaps a certain director who’s most recent film about vampires and the blues grossed over $230m and became the central pop cultural event of the last 6 months?

“We cannot burn Mick Jagger. We want the effect but we can’t burn him.”

Still think the best thing about this is the concept that there’s no greater possible high than communing with the dead.

It was an impossible task to try and mount this movie after Chadwick Boseman’s tragic ing, and to complicate things further, the cast and crew had to deal with shooting during the height of the pandemic. When news broke that star Leticia Wright has holding up production by selfishly insisting on not getting vaccinated, it seemed like the writing was on the wall, and I was put off seeing the film.

I was never crazy about Wright as a performer, thought even less of how she openly spread misinformation during what was already an incredibly troubled time for everyone involved, and was fairly skeptical when I heard that Namor and the Atlanteans would be re-imagined as some sort of Aztec/Mayan demigod offspring. But I never doubted Coogler’s powers as a filmmaker and remained curious over the years—only now feeling like the time was right. 

There are some interesting threads here regarding grief and cultural erasure, and I actually enjoyed the rendering of Atlantis (Talokan), but it suffers the typical Marvel formula problems—expo dumps, inflated runtime, comic relief that isn’t comic, constantly throwing new characters at you just to set up the next ten years of the empire instead of focusing on the ones in the title. It does (at least) have Coogler’s visual bravado, several effective set pieces, and a barnburner from Angela Bassett.

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

Clancy Charlock: he wanted to build this place out in the desert where people could live for free called The Arrepentiemento. 
Doc: and what’s that mean again?
Clancy: Spanish for ‘sorry about that.’
Doc, writing on notepad: “something Spanish.”

Long in the tooth but way funnier than it has any right to be. Martin Short—holy shit, man. There’s a direct arrow from Philip Marlowe to The Dude to Doc Sportello. (Pretty sure I also put this line in my Long Goodbye review but I am very stoned right now and it still stands.)

One of the best two-handers of all time, every scene is crackling with pure electricity. Three genius comets colliding with every ounce of their powers. 

“This is something you do for a billion years or not at all. This isn’t fashion.”

Moving to a remote self-sustaining village in the mountains of Japan could literally fix me.

Barbara Crampton is in this movie for like 2 minutes and those are far and away the best 2 minutes of the movie.

Never let it be forgotten we almost had a Derek Cian/Ryan Gosling re-team instead of this steaming puddle of wolf piss. I’m starting worry that Julia Garner only has one gear. Guess we’ll find out in July.

“I’m Virgil, counselor, and I’m guiding you through the gates of hell. We are now in the ninth circle: the circle of traitors. Traitors to country! Traitors to fellow man! Traitors to God!”

So many fascinating things about this: that initially Spielberg was going to do it and Scorsese was (maybe) going to do Schindler’s List, that it comes right after Goodfellas, Bernstein doing Hermann’s original score, De Niro’s unbelievable body, Juliette’s terrible bangs, Nolte playing clean cut and straight laced, the pontoon boat named Moana. One of Marty’s most economical films—gets right into the action immediately and barely lets up toward a thunderous finale.

Incoherent. Looks like shit. Hardy’s still doing Eddie Brock. It’s Christmas for no reason. Luis Guzman. I’ll forget it exists in a few days. Loved it.

Watched on Friday April 25, 2025.

“You tell em I’m comin! And hell’s comin with me, you hear? HELL’S COMIN WITH ME!”

Both phenomenal leads aside, the bench in this is insane: Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn, Stephen Lang, Thomas Haden Church, Michael Rooker, Paul Ben-Victor, Billy Zane, Billy Bob Thornton, and Charlton fucking Heston. Like, every single character actor in Hollywood in 1993 read for this thing, and most of them got the part. 

It’s so fascinating to think about how and why the 90s were such a boom time for Western revivalism. Maybe I should write something on that?

“PMS isn’t real, Needy. It was invented by the boy-run media to make us seem crazy.”

Look, if Drew Barrymore circa 2001 was my English lit teacher, I simply would not get any work done. Hope you all ed to leave milk and cookies out for Frank last night.

“You can’t cast out God, can you?”

For a movie with basically all of my guys—Marty, Schrader, Dafoe, Keitel, Bowie, Harry Dean, Lurie—it’s a pretty exhausting piece of work. Even as a kid born to a Methodist home, I never found the Christ narrative all that compelling, and as an artist I’m no stranger to self-flagellation, but this is a bit rich for even my blood (pardon the pun). I’ll concede that there are lessons to be learned from the scripture, but it seems to me the majority of its followers took all the wrong ones from it, if they took any at all (organized religion is, after all, deeply rooted in every single historical conflict). 

This film at least presupposes maybe ol’ JC took the one-man-miracle huckster act a little too far, and in a way it’s maybe Scorsese’s most punk rock picture, but the dense, laborious nature of it doesn’t fully engage my soul like his best works do. 

Anyway, Happy Easter, freaks!

Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.

Having the vampires be Irishmen who crash the party with banjos and fiddles is just so spot on. This will probably end up being the most important film of 2025. See it asap. 

Full review on Patreon.

Much safer and more formulaic than I’d ed, but still about as great as we‘ll ever get from a Marvel movie. Ludwig’s score rules, Serkis fucking rules, and Lupita is just one of most compelling actors alive. Wakanda Forever.

It’s been a miserably slow month or two at the cinema, so perhaps I enjoyed this far more than I normally would have, but like Garland’s most recent effort, it is a truly powerful and bracing viewing experience. Also like that film, this one feels more impressive as a formal exercise than a window into the emotional core of the soldiers represented. These men are blank, tactile, precise, and matter of fact. Iraq war veteran and co-director Ray Mendoza crafts the story only from memory, which lends the film an air of vital importance while also straining credulity.

There is little to no ing for why these soldiers did what they did—the mission itself is unclear—but the film isn’t concerned with those ideas. It is designed entirely to keep you on the razor’s edge of your senses and fully envelop you in an experience that only a select few number of men and women all over the world have survived. The filmmaking itself is simply astonishing, with Garland continuing to flex his muscle of intensity that possibly even sures his recent work. 

If the film has any politics, they are settled well beneath the layers of sweat, blood, dirt, and smoke that clog the screen for its last hour. We don’t really even understand what the outcome of this event is within the context of the film (a clever if not so subtle hint lies in the coda, which could be read both as anti-war and nationalist pride). This will likely draw the ire once again of Civil War detractors, but I think those folks are, to use a Lynch expression, “focusing on the hole and not the donut.” If you go into the experience expecting to be shown something, and not told something, you will be rewarded.

“Hammond’s check cleared, or else I wouldn’t be going on this wild goose chase.”
“Uh, where you’re going is the only place in the world where the GEESE CHASE YOU.”

Obviously nowhere near as totemic or impressive as the first film, but kind of fascinating as a companion piece to it. Spielberg takes four years off after the one-two punch of Jurassic and Schindler’s List, then comes back—if not a little rusty—with some major choices in this film. An overall grim tone, centering the story on Malcolm (whom Crichton killed off in the novel), significantly upping VFX shots, trying to find a new way in emotionally. While most of it doesn’t really work, it’s great to watch him trying shit this far into his career and a testament to where he ends up.

Goldblum, while obviously magnetic, has never been a franchise leading man, as is evidenced here. Fun in moments—great puppetry—but I’m lukewarm on pretty much everything else. Also, if this happens a year or two later I think Rachel Weisz takes Julianne’s spot, and honestly I’m way more interested in that movie.

Best Vampire Movies

Sometimes Abel Ferrara’s “life is hell” brutalist dogma really works on me and sometimes it doesn’t (could depend entirely on what emotional state I’m in while watching his films), and I must it the first time I watched this, it completely ed me by. I couldn’t engage with it and found even the short runtime quite taxing.

For whatever reason, I decided to give it another shot, and this time it hit me like a truck. Menacing, eerie, and absolutely stunning visually. Score rocks, Lili rocks, Walken (obv) rocks—even only showing up for the last 30 minutes.   

Paul Calderon was truly the unsung hero of 90s NY indie cinema. 

“Catch a hoe and another hoe, Merry Christmas”
- Cypress Hill

This is maybe a hot take but the thing about this movie is that it’s pretty good.

It’s Jennifer Jason Leigh’s world, we’re all just living in it.

“And I’ll tell ya one thing: from his footprint he looks like a big fella!”

Look I’m a simply guy. If you give me Irish Christopher Abbott herding sheep and bashing a dude’s headlight with his crook, I am ALL IN on your movie. A grim, cruel thriller. And shot on location?! Has a ton in common with Strange Darling from last year though I contend this is the better film.

God I love this wacky ass movie.

alphabetically

• 12 Angry Men
• The 40 Year Old Virgin
• Adaptation.
• Adventureland
• After Hours
• Akira
• Alice in Wonderland
• Alien
• Aliens
• All the President's Men

...plus 252 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Avengers: Endgame
2. The Avengers
3. Avengers: Infinity War
4. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
5. Iron Man
6. Black Panther
7. Captain America: Civil War
8. Thor: Ragnarok
9. Guardians of the Galaxy
10. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

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

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

AKA the 70s. 
listed chronologically by release date, ongoing.

• 3 Women
• Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
• Alice in the Cities
• Alien
• All the President's Men
• The American Friend
• American Graffiti
• The Amityville Horror
• Animal House
• Apocalypse Now

...plus 145 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Sinners
2. Black Panther
3. Creed
4. Fruitvale Station
5. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Boogie Nights
3. The Master
4. Punch-Drunk Love
5. Phantom Thread
6. Licorice Pizza
7. Magnolia
8. Inherent Vice
9. Hard Eight

1. GoodFellas
2. Taxi Driver
3. Raging Bull
4. The Departed
5. The Last Waltz
6. Killers of the Flower Moon
7. After Hours
8. The Irishman
9. The Wolf of Wall Street
10. The King of Comedy

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

Films that expose, analyze, laugh at, or indulge in our bizarre, meaningless existence.

• Alps
• Annihilation
• Beau Is Afraid
• Being John Malkovich
• Belladonna of Sadness
• Cosmos
• Dogtooth
• Enter the Void
• Eraserhead
• Full Metal Jacket

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

1. Bram Stoker's Dracula
2. The Hunger
3. Near Dark
4. The Lost Boys
5. Let the Right One In
6. From Dusk Till Dawn
7. Sinners
8. Only Lovers Left Alive
9. Nosferatu
10. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

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

1. Ex Machina
2. Annihilation
3. Devs
4. Civil War
5. Warfare
6. Dredd
7. Men

• Chinatown
• Fargo
• Mulholland Drive
• Paris, Texas
• Sunset Boulevard
• Badlands
• Escape from New York
• To Live and Die in L.A.
• Nashville
• Big Trouble in Little China

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

1. No Country for Old Men
2. Fargo
3. The Big Lebowski
4. Raising Arizona
5. Miller's Crossing
6. Inside Llewyn Davis
7. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
8. Blood Simple
9. True Grit
10. Burn After Reading

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

Listen to my full breakdown of Director Bong’s filmography here.

1. Parasite
2. Memories of Murder
3. The Host
4. Snowpiercer
5. Mother
6. Okja
7. Mickey 17
8. Barking Dogs Never Bite

Watch/listen to my in depth discussion on all these films with some honorable mentions here.

1. Anora
2. Dune: Part Two
3. Challengers
4. The Brutalist
5. Longlegs
6. The Substance
7. Red Rooms
8. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
9. Queer
10. A Different Man

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

• From Dusk Till Dawn
• Alita: Battle Angel
• Sin City
• Planet Terror
• El Mariachi
• Spy Kids
• Machete
• The Faculty
• Once Upon a Time in Mexico
• Machete Kills

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

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

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

• Mystery Train
• Night on Earth
• Down by Law
• Coffee and Cigarettes
• Gimme Danger
• Only Lovers Left Alive
• Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
• Dead Man
• Stranger Than Paradise
• Broken Flowers

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

1. Godzilla Minus One
2. Godzilla
3. Shin Godzilla
4. Godzilla
5. Godzilla vs. Hedorah
6. Godzilla vs. Biollante
7. King Kong vs. Godzilla
8. Godzilla vs. Megalon
9. Mothra vs. Godzilla
10. Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah

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

• Nosferatu
• Babygirl

I was thrilled to take part in this selection of the Best Films of the Decade So Far on the Contra Zoom podcast along with many other great critics and movie buffs. My pick, Anora, is #18.

Listen to the Top 25 episode of Contra Zoom here.

Listen to my review of Anora on the Concessions podcast here.

1. Oppenheimer
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
3. Dune: Part Two
4. Past Lives
5. The Zone of Interest
6. Barbie
7. Challengers
8. Killers of the Flower Moon
9. TÁR
10. Top Gun: Maverick

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All the films discussed in episode 103 of my podcast Filmsplaining w/ Martyn Strange.

• 3 Women
• Brewster McCloud
• California Split
• Fool for Love
• Kansas City
• The Long Goodbye
• M*A*S*H
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller
• Nashville
• The Player

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

My favorite films where the main events are set during or around the holidays (thanksgiving to new years).

• The Apartment
• Batman Returns
• Black Christmas
• Blast of Silence
• Carol
• The Daytrippers
• Eyes Wide Shut
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• The Green Knight
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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

• The Batman
• The Dark Knight Rises
• Django Unchained
• Dune
• Dune: Part Two
• Eyes Wide Shut
• The Godfather
• The Godfather Part II
• Inglourious Basterds
• The Irishman

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

Bruce Lee’s films ranked, as discussed on episode 213 of my podcast Filmsplaining w/ Martyn Strange.

1. Enter the Dragon
2. The Way of the Dragon
3. Fist of Fury
4. The Big Boss
5. Game of Death Redux
6. Game of Death

All the films mentioned in episode 104 of my podcast Filmsplaining w/ Martyn Strange.

• Au Revoir les Enfants
• Bad Taste
• Barfly
• Broadcast News
• Dirty Dancing
• Dolls
• Empire of the Sun
• Evil Dead II
• Fatal Attraction
• Full Metal Jacket

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

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. The Batman
3. Nope
4. The Banshees of Inisherin
5. The Northman
6. Bones and All
7. Barbarian
8. The Menu
9. Glass Onion
10. Crimes of the Future

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

1. The Power of the Dog
2. The Velvet Underground
3. Dune
4. Licorice Pizza
5. The Worst Person in the World
6. The Green Knight
7. Nightmare Alley
8. Titane
9. Judas and the Black Messiah
10. Pig

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

1. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
2. Nomadland
3. Black Bear
4. Another Round
5. The Invisible Man
6. Shiva Baby
7. Palm Springs
8. Emma.
9. Tenet
10. Possessor

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

First name only titles

• Anora
• Carol
• Carrie
• Rocky
• Mikey and Nicky
• Mandy
• Pearl
• Coraline
• Emma.
• Gilda

My top 20 from 2007 featured on episode 212 of my podcast Filmsplaining w/ Martyn Strange.

1. There Will Be Blood
2. No Country for Old Men
3. Zodiac
4. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
5. Michael Clayton
6. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
7. Death Proof
8. Superbad
9. Hot Fuzz
10. American Gangster

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

All the films mentioned in episode 211 of my podcast Filmsplaining w/ Martyn Strange.

• Bonnie and Clyde
• Badlands
• Drugstore Cowboy
• Wild at Heart
• My Own Private Idaho
• Thelma & Louise
• True Romance
• Bones and All
• Love Lies Bleeding

• Psycho
• The Shining
• Alien
• The Lighthouse
• Onibaba
• The Hateful Eight
• Panic Room
• mother!
• Moon
• Misery

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…

• The Exorcist III
• Brain Damage
• Hellbound: Hellraiser II
• Scream
• Inferno
• Salem's Lot
• The People Under the Stairs
• The Evil Dead
• Evil Dead II
• Army of Darkness

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

All the films mentioned in episode 206 of my podcast Filmsplaining w/ Martyn Strange.

• The Girl Who Knew Too Much
• Blood and Black Lace
• The Possessed
• Death Laid an Egg
• The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
• Death Occurred Last Night
• Five Dolls for an August Moon
• The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion
• A Bay of Blood
• The Cat o' Nine Tails

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

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

1. Spider-Man 2
2. Evil Dead II
3. A Simple Plan
4. Spider-Man
5. The Evil Dead
6. Drag Me to Hell
7. Darkman
8. The Quick and the Dead
9. Army of Darkness
10. The Gift

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

1. Halloween
2. The Thing
3. Escape from New York
4. Big Trouble in Little China
5. They Live
6. Prince of Darkness
7. In the Mouth of Madness
8. Christine
9. Assault on Precinct 13
10. The Fog

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

All the films mentioned in episode 205 of my podcast Filmsplaining w/ Martyn Strange.

• A Fistful of Dollars
• For a Few Dollars More
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• Once Upon a Time in the West
• Duck, You Sucker
• Face to Face
• The Big Gundown
• The Mercenary
• The Hellbenders
• Django

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

1. Batman Returns
2. Edward Scissorhands
3. Beetlejuice
4. Batman
5. Ed Wood
6. Sleepy Hollow
7. Corpse Bride
8. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
9. Big Fish
10. Mars Attacks!

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

1. Howl's Moving Castle
2. Spirited Away
3. My Neighbor Totoro
4. Princess Mononoke
5. The Boy and the Heron
6. The Wind Rises
7. Kiki's Delivery Service
8. Ponyo
9. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
10. Castle in the Sky

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

Listen to my breakdown of the entire franchise on my podcast Filmsplaining w/ Martyn Strange here.

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

Tight thrillers

• Good Time
• You Were Never Really Here
• Blood Simple
• Perfect Blue
• Drive
• 10 Cloverfield Lane
• Green Room
• The Third Man
• Don't Breathe
• Pi

1. A Nightmare on Elm Street
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
3. New Nightmare
4. A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
5. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
6. A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child
7. Freddy vs. Jason
8. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
9. A Nightmare on Elm Street

1. The Favourite
2. Poor Things
3. The Lobster
4. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
5. Dogtooth
6. Kinds of Kindness
7. Alps
8. Kinetta

1. X2
2. Logan
3. X-Men
4. X-Men: First Class
5. Deadpool
6. X-Men: Days of Future Past
7. Deadpool 2
8. The Wolverine
9. Deadpool & Wolverine
10. X-Men: The Last Stand

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

1. Poor Things
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
3. Godzilla Minus One
4. The Holdovers
5. The Boy and the Heron
6. Oppenheimer
7. The Killer
8. May December
9. Priscilla
10. Asteroid City

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

See here 

• Cléo from 5 to 7
• Both Sides of the Blade
• ages
• Diabolique
• Irma Vep
• The Five Devils
• La Haine
• Masculin Féminin
• Beau Travail
• Love in the Afternoon

All the films mentioned in episode 105 of my podcast Filmsplaining with Martyn Strange, chronologically.

• Godzilla
• Ghost-Cat of Gojusan-Tsugi
• Onibaba
• Kwaidan
• House
• Sweet Home
• Tetsuo: The Iron Man
• Ring
• Ring 2
• Ring 0

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

1. Perfect Blue
2. Paprika
3. Tokyo Godfathers
4. Millennium Actress
5. Paranoia Agent

80s horror galore

• The Shining
• The Thing
• A Nightmare on Elm Street
• Hellraiser
• Possession
• Evil Dead II
• The Fly
• Prince of Darkness
• The Lost Boys
• The Return of the Living Dead