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Maybe the best show ever?

Gravity Falls video coming very soon …

If I was on the bridge, I would have just dove into the water, tucked, and lived. RIP to these people but I’m just built different.

Also I thought this was supposed to be one of the good ones??

Brutal, disturbing, graphic, and legitimately scary at times, but this was way better than I was expecting because of its reputation.

It’s dark and grimy and low budget, but it all works in this movie’s favor. We’re essentially trapped inside a psychotic mind that’s spiraling worse and worse. Maniac doesn’t glorify its slasher, it makes him into a terrible but also pitiful person, subject to his uncontrolled broken mind. 

Of course, Tom Savini’s effects are insane and disturbingly realistic, adding to the film’s darkness. It’s the kind of movie you can’t enjoy, but I thought it was terribly effective in what it was working to create.

This was so crazy fuckin bad … But I was THOROUGHLY entertained.

A fun enough sequel to a classic, it just kinda loses a lot of steam and menace and sexiness by the third act, making it way less interesting.

Also, Charlie Brewster might be the dumbest horror hero ever in this movie.

This is like Citizen Kane compared to Rebirth 2, but on its own I think it’s very fun! Much more in line with most of the Heisei Godzilla movies with its adventurous spirit and big battles in high concept settings.

We still have a central family and kids, but we’re much more focused on the twins with this one, which I think helps. Having Mothra travel back in time is wild but honestly these movies needed to do something big to feel unique after a lot of interchangeable and forgettable stuff. Also the final final Mothra form here is great! Too bad she only looks like this for 10 minutes.

Well, it’s not a good movie.

And also it has terrible CGI effects.

And Mothra gets an upgrade that makes her look like a fuck-ugly fish.

And the plot is so nonsensical that even toddlers will point out its flaws.

And there’s a furry baby alien that has magical pee that heals people, leading to a shot that has the creature piss on the camera lens.

And almost every human character is super annoying.

Plus the action is trash.

But … wait I don’t have any positives.

It’s pretty entertaining in a “barely held together by string and bubble gum” kinda way. I mean, you get French aristocrat flashback, modern architect drama, and future space station laser blast action all in the same movie. So that’s gonna get you pretty far on its own.

Still, the movie is obviously messed with in post production and there’s a lot here that falls apart by the third act. Angelique in particular gets screwed over by the edit. It’s still a pretty fun but deeply silly time if you just go with it and don’t think about how they’ve completely lost everything interesting from the first two movies

A really cool blend of noir and blaxploitation that’s all about the fallout of a heist and the violent racial tensions it sparks in Harlem.

The best things about this movie? Shooting on location in Harlem in the 70s. The Bobby Womack soundtrack. And Yaphet frickin Kotto!

Such ridiculous crap but it’s pretty entertaining when it’s not being incredibly boring.

Does any character in this movie have any sense of self preservation or survival? Everyone is either wandering around in the middle of a zombie crowd taunting them or frozen stiff as an undead takes minutes to walk up to them.

I will say that the finale is a pretty grotesque surprise that caught me off guard, complete with tongue ripping, eye popping, and head exploding!

This movie is so fucking funny. It tries really hard to be a dark and mysterious follow up to part two for the first hour and then just say “ah screw it, here’s exploding manhole covers and CD Cenobite.”

And honestly? It’s a great time. It’s the extravagance of Part 2 mixed with the dumbass action of the 90s Super Mario Bros movie.

It’s almost 1 year after Furiosa hit theaters. It’s time for the video.

A really fun all ages take on kaiju despite having its title monster be brutally murdered multiple times, but that’s just how Mothra does it, baby.

I liked its environmentalist message and the massive amount of kaiju battles, even if not all of them are great. Having our kaiju be tiny at first is a fun fresh take, but I’m not a huge fan of the central family. Like always, these kids are a buncha little jabronis.

A super enjoyable classic Showa era kaiju movie. I was a little surprised by how full-grown Mothra shows up super late in the film, but I really enjoyed everything about Honda’s film, which is essentially King Kong crossed with Godzilla.

Mothra manages to be a pointed critique of America’s continued involvement in Japan post World War II and the impact of their nuclear testing like early Showa era Gojira while being a much more fun and wild film like the late Showa era. Together, Mothra really appeals to me and it’s kinda the best of both worlds of that era. A delight!

Mothra Retrospective coming soon!

🎵 Once rejected, now accepted 🎵

Peter Weir once again making me question the nature of the world and our place in it.

I’m so glad I finally saw this. A wonderful, almost frustrating but beautiful contemplation on the aftermath of loss and grief. Gorgeous. The best movies are about our relationship to death.

You know, if I was Death, I would have killed Frankie Cheeks twice.

The thing I appreciate the most about this movie is its focus on how fucked up whaling is and how wrong the people that do it are. That kinda makes our central orca an antihero to some degree.

Other than that, it’s a completely crazy movie that does Jaws 4 before Jaws 4.

If I was on that freeway I woulda just cranked the Highway to Hell and floored it. Fuck it yo I’m going out crazy style.

MASTERPIECE.

This is something truly truly special.

No items, 4 life stock, Fox only …

Wait, wrong Final Destination.

What a beautiful film. Romance, culture, prejudice, acceptance, the search for home and love. It made me feel so many emotions and in the end, I don’t think I’ve really seen anything else exactly like this.

A straight-up banger

You know what?

Great movie. Really great movie.

A wonderful, sweet coming of age story about a young woman who gets the ick a lot.

Joel Maisel jumpscare!

Plot-wise, it’s a pretty standard cops and robbers thriller about compromising your morals in the face of obsession. But as far as the actual filmmaking goes, it’s a super dark, anxious, hard to predict chase full of choices that make you sweat.

Not perfect, but unforgettable.

A really strong classic disaster movie. The spectacle is there, but what makes it good is the characters, who each have layers and struggles.

Best of all? Gene Hackman absolutely crushes it in this!

There’s a lot more going on under the surface here than at first glance and it’s got a fantastic cheesy performance by Arnie ing the entire film, along with Richard Dawson playing a dystopian version of himself, but the film doesn’t execute its premise as well as it needs to. I’m totally fine with how different it is from King’s book, but this leaves a lot of potential on the table.

A dual review of this and the original book coming soon to Patreon and YouTube !

I thought this rocked the shit, man.

Half slasher, half detective movie. Bronson is putting in good work here in his Cannon exploitation era with a solid ing cast, good father-daughter drama for some depth, and a creepo killer that’s a fully hateable incel from the very start. We know exactly who our killer is all the way through, and it just makes us hate him more.

Just trashy enough to feel gritty and grounded, but actually pretty tame in its kills. It’s focus on the characters and the detective work is what makes this work so well.

Not peak Shaw Bros but it’s got a lot of fantastic fights and training sequences. The pole fight up the stairs is so cool!

But the best part is the villainous Pai Mei. Pure evil and with the ability to suck his balls into his body to make his groin a trap!

Very quiet and haunting. An unpacking of Australian settlers’ relationships with the Aborigines and our own concepts of the world. Loses me a little in the second half but has a very haunting ending.

After many people told me to watch this on my Thing sequel video, I did!

Really enjoyable old school horror with some great elements, like Cushing and Lee on the same side as heroes, a heat check from Telly Savalas, and some fun alien terror.

The way this central creature melts his victims’ minds and absorbs their memories is how I’ve managed to keep my channel growing all these years

Pretty much another Daffy oneupsmanship story but set in outer space. Somehow, it just all comes together to be one of the most famous shorts.

A little light on ideas, mostly coasting by on putting Daffy in a Holmes story. Great last punchline!

This one is just flat out hilarious from start to finish

One of my personal favorite Looney Tunes. Essentially does everything metatarsal you can imagine in only 6 minutes.

Easily one of the greatest pieces of animation ever made.

Of all the cheap Jaws ripoffs, this might be the cheapest and the most obviously ripped off. And this thing is SO bad. BUT it was so entertaining in its badness, which doesn’t happen too often for me.

The amount of times I laughed and yelled “what the fuck?!?” at this makes it totally worth all the bad and boring parts in between.

I wasn’t as crazy about it as I was hoping, but I appreciated how despite actually showing very little, Peeping Tom manages to be a very disturbing look at a killer with a depraved compulsion. Very stylishly done and obviously incredibly influential on decades of films that followed.

Watching this on my new Criterion 4K is an incredible feeling. Being a Godzilla fan is like being able to run through a brick wall 24/7.

What a weird and wild movie. Crazy effects, really cool shots, totally unpredictable, and a great fairy tale approach.

The undead witch in this is tragically exactly my type.

This movie should work a lot better than it does. Massive sets, huge action sequences, a big budget trying to make this the ultimate adventure, and yet the story, script, and leads really don’t work.

Very solid fun with some great gags! It starts a little slow and is a little too plot-heavy in the first half, but it picks up and gets genuinely funny in the second half, with the card game and boxing match being really fun.

I feel like the last bits of Invisible Man effects and gags that hadn’t been done yet are finally put on camera and used for the laughs that hadn’t been exploited before this

I liked this a lot more than I expected. Having our main character turn invisible 30 minutes in is a little too long, but his descent into madness works really well. Plus, using the past blood transfusion cure as the cause of an even darker story, with him essentially becoming a vampire, draining victims to turn visible again, is very macabre and leads to some great horror.

A well made but fairly standard war espionage film that’s more about gags and romance than thrills, with the invisibility formula added as its special sauce.

It’s fun to see what’s usually a dark concept used for a straightforward heroic story as these Invisible Man films continue to go on very different directions. I just wish this did a little more with its concept as The Rocketeer decades later is essentially this but much better.

I didn’t expect a purely romantic screwball comedy take on the Invisible franchise, but here we are!

It’s totally fine but I don’t think there’s much here that isn’t done better in either other Invisible films or other screwball comedies of the era, making this a forgettable if charming little entry.

THIS SHIT MEANS SOMETHING TO ME, MAN

A lot of high stakes and violence for what essentially boils down to a martial arts version of a game of Quidditch and a Hogwarts House Cup.

Finally crossing this one off the list in my quest for a very special slashers video!

I liked it a lot but it didn’t completely click for me. The mix of sex and death, youth and old age, being fulfilled and neglected, worked very well for me. But some of the characters and their struggles didn’t work as well. And the movie’s whole “oh god the elderly are horrifying” was just silly and it really undercut any pathos the film could have with them as more complex characters.

Still, some great kills, twists, performances, and themes throughout.

An effective little zombie survival story. It has small goals and doesn’t do much new, but it does it well.

A slasher fiend ranks every movie in the subgenre. An ongoing list …

1. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
2. Halloween
3. Scream
4. Child's Play 2
5. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
6. A Nightmare on Elm Street
7. Child's Play
8. New Nightmare
9. Psycho II
10. Just Before Dawn

...plus 107 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Dudes rock.

• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
• Heat
• The Warriors
• The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
• Collateral
• The Big Lebowski
• Gladiator
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• Predator
• Conan the Barbarian

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