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Watched on Saturday May 24, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 23, 2025.

There were long stretches where I really couldn’t tell if I was enjoying myself, but by the end…I think I was? I can’t express why and that in itself is pretty unique for a dark comedy. It’s challenging in ways I didn’t anticipate and I kinda respect the hell out of it for that.

I’ve seen 80s sex comedies that are somehow less obsessed with gay panic than this. That aside, I might have enjoyed this more upon release, but in a post-Deadpool world the meta of it all was pretty grating.

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

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Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 15, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 15, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 14, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 14, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 14, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 14, 2025.

One of my favorite documentaries, and sadly one that pretty much no one seems to have seen outside of its ‘08/‘09 festival run. I don’t know if the music rights made it difficult to find distribution or it was just seen as too niche, but I hope one day it gets another chance at finding an audience. With a Hollywood version of Lightning and Thunder’s story coming soon (with doc director Kohs attached as producer), maybe that’ll finally happen.

Watched on Monday May 12, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 10, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 9, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 8, 2025.

Fun old school-style slasher with some truly inspired moments. I wish they had a little more time to flesh out some of the elements of the book, but this was a really great ride.

Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.

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Watched on Tuesday April 29, 2025.

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Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

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Watched on Thursday April 24, 2025.

Watched on Sunday July 27, 2014.

Watched on Thursday April 24, 2025.

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Watched on Monday April 21, 2025.

I hope major studios take more chances like this, but it lost me early on and I found it pretty insufferable by the third time it ended.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.

I prefer the pacing of the original Roadshow and theatrical cuts, but this was still a good watch.

Watched on Thursday April 17, 2025.

Watched on Thursday April 17, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 16, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 15, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 15, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 14, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 14, 2025.

I developed photosensitivity a few years ago, so now strobes and flashing lights/images give me atypical migraines. Even flickering television screens in films can be an issue so a lot of things are off the table now. I can still watch stuff with these types of sequences as long as they’re not pervasive and I can predict when to shut my eyes. Yeah, that’s a skill I have now. The ones that I’ve seen have star ratings and many of them are personal favorites I can never fully enjoy again, if at all. The rest are films that I’d love to see, but know I just can’t even attempt. Hopefully this list helps if you too have awesome taste and a lousy brain.

• The Doom Generation

  There are mild flashing lights/images throughout, but the beginning and ESPECIALLY the end are strobe-central. I’ve seen the original unrated version dozens of times and never thought I’d see the fully uncensored version, and now that it’s finally been restored in gorgeous 4K…I still haven’t. 
  
  “Fuck.”

• Lost Highway

  This is another one that I’ve seen so many times, I know exactly when to look away. The two “transition” scenes, some lightening effects here and there, and a sneaky strobe under fluorescent lights during the intro to Alice.
  
   It might be my favorite Lynch film, and one I’m glad to have seen when it first came out theatrically.
  
  “I like to things my own way. How I ed them, not necessarily the way they happened.”
  
  

• Hedwig and the Angry Inch

  One of my favorite films, based on one of my favorite musicals. There are two sequences with strobe effects. The first is during the song “Angry Inch”, with the second, more extreme example occurring at the end during “Exquisite Corpse”. 

  
  

  “To be free, one must give up a part of oneself.”

• Bubba Ho-tep

  This was a surprise, as I’ve seen this film many times and never even thought about the flash frame motif until I started to show it to my wife and only made it about 25 minutes before giving up. 
  
  “Where'd my youth go? Why didn't fame hold off old age and death? Why the hell did I leave the fame in the first place and do I want it back, and could I have it back? And if I could, would it make any damned difference?”

• Irreversible

  I’m not sure how many more times I was going to watch this anyway, but it’s one I regard highly that is pretty much a constant flicker/strobe machine. I’m pretty sure Vortex is the only Noe film that doesn’t feature strobing at all, and it’s a huge bummer to not be able to revisit most of his work. 
  
  “Time destroys everything.”

• Mulholland Drive

  
  

• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

  I fucking LOVED this and couldn’t wait to see the sequels. Then I got sick. It’s a constant visual assault that is breathtaking and incredible and a giant leap in animation, and it kills me that this is the last I’ll see of this series. 
  
  “Sometimes I let matches burn down to my fingertips just to feel something, anything.”
  
  
  

• Natural Born Killers

  This is one I had to sneak into, as I was not yet 17 when it came out. From first viewing, I was obsessed. When the directors cut was released on double VHS, I bought it opening night and watched the hell out of it. Very much a product of its time, it’s an important film to me and aadly one I will never be able to watch again. At all. 
  
  “Look, bitch, you knew I was a snake.”
  
  
  

• Nowhere

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