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Watched on Friday May 23, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 23, 2025.

What makes a good edit? Timing.

Way more blackface than expected. Yowza wowza.

I assume this is what a standard Spanish musical of the time was like. Unfortunately I don’t have much experience in that genre. I can’t say this sold me on them either, but this early Franco gun-for-hire job is at least pleasant to look at.

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

Heavy handed social commentary where basically every character is a racist scumbag? Yes please.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

I think Death is just misunderstood.

Watched on Thursday May 15, 2025.

… I’m in a state of mourning.

Final Reckoning isn’t a bad film or anything, but after the last three bangers it feels like a huge misstep. It’s aggressively self-serious, with very little time for the humor which had been built into the franchise over the last few entries. The exposition is tedious and the plot borderline incomprehensible, and for the life of me I can’t understand why half the characters are even here. Nick Offerman, I’m looking at you. 

That all said, it’s still a Mission: Impossible movie, and with that comes an exceedingly high level of production value and wild action. The latter is not at the same level of past entries, even if the big plane chase is suitably breathtaking, but I’d wager most viewers will get their money’s worth.

I’ll have to stew on this one a bit to really tell where I stand. I love this franchise, so it breaks my heart to say it didn’t quite work for me.

Stressful.

I came into this one having just recently finished the book and with five years of fatherhood under my belt. The latter element definitely makes this an exhausting experience. I can’t imagine being in Donna Trenton’s situation and reacting any better than she does.

I wish there was a little more time taken with the cereal subplot, as it kinda just feels abandoned in the film version. However, everything in the car and with the titular hound is pretty next level — with my one caveat being that it doesn’t feel as if Donna and Tad are trapped for nearly as long as they’re supposed to be. That makes the final confrontation somewhat anticlimactic, though the screenplay finds a reasonable workaround for that.

Great child acting, and an all-timer performance from Dee Wallace.

Y'know, I ire the dedication, but up until the third act reveal it's very easy to zone out during this little giallo homage. I definitely found my mind wandering during a huge chunk of the middle -- to the point I honestly couldn't tell you what all happens, outside of some delightfully gory deaths, a repetitive score, and whole heckuva lot of dubbing.

Joe Zaso deserves to be a more well known name.

“Please excuse me while I make assassinating a prime minister as sexy as humanly possible.” — Ilsa Faust

Just an incredible slice of spy action cinema. I love seeing McQuarrie expertly learn the ropes of the franchise before turning it on its head and producing a masterpiece just one entry later. McQ tropes include an evolving car chase and a sweeping establishing shot of a big event, both of which he’d seek to one up in both Fallout and Dead Reckoning.

For Mother’s Day I really wanted something arch and filled with incestuous overtones, and boy did I get it! William Asher directing this sordid tale is a stroke of mad genius. He and the writers really pull off a coup of camp cinema, with the help of a both complex and batshit performance from Susan Tyrrell. She’s absolutely perfect, and gained at least one new fan from my group viewing. I’ll have to bring Forbidden Zone to a future gathering so they can scratch their Tyrrell itch. 

Also, that opening car crash? Absolute chef’s kiss. It really sets the tone for the remainder of this loony tunes production.

Entertaining for what it is — an early entry in the Jess Franco catalog, without much of what would make him such a fascinating filmmaker. Still, it’s humorous and provides us with some early hallmarks of his career, like some creative camerawork and female protagonists. It’s got one of those plots that’s easy to lose track of, but it all comes together with enough logic to get by in the end. Not that logic is something I really need from a Franco t.

Call me crazy, but I think this might be the least interesting of the Mission: Impossible franchise. That’s not to say it’s bad or anything — and the Burj Khalifa sequence stands as one of the most iconic of the series — but for me it shoots its load a bit early and never really recovers its momentum. I like the motif of everything going to shit constantly, and of course it’s wonderful to have Benji onboard full time, but the humor is at odds with the story a little too often.

And this is perhaps an unpopular opinion, but the sandstorm sequence kinda blows — relative to the rest of the M:I action beats, anyway. 

Super entertaining all around, though. Mission accomplished, even with a few caveats.

Watched on Thursday May 8, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 6, 2025.

The ultimate tale of good versus evil. And also aerial hijinks.

Watched on Sunday May 4, 2025.

We Are 18 Years Old is a cute, frantic little picture that’s fun for what it is, which is a curio from the earliest years of a career that would go down in history as one of the most prolific of all time. It’s a good starting point — one that elicits a sense of unreality that, while not a one for one for what we would get in films like A Virgin Among the Living Dead, is at least indicative of the mentality we’d see Franco undertake in his later work. The man could give a shit what reality has to say, and such is the case with our young protagonists.

I don't know that there's really much here besides a solid bit of cast chemistry and, from an MCU standpoint, a fairly unique take on superheroics. I like that it tackles depression and emptiness, but when it's time to really dive into that part of the story... eh, it kinda feels like a lazy action variant of A Nightmare on Elm Street 3. Still, there's some stark, terrifying imagery on display, complete with at least one good shocking moment -- but that's all fairly minor in the grand scheme.

Fun time overall. Definitely more of what I'd like to see from the MCU, even if it left me a bit wanting.

Unpopular opinion: the mid-credits scene was a lame reveal.

Watched on Tuesday April 29, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 28, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

You can’t tap an Italian broad on the shoulder without her whole fuckin’ head coming off.

I asked a cursed monkey’s paw to make my son enjoy movies, and now he just keeps watching The Lorax.

Watched on Monday April 21, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

I’m not sure it really works, but I appreciate the big swings. It’s all presented in such an aesthetically pleasing way that I couldn’t help but be charmed in spite of the mediocre plot and dodgy pacing. Recommended.

Watched on Tuesday April 15, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

I was a little harsh on this one the first time around (as heard on the Piecing It Together podcast). I still think it’s incredibly flawed, but my issues really don’t outweigh the sense of fun it brings. Still. I really hope the next installment brings more serious elements to the table.

Watched on Friday April 11, 2025.

Watched on Thursday April 10, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 9, 2025.

Second movie kiddo has seen in a theater, and second one starring Jack Black and featuring a magical world based on a video game. Kid seemed to enjoy himself, though he did get scared a few times.

Watched on Saturday April 5, 2025.

Watched on Thursday April 3, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 1, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 30, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 30, 2025.

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Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.

Watched on Thursday March 27, 2025.

Watched on Monday March 24, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 23, 2025.

You heard me. Best of all time right here.

1. RoboCop
2. Possession
3. Once Upon a Time in the West
4. Dead Ringers
5. Persona
6. Sorcerer
7. All That Jazz
8. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
9. Mad Max: Fury Road
10. Fright Night

...plus 686 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Escape from New York
• Galaxy of Terror
• The State of Things
• Angel
• Crimes of ion
• Tuff Turf
• Once Bitten
• Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart
• Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
• Dreamaniac

...plus 170 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A list of films accompanied by their porn parodies, baybayy.

WIP

• Pulp Fiction
• Pulp Friction
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
• Pirates
• Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge
• Westworld
• SexWorld
• Avatar
• This Ain't Avatar XXX
• Grease

...plus 62 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I'm getting old so I gotta back this shit up.

Not on Letterboxd:

Frankie & Johnny Were Lovers

• Old 37
• Private House of the SS
• Triangle
• Cooties
• Assassin's Creed
• Alien: Covenant
• Fatal Future
• The Head
• The Changeling
• Suspiria

...plus 325 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Movie night with friends: a history.

• Santa Sangre
• The House of Lost Women
• The Curious Dr. Humpp
• Thrilling Bloody Sword
• Hiruko the Goblin
• The Wild Boys
• Messiah of Evil
• Vampyros Lesbos
• Possession
• Succubus

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

I’m being a little loose with the definition as I compile this thing. WIP.

• Nightmare in Red China
• He Promised to Return
• Outrages of the Orient
• The Scorched Earth
• Action at Angaur
• Karamoja
• Mau-Mau
• Halfway to Hell

I love Uncle Jess so goddamn much.

1. Faceless
2. Night Has a Thousand Desires
3. Downtown
4. Bahia Blanca
5. Eugenie
6. She Killed in Ecstasy
7. Succubus
8. Venus in Furs
9. Vampyros Lesbos
10. Female Vampire

...plus 50 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Sometimes you just have to kill time by making an arbitrary ranking of the most popular film franchise of your lifetime, ya know?

1. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
2. Captain America: Civil War
3. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
4. Avengers: Infinity War
5. Thor: Ragnarok
6. Iron Man 3
7. Avengers: Endgame
8. Iron Man

   The one that started it all🙌

9. Guardians of the Galaxy
10. Captain America: The Winter Soldier

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

1. Babylon
2. TÁR
3. Top Gun: Maverick
4. Glass Onion
5. Everything Everywhere All at Once
6. Jackass Forever
7. Nope
8. RRR
9. The Batman
10. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

...plus 53 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• TÁR
• Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
• Scream VI
• Loving Highsmith
• Killer of Sheep
• Escape from New York

… as I read it. WIP

Mentioned but not on Letterboxd:

Eucharistic Congress (1926)
Faith of Millions (1927)

• The Caddy
• Three Coins in the Fountain
• All About Eve
• Singin' in the Rain
• From Here to Eternity
• Titanic
• Sunset Boulevard
• Romance of Radium
• Lions on the Loose
• Movie Pests

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

A list of movies that don't skimp on the red stuff.

(Currently in progress.)

If you don't see one that should be here, let me know and I'll add it.

• Braindead
• Re-Animator
• Guinea Pig: Devil's Experiment
• Guinea Pig Part 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood
• The New York Ripper
• Bad Taste
• Zombie Flesh Eaters
• Dawn of the Dead
• Day of the Dead
• Ichi the Killer

...plus 81 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

gah I’m such a piece of shit

• The Conspiracy of Torture
• Black Cat
• Crime Story
• Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!
• Dragon Fist
• Dragon Lord
• Erotic Ghost Story
• Fearless Hyena
• Heart of Dragon
• Heroes Shed No Tears

...plus 499 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Attempting to do it with only films I’ve not seen or haven't finished, minus #31. We’ll see how that works out.

Full list:

01 - A Horror Film Seemingly For Kids. That's Way Too Scary For Kids
02 - Horror Film Featuring Non-Avian Dinosaurs and Mesozoic Reptiles
03 - An Egyptian Horror Film
04 - A Horror Film Released by SRS Cinema
05 - A Horror Film Directed by a Fine Artist
06 - A Horror Film That Takes Place In One Room (No CUBEs)
07 - An Action Film That's Secretly a Horror Film
08 - A Film Made After 1989 that features a Mummy but not Brendan Fraser or Tom Cruise
09 - A Horror Film Directed by Jeff Leroy
10 - A Horror Film Scored by Paul Zaza
11 - A Thai Horror Film
12 - A Horror Film Written by Nigel Kneale
13 - A Horror Film That Takes Place at a fair, Carnival or Amusement Par
14 - A Horror Film About Killer Insects (No Bigger than Humans)
15 - A Horror Film with Special Effects by Olaf Ittenbach
16 - A Horror Film Featuring Caroline Munro
17 - A Horror Film From the Hong Kong New Wave (1979-1984)
18 - A Death March Horror Film (A group of people go on a trip and slowly get killed one by one, but keep moving)
19 - A Musical Horror Film (That's not Rocky Horror, Little Shop of Horrors, or Nightmare Before
Christmas)
20 - A Horror Film That Features Testicular Trauma
21 - A Horror Film That's Shot on Mini-DV (But is not a found footage film)
22 - A Horror Film That Michele Soavi Appears In
23 - A Horror Film Based on an Indie Comic Book (EC Comics adaptions don't count)
24 - A Horror Film About an Invisible Killer
25 - A Horror Film That Prominently Features A Gorilla Costume
26 - A Horror Film Released By Gold Ninja Video
27 - A Horror Film by a Director who made more than three movies but only made one horror film. (Not THE SHINING. You can be more creative than that!)
28- A Horror Film That Runs on Dream Logic
29 - A Horror Film Shot by Tokushö Kikumura
30 - A Horror Film Covered in the ShockMarathons Books (See Letterbox For a List)
31 - A Horror Film You Love, But Don't Think Enough People Watch

1. When the Wind Blows
2. Carnosaur
3. 122
4. Truth or Dare? - A Critical Madness
5. Office Killer
6. Coherence
7. Nightmare at Noon
8. The Mummy Theme Park
9. Hell's Highway
10. Popcorn

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

• Halloween
• Halloween III: Season of the Witch
• Halloween
• Halloween II
• Halloween II
• Halloween Ends
• Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
• Halloween
• Halloween Kills
• Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

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

Decided to catalogue all the overtly queer cinema in my collection.

• Shit & Champagne
• Forbidden Zone
• The Wild Boys
• So Long Billie
• LUZ
• LA Plays Itself
• Sextool
• Sex Garage
• Equation to an Unknown
• Rapture

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

Doing some catch up this year.

• Gemini
• Tokyo Fist
• Haze
• Kotoko
• Bullet Ballet
• Silence
• My Voyage to Italy
• Green Snake
• The Blade
• Once Upon a Time in China II

...plus 99 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
• Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
• Texas Chainsaw 3D
• Leatherface

All the movies I need to watch from 2021, which I plan to watch in 2022. Duh.

• Titane
• The Power of the Dog
• C'mon C'mon
• Bo Burnham: Inside
• The Last Duel
• CODA
• West Side Story
• The Worst Person in the World
• A Quiet Place Part II
• Licorice Pizza

...plus 78 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Just keepin' this garbage organized, yo.

1. Last Night in Soho
2. Pig
3. No Sudden Move
4. The Green Knight
5. Dune
6. No Time to Die
7. The Suicide Squad
8. Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
9. Luca
10. New York Ninja

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

1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2. Spider-Man 2
3. Spider-Man
4. Spider-Man: Homecoming
5. The Amazing Spider-Man
6. The Amazing Spider-Man 2
7. Spider-Man: Far From Home
8. Spider-Man 3
9. Spider-Man: No Way Home
10. Venom: Let There Be Carnage

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

ALL OF THEM.

• From Russia with Love
• Casino Royale
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service
• For Your Eyes Only
• Dr. No
• Licence to Kill
• Moonraker
• Skyfall
• The Living Daylights
• No Time to Die

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

Ah, nothing like a nice little itsy bitsy franchise.

• The Suicide Squad
• Shazam!
• Zack Snyder's Justice League
• Man of Steel
• Wonder Woman
• Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
• Aquaman
• Suicide Squad
• Wonder Woman 1984
• Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Following this challenge: twitter.com/DeclouxJ/status/1433215738941161474?s=20

For the sake of insanity, I’ve only gone with movies I’ve never seen.

1. The Incredible Melting Man
2. Curse II: The Bite
3. A Dragon Arrives!
4. A Polish Vampire in Burbank
5. Mahakaal
6. Blood Lake
7. The Wailing
8. Jennifer
9. The Blood of Fu Manchu
10. Black Cat Mansion

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

Sometimes, for whatever reason, you just don't get around to watching something that everyone else is simply gaga over. No matter how many times they show up on top 10 lists or are referenced by popular culture, you just don't get around to them.

Or at least I hope you do that, because I sure as hell do.

Films taken off the list due to the whole "I finally saw it" dealio: Grey Gardens (12/7/15), Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (12/8/15), Walkabout (12/10/15), Belle du Jour (12/14/15), Paths of Glory (1/8/16), Incendies (1/13/16), The Fisher King (1/23/16), I Saw the Devil (2/18/16), The Fly '58 (3/3/16).

• The Magnificent Ambersons
• Pi

  I've actually watched about half of this. I don't why I didn't finish it, but I didn't, and I'm ashamed.

• Buffalo '66
• Run Lola Run

  Another one I've seen about half of, but for some reason I... ran away.

• Enter the Void

  I watched the opening titles... does that count?

• Hunger
• I'm Still Here
• Hoop Dreams
• The Searchers
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller

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

• The Empire Strikes Back
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
• Star Wars
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• Return of the Jedi
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens
• Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
• Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
• Solo: A Star Wars Story
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

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

I asked for recommendations of people’s favorite horror movies I might not have seen and, along with some picks of my own, made a list of 31 movies to watch in October. Since some of these are going to be a bit tough or expensive to track down, I’m including some overflow titles as well.

• The Old Dark House
• The Wailing
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
• Fade to Black
• Next of Kin
• A Tale of Two Sisters
• Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde
• Kuroneko
• Onibaba
• The Haunting of Julia

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

My podcast MovieLoaf takes on a variety of long-term subjects, and Jess Franco is the great white whale of all of them. Here is the ranking of the films as I make my way through this seemingly insurmountable task.

1. Shining Sex
2. The Awful Dr. Orlof
3. Oasis of the Zombies

• The Psychic

  1/61: Giallo

• Murder-Rock: Dancing Death

  2/61: 1980s Movie

• Random Acts of Violence

  3/61: Shudder Original

• Manhattan Baby

  4/61: Possession

• Demonia

  5/61: Nun Horror

• Love Bites

  6/61: Vampire Film

• Voices from Beyond

  7/61: 1990s Movie

• Black Sunday

  8/61: Gothic Horror

• UFO Abduction

  9/61: Found Footage

• Color Out of Space

  10/61: Eco-Horror

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

Just tracking Blu-ray releases for Hammer films.

• The Public Life of Henry the Ninth
• The Mystery of the Mary Celeste
• Song of Freedom
• Sporting Love
• The Bank Messenger Mystery
• Death in High Heels
• The Dark Road
• Dick Barton: Special Agent
• River Patrol
• Who Killed Van Loon?

...plus 162 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Palm Springs
• Gretel & Hansel
• Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
• Darbar
• The Grudge

I'm going to try and watch every movie shown through streaming service Mubi in 2020. I'll also be reviewing them in short vlogs on my YouTube channel, here: www.youtube.com//photogtorpedo

1. Fireworks
2. Threads
3. A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
4. The Return
5. Tower
6. This Is Not a Movie: Robert Fisk and the Politics of Truth
7. CoinCoin and the Extra-Humans
8. The Quiet Earth
9. Marianne and Juliane
10. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

...plus 91 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
• Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
• Friday the 13th Part 2
• Jason X
• Friday the 13th
• Friday the 13th
• Freddy vs. Jason
• Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
• Friday the 13th Part III
• Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood

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

Movies new and old that I haven't seen but, man, I gotta see.

• Okja
• The Grudge
• High Life
• The Souvenir
• Satanic Panic
• Little Women
• Travellers and Magicians
• The Cup
• I Lost My Body
• Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy

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

Ignore the typos for now. I wrote this in a mad, coffee-fueled rush.

1. Parasite

   Parasite is one of those films I honestly can't find a single flaw in. It's a perfectly crafted, balls-to-the-wall crazy flick about class struggles written and directed by a director who knows these people down to a seemingly cellular level. Y'want finely craft social satire? Parasite! Y'want a film expertly crafted a master of the medium? Parasite! Y'want my favorite movie of 2019? PARASITE!

2. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

   Look, I know it's like a film bro cliche to put a Tarantino movie in your top films of the year, but here it is. Honestly any of the last like eight movies could sit comfortably in this spot, but Once Upon a Time in Hollywood just took to a reverential place. I love movies and this movie loves movies, and the bitter pill that the finale forces you to swallow is the kind of crazy bullshit I seek out in my cinema.

3. Uncut Gems

   HOLY SHIT. Uncut Gems is a two hour panic attack and I loved every goddamn moment of it. This one is still in theaters at the time of this video going up and you owe it to yourself to see it NOW. Seriously, who gives a shit about my top two movies? Fuck off and watch Uncut Gems.

4. The Irishman

   The Irishman is three and a half hours of Scorsese reminiscing about death while subverting what we think of as the cool gangster. It's utterly depressing, shocking, and at times even manic fun in that way that only a Scorsese crime flick can muster. I can't say I loved a whole lot of the de-aging, and it was frankly super distracting at times watching supposed thirty-somethings with old man bodies, but I'm not going to let a little wonky CGI ruin a great story from one of our greatest storytellers.

5. The Lighthouse

   Robert Pattinson jerks off like thirty times and I'm pretty sure Willem DeFoe is going steady with a large light bulb. Basically perfect cinema.

6. Midsommar

   Ari Aster's followup to Hereditary has been just about as controversial as Jordan Peele's Us. No one can agree on which film from Aster is better and, well, por que no los dos? (I don't speak Spanish) Brass tacks: it's Wicker Man for the modern era and, I'm just gonna say it, Midsommar is BETTER. It's a disturbing horror film lit primarily by blinding daylight and features a cohesive tale of female empowerment through family. Also human sacrifice.

7. Booksmart

   Olivia Wilde directed one of the best movies of the year? Fuck yeah she did! This story of two high school seniors trying to have one hoorah -- not one last hoorah, just one hoorah -- before leaving for their new post-high school lives is equal measures fun, heartfelt, and hilarious. Billie Lourd is my spirit animal in this film. I loved every moment and have even gone back to rewatch on Hulu... and it's still amazing.

8. Marriage Story

   Sad, funny, heartbreaking, and life-affirming. Marriage Story really shouldn't be my cup of tea -- afterall, it's two rich white artists getting a divorce. That's the plot, and I was trepidatious... and then I started watching and absolutely fell in love with Noah Baumbauch's lifelike direction and neat, often very bright cinematography from Robbie Ryan, who's quickly becoming one of my favorite DPs.

9. Dolemite Is My Name

   I have no good reason for Dolemite Is My Name being this high other than the fact that I love Rudy Ray Moore's aesthetic and found this to be like a more lighthearted Ed Wood... which makes sense, on of these films sharing the same writers. Eddie Murphy is electrifying as Moore and it's the kind of film, as a whole, that just makes me want to go out and make more movies.

10. Climax

    Oddly enough, this was the last film of 2019 that I watched and while it technically came out in foreign markets in 2018... well, it came out in the US in 2019 so I'm counting it. Anyway, it's a nonstop assault on the senses by Gaspar Noe, and if that's your thing than you'll have a hell of a good time. It's also far more playful than something like Irreversible, while still showcasing some truly macabre moments, and more accessible than, say, Enter the Void.

...plus 80 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Parasite
2. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
3. Uncut Gems
4. The Irishman
5. The Lighthouse
6. Midsommar
7. Booksmart
8. Marriage Story
9. Dolemite Is My Name
10. Climax

...plus 77 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Mission: Impossible – Fallout
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Paddington 2
• I Saw the Devil
• Baby Driver
• The Boxtrolls
• Twin Peaks: The Return
• The Skin I Live In
• Drive
• Gone Girl

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

1. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
2. Paddington 2
3. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
4. Hereditary
5. Mandy
6. Suspiria
7. You Were Never Really Here
8. Isle of Dogs
9. The Favourite
10. Annihilation

...plus 52 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Recently I've been thinking about what I would do if and when I have children. I'm getting married this year, which is utterly bizarre to think about in and of itself, and so the next step rears its ugly head.

So, being that my life is centered around film, I'll need a very long list of titles appropriate for a growing baby... whatever it is.

For this list, I'll be ranking them in order of age appropriateness. Eventually I'll get around to adding notes that explain the movie to age progression.

• My Neighbor Totoro

  Age 0. This kid'll be watching Totoro the day they pop out.

• Yellow Submarine
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
• Winnie the Pooh
• Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie
• Ponyo
• The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
• The Wizard of Oz
• Dumbo
• Thumbelina

  Look, it's not very good, sure. However, this is before the kid's going to be in their "again, again!" phase, so might as well toss this one out here.

...plus 73 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I'm watching every Steven Seagal film because I hate myself.

• Above the Law

  A thin start, wherein Seagal shoots an unarmed man for mouthing off and is never officially reprimanded for it.

• Hard to Kill
• Marked for Death
• Out for Justice
• Under Siege
• On Deadly Ground
• Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
• Executive Decision
• The Glimmer Man
• Fire Down Below

1. Casino Royale
2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
3. From Russia with Love
4. Skyfall
5. The Living Daylights
6. For Your Eyes Only
7. Licence to Kill
8. Moonraker
9. Live and Let Die
10. Dr. No

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

Shot-on-video films discussed on SOVPOD, hosted by Brad F Henderson and Mike Delaney.

• Blood Cult
• The Last Slumber Party
• Sledgehammer
• Blonde Death
• Run Coyote Run
• Jungle Trap
• The Devil Ant
• Splatter Farm
• How to Slay a Vampire
• Spine

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

2017 ranked in order of overall entertainment and artistic value, meaning that some of the scores aren't going to necessarily match up. For example, while I rated Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 lower than Lost City of Z, I do contend that I personally prefer Guardians — therefore, Guardians ranks higher.

1. Phantom Thread
2. The Shape of Water
3. Baby Driver
4. Blade Runner 2049
5. Get Out
6. Dunkirk
7. It
8. The Big Sick
9. Logan
10. Wind River

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

My intended viewings for February of 2018, the goal being to watch one black-centric film per day that I've never seen. I'll update the final list at the end of the month with what I actually saw.

• Zouzou
• She's Gotta Have It
• Fruitvale Station
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
• 13th
• The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
• Black Panther
• Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
• Coffy
• Black Girl

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

My wife don't watch no movies.

My wife gonna watch some movies.

• Citizen Kane
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
• It
• It
• Halloween II
• Halloween III: Season of the Witch
• Lethal Weapon
• Lethal Weapon 2
• Lethal Weapon 3
• Lethal Weapon 4

...plus 50 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films I plan to watch for the first time this year. I failed aiming for a highe number last year, so hopefully I can manage this.

• Loving
• Klute
• The Birth of a Nation
• Body Double
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
• Black Narcissus
• Ashes and Diamonds
• Performance
• Wake in Fright
• The Last Detail

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A ranking of the films I managed to see at Sundance, in between a royal shit load of work. Unfortunately, I missed several well received films, including Mudbound, Call Me By Your Name, A Ghost Story, Ingrid Goes West, and surprise midnight premiere Get Out.

• The Big Sick
• Wind River
• Raw
• I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
• Columbus
• The Little Hours
• Dolores
• Fun Mom Dinner
• Dave Made a Maze

  Technically a Slamdance entry, but I'm counting it anyway.

• Bad Day for the Cut

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

Pretty simple: I'm going to attempt to watch 500 movies for the first time in 2016, which is looking like pretty jam-packed year for me already. Will I succeed? Probably not, but I'm going to try anyway, gosh darn it!

As part of this casual project, I'm aiming to fill in some of the more embarrassing gaps in my film knowledge. Primarily, I'll be focusing on completing a few master directors' filmographies:

Akira Kurosawa
Alfred Hitchcock
Woody Allen
Fritz Lang
Elia Kazan
Roman Polanski
Orson Welles
Ingmar Bergman
Frederico Fellini
Billy Wilder
Charlie Chaplin
Frank Capra
John Huston
Ozu Yasujiro

Additionally, I'm going to take a crack at the "Top 500 Horror Movies" and "They Shoot Zombies, Don't They?" lists over on iCheckMovies. I'll also be making a dent in the Criterion Collection, but I know I can't get through all 739 of the ones I'm missing in one year.

Not included in this list are the WWE pay-per-views I'll be watching. This is a project I started in November 2015, with the goal being to watch and review every PPV in order.

While the stated goal is 500, I'm going to try and push past that, ideally to 600. Either way, I want to completely redefine my view of cinema, by pushing through the dense filmographies of the greatest directors in the medium.

• The Hateful Eight
• Making a Murderer
• Lord of Tears
• Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
• Inside Out
• Stone
• Intact
• Top Dog
• Paths of Glory
• Inside Out

...plus 226 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I've already got a personal challenge to watch 500 movies in 2016, so why not add another challenge to the list, eh? This one's courtesy Justin Hullinger: The 2016 Cult Movie Challenge!

1. Stone
2. Terminal Force
3. Hercules
4. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
5. The Embalmer
6. Eaten Alive
7. The Man in the White Suit
8. Fascination
9. Men Behind the Sun
10. Puppet Master: The Legacy

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

WARNING: DON'T ACTUALLY PUMP IRON WHILE WATCHING MOVIES. WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU DO SUCH A THING?

Ahem. This list is comprised of movies that get me pumped up to go to the gym or to just engage in some good ol' physical activity. They get my heart racing, inspire me to do better, and are generally pretty freaking awesome.

While I obviously don't watch movies in the gym, I always warm up at home beforehand. Often I'll have a movie on before and during that warmup, which will include resistance band exercises and the like. If I owned a treill, I'd watch them while on that as well.

So, without further ado, my playlist of films to pump iron by (but not literally, ya dum dums)!

• Pumping Iron
• Generation Iron
• Commando
• Rocky
• Rocky III
• Rocky IV
• The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
• Enter the Dragon
• Pain & Gain
• Predator

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