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Maybe the best ensemble cast of its era.

Summer is here. In The Heights season has begun.

The Cable Guy for A24 kids. Tim Robinson is a treasure but not sure DeYoung can settle on a tone.

I checked out on this series after the first one but after a quarter century (!) decided it was time to buy the ticket, take the ride. And you know what? Exactly as d. Perfect October viewing.

Shaggy 70s underdog sports comedy very much in the vein of The Longest Yard and The Bad News Bears. I can't believe Paul Newman is in this movie.

The Ringer shamed me into moving this one off my Watchlist and I’m glad I finally did. Lumet’s “you won’t believe where I’m gonna put the camera and just leave it there for the whole scene” framing and Mamet’s “just what you need, no more” script elevate a legal thriller into something greater.

Less commercial and somehow even more gnarly than their debut Talk To Me — my favorite horror film of the last five years — solidifies the Philippou brothers as the real deal when it comes to horror.

The two stunt spectacular setpieces are effective but otherwise McQuarrie and co. have lost the plot.

You'd be hard pressed to find a much bigger fan of The Raid films so it pains me to watch this and wonder what the hell happened to Gareth Ewans?

I keep watching thinking I’ll get a little closer to unlocking but after 5 years and as many viewings, I’m in pretty much the same place I started. I really like it a lot while itting it doesn’t entirely work.

One of my favorite things PTA has ever done.

Not a Roger Moore Bond fan but decided to give this one another go on the big screen and I’m glad I did. My memory is that The Man With the Golden Gun was my fave Moore but this one is now probably a close second.

Little league in Los Angeles, ‘tis the season.

I skipped Black Widow, The Eternals, The Marvels, Captain America: Brave New World and all of the Marvel shows but I enjoyed this. Pugh gets it done.

Drinking, smoking, kidnapping and scaring the shit out of kids. Classic Disney.

I’m not sure there’s a filmmaker alive who could make this movie today.

Schlock and awe. I had a total blast. We need more top-tier filmmakers making ambitious genre movies for wide audiences. Ryan Coogler, lead the way.

Uncut Gems prequel.

Willie Scott in Shanghai is an all-time smokeshow.

Watching this hyperviolent Alain Delon revenge-o-magic the way it was meant to be seen, in 35mm sitting across the aisle from Quentin Tarantino.

The best movie of the decade (tie with La La Land).

The best movie of the decade (tie with Fury Road).

The color palette still works but almost everything else about Almodovar's singular style gets lost in translation. The screenplay feels like it was Google Translated from Spanish to English and both the dialogue and delivery ring completely false.

I completely understand why I hated this in college.

Watched this on the plane thinking I had never seen it before. Whoops.

Definitely worth trying? It did however make me want to listen to Pharrell so mission accomplished.

They seem like nice guys (besides Steely Dan) but I really hate this music, and even irony doesn’t help.

I wish it were a little less 2002, but man, when Raimi is cooking, it still works like gangbusters.

Definitely on the higher end of Soderbergh’s recent output, but I still can’t shake the feeling that he's an A student who has spent the past two decades handing in C+ work. And he definitely needs a new cinematographer.

So much potential but good Lord did this need another on the script.

Horror comedies are really hard but loved the design of HEK.

My expectations were pretty low because the reviews were so mixed so I was surprised how much I liked this. It’s definitely a little too long, but it’s one of the best looking sci-fi movies ever made and I laughed out loud a handful of times. I think I like Bong in Gilliam mode even more than Fincher mode but it feels like I'm in the minority on that.

A really entertaining, funny, 95 minute movie. 🙏

Poor Sly.

Heartfelt, harrowing Homeward Bound redux. The animation, at its best, can be painterly and beautiful but at times looks like a CD-ROM game.

I didn’t care for the Broadway musical when I saw it back in 2014, so all credit to Jon Chu for this one.

Pretty close to perfect. I cried during the Ramones montage.

ired the switch from Atlanta/LA to South of but these movies still seem stuck between “not campy enough” and “good but not great.”

Doesn't quite live up to the potential of its premise but way better than the streaming slop in which it was released and should have absolutely gone to theatres. Comedies are tough and this one needed a little more massaging to make everything click into place but even when the romantic turn doesn't work, a solid ing cast help bring steady laughs throughout.

A little long but way better than the streaming slop in which it was released and should have absolutely gone to theatres. It's crazy how any franchise can basically take on the emotional weight of the Up series when they go on forever (24 years since the original, wow!)

Anxiety attack cinema, SNL lore, a Dazed and Confused-level ensemble and grainy 16mm film. What more do you people want from a movie?

A fun B movie premise that doesn’t work at all in the execution.

Still cute.

One of the most uproarious theater experiences I’ve ever had. Amazing audience of all ages laughing their heads off — including my seven year old who had seen the trailer at New Bev a few weeks ago and suggested we come. Good call.

A movie about time travel. You can see Your past and Their future all at once.

Not quite the culture shifting, timeline splitting, game changer of Pulp Fiction, but what is?

Progenitor of Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean and countless adventure films. The skeleton sword fight still rips.

Everytime I watch I'm still shocked at how good this movie is.

This should have been four hours long.

Forgotten 70s sniper thriller with fantastic cast of character actors — Cassavetes, Rowlands, Balsam, etc. — and one of the most harrowing crowd stampedes ever captured on film.

All of the films I've watched with Julian in chronological order.

1. Toy Story
2. Frozen
3. A Hard Day's Night
4. Blue Hawaii
5. Help!
6. Coco
7. Viva Las Vegas
8. Jailhouse Rock
9. King Creole
10. The Great Muppet Caper

...plus 260 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All the films I saw this year in order of preference.

1. Dune: Part Two
2. Wicked
3. Challengers
4. A Complete Unknown
5. Saturday Night
6. Nosferatu
7. Smile 2
8. Anora
9. Here
10. Hit Man

...plus 84 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Annabelle Comes Home
• Insidious: The Last Key
• The Strangers: Prey at Night
• Annabelle: Creation
• Veronica
• Let the Corpses Tan
• Under the Shadow
• Spring
• Carrie
• The Sacrament

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

All the films I saw this year in order of preference.

1. Oppenheimer
2. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
4. Talk to Me
5. Killers of the Flower Moon
6. The Holdovers
7. Infinity Pool
8. Priscilla
9. No Hard Feelings
10. Poor Things

...plus 68 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Batman
2. The Fabelmans
3. Top Gun: Maverick
4. Moonage Daydream
5. Babylon
6. The Worst Person in the World
7. Barbarian
8. Pearl
9. Armageddon Time
10. TÁR

...plus 75 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Licorice Pizza
2. In the Heights
3. West Side Story
4. Titane
5. The French Dispatch
6. Dune
7. Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
8. Luca
9. Don't Look Up
10. The Green Knight

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

1. Soul
2. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
3. Tenet
4. Small Axe
5. David Byrne's American Utopia
6. Possessor
7. Boys State
8. One Night in Miami...
9. Emma.
10. Mank

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

1. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
2. Hustlers
3. Marriage Story
4. Uncut Gems
5. The Irishman
6. Gloria Bell
7. Joker
8. Parasite
9. Knives Out
10. Midsommar

...plus 65 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2. Roma
3. First Man
4. First Reformed
5. Hereditary
6. Wildlife
7. mid90s
8. Eighth Grade
9. Cold War
10. Private Life

...plus 75 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Phantom Thread
2. Dunkirk
3. Lady Bird
4. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
5. A Ghost Story
6. Good Time
7. Get Out
8. Wonder Woman
9. Blade Runner 2049
10. mother!

...plus 65 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. La La Land
2. Everybody Wants Some!!
3. Green Room
4. Moonlight
5. 20th Century Women
6. De Palma
7. Hail, Caesar!
8. The Witch
9. Swiss Army Man
10. The Nice Guys

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

My Top 15 Horror Films from the last 15 years.

1. Black Swan

   Natalie Portman gives an Oscar-winning tour-de-force performance as a ballet dancer driven to the brink in the best psychological horror film that Roman Polanski never made. Aronofsky combines the go for broke theatricality of The Fountain with the intimate scale of The Wrestler for the best-of-both-worlds.

2. The Ring

   The best horror film of the aughts manages to overcome two potentially crippling handicaps: it’s a remake and it’s rated PG-13. But it’s a good mystery, it’s scary as hell and the American version manages to improve upon the original in every way creating a modern horror masterpiece.

3. Shaun of the Dead

   It’s not a spoof. Edgar Wright’s debut is a near perfect genre mashup: the Zom Rom Com. Few films have succeeded as spectacularly at mixing horror and comedy, which puts the film in the rarefied company of Evil Dead II and An American Werewolf In London as a classic of it’s kind.

4. Let the Right One In

   If you haven’t seen it, you’ve never seen anything quite like it. It’s a horror film that puts its characters first, deftly handles switching between horror, dark comedy, and coming of age film and doesn’t shy away from gore. The American version is great but the original is unforgettable.

5. Attack the Block

   Edgar Wright-produced sci-fi/horror/comedy focuses on a group of young teens in South London fighting off an alien invasion. A natural blend of the 80s cinema of John Carpenter and Steven Spielberg, for once these influences feel lived in and genuine, as if they’d been absorbed naturally rather than studied.

6. Jeepers Creepers

   While it contains many familiar horror elements, this underrated film spins them in such a way that you never know what will happen next. The film starts out as Duel, becomes The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and then turns into a full-on monster movie.

7. 28 Days Later

   Danny Boyle’s (technically not zombies) film single-handedly resurrected zombies for the next decade (and beyond). Plays more like a story of survival than a standard horror film where the scares come from actually being invested in the characters. While the film steals liberally from Romero’s Zombie Trilogy, it does so without ever feeling like a throwback or an homage.

8. The Cabin in the Woods

   A group of teens awake an ancient evil in this smart, playful stab at horror films made by and for those that love them. Though it works better as a comedy than as a horror film, it’s also a ton of fun that only gets better with repeat viewings and the last act is every horror nerd’s wet dream.

9. The Others

   A very creepy atmospheric ghost story in the vein of The Changeling and The Sixth Sense. It’s a spooky well-made movie for people who don’t normally like horror movies. It’s also probably the last time Nicole Kidman could move her face.

10. Hostel

    Maligned for being “torture porn”, the scenes of gore are actually used sparingly, though for maximum impact. While it’s not a perfect horror film (it’s a little fratty at times), it manages something that few horror films can nowadays: it’s effectively scary.

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

An ongoing ranking of all the films I've seen this year because OCD.

1. Inherent Vice
2. The Raid 2
3. Gone Girl
4. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
5. Interstellar
6. The Double
7. Guardians of the Galaxy
8. Nightcrawler
9. The Interview
10. Foxcatcher

...plus 95 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
3. Inside Out
4. The Martian
5. Crimson Peak
6. It Follows
7. Cobain: Montage of Heck
8. Steve Jobs
9. Carol
10. Creed

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