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Directed by Len Wiseman my ass (bro is cooked for blowing such a promising gig, putting his ass in that gun assembly execution room), modern day action auteur and gigachad Chad Stahelski is all over this, including a shocking small walk on role by one of his old stunt buddies who was already in a previous film (I thought the character was a twin or something). The flamethrower sequence is even more epic than what you see in the trailers, truly kino action and a very good intersequel, hope we get a sequel to this! Also love that this is basically Resident Evil 4 if you really think about it, remote eastern european village filled with cultists and all. Ana de Armas has the juice for action, no wonder the CEO of Hollywood, the Cruise, is parading her around the world
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"I am the shithead unforgiven"
Musical perfection, never before in person have I felt the synergy of band like this one, a sound that one could only hope to feel in the beyond, and the cruel dictorial leadership of it's genius leader as I did last year going to see my favorite band. Fucking phenomenal.
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Watched on Thursday May 29, 2025.
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The virgin necro-junkie vs. the sigma male Goblins
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Watched on Tuesday May 27, 2025.
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When you have movies like Tom Cruise in them, you can't lose!
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Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.
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Should've called this The Very Sad Elephant In the Room with all the dubbed dialogue taking up pretty much almost all of Willis's dialogue in this and he looks lost in retrospect despite the best efforts of the current DTV Action King, Jesse V. Johnson, to hide it. There's a lot of excellent squib work and gore effects but just as many flaws in the action as most of it is our two leads either sticking to one place or hiding out somewhere, not exactly my cup of tea when it comes to non-moving un-thrilling action despite Rooker and Kurylenko putting in fine work.
Also what the fuck was up with John Malkovich's performance here, I know he's just doing it for the check but the man sounded like he was trying to play the goddamn G-Man in Half-Life with how stiff and monotone he is in this!
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Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.
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Watched on Wednesday April 16, 2025.
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Your blank is not service related
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World's greatest GeoGuessr goes on the path of vengeance to disappointing results (I wanted more Jigsaw/Agent 47 level assassinations)
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The Jason Genova Story
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Watched on Wednesday April 9, 2025.
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A very badass and tragic character study of a man who tries to defy his destiny and ends up make himself into a tragic legend instead while also becoming an ultra badass dog man hybrid killing machine. Really loved how this embraced the surreal aspect of Ichikawa's character really having some fantastical abilities due to his parentage (bestiality go burrrrrraaaa).
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Lots of homoerotic undertones which is a given considering it's based off a Yukio Mishima short story. Raizō Ichikawa gives a haunting performance.
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Has some badass moments such as a nighttime sword fight with multiple assassins done in one shot and a duel that ends with a guy getting split down the middle by Raizō Ichikawa but it's too much of a downer for me to really wanna revisit or call a bonafide heater, still pretty good.
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Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.
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Watched on Wednesday March 26, 2025.
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Watched on Sunday March 23, 2025.
]]>One of the best in the game
- The Stylist
- Sleep
- Lux Æterna
- Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway
- Psychomagic: A Healing Art
Part of the Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky boxset
- Lake Michigan Monster
- Killing
Part of the Solid Metal Nightmares – The Films of Tsukamoto boxset
- Climax
- Why Don't You Just Die!
- Life After Flash
...plus 331 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Embodiment of Evil
Part of the Coffin Joe Collection
- Killers
- Phenomena
Limited Edition Steelbook
- The Exterminator
- Suspiria
Limited Edition Steelbook
- The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
Limited Edition Steelbook
- Thriller: A Cruel Picture
- At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul
Part of the Coffin Joe Collection
- This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse
Part of the Coffin Joe Collection
- I Am Waiting
- Witness in the City
- The Facts of Murder
- Black Gravel
- Viridiana
- The Exterminating Angel
- Ninja, A Band of Assassins
- Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
- Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
- Symphony for a Massacre
...plus 34 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Come Drink with Me
- The Doll of Satan
- So Sweet... So Perverse
- The Chinese Boxer
- Hatchet for the Honeymoon
- The Nun and the Devil
- A Candle for the Devil
- The Violent Professionals
- Steel Arena
- Truck Stop Women
...plus 97 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>I got a bit late into the game on these but damn are these top tier!
- The Mummy
- X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
- Mean Streets
- Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
- Martin
- Dawn of the Dead
- The Brood
- Scanners
- Ginger Snaps
...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Chef's kiss
- Sick of Myself
- The Tale of Tsar Saltan
- Don't Let the Angels Fall
- Deadlock
- Born to Win
- Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things
- Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
- Tragic Ceremony
- Murder Mansion
- The Fun House
...plus 225 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Films from this list I plan to watch for the Japanuary challenge, maybe even all of them if I'm lucky or have no life.
- Drunken Angel
- Stray Dog
- Rashomon
- Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
- The Hidden Fortress
- Rusty Knife
- Take Aim at the Police Van
- Greed in Broad Daylight
- Miyamoto Musashi
- The Tale of Zatoichi Continues
...plus 145 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Some questions from the Criterion Subreddit that I'll answer here as well:
* Where are you from?
Arlington, Virginia
* How old are you?
26
* When did you start collecting Criterion?
2012
* Do you collect Blu-ray or DVD?
Both
* What is your favorite Criterion release?
Repo Man
* What is your least favorite Criterion release?
Armageddon, still a surprisingly fun yet incredibly stupid film to watch.
* Who is your favorite director in the collection?
Samuel Fuller
* Who is your favorite director outside of the collection?
Takeshi Kitano
* Which Criterion do you most want that is not in your possession?
Here’s my top five: the Zatoichi box set, Le cercle rouge, Dreams, Fishing with John, and Berlin Alexanderplatz.
* Which film would you most like to see get the Criterion treatment?
So many but I'd love to see Under the Flag of the Rising Sun get a release but that will probably get more of the Arrow Video treatment then this but it’s truly one of the best and also one of the most grim anti-war films I’ve ever seen, either that or finally a region 1 release of Nicholas Winding Refn's Bleeder
* How do you organize your collection?
No real order anymore :)
- Stagecoach
- Sanshiro Sugata
- The Man in Grey
- The Most Beautiful
- Madonna of the Seven Moons
- Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
- The Wicked Lady
- The Killers
- Black Narcissus
- Red River
...plus 226 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- The Theatre Bizarre
- Tales of the Uncanny
- Fulci for Fake
- Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson
Part of the Al Adamson: The Masterpiece Collection boxset
- Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD
- Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
- Saint Bernard
- The Otherworld
- Plague Town
- Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America
...plus 202 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- The Saphead
- Nosferatu
- Our Hospitality
- Three Ages
- Waxworks
- Kino Eye
- Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
- Go West
- Faust
...plus 142 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Found out about these guys a year ago and bought that sweet ass Samuel Fuller boxset but now I've finally decided to invest on them, much better then Twilight Time in of both blu-ray quality and their bombass special features, most of their releases are region free too!
- The Pillow Book
- Oleanna
- Resurrected
- Track 29
- Bloody New Year
Part of BLOODY TERROR: The Shocking Cinema of Norman J Warren, 1976-1987 boxset
- Birdy
- Body Double
- The Border
- Modern Romance
- Inseminoid
Part of BLOODY TERROR: The Shocking Cinema of Norman J Warren, 1976-1987 boxset
...plus 195 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>These are the films I own that but haven't had time to watch, most of which I really do wanna get around to seeing but haven't gotten the urge to yet. Could be more lying around that I haven't ed for yet, will look around at some point!
*The rating for Thunderball is based off memory since I watching it a long time ago as kid and really loving it, otherwise Bond films seem elusive to me for the most part outside of the Brosnan films.
- In a Lonely Place
- Red Pier
- The Tokyo Mighty Guy
- Code of Wolves
- Dead or Alive: Final
- The Breach
- Dillinger
- Dr. No
- Thunderball
- You Only Live Twice
...plus 729 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Iron Man
- Captain America: The First Avenger
- The Avengers
- Thor: Ragnarok
- Captain America: Civil War
- Black Panther
- Avengers: Endgame
...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Let's fucking gooooooooo!!!!!
- Street Mobster
- The Boy and the Heron
- Dreams
- House
- Emotion
- The Executioner II: Karate Inferno
- Godzilla Minus One
- Wolf Guy
- Burst City
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>"So dark! Are you sure you're not from the DC universe!?"
-Wade Wilson a.k.a. Deadpool
- The Suicide Squad
- Zack Snyder's Justice League
- Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Like a cowboy boot!
- Aquaman
Actually looks like a comic book movie for once and not some washed out colorless edgy action flick that goes for broke while somehow fitting in a tribute to H.P. Lovecraft with that gloriously traumatizing not safe for kids Trench sequence, that's how I fucking like my Superhero flicks.
- Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
- Shazam!
Finally some good fucking food!
- Wonder Woman
Actually gives us a hero to root for who represents something positive for a change like actually saving lives and not some nihilistic burn out loser who's a misguided tribute to Frank Miller's work. Also nice to see WW1 used as the backdrop, don't see that too often since it's the one with the most senseless outcome.
- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
- Man of Steel
Even Nolan knew this was too dark for Superman that he had to talk down Synder on toning down the circumstances of Zod's snapped neck from straight up cold blooded murder. Still Shannon is the bomb!
- Shazam! Fury of the Gods
...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>It was a fine spooky season!!!
- The Nun II
- A Haunting in Venice
- The Lodge
- Relic
- The Untold Story
- Saw X
- Frontier(s)
- The Exorcist: Believer
- When Evil Lurks
- The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil
...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Marquis de Sade: Justine
4K
- 99 Women
- Love Camp 7
- Quiet Days in Clichy
- Eugenie
4K
- Daughters of Darkness
4K
- Death Line
- The Grand Duel
- Revolver
...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Getting into all sorts of ghoulish fun and sometimes not so ghoulish fun (maybe even a little too real in of spooks!), so sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe shit!
- Blonde
- DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
- Hereditary
- Midsommar
- The Blackcoat's Daughter
- Messiah of Evil
- Intruder
- We Are Still Here
- Two Evil Eyes
- 100 Tears
...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Hiruko the Goblin
- A Scene at the Sea
- Tetsuo II: Body Hammer
- Getting Any?
- Tokyo Fist
- Kids Return
- Bullet Ballet
- Serpent's Path
- Eyes of the Spider
...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Shaw Bros baby!!!!!! A list of Shaw Bros flicks I either own or have access to, will edit accordingly once the month is up on what I've actually watched!
]]>- Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
- The Candy Tangerine Man
- Welcome Home Brother Charles
- Lady Cocoa
- The Human Tornado
- Emma Mae
- Penitentiary
- Penitentiary II
- Disco Godfather
- Petey Wheatstraw
...plus 51 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>My ranking of the highly influential crime series about the transformation of the yakuza hierarchy during and after post-war Japan by Kinji Fukasaku and of the highly underseen and underrated spin off trilogy.
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
- The Glass Key
- My Name Is Julia Ross
- So Dark the Night
- The Dark Mirror
Part of the Four Film Noir Classics Boxset
- The Blue Dahlia
- Ramrod
- Secret Beyond the Door
Part of the Four Film Noir Classics Boxset
- Brute Force
- Force of Evil
Part of the Four Film Noir Classics Boxset
- The Naked City
...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>These guys really put out some of the best home video releases out there, really going all out! Even though it's been so long ago, RIP Sage Stallone, your vision is truly coming to fruition
]]>They're robbing my damn wallet with these limited editions, worse thing is some are barebones but I'll still get em if they're a film I like or am interested in....the bastards!
UPDATE: RIP
- Sexy Beast
- Titus
- U Turn
- Richard III
- Devil in a Blue Dress
- State of Grace
Has one of the most endearing yet also depressing director commentaries I've ever listened to
- Salvador
- Fatherland
- Angel
- Cutter's Way
...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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