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  • The Spy in Black
  • The Target Shoots First
  • Drunken Master
  • Poitín
  • Murdering the Devil

Discoveries 2024

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Old films, but new to me. Delicious treats slurped from the endless waterfall of history.

  • Janet Planet
  • On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
  • Kneecap
  • Nickel Boys
  • Matt and Mara

Best new 2024

18 films Edit list

Top nine are films of the year. Beyond that are excellent honourable mentions!

  • Cobra
  • RoboCop
  • The Terminator
  • Aliens
  • Escape from New York

NYD ‘80s bangers

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  • The Goonies
  • Annie
  • Big
  • Flight of the Navigator
  • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

NYD ‘80s

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  • Manila in the Claws of Light
  • Streetwise
  • Revenge
  • The Official Story
  • Say Amen, Somebody

2025 Classics Watchlist

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  • Presence
  • The Brutalist
  • The Seed of the Sacred Fig
  • Memoir of a Snail
  • On Falling

2025 watch list

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  • The End We Start From
  • Banel & Adama
  • Monster
  • The Sweet East
  • Evil Does Not Exist

2024 watch list

107 films Edit list
  • Suddenly, Last Summer
  • Perfumed Nightmare
  • Streetwise
  • The Time That Remains
  • Manila in the Claws of Light

2024 Classics Watchlist

100 films Edit list
  • A Movie Trip Through Filmland
  • Dinner at Eight
  • The Unconquered
  • Lady and the Tramp
  • Edge of the City

National Film Registry 2023 inductees

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The 2023 Library of Congress National Film Registry added 25 films. The films are selected each year for their cultural,…

  • The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter
  • Strictly Ballroom
  • Love Jones
  • Secrets & Lies
  • The Big Easy

Easter viewing

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  • Dream of Light
  • Pyaasa
  • That Day, on the Beach
  • Mahjong
  • I Can't Sleep

Pure Cinema club

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  • Prime Cut
  • Love and Death on Long Island
  • Letter from My Village
  • Twenty-Four Eyes
  • The Secret Formula

Classics slushlist

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