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"Hell! Shoot! French fries! Well, then, by golly, I'll bet you a nickel we got ourselves a Frenchman here!" - Harry Dean Stanton as Slim
Bless you forever, David Lynch.
]]>So, they made THIS half-baked mockumentary instead of a feature-length treatment of the fictitious Nude Ninjas clip with Monique Parent, Ashlie Rhey, and Lisa Comshaw?
[shakes head sadly]
]]>This review may contain spoilers.
It would feel supremely unfair to hold this film up against the dizzyingly transcendent heights of Paddington 2. So... I'm not going to do that.
This film has plenty of trademark gentle fun and humor in its own right, with some great joy coming by way of the guest antagonist performances of Antonio Banderas and Olivia Colman.
Not gonna lie, I miss the hell out of Sally Hawkins as Mrs. Brown, but at least we have Emily Mortimer on hand for the proceedings.
That all being said, PHOENIX BUCHANAN FOR P4DDINGTON, YOU COWARDS
]]>This review may contain spoilers.
Welcome to the Got Killed in the Alien, Terminator, and Predator Franchises Club, Michael Biehn!
]]>I know that it would probably have made the viewing experience run for a sinful number of hours, but I would have easily sat through a feature that shows a complete and exhaustive comparison of every single page of The Substance's screenplay to how we got what we got on the silver screen.
]]>Watched on Tuesday June 10, 2025.
]]>Pretty unshabby test run for elements and ideas that Coralie Fargeat would expand upon and play with in The Substance.
You had a strong sense that the ending was going to go where it was going to go, but that doesn't make the journey any less satisfying.
]]>Watched on Saturday June 7, 2025.
]]>I'm entirely convinced that Shannon Whirry was instructed to use a British accent because somebody lost a bet.
]]>I can understand why The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs couldn't get the rights to Earth Vs. Soup, but I love it that they could play Earth Vs. the Spider, covering fun trivia about the film AND the history of the drive-in theater.
Love love love it!
#MST3K
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]]>And now I'll always wonder what it is that Jack Burton says when it's Miller Time...
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]]>It's the Ghost Protocol with the Most Protocol.
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I reading the Homer Price stuff when I was in grade school, and I had no idea that they made an adaptation of "The Doughnuts," one of my favorite installments in that story collection.
Part of this rating reflects the lighthearted fun of the work, part of this rating reflects the nostalgia factor.
[shrugs]
Whattaya gonna do?
]]>Watched on Friday May 23, 2025.
]]>[GOB voice]
Bees?!
]]>Either I've understood everything or I've understood nothing.
]]>David Lynch: "Is it worth it? Let me work it! I put my thang down, flip it, and reverse it... ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gnaht ym tup I..."
]]>Angelo Badalamenti 😍
]]>The Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 of coyote movies.
]]>0:00 - 2:01 - hey, where's the coyote
2:02 - 2:28 - THERE'S THE COYOTE :D
2:29 - 3:46 - hey, where's the coyote
Still better than Santa Claus: The Movie.
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]]>Sensational throughout with everything that I love about the genre, but it's ESPECIALLY magnificent in those unforgettable closing moments.
Beyond freaking metal!
]]>Recommended by a good friend whose recommendations are always top-notch and always appreciated.
I had a freaking *blast* with this, y'all!
]]>Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.
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Yeah, the time felt right for a complete ranking of the Friday the 13th movies, including the remake and Freddy Vs. Jason.
...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>My personal rankings of the movies in the Terminator film franchise.
What can I say? I loved T2, but I was all about the oppressive tone and unstoppable killer vibes of the first film. The first two movies would make for a GREAT five-star double-feature.
]]>Forsooth! As per this latest Letterboxd Showdown, here are my favorite Shakespeare film adaptations.
Seriously, how was anything going to go toe-to-toe with Akira Kurosawa's Ran?
...plus 12 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A ranking of the Star Wars movies.
Hold this list like you did by the lake on Naboo.
(I know, The Clone Wars isn't featured here. Deal with it.)
...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>If I had a nickel for every time this happened...
... [gestures to two nickels]
]]>All the Best Picture Oscar winners, from Wings to Anora, ranked in order from greatest to "oh, yuck" where my personal tastes are concerned.
This list is complete now! At least until 2026 rolls around...
...plus 87 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>As per the new Letterboxd Showdown guidelines, here are my ten favorite nominees for the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer.
]]>Here are some of my favorite long movies (over 2.5 hours), as per the guidelines of this Letterboxd Showdown.
...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>As the title says, here are my favorite (favourite?) nominees for the Outstanding British Film BAFTA.
]]>As per the latest Letterboxd Showdown, here are my favorite films with first-name titles.
...plus 52 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A past Letterboxd Showdown for the best film endings.
I'm kinda playing this one fast and loose. I don't have any real criteria or guidelines, as this could pertain to anything: a plot twist, an emotionally impacting scene, a terrific final frame, a memorable piece of music, a killer one-liner, whatever.
This isn't a reflection on the actual movies themselves, but the endings that they featured.
Above all else, these are endings that just really resonated with me over the years.
...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Don't change that channel! Here are the best films about television, as per the rules of this Letterboxd Showdown!
...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A Letterboxd Showdown showcasing my favorite ing horror performances.
I had a devilish time getting this one ranked!
(Please see my notes for the performances/roles in question.)
Richard Liberty as Dr. "Frankenstein" Logan and Sherman Howard as Bub the Zombie
Zelda Rubenstein as Tangina Barrons
Bill Paxton as Hudson and Jenette Goldstein as Vasquez
Catherine Keener as Missy Armitage and Lil Rel Howery as Rod Williams
Kim Eui-sung as Yon-suk and Ma Dong-seok as Yoon Sang-hwa
Marcia Gay Harden as Mrs. Carmody
Brendan Gleeson as Frank
Josephine Hull as Abby Brewster and Jean Adair as Martha Brewster
Masato Hagiwara as Kunio Mamiya
Rebecca Ferguson as Rose the Hat
...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>As per the latest Letterboxd Showdown, here are my ten favorite movies about siblings.
Interesting topic, hard to narrow it down!
...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>If I had a nickel for every 2024 movie that featured that song during an action sequence, I would have two nickels, which would be weird, etc.
]]>At the risk of perspiring, I've cobbled together a list of the sweatiest films.
This is with the caveat that my memory is a little hazy on some of these. Some rewatches would definitely be in order here.
The heat will be on!
...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>With the rules for this Letterboxd Showdown in play, here are my favorite thrillers with a runtime under 105 minutes.
I need you to appreciate how much it PAINS me that Double Indemnity has a runtime of 107 minutes.
...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>As per the latest Letterboxd Showdown, this is a list featuring the best films about fandom.
...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>My ranking of the 2022 Best Picture Oscar nominees.
In the case of the winner, they absolutely got it right.
In the case of one of the nominees, they got it totally wrong to the point that it shouldn't have been included among the other movies.
]]>A Letterboxd Showdown about the best anthology films.
In and out of the top ten, I found that horror films came to make their presence felt. (Definitely not a bad thing!)
I was tempted to include Pulp Fiction and Go, but those felt more like hyperlink films than out-and-out anthology movies, so I omitted them.
...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>NOW we're talkin'! :D I love love love the hell out of this Letterboxd theme!
But wow... what difficult choices had to be made in getting to that top ten!
I need you to know how much it pained me for Poltergeist and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 to juuuuust miss the cut (ha). Sorry, Tobe Hooper.
And then there's the two Hellraiser movies and Return of the Living Dead and... GAH. Diabolical, this Showdown is!
]]>At one end of the spectrum, there's a movie that could challenge Titane for the honors of being my favorite movie from 2021.
At the other end of the spectrum, there's a movie that I consider to be one of the least deserving Best Picture Oscar nominees, a colossal misfire that had absolutely no business being nominated here.
In between those two extremes, this was a tricky ranking to put together.
]]>For this Letterboxd Showdown, I have selected my favorite films that were adapted from stage works.
I would have loved to include wilder, looser adaptations like Ran, Black Orpheus, Throne of Blood, and The Bad Sleep Well, but since the rules for this Letterboxd Showdown state that the works must be largely faithful to the original source material (hence, no 10 Things I Hate About You for The Taming of the Shrew), I have omitted them. The same goes for Strange Brew, and it pained me to leave that one off.
Casablanca and Moonlight could've easily been represented here, but since they're based on unproduced stage plays, I have decided to omit them here as well.
...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Without having to screw with the chronology of things, I put together my own personal ranking of Christopher Nolan movies.
This list includes his shorter features (Quay, Doodlebug, and Tarantella), but since Larceny does not appear to be readily available to view on any platform, I have not included that here.
And here... we... GO.
...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>For this Letterboxd Showdown, I'm looking at the best dystopian worlds in film.
These won't necessarily be ranked by the quality of the films, but by how much of an impression these dystopian worlds have left on me.
...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>For this Letterboxd Showdown, this is where I stop sitting around on my Cannes (har) and come up with a list of the best Palme d'Or-nominated films!
...plus 173 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>By far and away my favorite filmmaker, Akira Kurosawa was responsible for some dazzling cinematic magic.
What follows is a ranking of his available works. The only movie uned for is 1946's Those Who Make Tomorrow, which is not readily available for viewing (I have noticed in the Letterboxd reviews that the movie apparently had a public exhibition in NYC at some point of the 1980s, but because I do not have access to the movie, I will not include it here).
Don't let a lower ranking fool you or throw you off. Kurosawa was the absolute best, through and through.
...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A past Letterboxd Showdown about the best films pertaining to writers or writing.
...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A past Letterboxd Showdown about the best scientists in film.
As for my #1 pick, well... you didn't say we couldn't go with MAD science!
These rankings are based not on the of the films' quality but on the depictions of the scientists within those movies. (C'mon, rankings aren't an exact science.)
...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A past Letterboxd Showdown about the best movies in which dolls come to life.
Yeah, the Toy Story movies were pretty much inescapable here, no?
...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A past Letterboxd Showdown for the best black-and-white films.
This one's gonna be something of a work in progress, building off of a previous list I made in which I ranked Kurosawa's movies.
...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A past Letterboxd Showdown about the best films with/about martial arts.
This showdown makes me feel like I'm a kid in a candy store. So many fantastic choices!
...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A past Letterboxd Showdown about the best films set in or about Australia.
Bless you forever, George Miller.
...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A past Letterboxd Showdown about the best movie musicals.
I've seen Little Shop of Horrors way too many times as a youngster to NOT be impartial here.
...plus 19 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A past Letterboxd Showdown about the best nominees for the Best Picture Academy Award that lost.
Spielberg would've made it on this list four times if not for Life is Beautiful going up against Saving Private Ryan. How either film lost to Shakespeare in Love is beyond me...
...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A past Letterboxd Showdown about the best whodunit murder mystery and detective drama films.
There was NO WAY that I wasn't going to choose the inspired Clue as my #1 selection!
...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A past Letterboxd Showdown about films I shouldn't have seen at an early age.
Some background on my #1 choice here: I first saw Night of the Living Dead at a really young age when I was home sick from elementary school on Halloween in the 80s.
Some channel (A&E?) was running an all-day marathon of the movie, and I thought it would be harmless, hokey fun.
Boy howdy, was I wrong there... yeah, it shook me up at the time something fierce, but it ended up becoming my second-favorite movie, only behind Jaws.
...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A past Letterboxd Showdown about the best stop-motion animated films.
Yeah, Laika rules the roost here.
...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>As per this Letterboxd Showdown, here are my selections when it comes to favorite films about filmmaking!
...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A past Letterboxd Showdown involving the best films set in the snow.
This one *may* skew a little heavy on the Christmas/holiday side.
There might be some TV specials here, too, but ah, if they're good enough to be in Letterboxd's database, they're good enough to make the list.
...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A past Letterboxd Showdown about the best animal-human communication in film.
]]>A past Letterboxd Showdown about the best films about vacations.
...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A past Letterboxd Showdown about the best zombie films.
...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A past Letterboxd Showdown for the best films based on games.
...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A past Letterboxd Showdown for the best vampire films.
...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A past Letterboxd Showdown for the best TV-to-film adaptations.
What, were you expecting something else in the #1 spot?
...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A past Letterboxd Showdown for the best films that take place mostly at night.
...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A past Letterboxd Showdown about the best meal scenes in film.
...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A past Letterboxd Showdown about the best heist films.
How could I resist? It's my favorite subgenre!
...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A past Letterboxd Showdown about the best films set in or about Paris.
...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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