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They made the puppet so it looked like Anthony Hopkins. Super Creepy. Being a failed Magician can really screw with your head.

For me the plot over all doesn't completely work, the way it's edited and paced. But when you have a dip some one comes on screen to make you forget. Burgess Meredith - oh the scene in Corky's cabin - Ann Margaret or Ed Lauter are all brilliant and I love just watching them be. They are awesome people. Hopkins is genuinely terrifying, in the sense he is so erratic from the get go. Which is the point who is the actually is the puppet between Corky and Fats is the point of the movie. But I do see a lot of Travis Bickle in Hopkins' performance, and like Bickle this upsets me. Because the whole time I am wondering what Ann Margaret sees in him other than an escape out of the Catskills. Cause in the sex scene Hopkins is really eating her face. Even Hannibal would consider it uncouth. You have romance a woman before you eat her face.

Magic is a great autumnal movie. The way Victor J. Kemper shoots this you can almost feel the frost in the air. Magic is one of those great looking 1970s thrillers that you can live in.

You hear what Welcome Back Brother Charles is about. Then you watch it and the movie is a very different creature. Yeah the reveal is bonkers in a wonderful way. But the movie is at it's heart this documentary style fantasy drama rape revenge story. It is about the fear and persecution of the Black Man. Also the stereotypes that have been placed on him. I genuinely loved the roughness and the pacing it created because you lived in this world, lived in he murky grey and messiness of it all. The exploitation elements, which were great, were just an added bonus.

There is a charm and imagination ti Future Force. As well as a kind of charm to David Carradine with his beer gut driving around in a shitty Jeep Cherokee shooting TVs in bars. A charm to that he only uses his robot arm twice. To be fair he does use it to punch a guy while the glove is zooming through the air. Which is cool. David A. Prior feels like he is more interested in making a dystopian western where Bounty Hunters and six shooters rule. Future Force is a movie that is set three years in the future in 1992 so there had to be some future tech in it.

It belongs in a Musuem

I like Fabio Testi's demon outfit.

First hour still a massive slog. But Tramell Tillman being amaizng with just a few indulgent looks is amazing

It was a good reminder how good Benicio Del Toro is a fantastic actor. He is brilliant in The Phoenician Scheme.

I like it when Wes goes full Anderson. It transcends twee and quirky into insanity. It feels like Anderson is playing around with different styles and motiefs and what I mean by that is that he placed these different styles and motiefs into a Wes Anderson easy back oven and it came out like looking like a Wes Anderson movie. Mia Threapleton has a Anna Karnia from Vivre Sa Vie look. As she is trying to approximate the holyness of Joan of Ark (who Anna is watching in the Dryer Movie) and failing at it with her love of a coloured expensive pipe. This is what I meant about quirky heading into insanity. It's not just that Michael Cera looks like a 1920s Boheminan with a Norweigan accent it's three refences deep, Kafka some photo that amuses Wes and something else I don't know until you get what Wes Anderson wants. You are either on board with it or your not. This personaly entertains me. But I don't think this movie is empty, the actual scheme itself means nothing and is mostly made up jargon. It is about people looking for a redemption and connection. Like a lot of Anderson's movies.

I had a good time. Jeffery Wright, Richard Ayoade and Michael Cera were particular highlights. Especially Cera's Norwegian accent which was a special kind of ridiculous.

Typical Cannon. I swerve wildly between uncomortbility uncomfortability because of the racism to, why is that cooking pot the size of a divin pool what is this loony toons, to oh that;s a cool action scene to oh they are in that room with a lion that's not safe. Back to oh this is so rascist.

Sally Hawkins has done a bad bad thing.

The Philippou can create dread very easily. All it takes is the right camera angle and not showing you the complete picture. But they also do put kids in danger constantly - well two movies. But they know how to balance this with brilliant performances and high stakes. Everyone is brilliant - Hawkins steals the movie she has to convey so many emotions and beats (often at the same time) for this movie to really work. And she does. She is a heart breaking and terrifying figure all at the same time. Each of the four main characters go through a complex emotional ark. As well as going bleak and violent as possible. The brothers feel like they have internalised greif as a metaphore and are now making it something new. Greif in Bring Her Back is a twisted creature that is all consuming. Hawkins' house is away from everything else seperated from the real world. The brothers showed this through visual cues. The violence is extravagant but to the point. The characters are not going to have the verbal vocabulary to explain what they are feeling or seeing. This is a viseral movie of texture and sound. There was one moment where I giggled myself into a small coughing fit to cover it becuase there was no other way to react.

After watching Bring Her Back I walked out into the frosty night and let the cold embrass me a little. I be cleanesed and to clear my head so I could think about it more. Bring her back is a serring piece of film making.

And parents we need proper snakes in the house for kids.

I just like to imagine Nosferatu walking into a cafe; I would like to watch release the burden of the fill cream of my latte, with a one pump of vanilla, and I would like to see a touch of nutmeg.

That accent works anywhere. I adore this movie.

When you find out on the fourth watch that Sam Neil is just speaking in his light New Zealand accent.

Anyway. In the Mouth of Madness is comfort nightmare fuel.

Please me forgive me as I quote Taylor Swift - who loves to depict herself as the ulitmate Cinderella.

Clara Bow

Beauty is a beast that roars
Down on all fours, demanding more

The Ugly Stepsister does so many things right. So many things I adore, so many things that made me squirm. Ugly Stepsister is an amazing take on the Frankenstein Story, a brilliant Body Horror and more important while doing all this is faithful to the Cinderella Story. Elivra and Anges are going through a similar experience, both abused, of a marriagable age and expected to forful a certain function, albeit in different ways. The perfect woman does not exsist she needs to be constructed.

We first meet Elivra, a normal girl, she likes cake she has braces. But when the wealth of the family now falls on her feet it is Elvia that has to step up and get the nose job, starve herself to fit into the perfect dress. It is so in it's pure pain of what this transformation is. While Angus natural beauty is shunned because of the choices she makes and attention she gets. I love how neither Elivra and Anges are seen as the farytale villain. But because they are pitted each other from the get go they are not allowed to connect other than small moments.

Ugly Stepsister is brilliant!

This is the Mission Impossible Movie that belongs to the Woman. And it is a glorious thing. Ferguson, Atwell, Kirby, Klementieff are the ones who give this unweildly movie it's heart.

The moment where Pom Klementieff is smiling when she is bulldozing her way through Rome is perfection - I love how she barely speaks but mostly uses her body as a way to communicate. And that communication is to kill you. What else is there to say.

Though you can start to see the whole fate and it is written theme in Dead Reckoning that Final Reckoning really leans into, it is something I do not love about the final movie. Ethan Hunt in an agent of chaos, a literal cog in the wheel not a person of prophecy.

Rome chase and train sequences are all timers.

Oz Perkins' The Monkey is the best Final Destination movie we have. This movie leans into the chaos I wished the FD wish did a little more. The Monkey works on random wims of the turn of it's key. As Tatiana Maslany says in her best Sean Young. Every one dies.

Oz Perkins lost his dad to AIDS and his mum to 9/11 - there is a sense to liberation, of laughing back in the universes' face at the chaos of life, which does not care.

Watching The Monkey this time around, I love how practical The Monkey is. The sound design every time it is moved has a gravity to it. It makes it all the more creepy because it is slow solid and inanimate, you keep expecting just to start moving on it's own.

Is it sacrilegious to say that Mission Impossible Fallout is the platonic version of what a MI movie could be and was. So much so we don't actually need Dead Reckoning and Final Reckoning with the amazing stunts and everything. . The incrediable plane stunting in Final Reckoning (which I loved cause it reminded me of the 1927 Wings) feels like they are trying to recapture the magic of the helicopter stunt in Fallout. And I know Tom Cruise is putting his life in danger for our entertainment. But still, they tied all threads nicely in Fallout, the same ones the tied themselves in knots in Final Reckoning.

More importantly to all this. Henry Cavil cocking his arms is everything.

Rebecca Ferguson cocking her leg is the sexiest thing put to film.

When a Stranger Calls Back swings between genuinely creepy to I'm what am I looking at? And that is how it should be.

I didn't know I needed Charles Durning saying the words I think we are looking for a ventriloquist in my life. But I do and it's great.

To be fair they blew up the Kremlin to kill hunt.

Most of The Final Destination A Rube Goldberg Machines can be put down to terrible comment on America's lack of good infrastructure. But I do enjoy Death working in this movie. He has a sick sense of humour. A glass dance floor was never going to end well.

Tony Todd could command any room he was in until the very end.

The opening of Bloodlines is an all timer. Actually there are a few set pieces in this movie.

CCh Pounder you cannot stop this through the power of radio,

Mich Garris still a lunatic. I still kinda love this bat crazy movie

The more I was watching The ant Squared the more I was thinking that Jon Bernthal's Braxton was undiagnoised ADHD. It fits with the neurodevelopmental as superhero theme this series is developing.

Afflect and Bernthal have great chemistry and this movie works best when it's a buddy comedy. Poor Cynthia Addai-Robinson gets pushed out with the brothers get together.

I had a better time than I was expecting.

How on earth did they even get a chainsaw on the plane to begin with. Though when the movie started using it I stopped caring cause it was bloody and fun,

There is a moment where a character nearly says I was the architect of all your pain, which is not okay. In fact in a round about way he does. Because Mission:Impossible The Final Reckoning is way to concerned with what came before. The first hour is very concerned with - if you have found you in this movie without seeing this movie here is what you missed. It gives Final Reckoning stop start quality that is annoying. But then the movie starts and I was able settle in and enjoy it. McQuarrie and Curise lean into a silent action movie at some points and that is when I found myself leaning forward. It's moving away from the Buster Keating asthetic of the eariler movies but a more muscular epic style like William A. Wellman or Erich von Stroheim. There the moments in the big stunt or series of What are you doing Tom?! Where you can actually see the okay I am still alive look on Tom's face.

The Final Reckoning is too long and sentimental about it's own legend. It's relatively too simple for the movie they are trying to make But it still gave me the highs that I want from a Mission Impossible Movie.

So when is Glen Powell rebooting the series?

Everytimes I watch Pyscho II I love it more. The more I am convinced this is Anthony Perkins' best performance.

It think it's offical, I'm not the biggest J.J Girl. And I think M:I3 is a good movie that is drowned out by all the Abramisms. I think M:I3 has quietly one of the best casts in the series. Abrams does give me a Keri Rusell kicking ass scene and I am thankful. But with Fishurne, Hoffman, Pegg Crudup (even if he has nothing and I mean nothing to do), Monaghan, Maggie Q - we needed more Q and Meyers. I also there is a fascinting plot and bait and switch which makes M:I3 a fascinating 9/11 - Iraq Invasion Movie. But everything gets lost underneath the noise. Abrams has a - and then, and then quality to his movies and because these moments are never differentiated in tone or scale they all bleed into one. Mission Impossible 3 is my least favorite of the movies and yet has the best villien, becuase Phillip Seymour was the greatest to ever do it. Okay I love the two Hoffmans scene in the Vatican. I love a good mask moment. But the movie manages to screw everything at the end and I always feel a little deflated. M:I3 has the ingredients to be my favourite but it isn't.

Though this is the entry where we have Benji directing Ethan in most dangrous direction possible.

I love Woo sat down with the script and wanted to make a Mission Impossible Notorious (which he does and it's great) but what could make this Hitchcock classic better. Jousting Motorcycles. And the world is a better place for it.

Also is there any thing more John Woo that Cruise running out a skyscaper with dueling pistols. And there is so much Woo in this movie.

We are Nightbreed.

Werewolves are cannibals now. Cool.

This is why the Cinemamaics Society always give a talk before the movie. It helps to put it into context. And Evita needs context. Webber and Rice released the concept album of Evita before it came to the stage, and since studios were circling Evita for the film rights before Elaine Page took the stage on the West End to belt Don't Cry for Me Argentina. Most notiably Alan Parker was already attached to direct.

So it makes sense that Parker was adapting the orginal concept album not the stage musical. Which helps so much in explaining what the f*uck is happening in this movie!

The first 30 minutes of Evita I was thinking oh is this the greatest movie that just confused me back in 1996 (they just kept singing - like the whole movie). Parker is going wild, flinging images willy nilly, Neo Classism, French Revolution, Fascism, Soviet all with a 1996 MTV Rock Opera aesthetic. It's pure chaos. If only they had Banderas dressed up as Che Guevara (as in the stage musical) for one moment, it would have been perfect. Time is not linear but happening all at once. But Evita keeps going and going and going. Pretty sure the movie is still going on, Eva is still dying of Cancer. After Don't Cry Evita becomes a real slog.

How I ultimatley feel about Evita is how I feel about Madonna's casting. Which on one level is genius, to cast a Pop Star as icoic as Madonna with her own built cult of personality is perfect. At the height of her powers a pop figure Madonna could change reality - her life is the narrative as much as her art. Which the same goes for Eva Perron. She fits into where Celbrity Populalism and Fascism intersct. But Madonna can't belt - she's never going to hit those chilling high notes Eva needs to communicate her ambition and authoritarianism. But historical non of our great Divas are belters they are the image and the personality. As Madonna said - probably took from the Ballroom Scene - they give good face. Look all I want is a mega pop star with the voice of Patti Lapone. Is that too much to ask. Evita never really reaches the heights it aspires.

Truthfully I am indifferent to The Floyd. But, they used the woo woo aspect of the Ancient Ruins well. Also my partner was sitting vibing the hell out. And that is the important thing.

In 4k it did look gorgeous.

Clown in a Cornfield is very much my jam. A self refrential referential slasher, I am a child of Scream.

In one scene this is a movie that gives you what it says on the tin, there is a fu&king Clown in the damn Cornfield. But also Eli Craig gives a really a great sense of place with Kettle Springs a one industry town that has lost it's industry - corn surrup, which is perfect for a Slasher - I giggled. I giggled and clapped a lot, it just did things I like in slashers. I am a simple girl with simple pleasures. But like a lot of Slashers this is a story about the conflict of two generations Gen X and Gen Z. There is an interplay how the kids interact with the world of their elders, using a town logo into a Slasher TikTok even before it's a Slasher Icon, or not understanding a rotary phone all while dressing and invoking fashions of the past. There is something intersting happening in the subtext of this movie - which is later text. But the ing of the Slasher troupes down to the next generation.

But it's by the same man who directered Tucker and Dale vs Evil.

Maybe it's because Sylvia Sidney is adopting a whole football team in Beetlejuice I keep forgetting she already had a fifty year carrer before managing the newly dead.

Sidney is amazing in Merrily We Go to Hell. I keep forget how much of a gut punch this movie is. It is about the impacts on those around someone suffering from substance abuse. And the way Syliva moves around Fredrick March as he falls deeper into his alcholism is painful. Both performances feel genuine. And of course March is one of the greatst to ever to it, and there is a reason he is one of my favourite actors. There is a moment where he absented minded takes a drink from Adrienne Allen and drinks it without thinking.

Merrily We Go to Hell is a glorious glorious movie that isn't going out to shock like other movies at it's time but is using it's freedom that hasn't been taken away by the Hayes code to look at the complexity alcholism and substance abuse. So much so that I recogizned how I have enabled people with issues because I wanted to be with them and thought I was helping them. Even if the movie leans into the whole if I love him enough I can save him motif but that is the movies.

I am always going to appreciate how De Palma makes a De Palma movie with this main stream remake of a tv show. That the camra starts on a TV with Emilio Estevez racting to it. De Palma's voyeuristic style as some one is always watching, whether on TV or surveillance. But as the movie rushes through it's first act De Palma opens it up to a movie. The scene with Cruise and Czerny in the cafe with the impossible large fish tank with too much water is so good. De Palma is leaning on those camra angles it becomes unreal.

It's cinema baby.

Wait, is Unforgiven Gene Hackman's best performance. Cause Little Bill has so much complexeity and colour than the evil sherif than I .

I am starting to get the feeling that Arthur Penn like to Emasculate his characters? I am here for it.

Harry Moseby is such a fascinating character. He is not built for this world, he should have never left his bubble. As Taylor Sings: I hate it here so I will go to secret gardens in my mind, People need a key to get to
The only one is mine. The world is a cruel place where the innocent are sent to slaughter. Watching this after Bonnie and Clyde I am starting to appreciate Penn's style, he seems to like capturing fragmented moments, it is captivating to watch. This fits a Neo Noir, that is not going to open it's secrets up to you, there are still many things hidden in character moments.

Hackman plays Harry as the observer, much like in The Conversation, where he is trying to take in and understand but the cruelty baffles him.

I wish the Melanie Griffith nudity wasn't in it. I can see what he was trying to do, that this child was being abused and exploited by those around her. But you didn't need it to prove a point.

I think we really need to start appreciating the women of film who have found themselves in a situation they do not want to be in. And is letting their emotions known loudly. Estelle Parsons you are my Queen.

I never realsed how much of a 1980s Dex Comedy Queen Kim Cattrall was. Interesting. I forgot how much of a part of my nolstagia Police Acey was. Especially that score. But the likes of Mahony, Hightower, Tackleberry, Hooks, Harris, Zed (though I don't think he showed up until the sequel) have memories embeded in my childhood. Punk Brewster's Dad is Commandant Eric Lassard!

The first one is interesting because it hasn't really ramped up the boobs and homophobia which were stables of the 1980s Sex Comedy. Oh they there but it feels tame for what the other movies would get into. It's not as chartoonish. This is almost quaint. Like a proper movie. Even if it is a rip off of Stripes which was probably away of keeping the Animal House thing going.

Though Michael Winslow is a talented mimmic, but it is so werid that his whole thing in the movies, the guy who just made noises.

Yes, I may have gone into an arm folded stance when it came to Thunderbolts*. Beacause what are we doing here, since well 2020. But Disney and Marvel are going back to basics. when people loved The Guardians of the Galaxy, yes lets do that. It mostly worked. I'm still cynical, but I giggled. Stan doing a small Trump impression as Congressman Bucky was great. So I loved Bucky getting to be The Terminator for a moment. Flo killed it as usual (she's just that good) and the movie knew to rely on her and Stan. And over all Thunderbolts* is trying a thing, and I liked that. Yes, this movie is going back to basic Marvel as in what makes a hero, but also why some one is becomes a villian and there is nice dissection of depression and self loathing and depression with some nice visualisation.

Marvel told me they were bringing in the good movie people to make this movie. And it was a good movie. Oh but this movie does some characters dirty.

Oh you can tell this was co-written by Sylvester Stallone. A Working Man takes itself way to seriously that it's boring. There is also the notion of the Slasher as hero - in this case Statham is trained in a certain skill which is torture. Ayer and Statham do give the movie some texture, but it's mostly forgettable.

You give Gareth Evans a large club with people really want to kill someone and usually it's my favourite scene in the movie. Very much like in Raid 2 with Yayan Ruhian. There is a moment when Timothy Olypant and Richard Harrington walk into said club and there walk is edited to the music. It's such a small unimportant thing, but it is something I love. And yeah, this club fight is fantastic, it has those short staccato movements that feel very choreographed, yet very Evans.

Havoc is a movie with a soundtrack of load guns, forever bullets and buckets of exploding squibs. I had a good time.

No one and nothing could really beat Teri Garr in this period. She is effervescent in this movie. So much so that I am a little annoyed at how she is treated in the movie. Sandy is meant to be dopey and chaotic especially next to Jessica Lang's more relaxed and natural Julie. Lang is meant to be the ultimate in femininity and womanhood. But Garr just steals every scene she is in. She got done dirty. On this watch I think I appreciated the attempt at trying to create the intimacy of a female friendship that Duston Hoffman found himself in. Plus Lang and Garr are great. And this movie is really funny.

Plus I am always going to love a movie that is about how difficult it is to work with Dustin Hoffman.

This is a MOVIE. It is epic in every way it needs to be.

But I wonder if there was a brave soul who tried to tell Brando that it was pronounced Krypton not Krytin.

And I will never not be amused that Otis' theme is an oboe.

I am looking at you Chili

I had to sit there for a moment contending what I had just seen with Sinners. On one level I had seen a fantastic Carpenter/Rodriguez style movie. But Coogler is giving so much more. Sinners is a movie about the Deep South, Religion, The Devil, Music - more specifically Black Music, Appropriation, Black Masculinity, what does it mean to be Black, not just in the Jim Crow South but in general. I was wondering why Michael B. Jordan is playing twins, and it speaks so much to all of this. Two sides of the same coin.

The performances are things you can swim in. Coogler gives everyone time to settle in and get to know these people. Wummi Mosaku still proving she's going to be the best in any cast. And this is a movie that has Delroy Lindo being excellent,

This movie is so Gothic and horny it made everything tingle. I mean this is a movie with so many Cunnilingus references i was generally happy for Zinzi Evans (Coogler's Wife). Sinners is a movie that sweats mythology and I loved it very much.

Novocaine does everything it needs to do. Jack Quaid and Amber Midthunder are great. I like the notion of someone living with scars and some one trying to live without. And both facing it and coming to . I just needed something more and I am not sure what that is yet.

The Academy Awards for the 1998 movies was a weird one. As much as I ire Saving Private Ryan - I'm not high on any of Best Movie Nominations. Personally I would have given it to either Truman Show or Gods and Monsters. But Shakespeare in Love won, and Gwyneth got her Oscar. I being swept away with the romance, but something felt empty about it. It still does. There is something, perfunctory about the whole thing. At the same time, it was far more interesting than I thought. Viola and Will are not really in love with each other but more in love with the idea of love - much like Romeo and Juliet. Will wants to be find a muse and Viola wants to live in a play. Neither mix well with reality. Which is the point of the movie, or least how it ends. It's all fantasy. I wish the movie did more with the Gender Swap element, but it's striking from a 1998 perspective. But with that the movie does dip into a cartoon a little, mostly Geoffrey Rush. He is seriously mugging in this movie.

But this is a 1998 and all the good people are in. You know what Judi deserved that Oscar, she's great in the five minutes she's in this. Jim Carter was really in every movie leading up to Downton wasn't he? But it is Ben Afleck who steals the movie, he's doing a similar performance he would later do in The Last Duel, and I am here for it.

Shakespeare in Love is a perfect lazy Sunday arvo movie.

I cry every time, and just marveling at the camera work and blocking. West Side Story is perfectly executed.

To see a large group of extras intermingling on screen. So many of them - just cutting and murdering each other. That's cinema.

Uncle Marty has been telling us America has been built on corruption and blood for his whole career.

Christopher Landon is every much flexing his Brian De Palma camera moves. The camera is moving and swinging through every single crevasse of that restaurant. The camera is having a good time. Wished Landon and Marc Spicer allowed the camera to go full dutch - the movie would've been able to contain it - but they are fun with it.

I do really love this kind of thriller, someone up against an unknown force they are not sure how to navigate or what the next move can be when all the exists are blocked, while letting Meghann Fahey be intelligent and logical. I like Fahey as a movie presence, she can play that pretty and smart really well, like she did in Your Monster.

But Drop did feel like it was holding back a little. The beauty of a Brian De Palma or a Wes Craven is that there is a looseness or mess within the structure, I never completely got the wild swing - like just going to the dutch angle. Though it is a fine line to tread and Landon might not be there yet and doesn't mean he wont be able to get it in the future, he's usually a very controlled director.

But unfortunately the biggest thing, is that I don't think I buy Brandon Sklenar. Fahy doen't really have any one to really bounce off until the end, and I didn't get any of it from Sklenar.

But it was a fun time, and when Landon really chose his moments they really hit.

Weepies are blunt objects. To heighten the emotions I guess you have to keep everything black and white. Good, Bad, Sad, someone sings and you Cry. There some interesting ideas. The scars of the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake still linger and will continue to linger for generations to come. This is a movie of a city trying to heal as much as it is about a woman dealing with her own personal grief. However, Miki Magasiva is going out of his way to try and make you cry - if Mareta had a cat it would have been run over by a Malicious Garbage truck or something. This movie needed to give Mareta a break, it was too much at times, even for a weepie. And because of that it kept jumping all over the place where there was an interesting story. Can you still be a Mother if your child dies - how does that rip into your grief, and Christchurch is as a city, the class, racial and placing New Zealand as a Pacific Nation, cause New Zealand is a series of islands in the Pacific Ocean. What happens when you bring these ideas together.

Anapela Polataivao is fantastic as an inspirational teacher, she's just great. However, she deserved a better better script - because oafff that dialogue.

Still the weepie got to me.

June 1 – Italian Crime!
June 2 – Zombies!
June 3 – David Carradine!
June 4 – Blaxploitation
June 5 – Magic!
June 6 – Giallo!
June 7 – Kung Fu!
June 8 – Heists!
June 9 – Free Space!
June 10 – Jess Franco!
June 11 – ‘90s Action!
June 12 – Cartoons!
June 13 – Friday the 13th!
June 14 – Free Space!
June 15 – Revenge!
June 16 – ‘80s Comedy!
June 17 – Fulci!
June 18 – Rock and Roll!
June 19 – Free Space!
June 20 – Exploitation Auteurs!
June 21 – Westerns!
June 22 – Teenagers!
June 23 – New World Pictures!
June 24 – Hong Kong Action!
June 25 – Wings Ha Tribute!
June 26 – Eurosploitation!
June 27 – Free Space!
June 28 – Cannon!
June 29 – ‘80s Action!
June 30 – Italian Horror!

• The Heroin Busters
• Dead Snow
• Future Force
• Welcome Home Brother Charles
• Magic
• The House with Laughing Windows
• Kid with the Golden Arm
• Topkapi
• Incubus
• Vampyros Lesbos

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Rye Lane
• Late Night with the Devil
• All of Us Strangers
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Perfect Days
• ages
• Past Lives
• A Haunting in Venice
• Polite Society
• Brooklyn 45

...plus 86 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Alien
• Aliens
• Alien Resurrection
• Alien: Romulus
• Prometheus
• Alien³
• Alien: Covenant

I am going to attempt to create a top 150 (it keeps growing) list of my favourite movies. This is going to take time, and it's going to change a lot.

1. Jurassic Park
2. Dracula
3. Spotlight
4. Mad Love
5. The Apartment
6. Suspiria
7. Blow Out
8. Young Frankenstein
9. The Fugitive
10. Alien

...plus 147 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Little Forest
• Italianamerican
• The Heroic Trio
• Rapid Fire
• The Witch's Mirror
• Ip Man 2
• Patrick
• Colt 38 Special Squad
• Poison for the Fairies
• Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

...plus 43 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Braindead
• What We Do in the Shadows
• Forgotten Silver
• Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale
• Housebound
• The Quiet Earth
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople
• An Angel at My Table
• Goodbye Pork Pie

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

• Suspiria
• Mad Love
• Dracula
• New Nightmare
• The Wicker Man
• The House by the Cemetery
• Night of the Demon
• Scream 2
• Alien
• Psycho II

...plus 37 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Scream 2
• Scream
• Scream 3
• Scream VI
• Scream
• Scream 4

• Hatching
• Barbarian
• Fresh
• You Won't Be Alone
• Sissy
• X
• Pearl
• Men
• The Munsters
• Orphan: First Kill

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

• Brief Encounter
• Son of Frankenstein
• A Tale of Two Sisters
• A Better Tomorrow
• Ghosts... of the Civil Dead
• The Conversation
• What's Up, Doc?
• Riders of Justice
• Heaven Can Wait
• The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter

...plus 41 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Jurassic Park
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• Bridge of Spies
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• Duel
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Jaws
• The Fabelmans
• The Adventures of Tintin

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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

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

• GoodFellas
• Shutter Island
• Casino
• Hugo
• After Hours
• The Irishman
• The Age of Innocence
• Bringing Out the Dead
• The Departed
• Cape Fear

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Jurassic Park
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• Bridge of Spies
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Duel
• Jaws
• Schindler's List

...plus 19 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The House by the Cemetery
• Don't Torture a Duckling
• The Psychic
• The New York Ripper
• The Beyond
• A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
• City of the Living Dead
• The Devil's Honey
• Zombie Flesh Eaters
• Four of the Apocalypse

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

• Friday the 13th Part III
• Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
• Friday the 13th Part 2
• Jason X
• Friday the 13th
• Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
• Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
• Freddy vs. Jason
• Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
• Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

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

1. Jurassic Park
2. Mad Love
3. Young Frankenstein
4. The Apartment
5. Blow Out
6. The Wicker Man
7. Dracula
8. Josie and the Pussycats
9. Suspiria
10. Slither

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

• Force of Evil
• In the Mood for Love
• Deerskin
• She Done Him Wrong
• Desperate Living
• Seconds
• The Errand Boy
• Pontypool
• Fade to Black
• Five Element Ninjas

...plus 32 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Escape from the Planet of the Apes
• Planet of the Apes
• Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
• Battle for the Planet of the Apes
• War for the Planet of the Apes
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• Beneath the Planet of the Apes
• Planet of the Apes

• Star Trek Beyond
• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• Star Trek
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
• Star Trek: First
• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
• Star Trek: Insurrection
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture
• Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

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

• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Mandy
• Get Out
• The Duke of Burgundy
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Sicario
• What We Do in the Shadows
• Kill List
• The Cabin in the Woods
• Spotlight

...plus 37 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My favourite older movies I've 'finally gotten around to discovering in 2019.

• Katalin Varga
• The Battery
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• A New Leaf
• The Vampire Doll
• Rosemary's Baby
• The Talented Mr. Ripley
• White Zombie
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
• Nightmare Alley

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.