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Gender: A Canadian Saga - Chapter 1

Watched on Friday June 6, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday June 4, 2025.

Wow, Chappell Roan can really act.

Watched on Monday June 2, 2025.

Imagine being stuck in that 2 minute time loop while bursting for a piss.

Still not sure why it's as long as Star Wars.

Watched on Thursday May 29, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 26, 2025.

Despite the triptych structure there are at least two wonderfully subliminal thematic progressions between the three stories:

In a movie of utterly recognizable faces the fact that the titular R.M.F is somebody we probably have never seen before and he gradually becomes less present in each story is fucking genius in a movie about people being compelled by intangible/invisible forces they can't shake.

We go from middle class characters in beautiful houses, high rise office buildings and ornate cocktail/wine bars (The Death of RMF), to working class people in more rustic abodes (RMF is flying), and then lastly a group on the fringes of society with dive bars, motels and shabby doctors clinics (RMF Eats a Sandwich) being the locales. Even the modes of transport get lower down from Plemmons' jeep in the first story to Stone's sports car in the third. Consciously or unconsciously it's a movie that is brilliantly using class not as a didactic social message but to strengthen the sense of people becoming increasingly displaced from their vocations, family and culture.

I loved this movie on first viewing as one of the most demented and brave follow-ups to a 100 million dollar grossing movie in years, but on top of being a brilliantly thorny and confrontational counter to the right-on crowd pleasing empowerment of Poor Things it just might be Lanthimos' richest film.

Fun, but borderline feels like a pointed thumbing of the nose at people who thought he was starting to phone it in. "Oh you couldn't get on board with the existentialism and poignancy of my Asteroid City? Fuck you here's a whiffy trifle of a movie."

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 19, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

Fish out of water.
Out of water fish.
Out of fish water.

Watched on Thursday May 15, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 14, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 13, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 12, 2025.

I love how Wyatt Russell radiates "some guy" energy but when he raises his voice the Kurt seeps out a little.

Watched on Friday May 9, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 9, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 8, 2025.

Wasting Plodding Runtime

Most impressive is how much it feels more like a film from the 2000s in its gritty cinematography and handheld camerawork, but it's just absurd what a one trick pony it is other than that, The needle barely moves either aesthetically or thematically after that first hour and it just meanders to its routine conclusion with a syrupy reverence that feels disingenuous after all the grime and blood it wallows in.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa, world's biggest fan of Ben Wheatley's Free Fire?

Watched on Sunday May 4, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 2, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 28, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 22, 2025.

Alex Garland's Contextual Ambiguation II: Electric Boogaloo

It's thankfully far from the half-hearted and incurious bore that Civil War was, even if it's not all the way there. A docudrama that accidentally ends up as a Bressonian video game movie in its tension between the minimalism and verisimilitude of its storytelling and invocation of imagery we just can't untangle from decades of jingoistic propaganda at this stage. A tactile procedural that's so curiously distant and cold it ends up having a bizarre clarity about its own shortcomings.

A future of gaming that ignores the existence of Bloodborne is no future I want to be a part of.

Close enough. Welcome back John Carpenter.

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Watched on Tuesday April 15, 2025.

This guy made 12 Angry Men, what the fuck.

Watched on Sunday April 13, 2025.

Watched on Thursday April 10, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 9, 2025.

Absolutely wild and inspiring movie to accidentally put on on the anniversary of Margaret Thatcher's death.

Watched on Monday April 7, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 6, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 5, 2025.

Pretty fun, but boy does it feel like a classic case of "we worry people won't take this seriously as a piece of cinema unless we drag it out to 90 minutes"

It's not complicated.

A major major film that works even better if you don't see it as Lynch's "normal" one and as a work actively in conversation with the dark unexplainable forces elsewhere in his filmography. A movie that isn't looking away from the abyss but staring at it fearsomely

Watched on Wednesday April 2, 2025.

Romantic comedies used to have a dangerous animal casually present for 40% of the runtime.

1. Winter Light
2. Mikey and Nicky
3. Belladonna of Sadness
4. Matewan
5. Sinners
6. Dinner in America
7. The Color of Pomegranates
8. Nickel Boys
9. Noroi: The Curse
10. No Other Land

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

1. Sinners
2. Nickel Boys
3. No Other Land
4. Black Bag
5. A Real Pain
6. Broken Rage
7. Flow
8. Cloud
9. The Brutalist
10. Hard Truths

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

• Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes
• Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
• Dinner in America
• Host
• Tenet
• Undine
• Wolfwalkers
• The Woman Who Ran
• Annette
• Drive My Car

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Asteroid City
2. The Grand Budapest Hotel
3. Rushmore
4. The Royal Tenenbaums
5. Isle of Dogs
6. Bottle Rocket
7. Fantastic Mr. Fox
8. The Darjeeling Limited
9. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
10. The Phoenician Scheme

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

1-45: DVD
46-289: Blu-ray
290-: 4K

1. Andrei Rublev
2. Annie Get Your Gun
3. Ashes and Diamonds
4. L'Avventura
5. Black Book
6. Bullitt
7. Calamity Jane
8. Céline and Julie Go Boating
9. Colossal Youth
10. Early Spring

...plus 436 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
2. Mission: Impossible
3. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
4. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
5. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
6. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
7. Mission: Impossible II
8. Mission: Impossible III

Movies I saw on 16MM/35MM/70MM post-2010. Will likely be updating this for a while as I more stuff.

• 2001: A Space Odyssey

  70MM

• 8½

  35MM

• Alien

  70MM

• Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

  35MM

• Blissfully Yours

  35MM

• Blue Velvet

  35MM

• Boogie Nights

  35MM

• Die Hard

  70MM

• Dunkirk

  70MM

• Hard Boiled

  35MM

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Legend of Kaspar Ha
• Odds Against Tomorrow
• Madigan
• Kinetta
• Dead Heat
• Bandslam
• Despair
• Every Dog Has His Date
• Juno and the Paycock
• Cheaper by the Dozen

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

1. The Batman
2. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
3. Batman Returns
4. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
5. Zack Snyder's Justice League
6. Batman
7. The Dark Knight Rises
8. Batman Begins
9. The Dark Knight
10. Joker: Folie à Deux

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

• Ambulance
• Madame Web

1. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
2. Tokyo Twilight
3. Rio Bravo
4. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
5. Lone Star
6. The Taste of Tea
7. The Beast
8. Where Is the Friend's House?
9. Fail Safe
10. Demonlover

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
2. The Beast
3. Showing Up
4. Red Rooms
5. Evil Does Not Exist
6. Hundreds of Beavers
7. I Saw the TV Glow
8. About Dry Grasses
9. Caught by the Tides
10. The Zone of Interest

...plus 56 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Nope
2. The Witch
3. Get Out
4. The Lighthouse
5. Beau Is Afraid
6. Us
7. The Northman
8. Midsommar
9. Hereditary

1. The Thing
2. The Fog
3. They Live
4. Escape from New York
5. Assault on Precinct 13
6. Halloween
7. In the Mouth of Madness
8. Starman
9. Prince of Darkness
10. Ghosts of Mars

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Ten Skies
• Antichrist
• Babylon
• At Berkeley
• Bones and All
• Cold Fish
• Crimson Peak
• The Doom Generation
• The Duke of Burgundy
• Everything Everywhere All at Once

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Amazing Spider-Man 2
• Aquaman
• Casablanca
• Creed III
• Dragged Across Concrete
• Fighting with My Family
• Hypnotic
• Knock at the Cabin
• Love, Simon
• M3GAN

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Alien
2. Aliens
3. Alien: Covenant
4. Alien³
5. Prometheus
6. Alien Resurrection
7. Alien: Romulus

• All That Heaven Allows
• Antiporno
• Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes
• Brief Encounter
• The Dead
• Distant Voices, Still Lives
• Evil Dead II
• The Fog
• Four Nights of a Dreamer
• Ghost in the Shell

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

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Punch-Drunk Love
3. Phantom Thread
4. Inherent Vice
5. Magnolia
6. The Master
7. Licorice Pizza
8. Hard Eight
9. Boogie Nights

1. Slacker
2. Before Sunset
3. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
4. Boyhood
5. Waking Life
6. Before Sunrise
7. It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books
8. Dazed and Confused
9. Before Midnight
10. Everybody Wants Some!!

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

1. Drive My Car
2. Asteroid City
3. Mad God
4. The Killer
5. Nope
6. Tenet
7. The Beast
8. Oppenheimer
9. The Plains
10. Showing Up

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. PlayTime
3. High and Low
4. Persona
5. Harakiri
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey
7. La Notte
8. Yojimbo
9. Red Desert
10. Eros + Massacre

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Jackie Brown
2. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
3. The Hateful Eight
4. Inglourious Basterds
5. Death Proof
6. Reservoir Dogs
7. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
8. Pulp Fiction
9. Django Unchained
10. Kill Bill: Vol. 1

1. Nope
2. The Witch
3. Get Out
4. The Lighthouse
5. Beau Is Afraid
6. The Northman
7. Us
8. Midsommar
9. Hereditary

1. Chungking Express
2. Satantango
3. Hoop Dreams
4. Ashes of Time
5. Crumb
6. Three Colours: Red
7. In the Mouth of Madness
8. The Crow
9. Through the Olive Trees
10. Clerks

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

1. Late Spring
2. Tokyo Twilight
3. Tokyo Story
4. The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
5. Equinox Flower
6. Early Summer
7. Late Autumn
8. Good Morning
9. I Was Born, But...
10. Floating Weeds

...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Killers of the Flower Moon
2. Oppenheimer
3. The Zone of Interest
4. Past Lives
5. Anatomy of a Fall
6. Poor Things
7. Barbie
8. The Holdovers
9. American Fiction
10. Maestro

1. Asteroid City
2. The Killer
3. The Plains
4. Skinamarink
5. Killers of the Flower Moon
6. Pacifiction
7. Oppenheimer
8. John Wick: Chapter 4
9. The Boy and the Heron
10. Past Lives

...plus 72 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Millennium Mambo
2. All That Heaven Allows
3. Sorcerer
4. It Happened One Night
5. Michael Clayton
6. Eros + Massacre
7. Asteroid City
8. The Hidden Fortress
9. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
10. The Killer

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Heat
2. Miami Vice
3. Collateral
4. Blackhat
5. Thief
6. Manhunter
7. The Last of the Mohicans
8. Ferrari
9. The Insider
10. Public Enemies

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• 13 Assassins
• 24 City
• 88:88
• Adrift in Tokyo
• The African Queen
• Alice in Wonderland
• All About Lily Chou-Chou
• Antiporno
• Aquarius
• Asako I & II

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A new to me horror movie for every day of October, ranked from best to worst.

1. Bride of Frankenstein
2. Ghosts of Mars
3. Dracula
4. Carrie
5. Frankenstein
6. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
7. The Others
8. The Invisible Man
9. A Nightmare on Elm Street
10. Curse of Chucky

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. GoodFellas
2. The King of Comedy
3. Taxi Driver
4. The Irishman
5. Silence
6. Bringing Out the Dead
7. After Hours
8. The Last Temptation of Christ
9. Raging Bull
10. Killers of the Flower Moon

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

1. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street
3. A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
4. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
5. New Nightmare
6. A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child
7. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

• Close-Up
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
• Sonatine
• Chungking Express
• Fallen Angels
• Secrets & Lies
• Princess Mononoke
• The Big Lebowski
• Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
2. Eyes Wide Shut
3. Audition
4. Instrument
5. Rosetta
6. Bringing Out the Dead
7. Magnolia
8. The Limey
9. The Straight Story
10. The Matrix

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

For maximum effect stare at this list for 5 minutes and then move closer.

1. Right Now, Wrong Then
2. On the Beach at Night Alone
3. On the Occasion of ing the Turning Gate
4. Tale of Cinema
5. Grass
6. The Day After
7. Night and Day
8. The Day He Arrives
9. The Woman Who Ran
10. Hill of Freedom

...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Adrift in Tokyo
• The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
• Tokyo Drifter

1. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
2. The Long Goodbye
3. A Brighter Summer Day
4. Mad God
5. The Meetings of Anna
6. Distant Voices, Still Lives
7. RRR
8. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
9. Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
10. Funeral Parade of Roses

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

31 days of horror, ranked from best to worst.

1. The Fog
2. Mad God
3. Night of the Living Dead
4. Evil Dead II
5. Deep Red
6. Host
7. Revenge
8. Phenomena
9. Halloween Ends
10. Creep 2

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