True love is cauterizing your bro's bullet wound in the most melodramatic way imaginable

I love how much this plays out like an in-universe propaganda film. Verhoeven plays on the audience's knowledge of classic sci-fi action tropes in order to make fun of them. The sight of Neil Patrick Harris touching an alien bug's slimy vagina while wearing a Nazi uniform slightly too big for him will stay with me forever. It's hilarious.

If I was Nasha I would've turned Mickey 17 and Mickey 18 into Mickey 69.

This is only interesting if you're already a fan of Today is the Day because apparently they didn't have the rights to use their music in this film, so instead we get 80 minutes of Steve Austin rambling about his (amazing, granted) music that the audience never gets to hear.

I love catty old queens

Franco Nero: "I'd like to talk to you both about The Pope's Exorcist initiative."

The first chapter of this is so tense and moody that the subsequent ones fail to measure up.

However, a guy DOES get turned into a cactus in one of the later chapters so they've got that going for 'em.

This was the greatest movie ever made when I was 16. It kinda still is.

More like Scanners II: Straight II VHS!

One of the villains looks like a younger version of Bob from Twin Peaks and he's an absolute BLAST to watch on screen

Another Sean Baker film that feels like hanging out in the best way possible

"Gritty" and warm in the sense that the tone Baker establishes lets you understand that these characters act and respond to situations much like real people would. You're not watching them, you're spending 100 minutes hanging out with them. Also, adorable baby.

Starts off idyllic and erotically enough, showcasing the beauty of two men connecting (fucking) in nature. Then things get noisier. We're in the city now and the sex happens behind closed doors. Jagged synthesizer themes start blaring all over the place. Things get sinister. There's a lot of cool imagery, extended fisting sequence included. With the way these actors are shot, it feels like Halsted is deliberately depersonalizing them, removing their body parts from their physical context and making them something else. Sure, that's one man's hand entering another man's asshole, but in close-up it feels so abstract. Just one piston pumping away in a machine.

The gimmick can be a little tiresome (especially with the overuse of slo-mo) but the kills are fun and inventive! Jack Quaid is hot and charming and the whole cast seem like they're having fun. I'm probably going to forget ever having watched this but I had fun with it.

Just think, if Mikey grew up with more opportunities, he could've been the best, most well-endowed used car salesman in Texas.

Not without its charms, but coasts a little too hard on the goodwill of the first one. Blake Lively's hard ass Michael Jackson/big hat fit keeps this from being two stars.

The whole opening sequence with Count Dooku feels like watching the end of a story that happened off-screen in the best way imaginable.

Fulci does what he can with the material he has, but the best moments here are when he lets his horror proclivities take over. There's very little actual gladiator business happening which is funny to me.

What it feels like to listen to Judas Priest

I think that The Psychic is stronger as far as slower paced Fulci goes but Frizzi is doing his thing (even though one of the tracks is definitely a straight rip of a Goblin piece from the Deep Red soundtrack), there's a creepy little kid, a sinister mystic amulet, and bird violence so it's not bad.

Watching this with Fabio Frizzi and his band performing the score live was a great experience. The stage in the theater is above eye level, with the film projected above the seated musicians. It felt like hanging out with the pit band. The musicians were so locked into Fulci's rhythms that it felt like the movie was the seventh member of the band. The movie itself already kicks ass, a testament to Fulci's tremendous gifts as a genre filmmaker.

The applause for the band CRESCENDOING during the mother of all eye impalement scenes was well-earned.

Verhoeven does De Palma with the added joy of George Dzundza running around and calling Michael Douglas "Hoss."

I like this more every single time I see it. I even think the Anakin/Pe romance stuff works. Child politician and former child slave turned child wizard soldier in training is probably the most stunted coupling imaginable. Of course they don't know how to do romance.
Every other shot in this is either the coolest, most grandiose thing I've ever seen or something that is obviously two actors standing in front of a green screen. The fuck it all, let's do cool shit with the camera vibe is downright infectious even in those moments.

Watching a movie you half- from childhood as a series of edited clips with commercial breaks as an adult is interesting because suddenly you realize that, no, you've never actually *seen* RoboCop before, you just five minute censored bits and pieces from some version of it that aired on TNT 30 years ago.

The confidence Verhoven approaches the material with is so delightful. There's a willingness to be extremely blunt and direct with the satire that, from the newsreel talking heads to the MVP lineup of character actors taking turns chewing scenery, allows RoboCop to savor its bleak techno dystopian hellhole as much as it does critique it. Sure, everything's a corporation, but he shot a guy in the dick!

They really named that guy "Dr. Ruth" and he didn't dispense any clever and charming sex advice.

Still enjoyable, but a big drop-off from The Heroic Trio. The darker post-apocalyptic setting ends up feeling drab, rather than inspired. It feels like half this movie was shot in warehouses. Needs more girl power.

Richard E Grant is stupid hot in this

A bit too self aware for its own good. Julian Dennison is so charming, he should be in more of the movie. And more things in general. Still, I laughed.

Autism be damned, the boy sure can kill

What starts off as a scathing showbiz satire playing off Elizabeth Berkeley's pathological striver/homecoming queen screen persona pivots to something like All About Eve THEN transforms into something far more mythological and strange in its final 20 or so minutes. Nomi Malone IS Goddess, goddammit.

Verhoven does an amazing job setting up the interpersonal relationships, the rivalries, the friendships, and the way the powerful men in the lives of these dancers use them to pit these women against one another.

Way more exciting than the first one. It probably didn't need to be as long as it is, but framing the supernatural possession narrative as part of a very long crashout by a pop star is brilliant and adds a great deal of momentum between scenes of terror and mutilation.

Also: great ending

I feel like I've been sorting my records wrong all this time

The tone in this is so masterful. Ray Stevenson is perfectly stoic and brooding against the backdrop of this ridiculous neon comic book world. Instead of trying to delve too deeply into Frank's tortured background, we witness the variety of ways in which a man's face can get fucked up. There are many. The only way the laws of physics apply here is if the movie wants them to. Dominic West is having a blast. Sure, we can do The Punisher as a whole thing about PTSD and police brutality, but where's the fun in that? Lexi Alexander understands that this material is best served by the b-movie treatment, surrounding our gun-toting badass with colorful side characters and letting him kill them all.

What it feels like to talk to someone who pays for twitter

"Where would people never notice a town of robots? Connecticut!"

Sure, the original film is an understated masterpiece in the way that many classic films of the 1970s are, but I love how this goes in a completely different direction. Feels more 2025 than 2004. I mean, there's a gay Republican who put his fruity husband in the Str8 acting masc machine! Feels very prophetic (slop reality TV a la Beast Games, robot girlfriends by 2025, resentful big tech guys attempting to hijack interpersonal relationships and control the world, etc) and due for reevaluation.

The more things change, etc.

Really lovely, a great historical document, and so many hot guys.

Watched on Monday March 24, 2025.

Sometimes your work friends really do end up being your best friends

Love the recurring synth motif that continually pops up

Antiviral understands that red and white look good together which is why Caleb Landry Jones, with his pale skin and very red freckles and hair still looks extremely hot even as his character is on the verge of death from an experimental illness.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste's character, Pansy, is so closed off to the rest of the world that her unyielding rage saturates every single interaction she has with other people. It'd almost be self-loathing if she had much self left to loathe. The scene where Pansy breaks down laughing and crying simultaneously at the idea of something as simple as Mother's Day flowers is so potent because it feels like a dam breaking. Since we, the audience, spend most of Hard Truths' runtime as co-victims of Pansy's unrelenting anger and emotional abuse, seeing the actual human being beneath it all is shocking.

Almost plays out like a video game the way it meanders narratively and characters perform tasks in between battles. I wish it was 50 hours long.

I'd hate to go on a date with Judge Edie Franklin and have her judge me, that'd be no fun.

Also Fred Willard is the GOAT and this movie is full of ringers and quotable lines, but s/o to Larry Miller as Cookie's old? flame, a hostage negotiator with absolutely zero chill.

So much bleaker and yet less violent than the first one. This is the violence of entrenched power and puppet string-pulling.

Watching this gets sadder every time in the context of Bobby's life since this was released. Even though it ends on a happy note.

I've seen this three times and still can't find myself in the audience of the comeback show. It was a good one. I thinking at the time that Bobby looked like my great-grandmother. But he's still here, releasing records, going viral, relapsing, getting sober, relapsing, getting sober, etc

Look, I love bad movies but it's important to differentiate between BAD bad (anonymous, soulless product, not accidentally funny, etc), and the kind of bad that reveals so much about its creator's preoccupations that it loops all the way back around to MASTERPIECE. Enter the Ninja feels like an inside look at what Menahem Golan thinks is COOL. Like what if Franco Nero was a badass ninja. No, it's ok, Franco Nero, my hot, sexy army buddy, it's fine if you think my wife's hot. I'd fuck her myself but my dick doesn't work anymore. Please have sex with my hot wife. Have you met my friend DOLLAR? He sells crucifixes AND porn! Our villain is a loud, angry real estate developer! His henchman has a hook for a hand! He's kind of a pussy! Good ninjas wear WHITE. Bad ninjas wear BLACK. Ninjas never kill. 😉

• Companion
• Mickey 17
• Novocaine
• Another Simple Favor

• Love Lies Bleeding
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• The Beast
• The Bikeriders
• Nosferatu
• Problemista
• Dune: Part Two
• Terrifier 3
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
• The Substance

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• Salem's Lot
• Messiah of Evil
• Hatchet for the Honeymoon
• Mute Witness
• Pulse
• Fright Night
• Salem's Lot
• Lifeforce
• Eaten Alive
• Swallowed

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• Bottoms
• John Wick: Chapter 4
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things
• Asteroid City
• Saw X
• Afire
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Down Low
• Blue Beetle

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

• Gozu
• Chopping Mall
• Saw
• Saw II
• Renfield
• Saw III
• Murders in the Rue Morgue
• Jason X
• Saw IV
• X

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• The Decline of Western Civilization Part III
• Desperately Seeking Susan
• Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
• Beach Rats
• The Slumber Party Massacre
• Eve's Bayou
• In the Cut

• Pearl
• Jackass Forever
• Terrifier 2
• TÁR
• Dinner in America
• Funny Pages
• The Batman
• The Fabelmans
• The Northman
• The Banshees of Inisherin

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• Sole Survivor
• The Slumber Party Massacre
• Puppet Master
• Prom Night
• They/Them
• The Funhouse
• Roadgames
• The Hidden
• Psycho II
• Werewolf by Night

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

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

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• Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
• Thor: Ragnarok
• Spider-Man: Homecoming
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier
• Black Panther
• Avengers: Endgame
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
• Guardians of the Galaxy
• Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
• Ant-Man and the Wasp

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• The Empire Strikes Back
• Star Wars
• Return of the Jedi
• Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
• Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
• Solo: A Star Wars Story
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens
• Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

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• Licorice Pizza
• The Card Counter
• Saint-Narcisse
• The Matrix Resurrections
• Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
• Venom: Let There Be Carnage
• Zola
• Old
• Nobody
• Malignant

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

A work in progress

• This Is Spinal Tap
• Gummo
• Mallrats
• The Shining
• Blue Collar
• Ghost World
• Tenebre
• Seven Samurai
• Female Trouble
• The Royal Tenenbaums

...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Black Cat
• The Witches of Eastwick
• Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers
• The Raven
• Return of the Living Dead III
• Peeping Tom
• The Gorgon
• The Amusement Park
• Eyes of Laura Mars
• Titane

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

• Climate of the Hunter
• Color Out of Space
• Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
• Possessor
• The Hunt
• Mangrove
• Black Bear
• Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
• Bad Education
• Lovers Rock

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• Zappa
• Jasper Mall
• A Secret Love
• Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street
• Class Action Park
• Spaceship Earth
• Circus of Books
• Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
• American Murder: The Family Next Door
• Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado

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• Verotika
• The Abominable Dr. Phibes
• The Pit and the Pendulum
• The Haunted Palace
• Trog
• Night of the Demons
• WNUF Halloween Special
• Fade to Black
• Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini
• Lord of Illusions

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• Parasite
• Uncut Gems
• Her Smell
• Knife+Heart
• Midsommar
• John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
• Us
• The Lighthouse
• The Last Black Man in San Francisco
• Knives and Skin

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
• Love, Antosha
• Leaving Neverland
• Jawline
• Don't Break Down: A Film About Jawbreaker
• Tell Me Who I Am
• What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• The Rainbow
• ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke
• The Black Godfather

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• God Told Me To
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• Scars of Dracula
• Strait-Jacket
• Hands of the Ripper
• The Stuff
• Inferno
• Berserk!
• Christine
• Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed

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• The Master
• Sorry to Bother You
• Mandy
• John Wick
• Minding the Gap
• Kill List
• Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• What We Do in the Shadows
• Mad Max: Fury Road

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Just gonna keep expanding this as I things

• This Is Spinal Tap
• The Shining
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• The Empire Strikes Back
• Ran
• They Live
• Videodrome
• Night of the Comet
• Tenebre
• Society

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1. Sorry to Bother You
2. Eighth Grade
3. Mandy
4. First Reformed
5. Annihilation
6. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
7. Black Panther
8. Revenge
9. A Simple Favor
10. If Beale Street Could Talk

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• Minding the Gap
• Shirkers
• Quincy
• They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
• Abducted in Plain Sight
• The Sentence
• Won't You Be My Neighbor?
• Crime + Punishment
• Andre the Giant
• The Rachel Divide

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• Raising Arizona
• The Big Lebowski
• A Serious Man
• Fargo
• Burn After Reading
• Barton Fink
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• No Country for Old Men
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• Miller's Crossing

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• Videodrome
• Naked Lunch
• Dead Ringers
• The Fly
• Crash
• Eastern Promises
• The Brood
• Maps to the Stars
• Spider
• Scanners

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• Halloween
• Halloween III: Season of the Witch
• Halloween
• Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
• Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
• Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
• Halloween II
• Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
• Halloween: Resurrection

• Society
• The Return of the Living Dead
• Stepfather 3
• The Endless
• Halloween: Resurrection
• The Omen
• The Alchemist Cookbook
• The Stepford Wives
• Suspiria
• Nightmare City

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• There Will Be Blood
• Boogie Nights
• The Master
• Phantom Thread
• Inherent Vice
• Magnolia
• Hard Eight
• Punch-Drunk Love

• Watchmen
• Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice