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I like Pluto's imaginary blueprint map that appears at the start, and the side-on views of the underground burrow.

I have to concur with some of the other reviews that say that this takes a while to get going, but that it does improve after its time skip.

There's a spectacular staircase leading up to a temple; at one point, a character rolls down its entire length, which I can only conclude is where John Wick 4 got that idea. I also liked the design of the training dummy, filled with grooves holding marked ball bearings, which is used to train for the attacks on Bai Mei's vital points. (The English subtitles have that name transliterated as "Bai Mei" with a "B", not "Pai Mei" as in Kill Bill vol 2.)

Said villain has the power to immobilise foes by sucking their limbs into his groin. (As you do.) In the interview that accompanies this film on the Arrow Blu-ray, Tony Rayns talks about how although Bai Mei is not explicitly stated to be a eunuch, that power is very much coded to be in that tradition of eunuch villains like the one from Dragon Inn.

Rayns also describes Executioners from Shaolin as the most believable depiction of a married relationship in a martial arts film. I'm not sure if I'd agree with that, but it's definitely true that, like Lau Kar-leung's later (superior) film Heroes of the East, it's making heavy use of the "marriage metaphor'd through martial arts" thing. The stubborn man refuses to learn from his wife because she uses a fighting style meant for women, and it becomes his downfall; their son also attempts to use his father's style, and fails because he hasn't been taught it properly; it's only when their son adopts her feminine fighting style that he can win. "Unifying lessons from two people, and winning thanks to the one that's been underestimated" is a simple structure for an arc an action movie hero can go through to defeat the villain, but it's still reliably satisfying.

Hopefully I'll be able to watch this film's remake Clan of the White Lotus at some point.

Watched on Thursday April 10, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 8, 2025.

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Watched on Thursday April 3, 2025.

I'm probably slightly overrating this just because of the novelty of seeing Pixar do a 2D short in an uneven-outlined style that's reminiscent of Ernest & Celestine/The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales.

Watched on Monday March 31, 2025.

When it comes to the SparkShorts, I'm afraid that I prefer the ones (like "Kitbull", "Out" and "Burrow") that disguise their worthy messages behind a funny or cute surface.

Watched on Sunday March 30, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 30, 2025.

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Watched on Wednesday March 19, 2025.

Hitchcock always put humour in his films, but this is the only one that I've ever really seen described as an outright "comedy". Unfortunately, for most of the first half of the film, I didn't find it a very funny one.

Initially, the tone is extremely odd. No one reacts in any believable way to the discovery of a dead body: the retired ship captain who believes he accidentally shot the man takes it in his stride as a mild inconvenience before falling asleep nearby; Shirley MacLaine (in her first film role!) seems pleased to see her husband dead; John Forsythe's artist immediately starts drawing the dead man's portrait. The complete lack of concern in their reactions might sound funny on paper (lots of good comedy can come from characters' deadpan behaviour in ridiculous situations), but to me they came across as just bizarre instead of funny. It meant I struggled to get a handle on the film.

However, there was one line I liked in this first section of the film:

"Well, if I can do anything to make it any harder for you, let me know."

It's not until quite far into the movie that anyone begins to act at all concerned about being accused of murder, in a way that you might expect to happen in a Hitchcock film... but even then, they still don't seem that concerned. This ain't exactly The Wrong Man or The 39 Steps, where the whole plot revolves around the threat of being accused of a crime!

But after that, a funny thing happened: the film began to grow on me. That was partly thanks to some fun dialogue:

"You're not supposed to bury bodies whenever you find them, it makes people suspicious."

"If it's murder, who done it?"

"Who *did* it."

"That's what I say, who done it?"

"Coming home from Madagascar once, we had a fireman on board who hit his head on a brick wall and died two days later."

"Where could he find a brick wall on board a ship?"

"Mmm. That's what we always wondered."

But the main reason I enjoyed it more as it progressed was because of how far its absurdities escalated, until ultimately - in the final section of the film - it could be described as farce. That section of the film doesn't last very long. But by the time Shirley MacLaine was explaining why the body had to be dug up and re-buried so many times in one day (she'd forgotten the reason behind doing it the second time), it was hard not to be won over.

So, even though it took a long time for me to get along with the movie, it ended strongly enough that I was left with a positive impression of quite a likeable film.

Other things to note: there are lots of very pretty shots of rural Vermont's autumnal scenery - but, unfortunately, that's somewhat spoiled by several ugly day-for-night scenes. Also, this was Bernard Herrmann's first collaboration with Hitchcock, and yes, it's a good score.

Watched on Monday March 17, 2025.

The stylised characters look great as illustrations, but when animated, they can be hard to read in motion.

Watched on Saturday March 15, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 15, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday March 11, 2025.

[Audio commentary by Adrian Martin (2024 BFI Blu-ray)]

Watched on Thursday March 6, 2025.

[Audio commentary by Peter Jackson and Randall William Cook]

On the other commentary with Harryhausen and Tony Dalton, Harryhausen himself seems a bit bemused that people are so interested in the nerdy details of how things were done and how long they took. (There are a few exasperated "Oh, I don't "s!)

But the Jackson commentary is two fans geeking out about exactly those nerdy details. Lots of stuff about clearing out Harryhausen's LA garage, to preserve the stuff that he dismissed as worthless junk to be thrown out! Jackson talks about transferring the film to 4K for preservation.

Watched on Thursday February 27, 2025.

[Audio commentary by Ray Harryhausen and Tony Dalton]

Watched on Tuesday February 18, 2025.

Watched on Thursday February 6, 2025.

[Audio commentary by Hong Kong film expert Ric Meyers, and co-author of Jackie Chan's autobiography Jeff Yang (recorded in 2002) (Eureka Masters of Cinema Blu-ray)]

I last watched Drunken Master back in 2012, not long after I'd ed Letterboxd. When I reviewed it then, I rated it a mere three stars. I think that's because at that time I was self-consciously trying to rate things a bit more harshly in order to bring down my highly-skewed Letterboxd rating curve, so I used the broadness of Drunken Master's jokes as an excuse to give it a lower rating than I might have done at other times.

But, as I said in 2021 when I watched Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, three stars definitely does not reflect how fondly I think of Drunken Master. I've long regretted giving it that score, and now this rewatch is a chance to correct that!

Over the last few years, I've watched many more Hong Kong martial arts films for the first time - including several that feature Wong Fei-hung and his associated theme music "On the General's Orders", and a few (like Lau Kar-leung's Heroes of the East) that also feature some sort of drunken fist. But even amongst all of them, Drunken Master stands out, because there's something about the way it does the fake-off-balance style of fighting that I find extremely pleasing to watch, in a way that I've never seen quite matched. (When I first watched Drunken Master 2, my biggest disappointment was that the majority of the film features comparatively little drunken boxing, prior to that brilliant final fight.)

Hwang Jang-Lee's Thunderleg is one of the greatest ever action movie villains. Just wanted to make sure I mentioned that.

My original Drunken Master review was from a viewing of my copy of the Hong Kong Legends DVD. In that review, I noted that one of my favourite jokes was the smash cut to a restaurant's sign that was subtitled with the hilariously blunt message "PAY OR DIE!" But on the disc I watched this time (the Eureka Blu-ray), the English subtitles instead translate it as "NO FREELOADERS." The latter is presumably a more accurate and literal translation, but it's not as funny! (The Eureka BR also includes the English subtitles from original Hong Kong theatrical prints - in a track that it describes as "transcribed with all its inherent spelling and grammatical errors meticulously retained" - and those captions have it as "no freeloaders," too.)

Watched on Saturday January 25, 2025.

Watched on Saturday January 25, 2025.

Watched on Saturday January 25, 2025.

Watched on Thursday January 23, 2025.

Watched on Thursday January 23, 2025.

[Audio commentary on all 10 episodes by creator Patrick McHale and art director Nick Cross]

Watched on Thursday January 23, 2025.

Watched on Friday January 17, 2025.

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Watched on Friday January 10, 2025.

Watched on Friday January 10, 2025.

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Watched on Friday January 10, 2025.

[Audio commentary by Mike Leeder and Arne Venema (Eureka Blu-ray)]

[Audio commentary by Frank Djeng and Bobby Samuels (Eureka Blu-ray)]

Watched on Thursday January 9, 2025.

Yes, some of us do still rent physical DVD/Blu-ray copies of films and TV series by post! Here's a list of all the discs I've rented since subscribing to Cinema Paradiso at the end of 2018: www.cinemaparadiso.co.uk/

(I previously used LoveFilm, from 2009 until Amazon killed them in 2017. Here's my list of LoveFilm rentals.)

I still like postal rentals because of the range of titles available compared to streaming; because of the commentaries and other bonus features; because of the superior subtitles and rewind/slow-motion functions that physical editions tend to have over streaming; and because with a streaming service there's the ever-present, dreadful potential for a title to be removed without warning, which I always found quite stressful!

Where possible, this list also includes bonus features (e.g. Making Ofs, and related short films) on this list - the discs for Do The Right Thing, F For Fake, and Adventures of Robin Hood each have a lot of those. However, for my rental of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol 2, instead of listing all 60+ shorts, I've just listed the first short on each of the four discs.

1. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
2. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
3. 20 Feet from Stardom
4. Ghost in the Shell
5. Sausage Party
6. Creed
7. War for the Planet of the Apes
8. Ocean's Eight
9. Hidden Figures
10. First Man

...plus 430 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Dial M for Murder

  Alfred Hitchcock - 30

  Dial M For Murder (rw 2020.12.22)
  The Lady Vanishes (2009.02.28)
  Rebecca (2009.02.28)
  North By Northwest (2010.01.15)
  Vertigo (2010.01.18)
  Rear Window (2010.10.07)
  The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) (2011.04.05)
  The Birds (2011.05.14)
  Spellbound (2011.06.17)
  The 39 Steps (2011.08.11)
  Shadow of a Doubt (2011.08.13)
  Rope (2011.10.07)
  Psycho (2011.11.19)
  Strangers on a Train (2012.05.05)
  Saboteur (2012.06.28)
  Notorious (2013.01.06)
  To Catch a Thief (2013.05.27)
  Topaz (2013.08.03)
  The Wrong Man (2013.12.23)
  The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) (2020.06.06)
  I Confess! (2021.03.03)
  Frenzy (2021.03.31)
  Foreign Correspondent (2021.07.02)
  The Lodger (2021.07.22)
  Marnie (2022.08.04)
  Lifeboat (2024.03.25)
  Torn Curtain (2024.07.18)
  Sabotage (2024.11.21)
  The Trouble with Harry (2025.03.19)
  Stage Fright (2025.05.31)

• Hook

  Steven Spielberg - 22

  Hook
  Duel
  The Sugarland Express
  Jaws
  E.T.
  Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  Raiders of the Lost Ark
  Temple of Doom
  Last Crusade
  Crystal Skull
  Empire of the Sun
  Jurassic Park
  The Lost World
  Saving Private Ryan
  AI: Artificial Intelligence
  Minority Report
  Catch Me if You Can
  Munich
  War of the Worlds
  Adventures of Tintin
  Bridge of Spies
  The Post

• Fargo

  Coen Brothers - 16

  Fargo
  Blood Simple
  Raising Arizona
  Barton Fink
  Miller's Crossing
  The Big Lewbowski
  The Man Who Wasn't There
  The Hudsucker Proxy
  O Brother, Where Art Thou?
  Intolerable Cruelty
  No Country For Old Men
  Burn After Reading
  A Serious Man
  True Grit
  Inside Llewyn Davis
  Hail, Caesar!

• Drunken Master

  Yuen Woo-ping - 13

  Drunken Master
  Snake in the Eagle's Shadow
  The Magnificent Butcher
  Tiger Cage
  Tiger Cage 2
  Tiger Cage 3
  In the Line of Duty 4
  Iron Monkey
  Wing Chun
  Tai Chi Master
  Tai Chi Boxer (aka Tai Chi II)
  Legend of a Fighter (2024.08.20)
  The Miracle Fighters (2025.05.15)

• Princess Mononoke

  Hayao Miyazaki - 12

  Princess Mononoke
  The Castle of Cagliostro
  Nausicaa
  Castle in the Sky
  My Neighbour Totoro
  Kiki's Delivery Service
  Porco Rosso
  Spirited Away
  Howl's Moving Castle
  Ponyo
  The Wind Rises
  The Boy and the Heron

• Memento

  Christopher Nolan - 12

  Memento
  Batman Begins
  The Dark Knight
  The Dark Knight Rises
  Following
  Insomnia
  The Prestige
  Inception
  Interstellar
  Dunkirk
  Tenet
  Oppenheimer

• The Royal Tenenbaums

  Wes Anderson - 11

  Bottle Rocket
  Rushmore
  The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
  The Royal Tenenbaums
  The Darjeeling Limited
  Fantastic Mr Fox
  Moonrise Kingdom
  The Grand Budapest Hotel
  Isle of Dogs
  The French Dispatch
  Asteroid City

• Monty Python and the Holy Grail

  Terry Gilliam - 11

  Jabberwocky
  Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  Time Bandits
  Baron Munchausen
  Brazil
  The Fisher King
  Twelve Monkeys
  The Brothers Grimm
  The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
  The Zero Theorem
  The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

• Taxi Driver

  Martin Scorsese - 11

  Mean Streets
  Taxi Driver
  Raging Bull
  King of Comedy
  GoodFellas
  The Departed
  Hugo
  George Harrison: Living in the Material World
  The Wolf of Wall Street
  After Hours (2024.04.08)
  The Colour of Money (2024.06.11)

• Batman Returns

  Tim Burton - 10

  Batman
  Batman Returns
  Big Eyes
  Big Fish
  Ed Wood
  Edward Scissorhands
  Mars Attacks!
  Corpse Bride
  Miss Peregrine's Home...
  Frankenweenie

...plus 67 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This is a list of famous/highly-regarded/popular/important/award-winning/widely-seen/cult classic/infamous/bad films that you'd have expected me to have watched by now, but, for one reason or another, I haven't.

[Titles are moved to the top when I watch them.]

I've called this a "watchlist of shame", but it's not necessarily that I'm embarrassed to it I've never seen every title on this list (if I was truly ashamed, I wouldn't have made this list public!), and there are a lot that I'm not at all interested in ever seeing.

Because alongside the classics and important cinematic landmarks that have been out for decades, and the films that have picked up a positive reputation much more recently, this list also includes plenty that are not exactly considered Great Movies.

Nevertheless, I've listed these less-well-regarded titles for other reasons. In some cases, because they're things that you'd expect someone of my age to have seen as a kid (e.g. The Goonies, Hocus Pocus). Some are weaker films that you'd think I would have watched because of who directed them (Spielberg's The BFG, The Terminal and Ready Player One; Burton's Alice in Wonderland and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), or because they're part of a series that started off well (the later Terminator, Alien, and POTC movies), or because they're the odd one out in series from which I've otherwise seen everything (Star Trek Nemesis, X-Men Dark Phoenix). Some are from popular franchises that everyone except me seems to have seen (Twilight, Transformers, Fast and the Furious, the Carry On films). There are Adam Sandler films on here, because the only things of his I've seen are his atypical ones (Punch-Drunk Love and the Hotel Transylvania series).

I also haven't yet caught up with the Disney/Pixar animated films released during the pandemic (i.e. from Onward, er, onward). When I got Disney+, I intended to do a full chronological run through all their animated features, adding the new ones right at the end, but that plan has taken me a lot longer than expected!

I've had some of these sitting for ages, ready to watch, on my DVD shelf or PVR hard disk.

Some of these I haven't seen because they're on Netflix. I've never had Netflix; my subscription history went LoveFilm -> Amazon Prime -> Cinema Paradiso and Disney+.

You'll notice a trend among some of the entries on this list: in many cases the reason I haven't watched them is because I am a wimp when it comes to horror. (See this other list I made on that subject.) Let the Right One In, The Cabin In The Woods and the spookier episodes of Inside No. 9 are about my limit as far as the horror genre is concerned! I don't mind itting that there are some films on this list that I doubt I'll ever pluck up the courage to watch. 👻🔪

1. Elvis

   2024.04.14

2. Barbie

   2024.04.21

3. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

   2024.04.23

4. Shazam! Fury of the Gods

   2024.05.14

5. The Color of Money

   2024.06.11

6. The Favourite

   2024.07.02

7. Torn Curtain

   2024.07.18

8. The Flash

   💣
   2024.09.04

9. Sonic the Hedgehog 2

   2024.09.19

10. Stagecoach

    2024.10.10

...plus 644 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

In the order I saw them.

• Dial M for Murder
• The Lady Vanishes

  2009.02.28

• Rebecca
• North by Northwest

  2010.01.15
  +Rewatched

• Vertigo

  2010.01.18

• Rear Window
• The Man Who Knew Too Much
• The Birds
• Spellbound
• The 39 Steps

...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. Three Thousand Years of Longing
3. The Bob's Burgers Movie
4. The Banshees of Inisherin
5. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
6. The Batman
7. Avatar: The Way of Water
8. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
9. Elvis
10. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

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

I know some people don't classify multiple adaptations of the same book as "remakes", but I am counting them in this list.

This also includes TV series (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy).

Yes, I am including Seven Samurai → The Magnificent Seven → A Bug's Life as a sequence of remakes; no, I'm not counting Mission: Impossible II as a remake of Notorious.

• Assault on Precinct 13
• Assault on Precinct 13
• Battle Angel
• Alita: Battle Angel
• Beauty and the Beast
• Beauty and the Beast
• Beauty and the Beast
• Casino Royale
• Casino Royale
• Cinderella

...plus 61 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

As you can see, I've only seen a tiny proportion of the many films with which he's been involved. But of the few I have seen, here are those I liked the most.

1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2. Unforgiven
3. The Outlaw Josey Wales
4. For a Few Dollars More
5. A Fistful of Dollars
6. Pale Rider
7. Dirty Harry
8. High Plains Drifter
9. Million Dollar Baby
10. Flags of Our Fathers

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

Running times are taken from IMDb, for the versions that - as far as I'm aware - I've seen. In some cases (e.g. Lawrence of Arabia) I saw TV broadcasts so I'm not sure exactly which version I watched.

They're ranked according to the longest version I've seen (so the Extended Edition of The Two Towers is listed above the theatrical cut of Return of the King).

I note IMDb lists shorter runtimes for the Lord of the Rings' EEs on DVD than they do on Blu-Ray. (e.g. Return of the King is listed as "263 min (Blu-Ray Extended Edition) | 254 min (Special DVD Extended Edition)"). I suppose they could be taking the shorter DVD times from the sped-up PAL releases, but from a quick check the conversion doesn't match exactly.

From a couple I compared, I see that IMDb's runtimes are sometimes different from those listed on the BBFC website. I didn't check many of them, though!

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

   223 min (Special DVD Extended Edition)
   179 min (theatrical cut)

2. Lawrence of Arabia

   216 min

3. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

   208 min (Special DVD Extended Edition)
   178 min (theatrical cut)

4. Seven Samurai

   207 min | 160 min (international version) | UK:150 min (original version) | UK:190 min (1991 re-release) | USA:158 min (original version) (cut) | USA:203 min (re-release) | USA:207 min (restored version)

5. The Godfather Part II

   202 min

6. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

   201 min (theatrical cut)
   I haven't seen the Extended Edition, which is 254 min

7. Titanic

   194 min

8. The Right Stuff

   193 min

9. Avatar: The Way of Water

   192m

10. JFK

    189 min

...plus 79 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I would have called this a ranking of 21st century spy/assassin movies, except I wanted to also include M:I (1996) and M:I-2 (2000).

Warning: some of these positions don't correspond to the ratings I gave them last time I watched them! Also, it has been a long time since I watched the first three Bournes.

Yes I know everyone else seems to like The Man From UNCLE more than I do.

I put most of this list together a while ago, but finished it and made it public after seeing No Time To Die.

1. Casino Royale
2. Skyfall
3. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
4. Mission: Impossible
5. The Bourne Identity
6. Mission: Impossible III
7. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
8. The Bourne Supremacy
9. The Bourne Ultimatum
10. Mission: Impossible – Fallout

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

For this list, I'm counting two of Hayao Miyazaki's pre-Ghibli features (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and The Castle of Cagliostro), one Ghibli co-production (The Red Turtle), and one Studio Ponoc film (Mary and the Witch's Flower).
Still to watch as of December 2020: Grave of the Fireflies (I still haven't plucked up the courage!), Pom Poko. (Plus the still-to-be-released Earwig and the Witch and How Do You Live?)
My lists ranking animation studios' films:
- Aardman Animations: boxd.it/4qMGo
- DreamWorks: boxd.it/a9LqO
- Laika: boxd.it/btZKM
- Pixar feature films: boxd.it/4uX0c
- Pixar shorts and student films: boxd.it/eHKg
- Studio Ghibli: boxd.it/4uYDE

1. My Neighbor Totoro
2. Porco Rosso
3. Kiki's Delivery Service
4. Princess Mononoke

   The first Ghibli film I watched. I'd previously been disappointed by Akira and Ghost in the Shell, so Princess Mononoke and the Cowboy Bebop movie became the first anime films I saw that lived up to their reputations.

5. Spirited Away
6. Whisper of the Heart
7. The Boy and the Heron
8. The Red Turtle
9. Grave of the Fireflies
10. Only Yesterday

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

Posters you wouldn't want on your bedroom wall. (Or maybe you would? Some people are into that.)

1. House
2. Zombie Flesh Eaters
3. Loony in the Woods
4. Atman
5. Night Terrors
6. Terrifier
7. Terrifier
8. All Hallows' Eve
9. Evil Dead II
10. Jack Frost

...plus 131 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Wikipedia has a category for feature films that were remakes or based on short films ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Features_based_on_short_films ). However, my list is specifically for the subset where the same person is credited as director (or co-director) of both versions.

List arranged to begin with films that I've seen in both short and feature versions, followed by those where I've only seen one version, followed by those where I've seen neither.

• Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB
• THX 1138
• What We Do in the Shadows: Interviews with Some Vampires
• What We Do in the Shadows
• Frankenweenie
• Frankenweenie
• Bottle Rocket
• Bottle Rocket
• Whiplash
• Whiplash

...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My comics and superhero-related ranking lists:
- Superhero films
- Non-superhero comics adaptations
- Marvel Cinematic Universe
- DCEU
- Batman films
- Spider-Man films
- Superman films
- X-Men films

There will inevitably be inconsistencies between the lists.

I used to have an old list Comics adaptations and superhero movies ranked. But that list was getting too unwieldy (I found myself constantly dissatisfied with how I'd rated, say, Thor against The Twelve Tasks of Asterix, against 300, The Mask, against Addams Family Values, against Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, against Batman & Mr Freeze: SubZero), so I split it into separate superhero and non-superhero lists.

The dividing line isn't always clear:
- Hellboy: superpowers, secret organisation protecting Earth from threats most people don't know about... superhero!
- Men In Black: no superpowers, but a themed costume and lots of fantastical tech, and a secret organisation protecting Earth from threats most people don't know about... non-superhero!
- The Punisher: very much not a superhero, but a fundamental part of the Marvel Universe (if not the Marvel Cinematic Universe), so he gets to go on the superhero list!

1. The Incredibles
2. The Avengers
3. The Dark Knight
4. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
5. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
6. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
7. Thor: Ragnarok
8. Avengers: Endgame
9. Avengers: Infinity War
10. Superman

...plus 127 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My comics and superhero-related ranking lists:
- Superhero films
- Non-superhero comics adaptations
- Marvel Cinematic Universe
- DCEU
- Batman films
- Spider-Man films
- Superman films
- X-Men films

1. The Avengers
2. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
3. Thor: Ragnarok
4. Avengers: Endgame
5. Avengers: Infinity War
6. Iron Man
7. Guardians of the Galaxy
8. Black Panther
9. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
10. Captain America: Civil War

...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Excludes the films DreamWorks released in partnership with Aardman.

My lists ranking animation studios' films:

- Aardman Animations: boxd.it/4qMGo
- DreamWorks: boxd.it/a9LqO
- Laika: boxd.it/btZKM
- Pixar feature films: boxd.it/4uX0c
- Pixar shorts and student films: boxd.it/eHKg
- Studio Ghibli: boxd.it/4uYDE

1. How to Train Your Dragon
2. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
3. The Wild Robot
4. How to Train Your Dragon 2
5. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
6. The Bad Guys
7. Kung Fu Panda
8. Kung Fu Panda 2
9. Megamind
10. Kung Fu Panda 3

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

See also:
Animation ranked: Pixar shorts (and student films) boxd.it/eHKg

1. Burrow
2. Kitbull
3. Out
4. Twenty Something
5. Purl
6. Self
7. Smash and Grab
8. Nona
9. Wind
10. Float

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

Pixar's short films ranked, as well as the student films made by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Pete Docter that are on the Pixar Shorts vol 2 DVD.

I previously had the SparkShorts "Purl", "Kitbull" and "Smash & Grab" in this list, but in April 2025 I removed them and put them in a separate SparkShorts list: boxd.it/FAeJG

My lists ranking animation studios' films:

- Aardman Animations: boxd.it/4qMGo
- DreamWorks: boxd.it/a9LqO
- Laika: boxd.it/btZKM
- Pixar feature films: boxd.it/4uX0c
- Pixar shorts and student films: boxd.it/eHKg
- Studio Ghibli: boxd.it/4uYDE

1. Day & Night
2. Presto
3. Knick Knack
4. Hawaiian Vacation
5. BURN·E
6. Small Fry
7. Lifted
8. Toy Story of Terror!
9. One Man Band
10. Boundin'

...plus 27 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films with eye injuries, ranked in order of how squeamishly I reacted to them.

Watching The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse prompted me to make this! Ewww...

I looked through this list to remind me of some of them:
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/EyeScream/Film

• Minority Report
• Joker
• John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
• Blade Runner
• The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
• Perfect Blue
• The Street Fighter
• Mission: Impossible II
• Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
• Star Trek: First

...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I ed Lovefilm in early 2009, and continued to get postal DVD rentals until Amazon killed them in October 2017. These are the films I rented during that period.

At the end of 2018 I decided I wanted to rent DVDs by post again, so ed Cinema Paradiso. I have a separate list for discs I've rented from them: boxd.it/bX0FG

1. Wanted
2. Office Space
3. Live Free or Die Hard
4. Futurama: Bender's Big Score
5. Iron Man
6. Flags of Our Fathers
7. My Neighbor Totoro
8. Speed Racer
9. The Incredible Hulk
10. Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs

...plus 214 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I originally started this list intending to count up the number of shorts that spun-off from animated feature films (like the ones on the home releases of Pixar and DreamWorks films, and all those Minions and Ice Age tie-ins).

Then I thought: what if I add shorts based on live-action films too, like The Animatrix and the Blade Runner 2049 one?

Then I realised that if you do that, you end up having to include all the Pink Panther cartoons - and there are a lot of Pink Panther shorts. I copied those 124 entries directly from this list by Greenfront: The Pink Panther Cartoon Filmography - boxd.it/D2am

Entries are arranged alphabetically by their "parent" film. Note that I'm counting the earliest franchise originator as the parent film - for example, the Puss in Boots shorts are counted after the Shrek ones, and the Chronicles of Riddick tie-in is placed under "P" for "Pitch Black".

A few of these are classed as feature-length on Letterboxd because they are collections of shorts or episodes (Baymax, Cars on the Road, Dug Days, Zootopia+). There are also some Lego Star Wars things that are just over the 40m threshold for short films, but I've included them here just in case some people might consider them shorts.

1. Show & Tell

   Abominable

2. Maraschino Ruby

   The Bad Guys

3. The Bad Guys: A Very Bad Holiday
4. The Bad Guys: Haunted Heist
5. The Bad Guys: Little Lies and Alibis
6. Baymax!

   Big Hero Six

7. Blade Runner: Black Out 2022

   Blade Runner

8. The Adventures of Chuy

   The Book of Life

9. The Boss Baby and Tim's Treasure Hunt Through Time

   The Boss Baby

10. Precious Templeton: A Pony Tale

...plus 371 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

For letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/showdown/multiplicity/

• Adaptation.

  Nicolas Cage and Nicolas Cage

• Red Dwarf: Back to Earth

  Craig Charles and Craig Charles

• Being John Malkovich

  Malkovich and Malkovich and Malkovich and Malkovich...

• Back to the Future Part II

  Thomas F Wilson and Thomas F Wilson

• Monty Python and the Holy Grail

  Palin and Palin, Cleese and Cleese, Jones and Jones, etc

• The Matrix Reloaded

  Hugo Weaving and Hugo Weaving

• Hot Fuzz

  Bill Bailey and Bill Bailey

• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

  Peter Sellers and Peter Sellers

• Moon

  Sam Rockwell and Sam Rockwell

• Cloud Atlas

  Everyone and Everyone

• Five Fingers of Death
• The Searchers
• Rio Bravo
• Shane
• The Chinese Boxer
• One-Armed Boxer
• Master of the Flying Guillotine
• Crippled Avengers
• Bloodsport
• Temple of the Red Lotus

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

Includes Annie Award for Best Animated Feature – Independent (awarded from 2015 onwards).

Includes BAFTA for Best Children's & Family Film (awarded from 2024 films/2025 ceremony onwards).

It looks like the old BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film (awarded up to the early 1980s) used to have animated features nominated in the same category as shorts. I have not yet included any of those either here or on my animated shorts list (https://boxd.it/r3bcs).

• Beauty and the Beast

  🅰️ Annie winner 1992 (ceremony in Nov 1992 for films from 1991)

• Bebe's Kids

  Annie nom 1992

• FernGully: The Last Rainforest

  Annie nom 1992

• Aladdin

  🅰️ Annie win 1993 (ceremony in Nov 1993 for films from 1992)

• Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland

  Annie nom 1993

• Once Upon a Forest

  Annie nom 1993

• The Lion King

  🅰️ Annie win 1994 (ceremony in Nov 1994 for films from 1993-94)

• Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

  Annie nom 1994

• The Nightmare Before Christmas

  Annie nom 1994

• Pocahontas

  🅰️ Annie win 1995 (ceremony Nov 1995 for films from 1995)

...plus 218 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Made for stats-tracking (liststats tag).

Not on Letterboxd:
• I Pagliacci (Ken Lidster, 1993 BAFTA nominee)
• Testament - The Bible In Animation: Joseph (Elizabeth Babakhina, Aida Ziablikoua, 1996 BAFTA nominee)
• Testament - The Bible In Animation: Moses (Naomi Jones, Gary Hurst, 1996 BAFTA nominee)

It looks like the old BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film (awarded up to the early 1980s) used to have both animated features and shorts nominated in the same category. I have not yet included any of those either here or on my animated features list. It also seems that for a while in the 1980s, the Short Animation BAFTA had both short film and television series nominees.

Speaking of BAFTA awards' strange historical quirks: it seems that in the 1978 ceremony alone, BAFTA awarded a Best Fictional Film award. I'm not sure if that was just a temporary name for the animated shorts award, but it looks like all three of the nominees were in that format, so I've added them to this list:

* Bead Game - boxd.it/3PUY
* The Chinese Word for Horse - boxd.it/zZG2
* The Sand Castle - boxd.it/4HAI

• Flowers and Trees

  ⭐ Oscar win 1931-32

• It's Got Me Again!

  1931-32

• Mickey's Orphans

  1931-32

• Three Little Pigs

  ⭐ Oscar win 1932-33

• Building a Building

  1932-33

• The Merry Old Soul

  1932-33

• The Tortoise and the Hare

  ⭐ Oscar win 1934

• Holiday Land

  1934

• Jolly Little Elves

  1934

• Three Orphan Kittens

  ⭐ Oscar win 1935

...plus 487 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Yes, I really am a HORROR WIMP. Let the Right One In, The Cabin In The Woods, Alien and, er, Shaun of the Dead are about my limit as far as this genre is concerned!

There are a few horror films that are on my watchlist: things like Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, An American Werewolf In London. I haven't listed them here. This list isn't for those films. This is just for the ones for which everything I've heard (or the single screengrabs I've seen - I'M LOOKING AT YOU INLAND EMPIRE) just makes me think: "Nope!"

(And yet: I'm perfectly willing to read summaries and descriptions of what happens in these films. In fact I'm a bit fascinated to do so! I just doubt I'll ever pluck up the courage to watch them.)

Yes, I realise I'm missing out - yes, I know I'm in the wrong. I have no doubt that most of the films in this list are as important/interesting/well-made as their reputations suggest. (I say "most" because I know that Requiem for a Dream and Irreversible have quite divisive reputations. I know those two aren't really horror films, but they're on the list because I never intend to watch 'em!)

Because my name is Nicholas, and I am a HORROR WUSS.

• The Shining
• The Exorcist
• Don't Look Now
• Audition
• Eraserhead
• Mulholland Drive
• Inland Empire
• Ring
• Rosemary's Baby
• The Orphanage

...plus 39 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

For event: letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/showdown/maiden-voyage/

Valid films: BAFTA Award nominees for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer - boxd.it/DGdiI

1. Shaun of the Dead
2. Four Lions
3. Exit Through the Gift Shop
4. Control
5. Lost in La Mancha
6. Man on Wire
7. Moon
8. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
9. Attack the Block
10. Ex Machina

... also available from Eureka.

I did a list like this for Djeng's commentary for The Kung-Fu Cult Master (The Evil Cult). Now I'm doing the same again for his commentary on the Eureka Blu-ray of She Shoots Straight!

• She Shoots Straight
• Enter the Clones of Bruce
• Rich and Famous

  Same church shooting location
  Also available from Eureka (AAFE)

  One of Carina Lau's first roles

  Features Wong Chi-Keung (who plays the nightclub customer in SSS)

• Troublesome Night

  Helena Law had roles in this series

• Women's Prison

  Another role for Melinda Kwan [Kwan Ming-Luk; HKMDB: Melinda Gant]

• Queen's High

  Another role for Melinda Kwan [Kwan Ming-Luk; HKMDB: Melinda Gant]

• City Cops

  Also features Ken Goodman

• Tiger on the Beat 2

  Also features Ken Goodman

• Operation Condor

  Also features Ken Goodman

  Also features Bruce Fontaine

• Robotrix

  Also features Ken Goodman

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

All the nominees and winners of the Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Award_for_Best_Animated_Short_Subject

• Dexter's Laboratory: "Changes"

  Winner 1995

• Driving Mr. Pink

  Nominee 1995

• George and Junior's Christmas Spectacular

  Nominee 1995

• Interview with Tallulah, Queen of the Universe

  Nominee 1995

• No Smoking!

  Winner 1996

• The Ambiguously Gay Duo: Queen of Terror

  Nominee 1997

• The Ambiguously Gay Duo: Don We Now ... or Never

  Nominee 1997

• Rock-A-Big Baby

  Nominee 1997

• Geri's Game

  Winner 1998

• Redux Riding Hood

  Nominee 1998

...plus 122 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Excludes documentaries and audio commentary viewings.

• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  Last of 2008 (rewatch)

• War of the Worlds

  First of 2009

• Avatar

  Last of 2009 (cinema)

• Yojimbo

  First of 2010

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

  Last of 2010

• WALL·E

  First of 2011 (rewatch)

• Ratatouille

  Last of 2011 (rewatch)

• The Ladykillers

  First of 2012

• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

  Last of 2012 (rewatch)

• Monkey Business

  First of 2013

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

1. The French Dispatch
2. The Mitchells vs. the Machines
3. The Matrix Resurrections
4. The Suicide Squad
5. Dune
6. No Time to Die
7. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
8. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
9. Belle
10. Spider-Man: No Way Home

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Letterboxd resolutions for 2024:
1. Keep my diary up to date. I don't want to repeat what I did in 2023, pausing it in May and then catching up in December! (In fact, at the time of writing on New Year's Day, I've still got a lot of diary entries to catch up with...)
3. Try and actually write reviews of stuff while they're fresh in my mind.
4. Aim to have at least... oh, let's say... 65% of the titles on this list marked watched by the end of the year. (Hopefully the inclusion of many shorts will make this easier!)
5. Complete my ✨Great Mystery List Project✨, which I am keeping secret for now but when complete might become a helpful information source for people...

This list is ordered:
1. Things I've seen before that I want to rewatch.
2. New 2023 films.
3. 2024 (and 2025?) films.
4. Disney animated films to rewatch or watch for the first time, plus their remakes and documentaries. (I need to get value out of that D+ subscription!)
5. Other feature films to watch for the first time.
6. Disney+ shorts.
7. Other shorts.
8. TV series. (Mostly Doctor Who and Inside No 9.)
9. Netflix films. (I don't have Netflix so I'm unlikely to get to these this year unless they get physical releases I can rent, but they're on my watchlist so I've added them anyway.)

At the time of writing, on 1 January 2024, I've watched 67 of 365 titles before. That's 64 of 255 (25%) feature-length, and 3 of 110 (2%) shorts.

The list contains 9 films that have not yet been released (see comments).

So to hit my arbitrary self-imposed target of 65% (238 out of 365), I need to watch another 171 titles for the first time. Can I do it? Let's find out...

It was just a coincidence that this list ended up 365 entries long, honest! Well, it would be a coincidence in most years, but 2024 is a leap year so it's not really much of a coincidence at all. 😏

1. The Boy and the Heron

   2024.01.04

2. Harley Quinn: A Very Problematic Valentine's Day Special

   If Channel 4 very belatedly makes it available to stream. 🙎‍♂️

   EDIT 2024.01.01: Whaddaya know? No sooner do I make this list than I find out that Channel 4 has put it on the streaming service formerly known as All4 (formerly known as 4OD)!

   
   Watched 2024.01.09

3. The Wages of Fear

   Watched 2024.01.18

4. Ip Man

   Rewatched 2024.01.23

5. For Your Consideration

   2024.01.31

6. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

   2024.02.01

7. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

   Watched 2024.02.07

8. Polite Society

   Watched 2024.02.08

9. A Cat in Paris

   Watched 2024.02.13

10. Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey

    Watched 2024.02.16

...plus 347 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

For letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/showdown/the-neverending-story/

See also: my list "The longest films I've seen": boxd.it/1iET2

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2. Pulp Fiction
3. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
4. The Dark Knight
5. The Right Stuff
6. Jackie Brown
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
8. JFK
9. Amadeus
10. Apocalypse Now

    Letterboxd lists it as 147m, just short of the 150m threshold, but The Final Cut (which I've seen) and Redux (which I haven't) are longer.

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

I've been watching lots of animated shorts this year! I began the year watching a lot of Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol 2, including lots of Road Runners. I'm not sure how many of them I saw as a kid (apart from those I saw edited into compilation features), so for this list I've counted almost them all as new.

Then I watched some of the Fleischer Superman cartoons. And then I got Disney+ and started watching some of the classic Silly Symphonies that are on there.

And then on 12 December 2021 BBC Four broadcast this set of animated shorts: boxd.it/ellJg

1. Rabbit Transit
2. Slick Hare
3. How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming
4. Baby Buggy Bunny
5. Hyde and Hare
6. Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks
7. Beep, Beep
8. Going! Going! Gosh!
9. Zipping Along
10. Stop! Look! and Hasten!

...plus 212 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My lists ranking animation studios' films:
- Aardman Animations: boxd.it/4qMGo
- DreamWorks: boxd.it/a9LqO
- Laika: boxd.it/btZKM
- Pixar feature films: boxd.it/4uX0c
- Pixar shorts and student films: boxd.it/eHKg
- Studio Ghibli: boxd.it/4uYDE

1. The Wrong Tros
2. Shaun the Sheep Movie
3. Creature Comforts
4. A Close Shave
5. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
6. A Grand Day Out
7. Chicken Run
8. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
9. A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
10. The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

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

Or thrice.

• Once Upon a Honeymoon
• Once Upon a Time in the West
• Once Upon a Time in America
• Once Upon a Time in China
• Once Upon a Time in China II
• Once Upon a Time in China III
• Once Upon a Time in China IV
• Once Upon a Time in China V
• Once Upon a Time in China and America
• Once Upon a Crime

...plus 36 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Millionaires' Express
2. She's Gotta Have It
3. Summer Wars
4. The Lives of Others
5. Red River
6. On Red River
7. Yes, Madam!
8. Nobody
9. Ninja in the Dragon's Den
10. Midnight Run

...plus 144 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/showdown/call-me-by-your-name/

• Pinocchio
• Rocky
• Bambi
• Vincent
• Amélie
• Aladdin
• Léon: The Professional

  My DVD copy just has the title "Leon" on the box (as does the default poster here), so I think it qualifies as a single-name title!

• Logan
• Moana
• Coraline

1. Star Wars: Visions – Screecher's Reach

   2023.12.16

2. Star Wars: Visions – I Am Your Mother

   2023.12.24

3. Star Wars: Visions – The Spy Dancer

   2024.01.22
   Those outlines! ♥️

4. Star Wars: Visions – The Ninth Jedi

   2023.11.17

   Yeah: the twist fooled me!

5. Star Wars: Visions – The Duel

   2023.09.13

6. Star Wars: Visions – Aau's Song

   2024.03.04

7. Star Wars: Visions – The Elder

   2023.11.21

8. Star Wars: Visions – In the Stars

   2023.12.21

9. Star Wars: Visions – Sith

   2023.12.14

   Very pretty, even if it's a bit on-the-nose to use a style made to resemble paint to tell a story about painting.

10. Star Wars: Visions – Journey to the Dark Head

    2024.01.20

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

Audio commentaries in which the participants are characters from the thing on which they're commentating.

Additionally, some TV series examples:

* The King of the Hill DVDs feature in-character commentaries on certain episodes.
* I'm Alan Partridge series 1 DVD includes commentary from Alan and Lynn.
* The 2004 Rob Brydon series Director's Commentary was entirely based around the gimmick of a fictional director commentating on episodes he'd directed.

• This Is Spinal Tap

  Spinal Tap: Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer), David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), and Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest)

• Fantasia 2000

  Commentary 2 features Mickey Mouse (on "The Sorcerer's Apprentice") and Donald Duck (on "Pomp and Circumstance").

• Tropic Thunder

  Living up to Kirk Lazarus's line in the movie about not dropping character until after the DVD commentary, Robert Downey Jr continues playing him on this commentary.

• Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie

  www.ratethatcommentary.com/detail.php/1235

  Vegetables Larry the Cucumber (Mike Nawrocki) and Mr. Lunt (Phil Vischer)

• Mr. Incredible and Pals
• Brother Bear
• Ali G Indahouse
• Blood Simple
• Bubba Ho-tep
• The Muppet Christmas Carol

  muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Audio_Commentaries

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

My comics and superhero-related ranking lists:

- Superhero films
- Non-superhero comics adaptations
- Marvel Cinematic Universe
- DCEU
- Batman films
- Spider-Man films
- Superman films
- X-Men films

1. The Dark Knight
2. The Batman
3. Batman Begins
4. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
5. Batman: Under the Red Hood
6. Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
7. The Lego Batman Movie
8. Batman Returns
9. Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
10. The Dark Knight Rises

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

From www.bfi.org.uk/lists/great-action-film-every-year-1924-now

The BFI put all the primary titles on Letterboxd (from which this list is cloned). But the listicle on their website includes a second "one more to watch" film for each year, so I've made this version in order to add those.

1. The Thief of Bagdad
2. Sherlock Jr.
3. Battleship Potemkin
4. Serpent
5. The General
6. The Black Pirate
7. The Kid Brother
8. Wings
9. Burning of the Red Lotus Monastery
10. Steamboat Bill, Jr.

...plus 192 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Shaun the Sheep Movie
3. The Martian
4. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
5. Creed
6. The Hateful Eight
7. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
8. Inside Out
9. Ex Machina
10. Bridge of Spies

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

My comics and superhero-related ranking lists:

- Superhero films
- Non-superhero comics adaptations
- Marvel Cinematic Universe
- DCEU
- Batman films
- Spider-Man films
- Superman films
- X-Men films

1. The Suicide Squad
2. Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
3. Wonder Woman
4. Aquaman
5. Shazam!
6. Man of Steel
7. Shazam! Fury of the Gods
8. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
9. The Flash
10. Wonder Woman 1984

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

1. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2. The Boy and the Heron
3. John Wick: Chapter 4
4. Asteroid City
5. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
6. Oppenheimer
7. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
8. Barbie
9. Robot Dreams
10. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

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

[Authors' names in comments.]

This includes prose novels, plays, picture books, non-fiction, and short stories. (But not comics!)

For the purposes of this list I'm counting 2001 as a novel adaptation, not a novelisation.

Making this list really highlights that I've read a disproportionate amount of Tolkien, Dahl, Fleming, Pratchett, and She Who Must Not Be Named...

There's an embarrassing amount of classic (and popular) literature I've never read. Nothing by Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, or Stephen King. The only Shakespeare plays I've actually read are the two we studied in secondary school (Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth). I've only read a tiny proportion of the original Sherlock Holmes stories. I've never read Dracula, Frankenstein, Jekyll and Hyde, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, Lord of the Flies... Even with children's books, I never read Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, The Wind in the Willows, or Treasure Island.

As for the opposite situation, a list of cases where I've read the book but haven't seen the film would be much shorter. I've never seen any of the Narnia movies (just some of the old TV versions), the animated Hobbit/LOTR films, the Sky version of The Colour of Magic (by all s, not very good), or any of the versions of Nineteen Eighty-Four.

• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

  J.R.R. Tolkien

• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

  J.R.R. Tolkien

• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

  J.R.R. Tolkien

• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

  J.R.R. Tolkien

• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

  J.R.R. Tolkien

• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

  J.R.R. Tolkien

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  Douglas Adams

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  Douglas Adams

• I, Robot

  Isaac Asimov

• The Secret Garden

  s Hodgsom Burnett
  Read the book in primary school.

...plus 64 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My comics and superhero-related ranking lists:

- Superhero films
- Non-superhero comics adaptations
- Marvel Cinematic Universe
- DCEU
- Batman films
- Spider-Man films
- Superman films
- X-Men films

1. X2
2. Logan
3. X-Men: First Class
4. X-Men: Days of Future Past
5. Deadpool 2
6. Deadpool
7. X-Men
8. Deadpool & Wolverine
9. The Wolverine
10. X-Men: Apocalypse

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

It's been long enough: prompted by a rewatch of Ratatouille at the start of 2020, I finally got round to making this list!

I really, really struggle to distinguish which of the Toy Story films I like the most.

My lists ranking animation studios' films:

- Aardman Animations: boxd.it/4qMGo
- DreamWorks: boxd.it/a9LqO
- Laika: boxd.it/btZKM
- Pixar feature films: boxd.it/4uX0c
- Pixar shorts and student films: boxd.it/eHKg
- Studio Ghibli: boxd.it/4uYDE

1. The Incredibles
2. Ratatouille
3. WALL·E
4. Toy Story 3
5. Toy Story
6. Toy Story 2
7. Finding Nemo
8. Toy Story 4
9. Coco
10. Inside Out

...plus 12 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. 21 Jump Street
2. 22 Jump Street
3. The Addams Family
4. Addams Family Values
5. Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
6. Batman
7. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
8. Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero
9. Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman
10. Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker

...plus 59 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Over the last few years, I've watched a lot of Eureka/88Films Blu-rays with commentaries by Mike Leeder, Arne Venema, and Frank Djeng. Like Hong Kong Legends' old Bey Logan commentaries, they're often a long stream of title namedrops.

I was curious how many titles get mentioned in a typical one of these, so I decided to keep track of them while I watched Frank Djeng's commentary for this film. (I it this was inspired by those Letterboxd lists of titles that Quentin Tarantino and Edgar Wright mentioned during their Hot Fuzz commentary and that Empire podcast episode they did together.)

Funnily enough, this is an unusual example of a Frank Djeng commentary, because in this case he devotes a lot of time to explaining comparisons between the film and its source novel, rather than going over its cast and crew's filmographies. So the movie title count is probably less here than it would be for many of his other commentaries.

He still said "Also available from Eureka" a lot, though. :)

• The Kung Fu Cult Master
• Enter the Clones of Bruce

  Frank Djeng was one of this documentary's producers.

• The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains
• The Return of the Condor Heroes
• Tai-Chi Master

  Sammo Hung's character in KFCM was played by Jet Li in TCM.

  One of the six films that Jet Li made in 1993

• Royal Tramp

  Also available from Eureka
  Chingmy Yau

• Royal Tramp 2

  Also available from Eureka

• The Brave Archer
• The Brave Archer 2
• The Brave Archer 3

...plus 91 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2. Avengers: Infinity War
3. Isle of Dogs
4. Incredibles 2
5. Black Panther
6. The Favourite
7. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
8. BlacKkKlansman
9. John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky
10. Free Solo

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