Watched on Monday December 16, 2024.

Monotonous & MOROSE, this is one of the most DEPRESSING & HOPELESS films I think I've ever sat through...

...a star each for MacKay and the HAUNTING imagery; the swoozy narrative is creative and INTENSE - impressive sound design too, but from minute one it has that feel of ARTSY edginess in the guise of profundity...

...certainly has a real sense of PLACE & is, in moments, technically striking, but it's a hell of a SLOG to swim across.

Watched on Sunday December 15, 2024.

Watched on Saturday December 14, 2024.

I’d have loved this Saturday morning-style CAPER when I was 10…

…but now these SPY-JINKS just irritate - pre-Bond Moore is always watchable & the locations are imaginative, but the whole omelette - a MELANGE of espionage, farce, ‘comic’ violence, dated British cultural tropes, inept villains, shonky ADR, cheeky innuendo, tension-free chases, tonally mixed score & CONVOLUTED plotting - feels indigestibly overegged and SLUGGISHLY longer than its 90 minute runtime…

…had never heard of it until now; can see why.

The final 20 minutes is CRACKERJACK cinema - the Grand Central chase as good as anything De Palma has EVER done...

...Doyle's SOARING score, the SUBLIME tracking shots, Penn gloriously odious and Whispering Al's VOICE OVER...

...last call for drinks, bars closin' down, sun's out, where are we goin' for breakfast? Don't wanna go far. Rough night, tired baby, tired... 😭😭😭😭😭

Slight, sweet and sincere - anything that celebrates the WONDER of the MOVIES has to be worth a trio of stars, however short and saccharine...

...obviously the Fincher cut would have ended very differently.

Sea of Love walked so Basic Instinct could run…

…that said, when it’s wet ass time, Pacino is the ONLY daddy!

Needed more bite…

Personal, POLITICAL & pioneering, Sankey's doc is FRESH, creative and engaging, the BREW of myriad movie clips to frame each point she makes is such a mischievous way to bring us under her cinematic SPELL - I can only imagine the TOIL & TROUBLE that must've gone into the filmic research for these 90 minutes...

...its early playfulness quickly morphs into campaign territory: talking heads sharing heart-breaking tales of psychosis and mental anguish; it's a fascinating lens - though she stretches the witchy metaphor a bit thin at times - but if it changes perspective and reframes the way we talk about such a serious, life-threatening condition then all power to her & those brave enough to share their stories

War, masks, sex, perfectionism, evil, controversy - it won't surprise his ultra-fans, but it's refreshing in its elegantly framed, low-key, candid presentation of the ACTUAL man himself reflecting (via audio tape) on his philosophies in an affable, conversational mood that belies his legendary reclusiveness.

The intoxication of forbidden love, expertly crafted…

…not nearly as moved (this was in my top ten of that year) as when I saw it in the cinema nine years ago; still love the shotmaking, Burwell’s score and melancholic mood though…

…funny how our responses change over time.

More Curtis Christmas Twee…

…nowhere near enough Nighy, starts affably enough but, come the second half, becomes increasingly insipid & patronising…

…enjoyed the snowy animation & there are a couple of decent jokes among the fluffy wine gums - the smug reference to Lurve Arsetually not being one of them.

Watched over the 8yo’s shoulder…

Energetic silliness - where’s Cesar Millan when you need him?

Mon Dieu this is DARK - as unsettling as cinema gets - THAT court scene!

Gariepy's intensity is HYPNOTIC, Plante's film slow, PRICKLY and masterful in the way it DEFIES all expectation - one of the most uncomfortably haunting films I've ever had the (dis)pleasure of experiencing.

Trashy nonsense that’s more FLACCID than BAD; shades of Fight Club without the funny bits. Or the dark bits. Or most of the fighting. Oh, and Lowe's Bad Boy is actually REAL. But the influence thing kinda works...

...and you know Young Blue Eyes is a bad'un because he has time for a sweaty threesome before he plants the final bit of incriminating evidence into the ridiculous plot - ah, the 90s...

...I'll take this as a dry run for Hanson's MUCH better 90s psycho thriller, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, two years later...

...I can still remember bits of that 30 years on - can't remember any of this 30 minutes since it finished.

Kicks off well enough, but following an intriguing reveal about the secret side of the too-good-to-be-true favourite teacher, it goes nowhere...

...or, rather, everywhere! 

Lurching from Dead Poets to Picnic at Hanging Rock via Lord of the Flies, each turnabout is dafter than the previous until, by the (ridiculous) end, I'd lost patience entirely. Probably didn't help that I often struggle watching the miscast, overly varnished Ms Green, whose performances always have a coldness to them I just can't get past...

...it ticks the atmosphere box and Valverde is a REAL find as the fresh apple that tips the cart, but given its heritage, this is far from what it's cracked up to be.

Scrat-ish idea, but with meerkats…

…decent enough animation (how our expectations have soared since the noughties) but the ending plays very young - another filmmaker may well have finished a few frames earlier for a darker chuckle.

Nobody does PENSIVE consternation like our Ralph...

...with its COSTUMES, CORRIDORS & CONSPIRACIES, CONCLAVE is a twisty, old-school political thriller with an outcome impossible to predict - just when you think its one film, Berger wrongfoots you completely - how delicious, how unsettling...

...BRILLIANTLY scored by Bertelmann, some of the photography is TRULY DIVINE - elevating what could be two hours of Old Men Wandering Around into pure cinema...

...my only caveat is the casting of Lithgow & Tucci - both actors I really like - but I can't help feeling the revelations that come to light around their characters might have more impact if they were lesser known actors?...

...even so, Conclave is intelligent, atmospheric and darkly COMPELLING - with Rossellini adding a brilliantly brief moment of warmth and wit that pretty much steals the film's heart from the MAD MEN that surround her.

Note-perfect doc on The First Lady of the Double Bass...

...very content in her lack of fame, O'Brien - nearly 90 - epitomises the importance of being a soldier not a general, a collaborator, creator & teacher...

...the secret of a fulfilling life? To find interest, passion, study - that's it.

Quietly profound.

"Psychic Ally Sheedy helps police solve murders by mentally linking with the murderer. Then she discovers a murderer with the same talent - who wants to share the fear of his victims with her!"

I mean, COME ON, who's not UP FOR THIS???

...90 minutes later...

I fear it’s a REALLY GENEROUS three stars for this high CONCEPT, could ONLY be made in the late 80s/early 90s, star name above the title (Ally - the reason I’m here) straight to VHS feel THRILLER…

…the kind of film that sets up rules only to forget them when it needs to get the plot out of a tight corner, suddenly ditching characters we thought were important mid story - but, MAN, the IDEA, right? It’s so cool they probably figured we wouldn’t notice the - like, narrative, stuff - and just as I was getting restless they throw in another groovy FOGGED up BLUE hue psychic trance killer mode sequence - I just couldn’t STOP WATCHING…

…the finale - fairground hall of mirrors leads to Ferris Wheel fight, obvs (plenty of previous there!) - is utter BALLS and AGAIN nearly lost it a star - but FEAR NOT, it just holds onto 3 by the width of the mascara on Breakfast Club Ally’s lashes.

Cheerfully watchable, charming & fluffy - and that’s just Bob…

…who’s got his work cut out playing with ces trois dames - all putting in their best strokes, but it’s Ryder’s film…

…shades of Ephron in the first half, but loses it a little in the back third which swaps out sass for melodrama, until the fairy tale resumes.

'Certain films you simply run all the time and you live with them; as you grow older, they grow deeper - I'm not sure how it happens, but it does; for me, that body of work is a wondrous presence - a constant source of energy and a reminder of what life and art are all about.'

A heartfelt, inspiring retrospective of the creative duo, fronted by Scorsese with such warmth & generosity that I could easily have watched another two hours - it's like having a favourite uncle round for dinner, regaling you with his best stories.

For the love of film…

…more for the watchlist, cheers Marty!

Mon Dieu - toutes les couleurs merveilleuses - and I'll be humming that tune for the next week too...

...mischievous, innocent & insanely surreal (helicopter!) with a frog-spitting old woman - just how I like my fairy tales...

...ah, l'amour: the camera adores Deneuve - the cake baking scene is a gem.

Surrender, Dorothy!

Rrrriiiinnnngggg... Rrrrriiiinnnngggg.... Rrrriiiinnnngggg... Rrrriiiinnnnhgggg…

Increasingly frenetic, daft & dark, unsettlingly unpredictable and Carrollian in its cinematic language - After Hours is a deliciously bizarre ANTIDOTE to FORMULA.

…and then some…

...jigsaws, cameras, WINDOWS, kitchen knives, weather, BROKEN GLASS, dogs, MIRRORS, gloves, leaves and farmers who like to walk three hours every day - they're all clues to something...

…this could feel stagey given its housey location and small cast, but it's SO cinematic: the energy & precision of Zsigmond's camera, the weirdness of Williams' score (plus the fantastically credited 'Sounds by Stomu Yamashta') plus insanely sharp editing, forming fractured chaos into a narrative that weirdly makes sense. Mostly..,

...is it madness? Don't answer the phone. The girl will look like you when she grows up, but for now she's your best friend. Three lovers, two bodies. It's impossible to hear yourself over the noise of the waterfall.

Watched on Friday November 29, 2024.

Around a half hour in I felt myself wishing they hadn’t made this one - Padd 2 being that rare bear: a sequel that improves on a great original…

…this outing feels a bit stale, forced even, with very little of the earlier films’ charm, energy or cheekiness and the story is pretty ho-hum too - add in that Mortimer doesn’t fit at all comfortably into Hawkins’ kooky bohemian sandals, and then there’s Colman’s irritating schtick to contend with - a Sound of Music skit that should work but just falls flat…

…BUT!! the final third claws it back!! The spider gag got a big laugh (the only one until the ABSOLUTELY GENIUS coda, reminding us how brilliant its forebear was!) and it all wraps up with a sweet & tidy sentimental bow; Puss has a few solid moments too, in conversation with his ghostly ancestors…

…it might be unnecessary & derivative, but its marmalade is in the right place and, tbh, the world needs as many stories about decency & kindness as it can get.

Earthy Brit slow-burn weather-beaten gloom-laden 70s set folk horror with a brooding, unsettling score by Matthew Herbert that underpins the whole moody pagan strangeness…

…Morfydd Clark: what a face she has; with this & Saint Maud, I can’t think of another performer who conveys the despair of haunted sweetness as well as she…

…though the Rosemary’s Bunny vibe didn’t quite work for me, this is for the most part a perfectly situated, darkly engaging metaphor for grief.

The oddest thing being it won at the Berlinale…

…plain dull - the cast appear to be on Valium throughout; I think it’s got something to do with inflation and divination, maybe the absurdity of some jobs? Perhaps the point was lost in translation, assuming it had one.

(An ACTUAL odd turn was that I watched two random shorts today and both involved trading sex for money - the other was MUCH more engaging and you could watch it thrice for the runtime of this flaccid pretension…

…the other being Louise & it’s on YouTube.)

Unexpected history lesson - the shocking overlap of ballet & prostitution in C19th Paris; I had NO idea...

...a narratively frank, magnetic animation, alluringly scored and surprisingly affecting.

Could be the Woodster’s last hurrah, this frothily murderous affair, another exploring his obsession with chance & consequence…

…not in the same league as Crimes or Matchpoint, lighter than Cassandra, maybe closest to Scoop (?), the appeal of this lies in the four central players - all new to me - who keep the story fresh & surprising, even though the themes are well-worn…

..,a comfily plotted 90 minutes with a crackerjack ending - Valerie Lemercier needs to reboot a French Miss Marple!

The soundtrack to so many grown-up childhoods…

…conventional, convivial & cosy doc - much like the man himself…

…plays all the hits - what an impact on C20th western film he had; plenty of hat-doffing from Spielberg et al, all saying how they ‘see’ their film through his music…

…interesting to hear - like the revelation in the recent Morricone doc - that film music was once considered a ‘bastard art’ and that Williams too fell into it through chance…

…and what a body of work that strike of luck will leave behind. Inspiring.

Quietly foreboding, claustrophobic, rooted in its remote location and featuring the most poignant fishing death since Michael sent Fredo out angling with Al Neri…

…the crow calls, the clouds gather, there’s a tragic drowning (it was once considered bad luck for fishermen to learn to swim) and with the next tide arrives Mescal’s prodigal son - an unexplained return, but happily received by (the ALWAYS brilliant) Watson’s matriarch - but you just know there’s a storm brewing beneath those beautiful Irish skies…

…still deciding how well the final scene worked for me - another stunner of a turn from Franciosi - but I loved the manifestation of GUILT, getting into the bones of living with the decisions that HAUNT us - this is a very different kind of ghost story.

The things we watch to complete a director’s filmog..,

…after the magnetic, noirishly hard-edged Mona Lisa, Jordan’s sea change follow up ‘comedy’ is a struggle to get through, though it’s a fun idea it really needs some Burtonesque dark meat on its bones…

…tonally mixed - is it for kids, suggested by the daft slapstick, or adults, given the bedroom farce? Either way, it doesn’t land…

…O’Toole - who gets all the best lines - plays himself marvellously, the rest just play pantomime. Not my brew at all.

Timing, eh? Released in the same year as Goodfellas & Godfather III; bummer.

Seriously solid slow-burn gangster noir, the impending doom underscored by classic Morricone melancholy…

…a little baggy in the middle, made up for by a cracking cast - who all look so YOUNG - Gary goes the full Oldman and Penn never better than when delivering his state of grace monologue, the quiet before the storm of the final bloody shoot out.

Is this the most depressing feature animation ever?

Seminal text - why bottle the ending?

Watched on Thursday November 21, 2024.

Reflection, in every sense of the word.

Poetic. Dreamy. Heartbreaking.

Fractured fragments of a haunted house-mind in various states of deteriorating decor…

…surreal, trippy, creative, freaky - and that’s before the vulva-butterfly-crow-spectre turns up…

…no idea what was going on narratively - but I couldn’t take my eyes off it.

Tight Kubrick noir, all loneliness and hard, urban angles...

...love the spareness of the story, the use of space and the camerawork on the final chase into the mannequin factory (!) - had to knock off a half star for the sappy ending, though - I'd have finished a minute earlier.

Occasionally inventive, mostly slow - morose, even -  punctuated by some strikingly surreal imagery…

…this earnestly artsy satire on identity and the inhumanity of process (I SO wanted to like it more) was heading for two stars until the final five minutes just about saved it with a burst of energy that really made me sit up, its observational blade twisting one last time with the depressing final shot…

…a shame that this American Psycho-ish vibe hadn’t hummed under the rest of the film.

I like to remember films my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily how they happened.

I’m not at home. The film is there, right now.

Cue Bowie...

Dark? Yup. Also dreary, dull and verging on distasteful…

…good to see Carrey in a straight role and the minimalist design & photography captures perfectly the bleak sense of monotonous despair…

…something just doesn’t work, though - could be the shonky dialogue, could be the one-dimensional characters, none of whom resemble a real person whom you can root for or take against - frustrating, because there’s a jarring climactic shot that would be memorable, had the preceding 90 minutes not been so uninvolving.

Really enjoyed this soft-boiled, noirish whodunnit…

…if you don’t know the halfway twist then try to avoid it - many reviews reveal it as a given…

…its standout feature is how it uses space - I loved watching the characters move around each other, my eye cleverly directed to background details…

…it’s economical & spare, like the best of its genre, with snappy dialogue and a beautifully magnetic femme fatale at its heart - my only problem with it was how bland the investigating cop felt against the suavity of pre-horror Vincent Price & the irritating but necessarily OTT Clifton Webb’s eccentric writer moving amongst the urban social elite, cutting them down with his venomous barbs…

…definitely worth a rewatch!

Social realism with a REAL sting in the tail - excruciating viewing, but I guess that’s the point. 

Ugh, those poor kids… hopeless.

And just when you think things can’t get any worse, ‘help’ arrives in the form of Danny Dyer.

Impressively visceral film making, but impossible to ‘like’.

Extreeeeeemely easy watching, this is a yarny path well trod, throwing out that potentially trite seize the day/appreciate what you’ve got vibe - but it’s played with such affable charm, as supersmiley Stella & her old ass Plaza effortlessly rapport themselves into Awwsville…

…gets a bit tired towards the end as the melodrama seeps in, but it’s much sweeter & more fun than I expected, with the best Saoirse Ronan wall gag this year.

I am a believer.

Late period Hugh Grant is my new religion.

Outstanding first half - what could feel stagey absolutely flows with steadily increasing tension - and surprising menace...

...second half a little more formulaic, but still with masterful moments like the chase transition from the miniature model to the room itself...

...a LOT of fun (though I kinda wanted a slightly different outcome...)

With a BRILLIANT Barbara Hershey performance, extraordinarily intense moments of Entity attack with THAT score and a (potentially) fascinating argument to be made between the scientific and the paranormal causes of Carla's affliction, The Entity frustratingly falls at the final hurdle...

...awesome 80s score and chilling imagery? YES! - it's graphic, brutal and with proper jump-scares - GLASS! WINDOWS!! MIRRORS!!! BANG!!!! - no gore or dark hallways, fear is in the open! BUT THEN the final act completely bottles it, with a bizarre 'experiment' that completely jumps the shark, undoing all the tension (with no obvious thought paid to her young daughters, who'd surely be TRAUMATISED by what they've witnessed.)

But we'll always have that first attack out of NOWHERE. BAMMMM!

Charming, simple short - recommended me by my 8yo - about holding on to your dreams…

…beautiful ending: the disappointment - the elation.

From 7th February 2024...

• Phoenix
• Fallen Leaves
• Mr. Bachmann and His Class
• The New Girlfriend
• Passages
• Young & Beautiful
• How to Have Sex
• Ava
• Glass Life
• The Five Devils

...plus 54 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This year’s watches on the Big Screen!

1. Small Things Like These
2. Dune: Part Two
3. All of Us Strangers
4. Godzilla × Kong: The New Empire

   Second time in IMAX 10 April 

5. Conclave
6. American Fiction
7. Thelma
8. The Holdovers
9. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
10. The Substance

...plus 49 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Trail of Dracula
• Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life
• Mr. Bachmann and His Class
• Shadowing the Third Man
• Wild Man Blues
• Everything or Nothing
• The Panama Papers
• Death of a Gentleman
• Brigitte
• Where You're Meant to Be

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

High concept murderous hijinks in the genre defining decade - preferably with the Star’s name above the title…

• Fear
• Sea of Love

• Ikiru
• Pather Panchali
• Woman in the Dunes
• 12 Angry Men

1. Take the Money and Run

   Mostly funny...

2. Bananas
3. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
4. Sleeper
5. Love and Death
6. Annie Hall
7. Interiors
8. Manhattan
9. Stardust Memories
10. A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

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

1. Skyfall
2. Octopussy
3. Licence to Kill
4. From Russia with Love
5. The Living Daylights
6. No Time to Die
7. Casino Royale
8. The Spy Who Loved Me
9. Dr. No
10. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

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

Where a principal character is a photographer…

• Guinevere
• Blow-Up

Shorts:
One of the Missing (1969)
Loving Memory (1970)
The Author of Beltraffio (1976)
The Hunger: The Swords; Sanctuary
Beat the Devil (2002)
Agent Orange (2004)

1. Man on Fire
2. Spy Game
3. Déjà Vu
4. Unstoppable
5. Crimson Tide
6. The Last Boy Scout
7. True Romance
8. Revenge
9. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
10. Enemy of the State

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

• Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life
• Hannah and Her Sisters
• Radio Days
• Red Desert
• September
• Alice
• Shadows and Fog
• Husbands and Wives

Inspired by Substack

• Waking Ned Devine

1. You Were Never Really Here
2. Ratcatcher
3. Swimmer
4. Kill the Day
5. We Need to Talk About Kevin
6. Small Deaths
7. Morvern Callar
8. Gasman
9. Brigitte

• My Neighbor Totoro
• The Cat Returns
• Kiki's Delivery Service
• Porco Rosso
• Spirited Away
• Ponyo

• Deconstructing Harry
• Everyone Says I Love You
• Mighty Aphrodite
• Don't Drink the Water
• The Monster
• Bullets Over Broadway
• Manhattan Murder Mystery
• Husbands and Wives
• Shadows and Fog
• Alice

...plus 48 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Shorts:
Swan Song (1992)
Listening (2003)
Theatre Live:
The Winter's Tale (2015)
Romeo & Juliet (2016)

1. A Haunting in Venice
2. Death on the Nile
3. Belfast
4. Artemis Fowl
5. All Is True
6. Murder on the Orient Express
7. Cinderella
8. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
9. Thor
10. Sleuth

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

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

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

1. Unfaithful
2. 9½ Weeks
3. Jacob's Ladder
4. Lolita
5. Deep Water
6. Fatal Attraction
7. Flashdance
8. Foxes
9. Indecent Proposal

• Greta
• The Brave One
• Byzantium
• In Dreams
• Ondine
• The Company of Wolves
• The Crying Game
• Mona Lisa
• Breakfast on Pluto
• Interview with the Vampire

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Carlito's Way
2. The Untouchables
3. Mission: Impossible
4. Blow Out
5. Femme Fatale
6. Body Double
7. Dressed to Kill
8. Scarface
9. Obsession
10. The Fury

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

Shorts:
Doodlebug (1997)
Quay (2015)

1. Dunkirk
2. Insomnia
3. Memento
4. The Prestige
5. Inception
6. The Dark Knight
7. Batman Begins
8. The Dark Knight Rises
9. Tenet
10. Oppenheimer

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

• Little Odessa
• The Yards
• We Own the Night
• Two Lovers
• The Immigrant
• The Lost City of Z
• Ad Astra
• Armageddon Time

1. Se7en

   10/2014

2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

   01/2013

3. Panic Room

   10/2013

4. The Game

   11/2014

5. Zodiac

   07/2014

6. The Social Network

   10/2013

7. Mank

   12/2020

8. Alien³

   10/2014

9. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

   12/2012

10. Fight Club

    01/2013

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

Shorts:
REW-FFWD (1994)
120 Seconds to Get Elected (2006)
Happiness Bound (Segment) (2007)
Next Floor (2008)
Etude empirique sur l'influence... (2011)
Rated R for Nudity (2011)

1. Arrival
2. Dune: Part Two
3. Blade Runner 2049
4. Dune
5. Maelström
6. Sicario
7. Enemy
8. Polytechnique
9. Prisoners
10. Incendies

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

Coen Brothers' Features 1984-2024
Including Tragedy of Macbeth & Drive-Away Dolls

1. Miller's Crossing
2. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
3. The Big Lebowski
4. Fargo
5. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
6. The Hudsucker Proxy
7. Blood Simple
8. No Country for Old Men
9. Inside Llewyn Davis
10. The Tragedy of Macbeth

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

• Finding Forrester
• Reprise
• My Salinger Year
• A Perfect Man
• Shortcut to Happiness
• American Fiction

• 45 Years
• All of Us Strangers
• Benediction
• The Remains of the Day

1. Spotlight
2. All the President's Men
3. State of Play
4. The Paper
5. Shattered Glass
6. The Post
7. The Mean Season
8. Holy Spider
9. The Pelican Brief
10. Veronica Guerin

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

1. The Fabelmans
2. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
3. The Equalizer 3
4. My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
5. The Son
6. The Old Oak
7. The Great Escaper
8. Allelujah
9. TÁR
10. Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical

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

• The Spy Who Loved Me
• Octopussy
• Moonraker
• A View to a Kill
• For Your Eyes Only
• Live and Let Die
• The Man with the Golden Gun

• The Girl in the Café
• The Girl from Nowhere
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• The Girl on the Train
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
• The Girl Next Door
• The Girl with All the Gifts
• The Girl in the Spider's Web
• The Girl Who Played with Fire

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

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

1. Living
2. Top Gun: Maverick
3. Belfast
4. The Banshees of Inisherin
5. See How They Run
6. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
7. Armageddon Time
8. Licorice Pizza
9. Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
10. Benedetta

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

1. Living
2. Top Gun: Maverick

   (twice in cinema)

3. Belfast
4. The Banshees of Inisherin
5. See How They Run
6. Sing 2

   (twice in cinema)

7. Benedetta
8. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
9. Mr. Malcolm's List
10. Armageddon Time

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

1. Petite Maman
2. The World to Come
3. Last Night in Soho
4. The Father
5. My Salinger Year
6. The Nest
7. Dune
8. Another Round
9. Supernova
10. West Side Story

...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Experiment
• I Love You, I Hate You
• Centuries and Still
• Are You Still There?
• Post Office
• Radical Love
• Leylak
• In Place of Monuments
• Exposed
• Contretemps

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

Inspired by GOAT Scorsese’s 85 films you have to see to understand cinema.

Here’s an entirely subjective and heavily sentimental list of my 85 favorite and most essential movies.

1. All That Jazz
2. 8½
3. Love Streams
4. Sweet Smell of Success
5. All That Heaven Allows
6. The Godfather
7. Singin' in the Rain
8. La Dolce Vita
9. The Red Shoes
10. Contempt

...plus 75 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Summertime
• The Levelling
• Dark River

A purely personal list, in order of enjoyment...

1. The Living Daylights
2. Licence to Kill
3. Skyfall
4. From Russia with Love
5. Octopussy
6. Casino Royale
7. Thunderball
8. The Spy Who Loved Me
9. Dr. No
10. Goldfinger

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

• The Ides of March
• The Lion King
• Lady Macbeth

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars
3. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
4. Solo: A Star Wars Story
5. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
6. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
7. Return of the Jedi
8. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
9. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
10. Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones

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

1. Soul
2. Make Up
3. Carmilla
4. Calm with Horses
5. Athlete A
6. 1917
7. Les Misérables
8. The Invisible Man
9. Summer of 85
10. Never Rarely Sometimes Always

1. Soul
2. Toy Story 4
3. Toy Story 3
4. Finding Nemo
5. Toy Story 2
6. Toy Story
7. Monsters University
8. Cars
9. Incredibles 2
10. WALL·E

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Apollo 11
2. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

   14 August 19 August (IMAX)

3. Toy Story 4
4. Joker

   5 October (IMAX)
   23 October

5. Sorry We Missed You
6. The Last Tree
7. Bait
8. A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
9. Ford v Ferrari
10. Little Women

...plus 51 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Rewatched February 2020

1. Moneyball
2. A Few Good Men
3. The Social Network
4. Steve Jobs
5. Malice
6. The American President
7. Charlie Wilson's War
8. The Trial of the Chicago 7
9. Molly's Game

Pixar Shorts
Volumes 1, 2 & 3, including Bonus Features

1. Knick Knack

   Vol 1
   Original

2. Hawaiian Vacation

   Vol 2
   Feature related

3. Mike's New Car

   Vol 1
   Feature related

4. Presto

   Vol 2
   Original

5. Jack-Jack Attack

   Vol 1
   Feature related

6. Partly Cloudy

   Vol 2
   Original

7. Lou

   Vol 3
   Original

8. Riley's First Date?

   Vol 3
   Feature related

9. The Blue Umbrella

   Vol 3
   Original

10. Small Fry

    Vol 2
    Feature related

...plus 33 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Third Man
2. The Fallen Idol
3. Our Man in Havana
4. The End of the Affair

1. Carlito's Way
2. The Untouchables
3. The Godfather Part II
4. The Godfather
5. The Godfather Part III
6. GoodFellas
7. Scarface
8. Once Upon a Time in America

• Alice
• Anbessa
• And Then We Danced
• Aren't You Happy?
• Bacurau
• Balloon
• Band of Outsiders
• Beanpole
• The Bellmen
• Beyond Moving

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

• There Will Come Soft Rains
• Mindscape
• Wanderers
• The Heart of the World
• Little Rural Riding Hood
• The Maker
• More
• Room 8
• Mickey's Trailer
• Don Donald

...plus 746 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Natural
• Moneyball
• Field of Dreams
• Trouble with the Curve
• For Love of the Game