That first close up of Grace Kelly is world-shaking

Watched on Saturday January 4, 2025.

Be groovy or leave, man

“Want a Bugle?” - Johnny Cash

You watch this and think maybe the effectiveness of the shower scene has been diluted after sixty years of endless parodies, references, and increasingly gruesome slashers. No. It’s every bit as shocking and exquisitely crafted, and most of all goddamn scary.

“Is your year long Godzilla marathon finally over?”

[breaks down crying and nods]

Happy New Year!

Watched on Tuesday December 31, 2024.

The way Lisbeth says “hey hey” when she walks into a room is so precious to me

Feel like this whole trilogy could have been shortened to just one movie. Kinda dug its take on Ghidorah as this unexplainable cosmic entity though, some of the imagery involving him is pretty cool.

Jaume is cooking again and cinema is better for it

Come for the exhilarating fight sequences, stay for the spectacular production design. A truly invigorating action film. When Louis Koo flicks his cigarette into the air, flips someone over and breaks their arm, then flies back onto his feet to catch the cigarette before it hits the floor, you know you’re watching something special.

Don’t worry, Godzilla barely appears and Mechagodzilla is a city now. They tease Mothra yet she’s nowhere to be found. Exciting!

Meowry Christmas

Willem Dafoe laughing maniacally while surrounded by flames is my favorite image of the year

You can hear the Kill Bill sirens going off in Billy’s head every time he sees something Santa related

It’s impossible to watch this without thinking of the TV edit. The guy who dubbed Bruce Willis didn’t even try to sound like him. They should include this version in the eventual 4K release. 

“Colonel Stuart, could we have a few words, please?”
“You can have two: Joke and You”

Watched on Sunday December 22, 2024.

Has a pretty fascinating premise that is unfortunately executed in the most mediocre fashion. The last scene and the end credits song are pretty good though!

Some movies just don’t need to exist

Felt like I was hallucinating when the whole movie stopped so the double Jim Carreys could have a laser dance number

Watched on Wednesday December 18, 2024.

when the old man hugs his granddaughter and the John Williams score kicks in 😭

In a career full of unhinged performances, this might just rank near the top for ol’ Jim. I honestly forgot Sonic was even in the movie at one point. This is all Robotnik and Carrey is devouring every bit of scenery. The man is playing air guitar with his own leg!

“No, i’ll be right back. You’ll still be in the kitchen.” is so dark yet so fucking funny

“You can’t bench press your way out of this one.”

Phil Hartman fucks

Watched on Friday December 13, 2024.

There’s this part where Alessandro Nivola just stops and randomly makes this weird sound for a few seconds and then continues the scene like nothing happened. This never happens again the rest of the movie. It was kinda beautiful to witness.

Watched on Wednesday December 11, 2024.

I like how the cure for werewolves is called Moonscreen

I love googly eyed Godzilla

Watched on Sunday December 8, 2024.

There is a moment

This movie being so scary almost overshadows the fact that the fellatio joke is absolutely hysterical

“Never thought I’d die next to a rap rocker.”
“How about next to a homie?”

I’m just here to watch Rachel Zegler hack computers in an oversized hoodie

Watched on Wednesday December 4, 2024.

Weirdly paced and doesn’t quite have the charm of an Out of Sight or Ocean’s Eleven, but it’s vibey enough to chill out with. Solid movie star chemistry, good music, nice clothes. Fun!

Watched on Monday December 2, 2024.

The high-pitched scream the TMZ guy lets out after flying off his motorcycle is perfect

“Listen kid, there are two things you don’t know about the Earth. One is me. And the other is…Godzilla.”

Hyperactive cinema. Maybe the most a movie has ever movie’d. Every five minutes something insane happens. Mutant humans, motorcycle fu, Godzilla plays soccer. So 2004 that everything is blown out and there’s nu-metal on the soundtrack. Don Frye has a sick mustache. Masterpiece.

Watched on Friday November 29, 2024.

Dares to ask “what if there were three Mothras?”

You can actually feel yourself forgetting this movie as you watch it. The “villain” is completely useless lmao.

MAD MOANA: FURY OCEAN

Watched on Monday November 25, 2024.

Watched on Sunday November 24, 2024.

That shot of Kiryu against the sunset is so sick. Also has one of the coolest opening scenes in the series. The mood, the rain, the destruction, it’s perfect.

Bill Paxton floating down from the sky on an umbrella: “Somebody ring the dinkster?”

[rapturous applause]
[audience loses their minds]
[theater collapses]

Denzel’s delivery of “that my friend is politicsss” is why he’s the greatest

Walked in a little skeptical but by the time Elphaba and Glinda do their little ballroom dance I was won over. A massive, rousing blockbuster spectacle. Ariana Grande a genuine comedic force?

“You’re taller than you look.”

“I hunch.”

“Don’t.”

❤️

1. Trap
2. Challengers
3. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
4. The Substance
5. Dune: Part Two
6. The First Omen
7. Rebel Ridge
8. Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
9. Nosferatu
10. The Wild Robot

...plus 93 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Matrix
2. Blade Runner
3. Mad Max: Fury Road
4. Evil Dead II
5. Escape from New York
6. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
7. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
8. North by Northwest
9. Stop Making Sense
10. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

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

1. Aliens
2. Alien
3. Prometheus
4. Alien: Covenant
5. Alien³
6. AVP: Alien vs. Predator
7. Alien: Romulus
8. Alien Resurrection
9. Aliens vs Predator: Requiem

1. John Wick: Chapter 4
2. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
3. Oppenheimer
4. Anatomy of a Fall
5. Skinamarink
6. The Zone of Interest
7. Rye Lane
8. Past Lives
9. May December
10. The Killer

...plus 121 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Hard Boiled
2. Face/Off
3. The Killer
4. Hard Target
5. Bullet in the Head
6. A Better Tomorrow II
7. Mission: Impossible II
8. Windtalkers
9. Heroes Shed No Tears
10. Broken Arrow

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

31 horror films for 31 days of October!

1. Halloween
2. The Thing
3. Shaun of the Dead
4. Evil Dead II
5. Scream
6. A Nightmare on Elm Street
7. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
8. Re-Animator
9. Suspiria
10. Carrie

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

🪚

1. Saw
2. Saw IV
3. Saw X
4. Saw II
5. Saw VI
6. Saw III
7. Jigsaw
8. Saw V
9. Spiral: From the Book of Saw
10. Saw 3D

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

1. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2. Transformers
3. Transformers: Age of Extinction
4. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
5. Transformers: The Last Knight
6. The Transformers: The Movie
7. Bumblebee
8. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

• Ambulance
• Avatar: The Way of Water
• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• F9
• Fire of Love
• The Invisible Man
• John Wick: Chapter 4
• The Last Duel

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

1. 2 Fast 2 Furious
2. Fast Five
3. The Fast and the Furious
4. Fast & Furious 6
5. Furious 7
6. F9
7. The Fate of the Furious
8. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
9. Fast & Furious
10. Fast X

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

1. Evil Dead II
2. The Evil Dead
3. Army of Darkness
4. Evil Dead
5. Evil Dead Rise

They’re actually all tied for #1

1. John Wick: Chapter 4
2. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
3. John Wick: Chapter 2
4. John Wick

1. Ambulance
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
3. Avatar: The Way of Water
4. The Northman
5. The Banshees of Inisherin
6. Top Gun: Maverick
7. TÁR
8. Fire of Love
9. Mad God
10. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

...plus 143 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Rocky IV
2. Creed
3. Rocky II
4. Rocky
5. Rocky Balboa
6. Creed II
7. Rocky III
8. Creed III
9. Rocky V

1. Orphan
2. Non-Stop
3. The Commuter
4. The Shallows
5. House of Wax
6. Run All Night
7. Jungle Cruise
8. Unknown
9. Black Adam

1. Aliens
2. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
3. The Terminator
4. True Lies
5. Avatar: The Way of Water
6. Avatar
7. The Abyss
8. Titanic
9. Piranha II: The Spawning

My brain’s soundtrack

• Beetlejuice
• Big Trouble in Little China
• Blade Runner
• Cat People
• Commando
• Crank: High Voltage
• The Dark Knight Rises
• Death Rides a Horse
• Demons
• Escape from New York

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

1. Halloween
2. Halloween II
3. Halloween III: Season of the Witch
4. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
5. Halloween II
6. Halloween
7. Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
8. Halloween
9. Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
10. Halloween: Resurrection

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

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
3. Unstoppable
4. 21 Jump Street
5. Skyfall
6. John Wick: Chapter 2
7. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
8. Dredd
9. John Wick
10. Fast Five

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

1. Bad Boys II
2. Armageddon
3. Ambulance
4. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
5. 6 Underground
6. The Rock
7. Transformers: Age of Extinction
8. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
9. Pain & Gain
10. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

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

1. Malignant
2. F9
3. Licorice Pizza
4. The Mitchells vs. the Machines
5. Petite Maman
6. Titane
7. Nightmare Alley
8. A Quiet Place Part II
9. The Last Duel
10. The Suicide Squad

...plus 114 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Devil's Rejects
2. Halloween II
3. House of 1000 Corpses
4. The Lords of Salem
5. Halloween
6. 3 from Hell
7. 31

1. The Conjuring
2. Malignant
3. Insidious
4. Aquaman
5. Furious 7
6. The Conjuring 2
7. Saw
8. Dead Silence
9. Insidious: Chapter 2
10. Death Sentence

1. Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions
2. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
3. The Invisible Man
4. Happiest Season
5. Sound of Metal
6. Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
7. Bacurau
8. Palm Springs
9. Soul
10. Another Round

...plus 98 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Godzilla
2. Godzilla vs. Kong
3. Godzilla: King of the Monsters
4. Kong: Skull Island

1. The Bourne Ultimatum
2. The Bourne Identity
3. The Bourne Supremacy
4. Jason Bourne
5. The Bourne Legacy

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

• Before Sunrise
• Scream
• Boogie Nights
• Saving Private Ryan
• Toy Story 2
• Battle Royale
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• Shaun of the Dead

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

Maybe I'll just ignore all the bad ones

1. Desperately Seeking Susan
2. A League of Their Own
3. Madonna: Truth or Dare
4. Who's That Girl
5. Dick Tracy
6. Evita
7. Four Rooms
8. Die Another Day

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

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

I think most of these count.

1. The Thing
2. Evil Dead II
3. Alien
4. Re-Animator
5. Braindead
6. Demons
7. The Fly
8. From Beyond
9. The Blob
10. Society

1. Spider-Man 2
2. The Dark Knight
3. Spider-Man
4. Superman
5. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
6. Iron Man
7. The Avengers
8. Avengers: Endgame
9. Dredd
10. The Dark Knight Rises

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

1. Aliens
2. The Matrix
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark
4. Mad Max: Fury Road
5. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
6. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
7. Die Hard
8. Big Trouble in Little China
9. Casino Royale
10. Hot Fuzz

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

1. Pacific Rim
2. Hellboy II: The Golden Army
3. Pan's Labyrinth
4. Blade II
5. Crimson Peak
6. The Shape of Water
7. Cronos
8. The Devil's Backbone
9. Hellboy
10. Mimic

1. Resident Evil: Retribution
2. Resident Evil
3. Resident Evil: Afterlife
4. Resident Evil: Extinction
5. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
6. Resident Evil: Apocalypse

1. Suspiria
2. Tenebre
3. Inferno
4. Phenomena
5. Opera
6. Deep Red
7. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

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

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

1. Avengers: Endgame
2. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
3. Parasite
4. Marriage Story
5. Knives Out
6. The Lighthouse
7. Uncut Gems
8. The Irishman
9. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
10. Portrait of a Lady on Fire

...plus 103 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Avengers: Infinity War
2. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
3. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
4. Eighth Grade
5. Paddington 2
6. Annihilation
7. Hereditary
8. Bad Times at the El Royale
9. A Star Is Born
10. BlacKkKlansman

...plus 111 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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

1. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
2. Friday the 13th Part 2
3. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
4. Friday the 13th Part III
5. Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
6. Friday the 13th
7. Freddy vs. Jason
8. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
9. Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
10. Friday the 13th

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

1. Avengers: Endgame
2. Iron Man
3. The Avengers
4. Avengers: Infinity War
5. Guardians of the Galaxy
6. Captain America: Civil War
7. Thor: Ragnarok
8. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
9. Spider-Man: Far From Home
10. Captain America: The First Avenger

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

1. La La Land
2. Captain America: Civil War
3. Sing Street
4. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
5. 10 Cloverfield Lane
6. Everybody Wants Some!!
7. The Wailing
8. Zootopia
9. Green Room
10. Arrival

...plus 76 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

"Welcome to Showdown Vol. II: The Bride of Showdown! This one is going to have some of you as giddy as Phoenix Buchanan running loose in a costume-hire shop. We want your top ten movie sequels of all time. Which films did it better than the original? Which sequel perfectly captured the mood of its ancestor/s? Which follow-up left its cinematic parent in the dust? The rules: at least one (and preferably more) of the core cast must return in a chronological continuation of the original story (so Fury Road out, Toy Story 3 in). It’s not an impossible mission; try to complete it before sunset."

Top 10 sequels.

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Aliens
3. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
4. The Dark Knight
5. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
6. Spider-Man 2
7. Evil Dead II
8. Mad Max 2
9. Gremlins 2: The New Batch
10. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

1. War for the Planet of the Apes
2. Baby Driver
3. Lady Bird
4. Brawl in Cell Block 99
5. The Florida Project
6. The Shape of Water
7. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
8. Get Out
9. Blade Runner 2049
10. John Wick: Chapter 2

...plus 88 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
3. Inside Out
4. Spotlight
5. The Hateful Eight
6. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
7. Bone Tomahawk
8. Creed
9. Paddington
10. Carol

...plus 83 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Title says it all. I'm including movies I own digitally as well.

Removed: City of God, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, The Perfect Storm, Eyes Wide Shut, Shutter Island, Casino, Gangs of New York, As Good as It Gets, Underworld: Awakening, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever, The Man with the Golden Gun, For Your Eyes Only, The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, High Plains Drifter, Godzilla, 3:10 to Yuma; Duck, You Sucker; The Searchers, The Grand Duel, Keoma, Pale Rider, When a Stranger Calls, Happy Birthday to Me, Blade II, Collateral; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; About Time

• Hostel: Part II
• Battle Royale II: Requiem
• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
• Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
• Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same
• Watchmen
• Showgirls

...plus 44 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

"Houston, we have a problem: we’re searching for the very best space movie of all time. Anything set in space, or on a non-Earth planet qualifies (brief Earth-based action is allowable, but what we’re really after is ships, planets and the cold, dark reaches of space). So, science the shit out of your list, prepare for launch and remember: no one can hear you scream. Meet you in the Cantina next week to swap notes."

My first Letterboxd showdown. Here's a bunch of space movies.

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Aliens
3. Star Wars
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. Alien
6. Return of the Jedi
7. Serenity
8. Guardians of the Galaxy
9. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
10. WALL·E

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

I love a good western. Not my absolute favorite genre, but I enjoy watching them.

1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2. Django Unchained
3. Once Upon a Time in the West
4. The Hateful Eight
5. There Will Be Blood
6. For a Few Dollars More
7. Unforgiven
8. Django
9. True Grit
10. Tombstone

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