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Watched on Sunday May 18, 2025.

This review may contain spoilers.

On one hand, I was not at all surprised by where the movie went, obviously it was going to be her father and the protestors. On the other hand, I was surprised the events of the rest of the trilogy weren't more relevant, as that was the movie I was told I was getting. Once Leon was killed and the tape vanished, it was barely a factor anymore.

I'm glad I finally watched it, after loving X and Pearl so much in theater, but I'm not upset it took me this long, and that I waited until I got my hands on a library DVD. A good movie, but a let down as the end of a trilogy.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

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I've been meaning to watch this for a while and how I wish I had watched it sooner.

Watched on Thursday May 15, 2025.

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Watched on Saturday May 10, 2025.

An interesting find at the library. It's much less about the sport itself as it is about the community and culture around it. I know nothing about the rules of the game, but I have left the documentary interested enough to research more.

Watched on Friday May 9, 2025.

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..pation

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This is a tough one because, if it wasn't Robin Williams, much of the humor in the movie wouldn't work, and it already struggles to work because it did not age well. I expected some aged jokes and offensive humor, but oh boy was there a lot.
But, it was Robin Williams, y'know.

I get why people love this movie, but I also understand people who don't, and, I have found myself in the middle.

Watched on Wednesday April 16, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 16, 2025.

Chag Pesach Sameach

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If the ball is the Genovian Independence Day Ball, and Genovia is supposed to be between and Spain, is the independence from or Spain?

Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.

Watched on Friday March 28, 2025.

This review may contain spoilers.

I was all for this, the twists and turns were great and got me thinking, but then they went the mental health/demons route and ehhhhhhh. Can't a woman be a serial killer without having a mental illness?

idk, it's pretty? But I just didn't care about anybody but Thomas and spent most of the movie wishing for an adaptation like this of Dracula itself.

Movies I didn't finish because I don't actually want to log them. Reasons in the notes.

• TÁR
• Aliko and Ambai
• Thoroughly Modern Millie

  The racism was just...
  I'm usually somebody who can take older movies with a mindset of 'they are of their time'. It's good and necessary to acknowledge the bigotry in them, but that doesn't mean there's nothing of value.
  This movie, however, was too much. The entire plot hinges on racism.

• Inside Out 2

  It turns out, being somebody with anxiety, watching a movie dealing with anxiety to such an extent only makes your real anxiety act up

• Highlander

  Just not the right time. I got bored and couldn't stay focused. I'll have to come back and watch the movie, ideally with somebody who loves the movie so maybe I can leech some of those vibes from them.

• From What Is Before

  it's just
  it's so long
  I'll eventually come back to it, but right now i do not have the focus. I got an hour in and can barely tell you anything cause i keep getting distracted.

• Tyrannosaur

  A dog seemingly dies in the first scene, accidently killed by his owner, and I am absolutely not in the mood to watch a movie that starts there.

• El Topo

My compilation of Showdowns for 2025

The first ten are for the most recent showdown and each movie has which showdown it is for in the notes

Additional rules I've set for myself, because I like to make things difficult:

~I have to have seen the movies
~No more than two movies from a franchise for each category
~Repeat movies as little as possible, no more than four times through the year

Not rules, but I also try to include at least one non-American movie when possible and watch at least one new movie for each theme.

They aren't all what I would call good movies, but there are some that I see and just fit the prompt so well that I have to include them.

23-24 list

1. Sun Children
2. Dead Poets Society
3. Calibre
4. The Falconer
5. Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
6. Rope
7. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
8. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
9. The Goonies
10. Christine

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

I have a lot of movies I've watched, and marked as watched, but not logged and rated. So, I'm setting up a challenge to go through and watch some of them.

Inspired by Nina's Honey, I Shrunk the Watchlist Challenge

Progress 6/25

Prompts
1. Watch the oldest movie
2. Watch the newest movie
3. Watch the longest movie
4. Watch the shortest movie 🐦
5. Watch a movie you first saw on TV
6. Watch a movie you saw in theaters
7. Watch a movie you wish you could have seen in theaters 🐪
8. Watch a movie from the year or decade you were born
9. Watch a movie you watched in school.
10. Shuffle your films and watch the first one
11. Watch a movie from the 1930s
12. Watch a movie from the 1940s
13. Watch a movie from the 1950s
14. Watch a movie from the 1960s
15. Watch a movie from the 1970s 👽
16. Watch a movie from the 1980s
17. Watch a movie from the 1990s
18. Watch a movie from the 2000s 🦘
19. Watch a movie from the 2010s
20. Watch a movie from the 2020s
21. Shuffle your films and watch the first one 🍅
22. Watch your favorite movie
23. Watch a movie from your favorite genre
24. Watch a movie you've been putting off rewatching 🏳️‍🌈
25. Watch a movie you physically own

If there's nothing for the prompt in your films, you can either watch whatever you want, or watch something from your watchlist that fits it.

1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
3. Schindler's List
4. For the Birds
5. Tower of Terror
6. Promare
7. The Prince of Egypt
8. The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure
9. A Raisin in the Sun
10. Bee Movie

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

Watching one movie per year chronologically.

• age of Venus
• Les Papillons
• The Kiss
• L'Homme Machine
• Man Walking Around a Corner
• Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge
• Hyde Park Corner
• Monkeyshines, No. 1
• Dickson Greeting
• Poor Pierrot

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

My compilation of Showdown movies from when I started in 2023, through 2024
The first ten are for the most recent showdown and each movie has which showdown it is for in the notes

Additional rules I've set for myself, because I like to make things difficult:

~I have to have seen the movies
~No more than two movies from a franchise for each category
~Repeat movies as little as possible (oh, fuck this one has gotten hard)

Not rules, but I also try to include at least one non-American movie and watch at least one new movie for each theme.

They aren't all what I would call good movies, but there are some that I see and just fit the prompt so well that I have to include them.

2025 list

1. Seven Samurai

   The NeverEnding Story #1
   Best Long Films

2. World on a Wire

   The NeverEnding Story #2

3. Fiddler on the Roof

   Illuminated #1
   Best films about Jewish life

   The NeverEnding Story #3

4. The Color Purple

   The NeverEnding Story #4

5. Amadeus

   The NeverEnding Story #5

6. The Sound of Music

   Calling the Shots #9
   The NeverEnding Story #6

7. Lion of the Desert

   The NeverEnding Story #7

8. Titanic

   The NeverEnding Story #8

9. Suspiria

   The NeverEnding Story #9

10. Lawrence of Arabia

    The NeverEnding Story #10

...plus 343 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Top 30 movies watched for the first time in 2024

• World on a Wire
• Tommy
• The Bad Seed
• New Nightmare
• Videodrome
• Venus of Mars
• In a Violent Nature
• 12 Angry Men
• Slay
• The Fall Guy

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

• Filibus
• The Lion King
• Scream
• The First Wives Club
• The Cave of the Yellow Dog
• Wolfwalkers
• The Retreat
• Hocus Pocus
• To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
• Life Is Beautiful

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

With certain stuff going on, including starting the month off sick with a killer headache, I'm not about to watch a movie a day this month like I did the last few years, but I am going to do my best. There will probably be a lot of shorts, and I'll include links in the notes for them.

• The Ghost of Frankenstein
• Slay
• Halloween: Resurrection
• Play House

  on vimeo

• Grip of the Strangler
• Late Night with the Devil
• The 3rd Eye Murders

  on youtube

• Terrifier
• Frankenweenie
• The Vigil

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

Horror movies with Jewish themes or characters.

I have not seen most of these, so don't know exactly how Jewish some of them are and cannot speak to their quality or how they stand as representation.

Vaguely sorted into
Dybbuk movies
Mazzik movies
Golem movies
Movies with other Jewish themes
Movies with at least one Jewish character
The Puppet Master franchise
nazis die
Don't need to watch this to know it's offensive

• The Dybbuk
• Attachment
• The Possession
• Killer Sofa
• The Dybbuk
• Ezra
• The Unborn
• Demon
• Dybbuk
• The Vigil

...plus 46 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The 90s are back and so is my VHS collection

Most of these are tapes that were saved from my childhood, but I'll buy some from thrift shops and a few places are selling new ones again.

• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• Casablanca
• Gaslight
• It's a Wonderful Life
• Strangers on a Train
• Peter Pan
• Swiss Family Robinson
• One Hundred and One Dalmatians
• The Incredible Journey
• The Sound of Music

...plus 55 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A challenge to watch a movie from each continent every month.

I want to keep watching international movies, but don't want to try and hit every country again this year, so this is the plan instead. As there are several ways to classify the continents, I will be going with the following:

Africa
Asia
Europe
North America
Oceania
South America

• The House by the Cemetery

  Italy, Europe
  January

• Jigoku

  Japan, Asia
  January

• The Exterminating Angel

  Mexico, North America
  January

• Nothing But the Sun

  Paraguay, South America
  January

• Call Me Kuchu

  Uganda, Africa
  January

• Girls Can't Surf

  Australia, Oceania
  January

• The White Balloon

  Iran, Asia
  February

• Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

  Estonia, Europe
  February

• Taego Ãwa

  Brazil, South America
  February

• Hunt for the Wilderpeople

  Aotearoa, Oceania
  February

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

Watchlist challenge cause it keeps getting bigger and I need to actually watch some of the movies.

List from Nina's challenge

Progress: 16/35

Prompts
1. Watch the movie that was added first
2. Watch the movie that was added last
3. Watch the movie that is the longest
4. Watch the movie that is the shortest 🌟
5. Watch the movie that is rated highest
6. Watch the movie that is rated lowest
7. Watch a movie from the 1950s 🎷
8. Watch a movie from the 1960s 👶🏼
9. Watch a movie from the 1970s 🏜️
10. Watch a movie from the 1980s
11. Watch a movie from the 1990s 💭
12. Watch a movie from the 2000s 🧚‍♀️
13. Watch a movie from the 2010s
14. Watch a movie from the 2020s 🐚
15. Shuffle your watchlist and watch the first movie that appears
16. Watch a movie from a director you haven’t watched anything from
17. Watch a movie that stars one of your favorite actors
18. Watch a movie that stars one of your favorite actresses
19. Watch the movie that is the most popular ⛺
20. Watch the movie that is the least popular ☢️
21. Watch the movie that was released the earliest 🌞
22. Shuffle your watchlist and watch the first movie that appears 📼
23. Watch a movie from your favorite genre
24. Watch a movie from your least favorite genre 🤠
25. Watch the movie with the most beautiful poster
26. Watch the movie you have been anticipating watching most
27. Watch a movie from before you were born 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
28. Watch a movie recommended to you by someone
29. Watch a documentary 🏄‍♀️
30. Shuffle your watchlist and watch the first movie that appears

Bonus
31. Happy birthday! Shuffle your watchlist and pick the film the corresponds with you day, month or year of birth
32. A film with a full sentence for a title or the longest title you can find on your watchlist 🛹
33. Watch the oldest movie nominated for an Academy Award in any category
34. Watch a movie you want to watch in theaters 💜
35. Watch a movie with a person's name in the title

1. Ginger Snaps
2. Song Without a Name
3. Shoah
4. Light Years
5. Once Upon a Time in the West
6. Dracula 2000
7. Some Like It Hot
8. Jigoku
9. The Frisco Kid
10. Delta Space Mission

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

Some are surviving, some are just vibing, some have no idea what's going on.

Why are these kids alone? Doesn't matter, they just are.

• Pahuna: The Little Visitors
• Bekas
• Bekas
• Boy
• Matares
• Pihu
• Spirited Away
• The Rugrats Movie
• Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
• Rugrats Go Wild

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

Top 30 movies watched in 2023

• A Thousand and One
• Filibus
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Barbie
• Prey
• My Neighbor Totoro
• Train to Busan
• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
• Scream VI
• Totally Killer

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

A personal challenge to watch a movie from every country during 2023 because I want to watch more international works

This started with the idea of getting a list of the countries in the world and going off of that, and then I discovered the map in the stats and the ability to search by country and people often trying to fill in the map, so that's basically what this has turned into.

• The Secret of Kells

  Ireland

• Giant

  United States

• Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance

  Canada

• The Life Ahead

  Italy

• The Summit of the Gods

• Pihu

  India

• Pan's Labyrinth

  Mexico

• The Wind Rises

  Japan

• Insomnia

  Norway

• Kinyarwanda

  Rwanda

...plus 225 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Top thirty movies watched in 2022

• To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
• Nope
• Us
• Scream
• X
• Eyes Without a Face
• The Wave
• Pearl
• The Sea Beast
• Umma

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

• A Thousand and One
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Nimona
• Scream VI
• Totally Killer
• Barbie
• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
• Evil Dead Rise
• Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor

My digital collection on Movies Anywhere to help me keep track of what is on which service.

• Barbie
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• The Menu
• Get Out
• Nope
• Us
• Encanto
• How to Train Your Dragon
• How to Train Your Dragon 2
• How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

...plus 35 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My digital collection of Vudu to help me keep track of what is on which service.

• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
• Barbie
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• The Blackening
• The Menu
• Scream VI
• Scream 4
• Knives Out
• The Blair Witch Project
• Get Out

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

Watching a horror or horror-adjacent movie a day until Halloween, this year with themes.

week one - queer horror
week two - international horror
Friday the 13th - Jason Takes Manhatten
week three - universal monsters
week four - recs from friends and grabbed from the library

• Diabolique
• Vampyros Lesbos
• A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
• Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things
• Lyle
• Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland
• Psycho
• Train to Busan
• The Medium
• The Tokoloshe

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Queer films from outside the United States

IN PROGRESS

Organized alphabetically by continent, country, then title*
Africa: 1 - 123
Asia: 124 -
Europe:
North America:
Oceania:
South America:

At the very end, after Venezuela, are movies with four or more countries attributed, that, after a search, did not have a single country they seemed to primarily be from. These movies begin at [TK] and are listed by title. The attributed countries are listed in the notes alphabetically.

List was compiled using the following lists
🌈Pride: A Chronological History of Queer Interest & LGBTQ+ Cinema
👭In the Closet: A List of Minor Interest LGBTQ+ Films

Films with a * in the notes have a review with a working link to the film

*I know that, technically, 'the' should be ignored and the title should be alphabetized by the next word, but my adhd hates how that looks, so I'm not doing that

japan 2017
Belgium 2013

1. Letter to My Sister

   Algeria

2. The Night is Fading

   Algeria

3. The Sun Assassinated

   Algeria/

4. Under Another Sky

   Algeria/

5. Z

   Algeria/

6. Serpentarius

   Angola/Portugal

7. Bight of the Twin

   Benin

8. Night Nursery

   Burkina Faso

9. Ouaga Girls

   Burkina Faso

10. Born This Way

    Cameroon

...plus 1647 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. House on Haunted Hill
2. Rear Window
3. House of Wax
4. Singin' in the Rain
5. Sunset Boulevard
6. The Hidden Fortress
7. Godzilla
8. A Bucket of Blood
9. Sleeping Beauty
10. Forbidden Games

• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
• The Hands of Orlac
• Nosferatu
• Pandora's Box
• Within Our Gates
• The Man Who Laughs
• The Golem: How He Came Into the World
• Sherlock Jr.

• The Monster
• The Old Dark House
• The Black Cat
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Fangs

1. Glass Onion
2. The Woman King
3. Scream
4. Blood Relatives
5. Nope
6. Matares
7. The Last Matinee
8. Wolfwalkers
9. The Retreat
10. The Mitchells vs. the Machines

1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2. Knives Out
3. The Perfection
4. Power Rangers
5. Beasts of No Nation
6. Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
7. The Colors of the Mountain
8. Terminator: Dark Fate
9. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
10. Lionheart

1. The Cave of the Yellow Dog
2. I Can't Think Straight
3. Trick 'r Treat
4. Lilo & Stitch
5. Holes
6. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
7. Bend It Like Beckham
8. The Princess Diaries
9. A Knight's Tale
10. Stick It

1. To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
2. The First Wives Club
3. The Cup
4. The Prince of Egypt
5. Life Is Beautiful
6. Scream
7. Spice World
8. Jurassic Park
9. Fried Green Tomatoes
10. The Lion King

1. Clue
2. Labyrinth
3. Stage Fright
4. Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
5. My Neighbor Totoro
6. The Princess Bride
7. Sleepaway Camp
8. The Fox and the Hound
9. Dark Night of the Scarecrow
10. The Black Cauldron

1. Halloween
2. Alien
3. Rocky
4. I Want What I Want
5. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
6. Black Christmas
7. Phantom of the Paradise
8. Fiddler on the Roof
9. The Wicker Man
10. Jaws

1. Eyes Without a Face
2. The Haunting
3. Night of the Living Dead
4. Peeping Tom
5. The Innocents
6. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
7. Mary Poppins
8. One Hundred and One Dalmatians
9. The Incredible Journey
10. Carnival of Souls

1. Casablanca
2. Cat People
3. Too Many Husbands
4. Rebecca
5. Sanshiro Sugata
6. Fantasia
7. Rope
8. The Seventh Victim
9. Gaslight
10. The Pied Piper

1. Dracula's Daughter
2. The Old Dark House
3. The Invisible Man
4. An Inn in Tokyo
5. The Dybbuk
6. Bringing Up Baby
7. Mystery of the Wax Museum
8. Stage Door
9. Queen Christina
10. The Wizard of Oz

My top 20 movies of 2022

1. Nope
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
3. Glass Onion
4. Scream
5. X
6. The Woman King
7. The Menu
8. Pearl
9. Till
10. Blood Relatives

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

Vampire movies with group scenes

• Renfield
• Blood Relatives

• Dracula
• Drácula
• Frankenstein
• The Mummy
• The Invisible Man
• The Black Cat
• Bride of Frankenstein
• Werewolf of London
• Dracula's Daughter
• Son of Frankenstein

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

Let queer people kill

• They/Them
• The Retreat
• The Last Thing Mary Saw
• Fear Street: 1666

• The Black Cat
• Gift of Gab
• The Raven
• The Invisible Ray
• Son of Frankenstein
• Black Friday
• You'll Find Out
• The Body Snatcher

Watching a horror or horror-adjacent movie a day until Halloween

• Son of Dracula
• The Town That Dreaded Sundown
• An American Werewolf in London
• Don't Look Under the Bed
• Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
• The Town that Dreaded Sundown
• Host
• The Old Dark House
• The Blob
• Tourist Trap

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