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CYBERTRUCK TRANSMORPHER: An Asylum Production
hardcore bondage people are so fucking funny look at this shit bro
November 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I love vehicles driving over cliffs; if they burst into flames on the way down, all the better. Dean Cundey shot this fine example of the form within his first year shooting features.
November 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
When you're Til Schweiger in a forgotten '90s action movie by the director of Halloween 5 and terrorists car bomb your wife the fuck up
November 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Tchéky Karyo is so damn good at being bad in KISS OF THE DRAGON, one of my favorite EuropaCorp joints. He gets a memorably vicious death scene too, and hoo boy does he deserve it!
November 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The YouTube channel PizzaFlix has uploaded a marvelous looking print of Häxan-director Benjamin Christensen's really great Seven Footprints to Satan, if anyone's hankering for some silent-era spookiness
Seven Footprints to Satan (1929)🍕 THELMA TODD🍕 BENJAMIN CHRISTENSEN
YouTube video by PizzaFlix
youtu.be
October 29, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Love when an obscure Canadian film from the '80s that is only available today as a VHS rip has gorgeous cinematography.

SPRING FEVER (Joseph L. Scanlan, 1982)
October 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
When three of the leads in your early '30s quota quickie whodunnit definitely do NOT look like clones of the same British man who is probably like 29 years old
September 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter is an idiosyncratic, beautifully shot slasher on its surface, in addition to being rather explicitly about the moral panic surrounding them as pornographic exploitation corrupting the youth. The opening shot is one of my favorites in all of horror cinema.
September 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
1. Punch-Drunk Love
2. Boogie Nights
3. Phantom Thread
4. Licorice Pizza
5. There Will Be Blood
6. Magnolia
7. The Master
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8. Inherent Vice (will give another shot someday)

I can't rank Hard Eight, it was 25 years ago and I have zero recollection of it.
September 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
If you see this, repost with a vampire that's not Dracula.
September 6, 2025 at 11:51 PM
SISU rips, so all I can say is yyeeeessssssss...

Also featuring Stephen Lang and Richard Brake? Oh baby.
August 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
When the print you are watching has definitely not been AI-enhanced:
August 25, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Just about every time I watch a William A. Wellman, I find myself asking why I don't spend more time watching his films. THE STAR WITNESS ('31) rules, very undervalued if Letterboxd is anything to go by. Nat Pendleton is great as a straightly played heavy.
July 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Reposted by Rowland
Live video of a CEO putting A.I. technology to good use at his high-pressure job
June 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Happy Father's Day from Classic Hollywood!
Screen Snapshots: Famous Fathers and Sons (1946) - Glenn Ford, George Burns, Bing Crosby...
YouTube video by Classic Robb's Glenn Ford Channel
youtu.be
June 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Poetics of Cinema
Arnold Schwarzenegger in COMMANDO
June 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
One of the most prescient movies of the '90s, probably still Fincher's best
The plot of Fight Club is about how Gen X men, who were told repeatedly they were "the middle children of history," were told to embrace empty consumerism, and instead turned first to trolling and then to fascism.
45-65 year old men — Gen X and the youngest boomers — really does seem like a different ideological sub-community unto itself.
May 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's BEAUTIFUL NEW BAY AREA PROJECT is great, wow - just what I needed after being a bit underwhelmed by CLOUD.
April 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
@rohmersimpson.bsky.social Am I remembering correctly that you posted a bit about KK's CLOUD with some ambivalence? If not, have you seen it yet?
April 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
As an admirer of K.K. since the early aughts, when hacky "(no relation teehee!)" jokes were omnipresent and I had to order bootlegs of EYES OF THE SPIDER, SERPENT'S PATH, BARREN ILLUSION, and LICENSE TO LIVE off eBay to watch them, CLOUD plays like a callback to that era—is K.K. the doomed reseller?
April 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
@willowcatelyn.bsky.social Willow, I saw on Letterboxd that you liked Frozen II, and since I recently watched it for the first time with my daughter and spent half the movie thinking "am I crazy or is this a trans allegory?", I'm curious if you had a similar read? I know it's been like six years lol
March 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Recently watched The Smiling Ghost (1941), which features Willie Best in a surprisingly prominent role, and his is the best performance in the film —lots of energy and great timing, he transcends what is a pretty typical racist caricature for the era, and yet the film respects him as a performer
Willie Best (May 27, 1916 – February 27, 1962)
February 28, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Literally. During a Christmas family visit, a relative told me about how a foreign student in his class asked him what made our freedom special, so he pointed out a window at the school parking lot, listed off all the different foreign brands, and said "that's freedom."
I love how in this country we'll boast about our unique and unparalleled freedom and when someone asks what that means we'll bring up our ability to drive or have a beer or whatever
February 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Me trying to have a conversation with a music nerd: "Oh, so you're telling me this drummer I've never heard of left this band I've never heard of to join this other band I've never heard of to be featured on this totemic album I've never heard of? Well I do declare, that is something."
February 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM