#62: Uma Musume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era (2024)

This is genuinely a really good movie about the rivalries, heartbreaks, and triumphs inherent to sports. Get you someone who'll piss you off and push you father.

Everyone says Uma Musume is horsegirl yuri, but it's actually F1 yaoi.

#61: The Man with the Iron Fists (2012) directed by RZA

The perfect send up to Hong Kong Kung fu movies that are Bad. It has some really badass action and choreography, but it draaaaaaags

rza can stay, quentin please leave.

#60: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) written and directed by Jim Jarmusch

A surprisingly contemplative film that just manages to sell the coolness, tragedy, and mundanity of its protagonist navigating its world of gangsters.

oh shit, rza has a cameo

#59: Zootopia 2 (2025) directed by Jared Bush and Byron Howard

Very funny that after its prequel discusses stereotypes, Zoo2opia discusses* environmental racism. Doubt it'll set the world on fire the way the prequel did, but focusing more on the leads' dynamic is fun enough

*it's a kid's movie

#58: Hellboy (2004) written and directed by Guillermo del Toro

is preddy good; John Myers is the annoying "normal guy to on-ramp viewers" that a bunch of adaptations use, but the themes of "accepting the monster" establish a good foundation for GDT's later wo–

wait, he directed Blade 2?

I’ve phrased it as “write what you know, learn what you don’t”