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md russell, film buff
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26 / COUPLE MEETS AND SUBSEQUENTLY SPENDS THE ENTIRE NIGHT TOGETHER, FALLING IN LOVE AND ENSUING IN HIJINKS

✦ Before Sunrise (1995)

✦ Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023)
A couple browses a record store at their leisure A couple try not to look each other while listening to an emotional song in red lighting
October 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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25 / SEX WORKER THERAPY

✦ Sauvage (2018): Léo looks for love and gives it in return, often to older men who feel they don't deserve it

✦ Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022): Leo helps Nancy, a recent widow, fulfill a sexual bucket list and they both learn some things along the way
An older man smiles, as a younger man reads to him from a book that also looks old A young man has pillow talk with an older woman, holding said pillow
October 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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24 / PUNK ROCKERS BEAT UP NAZIS 🎸

✦ Green Room (2015)

✦ Freaky Tales (2024)
Two cool people playing punk music and screaming into a microphone A group of cool looking kewl and ready to rock
September 28, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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23 / INSECURE MAN TAKES A BROMANCE TOO FAR AND IRREVOCABLY CHANGES THE COURSE OF BOTH OF THEIR LIVES

✦ Friendship (2024)

✦ Lurker (2025)
Man in Ocean View Dining jacket gives a half smile, looking off camera. He's got fear in his eyes. Man in trendy vintage store stares off camera, clearly having a scary plan
September 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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22 / THEY CALL EM THE TALKIES 🎙️

✦ Singin' in the Rain (1952): A couple of silent types struggle to make the transition to talking pictures, but they sing in the rain!

✦ Babylon (2022): Everyone in Hollywood sure is doing something as they transition to the talking pictures
A woman and man staring into each other's eyes, wearing pastels A man and woman staring into each other's eyes, on a movie set, with the sun setting in the background
September 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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21 / HORROR COMEDY X VIDEO CAMERA 🎥

✦ Dead Talents Society (2024): Ghosts make tik toks to stay alive (as much as they can, anyway)

✦ One Cut of the Dead (2017): A movie crew desperately tries to film a zombie movie while their reality is much like the movie
A shocked man pointing and ready to make a movie A bloody man in a tropical shirt holding a video camera, trying to do HIS JOB
September 16, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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20 / R U REAL? 👾

✦ eXistenZ (1999): A video game designer must fix her buggy game and decide what is reality and what is not

✦ Don't Worry Darling (2022): A perfect housewife begins to have a strange feeling about her world & her "American" husband
A man and woman sitting with a plate of disgusting looking food, the woman has her hand over her mouth because she knows the food is bad A man and woman laying in bed together but in a really boring way
September 16, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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19 / QUIRKY IN-LAW MEETINGS 🤪

✦ The Birdcage (1996): Robin Williams and Broadway's own Nathan Lane pretend to be straight to appease some prudes

✦ Meet the Fockers (2004): Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand pretend to be way less cool to appease some uptight weirdos that potty trained their cat
Robin Williams wearing a low cut shirt and a baseball hat backwards, did I mention he has a mustache? Nathan Lane with his hands on his face, like the Scream painting Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand sitting together, trying to entertain
September 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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18 / ADAM DRIVER, MARRIED, BUT UNRAVELING

✦ Marriage Story (2019): Adam Driver struggles through a bi-coastal divorce as sad creative #2

✦ Annette (2021): Adam Driver is a stand up who marries a beautiful singer and then it gets a lil weird
Adam Driver, lit in red, watching a play and not smiling Adam Driver, lit in green, looking up aimlessly and without purpose
September 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

a pretty mixed bag
a real fall from grace
(not watching 4 really good movies in a row)

let's be friends: boxd.it/2rs23
In from the Side (2022) 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) Tall Girl 2 (2022) Hot Dog (2020)
September 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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17 / QUEER BLACKMAIL :'(

✦ Different from the Others (1919): A German work of art destroyed by the Nazis and then pieced back together. That's queer resiliency!

✦ Victim (1961): A British masterpiece that helped legalize homosexuality and was the first English-language movie to even say it
Two men holding hands and looking at each other, but in a way that feels chaste and totally chill for the time (1919) Two men sharing an intimate conversation that feels serious but not immediately gay, boring!
September 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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16 / MEN MASKING 😶‍🌫️

✦ Stepfather 2 (1989): After a failed attempt, the man tries to find a new family- make room for daddy!

✦ Stalked by My Doctor: The Return (2016): After a bizarre first-attempt, the good doctor decides the easiest way to this teen's heart is marrying her mom!
An average looking man with a lovely woman on her arm who doesn't deserve what is about to unfold ERIC ROBERTS getting hugged by a woman that likes him way more than she should, this guy has no light behind those eyes
September 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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15 /
GIRL GOES TO WEIRD CAMP, LEAVES,
AND ENDS UP IN A GAY BAY

✦ But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)

✦ Yes, God, Yes (2019)
Red-lit gay bar filled with goths and blurry people Christmas light-lit gay bar with a mature queer sitting at the bar
September 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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14 / QUEER BOWLING LEAGUE 🎳

✦ Death and Bowling (2021): A gaggle of queers mourn the loss of their beloved bowling league captain

✦ Sweethearts (2024): A queer bowling team puts in the work (tries to convince us Ohio is a great place to live)
5 immaculate queers sitting at a bowling alley, staring off into space. There is a mix of pastel yellows, pinks, and blues. They really have a color palette going. Two gay men look off camera, while also at a bowling alley.
September 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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13 /
WHY COPY 1 SERIAL KILLER,
WHEN YOU CAN COPY 5 OR 6?

✦ Copycat (1999)

✦ Virtuosity (1995)
Scary serial killer holds a knife to a policeman's throat while also pointing a gun at the same guy. He can do it all! A quite pleased with himself serial killer holds a plain looking man at gunpoint
September 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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12 / HOMICIDAL WOMEN DRESSED AS NUNS

✦ Ms .45 (1981): A woman takes matters into her own hands after a terrible day in the city

✦ Saint Maud (2017): A woman nurses by day and feels her oats (among other things) by night
A woman in a habit with killer red lipstick points a gun to someone out of frame, good riddance! A woman in a nun-like outfit screams to the skies while covered in blood. Kinda looks like her eyes are bleeding but don't worry they aren't!
September 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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exhibiting incredible range with my #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
Milk & Serial (2024), Materialists (2025), Dekalog (1989), Decalogue X (1989)
September 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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11 / TONI COLLETTE AS BAD MOM

✦ Hereditary (2018): Despite her best efforts, Toni Collette is much more terrifying to her family than she needs to be

✦ Knives Out (2019): Toni Collette treats her daughter like shit, among many others
Toni Collette looking hungrier than I've ever seen her in her LIFE. Like, this girl is almost foaming at the mouth, she got those eyes that look like she will rip right into you. Toni Collette pretending to be concerned and good, but actually there is nothing going on behind those eyes but tomfoolery
August 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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10 / TONI COLLETTE AS GOOD MOM

✦ The Sixth Sense (1999): Toni Collette protects her son, who of late has a few too supernatural friends

✦ Little Miss Sunshine (2006): Toni Collette holds a family together and supports her daughter's dreams, to the tune of Super Freak
Toni Collette driving a car, looking to the left (probably trying to watch the road) with her son, a young Haley Joel Osment, in the passenger seat Toni Collette in the passenger seat of a yellow van, with her entire family: husband driving, daughter and brother in the next row, and father and son in the back row
August 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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09 /
MOM, CAN WE GET THE SUBSTANCE?
NO, WE HAVE THE sUbStAnCe AT HOME 🏡

✦ Helter Skelter (2012)

✦ Grafted (2024)
Film cover for the movie Helter Skelter Film cover for the movie Grafted
August 15, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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08 / PARENTS WHO CAN'T REMEMBER WHY THEY GOT DIVORCED 🛟

✦ The Parent Trap (1998): A mom and dad are forced to confront their feelings after their twins orchestrate an elaborate ruse

✦ Ticket to Paradise (2022): A mom and dad are forced to confront their feelings for no real reason at all
A woman and man, staring at each other and smiling. They aren't together, but they should be! The background is wine country, with mountains and greenery. A woman and man, staring at each other and smiling. They aren't together, and it should probably stay that way! The background is a beautiful beach, and they are dressed to impress.
August 15, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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07 / THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN 📢

✦ Claudine (1974): Claudine & Roop fall in love but the government decides she can have welfare or a man, not both

✦ Patrice: The Movie (2024): Patrice & Garry fall in love but their marriage risks their individual disability benefits, because of stupid government
A man (James Earl Jones) and a woman (Diahann Carroll) holding each other and smiling Patrice Jetter & Garry Wickham pose, smiling, with Patrice's hand on Garry's shoulder
August 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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06 OPERA IS FOR YEARNING 🎻

✦ Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948): A woman continually proves she is way too god for the man she loves

✦ Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019): Two lesbians in the 18th century attend an abortion and get painted like one of those French girls
A woman attempts to be interested in opera, in black and white A woman pretends to be interested in opera while she knows someone she loves is watching her (not in black and white)
July 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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05 / KILL THE BOURGEOISIE 🌹

✦ The Servant (1963): Dirk Bogarde as a butler performs the first ever flip it and reverse it, inspiring the card game UNO

✦ La Ceremonie (1995): Isabelle Huppert controls the mail, her new friend with the reading glasses, and when rich people can watch opera
A tired and exhausted butler lights a cigarette for a woman, he hates. He may look beaten down but he is simply plotting his revenge. A maid holds dishes above a sink, contemplating the way in which she will get rid of the rich family she works for. It's clear she's going to do the dishes, but she's not happy about it.
July 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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04 / LOVE THAT! (DYSTOPIAN REMIX) 🤖

✦ Hang the DJ (2017): Society gives couples break up with your boo timers, you're on a timeline! But what if you don't want it to end?

✦ Fingernails (2023): Society says love and compatibility is two fingernails in a machine going beep. But what if it goes boop?
A couple wearing matching rain jackets, the woman has her head on the man's shoulder, and both are looking off into the distance. They are upset, because their timer is up! A woman hugging a man from behind. Both are sad because they ripped off their fingernails and for what. (no spoilers!)
July 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM