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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)
✦ Before Sunrise (1995)
✦ Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023)
October 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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)
✦ Before Sunrise (1995)
✦ Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023)
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
✦ 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
October 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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
✦ 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
24 / PUNK ROCKERS BEAT UP NAZIS 🎸
✦ Green Room (2015)
✦ Freaky Tales (2024)
✦ Green Room (2015)
✦ Freaky Tales (2024)
September 28, 2025 at 12:49 AM
24 / PUNK ROCKERS BEAT UP NAZIS 🎸
✦ Green Room (2015)
✦ Freaky Tales (2024)
✦ Green Room (2015)
✦ Freaky Tales (2024)
23 / INSECURE MAN TAKES A BROMANCE TOO FAR AND IRREVOCABLY CHANGES THE COURSE OF BOTH OF THEIR LIVES
✦ Friendship (2024)
✦ Lurker (2025)
✦ Friendship (2024)
✦ Lurker (2025)
September 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
23 / INSECURE MAN TAKES A BROMANCE TOO FAR AND IRREVOCABLY CHANGES THE COURSE OF BOTH OF THEIR LIVES
✦ Friendship (2024)
✦ Lurker (2025)
✦ Friendship (2024)
✦ Lurker (2025)
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
✦ 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
September 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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
✦ 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
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
✦ 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
September 16, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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
✦ 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
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
✦ 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
September 16, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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
✦ 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
Looks like Solidarity Cinema Archive has it, love them
September 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Looks like Solidarity Cinema Archive has it, love them
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
✦ 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
September 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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
✦ 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
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
✦ 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
September 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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
✦ 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
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
✦ 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
September 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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
✦ 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
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!
✦ 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!
September 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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!
✦ 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!
15 /
GIRL GOES TO WEIRD CAMP, LEAVES,
AND ENDS UP IN A GAY BAY
✦ But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
✦ Yes, God, Yes (2019)
GIRL GOES TO WEIRD CAMP, LEAVES,
AND ENDS UP IN A GAY BAY
✦ But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
✦ Yes, God, Yes (2019)
September 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
15 /
GIRL GOES TO WEIRD CAMP, LEAVES,
AND ENDS UP IN A GAY BAY
✦ But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
✦ Yes, God, Yes (2019)
GIRL GOES TO WEIRD CAMP, LEAVES,
AND ENDS UP IN A GAY BAY
✦ But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
✦ Yes, God, Yes (2019)