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Best First Watches 2025
A list of 24 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Dogra Magra (1988), The Ice Tower (2025), Celtic Utopia (2025), When Twilight Draws Near (1969) and One Battle After Another (2025).
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December 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Is anything going to come out in the remaining 31 days of 2025 to make me add to the list?
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2025 - The Best Films, no particular order
A list of 12 films compiled on Letterboxd, including The Ice Tower (2025), Celtic Utopia (2025), One Battle After Another (2025), Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt (2025) and Cloud (20...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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A review of Emanuelle in America (1977)
Halfway through and I’m thinking “this is the best possible version of Eyes Wide Shut”. Also her camera is hidden inside a... jewel crusted... mussel shell? And they literally do MILF Island. The inte...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Have you seen the doco about Roky?
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A ★★★★ review of You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson (2005)
Roky: “I just decided I didn’t  want to do it any more, y’know?” Director: “What?” Roky: “I don’t know.” Director: “Are you glad?” Roky: “I don’t know, y’know.” A very sad film about an unknowable man...
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November 2, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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If you are looking for something spooky but also tuneful to watch tonight, my film All You Need Is Death, about a couple of musicologists who get themselves in trouble by recording a song that was never meant to be recorded, is available on many streamers;
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October 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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A ★★★★ review of Celtic Utopia (2025)
Finally a film about the contemporary Irish folk scene that addresses the anger and the politics and the cultural history that underlies the stunning “overnight success” of Lankum and the Mary Wallope...
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October 31, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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If you missed Hadzihalilovic's previous movie Earwig, based on the novel by B. Catling, I wouldn't blame you because it was barely released, but it is in my mind one of the great films of the last decade:
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Paul Duane’s reviews of Earwig
Paul Duane’s reviews of Earwig
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October 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Watched the first film where Johnnie To made his auteur credentials known, his hyper-violent study of corruption in pre-handover HK, THE BIG HEAT, and it made me shout out loud at the TV screen several times (not derogatory):
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A ★★★★ review of The Big Heat (1988)
Not even ten minutes into this and I’ve already shouted JESUS FUCKIN CHRIST HOLY SHIT out loud, thank you again Johnnie To 25 minutes in it’s JESUS CHRIST HOLY SHIT again, my GAWD Johnnie To 40 minute...
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October 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Last night I watched a 1971 movie by the cinematographer of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, a softcore porno movie that combined an incredible galaxy-spanning cosmic horror scenario with being filmed what looks like $150. It was incredible.
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A ★★★★ review of The Toy Box (1971)
An absolutely inexplicable film, I kept imagining that the script could be the work of Kilgore Trout, in some doomed attempt to break into the Russ Meyer-era smut market, it has the same cosmic, galax...
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October 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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I would say it's a film that demands a second viewing. I saw it much more clearly for what it is second time around. letterboxd.com/paulduane/fi...
A ★★★★★ review of One Battle After Another (2025)
Viewed on 70mm at the Irish Film Institute. This film seems like it was made to be seen more than once. The paucity of information given in the dialogue made my first viewing a sort of tense experienc...
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October 3, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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VIVA LA REVOLUCION (with some caveats). I went back and watched it again on 70mm.

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A ★★★★★ review of One Battle After Another (2025)
Viewed on 70mm at the Irish Film Institute. This film seems like it was made to be seen more than once. The paucity of information given in the dialogue made my first viewing a sort of tense experienc...
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October 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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A review of Blood Harvest (1987)
I wish Herzog had made a film with Tiny Tim. He has that feeling, where every time he’s on screen the film becomes a documentary about him, just like Bruno S and Klaus Kinski. He’s incredible.
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September 10, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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I watched the stunning, brutal, gripping Kazakh movie Steppenwolf last night. Definitely not for everybody; it's about a 60% on the Come And See scale (though without its level of onscreen violence) & is an unflinching look at a police state collapsing into civil war.
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A ★★★★ review of Steppenwolf (2024)
This movie somehow hits on a fusion of pulp aesthetics (the protagonist's efficient, violent self-interest kept reminding me of Richard Stark's Parker) with bleak, nihilistic East European filmmaking,...
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August 25, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Paul Duane’s reviews of Drug War
Paul Duane’s reviews of Drug War
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August 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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finally watched 28 Years Later
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A ★★½ review of 28 Years Later (2025)
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August 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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NOPE. I love all of Peele's films but I love this one most. It's crammed with fascinating little details in the corners of every frame like a graphic novel translated to the screen. Its meaning is elusive, on one level it's brainy Tremors, but it's also far more.

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Paul Duane’s reviews of Nope
Paul Duane’s reviews of Nope
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August 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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I was only gonna include one Argento but how can I omit PHENOMENA, a film that teeters on the brink both of stupidity and of offence, but which wins because Jennifer Connelly is a great heroine, Donald Pleasance didn't get to play good guys often enough, & the monkey! letterboxd.com/paulduane/fi...
Paul Duane’s reviews of Phenomena
Paul Duane’s reviews of Phenomena
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August 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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TENDERNESS OF THE WOLVES: the closest thing to a Fassbinder horror movie, producedd by RWF & made by a bunch of his acolytes, based on the same killer played by Peter Lorre in M. letterboxd.com/paulduane/fi...
Paul Duane’s reviews of Tenderness of the Wolves
Paul Duane’s reviews of Tenderness of the Wolves
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August 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Paul Duane Tattooing Millie Hull On The Bowery, c.1949..
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July 2, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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If you have the Plex app you might know about the weird & obscure free movie channels that come with it. I've been spending far too many evenings just browsing from one dodgy spaghetti western to another oddball 1970s mob movie so I started a list to keep track:

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Ambient Plex Channel Watches
The Plex app has a bunch of free movie channels called things like Gringo and MobTV which are constantly showing pretty good rips of classic spaghetti westerns, Italian gang movies, horror etc. I rare...
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May 17, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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A ★★★★ review of Cisco Pike (1972)
Kristofferson & Karen Black  Gene Hackman & Kristofferson  Harry Dean Stanton & Karen Black & Kristofferson Gene Hackman (running on the spot) and Karen Black Even if this film was bad, which it isn’t...
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February 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Last night I watched a Nicholas Cage film set in Vegas where he's dressed like a magician, has a magician beard, does a card trick in his first minute of screen time, and then it is never explained whether or not he's a magician (or the Devil possibly). It was fun.

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A ★★★★ review of Sympathy for the Devil (2023)
My God Nicholas Cage enters this film at full strength and he maintains his intensity from beginning to end without ever getting boring or surprising. His character is also styled and scripted in such...
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February 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Last night I watched a Nicholas Cage movie that is not the best Nicholas Cage movie but it's possibly the most Nicholas Cage movie, in that without him it would be no good but with him it is ALL GOOD

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A ★★★★ review of A Score to Settle (2019)
So, Nicholas Cage is a man just out of prison for a crime he didn’t commit with a score to settle, right? And he has to track down and kill all his ex gang mates? And he is also suffering from a fatal...
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February 12, 2025 at 10:14 AM