As always, I have mid Oscar guesses. Very happy to see all the Sinners and One Battle After Another love, and boy was I happy to be wrong about Amy Madigan. 🍿

Pure joy.

This movie is daffy and fun.

I liked all the themes it was playing with, but it felt muddled and didn’t really hag together for me. Felt like keywords stuffing a plot.

God damn this movie is so funny. I like it better than the show even. So smart at being so stupid. A+. Go see it now.

I had only seen a small part of this movie when I was maybe six, from under the couch. Really fun to revisit as an adult. I enjoyed it legitimately, but it was also dare I say healing to that little kid who was so scared of it. I think what confused and scared me the most as a child was how mean the characters are to each other. And man does this thing deal with DARK themes. Some banger van dyke parks tunes as well.

The human characters constantly have plot realizations out of thin air, and there’s way more ghosts than I was expecting.

This is the only children’s cartoon I know of that nails the whiplash morphing of dream logic. One moment you’re joyfully flying through the air on your bed, then next you’re underwater being chased by a train. 

Some people may say Nemo lifts directly from the Wizard of Oz, or The NeverEnding Story. Those people are boring. 

Nemo has all the emotional beats of a maudlin, down the middle children’s animated feature of the time, with the bug eyed psychedelia of that dream you kept having as a kid. You know the one.

What a good time at the movies. Saw it in 4DX, which is a gimmick but goofy fun. I don’t think the regal in Astoria’s scent device was working properly, because every smell cue just smelled like lemon pledge.

I can’t and won’t describe what I watched.

Let’s go.

Such a cool movie for a perfect album.

This movie rules. A meta Ouroboros-ass cosmic horror about writing with Sam Neil chowing scenery, goopy practical monsters, and a glam rock soundtrack.  What’s not to love.

Still great.

This movie grabs you and doesn’t let go. On the second viewing it all clicks into place. And by “place” I mean “mud”.

I can’t believe it took me this long to see this. A+

In this one the Godzilla is on fire and lights up and is in water. The actor in the suit needs a medal.

Another safdie joint where one asshole burns his life to the ground and everyone yelling. I had a good time.

My letterboxed year in review for 2025. I watched 48 movies. Is that…good? 🍿

Watched on Thursday January 1, 2026.

Watched: Buckaroo Banzai Declassified 🍿

Watched on Thursday January 1, 2026.

Watched: Chernobyl. Fantastic as it is devastating. I learned a lot. 🍿

The models, destruction, and monster suit look amazing. The ending is a wet noodle. The product is pretty fun.

Someone on Bluesky said to read the synopsis for the Disney TV movie The Luck of the Irish (2001). I did, and I encourage you to as well. 🍿

In science class, a magnet attaches to his coin and he realizes that his lucky gold coin was stolen. He rushes home to tell his parents and walks in to see that his mother has shrunk to one foot tall.