CHALLENGE COMPLETE! LesIsMore watched Good Boy (2025) to complete the "Good, Bad, Best, Worst" challenge for 2025 Week 16

CHALLENGE COMPLETE! LesIsMore watched Perfect Blue (1998) to complete the "Color Title" challenge for 2021 Week 46

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

CHALLENGE COMPLETE! LesIsMore watched Anemone (2025) to complete the "Family Members" challenge for 2021 Week 30

Second cable classic of the week is Catch Me If You Can, another Steven Spielberg masterpiece. First film that made me take DiCaprio seriously as an actor, wonderful supporting turns from Tom Hanks and Christopher Walken. Crackerjack dialogue and John Williams score. Fun and sadness in true balance.

Another double bill for this week's challenge, this one true cable classics. First is The Fugitive, a masterpiece that I have to finish every time it's on. Perfect casting, incredible action sequences, masterful control of pacing. Infinitely rewatchable. "I didn't kill my wife!" "I don't care!"

CHALLENGE COMPLETE! LesIsMore watched Catch Me If You Can (2002) to complete the "Cat & Mouse" challenge for 2025 Week 40

CHALLENGE COMPLETE! LesIsMore watched The Fugitive (1993) to complete the "Cat & Mouse" challenge for 2025 Week 40

No contest that I’m watching The Fugitive for this challenge, but did my watchlist roundup: Blackhat Gone in 60 Seconds Jack Reacher You’re Next Infernal Affairs Blue Steel American Gangster Body Heat The Lady Eve The Day of the Jackal The Usual Suspects Edge of Darkness Intolerable Cruelty Torso

The Czech New Wave double bill continues with Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, with bloody daisies and NYT saying "maybe the most exotic flower to bloom on the grave of the Prague Spring." More ponderous than Daisies and some uncomfortable incest themes, but still trippy enough to recommend a view.

Double feature of Czech New Wave films to fill this week. First is Daisies, a thoroughly anarchic romp of two women who decide the world is mad so they may as well be the same. A bonkers viewing experience full of filmmaking and storytelling experiments. Not for those seeking a conventional watch.

CHALLENGE COMPLETE! LesIsMore watched Mirai (2025) to complete the "Choose your own challenge" challenge for 2023 Week 9

CHALLENGE COMPLETE! LesIsMore watched Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) to complete the "Flowers, Plants, Trees" challenge for 2025 Week 39

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

CHALLENGE COMPLETE! LesIsMore watched One Battle After Another (2025) to complete the "Two Character Poster" challenge for 2025 Week 32

@briancgrubb.bsky.social Have you seen the 9-1-1 season premiere trailer that shows they go TO SPACE?!?

CHALLENGE COMPLETE! LesIsMore watched Daisies (1966) to complete the "Flowers, Plants, Trees" challenge for 2025 Week 39

CHALLENGE COMPLETE! LesIsMore watched The Earrings of Madame de... (1953) to complete the "Edgar Wright" challenge for 2022 Week 24

Watchlist options! - Adaptation. (The Orchid Thief - Minari (farming focus) - Silent Running (Space greenhouse) - Daisies - Valerie and her Week of Wonders (Daisy on the poster) - Princess Mononoke (Forest Spirit) - Blades (evil lawnmower) - The Scent of Green Papaya - The Seed of the Sacred Fig

CHALLENGE COMPLETE! LesIsMore watched Alien Resurrection (1997) to complete the "Easter" challenge for 2022 Week 15

Technologically advance a band: Alloy Steel Maiden

Doubled up this week with a return to Full Moon Features, kings of 90s direct-to-video schlock. Dollman is a ridiculous feature, a half-clever gimmick with some amusing perspective techniques. Tim Thomerson does his best Dirty Harry against a sea of 90s NYC movie punks in an endless ruined factory.

CHALLENGE COMPLETE! LesIsMore watched Dollman (1991) to complete the "1990s" challenge for 2025 Week 38

CHALLENGE COMPLETE! LesIsMore watched Duck Soup (1933) to complete the "Birds" challenge for 2025 Week 13

Canceling Disney+ because they canceled Kimmel is well and good, but if you really want to make them pay attention, there is no better way than fucking Goofy's wife

When I think of 90s movies, one thing I think of is star-driven disaster pictures, so this week I watched one I've never seen: 1997's Dante's Peak. It was alright: good lead performances with Brosnan/Hamilton and good volcano imagery, but missing the energy and ensemble of a Twister or Armageddon.

CHALLENGE COMPLETE! LesIsMore watched Diner (1982) to complete the "Directorial Debut" challenge for 2021 Week 24

CHALLENGE COMPLETE! LesIsMore watched Do the Right Thing (1989) to complete the "Under 24 Hours" challenge for 2021 Week 27

The most utopian thing I can imagine at this point is a strictly segregated media environment of propaganda slop and the people who don't mind it (nobody likes it) and then an entirely separate economy of people who actually like reading, listening to music, watching films etc.

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

“I’m sorry my alarm clock didn’t go off because it died in a cockfight last night” is a good 30 Rock line

A thought I keep returning to — and that’s underscored by today’s news — is that a legacy publication or a deep-pocketed investor could hire an astonishing array of talent right now and make the best newspaper in America overnight.

everyone please join me in a very hearty WHAT THE FUCK

Alan is one of my closest friends (not just in the work-friends way), and a great critic, and a person practically everybody in TV knows, and an incredibly prolific hard worker who produces a mind-boggling quantity of good stuff. Find him continuing in those capacities at alansepinwall.ghost.io.

What morons, what a terrible move. Alan is the best in all ways

[email protected] is arguably the most respected writer in the TV criticism game, and a big reason why I started doing this in the first place. (He also shared his guacamole with me at ATX once upon a time.) A spectacular bonehead move from Rolling Stone that just cost them my subscription.

102 options on the watchlist this week! Let's spin the wheel.

CHALLENGE COMPLETE! LesIsMore watched Woyzeck (1979) to complete the "Based on a play" challenge for 2021 Week 16

CHALLENGE COMPLETE! LesIsMore watched The Long Walk (null) to complete the "Friendship" challenge for 2023 Week 24

CHALLENGE COMPLETE! LesIsMore watched The Social Network (2010) to complete the "I know that line!" challenge for 2022 Week 11

CHALLENGE COMPLETE! LesIsMore watched Broadcast News (1987) to complete the "Oscar nominee" challenge for 2021 Week 11

Sorry, folks. Sounds like the civil war has been postponed due to white shooter

Watched The Killers (1946) for a separate Criterion challenge this week, so I slotted the 1964 version here. It's the weaker film with TV movie production values and stretched out scenes, but good direction and Lee Marvin's ruthless performance have their own merits. "Lady, I don't have the time."

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Two Hemingway adaptations, two Coen Brothers masterpieces.

CHALLENGE COMPLETE! LesIsMore watched The Killers (1964) to complete the "Based on written works" challenge for 2025 Week 37

Every centrist hagiographer: he said some very important stuff Everyone: oh, like what? Every centrist hagiographer: very important things Everyone: Can you repeat some of those things he said? Every centrist hagiographer, looking at their legal department frantically shaking their heads: no

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CHALLENGE COMPLETE! LesIsMore watched Barton Fink (1991) to complete the "On your watchlist forever" challenge for 2021 Week 25