For those that saw Together already…that was totally a little Ju-on homage right?

2025 faves so far; wanted to get my F1 watch in. Still gotta see Tatami and The Phoenician Scheme! Sinners is probably the better movie of the two, but there are moments, imagery, emotional jolt from Bring Her Back that still flicker through my head Can’t deny when a film sticks with me like that

Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) in Shogun's Vassal Zankuro Series 3 Episode 3: Older Sister (御家人斬九郎 3-3『姉上』), 1997. There's an amazing YouTube channel that has this, and a ton of other amazing stuff with English subtitles! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmLo... 📽️ #filmsky 🎥 #japanesefilm

Taking full advantage of A-List this weekend lol

The Woman in the Rumour (噂の女, Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)

#3 incoming

Since they capped our first one at 150, and many more film people have joined Bluesky the past two weeks, we just created a second Starter Pack for everybody! This one includes illustrators/artists & podcasts too! There’s still a little room in this one, so if you’d like to be added let us know :)

Saw Vernon Sewell’s taut Brit crime thriller Strongroom at @spectacletheater.com last night; been meaning to check out that theater for a while and it did not disappoint! Love the super-indie enthusiast vibe and any place that screens Lam Ngai Kai’s The Cat is my kind of spot

Latest (Mars Express; definitely a 2024 hidden gem) and other recent fave additions to my collection

Awesome haul from my first ever Comic Con yesterday! Definitely want to do more days and try cosplay next year, seems fun

Sorry, yeah confused the show with the movie for that Baby Assassins post. Clip is from the Baby Assassins series, not the third movie Nice Days

Opening fight from Baby Assassins Nice Days; an electric start to what ended up being the most action packed, tonally balanced, and narratively compelling entry in the trilogy

I enjoyed THEY CLONED TYRONE. It has some interesting ideas, an unusual mix of tones, great music, a really impressive performance by John Boyega, and a nice grainy film look (whether or not it's real).

If not for an abrupt final act that pulls its dramatic punches in favor of a crowdpleasing finish, The Promised Land might’ve supplanted Society of the Snow as my current #1 favorite of 2024. Really enjoyed this Danish historical epic: https://letterboxd.com/more_badass/film/the-promised-land-2023/

Halfway through Noirvember, and these have been the most recent highlights, with Witness To The City being the standout. New Wave cabbie slice of life x cat-&-mouse suspense through the Paris night, as Lino Ventura stalks the taxi driver who witnessed his perfect murder

Noirvember going strong! After a week of goons, PIs, and femme fatales, my faves have been Hollow Triumph/The Scar, Criss Cross, and The Hitch-Hiker Last watched was Inferno (1953), aka a Technicolor survival-noir fusion where a murder plot is undone by Robert Ryan refusing to die in the Mojave

Always a good time revisiting Aldrich and Bezzerides’ KISS ME DEADLY. Noir in all its shadowy ‘50s LA glory and sadistic PI scumbaggery collides with the post-war specter of the unknown. A howling Pandora’s Box unleashing atomic-age doom & paranoia upon familiar genre conventions

The Hunting Party (1971) was vicious! Dir. Don Medford does an admirable Peckinpah impression; Hackman’s monstrous wealthy sociopath unleashes long-distance death when Oliver Reed’s outlaw takes his property…I mean, kidnaps his wife. A bleak revisionist western rife with beastly men & savage squibs

Fans of titles like GHOSTWATCH, DEAD SET, and CREEPSHOW's "Public Television of the Dead" will especially want to keep an eye out for LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL. David Dastmalchian is A+, no shock.

Goodbye spooky month; hello Noirvember! 1) The Other One (1946) Mexican tale of two sisters with a dash of Last Seduction-esque cunning, as the wealthy one is replaced by the poor (other) one. Imposter guile and ironic twists of fate follow. Finale fallout was a bit weak but the rest is excellent

And that’s that for this annual month of scares. Here’s my top ten from 31 Days of Horror 2023 1)Cute Devil 2)Door 3)Parents 4)What Lies Beneath 5)The Conference 6)The Borderlands 7)X-Cross 8)Aunt Alejandra 9)The Omen 10)The Changeling Full Letterboxd list & reviews here: https://boxd.it/iduQA

Max Mok gets his post-The Killer groove on in hitman thriller NO REGRET, NO RETURN (1993). Sturdy, serviceable, nicely paced HK actioner following an icy assassin on a mission to rescue his wife and kill his employer; dir. Ridley Tsui spreads the car chases, gunfights, & brawls liberally throughout

My last four 31 Days of Horror watches: a demon-haunted medical ward, a Panamanian bus ride to bruja hell, a real-time news program menaced by occult forces and political conspiracy, and a Korean slow-burn laced with postpartum dread

With October’s 31 days of horror nearing an end, it’s almost time for November’s annual noir extravaganza! Finally locked in my picks for 30 days of all new-to-me crime Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/iX8j2

You could compare DEAD SHOT to Heat, but in more specific genre film terms, it’s half IRA Army of Shadows, half Matt Hope’s The Veteran colliding in a ‘70s-set The Troubles-era revenge thriller. Don’t dismiss that action-y title or gun-heavy poster

Hey there! Some of you I know, but for those who don't, I'm freelance writer and podcaster Jay Krieger! I host the horror video game podcast Safe Room for Bloody Disgusting, write a monster focused column for Dread Xp, and blab about movies far too much ON-LINE!

Prep for Dead Reckoning means train-themed rewatches, starting with Aldrich’s EMPEROR OF THE NORTH. Now that title is some Sorcerer-level obfuscation for this Great Depresson-era actioner. Lee Marvin’s hobo legend vs Borgnine’s sadistic conductor; adventure & deathdefying do-it-for-real stunts ensue

Eye For An Eye aka Blind Sword aka Defiant - Yang Bingjia, 2022 A 74 minute Chinese DTV gem of the most quintessential Zatoichi-style action we’ve gotten in years. Handsome direction, kinetic choreo, and Tse Miu‘s bone-snapping intensity. Streaming on Hi Yah

Goddamn, a neon and synth soaked melding of the hazy neon soaked HK of a Wong Kar Wai film crossed with the duel wielded violence of John Woo, all directed with style by Patrick Tam. Full of melodrama and bloodshed, would absolutely recommend for anyone into HK cinema

Tetsuya Yamauchi’s taut thriller NINJA HUNT (1964) sees four ronin - whose clans were destroyed by ninja deception - attempting to save another from the same fate. Samurai ruthlessness vs stealthy infiltration, culminating in a well-staged cat-&-mouse finale within a sealed tomb

Co-signed

S1 rewatch done so here’s a Warrior appreciation post. Where’s the Warrior hive at on here

John Woo hallmarks

Very unusual and unique that the titular bloodsucker in Wang Chung‘s HK action-comedy Vampire’s Breakfast isn’t your typical hopping jiangshi at all, but actually most reminded me of the toxic-ooze mutant zombies from Night Shadows (1984)

Very unusual and unique that the titular bloodsucker in Wang Chung‘s HK action-comedy Vampire’s Breakfast isn’t your typical hopping jiangshi at all, but actually most reminded me of the toxic-ooze mutant zombies from Night Shadows (1984)

Very unique and unexpected that the titular bloodsucker in Wang Chung‘s HK horror-comedy Vampire’s Breakfast isn’t your typical hopping jiangshi at all, but actually most reminded me of the toxic-ooze mutant zombies from Night Shadows (1984)

Some “get to know me” stats

I have some followers that don’t crossover w/Twt, so I want to share some work that I’m most proud of. First is an interview I did with “Huesera: The Bone Woman”’s director, Michelle Garza Cervera. Was blown away by her feature debut and had to talk to her about it: https://bit.ly/3JK0uXE 📽️

Stumbled onto the work of Ugandan director Loukman Ali (https://youtube.com/@LoukmanAli); his shorts/films look stylish and solid UBUNTU UPPERCUT (short) https://youtu.be/DXQFqCBsXYY BROTHERHOOD https://youtu.be/42HhowRmTSE THE GIRL IN THE YELLOW JUMPER https://youtu.be/3e3YXvHKJCg

Some “get to know me” stats

Movies on deck for today

Criterion got the goods this month

Yup, that about sums up my Letterboxd tastes. For a whole lot of genre fare, obscure Hong Kong gems, and more: https://letterboxd.com/More_Badass/

Inaugurating this account with my last four favorite film discoveries