I only know those Drescher films because of sad cine2nerdle loses. Vulture Cinematrix No. 644: Dec 30, 2025 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2667 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

“Why is the new Miike not getting US distribution” dawg we stopped asking that in 2017 and that was nine films ago excluding First Love

Serenity (‘19) is a science fiction film and I demand the turbo nerds at tmdb label it as such. Vulture Cinematrix No. 643: Dec 29, 2025 I got 7/9 Correct Score: 2034 🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

*drops to knees* BILGE STOP BEING RIGHT www.vulture.com/article/movi...

an accidental double feature I had last night: Angels in the Outfield ('94) and then the press conference where BYU sacrificed two pop tarts and started eating their cooked corpses while a third pop tart ran for its life

"why is it called the secret agent if he wasn't a secret agent" -overheard at the end of the secret agent at an amc and why I love going to the movies

I wish Cooper had the foresight to make IS THIS THING ON 2 at the same time and just be a tight 90 minutes of Jill (Jordan Jensen) shooting a YouTube special about having the weirdest month and then learning a guy doing open mics had an apartment on 12th and 6th Ave in a nice building.

Absolutely thought Hanna was an airport novel. Vulture Cinematrix No. 640: Dec 26, 2025 I got 8/9 Correct Score: 2339 ⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

ANACONDA (‘25): The sign of a Sony movie in the 2000s was a character would exclusively use VAIO laptops and their awful mini disc system. Today it is a character saying “I was on four episodes of SWAT” and being poorly photoshopped into a poster. Also up to (but not more than) three licensed songs.

before there were rubies the size of your head there was evil oil Michael Caine. and my screw up was thinking a certain JC comedy was during Christmas. Vulture Cinematrix No. 639: Dec 25, 2025 I got 8/9 Correct Score: 2246 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

I am starting to think I will never receive my horny novelty holiday decorations.

when I win the powerball tonight, I…what do you mean I’ve spent all my money and I’m broke? But the American dream! Christmas! Keeping myself warm through burning these losing receipts under the overpass! All for naught!?

Thank you unrealized John Hughes treatments. Vulture Cinematrix No. 637: Dec 23, 2025 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2629 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

but I can't provide gifts to the kids I need to win the Powerball and complete my transformation into Geoffrey Fourmyle complete with sick tiger stripe tattoos and a boundless desire for revenge and convincing people they can space teleport by drinking my special kool-aid

the happiest accident today was discovering the live action Fist of the North Star movie turns 30 in 2026. finally a home for my think piece "wasn't it cool when Vader showed up in this and then Chris Penn's head explodes? you guys!" still workshopping the pitch title

the year is 2025. kore-eda now gets "super teaser trailers." www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JuF...

sometimes I’m reminded wells’ Freddy Kruger spec script is still out there just waiting for me

Just tearing up my best of 2025 film list and tearfully writing in “that Anthony Joshua punch” at number one as Jeff Wells looks up disapprovingly from hell

Flakes lives forever in my head because it was a “first review” and also I walked by the outdoor location in New Orleans and it was like my own personal Marathon Man. Vulture Cinematrix No. 635: Dec 21, 2025 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2614 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

once again things I’ll do after winning the powerball tonight: -make Canadian girlfriend real using gundam model kits -pay to finish the impolex 4k blu-ray mastering -bring back The L Magazine and make at least three employees sleep in the office basement -a cooking class for ortolan songbirds

it’s time we bring back king ralph. Vulture Cinematrix No. 634: Dec 20, 2025 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2618 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

god grant me the strength to attend the 9:15 am ella mccay showtime (actually 11am would be preferable but mysterious ways and all)

Flubbed all the Oscar ones. Vulture Cinematrix No. 633: Dec 19, 2025 I got 6/9 Correct Score: 1678 🟩⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

TWO PROSECUTORS ('25): A wonderfully depressing example of bureaucracy, management and middle managers repeatedly trying to convince the new guy "maybe don't look into why the secret police now run the prisons or else, you know, 'secret prisons.'"

I always forget Miyazaki English voice casts work here but not during Cine2nerdle battles. Vulture Cinematrix No. 632: Dec 18, 2025 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2582 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

GREAT NEWS! This year’s Williams-Sonoma catalog is powered by AI! defector.com/the-2025-hat...

I’ve only recently learned about Jack Irish and it feels like a Jason Statham character. Vulture Cinematrix No. 631: Dec 17, 2025 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2627 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

DUST BUNNY (‘25): (Dust) kitty! Little flourishes and unreliable children narrators (“…how many OTHER families were there?”) make this stand apart from being an action film. No idea why it’s R when it could be a PG-13 fantasy-horror but I guess too many guns? Even the blood is just for a Mads gag.

damn even the “seriously sandler” series forgot about spaceman

You pat yourself on the back because you remembered an Altman film and then someone uses Fur and it doesn't feel fair. Vulture Cinematrix No. 630: Dec 16, 2025 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2655 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

KONTINENTAL '25 ('25): The ultimate personal parallel I can make to this is finding out that by watching this today I missed out on a day of brutal Wells hazings and now, while legally absolved, I am distressed and cannot enjoy my trip to the greek restaurant with the fire cheese in good taste.

*raises hands to the sky* curse you Carey Muligan. Vulture Cinematrix No. 629: Dec 15, 2025 I got 8/9 Correct Score: 2312 ⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

I love the future. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

stoked.

For the life of me couldn’t recall a three plus word title for any of them. Vulture Cinematrix No. 628: Dec 14, 2025 I got 6/9 Correct Score: 1714 🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩⬜ Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

today has it all in d.c and terrible holiday markets selling pure 100 percent alpaca hats

BELOW THE CLOUDS (‘25): deep, rich b&w cinematography of Naples dealing with grave robbers, exasperated firemen and the seemingly squalid conditions of museum curators working in darkness. Fun for the family.

CURTAINS (‘83): One of the more appropriate period Canadian slashers that asks “how far can we stretch this one location and costume store mask”

WAKE UP DEAD MAN (‘25): when it ended on the tom waits song I dropped to my knees thankful even with netflix money no one can afford u2 drops. Also height appropriate Brolin shot!

I can’t name a single EM film to save my life. Vulture Cinematrix No. 626: Dec 12, 2025 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2614 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

THE VISITOR ('25): Give me more Lithuanian films about having to sell your parent's apartment, eating spaghetti out of a pot with your childhood friend, alternate shots out of order, dark fairy tale dance numbers and floating apple trees. More goddamn it.

Stupid Hocus Pocus. Vulture Cinematrix No. 625: Dec 11, 2025 I got 8/9 Correct Score: 2304 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

I can't believe Sundance news leaked yesterday and none of the trades carried this story qns.com/2025/12/runa...

yeah but does John Wilson's Sundance 2026 world premiere documentary have this:

DRACULA (Jude, '25): I upset an entire theater because I laughed too long and too loud at the "LIKE THAT [BAND] LEAD SINGER RAPIST" line. Otherwise, a great film about AI being a curse and how everyone just wants a Frankenstein but settles for a Dracula story.

If you’re not drinking five beers before a Radu Jude film and overhearing people lament a soccer game and others having to be at work for a conference call about internal ethics policies and a holiday party is two hours late so a manager is freaking out can you even call yourself a fan

Soderberg power. Vulture Cinematrix No. 623: Dec 9, 2025 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2593 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

a fun irony tomorrow will be Jude's Dracula playing during Kill Bill HBA so any bathroom break means overhearing New Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood or Chingon

I'm taking this news as IT ENDS officially has distribution as of 2025 and I can put it into my own list wankery. letterboxd.com/journal/lett...