Happy Anniversary to the time I met Michael Cera wearing a red ribbon and I told him it was #WorldAIDSDay. So he enthusiastically wished me a “Happy World AIDS Day!” then made this face:

Chitty Chitty Butt Bang

… I don’t think that ruins it.

Petition to re-rename Philly’s #Ourfest to just PRIDE WITH SLEEVES™️ Happy #NationalComingOutDay Weekend to all!

Gonna be an outlier: I shockingly liked The Exorcist Believer as a film and it’s David Gordon Green’s most mature character study since George Washington in 2000… but it’s barely a horror film. Now I know why Blum was scared of TSwift… this will be a VERY frontloaded box office.

2. Babies - THE DEMON’S BABY:
Five evil spirits are freed and they inhabit 5 pregnant concubines to become demon fetuses! Takes a WHILE to get going but the back half has major evil dead 2 meets father of the bride part 2 vibes… yeah, you read that correctly. FANTASTIC effects work and Anthony Wong!

1. Italian - NINE GUESTS FOR A CRIME:

When the final person says that to the killer “I knew it had to be you” and HOW they knew… the audience can’t help but go: yea, same. Despite how predictable it is, I am such a sucker for these locked room (or in this case island) gialli! #HQSpookySeason

A big thanks to @horrorqueers.bsky.social for putting together great, varied #SpookySeason Watch Calendars year after year! I’ll be watching a new-to-me horror film every day this month on the themes they picked and using this thread to post about them #HorrorQueers #Halloween #HQSpookySeason

Best #FirstTimeWatch September:
Alice Darling
Animal World
Attachment
Benny’s Video
Blackberry
Bottoms
El Conde
Eldorado Everything the Nazis Hate
Element of Crime
Falcon Lake
Five Devils
Music Room
No One Will Save You
Shin Kamen Rider
The Velvet Underground
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance

Y’all… this is a rape revenge film… from the Director of American Pie… starring Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda…

As a nice Jewish boy, I haven’t been to a church in quite some time. Went for a friend’s funeral today and the priest said, “I asked Alexa why she died… and there was no answer. I asked Siri why she died… and there was no answer. So I asked god, and only god has the answer.” And y’all 😳😳😳 WHAT…

I’ve literally waited over 30 years for someone to grant me the opportunity to talk incessantly about the brilliance of #Gremlins2TheNewBatch ! An immense thank you to Scott & Jamie for inviting me on YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOTTLE & pairing with a FLX Riesling! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...

The source material for A Haunting In Venice has some of the most child murder in all of Agatha Christie, which I thought was a bold choice to adapt… color me not remotely surprised that Michael Green’s script jettisons almost all of the source material 🫠 Womp womp.

Why yes @gaylydreadful.bsky.social … yes it was!

Chest hair thread!

Best #FirstTimeWatch August:
Delirium
The Fallen Idol
Good Luck Miss Wyckoff
The Harbinger
Hollywood Shuffle
Infinity Pool (Uncut)
It is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives
Lingua Franca
Mixtape
Narvick
The Passenger
Unknown: Cave of Bones

LOVE Klown and Casper Christensen, but his directorial debut ROBOTS has SUCH a solid premise (two garbage humans illegally create robot versions of themselves to do all the things they don’t want to do… and then their robots steal their identities putting them on the run) that is SO woefully unfunny

Found out friends got pregnant at the hotel after my wedding and frankly I’m glad someone else consummated my marriage too.

Hope their kid is gay so it can really come full circle…

Excuse me? Yes, hi! I would like to ask you some questions about your tapes…

And if YOU haven’t seen The Poughkeepsie Tapes… fix your life.

Just @ me next time…

Man at gay bar urinal: What app is that?
Me: @letterboxd.social It’s a Social media app for logging films, seeing what friends are watching, writing reviews/watchlists, etc.
Man @ urinal: is it new?
Me: few years old
Man @ urinal: great dick by the way
Me (oblivious): its spelled with XD at the end

Why is the N*w Y*rk T*mes constantly choosing violence?

When you go to the nude beach it’s customary to arrive in your Showgirls tank, right?

Got invited to guest on a podcast which pairs movies and wine… AND THEY SENT ME WINE TO DRINK WITH GREMLINS 2!? Honestly - brilliant concept. Can’t wait to share when it drops in September!

Best #FirstTimeWatch July:
Adoption (1975)
Barbie
Call Me Chihiro
Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga
Delta Space Mission
Elisa
Exotica
Kill Boksoon
Martin
One More Time (2023)
Oppenheimer
The Pied Piper
Spacked Out
Speaking Parts
They Cloned Tyrone
We Have a Ghost
Wham!
You Hurt My Feelings

Best #FirstTimeWatch June:
Asteroid City
Black Girl
The Blackening
Brooklyn 45
Chop Shop
The Damned
Elemental
End of the Line
Forbidden Letters
Going Away
Hanging Heart
The Haunting of Julia
No Hard Feelings
Nocebo
Passing Strangers
Past Lives
Somewhere in Queens
The Sword of Doom
Wild Reeds

Best #FirstTimeWatch May:
Amigo
Cobain: Montage of Heck
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Imitation of Life
Joy Ride
Judy Blume Forever
Please Baby Please
Righting Wrongs
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Spirit of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds
Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers
Working Girls

Best #FirstTimeWatch April:
Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret
Beau is Afriad
Daisies
Evil Dead Rise
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
The Hammer
How Saba Kept Singing
The Insect Woman
Loves of a Blonde
Mafia Mamma
La Poison
Polite Society
Project Wolf Hunting
Renfield
Saint Drogo
Showing Up
Suzume

Best #FirstTimeWatch March:
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Belly
Boat People
Cooley High
Cutter’s Way
Empire of Passion
Goodbye 20th Century
Hit the Road
I am Curious (Yellow)
In the Soup
The Last Picture Show
The Millionaires Express
Natural Enemies
Rye Lane
Under the Rainbow
Women Talking

Best #FirstTimeWatch February:
Bruiser
Cocaine Bear
Creed III
Dragons Forever
Fighting Elegy
Frostbiter
Goké: Body Snatcher From Hell
I Think We’re Alone Now
Inside (2023)
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance
Pamela A Love Story
The Return of Tanya Tucker Featuring Brandi Carlile
The Verdict
Vesper