Originally paid to rent a doc for #MarchAroundTheWorld only to find out the country listed for it was just someone trying to cheat their way to a full map. Well, that's a morning wasted.

Poster for Price of Love (2015)

Time to #MarchAroundTheWorld to Ethiopia, by which I mean I've already watched this, forgot to post, and now have to get to trivia.

Poster for Amaanaaiy (1998)

In what is probably the biggest gap between runtime and viewers for this year's #MarchAroundTheWorld, Amaanaaiy has been watched by 6 people on Letterboxd, has a runtime of 166 minutes, and has an average rating lower than the number of viewers. Pray for me.

Poster for Hero (2002)

It's Oscar nominee week for #ZombieSteve52, so I've also made a substitution on my #MarchAroundTheWorld list since I'm a bit behind. Every list is better if Tony Leung Chiu-wai is on it, so now he's on both lists.

Poster for Death Smiles On A Murderer

Going to a more frequently watched country for #MarchAroundTheWorld. This one stars Ewa Aulin, but I doubt it will contain as much chicken body horror as Death Laid An Egg.

Posters for Evil Lives Here (1.5/5), Compulsive Liar 2 (2.5), The Knight and the Princess (3.5), and Chasing The Light: Norfolk Island

All part of #MarchAroundTheWorld. 2 of these have viewer numbers lower than their runtimes.

Poster for Evil Lives Here (2022)

Doing #MarchAroundTheWorld in Liberia. I hate every character in this and it's super gross. This was a bad call.

Poster for Menteuse aka Compulsive Liar 2

Always have to make room for my home country for #MarchAroundTheWorld, and this is the movie I'm most excited for AND terrified for on my list. I didn't even know they were making this, and then when I went to Moncton to see the IMAX screening of Jaws I discovered I had missed it by a week or two.

Poster for the animated movie The Knight And The Princess

I'm coming up on my 200th movie watched for #MarchAroundTheWorld and this is only my 4th animated film. I wonder if I could make that a theme next year. Could be interesting.

Poster for Chasing The Light: Norfolk Island

Getting sneaky with #MarchAroundTheWorld as this Australian movie also crosses off Norfolk Island. Apparently external territories of Australia with 2,100 people don't have big film industries of their own. Not much to set it apart from other docs I've seen about small islands, but still good.

Poster for The Red Spectacles (1987)

Doing a last minute switch for #MarchAroundTheWorld thanks to a cinema screening. This is at least the 2nd time I’ve bumped Izo from a challenge. I’ve owned that movie for at least a decade and never get around to it. I fully expect to finally sit down with it some day and discover it has disc rot.

Poster for Cousines (2006)

Wrapping up my #MarchAroundTheWorld trilogy before Joe-Bob tonight. Started in British Virgin Islands with Finding Love In Saint Lucia, then to Saint Lucia for The Haytian Earth, and now to Haiti for Cousines. Not bad so far. The lighting isn’t great, but the lead actress is solid.

Poster for The Haytian Earth

My strange little trilogy of connections for #MarchAroundTheWorld hits the second film. I still have to check Haiti off on my map, so I'm watching The Haytian Earth from... you guessed it... Saint Lucia. The quality on this copy is rough, which is odd because it's the official page listed on IMDb.

Poster for Finding Love In Saint Lucia

Part one of a strange little trilogy of connections for #MarchAroundTheWorld starts tonight. I still have to check Saint Lucia off on my map, so I'm watching Finding Love In Saint Lucia. It's from the US, UK, and British Virgin Islands... because of course it is. A good movie for what it is.

Poster for Bollywood Evil Dead

#MarchAroundTheWorld now takes me to India for a movie the poster tells me is called Bach Ke Zara, possibly "Please Be Saved", but Letterboxd just calls... Bollywood Evil Dead. It doesn't just stop at ripping off Evil Dead though, because the book of the dead has images from Coppolla's Dracula.

Poster for My Last Valentine In Beirut

#MarchAroundTheWorld begins with this year's featured country, Lebanon. I got as far into the Tubi search as "my last vale" and it was still trying to give me Last Action Hero so I wondered how big this movie was, but then I found out it was originally released in 3D. Maybe Tubi's search just sucks.

It's four minutes until March, which means it's time for a #MarchAroundTheWorld thread showing the pre-challenge state of my map in Lifetime and 2026 variety. Let's do this.

I'm not done of Red Rooms yet, but since Canada was already marked off when I started I felt okay posting my post #MarchAroundTheWorld map progress. Lifetime on the left, 2025 on the right.

Poster for Red Rooms (2023)

This is it. The final film on my #MarchAroundTheWorld list brings me back home to Canada. It’s the only movie on my list I had intended to check out unrelated to the challenge, and one of only five I was legitimately excited for at first. Not saying some of the others weren’t pleasant surprises.

Poster for My Heart Is That Eternal Rose

My #MarchAroundTheWorld flight was rerouted from Monaco to Hong Kong thanks to a bad link on JustWatch, but at least I finally get to check out this movie that until now I’ve referred to as “that one that’s not Wong Kar-Wai”.

Poster for We Are Not Angels 2

#MarchAroundTheWorld goes to Serbia with a movie that feels like an Oh God spin-off on drugs. I haven’t seen the original, but there is enough context in the opening that it seems okay.

Poster for Umutwe W’Inkuba (the head of thunderbolt)

#MarchAroundTheWorld goes to Burundi for what might be (at least based on the first 30 minutes) my favourite film so far in the challenge. It’s like if Cinderella had more kung fu. Editing is a bit wonky, but these kids have moves.

Poster for Coco Hotahota farereiraa

Poster for Bye Bye Africa

Both of these were actually pretty good and I don’t want this to sound like a dig against them, but now that they’re done I’m finally into #MarchAroundTheWorld movies that are on my list because they caught my eye rather than because they check off a country I’d never seen a film from. 🥳

Posters for Volcanoes of the Caribbean (2.5), Zegedam (no rating), Unbreakable Virgin Islanders (3.0), and Uncivilized (3.5)

Coming up on the end of #MarchAroundTheWorld. I’ll be glad to get back to normal.

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#MarchAroundTheWorld goes to Eritrea with Zegedam. It’s got a whopping zero views on Letterboxd so far, but somehow still ended up in the middle whe. I sorted by rating.

Poster for Uncivilized

Poster for Paradise Discovered: Unbreakable Virgin Islanders

#MarchAroundTheWorld takes me to Dominica and US Virgin Islands for a double feature of documentaries with bad storms. Just finished Uncivilized which was enjoyable.

Poster for El Clan (2012)

It's a terrible poster, but so far El Clan (2012) is one of the better movies I've watched this year for #MarchAroundTheWorld. Unfortunately, I'm zonked and may have to finish it tomorrow.

Poster for Little Angel, Make Me Happy (1993)

#MarchAroundTheWorld goes to Turkmenistan with Little Angel, Make Me Happy. I'm mind blown this came out in 1993, because it feels about 20 years older. I'm seriously worried I'm not going to finish this year. I can't get motivated to watch most of what I have left.

Poster for The Legend Of Johnny Lingo

#MarchAroundTheWorld takes me to Tokelau by way of New Zealand. Since starting the movie I was discovered it was financed by a multilevel marketing company with a huge list of controversies. Movie’s not great, but it’s better than having your juice allegedly contaminated with a shit ton of cocaine.

Poster for South Of Sanity

Is my next #MarchAroundTheWorld a horror movie made entirely by what appears to be a group of scientists who were stationed at a British research facility in Antarctica? Maybe.