Happy to see Sense8 on here.

No love for Y: The Last Man?

I found an old-school drafting table (the kind with adjustable angles/height) on the curb back in 2008 and walked it home (it was a bear to walk that far). Kept it in my tinybox apt for a few years, then turned it into a standing desk by adding on some lumber and a used monitor arm. Since then I’ve reconfigured it a…

I love Bogart as Marlowe, but I liked Dick Powell’s take on the character in Murder My Sweet (directed by the underrated Edward Dmytryk) just a little bit more. He’s more vulnerable, maybe even a little more romantic underneath the overt cynicism.

1993's Super Mario Bros is amazing.

How is “A Midnight Clear” (1992) not on this list?

It might be better buzzed than either drunk or completely sober. Sometimes I’ll have a glass of wine before watching a movie, and I find it lowers my defenses a bit and I soak in more of the movie, if that makes any sense.

I’m one of five people in the world who think that Upstream Color > Primer.

I never understood the machines to be that monolithic, though you’re right, there’s no mention of multiple cities. There are disagreements between agents and programs, between the Merovingian and almost everyone else, and of course the Architect and Oracle both argued quite a bit about the fate of humans (I have no…

I stan Jupiter Ascending. The only thing bad about that movie is not enough Doona Bae and her biker mercs, but that’s because there should be more Doona Bae in everything.

The “white knuckle” approach unfortunately puts vulnerable people into harms way unnecessarily.

There’s about 49 million people who fall into one or more “vulnerable” categories, due to age, immune system issues, other underlying health conditions. If you factor in issues like congregate settings (group homes), racial…

Great choices!

Fair enough. 

A couple of other maybe titles:
1. Metropolitan - Whit Stillman’s first movie isn’t explicitly about the holidays, but it provides the backdrop for the plot
2. Croupier - the movie’s third act takes place over Xmas
3. Hi-Life (not the recent space prison one, this is a 1998 “romantic dramedy”)
4. Strange Days (if you…

Great point!

That’s a good point!

Yeah, I’m just questioning the logic, but the list is solid.

Hmmm... would Texas Chainsaw Massacre not count as a slasher movie?

I liked Primer okay but I felt like Upstream Color was a far better movie in so many ways. I also really dug They Look Like People which straddles the line between horror and sci-fi, and definitely messes with your head in the same way other films on this list do.

Another film that’s not mentioned enough anymore is The…

No mention of “We’re No Angels” (1955, forget the risible 1989 version directed by the othewise awesome Neil Jordan)? Bogart, Joan Bennett and Peter Ustinov, directed by Michael Curtiz.

Speaking of Neil Jordan, “The Butcher Boy” (with a cameo of Sinead O’Connor playing Mary) and “Breakfast on Pluto” are both quite…