John Denver Appreciation Week: People are always most alive just before they die—don't you think?

FINAL DESTINATION 2

2003

Directed by David R. Ellis

Written by Jeffrey Reddick, J. Mackye Gruber, and Eric Bress

Spoilers: high

John Denver Appreciation Week: Your friend's departure shows that Death has a new design for all of you

FINAL DESTINATION

2000

Directed by James Wong

Written by Jeffrey Reddick, Glen Morgan, and James Wong

Spoilers: surprisingly moderate

Paperman

NO OTHER CHOICE

2025

Directed by Park Chan-wook

Written by Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, Lee Ja-hye, and Park Chan-wook (based on The Ax by Donald Westlake)

Spoilers: moderate

Any given Sunday

HIM

2025

Directed by Justin Tipping

Written by Skip Bronkie, Zack Akers, and Justin Tipping

Spoilers: moderate

"The Unsuspected," he murmured. "Has he got the crust to mean himself?"

THE UNSUSPECTED

1947

Directed by Michael Curtiz

Written by Ranald MacDougall and Bess Meredyth (based on the novel by Charlotte Armstrong)

Spoilers: reasonable minds could differ, but I think "moderate"

Just what is going on in that piratical mind of yours?

THE SEA HAWK

1940

Directed by Michael Curtiz

Written by Howard Koch and Seton I. Miller

Spoilers: moderate

Better a thousand times to die than for to live so tormented: dear, but remember it was I who for thy sake did die contented

THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX

1939

Directed by Michael Curtiz

Written by Norman Reilly Raine and Aeneas MacKenzie (based on the play Elizabeth the Queen by Maxwell Anderson)

Spoilers: welllll, how familiar are you with the reign of Elizabeth I?