Saturday, January 31, 2026

Not the bees


BUGONIA

2025
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
Written by Will Tracy

Spoilers: severe

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

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

Saturday, January 24, 2026

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

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

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

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Any given Sunday


HIM

2025
Directed by Justin Tipping
Written by Skip Bronkie, Zack Akers, and Justin Tipping

Spoilers: moderate

Tuesday, January 13, 2026

"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"

Thursday, January 8, 2026

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

Sunday, January 4, 2026

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?