John Denver Appreciation Week: I wasn't supposed to be there, except, of course, to die

FINAL DESTINATION BLOODLINES

2025

Directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein

Written by John Watts, Gary Busick, and Lori Evans Taylor

Spoilers: moderate

Hamlet's bogus journey

SCARLET

2025

Written and directed by Mamoru Hosoda

Spoilers: moderate

John Denver Appreciation Week: There's a wrinkle in reality, and that wrinkle is you

FINAL DESTINATION 5

2011

Directed by Steven Quale

Written by Eric Heisserer

Spoilers: oh, severe, I guess

John Denver Appreciation Week: What if us being here, right now, was the plan from the beginning?

THE FINAL DESTINATION

2009

Directed by David R. Ellis

Written by Eric Bress

Spoilers: moderate

John Denver Appreciation Week: We are all equal in Death's eyes

FINAL DESTINATION 3

2006

Directed by James Wong

Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong

Spoilers: moderate

She was shakin'

THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE

2025

Directed by Mona Fastvold

Written by Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold

Spoilers: inapplicable

Not the bees

BUGONIA

2025

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

Written by Will Tracy

Spoilers: severe

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?