Some good writing about movies with below a 3.5 average rating from Letterboxd members

Based on the list, I'm going to watch What Lies Beneath (Pluto) and Deep Rising (Youtube).

Some positive reviews for the new movie "Obsession"

Oscar Goff.

Sean Burns.

Bill Chambers.

Also, they made the One Wish Willow from the movie, but it repeatedly sold out:

Wish granted. Back in stock for a limited time! 🪾 https://t.co/dvBDCVPvgQ https://t.co/4n71RStb5F pic.twitter.com/mlpGHyyd4q

— Obsession (@obsessionmovie) May 12, 2026

Lovely review of new movie "The Ballad of Wallis Island"

I love Oscar Goff's writing. This review of Secret Mall Apartment, too.

I also always read Sean Burns--here's his review of Garland's Warfare.

Official popcorn bucket for The Monkey, and Longlegs starring Maika Monroe is streaming on Hulu/Disney+

Official popcorn bucket for THE MONKEY. Available at AMC Theaters now.⁰
*Stephen King not included. pic.twitter.com/KYdxQ4JQ0F

— NEON (@neonrated) February 20, 2025

Spoiler for Longlegs, which I liked: It's probably a lot less frustrating if you go in understanding there's a...

I enjoyed this review of Hugh Grant's new movie "Heretic"

By Oscar Goff.

This article about a screening of several noirs is good too:

Film noir was the fancy French term for a strain of fatalistic American crime pictures that flourished during the early postwar years. Sharing stylistic elements like chiaroscuro lighting, labyrinthine plots and bitterly ironic endings, these movies often found their morally dubious male anti-heroes rendered helpless by powerful, overtly sexualized femme fatales. You don’t have to be an armchair psychologist to see how such cheap crime stories spoke to the fears of traumatized men returning from WWII to discover that women had become far more independent in their absence.

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Bogart originally wanted his wife Lauren Bacall for the female lead [for "In a Lonely Place", but Warner Bros. wouldn’t let her out of her contract. So they went with director Ray’s wife Gloria Grahame, which only added to the self-reflexive hothouse psychodrama of it all since their marriage was falling apart and the filmmaker wound up sleeping on the set — in [the protagonist]’s apartment, no less! 

Entertaining review of new movie "Anora"

Sounds terrific (tons of spoilers) (probably my current favorite movie reviewer---like Ebert, makes me want to see the movies reviewed).

The movie "I Saw the TV Glow" is creating some truly intense reviews

This one by Walter Chaw is visceral. (Discussion of self harm.)

"Ghostwatch," the BBC's infamous faux live documentary about an allegedly haunted house is available at the Internet Archive

Wikipedia:

Ghostwatch [was] first broadcast on BBC1 on Halloween night, 1992. ... Despite having been recorded weeks in advance, the narrative was presented as live television. During and following its first and only UK television broadcast, the show attracted a considerable furor, resulting in an estimated 1,000,000 phone call enquiries to the BBC switchboard on the night of broadcast, comprising a mixture of complaints and praise for the programme's unique presentation. This outrage is often compared to Orson Welles' 1938 The War of the Worlds radio broadcast and the 1994 Without Warning television film, both of which also caused nationwide panic in the United States.

Available at the Internet Archive.

Incredible anecdote about the dawn of silent movies, and an audience unable to read

Robert Roberts, The Classic Slum. See also what he recalls about Salford cinemas in A Ragged Schooling, https://t.co/DlRg263vgK

— Luke McKernan (@lukemckernan) July 30, 2023

"For long stretches of the film, we have exited the realm of realism and are firmly in the world of the supernatural"

Spoilers

"The Video Archives Podcast with Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary" is great

Every episode they review three films. The most recent episode discussed Coma, Mikey and Nicky, and Piranha.

Trailer for thriller "The Watcher", starring Maika Monroe (plus a review and interview)

Here's a review calling it "chilly and elegant":

This is a stylized affair, and the care taken with every choice—the apartment interior, the furnishings, the color of the curtains, Julia's red sweater and red tights, etc.—is meticulous. The film crackles with icy dread. Silences are loud and sounds are even louder. Nothing has the right proportion. Ceilings are too high, stairways too long. Voices emerge as if from the bottom of a well. Spaces are empty that should be full and vice versa. The mundane is terrifying, and the terrifying seduces. Nothing feels right. This is highly subjective filmmaking. "Watcher" is [Chloe] Okuno's first feature, as well as a first feature for the cinematographer, Benjamin Kirk Nielsen, and the two together make a powerful team.

Here's an interview with Okuno:

The one thing we could not find was a good apartment, because if we were going to do it at a location, it would have to be Julia’s apartment, and then across the way, the watcher’s place. Apartments in Bucharest are very small for the most part, and they don’t really have those massive windows we needed. So after looking for a solid month, maybe more, we resigned ourselves to the fact that it had to be a set. We did find one apartment with big windows, and a building across the way, and for a while we were exploring using that. But after trying to get that apartment forever, we heard that we wouldn’t be allowed to shoot there because the building across the way that we needed as the watcher’s building was, like, the site of some secret Romanian police headquarters. 

 

I enjoyed the whodunit Rian Johson recommended, and the Wikipedia page is great, too

Imagine Clue x Ten Little Indians in various locations in the Mediterranean, with an ensemble cast that includes a very young Ian McShane. Currently a $5.99 purchase at Amazon. The murder mystery-style plot was inspired by the authors' real life adventures.

 

Fantastic 70s whodunnit written by Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins and pretty much the reason I’m in Greece right now https://t.co/7ENaSHSTg6

— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) July 17, 2021

Deadpool movie stuntpeople

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James Cameron's Avatar crew t-shirt

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Movie Poster: Blindness

Official site. Information about the movie. Via.

Michael Chabon's full script for Spider-Man 2

You can download a pdf of the whole thing here. McSweeney's posted it to promote Chabon's new book Maps and Legends.