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Edge of tomorrow. Really hoping for a sequel including Emily Blunt.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I just shared it with my kids. But we're godly seeing across the spiderverse tonight, so that might change.

Definitely Spiderverse. It was almost too fast moving at times, but fantastic story telling and, of course, art design.

This tread has been a moment of personal discovery. In trying to imagine what movie I've seen this month I realized I haven't seen a movie yet this year - unless you count standup specials which live in the movie section of Plex. I'm like 80% sure the last movie I watched was the Bob's Burgers Movie. What happened to me?!

Across the Spidervetse was incredible

Dune. While there's no way to perfectly capture the magic of the intricate machinations of (Frank) Herbert's universe, the movie gets about as close as anyone could, I think. The only thing in its league is Jackson's LOTR trilogy, and I think Dune is at least as good if not slightly better. Can't wait for the second (and hopefully third!) one!

Asteroid City was surprisingly good. Eccentric, but in the best way.

New movie: Across the Spiderverse without a doubt. Gave it a 9/10. I think i like the first more but it's a beautiful movie.

Old and overall: i rewatched Toy Story 2. It's a 10/10 from me.

Extraction 2, but there wasn't much competition because I only saw 2 movies this month.

Usually not my cup of tea, I watched an Indian movie, two of them actually: Bahubali and Bahubali 2. Yes, it's cliché and cheesy but all in a very fun and spectacular way.

It's basically life-action anime but with more musical and dancing bits.

It's not a new one, but I rewatched the 1998 film Dark City (IMDB/RT) 2 weeks ago and totally forgot how atmospheric it was. Whilst it takes it self seriously there's some pretty bizarre moments, I totally cracked up at a scene where one of the 'strangers' exclaims "HE CAN TUNE!" which is followed by a shot of a child stranger smiling and chattering their teeth (YouTube clip)

Emily the criminal was pretty decent. Good acting, the story is okay, but nothing special. Enjoyable. Then I watched Oh Lucy! With Josh Hartnet. That was a downer of a movie somehow. It's about a japanese lady who is kinda unsatisfied with her life, tries to change things up, opens up a bit, but it's not as successful as one expects. Not bad, rather weird movie!

Do the final two episodes of Star Trek: TNG count? If so, that.

For a series with its ups and downs, they really nailed everything that's great about Star Trek in the final two episodes with none of the lows. Relevant social commentary, intelligent dialog, an intriguing science fictional mystery, some action, and a superbly dramatic Picard! Not just Picard either. Almost everyone in the cast gets a chance to shine across the three time periods. Brent Spiner especially gets a nod for the subtle changes to old Data's character.

Upgrade. I freaking love that movie even for how dark it is.

'The Wandering Moon' directed by Lee Sang-il and based on the novel by Yuu Nagira. The story contains some controversial themes but it's beautifully shot and put together with a lot of care and love. At two and a half hours it's a really nice length to just sit back and allow yourself to get fully immersed in the visual experience. It has that sort of slow, melancholic beauty that appears in a lot of modern Japanese art. If you've ever read a Murakami novel you'll know what I mean.

Happy Gilmore. I’ve seen it before, but not for a long time. Don’t think I’ll ever get tired of it.

I... have not seen any movies this month actually. Definitely want to check out Spiderman though and Asteroid City looks like it might be fun too.

I recently watched Beau if a Afraid, I wouldn’t say it’s my favorite but it definitely made me feel things, mainly anxiety lol

Across the Spider-Verse of course (respect the hyphen), however I also just watched Submarine (written and directed by Richard Ayoade) and thought that was really good.

I really enjoyed Elemental! My boyfriend slept through most of it though haha. It seems to be one of those polarizing movies.

The animation of Fire and Water was so beautiful and the story did resonate with me as a kinda/sorta immigrant.

Blackberry was awesome. Funny, good moments of tension, totally worth a watch.

Definitely Across the spider verse, 9/10 best movie of the year so far, but can't wait to watch Past Lives

I'd say The Covenant but BlackBerry was a close second

Apocalypse Now. Watched it in an airplane so wasn't as good of an experience as it should have been, but it was an incredible movie regardless. My favorite Vietnam movie definitely

I haven't watched any movies this month, but I've been staring at John Wick 4 in my queue for weeks. Does that count?

The Mario movie was way better than I expected tbh

man across the spiderverse is the only movie i've watched this month

I marathoned The Godfather trilogy a couple of weeks ago. 1 is still one of my favourite movies

We watched Extraction 2 (and #1 before that). I had zero expectations, but was surprised that they both were quite good! Avoided some tropes, leaned into others, action was innovative without going full John Wick. Not bad, Netflix!

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). I knew nothing going in and just enjoyed. It was modern and thought-provoking about war and what we owe our veterans. The coolest part is that it asks the tough questions about a war that few of us question as being necessary (World War II).

Across the Spiderverse was absolutely amazing too but I expected that and it surpassed my expectations.

I enjoyed Fool's Paradise. Wasn't perfect but I feel privileged to watch Charlie Day's creative mind at work. Also the cast was great, if not utilized to the fullest extent. Satire of the film industry is always a favorite of mine.

The critics gave it a really hard time though.

Ice Planet (2001) because of Starhunter Redux. They lost $5 million trying to make a TV show out of the movie.

"The perks of being a wallflower."

I'm an introvert. And I relate to almost every scene in the film.