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A couple browses a record store at their leisure

A couple try not to look each other while listening to an emotional song in red lighting

26 / COUPLE MEETS AND SUBSEQUENTLY SPENDS THE ENTIRE NIGHT TOGETHER, FALLING IN LOVE AND ENSUING IN HIJINKS

✦ Before Sunrise (1995)

✦ Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023)

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An older man smiles, as a younger man reads to him from a book that also looks old

A young man has pillow talk with an older woman, holding said pillow

25 / SEX WORKER THERAPY

✦ Sauvage (2018): Léo looks for love and gives it in return, often to older men who feel they don't deserve it

✦ Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022): Leo helps Nancy, a recent widow, fulfill a sexual bucket list and they both learn some things along the way

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Two cool people playing punk music and screaming into a microphone

A group of cool looking kewl and ready to rock

24 / PUNK ROCKERS BEAT UP NAZIS 🎸

✦ Green Room (2015)

✦ Freaky Tales (2024)

How to Start Watching: Screwball Comedies — Moviejawn by Megan Robinson, Staff Writer If modern films like Barbie, or the current state of the world, have you itching for more fast-paced comedies, I’ve compiled a list of where to get started.

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Man in Ocean View Dining jacket gives a half smile, looking off camera. He's got fear in his eyes.

Man in trendy vintage store stares off camera, clearly having a scary plan

23 / INSECURE MAN TAKES A BROMANCE TOO FAR AND IRREVOCABLY CHANGES THE COURSE OF BOTH OF THEIR LIVES

✦ Friendship (2024)

✦ Lurker (2025)

A woman and man staring into each other's eyes, wearing pastels

A man and woman staring into each other's eyes, on a movie set, with the sun setting in the background

22 / THEY CALL EM THE TALKIES 🎙️

✦ Singin' in the Rain (1952): A couple of silent types struggle to make the transition to talking pictures, but they sing in the rain!

✦ Babylon (2022): Everyone in Hollywood sure is doing something as they transition to the talking pictures

A shocked man pointing and ready to make a movie

A bloody man in a tropical shirt holding a video camera, trying to do HIS JOB

21 / HORROR COMEDY X VIDEO CAMERA 🎥

✦ Dead Talents Society (2024): Ghosts make tik toks to stay alive (as much as they can, anyway)

✦ One Cut of the Dead (2017): A movie crew desperately tries to film a zombie movie while their reality is much like the movie

A man and woman sitting with a plate of disgusting looking food, the woman has her hand over her mouth because she knows the food is bad

A man and woman laying in bed together but in a really boring way

20 / R U REAL? 👾

✦ eXistenZ (1999): A video game designer must fix her buggy game and decide what is reality and what is not

✦ Don't Worry Darling (2022): A perfect housewife begins to have a strange feeling about her world & her "American" husband

Looks like Solidarity Cinema Archive has it, love them

Robin Williams wearing a low cut shirt and a baseball hat backwards, did I mention he has a mustache? Nathan Lane with his hands on his face, like the Scream painting

Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand sitting together, trying to entertain

19 / QUIRKY IN-LAW MEETINGS 🤪

✦ The Birdcage (1996): Robin Williams and Broadway's own Nathan Lane pretend to be straight to appease some prudes

✦ Meet the Fockers (2004): Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand pretend to be way less cool to appease some uptight weirdos that potty trained their cat

Adam Driver, lit in red, watching a play and not smiling

Adam Driver, lit in green, looking up aimlessly and without purpose

18 / ADAM DRIVER, MARRIED, BUT UNRAVELING

✦ Marriage Story (2019): Adam Driver struggles through a bi-coastal divorce as sad creative #2

✦ Annette (2021): Adam Driver is a stand up who marries a beautiful singer and then it gets a lil weird

SO stoked I got to review the new DEMON SLAYER movie! It’s incredible of course.

In from the Side (2022) 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) Tall Girl 2 (2022) Hot Dog (2020)

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

a pretty mixed bag
a real fall from grace
(not watching 4 really good movies in a row)

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now feels like a great time to remind you I wrote about Victim and the history of queer blackmail for @moviejawn.com

Interested?

1. Watch Different from the Others (1919)
2. Watch Victim (1961)
3. Read my Weird History column

or in whatever order you want, I'm not picky :)

Two men holding hands and looking at each other, but in a way that feels chaste and totally chill for the time (1919)

Two men sharing an intimate conversation that feels serious but not immediately gay, boring!

17 / QUEER BLACKMAIL :'(

✦ Different from the Others (1919): A German work of art destroyed by the Nazis and then pieced back together. That's queer resiliency!

✦ Victim (1961): A British masterpiece that helped legalize homosexuality and was the first English-language movie to even say it

An average looking man with a lovely woman on her arm who doesn't deserve what is about to unfold

ERIC ROBERTS getting hugged by a woman that likes him way more than she should, this guy has no light behind those eyes

16 / MEN MASKING 😶‍🌫️

✦ Stepfather 2 (1989): After a failed attempt, the man tries to find a new family- make room for daddy!

✦ Stalked by My Doctor: The Return (2016): After a bizarre first-attempt, the good doctor decides the easiest way to this teen's heart is marrying her mom!

Feeling the need to be known, but I am indeed playing Silksong.

I'm in Hunter's March, and I'm trying my best!

The above picture of a giant porkchop sandwich but with the meat labeled "my existential dread" and the bun is labeled "me" but now the plate of fries behind the sandwich is labeled "French fries"

if u do not have anything nice to say well sometimes u are not wrong

Red-lit gay bar filled with goths and blurry people

Christmas light-lit gay bar with a mature queer sitting at the bar

15 /
GIRL GOES TO WEIRD CAMP, LEAVES,
AND ENDS UP IN A GAY BAY

✦ But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)

✦ Yes, God, Yes (2019)

5 immaculate queers sitting at a bowling alley, staring off into space. There is a mix of pastel yellows, pinks, and blues. They really have a color palette going.

Two gay men look off camera, while also at a bowling alley.

14 / QUEER BOWLING LEAGUE 🎳

✦ Death and Bowling (2021): A gaggle of queers mourn the loss of their beloved bowling league captain

✦ Sweethearts (2024): A queer bowling team puts in the work (tries to convince us Ohio is a great place to live)

Scary serial killer holds a knife to a policeman's throat while also pointing a gun at the same guy. He can do it all!

A quite pleased with himself serial killer holds a plain looking man at gunpoint

13 /
WHY COPY 1 SERIAL KILLER,
WHEN YOU CAN COPY 5 OR 6?

✦ Copycat (1999)

✦ Virtuosity (1995)

A woman in a habit with killer red lipstick points a gun to someone out of frame, good riddance!

A woman in a nun-like outfit screams to the skies while covered in blood. Kinda looks like her eyes are bleeding but don't worry they aren't!

12 / HOMICIDAL WOMEN DRESSED AS NUNS

✦ Ms .45 (1981): A woman takes matters into her own hands after a terrible day in the city

✦ Saint Maud (2017): A woman nurses by day and feels her oats (among other things) by night

much respect for your custom poster game*

got to use my favorite silly tag for 3 of them, milk edging

used only when we see milk onscreen, and no one does a dang thing with it

Milk & Serial (2024), Materialists (2025), Dekalog (1989), Decalogue X (1989)

exhibiting incredible range with my #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched