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  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • The Battle of Algiers
  • Threads
  • King of the Children
  • Europa Europa

Human Rights and the Visual Study of War and Government Violence

11 films

Films about state-sanctioned violence, war, terror, and the struggle to protect human rights. Some of these are purely fictional (i.g.…

  • A Matter of Life and Death
  • The Princess Bride
  • Promising Young Woman
  • The Truman Show
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

All-Time Favorites

9 films

All-time favorite films, in order of how much I think about them on any given day.

  • Mirror
  • Threads
  • Akira
  • Star Wars
  • First Blood

Cinema in the 1970s-1989

12 films

Whatever this era of Hollywood is called—also organized in order of release year (oldest to newest).

  • The Outsiders
  • The Princess Bride
  • Little Women
  • Holes
  • Frankenstein

Arguably the Best Page-to-Screens

18 films

My favorite book to movie adaptations! Organized in order of film release year, oldest to newest.

  • Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
  • Death and the Maiden
  • The Piano Teacher
  • Megan Is Missing

If I Could Rank Them Lower Than Zero I Would

4 films

I hate these films, fully on the basis of their exploitative, gratuitous, and frankly disturbing ways of approaching sensitive topics.…

  • Nosferatu
  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • Spellbound
  • A Matter of Life and Death
  • Psycho

Golden Age of Hollywood & Then Some (1920-1969)

13 films

My favorite older films, in order of release year (oldest to newest).

  • Sunshine
  • Don't Look Up
  • Train to Busan
  • The Girl with All the Gifts
  • I Am Mother

The Doomsday Cinema Club

23 films

Mery, Cam, and Abbey’s end-of/the-world film extravaganza

Ranked in order of how we ranked them on our apocalypse film tier-list,…

  • Home Alone
  • The Addams Family
  • Addams Family Values
  • Clueless
  • Jumanji

The Blockbuster Era Bangers (1990-2005)

20 films

Unsure what this era of cinema is called, but these are my favorite blockbuster era films. Organized in order of…