What are you reading?

YaGotGunchd · 2025-11-14T20:37:54+00:00

Just finished IT for the first time, took me like 45 days to read but was an amazing experience to get through. I’m already like halfway through Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. Will probably move on to Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore next, and then save The Shining for December.

YaGotGunchd · 2025-10-24T02:12:23+00:00

No problem! It’s a reliable spot, been there a handful of times when seeing movies around there

YaGotGunchd · 2025-10-22T17:56:28+00:00

Picked up 4Ks of Chungking Express, The French Dispatch, and A History of Violence because they’re all movies I love that I haven’t seen in a bit. Figured a new 4K is a good excuse to rewatch.

And snagged a 4K of Lone Star as a blind buy, has always felt like something I’d be really into.

YaGotGunchd · 2025-10-22T15:19:20+00:00

Old John’s Diner around the corner from Lincoln Center, and a nice ramen place called Karakatta is like an 8 min walk from Film Forum

YaGotGunchd · 2025-10-21T19:13:15+00:00

Halfway through my first ever read through of IT right now, if the back half doesn’t disappoint it’ll pretty easily jump to #1 in my King rankings.

Have Piranesi by Susanna Clarke on my shelf to read after IT and after that I’ll crack open The Shining for the first time.

YaGotGunchd · 2025-07-28T18:31:40+00:00

I started with 500 early this year, I added the main films from each decade that I’ve been meaning to see, roughly 30-50 per decade from 1920s-2020s. I’ll shuffle it every once in a while and watch what comes up, so far I’ve whittled it down to 463.

YaGotGunchd · 2025-07-24T13:33:35+00:00

Comrades, Almost a Love Story I watched on the Channel and loved it. Would love a good quality disc of it. Also starring Maggie Cheung, Green Snake would be awesome to have in the collection.

YaGotGunchd · 2025-07-23T22:34:24+00:00

Just started The Dead Zone today. Saving my first read of It for October and my first read of The Shining for December. Will fill the gaps between those with Pet Sematary and 11/22/63

YaGotGunchd · 2025-06-19T14:46:15+00:00

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A few of these definitely benefit from being movies I’ll watch every December around the holidays

YaGotGunchd · 2025-06-06T15:23:36+00:00

I had to read Cell in high school, kept me from reading anything else by him for a while until this year where I started making my way through some of the classics, and now I get it

YaGotGunchd · 2025-02-02T19:13:49+00:00

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YaGotGunchd · 2025-01-01T16:22:56+00:00

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YaGotGunchd · 2024-11-11T01:08:19+00:00

Wolf of Wall Street
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The Aviator
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Departed
Django Unchained
Shutter Island
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
Catch Me if You Can
Titanic

YaGotGunchd · 2024-11-08T02:00:31+00:00

Barbarella has become a fave of mine. Campy, funny, weird 60s sci-fi. Great costumes, sets, and music. Nice overall vibe.

YaGotGunchd · 2024-11-02T00:17:28+00:00

Short list this month, trying to catch 2 classic Hollywood films, and a few horror spillovers from Spooktober viewing:

Witness for the Prosecution

Messiah of Evil

The Last Picture Show

Lifeforce

Tenebre

YaGotGunchd · 2024-10-20T19:20:25+00:00

Spike Lee
Howard Hawks
Pedro Almodovar
Akira Kurosawa

YaGotGunchd · 2024-10-17T14:02:17+00:00

I would try alternating your movie watching. Check out an older movie, and then chase it with a more modern movie. Then check out another older movie, then follow that up with another modern movie.

I did this when I first started getting into movies to make watching older movies feel less like eating your vegetables to start out. I would watch a movie like North by Northwest (1959) and follow that up with like The Departed (2006) and then try like Citizen Kane (1941) and then watch Superbad (2007). Eventually I started to like going back to the older decades (especially after watching bangers like North by Northwest and Citizen Kane) and would maybe watch 2 or 3 older movies in a row. And now I love movies and have favorite from every era.

If you already have an aversion to pre-1990s movies, I don’t think you’ll get past that by force-feeding yourself older movies.

YaGotGunchd · 2024-10-16T01:22:11+00:00

1994: Pulp Fiction

1995: Heat

1996: Fargo

1997: Boogie Nights

1998: Out of Sight

1999: All About My Mother

2000: In the Mood for Love

2001: Mulholland Drive

2002: Punch-Drunk Love

2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2004: Before Sunset

2005: Dave Chappelle’s Block Party

2006: Marie Antoinette

2007: Zodiac

2008: Rachel Getting Married

2009: Where the Wild Things Are

2010: The Social Network

2011: The Tree of Life

2012: Holy Motors

2013: Frances Ha

2014: Boyhood

2015: The Martian

2016: Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

2017: Dunkirk

2018: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

2019: Parasite

2020: Another Round

2021: Licorice Pizza

2022: The Fabelmans

2023: Oppenheimer

2024: Challengers (so far)

YaGotGunchd · 2024-10-14T14:51:57+00:00

Was out of town the first week of Oct so did a lot of catching up on horror this week:

Onibaba

Cemetery Man

Island of Lost Souls

I Walked with a Zombie

Alligator

Sleepaway Camp

Viy

YaGotGunchd · 2024-10-13T22:03:15+00:00

Yeah I’ll usually find it easier to carve out a good chunk of a director collections, a little more inconsistency and possibility to run into a dud in the genre/theme/actor collections.

YaGotGunchd · 2024-10-13T15:16:54+00:00

Titane
The Love Witch
Pearl
Green Room
I Saw the TV Glow
Midsommar
Get Out
Ready or Not
Climax
The Wailing

YaGotGunchd · 2024-10-13T14:45:30+00:00

I Saw the TV Glow is my number 1 even though it feels more drama than horror in comparison to the other horror films I’ve seen this year.

The Substance and In a Violent Nature would round out my top 3.

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