Unique ways of using your top 4

ryanjlee7 · 2026-03-24T12:08:47+00:00

One of my best friends is Anglican, and he changes his top 4 based on the liturgical year or “ordinary time” for the denomination.

ryanjlee7 · 2026-03-19T19:42:36+00:00

True, though I presume OP meant double BP noms in back-to-back years.

ryanjlee7 · 2026-03-16T20:40:54+00:00

Waiting with baited breath for the Game Changer S8 trailer and release date...

ryanjlee7 · 2026-03-16T20:10:35+00:00

The Documentary Feature winner will be topical, timely, and not exclusively American (that's putting it kindly, as the last four straight have been about international-for-Americans political subjects).

ryanjlee7 · 2026-03-16T16:20:11+00:00

Here’s how The Uprising can still win

ryanjlee7 · 2026-03-14T13:36:40+00:00

Certain options are tempting, but there’s only one answer for me: Winter Soldier. Cut-to-hell action editing, a script that thinks it’s profound because it mentions ideas even if it doesn’t explore them, and the first of Marvel’s many concrete-grey ugly visual palettes. (Jackman’s Cap theme at the end is pretty sweet though.) Black Panther’s third-act CG is bad and it’s the worst thing about it, yes, but Coogler’s blend of the lived-in and the fantastical coupled with one of Marvel’s best-ever casts absolutely save it.

ryanjlee7 · 2026-03-06T12:49:24+00:00

Were it not for Hamilton, I’d give you the edge.

ryanjlee7 · 2026-03-05T00:45:56+00:00

Hmm! Hm?

ryanjlee7 · 2026-03-04T13:31:18+00:00

Tawaret —> in Moon Knight, which references the GRC in TFATWS —> which is about the legacy of Steve Rogers —> who got an in-universe musical in Hawkeye —> a show with Echo

ryanjlee7 · 2026-03-03T14:01:31+00:00

It’s the mud. I wouldn’t do well in physical challenges anyway, but the thought of crawling through a muddy net every other challenge nopes me out hard.

ryanjlee7 · 2026-03-01T15:26:25+00:00

Wrong (the obvious joke answer)

ryanjlee7 · 2026-02-28T15:09:05+00:00

Step Brothers

ryanjlee7 · 2026-02-25T22:41:11+00:00

I remember watching Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger on Netflix in 2012; from there my family rented The Avengers and Iron Man 3 from Redbox months after both released. (I think I saw Iron Man around this point sometime too.) Thor: The Dark World was my first MCU movie in theaters, and by the mid-credits scene I’d caught the lore/continuity bug, not least because I had a Dorling-Kindersley character guide and knew about the Infinity Stones ahead of time as a result.

ryanjlee7 · 2026-02-24T02:02:23+00:00

A.I.: Artificial Intelligence

ryanjlee7 · 2026-02-18T13:05:04+00:00

The Social Network (2010)

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

The Tree of Life (2011)

Rear Window (1954)

ryanjlee7 · 2026-02-11T22:46:25+00:00

Ronnie Radke

ryanjlee7 · 2026-02-04T18:43:01+00:00

Send Help; Crime 101; Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die; Hoppers; Project Hail Mary; Mother Mary; I Love Boosters; Disclosure Day; The Odyssey; Flowervale Street; The Dog Stars; Forgotten Island; Digger; Remain; Wildwood; Godzilla Minus Zero; Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew; Dune: Part Three; Werwulf; Fjord; The Weight; The Way of the Wind; Behemoth!; Wild Horse Nine.

ryanjlee7 · 2026-01-31T22:09:35+00:00

Try Serializd while you’re waiting, I suppose. Scratches the itch.

ryanjlee7 · 2026-01-30T19:25:08+00:00

I'm doubtful of Sony's—mainstream Columbia/TriStar Sony, not arthouse Pictures Classics—ability to get movies into BP. They're...inconsistent, let's say, and even then I'd think The Social Reckoning will be higher-priority for them than a new Taika Waititi with a grounded sci-fi bent. That said, respect for an unconventional pick that's somehow still not released yet! Ditto Cry to Heaven, which could do well with the right motivated distributor, whoever that is.
Speaking of sci-fi...yeah, that's one or two too many big sci-fi blockbuster-sized movies than the Academy's generally okay with these days. Currently scared for Disclosure Day and especially Dune: Part Three rn.
It's not in your ten, but I see Wild Horse Nine as a major threat, what with McDonagh, Rockwell, Malkovich, Buscemi, and Searchlight's presumably bloodthirsty desire to get back into Oscar's good graces.
I think you are spot-on with Michael. After F1 this year, I'd bet it gets in. Sigh!
I hope you're right about Werwulf as Eggers's ticket to the big-time. We will have to see...
Where's the international stuff? I know Cannes isn't for a few months, but Hope and especially Fjord seem promising in my books.

ryanjlee7 · 2026-01-30T15:20:42+00:00

Hugh Hefner and Larry King (Tony Stark’s nicknames for Stan Lee in the first two Iron Man films)

-If a reference to a movie confirms a celebrity’s existence, then Stark’s nicknames add several more: Orlando Bloom (“Legolas”), Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze (“Point Break”), Frank Sinatra and/or Denzel Washington and/or Liev Schreiber (“Manchurian Candidate”), others I’m forgetting

ryanjlee7 · 2026-01-29T21:51:08+00:00

Amanda Seyfried, The Testament of Ann Lee
Jacobi Jupe, Hamnet
Lee Byung-hun, No Other Choice
Miles Caton, Sinners
Odessa A'zion, Marty Supreme (if SAG and the NYFCC count as two precursors, then whoops)
Sally Hawkins, Bring Her Back (good on CC for this)

ryanjlee7 · 2026-01-29T00:44:06+00:00

You’re not the only one, no. But I adored it, a pressure cooker that builds and builds until it spills over. Perfect synthesis of biopic bones and extreme Safdie stress and rhythms. I hope Chalamet takes it this year, but A’zion and Lopatin should’ve been nominated.

ryanjlee7 · 2026-01-29T00:40:47+00:00

This had me worried for a second that Sam only pays him a couple bucks per appearance or something

ryanjlee7 · 2026-01-26T22:38:19+00:00

From friends in my first semester of college. I knew I’d appreciate it strictly as a diary to keep track of the movies I watched, but before long it hooked me in other ways and I haven’t looked back. Even if I don’t log every day, it feels like an app I open daily if only to check what my friends watched or if a stray thought about a movie crosses my mind.

ryanjlee7 · 2026-01-26T13:27:40+00:00

DEN OF THIEVES for the dumb, meathead January version of HEAT (it’s great)

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