Ho Chi Rin

@DavidLeftyMA The Drama and Obsession are both great! Balthazar is a smaller release that's been having trouble getting distribution - I ended up catching it at a local art theatre and it gets like a one week distro every two months or something, so maybe it'll be back around soon 😭

@ryankbbq The Drama and Obsession are top of my list to see (or at least among movies that have already come out). I don't think I've heard of your number 1?

My ranking of the 2026 movies I've seen so far this year

my wife says i have the taste of a 24-year old 😭

a tentative top 16

watched earlier a mix of incredibly vulnerable and fifty thousand increasingly zany background gags sold in perfect deadpan. a great send-off to the brat era

watched earlier Extremely stylish, soundtrack absolutely rips, but there's a frictionlessness and weakly plotted character arc that weighs the whole thing down

rewatched earlier "What is he, the new Noriega? He helps you kill communists so you let him sell drugs to [blacks] and [Hispanics]? You even bring it up for him." Happy 4th

watched earlier Great gags, great vibes, a real earnest beating heart under it all. A friend remarked to me earlier that there's a lineage from noir to the early blaxploitation films, and I'm inclined to agree

watched earlier cool to see how much this inspired Fargo

@AgingRanchHand shooting a guy under the rail replacement bus and getting caught immediately

Once brought a man under the bridge and waited for the train to pass above so I could shoot him without being heard. I didn't realize all services had been cancelled that night. We were down there so long we resolved all of our differences

watched earlier a perfect noir. Kathie and Ann should've run off together instead

watched earlier For something so cobbled together, disowned by its creator and forgetting everything that made it what it was, this feels like it has no right to be as good as it is. A metaphor for itself.

watched earlier an incredible improvement on the original. wild that fresher kills, bigger stunts and a Grandmaster Flash style end credits hip hop track about the eponymous Maniac Cop feels less overly indulgent than the first