MOVIES part 2
Because trying to edit the first one seriously crashed my browser.
156. Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
An absurd, completely bonkers, and incredible film, about a woman running a laundrette and struggling with being audited by the IRS. Her husband is taken over by a version of himself from a parallel universe, and he teaches her to verse-jump to gain knowledge and abilities from her other lives, in order to fight the great multiverse villain, Jobu Tupaki.

How to watch: Prime Video!
157. The Shining (1980)
I wasn’t going to add this one because so many other people’s essential movie lists have it, but after showing it to my husband, I realised it should be on here. A man accepts an overwinter caretaker job for an isolated hotel, and brings his family.

158. Event Horizon (1997)
This is hard to describe so let’s just go with: Interdimensional nightmare.

159. Parasite (2019)
An impoverished family living in a banjiha basement apartment, slowly ingratiate themselves into the lives and home of a wealthy family.

160. RoboCop (1987)
The corpse of a police officer is converted into a cyborg named RoboCop. He begins to have memories of his former human life. You can see where it went on to influence things like the Fallout games.

161. Nope (2022)
A family of Hollywood horse-wranglers encounter a cloud that never moves.

162. Flow (2024)
A flood from nowhere forces various species to wordlessly cooperate. OH BOY DID I CRY.

163. The Shape of Water (2017)
The aesthetic of this film is nice and I wish we saw more of it. A lab cleaner falls in love with a captive amphibian man.

164. The Fifth Element (1997)
Multipass.

165. 28 Years Later (2025)
A boy from a small delicately-surviving population on the island of Lindisfarne, absconds to the mainland to seek help for his anosognosiac mother. Britain is part of the Unconditional Isolation Zone, still ravaged by the Rage virus. Yes, I cried.

166. My Mom Jayne (2025)
Although I saw much of her in Law & Order, I didn’t know anything about Mariska Hargitay personally, or that her mother was Jayne Mansfield. This film sees her conduct interviews and research to learn her mother’s story, including on the fatal car accident which Mariska was lucky to survive, aged 3. Guess what, I cried.

167. They Live (1988)
A homeless man finds a pair of glasses that allow him to see aliens.


168. The Man from Earth (2007)
I can’t really describe this without spoiling it. It’s basically a long conversation, but it’s kind of insane.

169. The Abyss (1989)
An oil rig diving team must investigate a sunken submarine, leading to an otherworldly encounter.

170. Good Boy (2025)
A film ENTIRELY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE DOG.


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