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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. Do I need to tell you I cried?!

My dog watching this film.

171. Blade (1998)

The secret Vampire Nation struggles to contain vampire Deacon Frost as he tries to start a war with humans. Ready to kick his ass is vampire hunter Blade, a half-human, half-vampire “daywalker” with a sword.

172. Unseen (2016, Laura Paglin documentary)

Speechless for this one.
It was free on YouTube but I’m having trouble locating the video listing ATTOW.

173. Obsession (2025)

A man wishes upon a “One Wish Willow” that his crush will fall in love with him, causing her to be involuntarily taken over by an alternate, demonic version of herself.

174. Resident Evil (2026)

I wasn’t expecting to add this here but I loved it! Do I hope for an accurate adaptation of the 1998 Mansion Incident? Yes, always. Is this still a great movie? Yes. It seems to be loved by people both familiar and unfamiliar with the games.
Bryan Hodukavich is an everyman medical courier who fatefully accepts the mission to deliver a mysterious cooler to Raccoon City.

175. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)

For every moment of this film, I turned to my husband and said, “What is happening?”
At the same time, I could’ve written this in another life. Buckaroo Banzai is a half-Japanese, half-American man who is simultaneously a surgeon, a scientist, and a rock star. There’s a character named John Bigbooty, and Jeff Goldblum is dressed as a cowboy, wearing the kind of ridiculous chaps I got from the trapper in Red Dead Redemption 2.

176. Time After Time (1979)

An absurd film about H.G. Wells having to time travel from 1893 to 1979, because his friend turned out to be Jack the Ripper, and wouldn’t you know it, he ran off in his time machine! Wells struggles to adjust to life in 1979 as he sees his predictions for the future have gone pear-shaped. It doesn’t make a lot of sense, but it’s very funny, and the time travel sequences allowed me to show my husband what a migraine aura can look like.

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