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Mostly Film This week on Mostly Film , we’re back in trailer court deciding what makes the watchlist and what gets the hard nix. On the docket: Scary Movie 6 , War Machine , In A Violent Nature 2 , Backrooms , TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA , and more. Some instant adds. Some immediate passes. Then we run through What We’ve Been Watching: from Sicario to The Pitt , Peaky Blinders , Industry...

Creature Feature Mayhem: Attack of the Spiders This week on Mostly Film , we’re tackling the spider movie — and asking a simple question: What’s scarier… giant mutant spiders, or the normal-sized ones living in your house right now? We’re pairing Arachnophobia (1990) with Eight Legged Freaks (2002) and breaking down classic restraint vs. early-2000s CGI chaos. One goes for quiet, domestic dread —...

Mostly Film — Goats, Bone Temples, and Mercy This week on Mostly Film , we’re back in trailer court for another round of LIST IT or NIX IT — deciding what earns a spot on the watchlist and what gets left behind. On the docket: Pressure , Toy Story 5 , Peaky Blinders , Over Your Dead Body , Lee Cronin’s The Mummy , Slanted , Normal , Is God Is , and Beast . Some immediate adds. Some firm passes. A...

Mostly Film: Creature Feature Mayhem — Ep. 1: Man vs. Lion We’re kicking off a brand-new series, and we’re starting with teeth. Welcome to Creature Feature Mayhem , where each episode pairs a classic and a modern monster movie to figure out what actually makes this genre work. This week: The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) vs. Beast (2022). Prestige ’90s lion terror vs. modern survival-thriller chao...

🎬 Mostly Film This week on Mostly Film , we’re back in trailer court deciding what’s worth your precious watchlist space. In LIST IT or NIX IT , we react to the latest trailers we might of missed over the past three-month break and make the call right up front — are we listing it… or nixing it? This round includes: Supergirl Super Mario Galaxy The Odyssey Disclosure Day Undertone Then we dive int...

🎬 Mostly Film — We’re Back (and We Brought Opinions) After a three-month break, Mostly Film is officially back. This episode is less “normal format” and more welcome back, let’s catch up, here’s where we’ve been and where we’re going . We jump into what we’ve been watching while we were gone. No “best of” pressure, just four movies each that stuck with us for one reason or another during our brea...

🎥 In Review: Guillermo del Toro — Love, Ghosts, and Waterlogged Fairy Tales In the final chapter of our del Toro deep dive, we explore two of his most romantic and haunting visions — Crimson Peak and The Shape of Water — where monsters, mansions, and mermaids all blur into something achingly human. 🩸 The Body: Building the Monster From the bleeding walls of Allerdale Hall to the shimmering glow...

🎬 Mostly Film This week on Mostly Film , Jonathan and JP unwrap a new batch of trailers, revisit some classics, and wade through the latest in movie madness — from Middle-earth to Chicago crime rings. 🍿 LIST IT or NIX IT From the Jonas Brothers Christmas special to Scream 7 , Fackham Hall , and Dead Man’s Wire , the guys decide which trailers make the Letterboxd watchlist and which get left on t...

🎥 In Review: Guillermo del Toro — Puppets, Prometheus, and the Pursuit of Humanity This week on In Review: Guillermo del Toro , we close out the series with two of the filmmaker’s most soulful creations — Pinocchio and Frankenstein — stories about life made by human hands, and the heartbreak that follows. 🩻 The Body: Building the Monster Del Toro trades latex and makeup for wood and stop-motion...

🎬 Mostly Film: This week on Mostly Film , Jonathan and JP are diving into a jam-packed slate of trailers, reviews, and movie news that’s as unpredictable as a Taylor Sheridan plot twist. 🍿 LIST IT or NIX IT There’s only one trailer on the docket this week — Crime 101 — but it’s got the guys talking all things heist, heat, and Hollywood cool. Is this one headed straight to the Letterboxd watchlis...

🎥 In Review: Guillermo del Toro — Myth, Machines, and the Monster’s Heart This week on In Review: Guillermo del Toro , we dive into two of the director’s biggest and boldest creations — Hellboy II: The Golden Army and Pacific Rim — exploring how del Toro evolved from gothic storyteller to full-blown mythmaker. 🩻 The Body: Building the Monster From the faerie kingdoms of Hellboy II to the towerin...

🎬 Mostly Film: This week on Mostly Film , Jonathan and JP are back to break down the newest trailers, wildest headlines, and everything that’s been lighting up their screens lately — or at least confusing them just enough to keep watching. 🐒 LIST IT or NIX IT We’re putting ten fresh trailers to the test: Primate , Rebuilding , Send Help , Merrily We Roll Along , The Pout Pout Fish , Young Washin...

🎥 In Review: Guillermo del Toro This week, the Mostly Film crew dives deep into the beating heart of Guillermo del Toro’s Spanish masterpieces — The Devil’s Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth. It’s a journey through haunted orphanages, fascist nightmares, and the fragile courage of children who see truth where adults see only power. 🩻 The Body: Building the Monster We trace del Toro’s evolution from M...

🎬 Mostly Film This week on Mostly Film , Jonathan and JP are back with another round of hot takes, questionable trailer opinions, and a few emotional curveballs. LIST IT or NIX IT We’re kicking things off with five fresh trailers — Mercy , Nuremberg , No Other Choice , Train Dreams , and Playdate . Which ones make the Letterboxd watchlist, and which ones get the swift “nope”? Expect chaos, disagr...

🎥 In Review: Guillermo del Toro — The Body, The Soul, The Legacy This week, the Mostly Film crew dissects the visionary world of Guillermo del Toro, starting at the beginning — when the monsters were still finding their form. Jonathan and JP walk through del Toro’s evolution from the studio-strangled chaos of Mimic to the full-blown creative freedom of Hellboy . 🧠 The Body: Building the Monster...

🎬 Mostly Film This week, the Mostly Film crew (Jonathan & JP) are back to break down the latest in movie news, AI ethics, and cinematic chaos — with a few hot takes along the way. LIST IT or NIX IT Would we add it to the Letterboxd watchlist or toss it in the bin? We give rapid-fire reactions to the latest trailers for Ballad of a Small Player , The Thing with Feathers , We Bury the Dead , Th...

🎙️ Cruise vs DiCaprio: Magnolia & One Battle After Another This week, the gang (Jonathan, Garrett, Zach, and JP) is taking on two roles that flipped the script for our favorite stars. On one side, Tom Cruise ditches the aviators and takes the stage as Frank T.J. Mackey in Magnolia — a loud, chaotic, and surprisingly heartbreaking “guru” who yells about masculinity but crumbles when the lights...

🎬 Mostly Film This week the crew dives headfirst into a loaded lineup of trailers, thrillers, and industry shake-ups. LIST IT or NIX IT Would we add it to the Letterboxd watchlist or leave it in the dust? We break down new trailers for Anaconda , Greenland 2 , The Mandalorian and Grogu , The Astronaut , The Bride , Violent Ends , Wolves , ZERO AD , and more. Expect strong opinions, side tangents,...

🎙️ Mostly Film: Cruise vs. DiCaprio – Mission: Impossible & The Departed This week on Mostly Film , we’re diving into two career-defining roles from two of Hollywood’s biggest names. First up: Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible (1996), the movie that launched him not only as an action icon but also as a powerful producer. From dangling in the CIA vault to handpicking Brian De Palma as director,...

🎙️ Mostly Film: Toy Story, Chinatown, and Hollywood’s Latest Wins The Mostly Film crew is back! We kick things off with LIST IT or NIX IT , where we give the hot new trailers ( Super Mario Galaxy , Christy , The Rip , Song Sung Blue ) the only treatment they deserve—an instant thumbs-up for the Letterboxd watchlist or a one-way ticket to the nix pile. Then it’s What We’ve Been Watching : Jonathan...

🎙️ Mostly Film: Cruise vs. DiCaprio – American Made & Killers of the Flower Moon This week on Mostly Film , we’re stacking two Hollywood heavyweights against each other: Tom Cruise in American Made (2017) and Leonardo DiCaprio in Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). We start with Cruise, who reunited with Doug Liman to play real-life pilot Barry Seal—a hustler caught between the CIA and the Mede...

🎬 Mostly Film: Trailers, Taskmasters & Chicken Man? This week on Mostly Film , we’re diving into a mountain of fresh trailers in our LIST IT or NIX IT segment—will Wuthering Heights , Hamnet , Return to Silent Hill , or Dust Bunny make the cut, or get tossed aside? Then it’s time for What We’ve Been Watching , and Jonathan’s been on a roll: from action sequels like Nobody 2 and She Rides Shot...

🎥 Cruise vs. DiCaprio: Edge of Tomorrow & The Revenant This week on Mostly Film , we’re putting two powerhouse performances under the microscope: Tom Cruise’s action-heavy, time-looping Edge of Tomorrow (2014) and Leonardo DiCaprio’s brutal, Oscar-winning The Revenant (2015). We dig into how Cruise flipped his usual hero persona on its head—starting out as a cowardly PR officer before evolvin...

🎬 Cruise vs. DiCaprio: Risky Business & Don’t Look Up This week on Mostly Film , we’re diving into two very different eras of movie stardom—Tom Cruise in Risky Business (1983) and Leonardo DiCaprio in Don’t Look Up (2021). First up: Cruise in Risky Business. We unpack how a not-so-obvious choice for the role of Joel Goodson became a career-defining performance. From that legendary underwear d...

Mostly Film This week on Mostly Film , we’re back with another packed episode. First up: LIST IT or NIX IT —we’re running through the latest trailers ( Good Boy, Keeper, Jimmy & Stiggs, Rabbit Trap, STEVE, Marty Supreme, Plainclothes, Elenor the Great ) and deciding on the spot if they’re worth adding to our Letterboxd watchlists… or tossing in the bin. Then in What We’ve Been Watching , Jonat...