Wow. That was quite a journey. I’m honestly still processing the fact that I managed to complete everything. Looking back, I’ve spent over two decades setting goals, and the highest I ever reached before was maybe 60% completion—and that was with a modest list of just ten goals. When I first considered taking on this…
Ah yes, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, or as I like to call it, What If Breakups Were Even More Emotionally Devastating and Science Made It Worse? Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman basically took the universal human experience of heartbreak, ran it through a surrealist blender, and served it up as one of the…
I really enjoyed this one as I love movies and this was an easy one to achieve. I again used ChatGPT to search all the top 50 movie lists out there then curate a list of consensus top 100 sorted by year released. I went through and removed movies that I have watched already (Star…
James Gray’s The Lost City of Z is the kind of movie that Hollywood doesn’t really make anymore—a slow-burn, introspective adventure film that’s more about obsession and existential yearning than it is about gunfights and treasure maps. If you’re expecting a swashbuckling, vine-swinging, snake-punching Indiana Jones type of adventure, I have some unfortunate news: this…
Roman Polanski’s The Pianist is one of those movies that doesn’t just tell a story—it makes you live inside it, smothering you in a slow, methodical descent into hell. If you came looking for a standard World War II drama with sweeping battle scenes, a rousing musical score, and an obligatory moment where someone nobly…
Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker isn’t just a war movie—it’s a 131-minute stress test for your central nervous system. This isn’t one of those big, sweeping, patriotic spectacles where war is just a backdrop for heroism, camaraderie, and some dude writing sentimental letters home while soft orchestral music swells. No, this is war as pure,…
Here’s the thing about Selma: it’s a movie that takes one of the most pivotal moments in American history and refuses to wrap it in the usual Hollywood gloss. No, this isn’t a feel-good, triumphal march where the music swells and justice is delivered with a bow on top. This is history as it was—messy,…
If The Artist were a person, it would be that charming, slightly eccentric friend who’s always impeccably dressed and seems to have stepped out of a time machine just to make your life a bit more interesting. This is a film that dares you not to fall in love with it. Set in the late…
If Everything Everywhere All at Once were a person, it would be the most chaotic, over-caffeinated, emotionally unstable, and absurdly wise friend you have—the one who somehow makes you laugh, cry, and question the meaning of life in the span of a single conversation. This movie isn’t just a film; it’s a full-body experience. It…
Memento: A Mystery Told Backwards, Sideways, and Inside Out Christopher Nolan’s Memento (2000) is the cinematic equivalent of trying to put together IKEA furniture with the instructions written in a foreign language—only to realize halfway through that you’ve been reading them upside down. This mind-bending thriller is a masterpiece in nonlinear storytelling, an intricate puzzle…