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- Movies that were a critical disappointment at release, but now tend to be considered a classic?
- Japanese actor Akira Takarada, star of numerous Godzilla films, dies at 87
- Play-Doh: The Movie (D: Jon M. Chu)
- Irredeemable Incorruptible (Netflix)
- Scenes in movies than have deeper meaning because of real life circumstances.
- 'Secret' Christmas Movies
- Watcher (2022, D: Okuno) S: Maika Monroe, Karl Glusman, Burn Gorman
- Pearl (2022, D: Ti West) -- X prequel -- S: Mia Goth
- William Hurt dead at 71
- Favorite Food Porn Films/Scenes
- Favorite cameo by a director in their own movie?
- Things in movies that are no longer sci-fi
- Rank the Spider-Man movies.
- First movie back after Covid shutdowns?
- Movie Studios
- Pleasure (2022, D: Thyberg) S: Sofia Kappel
- Looking for movie name.
- The Boys in the Boat (2023, D: Clooney) S: Edgerton, Turner
- Old Dads (2023, D: Bill Burr) S: Burr, Cannavale, Woodbine
- Nosferatu
- Alien: Romulus (2024, D: Alvarez, P: Scott)
- I Am Legend 2 - S: Will Smith, Michael B. Jordan
- A Haunting In Venice (2023, D: Branagh) -- third Hercule Poirot film
- Free Guy 2 - news, rumors, etc.
- Surge ticket pricing…the new thing? For it, against…
- All the Old Knives (2022, D: Metz) S: Pine, Newton, Fishburne, Pryce
- Amityville in Space
- Legendary movie executive and producer Alan Ladd Jr. dead at 84
- Master (2022, D: Diallo) S: Regina Hall
- You finished the movie, now what?
- The Bubble (2022, D: Apatow) S: Pascal, Gillan, Duchovny, Key, Armisen, Mann, Bakalova -- Netflix
- Box Office Showdown (3/4-3/6) The Batman
- Umma (Mother) -- (2022, D: Shim) -- S: Sandra Oh -- Produced by Sam Raimi
- Infinite Storm (2022, D: Szumowska/Englert) S: Naomi Watts, Billy Howle
- Empire of Light (2022, D: Mendes) S: Colman, Firth, Jones
- Panama (2022, D: Neveldine) — S: Mel Gibson, Cole Hauser
- In the inevitable movie about the Ukraine war...
- The Batman (2022, D: Reeves) S: Pattinson, Kravitz, Wright, Dano - The Spoiler Reviews Thread
- Untitled Frank Bullitt Film (D: Spielberg) S: Bradley Cooper
- RIP Sally Kellerman - Dead at 84
- 80 For Brady (2023, D: Marvin) S: Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, Sally Field, Tom Brady
- Black Crab (2022, D: Berg) S: Noomi Rapace -- Netflix
- Play Dirty (2025, D: Shane Black) S: Wahlberg
- Untitled Buster Keaton biopic (D: Jame Mangold)
- Will the movies and "going to the movies" ever be the same?
- Hustle (2022) -- S: Adam Sandler, Ben Foster, Queen Latifah, Robert Duvall
- Life is But a Dream -- Park Chan-wook short film
- The Weekend Away (2022) -- S: Leighton Meester -- Netflix
- Uncharted (2022, D: Fleischer) -- S: Holland, Wahlberg -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
- Old Henry (2021) W/D: Ponciroli S: Tim Blake Nelson, Stephen Dorff
- Coyote vs Acme (2026)
- The Contractor (2022, D: Saleh) S: Pine, Foster, Sutherland, Jacobs, Marsan
- A Quiet Place Part III (2027, D: Krasinski)
- Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024)
- Windfall (2022, D: McDowell) S: Lily Collins, Jesse Plemons, Jason Segel
- Lunana: A Yak in The Classroom (D: Pawo Choyning Dorji) - S: Sherab Dorji
- Fresh (2022, D: Mimi Cave) S: Sebastian Stan, Daisy Edgar-Jones
- Wonder Twins (D: Sztykiel) -- news, rumors, etc.
- Lucy and Desi (2022, D: Amy Poehler) -- documentary
- RIP: Ivan Reitman - Dead at 75
- La Dolce Vita Question -- Italian/English dialogue
- What’s My Name? - "Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Final Action Film"
- Bob Marley: One Love (2024, D: Reinaldo Marcus Green) S: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Lashana Lynch
- Memorable characters vs screen time (Spoilers possibly)
- Favorite last shot of movie featuring an actor's face only? (spoilers possible)
- Nitram (2022, D: Kurzel) S: Caleb Landry Jones, Judy Davis, Essie Davis, Anthony LaPaglia
- Father Stu (2022, D: Ross) S: Wahlberg, Gibson, Weaver, Ruiz
- Death on the Nile (2022, D: Branagh) -- S: Branagh, Gadot, Wright, Bening -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
- Men (2022, D: Garland) S: Jessie Buckley, Rory Kinnear
- Vote for your favorite Best Picture nominee. (2022 Oscars)
- The Cursed (2022, D: Ellis) - S: Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly, Alistair Petrie
- Douglas Trumball has died at 79
- Dark Glasses (2022, D: Dario Argento)
- Cheaper by the Dozen (2022) -- S: Zach Braff, Gabrielle Union -- Disney + movie
- Michael (2026, D: Fuqua) - Michael Jackson biopic
- 2022 Academy Awards
- The Sky Is Everywhere (2022, D: Decker) S: Kaufman, Segel, Jones, Alexander
- Catch the Fair One (2022, EP: Aronofsky, D: Kubota Wladyka) S: Kali Reis
- The 9 films of Paul Thomas Anderson vs the 9 films of Quentin Tarantino.
- Uma Thurman as Eowyn
- What movie franchise are getting tiresome?
- The Color Purple (2023, D: Bazawule) S: Brooks, Ellis, Henson, H.E.R., Bailey, Hawkins, Domingo, Barrino
- Last Looks (2022) S: Charlie Hunnam, Morena Baccarin, Mel Gibson
- First R rated movie you saw in the theater?
- Scream VI (2023, D: Bettinelli-Olpin & Gillett)
- RIP: Monica Vitti - Italian cinema icon - dead at 90
- Raised Eyebrows (D: Moverman) S: Geoffrey Rush -- Groucho Marx biopic
- The Adam Project (2022, D: Levy) S: Reynolds, Ruffalo, Garner, Saldana
- I Want You Back (2022, D: Orley) S: Day, Slate, Rodriguez, S. Eastwood, Jacinto
- No Exit (2022, EP: Scott Frank / D: Power) - S: Liu, Haysbert, Dickey, Ramirez, Rysdahl
- After Yang (2022, D: Kogonada) - S: Farrell, Turner-Smith, Min
- The Requin (2022) -- S: Alicia Silverstone, James Tupper -- Another shark movie!
- Martial arts champion and actor Bob Wall dead at 82
- Favorite movie with Jason Statham as a lead?
- Clean (2022, D: Solet) - S: Adrien Brody
- Horizon: An American Saga (2024, D: Costner) S: Costner
- IF (2024, D: Krasinski) S: Reynolds, Carell, Waller-Bridge, Gossett, Shaw
- Mortal Kombat 2 (2026, D: McQuoid)
- Fictional Presidential Election
- Why is Lin-Manuel Miranda so terribly miscast?
- Drive My Car (2021, D: Hamaguchi) -- S: Nishijima, Miura
- Why is Hollywood still racist?
- Arnold Schwarzenegger involved in multi-vehicle accident
- Civil War (2024, D: Garland) S: Dunst, Spaeny, Moura
- Favorite Batmobile
- A24 Movie Ranking
- A Christmas Story Christmas (2022, D: Kaytis) - S: Peter Billingsley
- The Desperate Hour (2022, D: Noyce) S: Naomi Watts
- Mickey 17 (2025, D: Bong Joon Ho) - S: Pattinson, Yeun, Ruffalo, Collette, Ackie
- The Fallout (2022, W/D: Park) S: Jenna Ortega, Maddie Ziegler
- Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022, D: Appel) - S: Daniel Radcliffe
- The King's Daughter (2022, D: McNamara) S: Brosnan, Scodelario, Walker, Hurt
- RIP Jean-Jacques Beineix 1946-2022 (Diva, Betty Blue)
- Studio 666 (2022, D: McDonnell) S: Foo Fighters
- The Equalizer 3 (2023, D: Fuqua) -- S: Denzel Washington
- Scream (2022, D: Bettinelli-Opin, Gillety) - S: Campbell, Cox, Arquette - The Spoiler Reviews Thread
- Red Notice 2 and Red Notice 3 (W/D: Thurber) -- Johnson, Gadot, Reynolds
- To Catch a Thief - remake - S: Gal Gadot
- X (2022, D: Ti West) S: Snow, Goth, Mescudi, Ortega
- Worst movie (higher profile) names?
- Sidney Poitier dead at 94
- Untitled Audrey Hepburn biopic (D: Guadagnino) S: Rooney Mara
- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023, D: Wes Anderson) S: Cumberbatch, Fiennes, Kingsley, Patel
- Peter Bogdanovich dead at 82.
- What are your most anticipated movies of 2022?
- Sundown (2022) S: Tim Roth, Charlotte Gainsbourg
- Untitled Chris Evans as Gene Kelly Film
- Blacklight (2022, D: Williams) S: Neeson
- Has the business of Hollywood made audiences jaded?
- A Hero (2022, D: Farhadi)
- See For Me (2022, D: Okita) S: Davenport, Kennedy, Coates
- The 2022 Rank’em As You See’em Thread
- Sing 2 (2021, W/D: Jennings) - V: McConaughey, Johansson, Witherspoon, Egerton
- Movie Theaters
- The Outfit (2022, D: Moore) S: Rylance, Deutch, O'Brien
- Favorite First-Time Watches in 2021?
- Jockey (2021, D: Bentley) S: Clifton Collins Jr., Molly Parker, Moises Arias
- Your worst/most disappointing movies of 2021
- Bigbug (2022, D: Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
- Marry Me (2022, D: Coiro) -- S: Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson
- Director Jean-Marc Vallée (Wild, Dallas Buyers Club) Dead at 58
- The Matrix Resurrections (2021, D: Wachowski) S: Reeves, Moss - The Spoiler Reviews Thread
- Your Top 10 of 2021
- Who is your favorite Spider-Man?
- 2021 National Film Registry selections....
- Best non-American actors: all-time and now (2020’s)?
- The Lost City (2022) S: Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe
- Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021, D: Watts) - S: Tom Holland - The Spoiler Reviews Thread
- Home Team (2022) -- S: Kevin James as Saints Head Coach Sean Payton -- Netflix comedy movie
- ‘Home Alone’ star Devin Ratray (Buzz) accused of trying to strangle girlfriend
- The Novice (2021, W/D: Hadaway) S: Isabelle Fuhrman
- How much do you think Spider-Man: No Way Home will make Worldwide?
- Disney's Strange World (2022, D: Hall/Nguyen) V: Gyllenhaal, Quaid, Young-White, Union, Liu
- American Rickshaw
- The Matrix (1999) in theaters now
- Bad Blood (D: Adam McKay) S: Jennifer Lawrence
- Venom: The Last Dance (2024, D: Marcel)
- Knock At The Cabin (2023, M. Night Shyamalan)
- Official 2021 Movie Guild and Critic's Awards Thread
- Fun foreign titles for U.S. movies
- Shang-Chi and the Wreckage of Time (D: Cretton) -- S: Liu, Awkwafina
- Fred Astaire biopic - S: Tom Holland
- Mother/Android (2021, D: Tomlin) S: Chloe Grace Moretz
- Encounter (2021, D: Pearce) S: Riz Ahmed, Octavia Spencer
- Young Sinner (D: Verhoeven)
- Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse (2027)
- Silent Night (2021) S: Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode
- Favorite opening sequences?
- National Champions (2021, D: Waugh) S: James, Simmons, Aduba, Ludwig, Olyphant
- Wolf (2021, D: Biancheri) S: George MacKay, Lily-Rose Depp
- Magic Mike’s Last Dance (2023, D: Soderbergh) — S: Tatum
- Clerk. (2021, D: Ingram) -- documentary about Kevin Smith
- DC League of Super-Pets (2022, D: Stern) -- V: Johnson, Hart, McKinnon, Krasinski
- A Boy Called Christmas (2021) - S: Lawfull, Jones, Hawkins, Wiig, Broadbent, Smith - Netflix
- Dog (2022) -- Co-directed by and starring Channing Tatum
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021, D: J. Reitman) -- S: Coon, Rudd -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
- Jerry Garcia biopic (D: Scorsese) S: Jonah Hill
- Most likable actor in Hollywood?
- Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts - HBO Max special
- Zeros and Ones (2021, D: Abel Ferrara) S: Ethan Hawke
- The Westerns of Sergio Corbucci
- Jim Jones -- S: Leonardo DiCaprio
- Midnight Run "sequel" (P: De Niro) S: Regina Hall
- Dangerous (2021, D: Hackl) -- S: Scott Eastwood, Tyrese Gibson, Famke Janssen, Mel Gibson
- Unwelcome (2022) -- S: Hannah John-Kamen
- More technical things in movies that annoy you?
- The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021, D: Sharpe) S: Cumberbatch, Foy
- 8-Bit Christmas (2021, D: Dowse) S: Neil Patrick Harris
- Swan Song (2021, D: Cleary) S: Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Glenn Close, Akwafina
- Eternals (2021, D: Zhao) -- S: Chan, Madden, Hayek, Jolie -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
- The Incal (D: Waititi) -- based on the graphic novel by Jodorowsky and Moebius
- Any old workprint collectors still around
- A Cop Movie (2021, D: Ruizpalacios) - Netflix
- Broken Lizard's Quasi (2023, D: Heffernan)
- The Garfield Movie (2024, D: Dindal) - V: Chris Pratt
- Boondock Saints 3 -- S: Reedus, Flannery
- The Covenant (2023, D: Guy Ritchie) S: Jake Gyllenhaal
- Silent Night (2023, D: John Woo) S: Joel Kinnaman
- Is there still an MCU?
- Planet of the Dead (Army of the Dead 2) (D: Snyder)
- Dune: Part Two (2024, D: Villeneuve) 2une: I Could Dune This All Day
- The Unforgivable (2021) S: Bullock, Davis, D’Onofrio, Bernthal
- ALFTNOTMT - Looking for a movie name.
- Black Friday (2021, D: Casey Tebo) S: Bruce Campbell, Devon Sawa, Michael Jai White
- JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (D: Oliver Stone) -- documentary
- The Spine of Night (2021) - V: Grant, Lawless, Oswalt, Gabriel, Manganiello
- Movies that changed the studio logos at the beginning of the movie?
- Great movies that only you know about in your circles?
- Alec Baldwin accidentally kills DP with prop gun, director shot as well
- Ron's Gone Wrong (2021) V: Galifianakis, Glazer, Colman, Helms, Smith, Delaney
- The Beta Test (2021, D: Cummings & McCabe) S: Virginia Newcomb, Jim Cummings, PJ McCabe
- Favorite horror franchise villain
- Dune (2021, D: Villeneuve) -- S: Chalamet, Ferguson, Isaac, Brolin -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
- The Trip (Netflix, 2021, D: Tommy Wirkola, S: Noomi Rapace, Aksel Hennie)
- Ryan Reynolds is taking a break from acting
- Your favorite non-dialogue scene/moment?
- Kenneth Branagh vs Agatha Christie
- Needle in a Timestack (2021, W/D: John Ridley) -- S: Leslie Odom Jr, Cynthia Erivo -- Time travel drama
- Need movie title
- The Lost Daughter (2021, D: M. Gyllenhaal) S: Colman, Buckley, Johnson, Harris, Sarsgaard
- She Dies Tomorrow … convince me to finish it
- Why don’t theater chains advertise more (ever?)?
- Michael Caine Retires From Acting
- Halloween Kills (2021, D: Green, EP: Carpenter) -- S: Curtis, Greer -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
- The Rescue (2021) -- documentary from the directors of Free Solo and Meru
- The Tender Bar (2021, D: Clooney) S: Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Christopher Lloyd, Lily Rabe
- Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms (2021) -- V: Joel McHale, Jennifer Carpenter
- Rank the Daniel Craig James Bond movies (after you've seen No Time to Die)
- Favorite movie that is at least three hours long?
- South of Heaven (2021) - S: Jason Sudeikis, Evangeline Lilly, Shea Whigham, Mike Colter
- Prophet D: Hargrave S: Gyllenhaal
- Enough Left In The Tank For One More?
- Has the quality of movies, recently and near future, gone down since pandemic?
- Nationwide Film and TV strike looming from Film and TV production crews
- No Time To Die (2021, D: Fukunaga) S: Daniel Craig -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
- Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021, D: Serkis) -- S: Hardy, Harrelson -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
- I'm Your Man (2021, D: Maria Schrader) S: Dan Stevens, Maren Eggert
- Slumber Party Massacre (2021, D: Esterhazy) -- remake
- When compared to the original movie, how different should a remake actually be?
- The Black Phone (2022, D: Derrickson) S: Ethan Hawke, Mason Thames
- Help with a Star Wars memory
- The Worst Person in The World (2021, D: Joachim Trier) S: Renate Reinsve
- Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022, D: Iñárritu)
- Favorite movie about Rock music?
- Night Teeth (Netflix) - Oct 20
- Iconic Black cinema actor Melvin Van Peebles dead at 89
- Passing (2021: D: Rebecca Hall) S: Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga - Netflix
- The Humans (2021, D: Karam) S: Jenkins, Schumer, Feldstein, Yeun, Squibb, Houdyshell
- V/H/S/94 (2021, D: Simon Barrett, Timo Tjahjanto, etc.)
- The Lost Boys - remake (D: Entwistle) -- S: Noah Jupe, Jaeden Martell