The basu! Guide to the Movies

  2025 #Oscar Picks Pic: Anora Dir: Anora Actor: Brutalist Actress: Substance Supp Actor: Roman Roy Supp Actress: Emilia Perez Orig Screenplay: Roman Roy Adap Screenplay: Conclave (adapted from real life😳?!) Foreign: I’m Still Here (#resistance) Doc: Porcelain War (#resistance) DP: Brutalist Toon: Wild Robot Score: Wicked Song: “EM” from EP Edit: Conclave Costume: Wicked Makeup: Substance Prod Design: Wicked VFX: “Genius” Villeneuve Sound: Dylan Toon Short: Yuck! Doc Short: The Only Girl In the Orchestra (aka Netflix) Live Short: A Lien #Oscars

  2024 #Top10 Films (1 - 10) 1. #TheSeedOfTheSacredFig (#DaneYeanjirEmaabed) 2. #Bird 3. #SmallThingsLikeThese 4. #AllWeImagineAsLight (#PrabhayayNinachathellam) 5. #LaChimera (#TheChimera) 6. #Anora 7. #Flow (#Straume) 8. #SingSing 9. #Sugarcane 10. #Kneecap  

  2024 #Top10 Films (11 - 20) 11. #MyOldAss 12. #TheSubstance 13. #HardTruths 14. #GreenBorder (#ZielonaGranica) 15. #NoOtherLand 16. #BadPress 17. #MemoirOfASnail 18. #TheOrder 19. #NickelBoys 20. #Conclave +1. #JokerFolieADeux  

  2024 #Top10 Films (20 - ) #SoundtracktoaCoupDEtat #BlackBoxDiaries #MarsExpress #TheRoomNextDoor #Babygirl #ACompleteUnknown #September5 #FromGroundZero #TheBibiFiles #I’mStillHere (#AindaEstouAqui) #Thelma #TheGrab #Blitz #ADifferentMan #Separated #Challengers #DunePartTwo #SasquatchSunset #LoveLiesBleeding #MonkeyMan #CivilWar #TheDeadDontHurt #ARealPain #Didi #Wicked #EmiliaPerez

  2024 #Top10 Films (Misc) 1/7 Best Scottish Ronan: #TheOutrun Best David Cronenberg’s Dog(wo)man: #Nightbitch Most Terrifying Bildungsroman: #TheApprentice Saddest Movie, Ever: #BreadAndRoses Best Chekov’s Birdsong: #KingdomOfThePlanetOfTheApes Best Nietzsche’s An Actor Prepares: #HitMan Best Nyad-The-*True*-Story: #YoungWomanAndTheSea Best Denzel Washington: #GladiatorII Best Inside Out: #InsideOut2 Best Inside-Out-By-Way-Of-Adaptation: #OrionAndTheDark  

  2024 #Top10 Films (Misc) 2/7 Most Bad-A** Penguin (All Due Respect To Colin Farrell): #WallaceAndGromit DinDim The Professional: #MyPenguinFriend Best First Blood: #RebelRidge Best IMAX: #DeepSky Best Se7en-Meets-What-Ever-Happened-To-Baby-Jane?: #Longlegs Best No Weddings And Many Funerals: #Heretic Best Modern Family: #TheWildRobot BestBrutal-ly Long: #TheBrutalist Best Mahaan😏: #TheCountOfMonteCristo (#LeComteDeMonteCristo) Best Bollywood: #LaapataaLadies (#LostLadies)  

  2024 #Top10 Films (Misc) 3/7 Best The English Patient Return: #TheReturn (2024) Most Tempes Fugit (36 years?! 😬): #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice Most Breathless Passage of Time (25 Years?!😱): #RunLolaRun (#LolaRennt) (1999) Best Oppenheimer Temporal Pincer Movement: #TENET Reissue  

  2024 #Top10 Films (Misc) 4/7 Best Proto Tarantino-Raimi-Coen Bros: #TheLastStopInYumaCounty QT’s SWF: #StrangeDarling Best [Bleep]ing Masterpiece Theater: #WickedLittleLetters Best Cormoran Strike: Furiosa: #AMadMaxSaga Bechdel Test Honour Students: #Babes Best Paramount Prime: #TransformersOne Most Well, You Know: #Cuckoo Best Leaving-Las-Vegas-Meets-The-Wrestler: #TheLastShowgirl Most Tilda Swinton: #Problemista Tilda Swinton Is Great No Matter What: #TheEnd Yorgos Lanthimos’s Pulp Fiction: #KindsOfKindness Beat Takeshi's The Truman Show: #TheContestant Darkest Movie, Ever🫣!: #TheGirlWithTheNeedle (#PigenMedNalen)

  2024 #Top10 Films (Misc) 5/7 Most Naked Lunch With Men: #Queer Best Bromantic Comedy: #DeadpoolAndWolverine Best Tough Guys: #BadBoysRideOrDie Best Tough Guys Part Deux: #Wolfs Best Chekov’s Post-It Note: #TheFallGuy Most Whirlwind Romance: #Twisters Best Don't Tell Vampire Dad The Babysitters Are All Dead: #Abigail Most Entertaining Tarantino’s Goth (Ahem) Phase: #MaXXXine *Most* Filmmaking: #Nosferatu (2024) Scariest Bachelor: #WomanOfTheHour Best Melissa Barrera: #YourMonster      

  2024 #Top10 Films (Misc) 6/7 Best Kate Winslet: #Lee Best Mark Wahlberg Talks To Animals: #ArthurTheKing Best Wait-Clint-Eastwood-Is-94?!-Life-Goals: #JurorNo2 Best Moonlight…ing For A Studio Paycheck: #MufasaTheLionKing Best WWF Clash Of The Titans: #GodzillaXKong Funnest Statham Accent: #TheBeekeeper Best Neesons: #InTheLandOfSaintsAndSinners Guy Ritchie’s Quentin Tarantino’s The Dirty Dozen: #TheMinistryOfUngentlemanlyWarfare

  2024 #Top10 Films (Misc) 7/7 Most Tom Hardy: #VenomTheLastDance Least Tom Hardy: #TheBikeriders Most Shyamalans: #Trap Oscar For Best Tripod Work: #Here Coen Bro...(Where's the "s"?!): #DriveAwayDolls See, This Is What Happens When You Don’t Give Cate Blanchett An Oscar!: #Borderlands Dakota Johnson Is In On The Joke Right, Right?!: #MadameWeb Most Optimistic Oscar Bait: #JerrySeinfeld’s songwriting credit for #Unfrosted Most Free Duo Re-enactors: #SkywalkersALoveStory Lifetime Achievement Lifetime Pass Award: #Megalopolis