The basu! Guide to the Movies

  2026 #Oscar Picks Pic: R-Coog Dir: PTA Actor: MBJ Actress: J Buckley Supp Actor: Sean Penn Supp Actress: Weapons Orig Screenplay: R-Coog Adap Screenplay: PTA Foreign: Sentimental Value Doc: The Perfect Neighbor (aka Scariest Cops Episode, Ever!) DP: PTA Toon: KPop Score: R-Coog Song: KPop Edit: PTA Costume: GdT Makeup: GdT Prod Design: GdT VFX: James Cameron Sound: F1 Toon Short: Butterfly Doc Short: All the Empty Rooms Live Short: Two People Exchanging Saliva #Oscars #AcademyAwards #AcademyAward #Oscars2026 #Oscar2026 #AcademyAwards2026 #OscarPicks #OscarPick #OscarPredictions #OscarPrediction  @theacademy

  2025 #Top10 Films (1 - 10) 1. #Twinless 2. #ThePresidentsCake (#MamlaketAlQasab) 3. #Sirat 4. #ItWasJustAnAccident (#UnSimpleAccident/#YekTasadofESadeh) 5. #TheVoiceOfHindRajab (#SawtHindRajab) 6. #TheAlabamaSolution 7. #OneBattleAfterAnother 8. #APoet (#UnPoeta) 9. #EastOfWall 10. #LittleAmelie Or The Character Of Rain (#AmelieEtLaMetaphysiqueDesTubes)

  2025 #Top10 Films (11 - 20) 11. #Lurker 12. #Friendship 13. #MartySupreme 14. #TheMastermind 15. #Pillion 16. #Eephus 17. #Sinners 18. #SouleymanesStory (LHistoireDeSouleymane) 19. #MrNobodyAgainstPutin 20. #Arco 21. #28YearsLater +1. #SuperboysOfMalegaon

  2025 #Top10 Films (21 - ) #DieMyLove #APrivateLife (#ViePrivee) #TheSecretAgent (#OAgenteSecreto) #NoOtherChoice (#EojjeolsugaEobsda) #Weapons #FatherMotherSisterBrother #Highest2Lowest #BringThemDown #TheHistoryOfSound #TheAssessment #TheBaltimorons #TheTestamentOfAnnLee #ThePlague #Kokuho #BringHerBack #IfIHadLegsIdKickYou #DeadMansWire #SevenVeils #Bugonia #LaGrazia (#Grace) #NouvelleVague #TheUnredacted #SentimentalValue (#Affeksjonsverdi) #TrainDreams #Zootopia2 #LastBreath #LateShift (#Heldin) #RentalFamily #SongSungBlue #TheChoral #TheFriend #TheToxicAvenger (2025)

  2025 #Top10 Films (Misc) 1/5 GTA's Masterpiece Theatre: #GrandTheftHamlet Jessie Buckley's Masterpiece Theatre: #Hamnet Best Koyaanisqatsi: #Architecton Darren Aronofosky’s Safdie Bros’ After Hours: #CaughtStealing Best Dude Where's My Dad's Ashes: #Sacramento Best Monster Mash: #DeathOfAUnicorn Best Gen-Z Martin & Lewis: #OneOfThemDays Most Nerve-Racking Papa Was A (Rightwing)Rolling Stone: #Sovereign Best Is This Hit Machine Thing On?: #SpringsteenDeliverMeFromNowhere Best Seven-Samurai-Meets-Shakespeare-Wallah: #Tornado Saddest Billions – The Reunion: #SorryBaby Most Epic Rom-Com, Ever: #LoveMe Best Buscemi VO: #Mickey17 The French Dispatch, A Rom-Com: #JaneAustenWreckedMyLife (#JaneAustenAGacheMaVie) Best All the President's Man: #CoverUp

  2025 #Top10 Films (Misc) 2/5 Migliore La Grande Bellezza Napoli: #Parthenope Best Raging 'Roid: #MagazineDreams Best Crazy Nicolas Cage, Is There Any Other Kind?: #TheSurfer Best Ghost(s)-Meets-The-Deer-Hunter: #MyDeadFriendZoe Best Barry Keoghans They’re Multiplying Like, Well, You Know: Jade Croot in #RabbitTrap Best Life Imitates Art, Literally: #SecretMallApartment Best Vast of Night: #WatchTheSkies (#UFOSweden) Most IMAX: #MissionImpossibleTheFinalReckoning Best Buddy Movie: #PredatorBadlands Best Revenge of The Blue Lagoon People: #AvatarFireAndAsh Best Top Gun – Sonny Hayes: #F1TheMovie Most Terrific (Ahem) Krypto: #Superman (2025) Best The-Hunger-Games-Meets-Stand-By-Me: #TheLongWalk Monkey Around And Find Out: #TheMonkey Most Sound Design: #Warfare

  2025 #Top10 Films (Misc) 3/5 Best The-Wrestler-Meets-Warrior: #TheSmashingMachine Best Tenet-Meets-Ronin Franchise Starter: #DenOfThieves2 Pantera Best Jean-Pierre-Jeunet's-Donnie-Darko-Meets-The-Professional: #DustBunny Best Jaws-Meets-Seven: #DangerousAnimals Best Edge Of Tomorrow: #AllYouNeedIsKill (#OruYuNidoIzuKiru) Best Rami Malek’s Relay: #TheAmateur Best Riz Ahmed’s The Amateur: #Relay Best Super-Girl: #SheRidesShotgun Best Mare of Way-Out-East-Town: #TheDeadOfWinter Finally, Clive Owen is Bond(ing With A Bond Director): #Cleaner PS. How About Taz Skylar As Bond?! Best Sisterhood Of The Traveling Broomsticks: #WickedForGood H Is For How the Heck Did Claire Foy Pull That Off?!: #HIsForHawk Best The-Beauty-Of-Math-Or-Is-It-The-Math-Of-Beauty?: #Materialists Best Wes Anderson's ET: #TheLegendOfOchi

  2025 #Top10 Films (Misc) 4/5 Best Joan Chen-aissance: #TheWeddingBanquet (2025) Best Non-The-Studio Oner Relationship(s): #Splitsville Best Back-To-Isla-Nublar-Basics: #JurassicWorldRebirth Best Bergman’s The Haunting Of Jack And Jill: #WentUpTheHill Best I Love You, Man: #Frankenstein (2025) Best Life Moves Pretty Fast Sloane Peterson: #TheLifeOfChuck Best Thelma: #EleanorTheGreat Best Bollywood Spice Girls: #KPopDemonHunters Best How to Train Your AI: #HowToTrainYourDragon (2025) Most Everlasting Love Triangle: #Eternity Best #JayKelly: #GeorgeClooney... Er, I Mean Best George Clooney: Jay Kelly… Er, I mean Best Jay Kelly: George Clooney... etc. Most Production Design: #ThePhoenicianScheme Bradley Cooper’s David O Russell’s Lenny-Meets-Marriage Story: #IsThisThingOn? Best Josh-O'Connor-Is-The-New-Pedro-Pascal: #WakeUpDeadMan – A #KnivesOut Mystery

2025 #Top10 Films (Misc) 5/5 Most Terrifying Cops Episode, Ever!: #ThePerfectNeighbor Most Fun Franchise Restarter: #NowYouSeeMeNowYouDont Best Daddy Issues: #WolfMan Scariest They-Named-The-Dog-Indiana!: #GoodBoy Best You Go(ne) Gurl!: #TheHousemaid A Little Ethan Hawke Goes A Long Way: #BlueMoon Best Nate'n Herb's: #TheBalladOfWallisIsland Best Reality TV: #TheRunningMan (2025) Best A-Nightmare-On-Elm-Street-Meets-Friday-The-13th-Meets-The-Ice-Storm: #BlackPhone2 David Cronenberg’s Couples Therapy: #Together David Cronenberg’s Grief Therapy: #TheShrouds Hey Siri, I’m Sorry I Take You For Granted, Please Don’t Kill Me!: #Companion Most T2-Meets-Silicon-Valley-Meets-Common-Sense-AI-Regulation: #MEGAN2 Most Misery-able: #HurryUpTomorrow Most Hey (Old) Man Nice (Cheap) Shot: #AfterTheHunt Most Student Thesis: #Eddington  

  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