Silly List Slogs: All The Popcorn Classics!

Having had a streaming movie rating scale for almost two years, it was time for me to 1) compile a list of all the Popcorn Classics to date, and 2) join Letterboxd. All the reviews and information I post on my Letterboxd account will probably be doubled on this blog, but be a dear and follow me anyway if you can. Apologies if my choice to pretend stars are popcorn bags pisses any dweebs off (“Anthony, I know you don’t think X is a classic!!!”). I also apologize if you think it’s cringe I’m stealing a bit/valor from Gregg Turkington and On Cinema. Not that I’m going to stop.

For reference…here’s how exactly I’m praising the movies below:

If I’ve seen a movie more than once, and can imagine watching it many times after, that, dear reader, is…a POPCORN CLASSIC. It’s a vibe. It’s an old friend. It’s got a certain je ne sais quoi, a certain somethin’ somethin’, that will regularly fit my mood when scrolling through the options at 11pm, when I should be going to bed but won’t.

I padded the list with a few familiar titles I haven’t specifically hailed in a Blogging For The Weekend post yet, in part to remind myself I should. Whenever I finally sign up to Shudder again, I’ll celebrate by going deep on the V/H/S franchise! Woot!

One last apology: I know the staggering lack of non-canonical 20th century movies below is pretty damn Netflix. But I’m allowing that in hopes I’ll be guilted into blurbing more quality late night chestnuts of yore in the future!

Alien (1979)
Ant-Man (2015)
The Avengers (2012)
Avengers: The Age Of Ultron (2015)
Barbarian (2022)
The Belko Experiment (2016)
Black Panther (2018)
Blue Ruin (2013)
Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
Burn After Reading (2008)
Cabin In The Woods (2011)
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Coffee And Cigarettes (2003)
Contagion (2011)
Creep (2014)
Creep 2 (2017)
Dashcam (2021)
Deadstream (2022)
The Departed (2006)
The Descent (2005)
Die Hard (1988)
Doctor Strange (2016)
Doomsday (2008)
Dredd (2012)
The Empty Man (2020)
Event Horizon (1997)
Everest (2015)
Ex Machina (2014)
Faults (2014)
Free Fire (2016)
Get Out (2017)
Ghost Stories (2017)
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Green Room (2015)
Gretel & Hansel (2020)
Guardians Of The Galaxy (2014)
Guardians Of The Galaxy, Vol. 2 (2017)
He Never Died (2015)
Head Count (2018)
Hereditary (2018)
Hot Fuzz (2007)
House Of The Devil (2009)
The Hunt (2020)
Hush (2016)
I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House (2016)
I'm Thinking Of Ending Things (2020)
The Informant! (2009)
Iron Man (2008)
It Follows (2014)
Ju-On (The Grudge) (2002)
King Of New York (1990)
Knock Knock (2015)
Krampus (2015)
Lake Mungo (2008)
Legion (2010)
Longlegs (2024)
The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976)
The Menu (2022)
Midsommar (2019)
Miller's Crossing (1990)
No Country For Old Men (2007)
Observe And Report (2009)
Phantom Thread (2017)
Pineapple Express (2008)
Promising Young Woman (2020)
Raising Arizona (1987)
Ronin (1998)
Saw (2004)
Saw II (2005)
The Score (2001)
Seven Psychopaths (2012)
Shaun Of The Dead (2004)
Side Effects (2013)
Sinister (2012)
Southbound (2015)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
The Strangers (2008)
The Strangers: Prey At Night (2018)
The Suicide Squad (2021)
Suspiria (2018)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby (2006)
Tár (2022)
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
The Thing (1982)
30 Days Of Night (2007)
This Is The End (2013)
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Tombstone (1993)
Under The Silver Lake (2018)
Us (2019)
V/H/S (2012)
V/H/S/2 (2013)
V/H/S: Viral (2014)
V/H/S/94 (2021)
V/H/S/99 (2022)
V/H/S/85 (2023)
Werewolves Within (2021)
Where'd You Go, Bernadette? (2019)
Wolf Of Wall Street (2013)
The World's End (2013)
X (2022)
You're Next (2011)
Zodiac (2007)

If you want to suggest movies worth revisiting on the regular, please send suggestions along to anthonyisright at gmail dot com. Classy me up, why don’t you?