Jason Broadwell

With the Oscars just a few weeks away, I figured why not revisit the Oscar-winning films: Best Picture featured Letterboxd List for this week. I filtered out ones that I’ve already seen, then filtered down to only those that were currently available to me on streaming. From there, I honestly just chose at random and this week that landed us… Marty (1955).
Title: Marty
Released: April 11, 1955 (Theatrical – Belgium, Canada, United States)
Runtime: 90 minutes
Available to stream on: Kanopy and ...

Ugh, another Monday. The weekend is over and it’s back to the grind. Well, lucky for you, I’ve got a field trip planned for Disc Dive this week! Pack light and let’s head out to the Catalina Wine Mixer as we dive into… Step Brothers (2008).
Title: Step Brothers
Released: July 25, 2008 (Theatrical – Canada and the United States)
Runtime: 1 hour 38 minutes
Disc Format: Blu-ray
Brennan (Will Ferrell) and Dale (John C. Reilly) are 40-year old men who are giant man babies. Brennan still lives at h...

Hope you packed light because this week we’re traveling by foot to cross off the next country on my Letterboxd Map! Follow me as I journey to Kyrgyzstan for… Running to the Sky (2019).
Title: Running to the Sky
Director: Mirlan Abdykalykov
Released: October 7, 2019 (Germany – Schlingel Film Festival)
Runtime: 1 hour 28 minutes
Available to stream on: Tubi
Jekshen (Temirlan Asankadyrov) lives with his father in a mountain village in Kyrgyzstan. Their farm is struggling, Jekshen’s mother has le...

Well, another Monday can only mean one thing… time for another installment of Disc Dive! This week I have an eBay blind-buy that I watched for the first time. Pack your bags because we’re heading to Scotland with… Local Hero (1983).
Title: Local Hero
Released: February 17, 1983 (Theatrical – United States)
Runtime: 1 hour 51 minutes
Disc Format: Criterion Blu-ray
MacIntyre aka “Mac” (Peter Riegert) is an oil executive who works for Knox Oil and Gas in Houston, Texas. Though, as his name might...

Who is ready for the next look at one of the featured Letterboxd Lists?! This week we’re checking out a recently restored film that comes courtesy of the Top 250 Films by Black Directors list. Currently sitting at number 60… The Annihilation of Fish (1999).
Title: The Annihilation of Fish
Released: September 12, 1999 (Premiere – Toronto International Film Festival – Canada)
Runtime: 1 hour 42 minutes
Available to stream on: The Criterion Channel, Kanopy, Kino Film Collection
Fish (James Earl ...

Welcome to another installment of Disc Dive! One of the upsides of doing this is that I’m finally opening up and watching discs that have been sitting in shrinkwrap for who knows how long. Such is the case this week as I have another first-time watch with my blu-ray copy of Big Trouble in Little China (1986).
Title: Big Trouble in Little China
Released: May 30, 1986 (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Romania, Sweden)
Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes
Disc Format: Blu-ray
Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) passes th...

Pack your bags and come with me as we cross another country off of my Letterboxd Map! If you’re a fan of stop-motion, wrestling, and frogs, you are in for quite the treat this week. Come with me to Niger where we check out… Kokoa (2001).
Title: Kokoa
Director: Moustapha Alassane
Released: January 1, 2001 (Niger)
Runtime: 13 minutes
Available to stream on: The Criterion Channel
A frog at the announce table informs us that we’ll be seeing five matches today. But before we get to the action, a t...

Well, it’s Monday, you know what that means… time for another installment of Disc Dive! This week we have a movie that I caught on streaming awhile back and I enjoyed it so much that I bought a physical copy of it. The blu-ray copy I have has both the theatrical and director’s cut versions of it and today I am diving into the theatrical cut of… The Frighteners (1996).
Title: The Frighteners
Released: July 19, 1996 (Theatrical – United States)
Runtime: 1 hour 50 minutes
Disc Format: Blu-ray
Fr...

Hey there, welcome back to another featured Letterboxd List review! I had something planned out for this week, but honestly, I just wasn’t up for a heavy watch. So instead, we turn our attention to the Letterboxd Top 250 Short Films featured list where we find sitting at number 148… Feast (2014).
Title: Feast
Director: Patrick Osborne
Released: June 10, 2014 (France – Annecy Animation Film Festival)
Runtime: 6 minutes
Available to stream on: Disney+
One night, a stray puppy is licking empty f...

Welcome back for another installment of Disc Dive! This week is another movie that I have seen once before, shortly after it hit video stores. I picked up a blu-ray copy of it as part of a sale awhile back and figured that this is as good a time as any to crack it open. Do not adjust your TV sets, this week it is completely normal to hear some…White Noise (2005).
Title: White Noise
Released: January 7, 2005 (Theatrical – Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States)
Runtime: 1 hour 41 minut...

Welcome back and thanks for joining me as I fill-in another country on my Letterboxd Map! This week we head to Slovakia and the not-so-distant future with… Restore Point (2023).
Title: Restore Point
Released: September 9, 2023 (Spain)
Runtime: 1 hour 54 minutes
Available to stream on: Kanopy
The year is 2041.
Inequality has reached unprecedented heights and with it has come a massive increase in crime. To counteract this, Central Europe grants every resident the right to resurrection if they ...

Welcome to another installment of Disc Dive! This week is a film that I’ve actually seen before, granted it was about 20 years ago. The DVD copy that I own has the original Russian-language version on one side of the disc and the English-language version on the other. For Disc Dive this week I watched the original Russian-language version of… Night Watch (2004).
Title: Night Watch
Released: June 27, 2004 (Premiere – Russia – Moscow International Film Festival)
Runtime: 1 hour 54 minutes
Disc ...

Within the Miami-Dade County police department is a specialized unit known as the TNT (Tactical Narcotics Team). Before we even get introduced to the members of the TNT, we see the unit lead, Captain Jackie Velez (Line Esco) get murdered in cold blood.
It just so happens that there are rumors the TNT is housing dirty cops who, when busting a drug house, will wind up robbing the house and reporting far less cash than what was actually on-site. So it is only natural that Internal Affairs wants ...

Welcome back to another look at one of the featured Letterboxd Lists! This week we take a look at the Top 250 Women Directed list where we find today’s film sitting at number 48… Ratcatcher (1999).
Title: Ratcatcher
Released: May 13, 1999 (Premiere – Cannes Film Festival – France)
Runtime: 1 hour 34 minutes
Available to stream on: The Criterion Channel and HBO
One day, during a sanitation worker strike in their Glasgow neighborhood, young Ryan Quinn (Thomas McTaggart) is frustrated that his m...

Welcome back to the second installment of Disc Dive! There is no rhyme or reason as to how I’m picking out these discs. Since we had a Criterion disc last week, I figured why not go to the opposite end of the spectrum this week. From a Nicolas Cage 6-film collection DVD comes… Deadfall (1993).
Title: Deadfall
Director: Christopher Coppola
Released: October 8, 1993 (Limited release – United States)
Runtime: 1 hour 38 minutes
Disc Format: DVD
Joe Donan (Michael Biehn) is a conman who uses his g...