Jason Broadwell

This week’s Disc Dive takes us to Belgium. Let’s do some sightseeing as I revisit In Bruges.
Title: In Bruges
Released: January 17, 2008 (Sundance Film Festival)
Runtime: 1 hour 48 minutes
Disc Format: Blu-ray
Ray (Colin Farrell) is a hitman whose first assignment goes wrong. While carrying out a hit inside a church, he accidentally kills a young altar boy caught in the line of fire.
In the aftermath, Ray and his mentor Ken (Brendan Gleeson) are sent by their boss Harry (Ralph Fiennes) to Bru...

This week, my Letterboxd Map journey takes me to Mongolia, where Aberrance reminds me why I should keep my curtains closed.
Title: Aberrance
Released: August 1, 2022 (Theatrical – Mongolia)
Runtime: 1 hour 16 minutes
A woman runs through the snowy woods in a panic, seemingly trying to escape something just out of sight. We then flashback to when she and her husband first arrive at a secluded home in the middle of nowhere, hoping for a fresh start.
Not long after settling in, strange moments b...

Damien Sachs (Sacha Baron Cohen) is an ultra-successful ad executive with the Atlas agency and he has an insatiable thirst for more. More power, more sex, more money, he wants it all. And in doing so, he ticks every wealthy male stereotype box we all love to hate. Adding fuel to this fire is the fact that he's been tapped by current CEO, Fred Powell (Charles Dance), to be his successor.
Except there's a catch.
In order to save face and show that Atlas is inclusive and diverse, there needs to ...

Well gawrsh. Welcome back to Disc Dive! This week we’re hitting the open road with A Goofy Movie, a movie I wore out on VHS and never stopped quoting.
Title: A Goofy Movie
Premiered: April 5, 1995 (AMC Pleasure Island at the Walt Disney World Resort)
Runtime: 1 hour 18 minutes
Disc Format: DVD
Max’s (voiced by Jason Marsden) biggest fear is becoming his father. We’re made aware of this from the start with a dream sequence where he morphs into Goofy mid-conversation with his crush, Roxanne (vo...

This week for our look at a featured Letterboxd List we turn to the horror genre. From the They Shoot Zombies, Don’t They? – The 1,000 Greatest Horror Films (2025 Edition) list comes The Grapes of Death.
Title: The Grapes of Death
Released: July 5, 1978 (Theatrical – France)
Runtime: 1 hour 31 minutes
Workers spray pesticide over grape vines in the French countryside. One of them, Kowalski, says he feels sick. His boss brushes him off and tells him to get back to work. Kowalski scratches at h...

Hope you’re ready to rack up some frequent flyer miles, because this week’s Disc Dive has us bouncing from one city to the next in Up in the Air.
Title: Up in the Air
Released: December 4, 2009 (Theatrical – Canada and the United States)
Runtime: 1 hour 50 minutes
Disc Format: Blu-ray
Last year, Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) spent 43 days at home, he hated every one of them. Ryan much prefers life on the road. It’s where he feels alive. If there was an Olympic medal for efficiency in the TSA ...

This week’s journey through my Letterboxd Map takes us to Azerbaijan as we explore Ali and Nino.
Title: Ali and Nino
Released: January 27, 2016 (Theatrical – United States)
Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes
Set in Baku on the eve of World War I, Ali and Nino follows Ali Khan Shirvanshir (Adam Bakri), a Muslim Azerbaijani nobleman, and Nino Kipiani (María Valverde), a Georgian Orthodox Christian from an aristocratic family. Despite their different cultural and religious backgrounds, the two fall in l...

This week in Disc Dive, Ida Lupino gets top billing over Humphrey Bogart, in the film that would turn him into a star. Let’s head out to High Sierra.
Title: High Sierra
Released: January 23, 1941 (Theatrical – Sweden)
Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes
Disc Format: Criterion Blu-ray
Fresh out of prison thanks to a pardon from the governor, Roy Earle (Humphrey Bogart) is immediately recruited by Big Mac for a bank robbery up in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Waiting for Roy at an abandoned logging camp ...

Welcome back for another featured Letterboxd List review! This week we’re returning to the Berlinale Golden Bear Winners list, and this time around, things take a much lighter turn with Hobson’s Choice.
Title: Hobson’s Choice
Released: April 19, 1954 (Theatrical – Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom)
Runtime: 1 hour 48 minutes
Henry Hobson (Charles Laughton) is a Salford bootmaker with a successful shop, three daughters, and an ego roughly the size of his inventory. He drinks too much, talks ...

This week for Disc Dive I’m pulling something off the shelf that doesn’t get brought up nearly enough when people talk about Tim Burton’s best. Let’s fix that. It’s Mars Attacks! (1996).
Title: Mars Attacks!
Released: December 13, 1996 (Canada and the United States)
Runtime: 1 hour 46 minutes
Mars Attacks! opens with a quiet rural stretch that’s quickly interrupted by a herd of cattle, inexplicably ablaze, stampeding through town as a UFO retreats into the sky.
From there, sightings begin to ...

Hope you packed a jacket because this week we’re heading north to cross another country off my Letterboxd Map. Next stop, Greenland for Ivalu (2023).
Title: Ivalu
Directors: Anders Walter and Pipaluk K. Jørgensen
Released: January 22, 2023 (Australia, Brazil, Romania)
Runtime: 16 minutes
Pipaluk is looking for her sister. Simple enough setup.
Except no one else seems interested in helping her find Ivalu. Especially not their father, who is more concerned with getting his sleep than answering ...

This week for Disc Dive I’m staying in the Criterion Collection with Thief (1981). Mann. Caan. Neon. Let’s go.
Title: Thief
Released: March 27, 1981 (Theatrical – Canada and the United States)
Runtime: 2 hours 3 minutes
Disc Format: Criterion 4K
Frank (James Caan) is an ex-convict running a used car lot in Chicago. On paper, it’s legitimate. In reality, he’s a professional jewel thief, and the business is just cover.
But Frank is starting to burn out. He wants out of the life, and he wants so...

Last time we looked at a featured Letterboxd List it was romantic comedies. This week we’re pulling from the Top 250 Science Fiction Films with River (2023).
Title: River
Director: Junta Yamaguchi
Released: June 23, 2023 (Theatrical – Japan)
Runtime: 1 hour 26 minutes
A near-empty resort by a river. Staff going about their day, except the day keeps happening again. Conversations repeat, slightly off from the last time. Time resets. Just enough memory carries over to register it’s happening ag...

This week for Disc Dive I’ve got a movie that I was lucky to find a DVD copy of at an indie video store. Why would I be lucky to find a DVD copy of a movie? Well, it’s a 2-DVD Criterion edition that is out of print. That’s right, turn off your brains, folks. We’re diving into The Rock (1996).
Title: The Rock
Director: Michael Bay
Runtime: 2 hours 17 minutes
Disc Format: Criterion DVD
United States Marine Corps Brigadier General Francis Hummel (Ed Harris) has tried multiple times to get his me...

Luna (Storm Reid) and Auguste (Ivy Wolk) are freshman college roommates. What started as a joyous friendship has quickly gone sideways.
How sideways? Auguste is currently throwing every last one of Luna's belongings out of their dorm window. Clothes. Trash. Even the air fryer. When that air fryer comes crashing down and takes out a food delivery robot, Dr. Schilling (Sarah Sherman) happens to be walking by. She puts an end to things immediately and calls both girls into her office.
Dr. Schill...