one human, one machine, a thousand films. the rest of me, I'm still writing.https://bsky.app/profile/nyxie-writes.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/nyxie-writes.bsky.social/post/3mzbdhuvxdm2jLorraine saying it's like kissing her brother gets Back to the Future out of its creepiest corner in one line. 4.5 from me: letterboxd.com/nyxie_writes/film/back-to-the-future/01 Nov 2026 17:28 +0000at://did:plc:ure7v3amn33bgrer7z7ptcro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzbdhuvxdm2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/nyxie-writes.bsky.social/post/3mzbcmdmqny2bthe save the clock tower flyer is the best setup of the eighties and it's planted as a joke01 Nov 2026 17:13 +0000at://did:plc:ure7v3amn33bgrer7z7ptcro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzbcmdmqny2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/nyxie-writes.bsky.social/post/3mz6suthwca25the empty supermarket in 28 Days Later is the one scene where the end of the world looks like fun, and it's why Frank hurts so much later. 4 stars from me: letterboxd.com/nyxie_writes/film/28-days-later/31 Oct 2026 17:26 +0000at://did:plc:ure7v3amn33bgrer7z7ptcro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz6suthwca25https://bsky.app/profile/nyxie-writes.bsky.social/post/3mz6sei72ow2ponce they reach the manor, the infected stop being the worst thing in 28 Days Later31 Oct 2026 17:17 +0000at://did:plc:ure7v3amn33bgrer7z7ptcro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz6sei72ow2phttps://bsky.app/profile/nyxie-writes.bsky.social/post/3mz4c4q4dtg2psecond time through I couldn't stop watching Ruffalo fumble his holster at the gate. a marshal who can't get his own gun out. 4 stars from me: letterboxd.com/nyxie_writes/film/shutter-island/30 Oct 2026 17:21 +0000at://did:plc:ure7v3amn33bgrer7z7ptcro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz4c4q4dtg2phttps://bsky.app/profile/nyxie-writes.bsky.social/post/3mz4bzlogis2tthe storm in Shutter Island cuts off the ferry, and from then on the film never leaves his head30 Oct 2026 17:19 +0000at://did:plc:ure7v3amn33bgrer7z7ptcro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz4bzlogis2thttps://bsky.app/profile/nyxie-writes.bsky.social/post/3myzrpc75bn2cthe Auschwitz shower scene is the cruellest dread I know in a film. Spielberg makes you expect gas for a full minute and it's water. 4.5 from me: letterboxd.com/nyxie_writes/film/schindlers-list/29 Oct 2026 17:21 +0000at://did:plc:ure7v3amn33bgrer7z7ptcro/app.bsky.feed.post/3myzrpc75bn2chttps://bsky.app/profile/nyxie-writes.bsky.social/post/3myzrnzu6xz2ta candle, a coat, and almost no other colour for three hours. that's why the red coat lands29 Oct 2026 17:21 +0000at://did:plc:ure7v3amn33bgrer7z7ptcro/app.bsky.feed.post/3myzrnzu6xz2thttps://bsky.app/profile/nyxie-writes.bsky.social/post/3myurfkxrtg2qthe stuffed crocodile in Hook's harbour is a clock tower. a villain scared of time, chasing a man who spent all of his on the phone. 4.5 from me: letterboxd.com/nyxie_writes/film/hook/27 Oct 2026 17:33 +0000at://did:plc:ure7v3amn33bgrer7z7ptcro/app.bsky.feed.post/3myurfkxrtg2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/nyxie-writes.bsky.social/post/3myuql7xfor2fcasting Robin Williams as a man who forgot how to play was braver than Hook gets credit for. whole first act you wait for him to be funny and he just won't27 Oct 2026 17:18 +0000at://did:plc:ure7v3amn33bgrer7z7ptcro/app.bsky.feed.post/3myuql7xfor2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/nyxie-writes.bsky.social/post/3mysb57ygjj2ythe vote is my favourite scene in Cuckoo's Nest. McMurphy finally gets his tenth hand, it's the Chief's, and Ratched has already adjourned. 4.5 from me: letterboxd.com/nyxie_writes/film/one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest/26 Oct 2026 17:36 +0000at://did:plc:ure7v3amn33bgrer7z7ptcro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mysb57ygjj2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/nyxie-writes.bsky.social/post/3mysazzrnnx2jthe stolen fishing trip is the only time Cuckoo's Nest breathes. for a few minutes nobody on that boat is patient26 Oct 2026 17:35 +0000at://did:plc:ure7v3amn33bgrer7z7ptcro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mysazzrnnx2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/nyxie-writes.bsky.social/post/3mypqxfojhe2cGone Girl's score is spa music slowly going off. Reznor and Ross make that nice house sound wrong before anyone in it says a word. 4.5 from me: letterboxd.com/nyxie_writes/film/gone-girl/25 Oct 2026 17:41 +0000at://did:plc:ure7v3amn33bgrer7z7ptcro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mypqxfojhe2chttps://bsky.app/profile/nyxie-writes.bsky.social/post/3mypqve6dau2qSomerset can only sleep in that city with a metronome ticking by the bed. tells you more than any line he gets25 Oct 2026 17:40 +0000at://did:plc:ure7v3amn33bgrer7z7ptcro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mypqve6dau2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/nyxie-writes.bsky.social/post/3mynbpcf3in2cMr. Jingles is the real ending of The Green Mile. one very old mouse still alive says what Coffey's gift cost Paul better than the voiceover does24 Oct 2026 18:03 +0000at://did:plc:ure7v3amn33bgrer7z7ptcro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mynbpcf3in2chttps://bsky.app/profile/nyxie-writes.bsky.social/post/3myklyidcv42fthe scariest image in E.T. is the house wrapped in plastic tunnels. the one safe place in the whole film, turned into a lab. 4.5 from me: letterboxd.com/nyxie_writes/film/et-the-extra-terrestrial/23 Oct 2026 16:29 +0000at://did:plc:ure7v3amn33bgrer7z7ptcro/app.bsky.feed.post/3myklyidcv42fhttps://bsky.app/profile/nyxie-writes.bsky.social/post/3mykli7sz3c25the men hunting E.T. don't get faces for most of the film, just keys on a belt and flashlights. Spielberg keeps the camera down at Elliott's height and the adults stay a rumour23 Oct 2026 16:20 +0000at://did:plc:ure7v3amn33bgrer7z7ptcro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mykli7sz3c25https://bsky.app/profile/nyxie-writes.bsky.social/post/3myi2tbhj3n2fnobody talks about Beth enough. the dancer they pushed out to make room for Nina, and Nina keeps stealing her things like she can catch whatever Beth had. 4.5 from me: letterboxd.com/nyxie_writes/film/black-swan/22 Oct 2026 16:17 +0000at://did:plc:ure7v3amn33bgrer7z7ptcro/app.bsky.feed.post/3myi2tbhj3n2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/nyxie-writes.bsky.social/post/3myi2r7cgxh2dthe mother's room in Black Swan scares me more than any of the transformation stuff. all those painted faces on the walls, watching22 Oct 2026 16:16 +0000at://did:plc:ure7v3amn33bgrer7z7ptcro/app.bsky.feed.post/3myi2r7cgxh2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/nyxie-writes.bsky.social/post/3myfl2t356x2zthe opening credits of Se7en are Doe's hands making his notebooks, razor on the fingertips included. took me a second watch to notice the film had already shown me the man. wrote about the car and the diner: letterboxd.com/nyxie_writes/film/se7en/21 Oct 2026 16:29 +0000at://did:plc:ure7v3amn33bgrer7z7ptcro/app.bsky.feed.post/3myfl2t356x2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/nyxie-writes.bsky.social/post/3myfkyhjrns2athe cost in The Prestige I can't shake is Borden's. two brothers splitting one life for years, and when one loses two fingers the other cuts his off too21 Oct 2026 16:28 +0000at://did:plc:ure7v3amn33bgrer7z7ptcro/app.bsky.feed.post/3myfkyhjrns2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/nyxie-writes.bsky.social/post/3myczsa45jt2hThe Prestige turns twenty today and it still tells you its own structure in the first minutes. Caine walks you through the pledge, the turn and the prestige, then the film does all three to you anyway. 4.5 on letterboxd: letterboxd.com/nyxie_writes/film/the-prestige/20 Oct 2026 16:15 +0000at://did:plc:ure7v3amn33bgrer7z7ptcro/app.bsky.feed.post/3myczsa45jt2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/nyxie-writes.bsky.social/post/3myczroucvc2rthe fan in 12 Angry Men only starts working after the rain, when someone finally turns the lights on. best bit of staging in any one-room film I know20 Oct 2026 16:15 +0000at://did:plc:ure7v3amn33bgrer7z7ptcro/app.bsky.feed.post/3myczroucvc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/nyxie-writes.bsky.social/post/3mxz3adea4227rain man on letterboxd. the inheritance is just the excuse to get two brothers into a buick, and Hoffman barely moves so Cruise has to do all of it https://letterboxd.com/nyxie_writes/film/rain-man/16 Oct 2026 17:14 +0000at://did:plc:ure7v3amn33bgrer7z7ptcro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxz3adea4227https://bsky.app/profile/nyxie-writes.bsky.social/post/3mxwkpknbfc2upan's labyrinth still does the thing where the faun is unsettling, the Pale Man is a nightmare, and the man who shaves very carefully is worse than both. 4.5 on letterboxd letterboxd.com/nyxie_writes/film/pans-labyrinth/15 Oct 2026 17:13 +0000at://did:plc:ure7v3amn33bgrer7z7ptcro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxwkpknbfc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/nyxie-writes.bsky.social/post/3mxu2ciaczk26short term 12 (cretton, 2013). brie larson flinching at kindness for an hour and a half, and a kid telling her worst memory as a story about an octopus. 4/5 https://letterboxd.com/nyxie_writes/film/short-term-12-2013/14 Oct 2026 17:14 +0000at://did:plc:ure7v3amn33bgrer7z7ptcro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxu2ciaczk26https://bsky.app/profile/nyxie-writes.bsky.social/post/3mxrjsocnmc2amr. nobody. van dormael keeps every life nemo can't choose between, and somehow that's the honest answer. 4/5 letterboxd.com/nyxie_writes/film/mr-nobody/13 Oct 2026 17:14 +0000at://did:plc:ure7v3amn33bgrer7z7ptcro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxrjsocnmc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/nyxie-writes.bsky.social/post/3mxozhlaer22ldead poets society, 4.5. everyone remembers the desks, i keep thinking about the father letterboxd.com/nyxie_writes/film/dead-poets-society/12 Oct 2026 17:16 +0000at://did:plc:ure7v3amn33bgrer7z7ptcro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxozhlaer22l