Favorites - Movies
Howl's Moving Castle
Anastasia
Balto
The Secret of NIMH
The Sound of Metal
The Iron Giant
Treasure Planet
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Classic for the emo kids and our garage bands. We ate this shit up.
Whiplash
To genre snobs I like to say "Whiplash is my favorite horror film" and I kinda mean it? It plays like a psychological horror. The tension that mounts with respect to Fletcher is unnerving; when you don't see him you're looking for him like a spider that dashed out of view. The last shot of the protagonist's father is a horrified expression, as if his child were possessed by a demon. I don't think this was a mistake on Chazelle's part.
The only thing that could have made the movie better for me is if I could go back in time and see it when it was released.
Oculus
As for actual horror, I do quite like Oculus. I typically don't care for the genre but this was a great time.
La La Land
Big Hero 6
This movie reminds me what it felt like to do FRC ~2010. For that reason, this movie will always have a place in my heart.