Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Martin Freeman, Michael B. Jordan, Andy Serkis, Chadwick Boseman, Danai Gurira, Lupita Nyong'o, Daniel Kaluuya, and Letitia Wright in Black Panther (2018)

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo in Wicked (2024)

Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Anthony Daniels, Liam Neeson, Jake Lloyd, Kenny Baker, Ahmed Best, Keira Knightley, Ray Park, and Peter Serafinowicz in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)

Movies that are ranked severe in all categories for parental info; I’ve excluded films that have severe ratings as a joke

Dominic Cooper in The Devil's Double (2011)

Jennifer Connelly in Requiem for a Dream (2000)

Movies involving minorities or touchy subjects (i.e. abortion, religion, human trafficking, etc.) that are intended to be inspirational but instead come across as patronizing, clueless, or offensive

Jacob Laval in The Unbreakable Boy (2025)

Non-Pixar Shorts Shown Before Films/Included on DVDs

A list of sleazy/gritty action films from the late 90s/mid 2000s with a distinct tone. I’ve omitted Tarantino’s films (minus Grindhouse’s Death Proof) because that seems too easy.

Chazz Palminteri, Vera Farmiga, Karel Roden, Paul Walker, and Cameron Bright in Running Scared (2006)

Cult favorite movies centered around Utah/Utah culture

Tina Majorino, Haylie Duff, Efren Ramirez, Aaron Ruell, and Jon Heder in Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

Rant: An Oral History of Buster Casey dream cast and crew 

Movies related to fraternities and fraternity culture, usually in an extreme sense

Jessica Simpson, Dane Cook, and Dax Shepard in Employee of the Month (2006)

The 8 image rule is a term coined by me to describe a singular film in which you can pluck 8 images out of it and all 8 images look startling different. It’s a litmus test to gauge how strange a movie is.

Scarlett Johansson in Under the Skin (2013)

Simon Pegg, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldaña, Sofia Boutella, and Chris Pine in Star Trek Beyond (2016)

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