Movie Night is a space for creatives to gather, watch strange and obscure films, eat snacks, and spiral into post-movie discussions. With everyone’s watchlists becoming more aspirational than practical, this is basically an excuse to finally watch the movies you’d never randomly put on alone... butttt we hope somehow end up loving here.
Low pressure, slightly chaotic, and made for discovering new favourites! KEEN???
Arco
Arco (2025) is gorgeous and refreshingly committed to being 2D. A pure fish-out-of-water tale of whimsy that tugs at the heartstrings. The kids are dumb, don't get me wrong, but you can't really blame them for their sense of curiosity and wonder.
Justice for my boy tho who waited just a little too long and got his girl stolen by a kid who literally fell out of the sky! we see you! ദ്ദി ꒦ິ꒳꒦ິ )✧
Also, those admittedly hideous but visually striking rainbow outfits have officially been added to the Halloween catalogue. . ݁₊ ⊹ ˖ . ݁‧
Now an entirely out-of-context quote from one of our attendees:
“I don’t like that girl. That girl made SOO many wrong decisions that affected everyone and got absolutely no consequences to her actions, yet Arco suffers with one mistake and takes that to the chin. Make it make sense.”
Forbidden Fruits
Lili Reinhart going redhead and talking like every sentence is a fatal psychic attack needs to be studied immediately.
Apple: " Do you have sand in your ass crack because you are giving beach, babe."
nuff said*ੈ✩‧₊˚
Battle Royale
Watching Battle Royale (2002) with a crowd was kind of unreal. It’s one of my most revisited films of the last decade, and seeing people react to it in real time the gasps, the yelling, the collective stress of the lighthouse scene reminded me why it’s lasted this long. Beyond just being entertaining as hell, you can really feel the impact this film had on pop culture. Even if you’ve never seen it, you’ve probably seen its fingerprints everywhere.
It’s wild how much modern “battle royale” culture traces back to this film, but I’m also convinced the MMC’s facial expressions feel like the missing evolutionary link between old MMO quick chat reactions and modern emotes. (ᵕ—ᴗ—)
Exit 8
LOL We genuinely clapped when Exit 8 (2025) ended - the closest i've gotten to a Cannes experience. Like the game it’s based on, the film gives you this weird sense of accomplishment once you finally reach the end.
It never spoon-feeds you anything! You’re constantly trying to figure things out alongside the characters, and the repetition only really starts hitting when it’s supposed to.
By the time the loop starts wearing everyone down, you’re fully invested in wanting them to succeed. The shifting perspectives on the same endless train hallway somehow keeps the film tense and engaging the whole way through. Also: genuinely a great horror pick for friends who “can’t do horror.”
Sirāt
Sirāt (2025) puts you in a trance almost immediately and then completely, unceremoniously throws you off balance. This is a film that should be experienced with people (NEVER ALONE!) purely because the collective disbelief afterwards feels necessary for survival.
Everyone who watched this left maybe slightly scarred (soz) but also deeply obsessed with how it lingers afterwards. The soundtrack , which is worth revisiting, swings between pounding techno and psychedelic ambient textures, making you feel both overwhelming connection and complete emptiness at once... one can say like a RAVE in the middle of a VAST, UNFORGIVING DESERT.