Bi-Weekly Quarter to Friday 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???
Babylon
Coming soon.
Backrooms
Backrooms (2026) is horror, yes, but also weirdly whimsical in the way only liminal space lore can be. A place that remembers other places, human copies, endless creepy rooms and a furniture store pirate man? We are MOVING.
It doesn’t over-explain anything, which I love. It just drops you in and lets everyone make deeply questionable decisions. Would I ever put my arm through a mystery wall without sending a chair in first? Absolutely not.
Less jump-scare horror, more lore spiral afterwards. What is this place? Who is real? Many questions, very few answers, deeply enjoyable movie-ing.
Resurrection
Resurrection (2025) is one of those films you have to fully lock TF in for. If anyone dares make a joke at the wrong moment, sorry, there goes your understanding.
It’s dense, strange, and standing ten toes in its own ideas, which I’ll always respect. It feels like it’s paying homage to old cinema while also trying something genuinely exciting with form, language, and reality. The whole idea of two realnesses feels super strong here, and the film keeps pulling you between feeling completely trapped and weirdly free.
I think this is one I have to revisit because I could fully lose myself in it, but I could also just get lost. Not in a bad way, more in a “there is clearly more happening here than my first-watch brain could hold” way.
Definitely not for everyone, and maybe not the easiest Movie Night watch, but not a miss. I fear this one needs a rematch.
Bugonia
Bugonia (2025) is a masterclass in keeping you guessing and making you question your own biases around “tinfoil hat” people. The absurdity is fully on display, but what I love about Yorgos Lanthimos is when the chaos is still grounded enough in reality, just a few degrees more unhinged.
The score is intense, the themes are swinging, and the satire refuses to sit still for even a second.
The ending may feel pessimistic... SPOILERR!!!! But I would argue it’s also weirdly as whimsical as it can get. My toxic trait is that if I was part of the last humans and this is where we all ended up, I’d kind of be like, okay slay? We made it here? That’s actually kind of sick?
Under all the chaos, it’s a fascinating and very stressful look at conspiracy thinking as a way to control the unknown, and what happens when that control was never really yours.
No Other Choice
Park Chan-wook, one of my favourite film GAWDS, does not disappoint with No Other Choice (2025). I love this pipeline of directors going from darker, grittier, soul-crushing films into social comedy that still has bite. Same brain, different weapon. The film is so sharp, so funny, and every single transition is actual art. I need to see the storyboards immediately because what do you mean every scene change is that sick?!!
My only real criticism is that the movie ended about thirty times. Just when you think it’s ending, it doesn’t. Then when you get used to it not ending, it ends. Brilliant? Trolling? Both? Either way, this definitely should have gotten an Oscar nom.
Also, shoutout to the trailer for being sneaky as hell with the main character’s vibe. A very good one to watch with the peeps!!
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.