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😄 Couldn't wait to share some photos since I just received this beauty today from a domestic private seller.

Challenge 37 - "A Year in Review Part 2: Premium Edition" My 3 favorite Premium releases of the year: 1. Everything Everywhere All At Once (Manta Lab DL) One of my favourite movies of 2022, for which Manta Lab certainly has delivered the best edition this year. The double lenticular effect looks just mesmerizing! 2. Blade Runner 2049 (MAG) Finally got my hands on this grail during Christmas after a whole year-long wait. Such a sight to behold. 3. The Prestige (Blufans OC) Never knew the protective case itself for the OC box would get such a fascinating water tank design. A stroke of genius from Blufans right here.

Challenge 36 - "A Year in Review" Just coming out of my hibernation...😅 I wish all fellow psychos an early Happy New Year.🙏 I'll admit I'm not too keen on collecting WWA steelbooks or regular releases, but here's what I managed to put together: 1. Duel [steelbook] 2. Groundhog Day [steelbook] 3. The Big Lebowski [amaray] (felt lukewarm about the WWA steelbook, and the amaray version has an extra certificate of authenticity, so I went for this instead.)

CHALLENGE 35 - "FAMILY BUSINESS" Thank you @R1s1ngs0n 1. Her: Joaquin Phoenix and his wife Rooney Mara 2. Good Will Hunting: Ben Affleck and his brother Casey Affleck 3. Fargo: director Joel Coen and his wife Frances McDormand 4. The Godfather Part III: director Francis Ford Coppola and his daughter Sofia Coppola 5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Brad Pitt and his daughter Shiloh Jolie-Pitt Favourite off-screen/on-screen couple: Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara

Challenge 34 - DAYS OF FUTURE PAST!!? Thank you @jwhitm3 1. Blade Runner (released in 1982; set in 2019) 2. 2012 (released in 2009; set in 2012) 3. The Island (released in 2005; set in 2019) The tech I wish were real is the teleport door in Doraemon.

Thank you @ethnosax for bringing us CHALLENGE 33: INTERMISSION Here's my submission: 1. World on a Wire (204 min) 2. Schindler's List (195 min) 3. The Wolf of Wall Street (180 min) 4. The Last Emperor (218 min, extended version) 5. The Godfather Part II (202 min)

Challenge 32 - THE STICKY END Thank you @Scary Hair for such a gratifying challenge 😈 1. The Revenant: John Fitzgerald is scalped and killed. 2. Death Proof: Stuntman Mike is violently beaten to death. 3. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Walter Donovan decomposes into a skeleton after drinking the wrong Grail. Ultimate Sticky End: I Saw the Devil: Jang Kyung-chul is decapitated with a guillotine at the hands of his unwitting family.

CHALLENGE 31 : DID THAT REALLY HAPPEN ? Thank you @cypheria078 for this interesting challenge! 1. The Social Network: based on the creation of Facebook. 2. The French Connection: based on a real-life drug-smuggling case that took place in New York City in 1961. 3. The Great Escape: based on the mass escape of 76 Allied airmen from a Nazi POW camp in March 1944. 4. A Beautiful Mind: based on the life of mathematician John Nash and his battle with schizophrenia. 5. The Last Emperor: based on the life of Puyi, the final Emperor of China. Just thought it'd be fun to mention the intentional disclaimer in Fargo, if you know what I mean.🤣

Thank you @extantsrevenge for Challenge 30 - The Villains! 1. Amy Dunne (Gone Girl) 2. Jobu Tupaki (Everything Everywhere All At Once) 3. Joker (The Dark Knight) 4. T-800 (The Terminator) 5. Jack Torrance (The Shining) My favourite villain is Amy Dunne from Gone Girl. So seemingly innocent and charming, yet underneath so calculating and scary. Not a typical protagonist of a revenge story, this complicated character will have you fooled, and will make you love her and hate her at the same time. Kudos to Rosamund Pike's brilliant performance.

#29 - Gadsby! Thank you @InfiniteDoors On_-word titl_s ar_ doing m_ a lot of favours h_r_.🙈 1. Fargo 2. Gattaca 3. Frank 4. Sicario 5. Thor 6. Moon 7. Arrival 8. Oldboy 9. Spotlight 10. Argo

CHALLENGE 27 “VIGILANTE or REVENGE” 🩸 ⚔️🔫 🔨 🤲 🪓 Thank you @Veum for this awesome challenge! My favourite revenge films that I enjoy watching time after time: (I can see myself rewatching these any time now!) 1. V for Vendetta 2. Gone Girl 3. Memento 4. Confessions 5. The Handmaiden I'll give an honourable mention to Dexter as my fav vigilante TV series. In the picture is the special edition that resembles Dexter's blood slide box, giving myself a little vigilante taste.🔪🙈

Mine is the German mediabook from Amazon. https://www.amazon.de/Everything-Everywhere-All-Once-Limitiertes/dp/B09Y422KBG

Challenge 26: Women in Film Thank you @Mrdugan for this great challenge! Here are five of my favourite films that feature a woman as the movie’s main character: 1. Everything Everywhere All At Once - Michelle Yeoh (I literally cried tears of joy witnessing EEAAO sweeping the 2023 Oscars!) 2. Gone Girl - Rosamund Pike 3. Mulholland Drive - Naomi Watts 4. The Handmaiden - Kim Min-hee 5. Black Swan - Natalie Portman They absolutely nailed it when portraying their multi-faceted characters. Such stunning performances! My favourite woman in film is Rosamund Pike as Amy Dunne in Gone Girl. She stayed relatively under the radar until her Oscar-worthy performace in this film thrust her into the spotlight. The Cool Girl monologue is simply a showstopper.

Oops, my bad.🙈 Here's an addition to my submission: 6. The Man Without a Past (Finnish)

Thank you @R1s1ngs0n for this multilingual challenge! Here are my picks for favourite films not in English or Chinese: 1. Confessions (Japanese) 2. One Cut of the Dead (Japanese) 3. The Handmaiden (Korean) 4. Intouchables (French) 5. The Invisible Guest (Spanish) I'd like to see Oriol Paulo's Mirage (Durante La Tormenta) get a premium release.