A viable alternative to muting Crofty. Tried it today for the Brazilian GP

1️⃣0️⃣ NOV: Gratitude 🎥 ‘Inside Out’ (2015) 🎬 Pete Docter & Ronnie Del Carmen This Pixar masterpiece captures gratitude in such a mature way: making us recognising that joy and sadness aren’t opposites, but partners. #Bales2025FilmChallenge @ironicteachings @JanuaryMovie

0️⃣9️⃣ NOV: Unexpected Friendship 🎥 ‘Harold and Maude’ (1971) 🎬 Hal Ashby ⭐️ Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort Death-obsessed youth meets life-drunk elder — their friendship is a rebellion against conformity and a love letter to living fully. #Bales2025FilmChallenge @ironicteachings

0️⃣8️⃣ NOV: Memorable Feast 🎥 ‘The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover’ (1989) 🎬 Peter Greenaway Appetite, art, and atrocity. Greenaway’s feast of excess turns gluttony into revenge — beautiful, grotesque, and unforgettable. #Bales2025FilmChallenge @ironicteachings

0️⃣7️⃣ NOV: Rainy Day Favourite 🎥 ‘The Remains of the Day’ (1993) 🎬 James Ivory A life of service, a heart on hold. Hopkins and Thompson perfect the art of emotional restraint. It’s a masterpiece. #Bales2025FilmChallenge @ironicteachings

0️⃣6️⃣ NOV: Travel 🎥 ‘Tracks’ (2013) 🇦🇺 🎬 John Curran Across desert silence, one woman and her train of camels walks herself back into being. Sun, dust, and distance — the kind of journey that leaves you changed. #Bales2025FilmChallenge @ironicteachings

0️⃣5️⃣ NOV: Big Family Meal 🎥 ‘飲食男女’ aka ‘Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) 🇹🇼 🎬 Ang Lee Every Sunday dinner is a symphony of tension, love, and unspoken change — a perfect film, where food is the language of connection and loss. #Bales2025FilmChallenge @ironicteachings

0️⃣4️⃣ NOV: Gorgeous Sweater Fashion 🎥 ‘Trading Places’ (1983) 🎬 John Landis Cashmere chaos in Reagan’s America. The knitwear is glorious, the satire biting. But the blackface scene is a reminder that not all relics wear or age well. #Bales2025FilmChallenge @ironicteachings

0️⃣3️⃣ NOV: My Comfort Rewatch 🎥 ‘Muriel’s Wedding’ (1994) 🇦🇺 🎬 P. J. Hogan From Porpoise Spit to self-respect. A sunburnt fairytale of lies, love, and “Dancing Queen�� salvation — tragic and triumphant all at once. #Bales2025FilmChallenge @ironicteachings

0️⃣2️⃣ NOV: Starting Over 🎥 ‘The End of the Affair’ (1999) 🎬 Neil Jordan ⭐️ Ralph Feinnes, Julianne Moore Love and faith collide in postwar London, where every ending aches toward a new beginning. #Bales2025FilmChallenge @ironicteachings

0️⃣1️⃣ NOV: Autumn 🎥 ‘Stepmom’ (1998) 🎬 Chris Columbus ⭐️ Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon Autumn in New York, where change and loss turn bittersweet. Warm light, falling leaves, and the ache of families learning to let go. #Bales2025FilmChallenge @ironicteachings

3️⃣1️⃣ OCT: Abbott & Costello Horror 🎥 ‘Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein’ (1948) 🎬 Charles Barton The monsters check into showbiz — Lugosi, Chaney, and laughs that outlive the grave. Horror learns to laugh at itself. #Bales2025FilmChallenge

3️⃣0️⃣ OCT: Boris Karloff 🎥 ‘Targets’ (1968) 🎬 Peter Bogdanovich The horror isn’t in the shadows anymore — it’s in daylight, and Karloff watches the genre he built crumble. #Bales2025FilmChallenge

2️⃣9️⃣ OCT: 1950s Horror 🎥 ‘House on Haunted Hill’ (1959) 🎬 William Castle Quintessential ’50s horror: playful, macabre, and steeped in Vincent Price’s delicious theatricality. #Bales2025FilmChallenge

2️⃣8️⃣ OCT: Giallo film 🎥 ‘Suspiria’ (1977) 🇮🇹 🎬 Dario Argento A kaleidoscope of blood and sound — ballet as nightmare, colour as curse. Argento’s most beautiful hallucination. #Bales2025FilmChallenge

2️⃣7️⃣ OCT: 1970s Horror 🎥 ‘Carrie’ (1976) 🎬 Brian De Palma ⭐️ Sissy Spacek A prom, a prayer, and a bucket of blood — innocence curdles into vengeance beneath the mirrorball glow of the ‘70s. #Bales2025FilmChallenge

25 OCT: Psychological Horror 🎥 ‘The Invisible Man’ (2020) 🎬 Leigh Whannel ⭐️ Elizabeth Moss Terrified actors aplenty in this excellent movie inspired by HG Wells’ classic book - also filmed predominantly in my hometown of Sydney. #Bales2025FilmChallenge

2️⃣5️⃣ OCT: Robert Redford 🎥 ‘A River Runs Through It’ (1992) 🎬 Robert Redford ⭐️ Craig Scheffer, Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt A underrated film about about fathers and sons, and the silences between them — the water just makes it visible. #Bales2025FilmChallenge

2️⃣4️⃣ OCT: Favourite Horror 🎥 ‘Predator’ (1987) 🎬 John McTiernan ⭐️ @Schwarzenegger Its blend of slasher tension, creature terror, and machismo unraveling in the jungle makes it one of the genre’s stealth masterpieces. #Bales2025FilmChallenge

2️⃣3️⃣ OCT: Bela Lugosi 🎥 ‘The Raven’ (1935) 🎬 Lew Landers ⭐️ Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi Lugosi at his most unhinged — Poe’s darkness reimagined as ego, genius, and sadism behind velvet curtains. #Bales2025FilmChallenge