#OctoberMovieChallenge @omacolt Oct 27 Someone rides the subway The French Connection (1971) A nice cat and scene in the NYC subway between Popeye and Frog 1.

#OctoberMovieChallenge @omacolt Oct 25 A shootout Hard Boiled (1992) John Woo’s operatic gunplay makes the shootout feel like a violent ballet.

#OctoberMovieChallenge @omacolt Oct 25 Fictional rock band Velvet Goldmine (1998) Glam-rock excess, fractured identity, queer style, and an invented Bowie-adjacent mythology.

#OctoberMovieChallenge @omacolt Oct 24 Waterfalls Deliverance (1972) The Tallulah Falls serve as the backdrop for the climactic confrontation of Man vs. Nature.

#OctoberMovieChallenge @omacolt Oct 23 Elephant Elephant (2003) No single perspective explains the tragedy. Everyone sees only a piece of the “elephant.

#OctoberMovieChallenge @omacolt Oct 22 Skydiving Anne at 13,000 Ft. (2019) Anne hasn’t been the same since skydiving at her best friend Sarah’s bachelorette party. At 27, she felt focused and free in the air; back on the ground, daily pressures threaten to overwhelm her.

#OctoberMovieChallenge @omacolt Oct 21 A Mine Matewan (1987) A fierce, human-scale coal-mining labor drama with real political bite.

#OctoberMovieChallenge @omacolt Oct 20 Mythical creature Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) Dark fairy-tale imagery meets fascist Spain; beautiful, brutal, and deeply strange.

#OctoberMovieChallenge @omacolt Oct 19 Movie rental store Be Kind Rewind (2008) Michel Gondry’s affectionate ode to VHS culture and homemade, communal filmmaking.

#OctoberMovieChallenge @omacolt Oct 18 Political Hearing The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) An Aaron Sorkin historical legal and political drama chronicling the contentious 1969 federal trial of anti-Vietnam War activists charged with conspiracy.

#OctoberMovieChallenge @omacolt Oct 17 Someone sentenced to prison A Prophet (2009) Gritty French prison epic about survival, identity, and criminal power.

#OctoberMovieChallenge @omacolt Oct 16 Something Raided The Raid (2011) A brutally kinetic action film built around a police raid on a tower block.

#OctoberMovieChallenge @omacolt Oct 15 A frog Magnolia (1998) Grand, sad, strange ensemble drama culminating in an unforgettable frog rain.

#OctoberMovieChallenge @omacolt Oct 14 Somebody hit in the face with something not a fist Billy Jack (1971) I'm gonna take this right foot, and I'm gonna whop you on that side of your face...

#OctoberMovieChallenge @omacolt Oct 13 The White House A House of Dynamite (2025) A nuclear missile aimed at the US has officials scurrying to locate the source of the encroaching projectile. Intelligence analysts and military chiefs go head-to-head in a race against time.

#OctoberMovieChallenge @omacolt Oct 12 A movie about an explorer Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) Werner Herzog turns a doomed Amazon expedition into hallucinatory madness.

#OctoberMovieChallenge @omacolt Oct 11 A movie with an SNL cast member Uncut Gems (2019) Adam Sandler’s former-SNL energy is transformed into pure panic and desperation.

#OctoberMovieChallenge @omacolt Oct 10 Mailman Il Postino (1994) A lyrical Italian romance about a shy postman and the poet he befriends.

#OctoberMovieChallenge @omacolt Oct 9 Someone at the theatre Birdman (2014) A feverish backstage theatre world, filmed to feel like one breathless take.