#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.

#OctoberMovieChallenge @omacolt Oct 8 Something on fire The Wicker Man (1973) Folk-horror classic with one of cinema’s most unforgettable burning images.

#OctoberMovieChallenge @omacolt Oct 7 Something Assembled Seven Samurai (1954): Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece follows poor village farmers who recruit masterless samurai (rōnin) to protect their homes from violent bandits. It practically invented the blueprint for the genre.

#OctoberMovieChallenge @omacolt Oct 6 Something besides a bank is robbed The Mastermind (2025) Josh O'Connor stars as an amateur art thief whose first heist goes haywire.

#OctoberMovieChallenge @omacolt Oct 6 Someone walking or running a great distance Walkabout (1971) Two city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his "walkabout."

#OctoberMovieChallenge @omacolt Oct 4 Someone wrongly imprisoned The Count of Monte Cristo (2024) After escaping from an island prison where he spent 14 years for being wrongly accused of state treason, Edmond Dantès returns as the Count of Monte Cristo to exact his revenge.

#OctoberMovieChallenge @omacolt Oct 3 Fictional or documentary movie with a podcast Are We Good? (2025) explores Marc Maron's life, his relationships, and his career, including his popular WTF with Marc Maron podcast.

#OctoberMovieChallenge @omacolt Oct 2 Someone who is HIV positive Alpha (2025) Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old, lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.

#OctoberMovieChallenge @omacolt Oct 1 Someone drives an old car The Long Goodbye (1973) As Philip Marlowe, Gould drove his own car in the film, a very cool 1948 Lincoln Continental.