"My last film...this is in my top five, dead or alive. Menace II Society is on Goodfellas level as a gangster movie. It came out close to Boyz n the Hood, and when Boyz n the Hood came out it was such a revelation that I think it ate up most of the oxygen around Menace II Society, so Menace II Society didn’t get the reception it deserved. Rest in peace John Singleton. Legend."

"Drugstore Cowboy is the Gus movie I put on this list. This movie’s probably one of the most punk movies, because it was, like, scary to show what they were showing at the time. It showed drug addicts and criminals in a way that was raw and no one had seen. And it was fucking scary. People were freaked out. It’s an amazing film."

Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wilson and his friends create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club.

"Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore is about a single mom who’s a waitress, and Ellen Burstyn’s performance is so next level. It’s a great example of Scorsese’s work that isn’t just the gangster movies that people bring up over and over again."

"I think this is becoming my favorite film of all time. It’s up there with Goodfellas and Casino and it might’ve shifted to number one of all time. You have to put Paul Thomas Anderson at the top of the list of best filmmakers. He’s gonna go down, like, Kubrick-level. His movies don’t shake the world like they should. The Master is just pretty much a perfect film. Its photography, its acting, the performances from Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joachim Phoenix, and Amy Adams, it doesn’t get any better than that."

"By without a doubt the greatest filmmaker of all time, Stanley Kubrick. It also takes place in Renaissance time, with like, powdered wigs, and it’s all shot using natural light, meaning as the light would’ve been at the time, so with candles. He invented weird lenses that didn’t fit on cameras that shouldn’t have had them. No one can touch him."

"I went from Ratcatcher to Popstar, which is a really dope one-two punch. Popstar does not get enough love. It stars Andy Samberg, and it’s directed by his Lonely Island cohorts, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer—all great human beings. He plays a popstar. It’s a mockumentary, and it’s one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen. It makes me cry laughing."

"Ratcatcher is a heavy film directed by Lynne Ramsay, who was a super big influence on Mid90s. It fits in that genre of, like, This is England and Andrea Arnold films—just a great coming of age movie that’s really intense but beautiful and human. If you want something rich, artistic, deep, fucked up."

"It’s as important and good as Goodfellas. If you have not seen it, this is what you should watch today. It’s one of the best movies ever made. I don’t know how to even describe its importance. It’s just the best. There’s few films I wanna use the 'I word' for, which is 'important', but this is an important film! Spike Lee is the GOAT. I could put 20 of his movies on here."

Often when movies win best picture we don’t watch them ‘cause they’re kinda obvious and on our minds and everyone’s talked about how great they are, but Moonlight is even better than it was even talked about.

"Made by the great Miloš Forman, RIP. Amadeus is about Mozart, which sounds really boring to me if I just heard that, but it is one of the best movies ever, the best production design, the best acting. It’s just a masterpiece. It’s really about Mozart and Salieri. It’s almost like a broad comedy, but it’s so heartbreaking because this guy is coming up at the same time as Mozart and he’s really talented but he’ll never be close to as good as Mozart and it fucking tears his whole life up."