Scavenger Hunt | February 2026
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1. Watch a film added by any of the last hunt’s users.

2. It’s Paul Mescal’s birthday. Watch a film featuring Paul Mescal.

3. Watch a film I have picked for Winter Trash 2026, or find a trashy, or fluffy, film of your choice, that matches one of the tasks, maybe even on the date you are creating this list.

4. Having satisfied me with the emotional trilogy story of Apu, it is very hard to decide where to go next with Mr. Ray. Watch a film by Satyajit Ray.

5. Watch a film directed by, or featuring Sergey Bondarchuk. (The Mosfilm YouTube channel should be of great help.)

6. Most watched feature film actress, with 6 films, and 7 entries overall, blame Armageddon and my Mum rewatching it after I watched it first time despite a score of 2.5/5, but you can also blame her for always coming back to Twin Peaks, with David Lynch also being joint second with 4 films. Watch a film featuring Grace Zabriskie.

7. Watch a film featuring Hugh Grant or Willem Dafoe.

8. It’s been over 8 years since I last hosted. Watch a film added by my July 2017 hunt users. Or pick a film that matches a task from the same hunt.

9. This Black History Month’s official theme shall be A Century of Black History Commemorations and will be the 101st year since the so-called Negro History Month begun in 1925. Watch a film that was directed by a Black Director, the earlier the better to commemorate the month.

10. Watch a film featuring a cast member of The Wizard of Oz, or any stage or screen connected to the world of Oz or, therefore, Wicked!

11. Watch an animated short of 2025.

12. Watch a film featured on the Year in Review, this year, but is not on your watchlist, or if you’d like to look at your watchlist, wasn’t added before reading the Year in Review.

13. Watch a film where Charli XCX features or soundtracks. If not applicable, may I recommend you choose a film where a soundtrack includes one of her past and present collaborators, including music as big and current as George Daniel’s The 1975, PC Music, her main producer A.G. Cook most especially, her much missed Vroom Vroom producer Sophie, or her one-time collaborator, Yasutaka Nakata, producer of my favourite pop group, Perfume. Enter Charli’s sphere!

14. Watch a film featuring, or soundtracked by, Eurovision artists.

15. Choose from my selections for the 10th or 11th Letterboxd Season Challenge.

16. Watch a film featuring a cast member of Grease, stage or screen.<./a>

17. Watch a film directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky.

18. Watch a K-pop film.

19. The 19th century. Hmmm, well, it doesn’t make sense to dedicate tasks to blockbuster musicals, with personal AmDram stagings, than the one that many teenagers are performing, and only Liverpool and Leeds has done it in the North West of England, as if the Blackpool Tower wouldn’t light up their Eiffel tower rip-off in red, white and blue colours. Les Misérables! Watch a film adaptation based on that particular book. And yes, a concert would count. Always drawn to the 1995 one. Alternatively, look for another adaptation of Victor Hugo’s hard-written work.

20. Watch a film written by After Life’s stage and screen writers, Jack Throne or Hirokazu Kore-eda (don't worry if you find one he only directed instead of written), or a film featuring or soundtracked by Tom Waits.

21. Watch a live action short film of 2025.

22. Watch a film set in College or University. Bonus points, if set between my study years, 2012 to 2018, or it’s set in a drama school or on a story or script writing course, which can count as a Bachelors or Masters, on the contrary to those who think anything to do with filmmaking is a Mickey Mouse course. Fantasise in acting or writing drama with me!

23. Watch a film featuring a cast member of The Phantom of the Opera, stage or screen, silent, all speaking or all singing.

24. Watch a film from Italy. Bonus points if you can get one featuring any native or international participant, to compete as singer or musician, to host or co-host, or guest star, and for the latter two, yes, that includes Oscar Best Actor winner Roberto Benigni, who appeared at the Ariston, many times since 1980!

25. So: watch a film from Japan! Bonus points for if it matches a task from this year’s Japanuary challenge.

26. Watch a film featuring, crew-ed, or soundtracked by winners of PopJustice Forum Rate Winners, or take another look at the £20 Music Prize winners, and see what films they might pop up on. Bonus points for the songs, of course! Please note that the latest Forum winners of the 2020's aren't all on this list, so please refer to Part 5 and the soon-to-be-opened Part 6.

27. Watch a film from the very list before your Scavenger Hunt is posted below. If not applicable, check the second one before, and so on. (note: for fairness, I shall pick the last list on Alison’s 130th Scavenger Hunt, no matter how late it is published in January.)

28. Watch a film with LGBTQ themes and characters. Film choices featuring transgender and non-binary talent and characters would be much appreciated, through this turbulent time in politics.

[My alternatives: 1- Any film nominated in the upcoming 98th Academy Awards (films of 2025) 2- Duplicate any of the given prompts.]