Movies

Things sometimes don’t want to be filed. We’ve been working on this site long enough to know that the very best gifts sometimes come with a warning sticker that doesn’t fit our taxonomy very well. And forcing something into a bucket to make an algorithm happy just isn’t right. So these are their loose threads. We assure you that this is not a dumpster fire. Really. Nothing is here because we ran out of time, forgot about it, or didn’t have enough willpower. Everything here has gone through our same rigorous process as everything else on the site. We took it seriously, debated about it as a team, and decided that it was absolutely worth your while. It’s only marker of difference is that it didn’t fit neatly into a category we already had. That’s a limitation of our filing, not the quality of the gift. There’s a lot of things that made us raise an eyebrow here. These are gifts that made someone on our team say “have you seen this?” and then go quiet for a bit because it was genuinely difficult to categorise. Not crazy because it’s funny. Not novelty items trying too hard to be Stuff You’ll Want. Genuine gifts that don’t quite fit into the conventional boxes. The kind of gift that proves someone actually spent time thinking about you, instead of ticking you off a gift list. Some of these gifts are for people who fall through the gaps and are notoriously difficult to buy for because they’d probably wallpaper their house with office supplies. Some of these don’t care when you give them, which means they’re great for birthdays or thank you gifts or just because you can’t be arsed finding an occasion. Others we won’t claim to know where we’d place them, other than that when we imagine giving it to someone, we always smile at the thought of their reaction. We edit this page pretty aggressively. Categories get picked when we have enough stuff to dedicate a collection to it. And new stuff pops up when something new comes along that blows our mind but we just can’t place. See this less like a junk drawer and more like that little alley at the back of the market that doesn’t have a sign, but always has the coolest stuff.

Addams Family

Families dress up like ostriches at Christmas. Other families hoard antique china or have unhealthy obsessions with their rose bushes. The Addams family hoards severed hands and keeps a lion in the foyer closet. And against all odds they are fiction’s healthiest, happiest family. Loving and supportive in a way that is ENTIRELY why you loved them in the first place. There’s something reassuring about a family that does everything ‘wrong’ by mainstream standards but gets along just fine without caring. If that speaks to you, or if you’re shopping for someone who it, you’ve come to where we put…

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Alien

Movies exist on different planes. Some sink into the earth until they’re no longer movies. Alien is one of those movies. Released in 1979, it never really went away. Not the images, not the suspense, not that fucking motion tracker beeping through silence. The people in your life who love Alien are not drifting fans. They have thoughts on the best entry point for new fans of the franchise. They know when merchandise gets the design wrong. They do not want some stupid Space Horror gift that could be from E.T. Cobra debuted next week. They want something that earned…

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Back to the Future

This collection is curated for a very specific type of person. They remember exactly what year Marty McFly landed in Hill Valley. They have opinions on whether or not the hoverboard would really work on water. They’ve probably told the joke about needing 1.21 gigawatts at least once and heard it land better than it had any right to. If that person is someone you know. If that person is you. Welcome. You’re in the right place. Back to the Future is one of those films that people don’t just like. They carry it with them. The quotes. The math.…

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Fast and Furious

Some fans buy the posters. Some fans have every movie on disc and can recite lines from the first if asked at dinner unprovoked. Some folks want something tangible. Something they can hold. Something that doesn’t just display the franchise across their screen but properly in their hands. We made this for those people. Fast and Furious has been going long enough that the merch ranges from amazing to trash fire. We’ve done the digging so that you don’t show up to someone’s birthday with tat that will immediately be put in a drawer. Everything you’ll find here we chose…

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Ghostbusters

Some films people enjoy watching, some films people take with them everywhere they go for the rest of their lives. Ghostbusters is one of those films. Made in 1984 and people really haven’t stopped talking about it since. Even the logo gives people nostalgic feelings we all know and love. You see that tiny ghost being zapped by that red line and bam, instantly transported back to the first time you saw it on your VHS player or remembering your duvet on the sofa and your brother sat next to you eating Frosties. That Ghostbusters gifts. They are less about…

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Indiana Jones

We’re looking for someone very specific to buy for here. Someone who owns the films on physical media in at least two formats. Someone who has a favourite movie in the series and an opinion on it that they will defend at length. Someone who probably wore the hat at least once and did not look ridiculous doing it. Buying for this person is easy – you can see their enthusiasm for what they love – but it can also feel hard. With such big things they love, anything not GREAT will feel cheap in comparison. We’ve spent a lot…

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James Bond

If you know a Bond fan, you know the type. The person who has seen every movie multiple times and has strong feelings about which actor really should have played Bond. Who will happily explain to you what you did wrong with the Martini scene in Casino Royale. Shopping for them is a trial in itself. They have everything. They know everything. They will recognise annoyingly unfussy gift buying from the other side of the room. This collection exists because there's not a huge amount out there for Bond fans that lives up to what being a Bond fan actually…

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Jaws

Movies you like and movies that get inside you. Jaws is the latter. Released in 1975 it has never really gone away. Sure it scared an entire generation out of the water but it’s also a legitimately excellent movie. From the three wonderful performances at the center to the John Williams score that wrings your innards like salad creeps it comes together expertly. Not to mention that even with its minimal screen time, the shark is somehow still the most frightening thing you’ll ever see. If there’s a Jaws fanatic in your life they don’t just like it. Love pours…

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Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park is one of those films that belongs to a particular summer. Or every summer since 1993, when it was released and somehow never seemed to age. Kids who grew up loving it are still obsessed with it as adults. They still go silent the second John Williams’ score comes up, they’re still convinced a dinosaur will burst through the window if they don’t move. Those people don’t outgrow that fascination, they just find ways to feed it. Choosing gifts for Jurassic Park fans is trickier than you’d think. A lot of the obvious stuff seems designed to be…

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Lord of the Rings

Some fandoms you grow out of. This one doesn’t care. It clings to you, gathers around you from the age of twelve and never really lets go. We’ve seen friends cycle through the books every couple of years. Rewatch the extended cuts on binge weekends. Name their children, or their cats, after characters from the stories they loved when they were young. The passion is infectious and it's intense, and that means that gifts for these enthusiasts require care. Choose something they love and you’ve given someone a trinket that will sit on their shelf or desk and will mean…

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Minions

They’re stubborn things, these little yellow bastards. Minions have been making us laugh for over ten years and fans of them are not shy about it. They wear their love for them. They collect them. They stick postcards on their desks at work and challenge people to mock them. When you know how far someone will go for Minions you know how to shop for them. And that is why we think deserves more thangrabbing something on the way past the checkout. We put together this range with everyone we know who has told the world where their loyalties lie…

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Pirates of the Caribbean

There’s something depressing about buying a fan of something a poster or mug branded with a blurry screengrab of it on. Fans of things want merch that reflects why they love something in the first place. Pirates of the Caribbean is magic like that. It landed differently when it came out and has since burrowed its way into fans’ hearts. Jack Sparrow ambling up to that dock doing nothing but puffing his chest out and steering a sinking ship is one of cinema’s finest character introductions. The world it created; rum, sea salt, cursed gold and most of all that…

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Shrek

Movies can be popular. Shrek is cultural. For well over two decades now it has thrived in the hearts and minds of the masses; developed its own dialect of memes, accumulated a bizarre level of cultural esteem and maintained a fandom unwilling to allow it to wither away into that kids section it technically belongs in. Technical because anyone that believes Shrek is still children’s media has never sat in on a group of adults uproariously heckling Donkey or silently crying during that scene in the second movie that we will not name shame. This isn’t romanticizing for the sake…

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