• ⌂ HOME: the front desk. A "Vault Pick of the Day" that rotates every 24 hours: and each month it's themed around a category (Thrills and Scares in October, Holidays in December, and so on), so the daily pick fits the season. You'll also find the latest titles I've added to the vault, my most recent watches, and my latest dispatch.
• ⊙ COLLECTION: the full catalog. Filter by type, genre, watched status, reviews, or my rating: including a "◆ Vault Gems" shortcut for my personal favorites. More filters (format, boutique label, box set, studio) live under a toggle. Switch to "BOX SETS" to see titles grouped by their physical set, or "NEW ARRIVALS" for photos of the actual boxes most recently added to the shelf. I thought it important to track not just which movies I own, but what editions and whether they came as part of a pack. Tap any title's SHARE button to send someone a direct link straight to that movie.
• ▦ MOVIE TALK: longer-form posts. Essays, retrospectives, and whatever else I feel like writing about movies and/or physical media. Search them, filter by featured film, and share a direct link to any entry. They might also become videos down the line.
• ✄ CUTTING ROOM: the writing desk, and the way into what I review and curate. Four things live here:
  • ✎ VAULT MOVIE REVIEWS: reviews on movies in my collection.
  • ▣ LOG: my watch history. I log anytime I watch something, whether or not it's in my collection, with the date, a rating, and a brief opinion.
  • ★ LISTS: themed collections I've put together. Favorite westerns, movie night picks, that kind of thing.
  • ▶ VIDEOS: fan edits, commentaries, and video takes. They live on YouTube; this is just where they're collected. Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play.
• ▸ EXTRAS: bonus features and games: Spin the Vault, Vault Trivia, Guess the Poster, and Higher or Lower.
• ▤ STATS: analytics on the collection. Format breakdown, top genres, oldest and newest titles, total runtime, and a trivia panel you can flip between VAULT (what's on the shelf) and WATCHED (what I've actually seen).

When you see "Tito's Rating" on a title, here's the scale I'm using. It's about how I feel, not critical consensus.

• ★★★★★: All-time favorite. Untouchable. Watch anytime.
• ★★★★☆: Love it. Recommend without hesitation.
• ★★★☆☆: Really like it. Happy to revisit.
• ★★☆☆☆: It's fine. Watched once, mildly entertained, not likely to revisit.
• ★☆☆☆☆: Didn't work for me.
• ★★★½: Half stars sit between two tiers. A 3½ is better than "really like it" but not quite "love it."
• ❖: Vault gem. Separate from the stars: a personal favorite. The one I reach for, regardless of how good it objectively is.

You don't need an account to use this site. Everything is open to anyone who wanders in.

If you do decide to sign in, you get two things: you can rate anything in the vault on the same scale I use, and you can build your own Vault list comprised of movies from my collection. Think of it as marking up my catalog with your own taste.

There are no passwords. You enter your email, I send a one-time link, you click it. That's the whole thing.

Your ratings are private. I can't see who rated what, and neither can anyone else. What I can eventually show is a combined Vault Viewers average on a title, once enough people have rated it for the number to mean anything. Below that threshold nothing appears at all. Your shelf is private too, and feeds into nothing.

What I store: your email address, a display name if you choose to comment, the ratings you give, and the titles you save. No password, no advertisers, and nothing sold or shared with anyone. Comments show the display name you pick: never your email. I do keep a plain tally of how many times each page and post has been opened: but it's a number and nothing else. Nothing records who opened it, so what any one person reads isn't something I can see.

Want out? Email me and I'll delete your account and everything attached to it. No questions asked.