Andrew Swafford

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Knoxville, TN

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Blissfully Yours 2002

★★★½ Watched by Andrew Swafford 08 Jul 2018 4

"Falling asleep in the cinema is not about boredom but a feeling of comfort, as when sun is shining on you and you feel warm." - Lucrecia Martel

The Lion King 1994

★★★½ Rewatched by Andrew Swafford 18 Nov 2021 6

Impeccably animated far-right propaganda
The French Dispatch 2021

★★½ Watched by Andrew Swafford 14 Nov 2021 7

Enjoyed large stretches of this, but the whole gimmick here did not really work for me and I can’t help but feel like wes is getting a bit too high on his own supply with this one

8½ 1963

½ Rewatched by Andrew Swafford 25 May 2017 35

Found the other half
Weathering with You 2019

★★ Watched by Andrew Swafford 16 Jan 2020 18

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

In Cinematary's coverage from TIFF 2019, Zach and Jessica pointed out that this movie has two glaring problems: a manic pixie dream girl and climate denialism. I posit that these problems are one and the same; the problem is the protagonist, who shouldn't be.
Imagine for a second that Hodaka, the protagonist of WEATHERING WITH YOU, doesn't exist, and instead, the film's POV character is Hina. Change nothing else! Here's how Hina's story would go:
- she's a girl who…