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  Benediction 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched by Ashlea 🌈⭐️#StandWithUkraine 15 Jun 2022

  If Terence Davies gets one thing right: it is intergenerational trauma and how that impacts family dynamics. How we only see challenging behaviours that are so hard to understand when we haven't ourselves lived our loved one's horrors. We only see a wilful and negative man poisoned by life's banal cruelty. And so we, too, react with anger until love overrides misunderstanding until the next flare-up of miscommunication and hurt. We want to tell them to lighten up and enjoy…

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  Happy Hatchday to Plasmo 1989

  ★★★★ Watched by Ashlea 🌈⭐️#StandWithUkraine 10 Jun 2022

  I didn't know I needed this bogan stop motion animation in my life.

  Plasmo & Nik-Nik 4eva:

  imgur.com/a/TNGOKrG

  Did I mention Plasmo is adorable:

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  Hold tight, little guy. Somewhere out there, your Mum and Dad are waiting for you.

Popular reviews

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  Blue Spring 2001

  ★★★★★ Watched by Ashlea 🌈⭐️#StandWithUkraine 27 Jul 2020 10

  "In this shit hole of a school, baseball was my only flower. I staked my life on the bat, my dreams on my pitches. Watch me make the spirit of baseball bloom. In the midst of the roaring crowd, a glimpse of my mother's face. Even a fool like me, she's always there to love. Always ready to smile. I love you so much for that."

  For kids that break each other's faces and walk around with murderous intent, they sure are a poetic bunch. This film kind of blew me away.

  My Toshiaki Toyoda Starter Pack - Film One

  Thanks for the recommendation, Jack Russo!

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  House of Hummingbird 2018

  ★★★★★ Watched by Ashlea 🌈⭐️#StandWithUkraine 05 Aug 2019 4

  I read in an interview with the director that the film took inspiration from nightmares she was having about her childhood and adolescence. No wonder this film hit me like a ton of bricks. The visceral memories of interpersonal trauma are like daggers in this film. Above all, Eun-hee is incredibly lonely; and every time that she confides in someone, she gets burnt. It's unsurprising then that Eun-hee has fits of rage, given everything that she is put through, and…