Letterboxd — Your life in film

I'm only four seasons into the On Cinema-verse and I know it will get weirder as the seasons go by, but based on the first few seasons, the "Tim Heidecker" character is possibly the most realistic 21st Century character ever put on any kind of screen, big or small.

He is the perfect media consumer, entirely uncritical and willing to watch whatever is put in front of him by the corporate overlords of popular culture. He is also desperately hungry…

I’m furious, for years I’ve been a devout Greghead, defending all his actions to the legions of vitriolic Timheads with passion and pride, but after this catastrophe I simply cannot bring myself In good conscience to justify his behaviour and complete lack of professionalism any longer. Can he not see Tim is having the happiest day of his life? Yet he feels the need to interfere in matters that don’t involve him, he still feels the need to bring up…

Part of the Films That Promote Humanism collection.

Laurence drowned her baby in the ocean.

"They say I'm intelligent. Then why did I do it?"

The police immediately looked to the immigrant's origins for answers. "Africa" is said over and over again like someone was dying to say Dark Continent. The prosecutor called this out, not because it's racist, but because it planted the seed of "sorcery" as a defense. Which is racist.

Their own moral superiority as a hint,…

exists in a complex political context that has been somewhat obfuscated by the anti-British colonialist story around which its epic 3 and a half hours revolves - I feel like I should say I’m far less than qualified to unravel that, better and more knowledgeable writers already have! but the theatrics themselves are astonishing

my mind kept going back to John Woo with conflict between duty and an intense, melodramatic brotherhood, as well as the giddy exuberance of its set…

Regardless of what actually happened, history will continue to sprint forward, swallowing itself up and shitting it back out as a demented reflection of the ever changing present moment. For the rest of my life all Ancient Greek epics will be done with Received Pronunciation because of the success of a few British epics that were made thousands of years after the oral epics were written down. You have no control over it. Future technologies may find a way to…

With abortion rights all in the news, that was the first analogy that came to mind while watching Baz Luhrmann's Elvis. Planned Parenthood v. Casey established the "undue burden" standard for abortions that essentially stated that abortion was still an inarguable right, so states could not place any restriction that significantly inhibited access to it. The plurality opinion considered laws like the ones that required parental consent for minors and waiting periods as applicable to this.

Another restriction was "informed…

Part of the Films That Promote Humanism collection.

People, you, me, we all go off script. We just do.

That's why we have each other. We look out for each other. That means we support each other while we hold each other accountable for our shit.

I won't always do the right thing, but I promise to unconditionally own it when I fuck up. (This might take a minute sometimes.)

I promise to always support you unconditionally when you fuck…

Esta peli es un intento presentar el capitulo peor de la historia Argentina como entretenimiento inspirador. No sé bastante sobre AR para comentar lo que necesita el país o si esa peli cumple esa promesa.

Desde el minuto en que llegué a UY, inmediatamente me encontré con personas que tienen familiares desaparecidos.. Hay algunos momentos en esta peli muy entretenidos pero, otra vez, no conozco si este tratamiento con witty banter y la producción hábil es apropiado.

Agradezco que, en…

This is a perfectly fine and touching Sundance movie elevated five floors by two of the best actors to emerge in the past 20 years. 

Jennifer Lawrence and Bryan Tyree Henry are just major, major talents who rarely misstep, even when the movies aren’t great. This one just so happens to be very solid, even though the third act kind of tries to force conflict where it wasn’t needed. The low-key hang-out-and-heal vibe was more than enough to prove the…