Letterboxd — Your life in film

☆"They're coming! You're next!"☆

Oh, THAT'S where that meme comes from? Ha, I'll be damned.

Last month, assured by Daily Mosh Film Club members that it wasn't scary, I watched the original 1950s Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I liked it! It was this cool combination of camp and creep and noir. Lots of fun and a fantastic ending. I should have known it would be good when I saw it was directed by Don Siegel.

Well, as many of…

☆"You are what you love. Not what loves you."☆

Holiday Weekend Favorites Rewatch Mini-Marathon -- Film #1 of 9

Goddamn, this movie has like 900 amazing quotes. Charlie Kauffman, ya know I think that young man has quite the career ahead of him. Watch out for that guy.

As I stated in the little list here, this is my version of a "cinephile detox." Others on this site use the term as an excuse to watch trash film or guilty…

Adam Sandler has done it again. For once it's almost like he acknowledges the mentality of his fans and placed it into one character, that one being Taylor Lautner's aggravating portrait of an idiot. At the very least The Ridiculous 6 is not another Jack and Jill but it is an extremely hateful and insulting parody of a magnificent western and a samurai epic. But those are the very least of the offenses that Adam Sandler has committed with this…

Series: Pokémon Ranked

Most of Pokemon Heroes is at the very least pretty engaging. It's very well paced and ends pretty swiftly, so I was never really bored. In addition the CGI is leagues better than it was in Pokemon 4Ever, and there are some decent character designs. It also has a killer intro song.

Aside from those things, it's just bad, much like the rest of the franchise. Latios and Latias have such awful designs, and their constant screech…

“When you're observing me, who do you think I'm observing?”

Celine Sciamma’s ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ is a taxonomy of gazes that’s also, for better and worse, a discourse on them. This sweeping portrayal of a romance doomed to brevity asks how to memorialize an image, but also how to keep it eternally alive. Assertive in its belief that committing to every moment is the only way to consecrate it to memory, the film is ingeniously structured around…

It's tough to watch a film after so much hype has been mounted and spread for it. If you wait long enough, that can die down in your thought and it will be as if you just heard some positives for the film and your viewing of it can be as neutral as possible. But when you see it while it's still in theaters and there has been endless talk about its status as a masterpiece, there is too much…

In Céline Sciamma’s "Portrait of a Lady on Fire," the ache that drives its characters’ passion is love. The old sexual morality is gone, but the mysteries of love and isolation remain; availability cancels out the pleasurable torments of anticipation, but not the sadness afterward. With this new breed, Sciamma is able to define the romantic problem precisely and essentially. She doesn’t violate her principles to do it; her principles begin with freedom and pleasure. It offers an experience in…

It always makes for an interesting study to observe how a director matures from film to film. To understand exactly the fundamental, unchanging elements of their ever-changing method to filmmaking. Consider Chazelle with the transition from Whiplash to La La Land, Dolan with Tom at the Farm to Mommy, or even Tarantino from basically his entire filmography to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. However, it is in my personal opinion that no filmmaker has ever experienced this profound of…

As a young gay man, I had never seen a movie speak the emotions I was feeling quite as well as 2017's Call Me By Your Name. Filled with beauty and raw emotion that is a film that grabbed me and to this day has not let go, it is a film that still haunts me. I still will be walking down the street listening to music when Mystery of Love of Futile Devices will come on and send me…