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Roma 2018
non-spoiler review: watch que horas ela volta? (2015) dir. anna muylaert instead
SPOILER review: visually beautiful but to what effect? alfonso cuarón seems to successfully recreate a fully fleshed out world within a specific time period but it ends up feeling like an empty shell because there is no actual life in it. long take after long take, there are no emotions on display and nothing to really connect to until almost the very end (the birth scene and the…
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 2017
I didn’t even finish this yet but I’m really so bored like can you come up with something else... someone tell my family to leave me alone and let me watch old romance movies instead of subjecting me to this
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Madeline's Madeline 2018
sometimes i'll think a word means something other than what it actually means, and sometimes i just want a word to mean otherwise. the way it sounds, the way it's spelled, the way it feels in the mouth. when i was watching Madeline's Madeline, i could only think of the word cerebral, but i didn't know if it meant what i thought it did, or worse, what i wanted it to say.
because what i meant was something nebulous, something…
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FearDotCom 2002
'FearDotCom' is a deeply eccentric film with what seems like the supremely generic early 2000's netsploitation title of all time but which ends up being appropriate. All sorts of connections are made here between the early days of German Expressionist Cinema and the early days of the World Wide Web and their shared ability to make a collective cultural dreamspace and how we utilize that space. There is a strong feeling, too, of the Nightmare on Elm Street series, and…
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Sharp Objects 2018
i talk a lot about people i like deserving more awards recognition but if the emmy doesnt already have 'AMY ADAMS' engraved on it there is quite literally no point in anything anymore
ps: leticia says wig
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A Dog's Will 2000
ok .... this was honestly one of the funniest things ive ever seen and then fernanda montenegro showed up and i started crying so... in short? a masterpiece
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Taipei Story 1985
tsai chin's hair.... her GLASSES.... her wardrobe... her everything????? absolutely iconic
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There Will Be Blood 2007
ok like this is genuinely one of the best movies ever made hands down and i think we've all established that so let me get to the point: daniel day-lewis really is so sexy when will he [insert innuendo about drilling oil or drinking milkshakes here]!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The Florida Project 2017
me, dialing 911, shouting in between sobs: sean baker.. COLORS... brooklynn prince... willem dafoe.... disney
911 operator, sending a therapist to my house: just stay right where you are i will handle this
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