I have yet to see the original The Match-Stick Flame*, but after having seen the sequel, I should probably get on that. Pure no-budget vanity project madness, astonishingly inept in every single aspect of filmmaking, from the unintentionally hilarious acting and dialogue, to the total absence of professional audio equipment rendering the dialogue almost incomprehensible in multiple scenes, to star Vineeta Prasad doing an atrocious Bollywood dance solo for the opening scene (which has literally no connection to anything else…

Actual song lyrics from Disney’s Wish:

“So I look up at the stars to guide me / And throw caution to every warning sign”*

“I can't help it / If mirrors love my face / It's genetics! / Yeah, I got these genes from outer space”

“When it comes to the universe, we're all shareholders / Get that through your system (solar!)”**

It’s been thirteen years since Tangled gave us Walt Disney Animation Studios’ last proper villain (as in, not one…

interesting HIV-scare premise makes for an ultimately unsatisfying gay teen coming-of-age flick set in 2011, and which feels awfully like an indie movie that would have been made in that year. strong points are an overqualified ing cast and a cute romance subplot (which ends, well, unsatisfyingly), but found Sivan's character to be an unlikable prick for a large swath of the running time and didn't care much for the ending.

without getting into plot details, it’s also weirdly sex-negative and…