Nathan Pro

another gay socialist nerd, formerly of Brooklyn and now in Philly. not a very nice Jewish boy 🍉

Favorite films

  • Possession
  • Videodrome
  • Brazil
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

All
  • What Have They Done to Your Daughters?

    ★★★½

  • Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

    ★★★½

  • Friendship

    ★★★½

  • The Assassin

    ★★★½

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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

2004

★★★½ Watched

Pretentious, difficult to follow, and frequently prioritizes showing off its CG settings over coherent storytelling or world-building, to the point where most of its running time feels like it’s taking place in a series of disconnected CG tableaux rather than any consistent vision of a cyberpunk future… I think I liked it?

Friendship

2024

★★★½ Liked Watched

Frequently feels like a feature-length I Think You Should Leave sketch, but it’s a pretty damn good one. More hands-over-face cringe moments than anything I’ve seen in a theater in a while. Great Conner O’Malley cameo

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Wish

2023

★★½ 5

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…

Three Months

2022

★★½ Watched

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…