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Preferably sharks or Nicolas Cage as a vampire.
(to clarify in 2023, I meant Vampire’s Kiss. this bio sucks now)

#horror

Favorite films

  • In the Mood for Love
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
  • The Beyond
  • Toni Erdmann

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  • Final Destination 5

    ★★★

  • The Wedding Banquet

    ★★★

  • Witches

    ★★★½

  • Out of Sight

    ★★★★

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Sepet

2004

★★★★½ Liked Rewatched

Still reeling from watching this film in a full cinema twenty years after it was made. I have no idea how many times I've seen it now but there's so much to gush about and I still blush, laugh and cry (in that order) like it's my first. I always crave to put on a Wong Kar-wai film after too. Yasmin Ahmad taught me a lot of things in my pre-teen years and I miss her voice in the local…

Betty Tells Her Story

1972

Liked Added

If Betty told her story again, I would’ve been left completely devastated. Please watch this perfect little film I now love with all my heart.

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Out of Sight

1998

★★★★ Rewatched

Part of me wishes the entire film kept to the tone of its sexiest scene, part of me knows I never would've made it out alive if so. My previous review suggests I lost my mind when I first saw this and nothing's changed.

That Cold Day in the Park

1969

★★★★ Watched

God forbid a woman gets a little psychosexual on a rainy afternoon. Maybe because it was 1969 and they kept calling her a 32 year-old spinster.

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Hannah Gadsby: Nanette

2018

★★★★½ Liked 6

Hannah Gadsby has sold out theatres with Nanette.

The first time I saw her perform this show, I was front row at a trial run held before she took the show on tour. It was very small, very intimate.

She talks about jokes on a basic level: 1) build up the tension 2) diffuse it with a punchline. She talks a lot about tension and you feel it because it's true. She talks about how she feels about men, not…

Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life

2016

[emily gilmore voice] BULLSHIT