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30 seconds flat…

one star removed for the mandated hollywood bullshit. like a campy hitchcockian thriller for the terminally online generation. was so happy there was a lot of creative shots included in these sweet 95 minutes. meghann fahy is sakaki-san 😍😍😍 maybe landon’s most grounded film, i think?

parker posey is sakaki-san 😍😍😍😍😍😍

“I feel a lot of distance and…I just need to get away”

dysphoric trans girl mood 

didn’t initially care at first but as it went on, everything made sense and i felt like crying. what a picture.

easily the best music biopic ever made and i say THAT as an understatement. even as a fellow european who was exposed to robbie williams’ music in my youth, it was such a breath of fresh air to see the formula fucked around in such artistic glory. making williams a monkey is only scratching the surface. i’m so happy that michael gracey’s style (the rare redeeming highlight of the greatest showman) is utilised in stronger material like this, give that man a career already. i would be more than happy if the entire genre came to a halt and stopped at this.

yet another beautiful mood piece from sadhini weerasekera 

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not seeing it.

you know why.

anyway, i’m looking forward to:
- the running man
- project hail mary
- the beatles biopics
- f1
- wake up dead man
- hamnet
- whatever sarah polley comes up with next
- anything but disney being disney

every now and then, i look at this film, see the masterful direction edgar wright has firm command over, beautifully utilising every aspect of filmmaking to stretch each and every moment, no matter how silly or serious it is, to its fullest potential. every shot, every edit, every stage direction: amazing, flawless, truly cinematic in the best possible ways.

then i look at $600 million slop produced by a mega corporation and i genuinely want to cry because they never have and will never achieve the artistry this $15 million gem had.

people had asked me if martin scorsese was the man who made me firmly hate the studio system’s domineering influence on cinema, particularly with their manufactured superhero movies.

to that I say no.

it was edgar wright.

long live ant-man 

there will never be a comedy film as greater as this.

absolutely brilliant and beautiful. i’m a sucker for mood and atmosphere and this film nailed both of them.

ryland, you are forever a legend

16-year old me looked at this film for the first time and after it ended, she decided she would be a filmmaker because of what she saw 

now here i am. 🙂

this film will forever have a special place in my heart. absolutely perfect in every aspect.

I fucking love arthouse films with a mainstream appeal. i really fucking do. the greatest kind of cinema. one of the all-time greatest book to screen adaptations.

a cold dark mirror of today’s society. a haunting marriage of technical expertise and deep storytelling. a heartbreaking portrait of a timely subject matter desperate for analysis, carried beautifully by thorne and graham’s writing, barantini’s sharp direction, lewis’ sweeping cinematography, and a killer’s row of a-class actors. 

it’s interesting that seeing this show had reminded me memories of my horrible interactions with men who take part in the manosphere. looking back at it, they were huge part of my mental health struggles and seeing the rise of horrible things like tate, rogan, peterson, and so many men like them have completely damaged the need to be human. the kind of men that not only turns boys into repulsive monsters but convinces them that they are monsters much that they’ll never turn back. 

I feel like this show firmly captured the effects of the manosphere through each and every episode to extremely haunting effect.

it only shows why we need to destroy it more than ever.

god, I cannot wait for the running man. i just love what edgar wright does in his films, such a breath of fresh air compared to most movies nowadays.

i didn’t know ryan had that film in him, i was too bummed out by that godforsaken rat and oversaturated genre to see his true vision. does suffer a bit from over-editing at times but the humor is spot on, the cast is stacked to the brim, and autumn durald arkapaw can shoot a fucking PICTURE.

surprised that i loved this more than i initially thought or expected but sadly also extremely relevant today as i initially thought because i started thinking all of the stuff that trans people are going through right now and i started welling up during the order 66 sequence. 

i have been over this godforsaken franchise ever since the rat fucked over the vision of two of the greatest and most controversial cinematic masters working today (all during a fucking han solo prequel) but seeing what lucas achieved, even for all of its dialogue and stilted usage of digital technology, makes me appreciate that simpler time.

Watched on Saturday April 26, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 26, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 25, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 26, 2025.

the important thing I took away from this was what liadan roche said about exorcising her demons through making this film, and seeing that again realising that makes me further appreciate it even more. deeply appreciate this film to no end and one of my favorite films of the 21st century.

generation z’s soy cuba for the western culture. the film that free guy, space jam: a new legacy and every other corporate-infested, snarky-fueled hackery like them desperately tried to ape and failed miserably. say what you will about lord and miller as humans (they’re definitely micromanagers) but as directors and writers? even when they work with the shittiest ideas, they find a way to stretch them out to their full potential. the attention to detail in craft, the tight pacing, and fresh personal twist of overdone tropes still blow me away today as it did back in 2014, and what they accomplished in that film is something I take great inspiration from as an artist. ironically, this is also the reason why I hate movies based on IP and crossovers because absolutely none of them will be as great as this.

i fucking love cinema, you know that?

Watched on Friday April 25, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 22, 2025.

levinson and pileggi get their freaks on with this extremely bizarro self-parody of a gangster film. i honestly think this two hour film feels longer and sluggish than the irishman. howling my ass off at every actor, including robert de niro squared, putting on extremely over the top performances compounded by bizarre decisions that make this a fascinating watch. this is less of a generic gangster flick and more in the grand tradition of plan 9 from outer space and the room: one of the great bizarro howlfests of our time and i would watch that shit again with a bunch of drunken friends.

god, I am SO looking forward to The Running Man…and Project Hail Mary…and The Beatles biopics….and Wake Up Dead Man….oh, that new Ronnie Spector biopic from Barry Jenkins (music biopics are gonna be GOOD)….that new horror film from Bong Joon-ho….The Gallerist (FINALLY, Cathy Yan returns!)…Eddington as well…One Battle After Another, that’s a BIG one…The Odyssey as well (maybe a Coen brothers ripoff)…Ah, Park Chan-wook is coming back with I Can’t Help It (No Other Choice for the Anglophones)…Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay my queen)….whatever the trans new wave are cooking up right now (Jane Schoenbrun, Liadán Roche, Louise Weard, Isabel Sandoval, Venus Patel, and Heather Landsmann, especially), THAT I’m looking forward to!

idk, there’s so many movies to get excited about right now.

Watched on Saturday March 22, 2025.

not seeing this. disney stop butchering animated classics and take actual risks by making new films challenge

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Preparing for the Odyssey by looking where Nolan got his inspiration from. One of my favorite films from the Coens and my foundational gateway to them. ☺️

Yeah, this is good. This is more in line with Okja or Snowpiercer and that is not a bad thing. Though it is somewhat relieving that Bong finally has the upper hand over an American corporation this time. Bong’s staging, tonal shifts and camerawork trump everything right now and that kind of style is exactly what we need in this Russo-poisoned “shoot everything and let the editor figure it out” climate and the lack of subtlety is EXTREMELY warranted here. Thank actual fuck we got real filmmaking back in these multi-million dollar movies again. It’ll be a pitch black day in cinema history when artistry like this gets rejected while all the Marvel-influenced junk prevails.

Watched on Saturday February 22, 2025.

there really are no words tbh. postmodernist art is so goddamn cool.

Watched on Saturday February 22, 2025.

Watched on Saturday February 22, 2025.

i’m so happy I finally got to see the sequels after being a long-time fan of the first. an amazing expansion of what came before in a whole new level

Watched on Saturday February 22, 2025.

Watched on Saturday February 22, 2025.

utterly blown away. wow. how does don top himself every time? i’m so glad he saved this amazing animation from the wrath of win butler.

Watched on Saturday February 22, 2025.

Even better the second time! A beautifully quirky experiment.

so not only going full hard-on right-wing doesn’t just extinguish your mental capacity, it also extinguishes whatever taste in film and sense of craft you initially had in the first place.

that’s cool, i guess.

i’m all for contained thrillers making a comeback but this piece of dogshit ain’t it, boo.

I wanted THIS more than I wanted Deadpool and Wolverine or Emilia Peréz. THIS is truly subversive and transformative, THIS is the work of a filmmaker who took risks with established IP, THIS is actual genuine queer and trans representation, THIS is a film that holds hope for the future of cinema. Like a feature-length re-animated collab but with an original story and a genuine personal vision to it. I smiled like half the damn movie both in how artistically expressive and beautiful it is. This and Hundreds of Beavers have changed the game in independent cinema in the past decade and if we could give these films a platform instead of letting multi-million dollar corporations dictate everything, the world would be a better place

also shout-out to Vera destroying a picture of Joanne with the batmobile. It was the only time I was willing to cheer for anything.

Absolutely delightfully weird and bonkers. You can tell he was doing it for the hell of it and enjoyed every second of this process. The major changes in tone halfway through come from physicality and visual detail, which makes me smile. and while I love a bulky three-hour film, I also appreciate a lean 66-minute flick that doesn’t waste its time. Kitano, you complete man.

i think the filmmakers were on the hardest of drugs and the most sorrowful of thoughts when they made this.

michael bay fucking wishes he was that kickass.

Anyway, who else is looking forward to The Running Man coming out this year? ☺️

jeanne is autism-coded confirmed

this is the purest distilled cinematic form of repetition, routines, public vs private self, and mental breakdowns. i’m already a fan of movies with slow pacing and intentional filmmaking (a truly lost art in modern times) yet this movie is in complete dedication to these aspects. akerman effectively uses them to make you FEEL jeanne’s life and her feelings around it in every minute of its 200 minute runtime. i already had expectations but this…this jut blew me away. what a masterwork. a true masterpiece in every possible way.

Watched on Thursday February 6, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday February 5, 2025.

this is like if k-on!, liz and the blue bird, and a silent voice are all melded together to create the culmination of yamada’s films. this film still has nothing short of the pure sensory beauty, incredible characterisation and bold anime experimentation that I love so so so much about her work. happy I got to see this in the cinema for the first time. also, the songs are so so beautiful. 

all christianity-related films will never hold a candle to this.

Not necessarily my favorites, just the films that influenced me the most.

• The Shawshank Redemption
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence
• The Lego Movie
• Speed Racer
• Fight Club
• Punch-Drunk Love
• Road to Perdition
• Oldboy
• Paprika
• Hot Fuzz

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Separate list of favorite films, vastly different than the ones that influenced me the most

• Magnolia
• The Matrix
• Arrival
• Collateral
• Zodiac
• Lady Vengeance
• Seven Samurai
• Okja
• The Manchurian Candidate
• Yes, Madam!

...plus 150 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Paprika
• Heat
• Satantango
• Speed Racer
• Metropolis
• The Producers
• West Side Story

  It's interchangable. One day, it's Robbins/Wise. The next, it would be Spielberg. They're both cinematically beautiful adaptations of an equally powerful source material.

• The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence
• You Were Never Really Here