we only get one life and I spent it watching this
Robin Patron
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2014
Love seeing coward Tom Cruise, love the sense of humor and time loop stuff, it’s even probably Emily Blunt’s best role- I just find the aliens/scifi plot insanely thin and the early 2010s ‘oops all brown’ color grading hurts my eyes, it’s not a compliment that this film keeps making me think of Elysium when I watch it
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2014
Love seeing coward Tom Cruise, love the sense of humor and time loop stuff, it’s even probably Emily Blunt’s best role- I just find the aliens/scifi plot insanely thin and the early 2010s ‘oops all brown’ color grading hurts my eyes, it’s not a compliment that this film keeps making me think of Elysium when I watch it
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2024
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A New Nosfertatu: More Historical, More Empowering, more Romantic
(I use the original names of the characters as depicted in the novel Dracula for consistencies sake as I am often comparing to both the source text and other adaptations)
The Vampire is unique amongst creatures of horror insofar as his conception coincides neatly with the advent of cinema. Certainly there is a long folkloric tradition presaging the conventional vampire, but ultimately his codification was in the 1897 novel Dracula, debuting…
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2024
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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Growing up with gender dysphoria brings with it an intense alienation from your own body. That much is practically textbook, the go to thing any psych could tell you about the condition. But a neglected part of understanding what it’s like to feel alienated from yourself through adolescence is the way that media can fill that gap. Pouring yourself into fictional worlds can be a salve, and while that can be true of just about any mental illness, it’s especially…
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2024
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A New Nosfertatu: More Historical, More Empowering, more Romantic
(I use the original names of the characters as depicted in the novel Dracula for consistencies sake as I am often comparing to both the source text and other adaptations)
The Vampire is unique amongst creatures of horror insofar as his conception coincides neatly with the advent of cinema. Certainly there is a long folkloric tradition presaging the conventional vampire, but ultimately his codification was in the 1897 novel Dracula, debuting…
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2024
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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Growing up with gender dysphoria brings with it an intense alienation from your own body. That much is practically textbook, the go to thing any psych could tell you about the condition. But a neglected part of understanding what it’s like to feel alienated from yourself through adolescence is the way that media can fill that gap. Pouring yourself into fictional worlds can be a salve, and while that can be true of just about any mental illness, it’s especially…
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