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This is what happens when you don’t move out of your hometown

A little thin, but who cares, from the opening exchange it was the hardest I’ve laughed in a theatre in ages

Tight little thriller but didn’t feel too much except for stress that her date wasn’t going very well.

Sexiest vampire musical I’ve ever seen, loved it

I Love 90s Lesbian Cinema and German Patty Clarkson

I really did not think I was going to buy into this but I found it SO romantic.

James Dean really is that sexy but why is no one talking about what a giant lesbian Luz was?!

This happened to me once.

Pretty fun!

Totally captivating start to finish. Spectacular editing and post synced sound.

Transgender drug lords?! This is the future liberals want!

Meandering vignettes, tonally all over the place, managed to keep me at an arm’s length despite subject matter that should have evoked a lot of emotion.

Fun one to watch when I’ve also just developed an obsessive and rigorous morning routine.

Definitely clever and the premise has so much promise and then the film does…next to nothing with it. Barely scratches the surface of the questions on gender, race, identity, desire. The film is more interested in the central romantic entanglement that I just can’t bring myself to care about, rather than the dozens of more interesting implications of the machine. The whole motive is glossed over as a shitty drunk night rather than what it really was, which is lazy at best. But…fun! I guess.

No bark or bite

Horror movie about introducing a third into your relationship so possessive it kills your loved ones and unleashes a literal plague.

Some genuinely tremendous indie filmmaking that unfortunately suffers in the second half - what felt nuanced becomes ham-handed (using literal rape as metaphor for capitalistic greed being one choice example). Incredibly performed, shot, and scored. The first half was incomparable. Opening sequence incomparable. Ultimately it seems like Corbet tried to answer too many of the film’s questions and “make a statement.”

Had a lot of fun despite feeling like the kinkiness was sanitized, I did appreciate the murky corporate power dynamics, and what seemed like some attempt on the filmmaker’s part not to moralize. Best part was the use of insanely comedic score cues.

Sorry to say that with a Corona and a plate of chicken, this movie held up

Unbelievable achievement of storytelling and truth telling. Not a wasted moment in a nearly 3 hour film. Holy shit!!

Ayahuasca sequence was breathtaking!

Both films of Glicked weekend were about the spectacle - and fragility - of power. About the masses susceptible to compelling narrative. About the consequences of subjugation. And both had an excess of CGI animals!

POPE DRAMA POPE DRAMA POPE DRAMA!!!!!

A perfect date movie - because true love never dies

Another 2024 handmaiden watch, this time in theatres, which made it so much funnier?!

Incredible lead performances and especially Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn. Loved the cinematography and style of this. Felt like I was watching a great film I’ll never revisit.

They kissed a lot more in my imagination!

Total cheesefest and honestly thought I was gonna cry more but I did appreciate the gas station birthing sequence.

Watching Jesse Eisenberg in this was like watching my dad twenty years ago, which is something that’ll crack your heart open, lemme tell ya!!! New best of the year for sure.

Incredible election night watch (bad election night)

Sort of like an American Martyrs x Spoorloos situation.

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They truly do not make them like this anymore (movies for depressos)

It kills me to say - as a huge Steve McQueen fan - but this was a miss for me. All the incisive filmmaking from Small Axe swept into broad strokes war epic tropes. Nothing new to say and any efforts to talk about race and multiculturalism in London in the 40s lacked nuance.

Total masterpiece! Filled with dread!

Despite a notable lack of development or even curiosity toward its female characters, the central performances of Alex Woolf, Austin Abrams and Lewis Pullman were compelling, grotesque, so so exciting.

I happen to like whores and homosexuals.

It took me a while to adjust to the style of this - which at times felt heavy handed - but the titular three daughters were lovely.

Living for the two girls in my matinee screening who kept screaming “why?!” for the entire third act of this film.

Renate Reinsve once again clocking in as the worst person in the world. Truly great stuff.

None of this would have happened if Elizabeth had ordered the Self Comion Workbook from Kristin Neff.

Very stylish and I projected a lot of homoeroticism onto it.

Very disturbing watch and particularly ired the pacing. Boorman doesn’t have to manipulate the viewer to evoke the slow terror of this film’s realizations: that we can’t control nature, that we all contain the capacity for violence, and that the rejection of these ideas is inherently dangerous. In fact, he does the opposite, slowly and methodically unraveling the film after its pivotal scene in a way that felt totally hypnotic to me. The dueling banjos scene was also masterful and sets the thematic table of the film in such a creative way.

The first horror movie my dad ever showed me (way too young) and the genesis of my love (of both horror and women). Makes a great double feature with The Thing, and cements my absolute love of practical effects and sets over CG. I mean this is the soul of filmmaking right here! C'mon!

Every day that I watch a movie is a day I fall in love, and a day I say "THIS is what movies should be!" And today is no different! Because THIS is what movies should be! John Carpenter one of the greatest to ever do it.

Perhaps one of the greatest films of the 21st century. Certainly a Haneke all time favorite. What do we choose to pay attention to and what do we choose to look away from for the sake of our comfort and privilege? Whose lives do we watch? Who do we view as human? Who controls the narrative? What does being watched do to you? The shame of one man, his inability to take responsibility, the shame of and its colonization of Algeria, the shame of the western world in its ‘war on terror.’ And the film ultimately appoints us as the viewer, or the stalker- the ones who will hold him (and us) to . Most all conveyed through subtext and clever visual style in a thriller that “tricks” the audience into thinking they are watching something else. Bone chilling. Saturday morning done right.

Two younger Eggers does not an elder Egger make!

An incredibly borrowed smorgasbord of style (lot of it worked! Coke and ket split diopter, we love!) Whatever nuance it had to offer about violence, sex, performance and gender went out the goddamn window when those cops showed up and the director seemed to be saying something much more simplistic, and much more sexist. But I’d be lying if I said I didn’t have fun.

I hear your voice in every man.

Long live Maggie Cheung, long live film.

“Cinema is not magic. It is a science and a technique, a technique born of science and at the service of a will, the will of the workers to free themselves.”

Are worms “in” right now? Or have they always been an essential part of the cultural milieu?

• The Lair of the White Worm
• Tremors
• Dune
• Dune: Part Two
• Slither
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

• Raw
• When Evil Lurks
• Gretel & Hansel