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April: Summer horror

Is “beautiful to look at” the ideal form of a movie? Should we not rank how good you are at transferring the characters’ emotions onto the audience and having something interesting to say above vibes and aesthetic? Is Nosferatu the final boss of -core culture?
Lily Rose-Depp and Nicholas Hoult do fine work here. Willem Dafoe is the only one trying to inject a little levity into this movie, to varying effect. Aaron Taylor-Johnson is doing a bad impression of an…
Michael Clayton was a nice little mid-budget thriller. Tilda Swinton did so much with the little screen time she had. Not my favorite performance of hers, but definitely the best in this movie, just above Tom Wilkinson.
Clooney was… Clooney. He’s better in comedic roles. I don’t think he was bad, I just think a better, less movie star-faced actor would’ve done better.
You can really tell with Michael Clayton and Andor that Gilroy is a starry-eyed student of 1970s film.
failed New Jersey polycule
I have thoughts about this but not enough coherent ones at the moment, so here are two posts I made about it.
I’ve been on a Journey with my sexuality and fallen into limerence with a dude who wasn’t right for me because searching for someone who was right for me was too scary, so I somehow relate to both Alyssa and Holden.
Banky sucks but Holden disgusts me more because he’s just pretending to himself…
This rips so fucking hard. Coogler’s love for the blues and roots, for Black folks and community, for the ancestors, is all so stunningly portrayed here.
I was not expecting to see 1930s American South Chinese characters with legit Southern accents, either. So cool!