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Rebecca Ferguson, the woman that you are.

For a film so slay why tf are the exotic location title cards in Arial...

I don't even know how to rate this I hate hated hated it, everyone was stupid and it made my skin crawl but the latter is kind of the point

Angles so Dutch just paint the film orange (complimentary)

Watched on Saturday May 10, 2025.

Part of Rógan's Black Debutantes season at the BFI and this is why curation is an art form! A new favourite! Adored it!

Incoherent re its stance on crypto and on US imperialist meddling but thrives when it lets Viola Davis be a believable, powerful leader. Shout-out to my man Ramon Rodriguez!!

Meghann Fahy, I love you

Listen I really enjoyed it and I'd watch it again but it had to Marvel and I really wish it could have vibed independently

Watched on Friday April 25, 2025.

One worries for journalists using their trauma for books and movies but it's so clear that here, it's the only way she could move forward, and in doing so, risked so much to enact change.

It's so honest to show both a woman doing book tours and a woman just collapsing on her bed and crying down the phone. There are still backwards people who think women do these kind of accusations for fun or for revenge, and you can just see how exhausted Shiori is and how she still has PTSD to fight even when she makes her small important victories in the Japanese justice system.

It's also terrifying to see elements that in my mind are reserved for spy thrillers - searching for bugs in her house, seeing a white van outside, insisting that it she is found dead that the police should investigate... The paranoia takes over her life and at the level she's operating against, not unwarranted.

5 stars because from a filmmaking perspective, it comes from a place of not wanting to upset other survivors and it succeeds, and the B roll is stunning and serves the story, from towering skyscrapers like the mountains she has to overcome, to the cherry blossoms she realises she couldn't enjoy because they reminded her of her assault.

So much more happens than I thought, if I tried to explain it I'd sound like Bill Hader announcing the hottest new club

That's cinema babyyy

Are there any other banging films that use Rocky Road to Dublin aside from this and Sherlock Holmes?

They would have called it The Aviator but that name was taken. Good film, but I wish the dead wife had been Rami Malek and Rachel Brosnahan had been The Amateur

reading a synopsis of an Almodovar makes it sound like a kooky diversity tickbox dream and then every one I watch is a Technicolour heartfelt majesty that lodges itself firmly into my heart, All About My Mother is no exception

What a dark film for such a sunny day, and all too interchangeable with the news

I defer to other critics re representation and accuracy but Zhao sure knows how to capture beauty in the everyday and some of the shots made the light look magic

Watched on Friday April 4, 2025.

I ration these films precisely so that I can experience a fresh sense of joie-de-vivre like I did here.

Glorious and unhinged, must be very freeing to run riot like this

Only taking film recs from the Fire Island lads from now on, Marisa Tomei an utter delight

Nightmares! Get your nightmares here!

After a lot of overly expositional television, this felt refreshingly more in media res and I appreciated not being treated like an idiot. Sleek, sexy, sassy (is this Marisa Abela? I get it now) but could have used slightly more runtime so I could fully grasp the implications of every twist. Again though, in this world of City of London, Pret dead drops and fancy suits and glass windows, that distance did feel intentional so I can't be too mad.

Very video game quality to this, adored how accurate each of the creatures mannerisms were. Nothing more heart rending than a soggy little cat, plaintively meowing. Stay tuned for my tag yourself meme.

Even a mid tier Bong Joon Ho is infinitely more charming than most of Hollywood. Robert Pattinson for Best and ing Actor!

Was emotionally prepared for Tatiana Maslany but not Adam Scott

Harrison Ford just needs a hug

(What a glow down from all the glorious telly I have been watching. Why must the Hulk over shadowing and the Zionist take up space in Sam Wilson's movie smh)

In honour of a fabulous but zeroed bonus set many moons ago. Not smart enough to disagree with hooks or Butler but a well constructed film that really shows off the character and verve of the ballroom scene

We need some new ideas but Ke Huy Quan you are a cutie

never seen such "a between a rock and a hard place" film and it's so painful

for Truth and Movies film club so listen to that on Friday xoxo

Really can't rate this because it's just so integral to shaping my imagination of Islamic history and the Prophet 🤌🏽

Much a film be good? Is it not enough to be goofy and have adorable Sabrina Carpenter and Jordan Fisher

Logging this because the pilot was feature length, Felix and I are hooked and I will be addressing every voice note I record to Diane for the foreseeable

Okay embargo lifted I can speak my truth: I think this film implies that Mark Darcy was reincarnated as a barn owl and for that alone, I cannot hate it

The edginess is softened by age somewhat but who needs constantly weight loss propaganda or a racist trip to Thailand when you can have two attractive men fighting over Bridget, as is the heart and soul of the franchise. Improved by Emma Thompson rolling her eyes at them both.

Excited to hear how Daniel Cleaver survived his plane crash though lmao (I like to think Hugh Grant was busy prepping for his role of a lifetime: Phoenix Buchanan and wasn't available)

Was charmed by Will Sharpe in Real Pain and found this on Channel 4. Can't believe I hadn't seen it sooner, delightful and like quirky British actor bingo. Suitably creative and original approach for its subject.

Barbara my favourite addition from the book, Guy Haines appropriately attractive, loved the fairground sequences and the tennis

So full of pain, I struggled to watch

Yeah well done this felt heartfelt, original and really honest about fame being shit

Melancholic in Mumbai

Saved my last glamorous Grace Kelly Hitchcock collab for a literal rainy day and I must say this ranks high! Plot simple but effective. Particularly adored the use of the camera angle when planning the murder attempt from above that made it look like watching a stage being set from a high seat, and the shifting lighting to show the progressive levels of the sentencing.

Should have ended a scene earlier than it did. Adria Arjona is a fantastic final girl, but Blink Twice toys with ideas it's fully not equipped to handle

Reminded me how much I actually enjoyed the book with its bittersweetness and silly characters, Massey is perfect as the mousey but occasionally acerbic heroine

I'm a sucker for watching a film based on an anchored date in the movie and this is January blues in cinema. Crushing disappointment in the world combined with potential and excitement. I was swept by Andrew Garfield's mania, probably enhanced by what I imagine was Lin Manuel Miranda's enthusiastic direction and now I'm sad about Jonathan Larson and his preventable death ok bye

Every time I watch Varda doc, I'm swept away by how she balances being a character in her own film and being proud of her own work without anything feeling narcissistic. She's just an artist interested in other people, and partly it's the constant turning of the lens and the name dropping of her collaborators, but there's just a real humility and openness about her that is so rare. Like she's a friend telling you a funny story with props, not a pioneer charting her career.

Oh hey Paxo! Ruined by 2004 weight loss / Thai racism / slightly terfy humour as per but otherwise slay

Was 2001 the year the rom com girlies wore inappropriate Playboy bunnie costumes to parties?

How much of the budget did they spend on cheesy music? Anyway I respected the Lauryn Hill intro and how they got progressively more parent musiced in the present day. This was cute.

love a playful piano soundtrack, adored the mercurial soulful performance of Kieran culkin, appreciated the delicacy of the storytelling and was super shattered by a putdown scene, the most since I last saw the Miss Bates insulting in Emma, probably because I'm also a tour guide who discusses trauma I've not experienced.

1. Nickel Boys
2. Sinners
3. A Real Pain
4. I'm Still Here
5. All We Imagine as Light
6. Julie Keeps Quiet
7. Nosferatu
8. Hard Truths
9. Mickey 17
10. Maria

...plus 28 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Black Bag
• PlayTime
• My Cousin Vinny
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Sister Midnight
• Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman
• Joy
• Arrival
• Love & Basketball
• Mystic Pizza

...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Fabelmans
• Nickel Boys
• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
• Nope

• The Color Purple
• Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman
• The Watermelon Woman
• Pariah
• All By Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story
• Paris Is Burning
• Jackie Brown
• Coffy
• Foxy Brown
• Friday Foster

up to June '25

• Hit the Road
• Compartment No. 6
• Pickpocket
• Hive
• C'mon C'mon
• The Big City
• You Will Die at Twenty
• The Quiet Girl
• Flee
• The Apartment

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Anora
• The Brutalist
• A Complete Unknown
• The Girl with the Needle
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig
• Gladiator II
• Black Box Diaries
• Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
• Porcelain War
• Sugarcane

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Let's goooo 🎬

• Dahomey
• My Eternal Summer
• Nickel Boys
• The Cats of Gokogu Shrine
• The Piano Lesson
• Blitz
• Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
• The Gutter
• The Balconettes
• Anora

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Kiki's Delivery Service
2. Porco Rosso
3. My Neighbor Totoro
4. Spirited Away
5. The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
6. Whisper of the Heart
7. The Wind Rises
8. Only Yesterday
9. Castle in the Sky
10. The Boy and the Heron

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Society of the Snow
• 20 Days in Mariupol
• Scrapper
• How to Have Sex
• Poor Things
• Maestro
• American Fiction
• Rustin
• The Color Purple

From UK releases x

1. The Fabelmans
2. Rye Lane
3. Asteroid City
4. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
5. May December
6. TÁR
7. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
8. Polite Society
9. Killers of the Flower Moon
10. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

...plus 12 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
• National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• National Theatre Live: Medea
• National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire
• National Theatre Live: Small Island
• National Theatre Live: One Man, Two Guvnors
• National Theatre Live: All My Sons
• National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
• National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard
• National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Asteroid City
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• The French Dispatch
• Moonrise Kingdom
• Isle of Dogs
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• Rushmore

Future movie nights

• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• Yentl
• Howl's Moving Castle
• My Neighbor Totoro
• Spirited Away
• Fiddler on the Roof
• Rashomon
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. After Yang
2. Cyrano
3. Aftersun
4. Nope
5. Enola Holmes 2
6. The Quiet Girl
7. Decision to Leave
8. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
9. Turning Red
10. Happening

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Metropolitan
• Moonstruck
• The Muppet Christmas Carol
• Yentl
• Boiling Point
• Fanny and Alexander
• It's a Wonderful Life
• Meet Me in St. Louis
• Peter's Friends
• Scrooge

• Wildfire
• Les 3 Boutons
• Sweet Bean
• Meshes of the Afternoon
• Blackfish
• I'm British But...
• Miss Juneteenth
• The Gleaners and I
• The Broken Hearts Gallery
• The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later

...plus 44 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Paris Is Burning
• Hoop Dreams
• The Gleaners and I
• The Beaches of Agnès
• The Act of Killing
• The Look of Silence
• Blackfish
• Dreams of a Life
• Inside Job
• Bowling for Columbine

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

*Laura Dern voice* Women.
Updating as I go along...

• A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
• The Bookshop
• Mary Shelley
• Nappily Ever After
• Wadjda
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Prevenge
• Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
• Emma.
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle

...plus 53 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• It Follows
• The Addams Family
• Addams Family Values
• The Haunting of Bly Manor
• Over the Garden Wall
• Ready or Not
• Kindred

1. Nomadland
2. Mangrove
3. Wolfwalkers
4. Herself
5. Rose: A Love Story
6. Supernova
7. Undine
8. Stray
9. Lovers Rock
10. Mogul Mowgli

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

FatimaFest 2020 a colour-coordinated line up. 25th July to ??? Stay tuned

• Bad Education
• How to Build a Girl
• Brittany Runs a Marathon
• Paradise Hills
• Palm Springs
• Monsoon
• House of Hummingbird
• Luce
• Saint Maud
• Minari

...plus 58 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2. Shirkers
3. Fast Color
4. Wildlife
5. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
6. Roma
7. The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
8. To All the Boys I've Loved Before
9. Capernaum
10. Widows

...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A hybrid of UK cinema and festival releases. Not all my 2019 watches, just the ones I loved 💌

1. If Beale Street Could Talk
2. Little Women
3. Blinded by the Light
4. Woman at War
5. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
6. The Farewell
7. Parasite
8. Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
9. Knives Out
10. Minding the Gap

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

On UK Prime / Netflix, ones I want to check out. The full list is here

• Charade
• The Guilty
• Night Moves
• Falling Leaves
• Homicide
• Adelheid
• She's Gotta Have It
• The Salesman
• The Silence
• Private Life

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

pre 1979 movies I should check out
🎥🎞️🖤

• La Dolce Vita
• Singin' in the Rain
• Some Like It Hot
• Double Indemnity
• One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
• Brief Encounter
• Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
• The Big Sleep
• Strangers on a Train
• Mikey and Nicky

...plus 93 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

In chronological order

1. The Spy Who Dumped Me
2. Little Women
3. Shirkers
4. Dumplin'
5. The Wedding Date
6. The Miseducation of Cameron Post
7. Skate Kitchen
8. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
9. Belle
10. The Party

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.