Calling this The Substance for men is so reductive and unfunny. I related to that film a lot for its discourse on split identity, which I related to not so much on the basis of ageism or sexism but about masking my neurodivergence. This film is so much more explicit about this and verbalizes a dilemma that I've been dealing with a lot recently: how am I supposed to love myself if the world expects me to be ashamed of…
Honey I Shrunk the Watchlist Challenge 2025 - Film 20 - Watch the movie that is the least popular
The only "Tubi originals" I've watched were made by Devon Bray, so when people talk about them as irredeemable trash I get confused because they're really quite good. Less interesting to me than PPP Loan Gone, probably because it's less of a comedy. The comedy lands where it exists, though, and I really like the way Bray's characters interact, particularly in…
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Honey, I Shrunk the Watchlist Challenge - Film 33 - Watch a movie by (one of) your favorite director's that you haven't seen yet
Reminds me so so much of The Shrouds, but where that film is about grief and conspiracy this one's about death and capital (and also conspiracy). They're both kinda winkingly chauvinistic and deeply hilarious despite the heavy subject matters. This movie is so fucking funny. Pattinson is fun, as always, but Paul Giamatti is so fantastic.…
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This is the 100th movie I've logged this year. Figures.
I really don't get it. Solid performances and a really great score, but the writing was just...ugh. It was anticlimactic and it felt too short. I'm beginning to think Paul Thomas Anderson is one of those directors that just doesn't understand how to write women. What is Emily Watson's character if not "woman who is attracted to main character"? Why does she like him? What do they have in common?…
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It's a gay age gap movie that actually interrogates what that means. There's an amazing cut in this movie where it moves from Baby's friends voguing in the park (young, Black, trans or gender nonconforming) to a group of men dancing at a nightclub (old, white, relatively normative). The juxtaposition is so clear and fascinating, particularly where it comes to age. Baby has a somewhat infuriating conversation with an older partner at one point where the partner is completely disconnected…
