I wrote 3 different reviews for this but they kept getting personal and I really don't want to do that. I think this has potential to be one of the most important movies of the decade if the right people watch it. Being a man is hard. Not in the ways the manosphere dorks whine about, but the way we interact with other men, and the expectations set on us, especially those that actively feed into the cycle of abuse.…

I'd sell my soul for a bottle of beer.

2001: A Space Odyssey might be the greatest film ever made, but to me The Shining will always be Kubrick's magnum opus. There is no other film like The Shining. Every trope this film uses has been saturated to death by dozens of lesser horror movies, yet none of them come close to accomplishing what it does. You can get two pretty surface level reads from this film on a first…

Super well made and entertaining from the start but I almost wish it kept going with the fake outs and didn't pivot to become like, an actual horror movie. Maybe that's something that would iron out on multiple rewatches but I was almost feeling a 5 on this until the last act. I actually agree with a lot of the philosophical points being made about prioritizing your personal relationship with God & religions, as institutions, being control mechanisms. I think this…

A mother's love is not just a spiritual shield that guides their children through life's hardships, it's also 30,000 layers of solid steel they can use to tear through their enemies. Been a while since I've watched End of Evangelion but surprise, surprise, still fucking owns. This movie is only like 90 minutes long if you skip through the intermission, so I watched it before work. I got my daughter fed and changed and back in bed with mom before…

Evangelion's swansong is both a deconstruction of and a final love letter to Hideaki Anno's magnum opus. 3.0+1.0 succeeds on every level that 3.33 failed and singlehandedly justifies the rebuild movies - both as subversions and complements to Neon Genesis Evangelion. It serves as a perfect foil to The End of Evangelion, arriving to roughly the same conclusion by taking a wildly different path, while also adding a true sense of finality, of closure, of moving forward. Beautiful, cathartic, subversive,…

Recently there's been an album making waves within the online music community. 파란노을 (Parranoul)'s To See the Next Part of the Dream. It certainly captured my interest and is one of my favorites of 2021 so far. It's a wondrous blend of shoegaze, emo, and noise pop. Reading the album's description on Bandcamp reveals a lot about it, but most relevant to this review is a few works that the artist cites as influences. All About Lily Chou-Chou, Goodnight Punpun,…