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Watched on Thursday June 5, 2025.

kerry armstrong should have an oscar for this

aisling franciosi in this… a genuine chameleon. we need more of her. dylan o’brien - a star. james sweeney is so hilarious and the voice is so sharp.

a companion piece to chuck & buck. so much fun.

Very proud of to have been a small part of this film! Go and see it!

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

it’s so good cause every actor - especially wiig and mccarthy - goes out of their way to look like a fucking idiot and thank god they do. perfect.

can’t believe i watched this as a kid and thought “yes, i’d love to work in the film industry!”

one of the most genius strokes of casting is tilda swinton in this. impeccable.

everything i could ever want from a movie. sublime.

Watched on Monday March 24, 2025.

pure dopamine

Watched on Wednesday March 19, 2025.

pattinson freaked it.

this is so deranged and completely darksided

having to watch this at home and not in cinema is criminal

felt like a 90s drama in the best way. torres really is as excellent as everyone has said.

Watched on Wednesday February 26, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday February 12, 2025.

not a rewatch, but some further thoughts.

I’m not queer. I’m disembodied.

whilst i think it’s probably true of any minority group, i can only really speak to the queer perspective from my own experience. and i do think this film captures beautifully the notion that queerness forces you to always somewhat live outside of yourself. being identified as queer from a young age, before perhaps you’ve made that discovery for yourself, gives the world a hyperreal quality that makes the performance of the self visible from an early age in ways that is both illuminating and horrifying. i like what luca is doing in of the body horror of queerness, and not in an “elevated horror metaphor” way but in the tension between wanting to experience pleasure via the body but the feeling of being “othered” removing you from your body and destroying a chance at true intimacy. luca identifies that it is both the want and fear to completely meld yourself to another - lose yourself to become yourself.

daniel and drew locking eyes during a cockfight? likely story

cruise me blonde, cruise me babe

2024 really was the year of edging cinema. whilst i would love to see nicole and harris engage in fatal attraction/basic instinct like games, i found this to be a fascinating look at our contemporary condition of sexlessness at our own expense. using the aesthetics of the erotic thriller as means of amplifying the sexual pleasures nicole’s romy denies herself via her deep shame and self loathing. i loved the dance between romy and samuel - the former being so repressed that lapping up milk like a dog is enough to turn you on. i loved how the film directly engaged with the ways our concern with vigilant check ins and pre-empting any miscommunication can be both a boner killer and deeply empowering. 

harris and nicole are so wonderful together. our nic seems genuinely thrilled when playing opposite him and the most free she’s been on the big screen since the paperboy. she continues to be the most fearless hollywood actor, engaging with her mythology in this role in exciting and vulnerable ways. harris is so gorgeous and so at ease at screen, he is one of our generation’s most riveting talents. the scenes in the private meeting rooms were probably the highlights.

score and cinematography also fabulous. not to beat a dead horse but the less said about nicole’s wig, the better.

sophie wilde… you are that girl. always been that girl. ❤️ beyond proud.

flashbacks to my days on gagadaily.com

Watched on Tuesday January 28, 2025.

i cannot get on board with the monkey of it all. i think i would’ve connected so much more with just a plain old actor. that being said, many of the musical sequences in the film contain some of the most electric, imaginative mainstream filmmaking in years. need michael gracey to direct a musical that isn’t about elevating men that really don’t need the credit.

louis armstrong IS lady raven

colman domingo and clarence maclin and paul raci and this entire ensemble… a gift

another reason the potter films hold up - the actors are playing the stakes FOR REAL. you have a collection of the greatest british actors - oldman, rickman, smith etc - in a children’s film without a hint of irony or aWkwArD tUrtLinG their way through a blockbuster.

and then the inventive, thoughtful craft on display? a tangible sense of place? a generation of filmmakers and craftspeople were raised on the BTS footage of these films. i hate to be nostalgic because it is that same nostalgia that has decimated creativity and yet…

i love the cho + harry kiss because it’s rare in a teen film, let alone any film, to see depictions of people falling in love during deep grief, which is unfortunately more common than not. i think for all their flaws and subsequent marring by their author’s bigotry, the potter films are mainstays because of the undercurrent of grief throughout all the films. grief as an essential, inescapable part of the human experience.

hartnett quietly gives one of the best performances of the year? hilarious

Watched on Sunday January 19, 2025.

needed more feathers mcgraw!!!!

genuinely disturbing. juliette gariépy is unreal.

depp just booked herself a slew of new acting jobs thanks to the gooning scene.

exceptional on almost every level of craft, especially the cinematography, costumes and sound. skarsgard quietly building an impressive, singular body of work. depp giving me all the burton it girl vibes that were foundational in my cinephilia and always happy to see simon mcburney in anything.

hey blue
there is a song for you
ink on a pin underneath the skin
an empty space to fill in
well there are so many sinking
now you've got to keep thinking
you can make it through these waves

pedro told tilda to dust off the karen crowder wig and get to work

Watched on Friday December 27, 2024.

Watched on Friday December 27, 2024.

Watched on Wednesday December 25, 2024.

Watched on Tuesday December 24, 2024.

Watched on Thursday December 12, 2024.

this is a plug for any sydney oomfs to come see my stupid show inspired by this masterpiece - playing at QTopia dec 18-21

incredible ensemble of which MJB is the titan. mike leigh really is THEE actors’ director

monumental, inventive craft work that feels so rare in this film climate. love to luxuriate in the many textures, shapes and colours drawn out by corbet and his amazing team. brody and pearce are totally captivating..

give ariana the oscar idgaf

proof that there is no greater movie magic than an actor meeting a role that not only showcases their talents but pushes them to new heights (literally lol). cynthia and ariana… the women that you are.

being a celebrity in the 20th century was chic, being a celebrity in the 21st century is diabolical

now when is will sharpe going to get to lead a movie

Watched on Saturday November 2, 2024.

great gowns, beautiful gowns

will update as i continue to see nominees

• Anora
• No Other Land
• The Brutalist
• Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
• A Different Man
• The Substance
• Dune: Part Two
• Wicked
• Black Box Diaries
• Nosferatu

...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

films watched at sydney film festival june 2023

• May December
• Asteroid City
• Anatomy of a Fall
• Monster
• Afire
• Perfect Days
• ages
• Birdeater
• Cobweb
• Reality

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Birdeater
• How Can I Help You
• The Dancing Girl and the Balloon Man
• Three Thousand Years of Longing
• Extraction
• Poker Face
• Blaze
• The Moogai
• Cusp
• False As A Beach

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Crimes of the Future
• The Stranger
• R.M.N.
• Of an Age
• Funny Pages
• Alcarràs
• Rimini
• Three Thousand Years of Longing
• Petrol

films watched at the 69th edition of SFF

• Pather Panchali
• The Quiet Girl
• Triangle of Sadness
• Will-o’-the-Wisp
• You Won't Be Alone
• Close
• Fire of Love
• One Fine Morning
• Stars at Noon
• Godland

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• Parasite
• Honeyland
• Ray & Liz
• Pain and Glory
• The Souvenir
• The Nightingale
• Her Smell
• Sequin in a Blue Room
• High Life

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

• Petite Maman
• Drive My Car
• The Worst Person in the World
• The Power of the Dog
• Flee
• Great Freedom
• Memoria
• Parallel Mothers
• Zola
• Bergman Island

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Mulholland Drive
• The Ninth Gate
• Inland Empire
• Eraserhead
• Lost Highway
• Crumb
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• The Five Obstructions
• Easy Rider
• Ghost World

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