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this film rlly made me pay for the time i said i would watch josh o’connor in anything 🚬

Watched on Sunday June 1, 2025.

an empty soulless cashgrab of a vanity project that half heartedly tries to portray the weeknd as a #messedup-freak but can’t really commit and so the final product is an extended version of one of those fake-provocative VCRs they show in between songs at a concert to buy time for an outfit change. if you needed to see the weeknd aura farming at the bar in front of a wind up cow toy and barry keoghan as a weird homoerotic manager then this is the film for you ❤️ as a positive, it’s laugh-out-loud bad from the get go so you’re able to just enjoy it instead of festering abt how much potential it had (none)

never seen a queer film that’s so unabashedly furious omg… an ode to feeling at odds w ur identity in every way possible that’s amplified by 4000x w the inherent grittiness that every second 2000s aussie film seems to possess. truly goated addition to the very limited but impactful wog cinema canon that is always gonna hit home for me 🚬🚬

been waiting for someone to make an aussie private schoolboy thriller and that day has finally come in all its tense hsp scene open glory 🚬🚬

Watched on Wednesday May 7, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 6, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

silly and beautiful and the horse reaction shot is possible one of the greatest moments in the history of cinema J’ADORE GORY CAMPY ARTHOUSE HORROR COMEDIES 💋💋💋

bites off more than it can chew and could’ve been a bit nastier but cunty italian australian witch is such an insanely me coded concept i had to stan. like yeah i couldn’t tell u the plot but we brought back giallo!!! like actual tears streaming down my face when i got hit the split diopter green lighting like bitchhh
also soo much krostole in this film 📝📝

Watched on Monday April 21, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.

this rlly hit a nerve w me as a #memory-nerd and guy pearce truther…i have thoughts abt nolan and non-linear but this is an exception this was toooo goood

Watched on Sunday April 13, 2025.

satirical suburban sociopathy is sooo 🚬🚬

Watched on Monday March 31, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday March 26, 2025.

scorcese directs a kylie minogue music video like this is sooo stupid i love

Watched on Friday March 21, 2025.

Watched on Thursday March 20, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 15, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 8, 2025.

BONG DOES IT AGAIN!! over-the-top sci-fi political satire featuring hippo-like critters and an unexpected challengers-esque moment AKA KINO!!! incredible cameos include the little kid from this is england 

we have lost the ancient ways  (making out on the sydney monorail). love love love everything abt this ..rose byrne serving face in that photo..heath ledger…peak kings cross…sydney’s answer to sexy beast (2000)

Watched on Tuesday March 4, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 2, 2025.

Watched on Friday February 28, 2025.

ouroboros x centipede imagery is so beautiful and bittersweet i’m gonna throw up

Watched on Wednesday February 26, 2025.

absolutely pains me how limited of a release this had and how few people have had the privilege of watching it. rlly at a loss of words rn. stylistically, its super experimental but you almost seem to forget about it in lieu of how raw and painfully grounded in reality it is. dreams and recollections and archival footage as metaphor meshed together so perfectly..seriously just like game-changing visual poetry.

straight up jorkin it rn. and by it i mean my monkey!!!!!! this was fucking awesome and the necessary comeback from the shortcoming of longlegs whilst echoing its successes. soooo silly and funny and shocking but also really quite melancholic and gorgeous?? osgood perkins seems to have a thing for the melancholy of southern gothic (ik this is not set in the south shhh) and it's soo my shit.

Watched on Wednesday February 19, 2025.

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what i think makes this so excellent is how banal their debauchery actually is for the first 2/3rds of the film. they just sort of throw shit around and tell provocative jokes, drunk on the knowledge they’re part of an ancient elite society. then push comes to shove, everything turns to shit, and we finally see the dream die. the camaraderie and community of the riot club is conditional and it becomes dog eat dog when it comes to protecting one’s own social status. the final nail in the coffin is when we see alistair, awaiting trial, assured by an older alumni of the riot club that he will be protected by others like them and a prestigious career still awaits him. it’s here that the film confirms that the lame antics of the riot club are just an introduction and metaphor for the boys club that continue to exist in our governments, corporate world, and every nook and cranny of society. the film also impressively doesn’t let miles, who prides himself as being not like the other guys because he dates outside of his social class, off the hook. even if he eventually draws the line before the others do by being silently complicit in their antics rather than an eager participant, he still buys into the promise of the glory of being in the top 1% in the first place. "girls for now, girls for later" is one of the most sickening off-hand lines of dialogue i’ve heard ever.

Watched on Monday February 17, 2025.

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why the HELL was she ever considering that 26 yr old DJ/marine biologist phd candidate as a potential father to her children in the first place??? like by the time they finished fucking in his childhood bedroom w a comically low ceiling and he started doing those insane #quirky gestures to describe his cum shooting out, she should've been long gone.

answers the age old question of how to refer to xanax in a plural sense and sophie thatcher’s outfits were to die for. popcorn horror-comedy movies are soo back

sooooo aggressively new york in the 80s and into the groove needledrop like 5 times…pop stars today need to get on this type of shit omg

thinking a lot abt eve's musings on babygirl and intimacy when i think about this..
i think there's no denying queer bites off a whole lot more than it can chew. but the only thing more bittersweet than longing for something you cannot have is seeing yourself in someone and vicariously living out an alternative existence in them. and queer somehow manages to capture both of these concepts equally and at the same time so...
loved that everyone had glasses and i hope the challengers/queer dream-team crew gets to make 80 more films tgt that all couldn't be more different from each other.

Watched on Thursday January 30, 2025.

actually drowning in anemoia rn bc this film exists in such an eerie liminal space; on the precipse of an long-gone era of tangibility but with the paradoxical disconnect of the internet ever so close on the horizon. first-person povs filmed on personal devices are so overly common in coming-of-age media today that i audibly groan when i see a shaky shot implied to be taken on an iphone being thrown in for the sake of being #hip. but the early adoption of using digital camcorder footage as a subjective take on the narrative here has a real rawness to it.
this film really continues to haunt me. maybe bc it's just so unrelentness. bad shit is constantly happening to people who don't deserve it, and its not played for shock value at all. it just happens. def top 5 depictions of a fictional pop star and the cult-like nature of her fandom is soooo ahead of the curve.

Watched on Tuesday January 28, 2025.

Watched on Monday January 27, 2025.

this (sexy+sticky+corporate monotony+george michael) and a limoncello spritz 🚬🚬

Watched on Sunday January 26, 2025.

Watched on Friday January 24, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday January 22, 2025.

plane wet dreams, eating a mooncake off the barrel of a gun, every tragic thing that could possibly happen coming to fruition ..this is the prophesied coming of age film to end all others that the ancient texts spoke of. i desperately need access to this film’s wardrobe holy shit TARTAN PLATFORM SNEAKERS????

technicolour nightmare!! red and blues are undisputedly gorgeous but the greens really got me they need a comeback BAD. really fun and eerie but not enough dancing :(

Watched on Monday January 13, 2025.

Watched on Sunday January 12, 2025.

• Aftersun
• Attack the Block
• Shaun of the Dead
• This Is England
• Boiling Point
• God's Own Country
• Sexy Beast
• How to Have Sex

• Bedevil
• Lake Mungo
• Nitram
• In My Blood It Runs
• Picnic at Hanging Rock
• Two Hands
• The Night, the Prowler
• Chopper
• Head On

• The Monkey
• Mickey 17

• Challengers
• Nickel Boys
• The Apprentice
• Kinds of Kindness
• A Different Man
• Queer
• The Brutalist
• The Substance
• Anora
• Better Man

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

coming of age in a digital age

• Love & Pop
• All About Lily Chou-Chou
• Lake Mungo
• Made in Hong Kong

1. The Zone of Interest
2. Bottoms
3. The Iron Claw
4. Anatomy of a Fall
5. Saltburn
6. Scrapper
7. Killers of the Flower Moon
8. American Fiction
9. Past Lives
10. May December

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

1. Bones and All
2. Aftersun
3. Everything Everywhere All at Once
4. The Banshees of Inisherin
5. Skinamarink
6. Babylon
7. Triangle of Sadness
8. X
9. Pearl
10. Nope