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“Onwards & upwards.”

i love love so much….and celine just knows how to make you feel that love. 

(full review coming wednesday)

cory michael smith & ramy youssef…may i suggest we make a mountainhead of our own?

Showgirls: LA (2026) announcement is any day now…

haven’t been left speechless by a movie in a while so this was a breath of fresh air (and not even just in of horror). subtley comedic, absolutely merciless, and viscerally upsetting through the entire runtime with a trifecta of characters holding equal weight in the story

p.s. i doubt we’ll ever see a more diabolical use of untouched by the veronicas in film ever again

cannot believe how lucky i have been with event screenings because, not only were tom kalin & christine vachon here for the q&a, but CRAIG CHESTER - THE MAN OF MY DREAMS - WAS IN ATTENDANCE…WITNESSED HIM WITH MY OWN EYES…

cannot believe i was mere feet away from russell tovey….i missed my chance 💔

mentally preparing myself for all of the mia threapleton nun costumes this halloween (complimentary)

you know what? shoutout to straight men with social anxiety, i kind of feel sorry for yall

roommate in another room hearing me watch this:
they should have named him “mike hunt” instead, would have been funnier

it was SO bad, i wanted to give you a zero…but that’s not possible. so i give you, a one.

all that costume & production design…and for what?

i just feel like every actor’s talents were wasted and it was a slog to get through…no point in ruminating on a character’s actions when there wasn’t much buy-in to begin with

yes it’s satirical, yes it’s shocking at times, but the hyperbolic first reactions to movies like this where it really is not as extreme as critics say has been killing me….anyways, it has a powerful message in a just okay movie!

watching this at 8:30am on my last day at cannes felt like a true fever dream, but wow is this gorgeous to look at. 

not every chapter works per say but most do - and they are STUNNING

with all that hoopla coming out of sundance this year claiming that the american indie is dead - this film is a prime example that the american indie is still alive and well

*bonus points for experiencing my first standing ovation at cannes*

i have to stand in my truth and say, while this is beautifully shot and tranquil, a lot of the attempts at surrealism did not blend with the story in a way that made them compelling - just jarring :(

i may be biased but as a fellow oldest sibling, child of divorce, and victim of genetic depression with daddy issues, this is the best film of cannes by LEAGUES..

every performance is captivating, if the jury were to repeat the acting award for multiple actors in a single film this would be it. tender & quietly devastating, but never bleak. PALME D’OR & BEST PICTURE OSCAR INCOMING!!

i feel absolutely crushed right now

i guess you could say this has a leg up on the cannes competition this year… 😀

got the full cannes experience with someone barfing all over themselves & having to be carried out of the screening- this is now a core memory

someone’s taken their love of the “these gays, they’re trying to kill me” line reading too far

alternative title: dickmatized

alexander skarsgård come on over here you little freak…let me try

the first gay slasher of the 2010’s…paper on this coming later….

jesse plemons return…let’s just say id have no problem being put through his DNA machine

Watched on Monday May 12, 2025.

biblical levels of cursed media

Watched on Tuesday May 6, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 6, 2025.

meghann fahy you will always be famous

with a surprise appearance from lee kang-sheng, can certify that this will have a special place in my heart

watching each other rot tonight, queen??

um….yeah.

i fear this is entering canon territory…

every night out in weho contains the same sense of fear

how it feels to be a chop hoe

every day we get closer to The Studio becoming real

Watched on Sunday April 13, 2025.

in addition to the locked michelle williams + jenny slate emmys, this gave me a new DILF of the month in rob delaney - so thank you FX on hulu

me with my icloud+ subscription

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

put me in Queer NOW….

well behaved bottoms rarely make history

anyone who watches this should have to walk around with a scarlet letter for the rest of their life

one day i’ll write a long piece about when this film came into my life almost ten years ago and why it’s burned into my memory….but for now we drink.

Watched on Tuesday April 1, 2025.

fuck i miss LA so much 😭

i feel absolutely crushed right now…

quite literally one of the best films ever made, and that’s not an exaggeration

Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.

Watched on Friday March 28, 2025.

• Sentimental Value
• Resurrection
• Materialists
• Sorry, Baby
• Dying for Sex
• Bring Her Back
• Black Bag
• Friendship
• Companion
• Paddington in Peru

...plus 33 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

ranked by faves to worst!

1. Sentimental Value
2. Resurrection
3. Sorry, Baby
4. Splitsville
5. Dangerous Animals
6. The Secret Agent
7. Pillion
8. Yes
9. Alpha
10. Romería

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

• Videodrome
• Crash
• The Fly
• Shivers
• Maps to the Stars
• Crimes of the Future
• The Shrouds

Currently pursuing my graduate degree, so I thought what the hell let me share all the things I have to watch as part of my program!

• The Best Years of Our Lives

  Film Criticism
  Focus: American Critics

• Sherlock Jr.

  Film Form / Film Sense
  Focus: Intro to Class

• Band of Outsiders

  Film Criticism
  Focus: The French Critics

• Day for Night

  Film Form / Film Sense
  Focus: Writing about Film

• The Cheat

  American Cinema: Origins to 1960s
  Focus: 1910s-1920s Features, Serials, Stars, Studios, "Independents," and WWI

• The Little American

  American Cinema: Origins to 1960s
  Focus: 1910s-1920s Features, Serials, Stars, Studios, "Independents," and WWI

• Straight Shooting

  American Cinema: Origins to 1960s
  Focus: 1910s-1920s Features, Serials, Stars, Studios, "Independents," and WWI

• Bonnie and Clyde

  Film Criticism
  Focus: 1960s & 1970s Critics

• Flesh and the Devil

  American Cinema: Origins to 1960s
  Focus: Silent Cinema's Peak

• Irma Vep

  Film Criticism
  Focus: Movie Consumption

...plus 92 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. All About My Mother
2. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
3. Pain and Glory
4. Volver
5. Law of Desire
6. Parallel Mothers
7. Bad Education
8. The Room Next Door
9. The Human Voice
10. The Skin I Live In

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

ranking one of my fave directors yet again!

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Twin Peaks: The Return
3. Twin Peaks
4. Blue Velvet
5. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
6. Inland Empire
7. Lost Highway
8. Eraserhead
9. Wild at Heart

1. The Substance
2. Flow
3. Babygirl
4. Challengers
5. Dune: Part Two
6. Red Rooms
7. Nickel Boys
8. Queer
9. Janet Planet
10. The People's Joker

...plus 77 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• An American Werewolf in London
• You're Next
• The Strangers
• Suspiria
• Army of Darkness
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
• X
• Pearl
• Terrifier 2
• TÁR

...plus 66 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Everything I watched while I was on my deathbed yet again.

• La Chimera
• Stress Positions
• Immaculate
• Cunk on Life
• A Bigger Splash
• Inherent Vice
• Maria

1. Phantom Thread
2. Boogie Nights
3. Licorice Pizza
4. There Will Be Blood
5. The Master
6. Punch-Drunk Love
7. Magnolia
8. Inherent Vice
9. Hard Eight

• Call Me by Your Name
• Challengers
• Suspiria
• Queer
• A Bigger Splash
• Bones and All
• We Are Who We Are

slowly but surely

• Badlands
• Safe
• Inland Empire
• Mulholland Drive
• Valley of the Dolls
• The Virgin Suicides
• Videodrome
• Dazed and Confused
• The Silence of the Lambs
• Blue Velvet

...plus 51 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Crash
• Videodrome
• The Fly
• Shivers
• Maps to the Stars
• Crimes of the Future

• Do the Right Thing
• BlacKkKlansman
• Bamboozled
• Girl 6
• She's Gotta Have It
• 25th Hour

1. Heartbeats
2. I Killed My Mother
3. Mommy
4. Matthias & Maxime
5. The Death & Life of John F. Donovan

movies with soundtracks that either stick with me after or just have banger after banger

• Heartbeats
• If Beale Street Could Talk
• Call Me by Your Name
• Climax
• The Neon Demon
• The Bling Ring
• Death Proof
• Hustlers
• Booksmart
• La La Land

...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

all the movies i’ve watched while the world ends

• Orlando
• Swallow
• Side Effects
• Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer
• Showgirls
• Black Christmas
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
• Hustlers
• Little Miss Sunshine
• American Ultra

...plus 48 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Death Proof
2. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
6. Reservoir Dogs
7. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
8. Jackie Brown
9. Django Unchained
10. The Hateful Eight

1. Cecil B. Demented
2. Female Trouble
3. Multiple Maniacs
4. Cry-Baby

RIP

• Fifty Shades Freed
• Black Panther
• Annihilation
• Game Night
• Red Sparrow
• The Strangers: Prey at Night
• Thoroughbreds
• A Wrinkle in Time
• Love, Simon
• Flower

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Lilies Not for Me
• Throuple
• Baby
• High Tide

love u baby :) can't wait to finish all your films <3

1. The Favourite
2. Poor Things
3. The Lobster
4. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
5. Dogtooth
6. Kinds of Kindness
7. Kinetta

a director that i will find a way to talk about in one of my film studies classes

1. The Bling Ring
2. Lost in Translation
3. Marie Antoinette
4. The Virgin Suicides
5. Somewhere
6. Priscilla
7. On the Rocks
8. The Beguiled

1. Poor Things
2. Past Lives
3. Fellow Travelers
4. The Fall of the House of Usher
5. Bottoms
6. May December
7. Barbie
8. BEEF
9. Anatomy of a Fall
10. The Zone of Interest

...plus 47 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Cha Cha Real Smooth
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
3. TÁR
4. Triangle of Sadness
5. Bodies Bodies Bodies
6. Fire of Love
7. Babylon
8. Glass Onion
9. Women Talking
10. The Batman

...plus 62 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Belfast
2. The Worst Person in the World
3. Spencer
4. Licorice Pizza
5. Dune
6. Judas and the Black Messiah
7. The Suicide Squad
8. Parallel Mothers
9. Zola
10. The Power of the Dog

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, BABY!!!

• Hellraiser
• Sick
• The Menu

1. In the Mood for Love
2. Chungking Express
3. Happy Together
4. Fallen Angels
5. 2046
6. Days of Being Wild
7. My Blueberry Nights

This list compiles all of the films I've watched and studied for my B.A. in Film, Television, and Media Studies from Loyola Marymount University! I hope this demonstrates the diversity of this film program and the types of classes offered!

• Singin' in the Rain

  FTVS 1010: Art of Cinema
  Focus: Introduction

• Network

  FTVS 1020: Art of Screen Media
  Focus: Introduction

• The Princess Bride

  FTVS 1010: Art of Cinema
  Focus: Narrative

• Six Degrees of Separation

  FTVS 1010: Art of Cinema
  Focus: Performance

• The Florida Project

  FTVS 1010: Art of Cinema
  Focus: Mise-en-scene

• In the Mood for Love

  FTVS 1010: Art of Cinema
  Focus: Cinematography

• Children of Men

  FTVS 1010: Art of Cinema
  Focus: Editing

• Bamboozled

  FTVS 1020: Art of Screen Media
  Focus: Encoding/Decoding

• Whiplash

  FTVS 1010: Art of Cinema
  Focus: Sound

• Rear Window

  FTVS 1010: Art of Cinema
  Focus: Midterm

...plus 123 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Freaky
2. Nomadland
3. I Carry You with Me
4. The Invisible Man
5. Saint Maud
6. Black Bear
7. Mangrove
8. Emma.
9. Visible: Out on Television
10. Disclosure

...plus 52 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Favourite
2. Thoroughbreds
3. Burning
4. The Tale
5. Roma
6. First Reformed
7. A Star Is Born
8. Eighth Grade
9. Suspiria
10. Hereditary

...plus 83 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

and in that order!

• On the Rocks
• Nomadland
• I Carry You with Me
• Lovers Rock
• Mangrove
• Red, White and Blue

IT’S A WORK IN PROGRESS THIS BITCH LIKES TO MAKE LONG AS F*CK MOVIES

1. GoodFellas
2. The Irishman
3. After Hours
4. Casino
5. The Departed
6. Silence
7. Hugo
8. Cape Fear
9. Taxi Driver
10. Gangs of New York

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Possessor
• Saint Maud
• Freaky

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Eyes Wide Shut
3. The Shining
4. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
5. A Clockwork Orange

It’s been a rough year and I have so many movies to watch before it’s over BUT HERE’S WHAT I’VE SEEN SO FAR!

1. Booksmart
2. Hustlers
3. Parasite
4. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
5. Little Women
6. Marriage Story
7. Us
8. The Farewell
9. Knives Out
10. Her Smell

...plus 68 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

getting my jush

1. Mysterious Skin
2. Nowhere
3. Totally F***ed Up
4. The Living End
5. The Doom Generation

My top 50 films of the decade in no particular order! Some hold sentimental value and others are films that I consider vital to the decade :^)

• The Bling Ring
• Call Me by Your Name
• Closet Monster
• Booksmart
• If Beale Street Could Talk
• La La Land
• s Ha
• Gone Girl
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
• Melancholia

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While taking Art in the Age of AIDS in my first semester of college, I researched and wrote about gay men as sexual beings in AIDS cinema versus reality. Because of this research paper, I watched a lot of AIDS movies (good and bad) and studied their cultural impact and relevance today. Thus, I want to share with everyone the complete AIDS cinema canon, where AIDS is either a factor in the main narrative, a character’s life, or plays some important role in the film. (Arranged in rough chronological order).

• An Early Frost
• Buddies
• Parting Glances
• A Virus Knows No Morals
• Go Toward the Light
• Tongues Untied
• Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
• The Ryan White Story
• Longtime Companion
• Our Sons

...plus 52 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

this is what i consider sky ferreira’s film canon to be based off her instagram and various interviews. please share this around i would die if she saw it somehow :,)

• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
• Freeway
• Kill Bill: Vol. 1
• Paris, Texas
• Pulp Fiction
• Batman Returns
• Adventureland
• Twin Peaks
• Twin Peaks: The Return
• Inland Empire

...plus 71 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

next year i am missing all of my classes to attend the full festival!

1. The Favourite
2. Destroyer
3. Knife+Heart
4. Family
5. Vox Lux
6. Under the Silver Lake
7. In Fabric

first beyond fest was a major success!

1. Suspiria
2. Widows
3. Climax
4. An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn
5. Bad Times at the El Royale