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Have you ever watch two 5 year old boys play and thought, “What the literal fuck?” Then this might be great for you.

So much heart, so endearing. It’s refreshing to see the effects of homophobia without having to see its perpetrators on screen. No one’s sexuality needs to be in question here. 

I think the biggest feat regarding this film is that 20 years ago, it would have been made with all white people and would have been a TLA Releasing film you’d have to special order. Stories about queer people of color are now feature films in theaters (and mine was packed on a Wednesday).

Coogler just doesn’t miss. This is no exception. Where is Wunmi’s Oscar?

Solid, no frills, while still maintaining the value of the visual image. I am here for the 90-minute movie!

It’s like Bong saw Challengers, called Guadagnino a pussy, upped the stakes. Also, a pretty comprehensive treatise on a discussion of the “value” of humanity.

I love the range of complex characters that come from the women in this film. Turns out some people are afraid when they see how others explore their freedom.

Carrie Fisher once said something like, “if it weren’t funny, it would just be true, and that’s unacceptable.” I think this will make the rewatch circuit for a while. Perkins is emerging as one of the new masters of horror and I am happy to see what he draws out of it.

A fun well-paced entry in the series. I wonder what Michael Bay had to pay Henry Rollins to get him to agree to play a cop. Too bad it only cost him his soul. FTP. Also, Haitian gang are required to have locs, duh.

Honorable OTGIIT (Oh, that guy/gal is in this): Gabrielle Union pre-Dwyane Wade, also Klanned-out Michael Shannon

What’s it like to live in Miami? Appparently like a dark, sexy, sweaty, metal music video.

Notable Appearance: a pre-Sopranos Michael Imperioli

Solid, captures the heart of the original. I hate that Sara Barreiles is not a bigger star

A serviceable attempt to mash together various plot points needed to tie up some loose ends and introduce new stuff, but it’s all much grander than it needs to be. The attempts to ground Sam Wilson feel superficial and cheap, while failing to give him any true internal conflict to tie in the plot. The resurgence of long forgotten characters mostly work, but new characters feel mostly empty attempts to wrangle new talent. Perhaps this movie would have felt better without Captain America. 

All in all, feels like the Thor 2 of this part of the MCU saga. Sam Wilson deserved better. Also, too much star-spangled military and police worship. I shouldn’t have to worry whether an old black man should be executed while under arrest, in a Marvel movie, during BHM, in 2025.

Y’know, it was fun and well paced and more of a romcom than a horror. Jordana Brewster should be in more comedies, and horrors.

Solid Flanagan core haunting, still scary upon multiple viewings.

I hate that we don’t talk about this movie more. Feels like an appropriate time for it…

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So cute. I love that this year’s movies are really saying let’s have a bloodbath on stage and see how a physical audience reacts.

The lengths men will go to cover up their crimes knows no end.

Beautiful and heartbreaking.

If this had been the first Coen Brothers film I’d seen, it would probably feel more groundbreaking, or original. By large, a solid film doing in the canon of Coen goofy comedy of errors movies. The juxtaposition of mundane everyday activities with grand events and dream ballet are at its peak here.

A tour de force, Fernanda Torres rightfully and masterfully done. I am still working on words to describe it.

The feel good buddy comedy genre has been lacking everything this has. Stakes that feel real and realistic while also recognizing the absurdity of modern life. Brava ladies!!

This is what I’d hoped Wild Robot would be. Superb characterization and personification of these animals as they struggle through survival and teamwork. I would do anything for that cat.

Powerful performances all around, a simple premise on the nature of suffering extrapolated through human responses to it. In a crowded year for the nominations, Marianne Jean-Baptiste stands out

There’s vision, there’s intrigue, there’s finally a new story. Outstanding performances from a stellar cast.

Largely, a spectacular tale of what it means to make it in America and the disillusionment it requires understand it. Brody, Pierce and Jones give knock-out performances, as does most of the cast.

On a personal note, the intermission was a brilliant way to segment the film so that it didn’t feel tedious. I also had to sit with the ending to be able to parse how I felt about its chaos. I may watch this again, but I’ll need a moment.

A simple premise: what if the dissenting juror in Twelve Angry Men had ulterior motives. Simple, straightforward storytelling, allowing the performances to take lead without the frills of "auteur" cinematography or heavy direction to get in the way. Not a bad way to spend 90 minutes this holiday season.

The most disappointing this about this movie going experience was that AMC changed the opening sequence to remove the welcome from Nicole Kidman. 

Otherwise, this is a phenomenal film with excellent performances, groundbreaking cinematography, and excellent exploration of the subject matter.

Every person who had a part in making this film put their whole pussy in it. From the costume designer who made Aaron Taylor Johnson’s bulge clearly visible in that scene, to the crane op who caught that vertical shot of Lily Rose Depp having a remote orgasm on the beach, everyone knew that this film needed to restore the gothic romantic aesthetic to vampire lore. Well done Robert Eggers and team.

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Men in ornate gowns whispering rumors, dramatic backstabbing, choosing a successor to massively influential career, a bold Italian woman overstepping her bounds to share some tea that destroys a competitor, unintentional drama about the sex organs of a colleague.

We can only hope that the decision on who to replace RuPaul as the host of drag race has this much drama as this film about selecting the next pope.

This movie really shines in its performances of complex character dynamics. Pam Anderson stands out among show-stealing performances from Jamie Lee Curtis and Billie Lourd. Who hasn't wondered whether they've made all the wrong choices while fervently standing by the one choice that seems to make them happy?

Delightful, naughty and perfect for the weird year we’ve had.

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That man was so concerned about her strange grocery habits that he didn’t notice her 6 additional nipples? Interesting.

Queer is the shortened title from the original “Queer and Longing in Mexico City”

Craig beautifully portrays the pathetic indignation of unrequited longing. The story tends to meander, albeit beautifully, and the visual detail begets an appreciation for the 1st person narrative and a commitment to the source material.

Spectacular spectacular. Incredible performances, and pays excellent homage to the visual groundbreaking elements of its cinematic predecessors.

June Squibb is stone cold and I would watch an entire series of her getting justice.

It was a good discussion and an even greater example of how you can take smug assholes to task

Stunning, emotionally-driven look into the process of learning and loving who you are when you don’t fit the mold

Not bad, but I’m curious as to what the Helen Hunt produced version would have looked like.

Also, I’m curious as to what convinced Paul Scheer to take that role in the movie?

Never have I felt workplace anxiety at the movies so much as I did any time that assistant popped in with a "55 minutes to air".

Time travel has rules, except when it (conveniently) doesn’t. No wonder this was shelved for three years. It should have stayed there. The only positive is that I now know where to look when I need to see what it looks like when a “Zendaya-type” fails to being charming.

Surprisingly very funny and warm-hearted. The use of stop-motion allows for some of the more grotesque elements of the memoir to maintain some lightness while not sacrificing the heart of the story.

Cute little gay rom com, just to remind me that gay men in CA were fine before Texas v Lawrence and maybe it’ll get me through this election eve.

Fun note on the rewatch, there are two songs on the soundtrack that are credited to Kara’s Flowers (Adam Levine’s band prior to Maroon 5) that would later be released on Songs About Jane.

So much universe building to have so little come of it. 

Also, for such a bullshit post-credits scene, you would have thought it wouldn’t have taken 20 minutes to get to it.

Very different than the Paula Pell adaptation in 2015. Also, second movie I’ve seen this week proving that you shouldn’t trust anyone asking you to go with them to Staten Island.

Look, everyone is talking about Lady Raven, but I want to see the same story from The Thinker’s POV. Give Kid Cudi his Oscar.

Spiritual predecessor to Taken. Damn, being a woman in any era just sucks, doesn’t it.

Excellent for a directorial debut, clearly influenced by personal events. Actors are all able to convey the feminine rage. Well done

I’d be suspicious of any friend who insisted that they would go with me to Staten Island.

None of this made sense and it felt like it was trying to be about something more than just radioactive pumpkin goes on a rampage.

Also, gurl, when your bottle-blond, broadway loving boyfriend gets a job in theater in NY, you let him go because he is clearly a homosexual. How did she not see this?

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What kind of mother adopts a child in the early 00’s and names her Sharon? I’d run away too.

Bonus half-⭐️ because Sean Bean lives through the end of the movie.

Solid, it’s a hard press for me to believe that Taylour Paige would be married to a 56 year old ex con. Like, how did they even meet?

31 Days, 31 new movies, this year, all movies made before 1990.

• Salem's Lot
• Frogs

  I love a great use of Sam Elliott, pre-mustached and pre-right wing meme dream. For a film squarely called Frogs, most of the deaths are caused by reptiles.

• House on Haunted Hill
• The Omen
• Damien - Omen II
• The Final Conflict
• Possession
• The Birds
• The Blob
• The Brood

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Each year, I watch 31 movies in 31 days for October. They are loosely scary movies, but can be thrillers, supernatural, spooky comedies, etc. The only stipulation is that I have not seen the movie before and it has to be in October.

• Insidious: The Red Door
• Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
• Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
• Haunted Mansion
• Pet Sematary: Bloodlines
• Significant Other
• Vampire in Brooklyn
• Totally Killer
• Meg 2: The Trench
• Dark Shadows

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Each year, I watch 31 movies in 31 days for October. They are loosely scary movies, but can be thrillers, supernatural, spooky comedies, etc. The only stipulation is that I have not seen the movie before and it has to be in October.

• Hocus Pocus 2
• Umma
• Choose or Die
• Cabin Fever
• What Lies Beneath
• Hellraiser
• The Wolf of Snow Hollow
• Creep 2
• Bad Candy
• My Best Friend's Exorcism

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.