Zackary

If you can’t dazzle them with your brilliance baffle them with your bullshit

Favorite films

  • Closer
  • Scream
  • Little Children
  • Notes on a Scandal

All
  • Presence

    ½

  • The Nightingale

    ★★★★★

  • Drop

    ★★★

  • What We Become

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Presence

2024

½ Watched

This movie was so bad that it made me question the reality I’m living in. 
It actually made me angry that I chose to sit through the whole thing.
I don’t believe in hell but if it ends up being real, I hope everyone burns.

The Nightingale

2018

★★★★★ Watched

To say that this is a movie that completely ravaged me is probably an understatement. 
After watching it I felt gutted.
These atrocities are what people actually endured in a time before modern law and regulations.  And the film rubs your face in that.
Rape, murder, slavery, infanticide. It’s all there.
And none of it is done in a gratuitous way. It’s all there to say, “look at the history here. Look at what was done to millions of people. Women and children”.
It’s a film that will haunt me for the rest of my life.

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Wicked

2024

★★★½ Watched

I bartended at this show on Broadway from time to time and it’s one of the only musicals whose score I actually enjoy, so I went into this ready to slice and dice. It doesn’t help that the press tour has been a wreck of overwrought emotion and performative nonsense (especially from Cynthia Erivo) that reminded me of why I hated doing musical theatre in the first place. Histrionic people constantly operating on level 11, trying to one up each…

Femme

2023

★★★★★ Watched

Sexy, intense, in-your-face, cathartic.