There’s a thread here that stood out to me, still trying to figure it out. Anora’s relationship with her grandmother/her heritage— we get one almost throwaway line at the start and nothing else: “my grandma didn’t speak English”. She was just like my Armenian Nene, whose English got worse as she got older. So what happened?why does she not want to speak Russian anymore?Then there’s the parallel of Igor’s relationship with his grandma, and his strong embrace of his heritage.…
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You've Got Mail 1998
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Exceptionally written dialogue, wonderful characters, but left a bad taste in my mouth regardless. The guy forced the small independent bookstore to close and still gets the girl and that’s it. Ok. Sure?
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Nosferatu 2024
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Beautiful, haunting movie. Incredible lighting design, some shots look like oil paintings. Simon McBurney is the absolute unexpected standout performance, just a fantastic weirdo freak in all his scenes. Just a fun time for the whole family.
Edit: the more I thought about it the less I like about how they designed Orlok visually. I kept waiting for him to take off his disguise and reveal his true frightening form and yeah nope that’s just him the whole time. Skinny…
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Deadpool & Wolverine 2024
To quote Paul Schrader: I like cynical. I like ironic. I draw the line at snark.
Too much meta bullshit for me, not enough actual story and real emotional core. Ready for this type of movie that requires keeping up with pop culture film blogs to die off. Bringing back X-23’s great actress and doing nothing with her was probably the worst offense. The chemistry between the leads was just missing something. My eyes were rolling to the back of…
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