Chess

Chess

I’m a film student who watches an absurd amount of cartoons

Favorite films

  • Harold and Maude
  • Locke
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • The Act of Killing

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  • Moana 2

    ★★

  • Night Bloomers

    ★★

  • Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival

    ★½

  • Junior

    ★½

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  • Moana 2

    Moana 2

    ★★

    It’s fine. It was definitely shapes and colours for a child, who is the audience, not me.

    It was definitely a stepping-stone movie, so it’s mid by itself BUT I reckon they’re ramping up for an absolutely banging 3rd movie. And yk what I respect that. Next movie they’ll actually have an antagonist and side characters that are pre established so they won’t have to do that awkward justification as to why we haven’t heard of big-bads that all sequels…

  • Night Bloomers

    Night Bloomers

    ★★

    I’m always a big fan of Black Mirror-esc shows that allow short stories a space in tv. With every episode being a different story, though, it was always a hit or a miss.

    I liked the first ones premise although it lacked depth or intrigued. The masturbation scene didn’t really add. It was creepy but not creepy enough yk?

    The second one was very confusing. Some of the shots were so cool and the acting was excellent but I’m not…

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  • The Wild Robot

    The Wild Robot

    Textbook definition of marketing tricking people into thinking a film is good. For people with no fucking film literacy all they’ll see in this movie is that it’s pretty and that it’s marketing slogan was “best animated movie of the last 10 years” and then surprise surprise they regurgitate that very slogan and think they’re a film fucking scholar. But anyone with actually fucking eyes and ears can see this movie is corporate bullshit, celebrity worship, AI-generated shapes-and-colours for kids…

  • Better Man

    Better Man

    ★★★★★

    Im. In. Awe.

    This movie has me dreaming about it.

    As someone who rarely finds fulfilment in musical biopics, particularly autobiopics, I am so blown away by this film!

    Firstly the CGI is incredible! The intricate expressions really locked in my engagement. I love how they adapted his look across the ages as well. I really liked that no one mentioned he was an ape, which was something I was worried they were going to do coming into this movie.…

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