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The Wedding Banquet 2025
The Wedding Banquet made me cry 4x not only because of its reflections on lgbtqia+ love, chosen family, and filial expectations, but also due to its specificity around illustrating Korean culture and traditions in a queer manner.
I also absolutely was stunned to see two female power houses together in one room (Joan Chen and Youn Yuh-jung), and their acting was ultimately the ones that led to my waterworks.
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Together 2025
Oh I definitely fuck with this. It’s shocking how genuinely terrifying the imagery of this film is, how earnestly romantic, and how weird it’s willing to get all in one. You’d think it would be overkill so to speak but this film strikes an incredible tonal balance that keeps you alternating between laughing, wincing and going ‘awww’. A resounding hell yeah all around.
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Train Dreams 2025
has to be the most The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford-coded movie since The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (which was famously coded as such). kinda knocked the wind out of me.
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I'm Still Here 2024
Many of Brazil’s great thinkers and artists lived in forced exile during the two decades of the military regime, Emília Viotti da Costa amongst them. The historian would come to coin the seminal encapsulation of that era, one that in its grasp of both warning and lament, also elucidates Salles’s moving elegy: “A people without memory is a people without history. And a people without history is doomed to make, in the present and the future, the same mistakes of the past.”
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Mulholland Drive 2001
The other night I had a dream that I was about to start my first shift on an oil rig. My shift started at 11:30 and it was 11:27, I was struggling to put my clothes on, I put on my hat and looked in the mirror and it was a small neon blue plastic cowboy hat and I thought well great I’m gonna be late and look ridiculous on my first day. Then I woke up and it was…
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The Substance 2024
This movie really goes for it and doesn’t hold back! Incredibly relatable message - especially as I stack up more years! Chasing beauty and youth is ruinous! We are pushed to do so by society and ourselves.. to disastrous ends! The bravery by these gals to go all in with the body horror and nudity was refreshing to me. This is our lane .. and the gals embraced it and owned it. So funny too and perfectly over the top! I think this film created a new genre… What shall we call it?
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All We Imagine as Light 2024
the dawn breaks and a city wakes, workers mingle in public transport while the lights of businesses all around blinker into colourful life. the petty chaos of city life, all swept away by the ocean, anytime you like. the buzz of a metropolis in full throttle, ready for the long day's journey into night. and then, it will all start again. such are the cycles of city life.
to surrender to All We Imagine As Light is to immerse oneself…
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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl 2024
I hate Wallace. I find him despicable. It is not simply that he is ugly—which he is—it is his seemingly bottomless stupidity that so offends. His infinite capacity for being a mark is infuriating; and one cannot even delight in his suffering because he is too dumb to comprehend the peril he continuously places himself in. I used to feel sympathy for Gromit, but he is an enabler, and therefore a fool undeserving of pity himself, and one is ultimately left in the position of siding with the fierce, cunty penguin. Let him have his diamonds.
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