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  Heart Eyes 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Romance is dying, and my kink is killing. 😍💘❣️🔪

  I didn't expect to have so much fun as I did with Heart Eyes. The bar is low for holiday-themed slashers that isn't Halloween (at least the original and its 2018 legacy sequel are cuts above the rest), and Heart Eyes is already at the top of those I've already seen. It's that enjoyable and fresh for a slasher made in the 21st century. I initially had reservations with this film…

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  Aaahh Belinda 1986

  ★★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  A woman steps into the shower, turns on the faucet, pours some shampoo into her hands, washes her hair. But it's a different kind of nightmare that not even Norman Bates with a knife befind the curtain could match: the horrors of domesticity and submission to gendered societal expectations.

  I don't know much about the background of Turkish society overall so I can't speak to that but I'm amazed that something like this got made in the 80s. For all…

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  How to Have Sex 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 30 Dec 2023

  This movie captured the feeling I get in parties where you're surrounded by so many people yet you feel so alone. Like I'm dancing it all out one minute, then I get this empty and hollow sensation inside the next. Even then, I still prefer that vibe over sitting around in a table talking about stuff while under the influence because I feel the weight of wanting to disappear into myself more with the latter.

  Mia McKenna-Bruce's expressive eyes and…

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  In My Mother's Skin 2023

  ★★★ Watched 15 Oct 2023

  Halloween 2023 🎃 — Oro, Plata, Mata, Diwata 🪙🐦‍⬛🧚‍♀️

  Hooptober X (📽 22/31)
  Country: Philippines 🇵🇭
  Decade: 2020s

  "Basta't tandaan mo malaki ka na. Kaya mo nang mag-desisyon para sa sarili mo."
  
  World War II, Philippines. The Japanese forces are not the only ones threatening Filipino lives, even other Filipinos too — human and otherwise.

  Tiktik means two things in Filipino: one, a reference to a supernatural being who eats viscera, usually of unborn fetuses, through a proboscis-like tongue; and…