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A Matter of Loaf and Death 2008
i would give anything to watch the scene of gromit hanging on for dear life in the ceiling light fixture for the first time again
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Wicked 2024
that might be your secret, elphaba, but that doesn’t make it true.
seeing as the film came out on digital today, this might have been my last viewing in the theatre. and what a way to say goodbye to my glinda and elphaba, at least until next year.this viewing made me think about the faults others place on us and how we take those and push them deeper onto ourselves. and how we accept these faults as truth, but…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
from this day forward, if anyone asks me why i chose to pursue a degree in asian american studies, i'll just show them this movie as an answer.
this movie dismantled every single asian american stereotype in film -- the idea that asian american people can't be funny without being made fun of, the emasculation of asian american men, the use of martial arts as a stereotyped and trivialized form of action, the tiger parent trope, i could go on…
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The Boy and the Heron 2023
when grief is one of the only human experiences that we will never fully understand the other end of, the only way we can attempt to grasp it is through absurdity. what else is there to do when your question will never be answered?
boy and the heron went through all five stages of grief in the silliest and most colorful ways, forcing its characters to push through their anger and confusion in grief until they couldn’t avoid it anymore.
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