I waited many years to watch this, thinking that when I was older I'd be able to make more sense of it. I wish I'd seen it sooner. I wish I had seen this so many years sooner. I loved it. There is so much to think about and reflect on and I will do so happily for a long time coming. Naomi Watts is a fucking incredible actor, Rebecca Del Rio's voice is from heaven. I can see SO…
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Queer 2024
Easily one of the most beautiful portrayals of Mexico I've ever seen. I loved everything about the filmmaking in Queer, Luca Guardagnino is one of the most important directors of the modern age, and I will pay attention to everything he makes - unfortunately, some adaptations are just not for me. I inherently don't like the source material and just can't see what Luca sees in it but I understand those who are connected to the source material will feel…
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Pepe 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This film is a lesson in the elevator pitch. I arrived really primed for a Legendary-Hippopotamus-Escapes-Mexican-Drug-Lord's-Zoo kinda vibe and unfortunately was met with incredibly draining extended arthouse POV "Hippo's-first-slam-poetry-reading" voice over on nothing but white screen, about 30 seconds of Pablo Escobar content and what felt like maybe 7 minutes of actual hippopotamus footage.
Whats particularly disappointing about this film is that the vignettes of the people and towns surrounding the infamous hippo were actually quite lovely. And the story…
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Hoodwinked! 2005
I need to tell you about Hoodwinked ok? Bear with me. This movie altered the brain chemistry of thousands of children, myself included, and I genuinely think if you haven't seen it we have fundamentally different views of the world.
There's something about a mixture of quite literally the worst animation style to ever see the light of day and a genuinely funny crime comedy that just happens to be made for kids that has set Hoodwinked apart and placed…
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